| Alençon | The two major cities in the Orne are | , the prefecture, and Flers, who deserved to be subprefecture |
| Embrun | ... rst at Cemenelum (today Cimiez, a neighborhood in Nice) and subsequently at | . At its greatest extent in AD 297, the province reached north to Digne an ... |
| Marseille | The novel begins in | "thirty years ago" (i.e. ca. 1826) with the notorious murderer Rigaud info ... |
| Bapaume | ... e advance was centred on the Roman road that ran from Albert in the west to | to the northeast |
| Pétionville | ... s a ring of districts that radiates out from the commune of Port-au-Prince. | is an affluent suburban commune located southeast of the city. Delmas is l ... |
| Constantine, Algeria | ... gle one, administered from Cirta, which was now renamed Constantina (modern | ) in his honour. Its governor was raised to the rank of consularis in 320, ... |
| Dieppe | Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond, 7th duc de Broglie, FRS (; | ;, France, 15 August 1892 – Louveciennes, France, 19 March 1987) was a Fre ... |
| Lille | ... e it is widely used in city emblems like in the coat of arms of the city of | . Some cities that had been particularly faithful to the Crown were awarde ... |
| Alençon | The largest town by a considerable margin is the prefecture, | which is an administrative and commercial centre for what is still an over ... |
| Douai | ... them. During the French Revolution his manuscripts passed to the library at | |
| Atar | ... t Nouadhibou, 2nd Military Region is at Zouerate, 3rd Military Region is at | , 4ème région militaire may be at Tidjikdja, 5th Military Region headquart ... |
| Le Havre | ... ully the important Siege of La Rochelle. In addition, Louis had the port of | modernised, and he built a powerful navy |
| Valparaíso | ... art in fleet maneuvers off Panama and later off the Chilean coast, south of | |
| Strasbourg | The European Convention on Nationality (E.T.S. No. 166, signed in | , 6 November 1997) is a comprehensive convention of the Council of Europe ... |
| Santiago | The northern rail line out of | is now disused past the intersection with the Valparaíso line. Until there ... |
| Lambaesis | ... umidia Militiana, "Military Numidia", with capital at the legionary base of | . Subsequently however, Emperor Constantine the Great reunited the two pro ... |
| Clermont-Ferrand | Its main cities are | , Thiers, Riom, Issoire, Ambert, and Cournon-d'Auvergne. Parts of the depa ... |
| Vincennes | With the death of Louis XIV in 1715, the court moved to | and shortly after to Paris. In 1722, Louis XV reinstalled the court at Ver ... |
| Rennes | In 1899 Dreyfus was brought to | from Guiana for another trial. The intense political and judicial scandal ... |
| Montbéliard | Cuvier was born in | , France (in department of Doubs), where his Protestant ancestors had live ... |
| Lyon | ... ore than 80 volcanic craters. It is three hours from Paris and an hour from | by highways A71 and A72. The A75 links it to the Mediterranean Sea |
| Autun | ... Gaul during his tenure as emperor of the West, especially in Augustodunum ( | ) and Arelate (Arles). According to Lactantius, Constantine followed his f ... |
| Cité Soleil | ... income slums plagued with poverty and violence in which the most notorious, | is situated. However, Cité Soleil has been recently split off from Port-au ... |
| Lyon | ... three fleurs-de-lis on the chief of their coat of arms; such cities include | , Angers, Poitiers, Tours, Le Havre, Chartres and Laon among others. It is ... |
| Montauban | ... only other Waffen-SS unit in France at this time was the 2 SS Das Reich, in | , north of Toulouse. They were ordered north to the landing beaches and on ... |
| Wolkenstein | Oswald's father was Friedrich von | and his mother Katharina von Villanders. When he was ten years old, Oswald ... |
| Santiago | ... y on semi-cama (reclining seat) or cama (sleeper) buses, often double deck. | began its public bus system Transantiago in 2007 |
| Issoire | Its main cities are Clermont-Ferrand, Thiers, Riom, | , Ambert, and Cournon-d'Auvergne. Parts of the department belong to the Pa ... |
| Salorno | ... t-day border between South Tyrol and Trentino, crossing the Adige valley at | (Chiusa di Salorno/Salurner Klause). The existence of areas largely popula ... |
| Vittel | ... freshman year, a continued interest in Transcendental Meditation led him to | , France, where he completed the studies necessary to become a qualified t ... |
| Vienne | ... ited their forces with those of Charles the Fat and unsuccessfully besieged | from August to November. Only in the summer of 882, Vienne was taken after ... |
| Carcassonne | ... compose The Loop, Roubaud began with a childhood memory of a snowy night in | and then wrote nightly, without returning to correct his writing from prev ... |
| Saint-Germain-Lespinasse | Fialin was born at | (Loire), the son of a receiver of taxes, and was educated at Limoges. He e ... |
| Nouadhibou | ... enne) has 620 personnel and 10 patrol and coastal combatants, with bases at | and Nouakchott. The CIA reports that the navy includes naval infantry. The ... |
| Riom | Its main cities are Clermont-Ferrand, Thiers, | , Issoire, Ambert, and Cournon-d'Auvergne. Parts of the department belong ... |
| Nantes | ... ter-in-law, the escapees travel down the Loire river to the coastal city of | . There, he recaptures a Royal Navy cutter, the Witch of Endor, mans the v ... |
| Angers | ... fleurs-de-lis on the chief of their coat of arms; such cities include Lyon, | , Poitiers, Tours, Le Havre, Chartres and Laon among others. It is also th ... |
| Orléans | ... heodoric I (Theodorid) to ally with the Romans. The combined armies reached | ahead of Attila, thus checking and turning back the Hunnish advance. Aëtiu ... |
| Lyon | ... Syrian descent, was born Lucius Septimius Bassianus in Lugdunum, Gaul (now | , France), the son of the later Emperor Septimius Severus and Julia Domna. ... |
| Limoges | ... ain-Lespinasse (Loire), the son of a receiver of taxes, and was educated at | . He entered the cavalry school at Saumur in 1826, becoming maréchal des l ... |
| Cournon-d'Auvergne | Its main cities are Clermont-Ferrand, Thiers, Riom, Issoire, Ambert, and | . Parts of the department belong to the Parc naturel régional Livradois-Fo ... |
| Toulouse | ... the Tarn department. It is located on the River Tarn, c. 85 km northeast of | . Its inhabitants are called Albigensians (, ). It was the seat of the Arc ... |
| Santiago | ... of the rail network. The bus system covers the whole country, from Arica to | (a 30 hour journey) and from Santiago to Punta Arenas (about 40 hours, wit ... |
| Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire | ... a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in | . He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skep ... |
| Calais | ... mission to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, accompanying Thomas Wolsey to | and Bruges, More was knighted and made under-treasurer of the Exchequer in ... |
| Caen | ... e 12 SS Hitlerjugend, which arrived at the invasion front on 7 June, in the | area. The same day they were involved in the Ardenne Abbey massacre. The n ... |
| Le Mans | ... anor of Aquitaine with the French-speaking Count Henri Plantagenet, born in | , who became, within months of their wedding, King Henry II of England. Th ... |
| Carthage | ... he western and eastern Mediterranean. This was the second major war between | and the Roman Republic, with the crucial participation of Numidian-Berber ... |
| Versailles | ... John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. In 1725 Charles Albert visited | for the wedding of Louis XV and established a firm contact to France |
