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    of Louis XI and Francis I. Her son Louis XIII, then age ten, laid the first stone of the new residence in 1610. Louis XIV continued the program on an even...
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    The city walls of Paris (French: enceintes de Paris or murs de Paris) refers to the city walls that surrounded Paris, France, as it grew from ancient...
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    castles on the site. The château de Renard, 961–1131, was situated within the upper part of the enceinte. The king, Louis VI, attacked and destroyed this...
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    and replaced by the larger Louis XIII wall, with the demolished material reused for the new wall. This new enclosure (enceinte) was completely destroyed...
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    top of a hill. The buildings are distributed around an irregular shaped enceinte divided into two by a wall separating the farmyard of the lower courtyard...
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    2024. "Le stade Orange Vélodrome, une enceinte unique" (in French). OM.fr. 17 November 2021. "Comment l'Olympique de Marseille exploite les nouvelles infrastructures...
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    Eteocles. The appearance at the premiere of the infamous Duchess, visibly enceinte, thus contributed to the public success of the play. On 11 February 1719...
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    Fortifications of Paris in the 19th and 20th centuries (category Séré de Rivières system)
    heights to the enemy. 1670 The king demolishes the walls of Charles V and Louis XIII. Paris becomes an open city and remains so for two centuries. 1689 Vauban...
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    type of attack. During the 18th century, it was found that the continuous enceinte, or main defensive enclosure of a bastion fortress, could not be made large...
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    European enclaves in North Africa before 1830 (category Plazas de soberanía)
    and the Bastion de France. As well as harvesting coral, he also opened a trading post dealing in wheat at Cap Rosa. In 1631 Louis XIII named Napollon governor...
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