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Aube is a département in the northeastern part of France named after the Aube River. Aube - History. Aube was one of the original 83 départements created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from part of the former province of Champagne. Aube is perhaps best known for the 1932 visit of the late Turkish president Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who signed a friendship treaty with France there. Aube - Geography. The département ...

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Aube was one of the original 83 départements created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from part of the former province of Champagne. Aube is perhaps best known for the 1932 visit of the late Turkish president Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who signed a friendship treaty with France there. ...

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Bar-sur-Seine is a commune of the Aube département, in France. Other related archivesAube, France, commune, département

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2 Population sans doubles comptes, i.e. not counting those people already counted in another commune (such as students and military personal). Bar-sur-Aube is a commune of France, located in the Aube département, of which it is a sous-préfecture. Population (1999): 7,265. Other related archivesAube, France, commune, département, sous-préfecture

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Côte-d'Or is a département in the eastern part of France. Côte-d'Or - History. Côte-d'Or was one of the original 83 départements created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was formed from part of the former province of Burgundy. Côte-d'Or - Geography. The département is part of the current région of Bourgogne. It is surrounded by the départements of Yonne, Nièvre, Saône-et-Loire, Jura, Aube, and Haute-Marne. ...

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Albian (French Albion, from Alba = Aube in France) Albian is a stage of the Cretaceous period. Albian is a term proposed in 1842 by A. d'Orbigny for that stage of the Cretaceous system which comes above (later) the Aptian and below (before) the Cenomanian (Pal. France. Cret. ii.). Approximate time range is 112.0 ± 1.0 Ma to 99.6 ± 0.9 Ma (million years ago). The following representatives of the Albian stage are worthy of notice: the gaize and phosphatic beds of Argonne and Bray in France; the Flammenmergel of North Germany; the lignites of Iltrillas in Spain; the Upper Sandstones of Nubia, ...

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Saint-Germain may refer to various French phenomena: the 6th century bishop of Paris, canonized as Saint Germain of Paris, who founded an abbey in the fields near Paris, now the church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés which gave its name to the neighborhood and to the Boulevard Saint-Germain on the Left Bank (this area is also known as the Latin Quarter), or the bishop of Auxerre, canonized as Saint Germain of Auxerre, died A.D. 478, who founded the Carolingian abbey of Saint-Germ ...

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Avon may refer to: River Avon, various rivers Avon (county), a former county of England Places: Avon, South Australia, a place Australia Canada: Avon, New Brunswick, in the province of New Brunswick Avon, Ontario, in the province of Ontario Black Avon, Nova Scotia, in the province of Nova Scotia New Avon, New Brunswi ...

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Clairvaux abbey (Clara Vallis in Latin) was founded in 1115 by St. Bernard. It is located in Ville-sous-la-Ferté, 15 km away from Bar-sur-Aube, in the Aube département in northeastern France. The building of the abbey in now in ruins. The parc is nowadays occupied by a high-security prison (see Clairvaux Prison). All Cistercian monasteries were arranged according to one plan, unless the circumstances of the locality forbade it. Clairvaux abbey is a good example of the general arrangement and distribution of the various buildings w ...

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Urville is the name or part of the name of several communes in France: Urville, in the Aube département Urville, in the Calvados département Urville, in the Manche département Urville, in the Vosges département Urville-Nacqueville, in the Manche département Additionally, Urville is an elaborately fictional city invented by autistic savant Gilles Trehin Other related archivesAube, Calvados, F

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The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to British counties. The 100 French départements are now grouped into 22 metropolitan and four overseas régions. They are subdivided into 342 arrondissements. Département in France - General characteristics. In continental France (metropolitan France excluding Corsica), the median land area of a département is 5,965 km² (2,303 sq. miles), which is two-and-a-half times the medi ...

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Val-d'Oise is a French département named after the Oise River, located in the Île-de-France région. Val-d'Oise - History. Val-d'Oise was created when the former départements Seine and Seine-et-Oise were broken up into six départements in 1968. 01 Ain | 02 Aisne | 03 Allier | 04 Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 05 Hautes-Alpes | 06 Alpes-Maritimes | 07 Ardè ...

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Vendée is a département in west central France, on the Atlantic's Bay of Biscay. The name Vendée is taken from the Vendée river which runs through the south-eastern part of the département. Vendée - Administration. Communes_of_the_Vendée_département Vendée - History. The area today called the Vendée was originally known as the Bas-Poitou. In the south-east corner, the village of Nieul-sur-l'Auti ...

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As of January 1, 2004, metropolitan France is divided into: 22 régions (although strictly speaking Corsica is in fact a "territorial collectivity", not a région, but is referred to as a région in common speech) the régions are divided into 96 départements the départements are divided into 329 arrondissements the arrondissements are divided into 3,879 cantons the cantons are divided in ...

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Vosges is a French département, named after the Vosges mountain range. Vosges - History. The Vosges département was created on March 4, 1790 like the 83 other original départements of France. It was made of territories formerly part of the province of Lorraine. In 1793 the independent principality of Salm (town of Senones and its surroundings), enclosed inside the Vosges département, was annexed to France and incorporated into Vosges. In 1795 the area of Schirme ...

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Yonne is a French département named after the Yonne River. 01 Ain | 02 Aisne | 03 Allier | 04 Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 05 Hautes-Alpes | 06 Alpes-Maritimes | 07 Ardèche | 08 Ardennes | 09 Ariège | 10 Aube | 11 Aude | 12 Aveyron | 13 Bouches-du-Rhône | 14 Calvados | 15 Cantal | 16 Charente | 17 Charente-Marit ...

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Champagne-Ardenne is in the northeast of France, bordering Belgium. It consists of four départements: Aube, Ardennes, Haute-Marne, and Marne. Its rivers, all of which flow west, include the Seine, the Marne, and the Aisne. The region has three autoroutes, totaling 460 km: Autoroute A4 connecting Paris and Strasbourg and serving the Reims metropolitan area Autoroute A5 connecting Paris and Dijon and serving Troyes and Chaumont Autoroute A26 connecting Calais and Dijon and ...

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When Jean Renoir was a child he moved with his family to the south of France. He and the rest of the Renoir family were the subjects of many of his father's paintings. As a young man, his father's financial success ensured that Jean was educated at fashionable boarding schools which, Jean later wrote, he was continually running away from. "Elegant prisons," he later called them. At the outbreak of World War I Jean was serving in the cavalry. Later, after receiving a bullet in his leg, he served as a reconnaissance pilot. His leg injur ...

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Arrondissement of Bar-sur-Aube - Cantons. The cantons of Bar-sur-Aube are: Bar-sur-Aube Brienne-le-Château Chavanges Soulaines-Dhuys Vendeuvre-sur-Barse Arrondissement of Bar-sur-Aube - Communes. The communes of Bar-sur-Aube are: Ailleville Arconville Argançon Arrembécourt Arrentières Arsonval Aulnay Bailly-le-Franc Balignicourt < ...

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Aix as a word or part of a name can also refer to: Aix (genus), a genus of two species of dabbling ducks, the Wood Duck (Aix sponsa) and the Mandarin Duck (Aix galericulata) AIX - Place names. Aix-la-Chapelle (Germany), also known as "Aachen" Aix, Corrèze, in the Corrèze département Aix, Nord, in the Nord département Aix-en-Diois, in the Drôme département Aix-en-Ergny, in ...

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