| Châlons-en-Champagne | ... nd caught the Huns at a place usually assumed to be near Catalaunum (modern | ) |
| Buré | ... er which he spent his summers on the country estate of his wife's family at | , Orne in Basse-Normandie, where he died of lyme disease |
| Schirmeck | ... nt, was annexed to France and incorporated into Vosges. In 1795 the area of | was detached from the Bas-Rhin department and incorporated into the Vosges ... |
| Ambert | Its main cities are Clermont-Ferrand, Thiers, Riom, Issoire, | , and Cournon-d'Auvergne. Parts of the department belong to the Parc natur ... |
| abbey of Joyenval at Chambourcy | ... ntury, an allegorical poem by Guillaume de Nangis (d. 1300), written at the | , relates how the golden lilies on an azure ground were miraculously subst ... |
| Montpellier | ... wn earned the nickname of the English Riviera and favourable comparisons to | |
| Carthage | ... 439 when he invaded the province of Africa Proconsularis and laid siege to | . The city was captured without a fight; the Vandals entered the city whil ... |
| Tours | ... he chief of their coat of arms; such cities include Lyon, Angers, Poitiers, | , Le Havre, Chartres and Laon among others. It is also the emblem of the c ... |
| Tortuga | ... the year 1660 and caused a number of conflicts. By 1640, the buccaneers of | were calling themselves the Brethren of the Coast |
| Reims | ... m to Cologne and Aachen. He also summoned a meeting of the higher clergy in | in which several important reforming decrees were passed. At Mainz he held ... |
| Port-au-Prince | ... aid workers from abroad. More than 3,500 people in a region to the north of | were treated for diarrhea, acute fever, vomiting, and severe . There were ... |
| Saumur | ... ver of taxes, and was educated at Limoges. He entered the cavalry school at | in 1826, becoming maréchal des logis in the 4th Hussars two years later. T ... |
| Septeuil | ... d landings the I SS Panzer Corps Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler was moved to | to the west of Paris in April 1944. The Corps had the 1 SS Leibstandarte S ... |
| Toulouse | ... al sway over the city; on two occasions, in 1125 and in 1251, the Counts of | and Provence divided their rights in regard to it, while the Count of Forc ... |
| Sceaux | At | on 16 August 1798 he married Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary, the daughte ... |
| Brive-la-Gaillarde | ... ailway planners, influenced in part by the department's topography, endowed | with good connections and a major junction from which railway lines fanned ... |
| Menton | ... the banks of the Oos River, in the region of Karlsruhe. Its sister city is | , France |
| Léogâne | ... e French portion of Santo-Domingo (Hispaniola). For a time, Petit-Goâve and | vied for this honor, but both were eventually ruled out, for various reaso ... |
| Bordeaux | On 12 January 1953, a military tribunal in | heard the case against the surviving 65 of the approximately 200 German so ... |
| Bordeaux | Bonheur was born in | , Gironde, the oldest child in a family of artists. Her father Raimond Bon ... |
| Huahine | ... he largely uncharted ocean to the south, stopping at the Pacific islands of | , Borabora, and Raiatea to allow Cook to claim them for Great Britain. In ... |
| Camembert | Alençon is the chief town of the Orne department. | , the village where Camembert cheese is made, is located in Orne |
| Agen | The remaining thirty-two years of his life were passed almost wholly at | , in the full light of contemporary history. They were without adventure, ... |
| Forcalquier | ... louse and Provence divided their rights in regard to it, while the Count of | resigned any right he possessed to the local Bishops and Consuls in 1135 |
| Le Havre | ... f of their coat of arms; such cities include Lyon, Angers, Poitiers, Tours, | , Chartres and Laon among others. It is also the emblem of the city of Flo ... |
| Bolzano | ... d to the authorities. On 28 January, he, his wife and his son were taken to | . Napoleon learnt of the capture at the start of February and ordered Hofe ... |
| Auxerre | ... im with several important missions to Rome and also sent him to Bologna and | to study canon law. Theobald in 1154 named Becket Archdeacon of Canterbury ... |
| Fourchambault | ... oduced by ACMA (Ateliers de construction de motocycles et d'automobiles) in | , France, from 1957 to 1961 to the designs of the Italian Piaggio company. ... |
| Chartres | ... coat of arms; such cities include Lyon, Angers, Poitiers, Tours, Le Havre, | and Laon among others. It is also the emblem of the city of Florence, and ... |
| Saverne | ... grew up around a taberna complex, such as Rheinzabern in the Rhineland, and | in Alsace |
| Merville-Franceville-Plage | ... ral beaches of Calvados are popular for water sports, including Cabourg and | |
| Amiens | ... thers obtained recognition and in March 880 divided their father's realm at | , Carloman receiving Burgundy and Aquitaine |
| Marseille | ... f mainland France. Current headquarters is in Aubagne, France, just outside | |
| Punta Arenas | ... le country, from Arica to Santiago (a 30 hour journey) and from Santiago to | (about 40 hours, with a change at ). There are also international services ... |
| Oradour-sur-Vayres | ... on sealed off the town of Oradour-sur-Glane, having confused it with nearby | and ordered all the townspeople – and anyone who happened to be in or near ... |
| Strasbourg | He was involved in the abortive Bonapartist coups at | in 1836 and at Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1840. After the second, he was arrested ... |
| Mâcon | ... the summer of 880 the brothers Carloman and Louis marched against him, took | and the northern parts of Boso's realm. They united their forces with thos ... |
| Senones | In 1793 the independent principality of Salm-Salm (town of | and its surroundings), enclosed inside the Vosges department, was annexed ... |
| Perpignan | ... ances. In 2006, the Super League admitted the Catalans Dragons, a team from | in the southern Languedoc-Roussillon region. They have subsequently reache ... |
| Soisy-Bouy | ... s later he died, on 16 November 1240, at the house of Augustinian Canons at | (60 miles south-east of Paris), France. In less than a year after his deat ... |
| Skikda | ... h, Cirta or modern Constantine, the capital, with its port Rusicada (Modern | ); Hippo Regius or (near Bône), well known as the see of St. Augustine. To ... |
| Grenoble | He was born Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour in | , Isère. As a youth, he received drawing lessons from his father, who was ... |
| Laon | ... ; such cities include Lyon, Angers, Poitiers, Tours, Le Havre, Chartres and | among others. It is also the emblem of the city of Florence, and of the Sw ... |
| Toulouse | ... en 1135 and 1146. In addition to the Emperor, the Counts of Forcalquier, of | and of Provence exercised a purely nominal sway over the city; on two occa ... |
| Bordeaux | ... , caught by an angler in January 2010 at Lac de curtons (Rainbow Lake) near | , France, weighed . The largest recorded weight of a domesticated carp was ... |
| Bordeaux | ... tement. The newly elected National Assembly was in the process of moving to | from Versailles (several miles south-west of Paris), having decided that t ... |
| Marseille | ... d from their sees on a charge of Manichaeism. Proculus, the metropolitan of | , and the metropolitans of Vienne and Narbonensis Secunda were also follow ... |
| Brive-la-Gaillarde | ... tal, Puy-de-Dôme, Lot, and Dordogne. Tulle is the prefecture of Corrèze and | the largest city |
| La Roque-Baignard | ... deaux, but the marriage remained unconsummated. In 1896, he became mayor of | , a commune in Normandy |
