has been part of the new region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The region is named after the Franche Comté de Bourgogne (Free County of Burgundy), definitively...
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Côte-d'Or (redirect from Golden Slope)
(French pronunciation: [kot dɔʁ] ) is a département in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of Northeastern France. In 2019, it had a population of 534,124....
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on the gently sloping shingle beach which served as a river port for unloading wheat and wood and later merged into a square, the Place de Grève ("Strand...
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Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation. "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Abitibi, Municipalité régionale de comté [Census division], Quebec". Statistics...
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The Citadel of Besançon (French: Citadelle de Besançon) is a 17th-century fortress in Franche-Comté, France. It is one of the finest masterpieces of military...
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Mémoires de Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy, lieutenant-général des armées du roi, Mestre de camp général de la cavalerie légère [Memories of Roger de Rabutin...
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Pre-Pyrenees (section Northern slope)
mountain range in a west to east direction. On the French side the Pyrenees's slopes descend rather abruptly, thus on the northern side, the Pre-Pyrenees are...
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plateau of some thirty hectares with steep slopes to the east and the west. Jean II de Chambes built the Château de Montsoreau in 1455. The building marks...
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Musée Magnin (category Museums in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté)
works. One can stop to admire the Secrétaire de dame à double pente (Lady's secretary with double slope) with the stamp of Bon Durand (Master in 1761)...
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Malabar pied hornbill (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
pied hornbill was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1780 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. The bird was also...
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