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    Perche (French pronunciation: [pɛʁʃ] ) (French: le Perche) is a former province of France, known historically for its forests and, for the past two centuries...
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    originated in the Huisne river valley in western France, part of the former Perche province, from which the breed takes its name. Usually gray or black in color...
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  • Chartres diocese, ancient Perche province, and present-day Normandy's Orne department. Guyon and his family emigrated from Perche province to New France on the...
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  • Robert Giffard de Moncel (c. 1587 – 14 June 1668) was a Perche-based surgeon and apothecary who became New France's first colonizing seigneur. As a naval...
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    Percheron breed originated in France, taking its name from the former Perche province. Its exact origins are unknown, and several theories have been put...
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    Zacharie Cloutier (category People from Mortagne-au-Perche)
    1634 in the first wave of the Percheron immigration from the former province of Perche, to an area that is today part of Quebec, Canada. He settled in Beauport...
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  • Marin Boucher (category People from Mortagne-au-Perche)
    produced more daughters than sons. Marin Boucher was born in Mortagne, Perche province, France about 1587 and died on 25 March 1671 in Château-Richer, Canada...
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  • Paris, the ancient province of Perche is now located mostly in present-day Normandy région's Orne département. The County of Perche was created in 1114...
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    Nouvelle-Aquitaine region to the south. Part of Perche: is within the northeast of Sarthe department; the rest of Perche is inside the Normandy and Centre-Val de...
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  • (Bompiani 1992, translated into Spanish, German, French, Dutch, and Greek), Del perché i porcospini attraversano la strada (Bompiani 1995), Benvenuti in questo...
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