| Limoges | ... dulfus Glaber blamed the Jews, with the result that Jews were expelled from | and other French towns. Ultimately, this destruction provided an impetus t ... |
| Louveciennes | ... erre-Raymond, 7th duc de Broglie, FRS (; ; Dieppe, France, 15 August 1892 – | , France, 19 March 1987) was a French physicist and a Nobel laureate in 19 ... |
| Boulogne-sur-Mer | ... was involved in the abortive Bonapartist coups at Strasbourg in 1836 and at | in 1840. After the second, he was arrested and condemned to twenty years' ... |
| Fort-de-France | ... the French mainland. The administrative center of Martinique is located in | , and the Prefect of Martinique is Ange Mancini |
| Versailles | ... wly elected National Assembly was in the process of moving to Bordeaux from | (several miles south-west of Paris), having decided that the capital city ... |
| Cagnes-sur-Mer | ... herine Rouvel, was filmed on the grounds of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's home in | , and Le Testament du docteur Cordelier (The Testament of Doctor Cordelier ... |
| Cabourg | ... d'Auge. Several beaches of Calvados are popular for water sports, including | and Merville-Franceville-Plage |
| Sèvres | ... cause these to be taken seriously. Aegean vases have been exhibited both at | and Neuchatel since about 1840, the provenience (i.e. source or origin) be ... |
| Aubagne | ... le the rest are in the south of mainland France. Current headquarters is in | , France, just outside Marseille |
| Courcouronnes | The chain's Carrefour Hypermarket division has its head office in | , Essonne, France, near Évry |
| Pontoise | ... must have been conceived, Edward's supposed father was away on campaign at | , several days' march from Rouen (where Cecily of York was based), and tha ... |
| Villeneuve-lès-Avignon | ... sous le pont) where it crossed an island (Île de Barthelasse) on its way to | . The bridge was initially built between 1171 and 1185, with an original l ... |
| Clermont-en-Argonne | ... amples include the French towns of Tulle, Ascq, Maillé, Robert-Espagne, and | ; the Soviet village of Kortelisy (in what is now Ukraine); Lithuanian vil ... |
| Besançon | ... sis at the Sorbonne under Charles-Edmond Perrin in 1952. He taught first at | , and then at the University of Aix-en-Provence before being appointed in ... |
| Saint-Cloud | St. Cloud was named after | , the Paris suburb, by John Wilson, a Maine native with French Huguenot an ... |
| Pétionville | ... ity's separate districts (primarily the districts of Delmas, Carrefour, and | ) are all administered by their own local mayors who in turn fall under th ... |
| Caluire-et-Cuire | Jacques Roubaud (born 1932 in | , Rhône) is a French poet and mathematician |
| Craponne-sur-Arzon | ... ational country music festival known as Country Rendez-Vous is organized in | |
| Guillemont | ... om Pozières, on the Albert–Bapaume road, south-east towards the villages of | and Ginchy. The objectives were the villages of Bazentin le Petit, Bazenti ... |
| Esch-sur-Alzette | ... d World War. There are regular services from Luxembourg City to Ettelbruck, | , Wasserbillig and Kleinbettingen while international routes extend to Tri ... |
| Ginchy | ... the Albert–Bapaume road, south-east towards the villages of Guillemont and | . The objectives were the villages of Bazentin le Petit, Bazentin le Grand ... |
| Saint-Marc | ... ly high port fees, compared to ports in the Dominican Republic. The port of | is currently the preferred port of entry for consumer goods coming into Ha ... |
| Neuilly-sur-Seine | Prévert was born at | and grew up in Paris. After receiving his Certificat d'études upon complet ... |
| Clermont-Ferrand | ... rlando and southeast of the city of Leesburg. The community was named after | , France |
| Marseille | "La Marseillaise" (English: "The Song of | "; ) is the national anthem of France. The song, originally titled "Chant ... |
| Omonville-la-Petite | He died in | , on 11 April 1977. He had been working on the last scene of the animated ... |
| Metz | ... a German rabbi, initially in Koblenz and remainder of his life in Worms and | . His grandmother Eva Bacharach was a granddaughter of the Maharal of Prag ... |
| Avon | ... r the dividing-line between the commune of Fontainebleau and the commune of | , on the Avon side of the border |
| Ettelbruck | ... of the Second World War. There are regular services from Luxembourg City to | , Esch-sur-Alzette, Wasserbillig and Kleinbettingen while international ro ... |
| Marseille | ... me of the song is due to first being sung on the streets by volunteers from | |
| Nice | ... and servant were in exile. Persigny returned to France in 1871, and died at | on 12 January 1872 |
| Le Havre | Mainline trains operate from Gare de Rouen-Rive-Droite to | and Paris, and regional trains to Caen, Dieppe and other local destination ... |
| Ascq | ... affen SS: other well-documented examples include the French towns of Tulle, | , Maillé, Robert-Espagne, and Clermont-en-Argonne; the Soviet village of K ... |
| Saint-Ouen | ... general interest in musical instruments was sparked by his discovery at the | flea market of a Boris Vian Trumpet Violin. He often accompanied his mothe ... |
| Verdun | ... mber 1916 he almost died after a mustard gas attack by the German troops at | . During a period of convalescence in Villepinte he painted The Card Playe ... |
| Nice | ... ations towards the Pact of Steel. Mussolini hoped to quickly capture Savoy, | , Corsica, and the African colonies of Tunisia and Algeria from the French ... |
| Pozières | ... erman second defensive position which ran along the crest of the ridge from | , on the Albert–Bapaume road, south-east towards the villages of Guillemon ... |
| Eguisheim | He was born to Count Hugh and Heilwig and was a native of | , Upper Alsace(present day France). His family was of noble rank, and his ... |
| Amiens | ... pe and other local destinations in Normandy. Daily direct trains operate to | and Lille, and direct TGVs (high-speed trains) connect daily with Lyon and ... |
| Toulouse | ... a perceived slight by Charles de Gaulle. In 1967, at the French roll-out in | the British Government Minister for Technology, Tony Benn, announced that ... |
| Louveciennes | ... ce, 6th duc de Broglie, also a physicist. He did not marry. When he died in | , he was succeeded as duke by a distant cousin, Victor-François, 8th duc d ... |
| Conques | ... roup of these Chanones de Premontre now run the former Benedictine Abbey at | in southwest France, which has become well known as a refuge for pilgrims ... |
| Lonquimay | ... estore(?) the South Trans-Andean Railway link between Zapala, Argentina and | , Chile was underway in 2005. Possible break-of-gauge. Possible rack railw ... |
| Besançon | Born Paul Bernard into a Jewish family in | , Doubs, Franche-Comté, France, he was the son of an architect. He left Be ... |
| Mortain | ... erited by his daughter, Matilda, and her husband Stephen de Blois, count of | , afterwards king of England, and at the death of Matilda in 1152 it was i ... |
| Marseille | ... se, California area in the U.S.; the West Yorkshire area in the UK; and the | area in France) |
| Nouadhibou | ... engineer company, and one guard battalion. The 1ère région militaire is at | , 2nd Military Region is at Zouerate, 3rd Military Region is at Atar, 4ème ... |
| La Rochelle | ... us building the port of Misenum” alludes to the construction of the port at | ; or, depicted in the south cove of the salon de Mercure is “Ptolemy II Ph ... |
| Longueval | ... success. The line from Fricourt to Mametz Wood and on to Delville Wood near | was overrun in due course, however the line beyond was more difficult to n ... |
| Lyon | ... ntal systems were being proposed for use in parts of Hertfordshire, UK, and | in France |
| Domme | ... ctive Simon de Montfort entered Périgord and easily captured the castles of | and Montfort; he also occupied Castlenaud and destroyed the fortifications ... |
| Limoges | ... m Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel; General Gleiniger, German commander in | ; and the Vichy government. Standartenführer Stadler felt Diekmann had far ... |
| Caen | ... rom Gare de Rouen-Rive-Droite to Le Havre and Paris, and regional trains to | , Dieppe and other local destinations in Normandy. Daily direct trains ope ... |
| Talloires | Claude Louis Berthollet was born in | , near Annecy, then part of the Duchy of Savoy, in 1749 |
| Strasbourg | ... don (UK) on 1 July 1923 via Ostend. Services to Rotterdam (Netherlands) and | (France) were launched on 1 April 1924. The Strasbourg service was extende ... |
| Strasbourg | On 25 April 1792, the mayor of | requested his guest Rouget de Lisle compose a song "that will rally our so ... |
| Chantilly | ... Allied war strategy for 1916 was largely formulated during a conference at | between 6–8 December 1915. It was decided that for the next year, simultan ... |
| Perpignan | ... of Aragon, Palma was joint capital of the Kingdom of Majorca, together with | . His son, James II of Majorca, championed the construction of statues and ... |
| Basse-Terre | Marie-José Pérec (born 9 May 1968 | , Guadeloupe) is a French track and field athlete, specialised in the 200 ... |
| Aix-en-Provence | Georges Duby (October 7, 1919, Paris – December 3, 1996, near | ) was a French historian specializing in the social and economic history o ... |
| Épinal | The largest cities are | , Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, Gérardmer and Remiremont |
| Lyon | ... to Amiens and Lille, and direct TGVs (high-speed trains) connect daily with | and Marseille |
| Bordeaux | ... Jüterbog to train as a cartographer. After that, he went to Dijon and then | , joining the staff of the First Army. In the cartography unit at Bordeaux ... |
| Minturnae | ... also occasionally referred to as the son of Marica. The sacred forest near | was dedicated to Marica. A lake nearby was also named after her |
| Toulouse | ... irport in 31 hours 27 minutes 49 seconds, including six refuelling stops at | , Dubai, Bangkok, Andersen AFB in Guam, Honolulu, and Acapulco. By its 30t ... |
| Cognac | ... h royalist Patrice de Mac-Mahon, who became president of France. The French | brandy maker, James Hennessy and Co., is named for an Irishman. In Spain a ... |
| Saint-Dié-des-Vosges | The largest cities are Épinal, | , Gérardmer and Remiremont |
| Montauban | ... en Merton was eleven, his father enrolled him in a boys' boarding school in | , the Lycée Ingres. The stay brought up feelings of loneliness and depress ... |
| Orléans | ... nstantinople, the font of St. Stephen d'Egres, Paris; at St. Menin's Abbey, | ; at Dulwich College; and at the following churches: Worlingworth (Suffolk ... |
| Ausci | ... wing from the Pyrenees through the area, or from the name of the Aquitanian | tribe (whose name seems related to the Basque root eusk- meaning "Basque") ... |
| Dijon | ... ce, and then to Jüterbog to train as a cartographer. After that, he went to | and then Bordeaux, joining the staff of the First Army. In the cartography ... |
| Gérardmer | The largest cities are Épinal, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, | and Remiremont |
| Lille | ... r local destinations in Normandy. Daily direct trains operate to Amiens and | , and direct TGVs (high-speed trains) connect daily with Lyon and Marseill ... |
| Temuco | ... n line runs as far as Puerto Montt and is electrified as far as the city of | , from where diesel locomotives are used. Due to lack of budget and care, ... |
| Berneval-le-Grand | Wilde spent mid-1897 with Robert Ross in | , where he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. The poem narrates the executi ... |
| Pozières | ... the German northern defences to be taken in the flank. The key to this was | . The village of Pozières lay on the Albert-Bapaume road at the crest of t ... |
| Besançon | ... me. Setting out shortly after Christmas, he met with abbot Hugh of Cluny at | , where he was joined by the young monk Hildebrand, who afterwards became ... |
| Béjaïa | ... ls were expelled. Most of the Vandals went to Saldae (which is called today | in the Kabyl land in north Algeria) where they integrated themselves with ... |
| Levallois-Perret | ... luminium smelter. In the 1890s he also managed the Vélodrome de la Seine at | and the Vélodrome Buffalo, whose events were an integral part of Parisian ... |
| Saint-Tropez | ... a Japanese samurai and ambassador, sent to Rome by Date Masamune, landed at | for a few days. In 1636, Guillaume Courtet, a French Dominican priest, wou ... |
| Saintes | #Saintonge ( | |
| Metz | ... Kleinbettingen while international routes extend to Trier, Brussels, Liège, | and Nancy |
| Harfleur | At the siege of | , Henry utters one of Shakespeare's best-known speeches, beginning "Once m ... |
| Montauban | ... tiles are the main feature of most of the edifices. Along with Toulouse and | , Albi is one of the main cities built in Languedoc-style red brick |
| Mérignac | ... de Bordeaux Mérignac, located from the city centre in the suburban city of | |
| Moulins | #Bourbonnais ( | |
| Marseille | ... panied the king on the Third Crusade, going ahead of the king directly from | to the Holy Land in a group that included Baldwin of Forde, Archbishop of ... |
| Nice | ... before Paris fell to the Nazis, the Schneersons fled to Vichy, and later to | , where they stayed until their final escape from Europe |
| Caen | ... atilda was also of Norman ancestry, and her family may have originated near | . Gilbert was perhaps related to Theobald of Bec, whose family also was fr ... |
| Clermont-Ferrand | The Prefecture, | , is home to one of the country's best known manufacturing businesses and ... |
| Mont Saint-Michel | ... ended Edition DVDs, the appearance and structure of the city was based upon | , France |
| Vannes | Alain Resnais was born in 1922 at | in Brittany, where his father was a pharmacist. He was an only child, and ... |
| Marseille | ... and Lille, and direct TGVs (high-speed trains) connect daily with Lyon and | |
| Carthage | ... ast and was transplanted by the Phoenicians in the 8th century BC as far as | (now in Tunisia) |
| Lyon | ... uprisings, the Canut Revolts, in Lyon and Paris in the 1830s (a Canut was a | nais silk worker, often working on Jacquard looms) |
| Caen | ... maritime cargo links in the Port of Rouen. The Cross-Channel ferry ports of | , Le Havre, Dieppe (50 minutes) and Calais, and the Channel Tunnel are wit ... |
| Mondorf-les-Bains | Göring was flown to | , Luxembourg, the site of a temporary prisoner-of-war camp housed in the P ... |
| Cluny | ... p of polychrome statuary carved by artists from the Burgundian workshops of | and comprising over 200 statues, which have retained their original colour ... |
| Le Havre | ... me cargo links in the Port of Rouen. The Cross-Channel ferry ports of Caen, | , Dieppe (50 minutes) and Calais, and the Channel Tunnel are within easy d ... |
| Courcouronnes | Carrefour S.A. is an international hypermarket chain headquartered in | , France. It is one of the largest hypermarket chains in the world (with 1 ... |
| Nîmes | ... olfi & Company were a firm of Florentine merchants whose head office was in | who also acted as moneylenders to the Archbishop of Arles, their most impo ... |
| Roquebrune | ... well as the previously (at least nominally) independent towns of Menton and | , and the arrondissement of Grasse in the department of Var |
| Prémontré | ... ns, founded, AD 1119, by Norbert of Xanten, on the Lower Rhine, c. 1080) at | , a secluded marshy valley in the forest of Coucy in the diocese of Laon. ... |
| La Rochelle | ... aid for the French crown in the suppressing of the Protestant Huguenots at | , thereby reversing England's long held position in the French Wars of Rel ... |
| Pau | ... al trains (TER) operated by the SNCF to Arcachon, Limoges, Agen, Périgueux, | and Bayonne |
| Rouen | ... the cause of his misfortunes, he and Wilde were reunited in August 1897 at | . This meeting was disapproved of by the friends and families of both men. ... |
| Lyon | ... scontent can be traced to the first worker uprisings, the Canut Revolts, in | and Paris in the 1830s (a Canut was a Lyonnais silk worker, often working ... |
| Vichy | ... 1, 1940, three days before Paris fell to the Nazis, the Schneersons fled to | , and later to Nice, where they stayed until their final escape from Europ ... |
| Bordeaux | ... any), Vineta (Pomerania), Truso (Poland), Kaupang (Norway), Birka (Sweden), | (France), York (England), Dublin (Ireland) and Aldeigjuborg (Russia) |
| Sikasso | ... s now the border of Mali and Burkina Faso. In 2010 the capital was moved to | . It resisted the effort of Samori Ture, leader of Wassoulou Empire, in 18 ... |
| Marseille | ... melody was first sung on the streets by volunteers (fédérés in French) from | by the end of May. These fédérés were making their entryway into the city ... |
| Bourges | During his time in | , Appleton became a founding member of the . His stimulating interaction w ... |
| Saint-Germain-en-Laye | ... s Revolution, was given the title of Princess Royal during James's exile at | and was so called by Jacobites, even though she was not James's eldest liv ... |
| Calais | ... n. The Cross-Channel ferry ports of Caen, Le Havre, Dieppe (50 minutes) and | , and the Channel Tunnel are within easy driving distance (two and a half ... |
| Rouen | ... ersary of the Death of Joan of Arc, which was premiered at the cathedral in | to commemorate the quincentenary of Joan of Arc's martyr death. In 1935, h ... |
| Rennes | ... France, a permanent non-diplomatic representation, with a branch office in | . A similar office, the Maison de Normandie in St. Helier, represents the ... |
| Toulouse | ... unit in France at this time was the 2 SS Das Reich, in Montauban, north of | . They were ordered north to the landing beaches and on 9 June were involv ... |
| Chalivoy-Milon | ... mage of Pope Saint Urbanus (or Urban/Urbain) is on a 12th century fresco at | in the Berry Art Gallery |
| Lyon | Simultaneously with the Paris Commune, uprisings in | , Grenoble and other cities established equally short-lived communes |
| Rambouillet | ... many, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States to a summit in | , to form the Group of Six (now the , including Canada and Russia) major e ... |
| Montpellier | ... ntryway into the city of Paris on 30 July 1792 after a young volunteer from | called François Mireur had sung it at a patriotic gathering in Marseille, ... |
| Thionville | ... cover a total distance of 147 km, linking the capital with Trier (Germany), | (France) and Arlon (Belgium) as well as with Esch-sur-Alzette and Ettelbru ... |
| L'Aigle | One of Becket's father's rich friends, Richer de | , often invited Thomas to his estates in Sussex where Becket was exposed t ... |
| Marseille | ... parated as the eastern coast of the Black Sea, Eastern Libya and Massalia ( | ). They included settlements in Sicily and the southern part of the Italia ... |
| Saales | ... responded to the canton of Schirmeck and the northern half of the canton of | . Schirmeck and Saales had been historically part of Alsace. These territo ... |
| Saint-Quentin | ... otharingia to Louis. The border between the two kingdoms was established at | the next year (880) |
| Toulouse | ... ed brick and tiles are the main feature of most of the edifices. Along with | and Montauban, Albi is one of the main cities built in Languedoc-style red ... |
| Grenoble | Simultaneously with the Paris Commune, uprisings in Lyon, | and other cities established equally short-lived communes |
| Koulikoro | Mali has no seaports because it is landlocked, but | on the Niger River near Bamako, serves as a principal river port. Traditio ... |
| Mont-Saint-Aignan | ... s School) and (agronomy and agriculture) – all centred or located at nearby | , and INSA Rouen and – both at nearby are schools of higher education loca ... |
| Arcueil | He died in | , France in 1822 |
| Easter Island | ... an languages, such as Marquesan, Tahitian, Māori, Rapa Nui (the language of | ), and less closely to Samoan, and Tongan |
| La Ferté-Milon | Racine was born on 22 December 1639 in | (Aisne), in the former Picardy province in northern France. He was an orph ... |
| Toul | ... unt Hugh, was a cousin of Emperor Conrad II (1024–1039). He was educated at | , where he successively became canon and, in 1026, bishop. In the latter c ... |
| Calvi | Ferries are available in Nice harbour from Bastia and | in Corsica, with services provided by SNCM Ferryterranée and Corsica Ferri ... |
| Longueval | ... he objectives were the villages of Bazentin le Petit, Bazentin le Grand and | , which was adjacent to Delville Wood. Beyond this line, on the ridge, lay ... |
| Boulogne | ... or example, there is no archaeological evidence of naval bases at Dover and | during 270–285. In response to the pirate problem, Maximian appointed Maus ... |
| Thiepval | ... ridge towards Mouquet Farm, allowing him to threaten the German bastion of | from the rear. However, the further the Australians and New Zealanders adv ... |
| Saint-Antonin | ... don. He later returned to New York and then took Merton with him to live in | in France. Merton returned to France with mixed feelings, as he had lived ... |
| Meaux | ... sue, as actually happened. Raymond agreed and signed the Treaty of Paris at | on April,12 1229. He was then seized, whipped and briefly imprisoned |
| Courbevoie | The nearby suburb of | was occupied by the government forces on April 2, and a delayed attempt by ... |
| Lyon | #Lyonnais ( | |
| Băniţa | ... s - Sarmizegetusa Regia, Costeşti-Cetăţuie, Costeşti-Blidaru, Piatra Roşie, | and Căpâlna - that formed the defensive system of Decebalus were designate ... |
| Châtillon-sur-Marne | Raynald's origins are obscure; Du Cange believed he was from | , but according to Jean Richard, he was a son of Hervé II of Donzy, and he ... |
| Toulouse | ... for examination, and a great deal more, and, on going up for examination at | , he astounded his examiner by his knowledge of J. L. Lagrange |
| Clermont-Ferrand | ... red a humiliating defeat when he was defeated in a bid for the mayoralty of | |
| Marseille | According to a genetic study in 2000 based on HLA, French from | "are more or less isolated from the other western European populations. Th ... |
| Calais | ... l Pole on his return to England in December 1554, again accompanying him to | in May 1555 |
| Strasbourg | ... ion in 8 vols at Munich, 1729; also a good selection by L. Spach (Paris and | , 1871). An edition of his Latin lyrics appeared at Regensburg in 1884. Th ... |
| Mennecy | ... te factories were established with the Chantilly manufactory in 1730 and at | in 1750. The Vincennes porcelain factory was established in 1740, moving t ... |
| Grasse | ... ally) independent towns of Menton and Roquebrune, and the arrondissement of | in the department of Var |
| Jacmel | Dessalines commanded many successful engagements, including the captures of | , Petit-Goâve, Miragoâne and Anse-à-Veau. In 1801, Dessalines quickly ende ... |
| Villefranche-de-Rouergue | ... the Iron Cross (2nd Class) in October 1943 for his role in suppressing the | mutiny. He, together with several other Bosnian Muslims, was decorated wit ... |
| Esch-sur-Alzette | ... th Trier (Germany), Thionville (France) and Arlon (Belgium) as well as with | and Ettelbruck in Luxembourg. Luxembourg's motorways are toll free. The sp ... |
| Strasbourg | ... seurs à cheval (2nd Regiment of Light Cavalry) and was sent to Neuhof, near | . While there he took private flying lessons and the following year was of ... |
| Troyes | #Champagne ( | |
| Tende | ... ected areas, the department was enlarged by the addition of the communes of | and La Brigue, which had remained Italian after the 1860 annexation, as we ... |
| Albertville | ... s, were a winter multi-sport event celebrated from 8 to 23 February 1992 in | , France. They were the last Winter Olympics to be held the same year as t ... |
| Troyes | ... sed. At the Grands Jours of Poitiers of the date mentioned, and at those of | in 1583, Pasquier officiated; and each occasion has left a curious literar ... |
| Petit-Goâve | ... es commanded many successful engagements, including the captures of Jacmel, | , Miragoâne and Anse-à-Veau. In 1801, Dessalines quickly ended an insurrec ... |
| Rouen | Experiments at | produced the earliest soft-paste in France, but the first important French ... |
| Limoges | ... y of the Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS (SD) intelligence agency in | , where she was interrogated for four days. From there, she was moved to F ... |
| Ettelbruck | ... hionville (France) and Arlon (Belgium) as well as with Esch-sur-Alzette and | in Luxembourg. Luxembourg's motorways are toll free. The speed limit is no ... |
| Grenoble | #Dauphiné ( | |
| Thomery | ... two stations on the Transilien Paris–Lyon rail line: Fontainebleau–Avon and | . Fontainebleau–Avon station, the station closest to the centre of Fontain ... |
| Mehadia | ... independent command Clerfayt achieved great success, defeating the Turks at | and Calafat. On 10 November 1788, the emperor appointed him to the rank of ... |
| Anse-à-Veau | ... l engagements, including the captures of Jacmel, Petit-Goâve, Miragoâne and | . In 1801, Dessalines quickly ended an insurrection in the north led by Lo ... |
| Thierville | ... son of Gilbert Beket and Gilbert's wife Matilda. Gilbert's father was from | in the lordship of Brionne in Normandy, and was either a small landowner o ... |
| Ngaliema | The Colonel Tshatshi Military Camp in the Kinshasa suburb of | hosts the defence department and the Chiefs of Staff central command headq ... |
| Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez | The cable ran between Manahawkin, New Jersey to | in France and Oxwich Bay in Wales |
| Miragoâne | ... many successful engagements, including the captures of Jacmel, Petit-Goâve, | and Anse-à-Veau. In 1801, Dessalines quickly ended an insurrection in the ... |
| Orléans | #Orléanais ( | |
| Bourges | #Berry ( | |
| Besançon | ... d after him. The school Lycée Victor Hugo was founded in his town of birth, | in France. Avenue Victor-Hugo, located in Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada, was ... |
| Carthage | ... cupation. (The Greeks followed a parallel practice in respect to Heracles.) | even sent a yearly tribute of 10% of the public treasury to the god in Tyr ... |
| Lyon | ... dy by Dutch geneticist Manfred Kayser, French people based on a sample from | , showed genetic similarities to all Europeans especially the Swiss, Germa ... |
| Toulouse | #Languedoc ( | |
| Menton | ... of Nice as well as the previously (at least nominally) independent towns of | and Roquebrune, and the arrondissement of Grasse in the department of Var |
| Rouen | Along the way to his first tournament in | , William and his friends come upon Geoffrey Chaucer (Paul Bettany), trudg ... |
| Mertert | ... s, the Marie-Astrid tourist boat operates regular services along the river. | near Grevenmacher on the Moselle is Luxembourg's only commercial port. Wit ... |
| Carthage | ... lopment of a cross-Saharan trade with cultures across the Sahara, including | and the Berbers; major exports included gold, cotton cloth, metal ornament ... |
| Sétif | ... deaths provoked a violent uprising by the Algerian population in and around | . The army set villages on fire, and between 6,000 and 8,000 people were k ... |
| Caen | ... a Hawker Hurricane. The Hawker Typhoon replica at the Memorial de la Paix, | (France) had been reconstructed from some original components. A similar p ... |
| Grevenmacher | Mertert near | on the Moselle is Luxembourg's only commercial port. With two quays coveri ... |
| Rouen | #Normandy ( | |
| Grasse | ... ent, however. In 1793 Alpes-Maritimes included Monaco and San Remo, but not | which was then part of the of Var |
| Lyon | Saint-Exupéry was born in | in an aristocratic family which could trace its lineage back several centu ... |
| Perpignan | ... ecided military tastes, François Arago was sent to the municipal college of | , where he began to study mathematics in preparation for the entrance exam ... |
| Dieppe | ... d Daisy Ethel Thomas (born Burrows). Early in his life, his family moved to | , France. He spoke both English and French fluently. He saw action in the ... |
| Béziers | ... rs in Languedoc. There was episodes of extreme violence like the killing of | , faced the forces assembled by vassal lords of the Capetian mainly from I ... |
| Mâcon | ... ment in the region of Bourgogne in eastern France. It is 20 km northwest of | |
| Flers | ... gains across the length of their front, the greatest being in the centre at | with an advance of 3,500 yards (3.2 km), a feat achieved by the newest Bri ... |
| Béziers | ... ). His efforts were not at first successful, for at the synod of Biterrae ( | ), summoned in 356 by the Emperor Constantius with the professed purpose o ... |
| Reims | ... ines. For a 1969 exposition at the Maison de la Culture (Cultural House) in | Jarre wrote the five-minute song "Happiness Is a Sad Song", but his first ... |
| Tiaret | In the 9th century, the Hebrew grammarian Judah ibn Quraysh of | in Algeria was the first to link two branches of Afroasiatic together; he ... |
| Les Cayes | ... ien. The southern highway, Route Nationale No. 2, links Port-au-Prince with | via Léogâne and Petit-Goâve |
| Easter Island | ... sian languages are now spoken across a huge area from Madagascar to Hawaii, | and New Zealand, but form only one branch of the Austronesian family, the ... |
| Néma | ... égion militaire may be at Tidjikdja, 5th Military Region headquarters is at | , 6th Military Region may be in the area of the capital, and the 7th Milit ... |
| Limoges | ... l attitude towards the activities of the metropolis. Movements in Narbonne, | , and Marseille were quickly crushed |
| Oye-Plage | ... king Age along the coast of France, as for île d'Yeu (Augia, Insula Oya) or | (Ogia 7th C.) and constitutes the suffix -ey in Jersey, Guernsey (Greneroi ... |
| Toulouse | ... tradition places the relics of the Apostle in the church of St. Saturnin at | ; if any physical relics were ever involved, they might plausibly have bee ... |
| Marnes-la-Coquette | In 1952, he bought a large property in | , near Paris, and named it "La Louque", as a homage to his mother's nickna ... |
| Briançon | ... . At its greatest extent in AD 297, the province reached north to Digne and | |
| Nice | Garibaldi, a native of | (then part of the Kingdom of Sardinia), participated in an uprising in Pie ... |
| Gonaïves | ... nates in Port-au-Prince, winding through the coastal towns of Montrouis and | , before reaching its terminus at the northern port Cap-Haïtien. The south ... |
| Reims | The Foujita chapel in | completed in 1966, is an example of modern frescos, the interior being pai ... |
| Narbonne | ... inciting small uprisings. In 1235, the Inquisition was forced out of Albi, | , and Toulouse. Raymond-Roger de Trencavel led a military campaign in 1240 ... |
| Narbonne | ... a skeptical attitude towards the activities of the metropolis. Movements in | , Limoges, and Marseille were quickly crushed |
| Aleg | ... on may be in the area of the capital, and the 7th Military Region may be at | |
| Vichy | ... t the beginning of World War I). The French capital was soon moved again to | |
| Carthage | ... er in the western Mediterranean Sea. Though the battle had no clear winner, | managed to expand its sphere of influence at the expense of the Greeks, an ... |
| Nice | ... entury with its capital first at Cemenelum (today Cimiez, a neighborhood in | ) and subsequently at Embrun. At its greatest extent in AD 297, the provin ... |
| Cap-Haïtien | ... f Montrouis and Gonaïves, before reaching its terminus at the northern port | . The southern highway, Route Nationale No. 2, links Port-au-Prince with L ... |
| Gonaïves | On 1 January 1804, from the city of | , Dessalines officially declared the former colony's independence and rena ... |
| Toulouse | ... ng disputes, Hilary was, by an imperial rescript, banished with Rhodanus of | to Phrygia, where he spent nearly four years in exile |
| Issy-les-Moulineaux | Madison, New Jersey has three sister cities: Madison, Connecticut, | , France, and Marigliano, Campania, Italy |
| Saïda | ... ains including remnants of hominid occupation from c. 200,000 BC found near | . Neolithic civilization (marked by animal domestication and subsistence a ... |
| Salon-la-Tour | ... aptured when she ran out of ammunition, around midday on 10 June 1944, near | . Her captors were most likely from the 1st Battalion of the Deutschland R ... |
| Saint-Tropez, France | ... Bianca De Macias, whom he married on 12 May 1971, in a Catholic ceremony in | . The couple separated in 1977 and in May 1978, she filed for divorce on t ... |
| Léogâne | ... ern highway, Route Nationale No. 2, links Port-au-Prince with Les Cayes via | and Petit-Goâve |
| Toulon | ... a contingent. On 11 October 1870 two provisional battalions disembarked at | , the first time the foreign legion had been deployed in France itself. It ... |
| Metz | ... e up of three subordinate regions: Bereich Hauptsitze Koblenz, Mannheim and | |
| Rocquencourt | ... reme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, also known as SHAPE, was located at | , west of Paris, quite a distance from Fontainebleau) |
| Blois | The term Vandalisme was coined in 1794 by Henri Grégoire, bishop of | , to describe the destruction of artwork following the French Revolution. ... |
| Petit-Goâve | ... Route Nationale No. 2, links Port-au-Prince with Les Cayes via Léogâne and | |
| Montpellier | Munthe studied medicine in Uppsala, | , and Paris (where he was a student of Charcot), graduating M.D. in 1880 a ... |
| Corbie | Ratramnus, (died c. 870 CE) a Frankish monk of the monastery of | , was a Carolingian theologian known best for his writings on the Eucharis ... |
| Cannes | In 1942 he returned to Bocca, near | , but returned to the capital city in September. In 1944 when Allied force ... |
| Tours | ... civil wars compelled Pasquier to leave Paris and for some years he lived at | , working steadily at his great book, but he returned to Paris in Henry IV ... |
| Beaumont-Hamel | ... sick or injured. In November 1916, he was sheltering in a shell crater near | , France, when he was killed by a German sniper. His last words, according ... |
| Calais | ... ills, which originate in Bolderberg, Heusden-Zolder, and continue as far as | in France, are mainly covered with woods and fruit yards |
| Căpâlna | ... getusa Regia, Costeşti-Cetăţuie, Costeşti-Blidaru, Piatra Roşie, Băniţa and | - that formed the defensive system of Decebalus were designated as a UNESC ... |
| Albi | ... re known as Albigensians, either because of an association with the city of | , or because the 1176 Church Council which declared the Cathar doctrine he ... |
| Port-au-Prince | ... erthrow the Emperor. Dessalines was assassinated north of the capital city, | , at Pont Larnage, (now known as Pont-Rouge) on 17 October 1806 on his way ... |
| Rennes | #Brittany ( | |
| Amiens | ... originated from areas within France. It included men from Blois, Champagne, | , Saint-Pol, the Ile-de-France and Burgundy. Several other regions of Euro ... |
| Dessalines | ... anthem of Haiti, La Dessalinienne, is named in his honor, as is the city of | |
| Merville | ... . On 27 May the Deutschland reached the defensive line on the Leie River at | . They forced a bridgehead across the river and waited for the SS Totenkop ... |
| Menton | ... trated in the urban region that includes Antibes, Cannes, Grasse, Nice, and | , and which constitutes 90% of the total population |
| Le Mans | #Maine ( | |
| Blois | ... e in October 1202 originated from areas within France. It included men from | , Champagne, Amiens, Saint-Pol, the Ile-de-France and Burgundy. Several ot ... |
| Versailles | ... ought Japan unprecedented prosperity. Japan went to the peace conference at | in 1919 as one of the great military and industrial powers of the world an ... |
| Rouen | ... , who fled after fighting for King James VII in 1689 and became a banker in | and half-brother George, who fled to France and became a wine merchant. Ho ... |
| Chauffours | ... n the latter part of the 12th century at Bennes, a village between Ollé and | in the diocese of Chartres |
| Merano | Over the centuries, the Counts residing in Tirol Castle, near | , extended their territory over the region. Later counts would hold much o ... |
| Môle Saint-Nicolas | Christopher Columbus landed at | on 5 December 1492, and claimed the island for Spain. Nineteen days later, ... |
| Montpellier | ... o Torre. The 1985 Candidates' event was held as a round-robin tournament at | , France, and Spassky was seeded in as an organizer's choice. He scored 8/ ... |
| Carthage | ... rn Italy. He conquered several cities in Sicily and southern Italy, opposed | 's influence in Sicily and made Syracuse the most powerful of the Western ... |
| Bavay | ... ed towns. A military highway through Tornacum (Tournai, Belgium), Bavacum ( | , France), Atuatuca Tungrorum (Tongeren, Belgium), Mosae Trajectum (Maastr ... |
| Ollé | ... as born in the latter part of the 12th century at Bennes, a village between | and Chauffours in the diocese of Chartres |
| Tours | #Touraine ( | |
| Carthage | ... d in subsequent wars. In the First Punic War it was at first dependent upon | ; and though the citizens, alarmed at the progress of the Roman arms, were ... |
| Cap-Haïtien | ... n days later, his ship the Santa María ran aground near the present site of | ; Columbus was forced to leave behind 39 men, who founded the settlement o ... |
| Évreux | ... xperience" (invited by French singer Johnny Hallyday) was at the Novelty in | (France) on October 13, 1966 |
| Cherbourg-Octeville | Portsmouth Continental Ferry Port has links to Caen, | , St Malo and Le Havre in France, and Santander, Cantabria, in Spain and t ... |
| Lille | ... ave been preserved (they are now at the Archives Départementales du Nord in | ) and a new cathedral was later provided |
| Limoges | #Limousin ( | |
| Saint-Cloud | ... . Philip's family went to France, where they settled in the Paris suburb of | in a house lent to them by his aunt, Princess George of Greece |
| Issoudun | ... 1200 the treaty was finally signed, John ceding with his niece the fiefs of | and Graçay, together with those that André de Chauvigny, lord of Châteauro ... |
| Foix | #Foix ( | |
| Marseille | ... ish monasteries with monks from continental monasteries at Montecassino and | . By the 12th century, the Sardinian Giudicati, though obscure, are visibl ... |
| Graçay | ... ty was finally signed, John ceding with his niece the fiefs of Issoudun and | , together with those that André de Chauvigny, lord of Châteauroux, held i ... |
| Combles | ... d also made progress, and once Ginchy fell, the two armies were linked near | |
| Petit-Goâve | ... er to control the French portion of Santo-Domingo (Hispaniola). For a time, | and Léogâne vied for this honor, but both were eventually ruled out, for v ... |
| Le Mans | ... hours event for karts which takes place at the kart circuit Alain Prost at | , France. This race has taken place since 1986 and its winners list includ ... |
| Aix-en-Provence | #Provence ( | |
| Lunéville | ... nd Leszno to Count (later Prince) Alexander Joseph Sułkowski. He settled at | , founded there the Academia Stanislaw and devoted himself for the rest of ... |
| Grenoble | ... s were the third Winter Olympics held in France, after Chamonix in 1924 and | in 1968, and the fifth Olympics overall in the country |
| Pontigny | His life inspired the formation of the Society of St Edmund at | , France, in 1843 by Rev. Jean Baptiste Muard to keep Saint Edmund's memor ... |
| Bordeaux | Bonheur was born in | (where her father had been friends with Francisco Goya who was living ther ... |
| Montpellier | ... together with that of the counts of Cerdanya and Roussillon and the city of | were left as a kingdom for his son James II of Majorca as the Kingdom of M ... |
| Ligugé | ... is encouragement Martin, the future bishop of Tours, founded a monastery at | in his diocese |
| Antibes | The population is now concentrated in the urban region that includes | , Cannes, Grasse, Nice, and Menton, and which constitutes 90% of the total ... |
| Port-Mort | ... n Berry, of the English crown. The marriage was celebrated the next day, at | on the right bank of the Seine, in John's domains, as those of Philip lay ... |
| Cité Soleil | ... ving abroad, with their remittances home representing 52.7% of Haiti's GDP. | is considered one of the worst slums in the Americas; most of its 500,000 ... |
| Saint-Simon, Cantal | ... was born about 946 in the town of Belliac, near the present-day commune of | , France. Around 963, he entered the monastery of St. Gerald of Aurillac. ... |
| Angoulême | #Angoumois ( | |
| Calais | ... help his son, and Blanche was his sole support. She established herself at | and organized two fleets, one of which was commanded by Eustace the Monk, ... |
| Le Havre | ... Continental Ferry Port has links to Caen, Cherbourg-Octeville, St Malo and | in France, and Santander, Cantabria, in Spain and the Channel Islands. Fer ... |
| Guéret | #Marche ( | |
| Bougival | The Villa Viardot in | , near Paris, a gift to the Viardots by Ivan Turgenev in 1874, where so ma ... |
| Cosnac | He was born at | (Corrèze), the son of Jean Baptiste Cabanis (1723–1786), a lawyer and agro ... |
| Cannes | ... e population is now concentrated in the urban region that includes Antibes, | , Grasse, Nice, and Menton, and which constitutes 90% of the total populat ... |
| Gonaïves | ... me, the French also established bases at Ester (part of Petite-Rivière) and | |
| Grasse | ... tion is now concentrated in the urban region that includes Antibes, Cannes, | , Nice, and Menton, and which constitutes 90% of the total population |
| Chamonix | ... rchtesgaden. The games were the third Winter Olympics held in France, after | in 1924 and Grenoble in 1968, and the fifth Olympics overall in the countr ... |
| Avenay | ... ix to Adele's brothers. After her betrothal, Marie was sent to the abbey of | in Champagne for her education |
| Thiers | Its main cities are Clermont-Ferrand, | , Riom, Issoire, Ambert, and Cournon-d'Auvergne. Parts of the department b ... |
| Gif-sur-Yvette | ... not live to finish. Fernand Léger died at his home in 1955 and is buried in | , Essonne |
| Constantine | ... towns. The chief towns of Roman Numidia were: in the north, Cirta or modern | , the capital, with its port Rusicada (Modern Skikda); Hippo Regius or (ne ... |
| Montauban | ... numbers and experience to the British, was highly effective. From Mametz to | and the Somme River, all the first-day objectives were reached. Though the ... |
| Moulay | ... title Khalifa or Chaliphe, here meaning 'Viceroy', to royal princes (styled | ), including future Sultans, who represented the crown in a part of the su ... |
| Tours | ... entury, but after the defeat of Emir Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqiwas's troops at | in 732 local Visigoths regained autonomy, though they voluntarily made the ... |
| Nice | Ferries are available in | harbour from Bastia and Calvi in Corsica, with services provided by SNCM F ... |
| Dijon | #Burgundy ( | |
| Easter Island | ... s, about 1000 incunabula; and a huge collection of manuscripts, such as the | tablet bearing . In the early stages of the war, Allied propaganda capital ... |
| Bastia | Ferries are available in Nice harbour from | and Calvi in Corsica, with services provided by SNCM Ferryterranée and Cor ... |
| Tignes | ... Plagne, Les Arcs, Les Menuires, Les Saisies, Méribel, Pralognan-la-Vanoise, | and Val d'Isère. Sixty-four nations with 1,801 athletes participated in th ... |
| Amiens | #Picardy ( | |
| Carthaginians | ... and Syracuse, its democracy was overthrown when the city was sacked by the | in 406 BC. Akragas never fully recovered its former status, though it revi ... |
| Toulouse | ... become more like accountants than pilots. He worked for Aéropostale between | and Dakar, and then also became the airline stopover manager for the Cape ... |
| Fontainebleau | ... Margaret de la Pole, also known as Marguerite de la Pole. On 21 May 1539 at | , she married Sibeud de Tivoley, seigneur de Brenieu, who died after 1566, ... |
| Bône | ... the capital, with its port Rusicada (Modern Skikda); Hippo Regius or (near | ), well known as the see of St. Augustine. To the south in the interior mi ... |
| Marseille | The language was first conceived by a group around Alain Colmerauer in | , France, in the early 1970s and the first Prolog system was developed in ... |
| Pralognan-la-Vanoise | ... ges of Courchevel, La Plagne, Les Arcs, Les Menuires, Les Saisies, Méribel, | , Tignes and Val d'Isère. Sixty-four nations with 1,801 athletes participa ... |
| Aiguebelle | Thomas I or Tommaso I (1178, | – 1 March 1233) was Count of Savoy from 1189-1233. He was the son of Humbe ... |
| Villeneuve-lès-Avignon | ... hat precarious, as the French crown maintained a large standing garrison at | just across the river |
| Nice | When | became French in 1860, it was still a small town; the department had fewer ... |
| Grasse | Other notable industry includes the perfume industry in | and high-tech industry around Sophia-Antipolis |
| Puteaux | ... t and building in the business district of La Défense and in the commune of | , to the west of Paris, France. It is usually known as the Arche de la Déf ... |
| Angers | #Anjou ( | |
| Le Bourget | ... Casablanca, Morocco. Later, being reposted to the 34th Aviation Regiment at | on the outskirts of Paris and experiencing the first of his many aircraft ... |
| La Rochelle | #Aunis ( | |
| Marseille | ... Algiers on 3 August. From there he obtained a passage in a vessel bound for | , but on 16 August, just as the vessel was nearing Marseille, it fell into ... |
| Lyon | ... in 1937. Althusser performed brilliantly at school at the Lycée du Parc in | and was accepted to the elite École normale supérieure (ENS) in Paris. How ... |
| Oualata | ... ay Mauritania, there exists archaeological sites in the towns of Tichit and | that were initially constructed around 2000 B.C., and was found to have or ... |
| Brest | ... g on half-pay in Portsmouth. After gruelling service during the blockade of | , he finally is promoted to captain and recalled to England. Once there, h ... |
| Courcelette | ... s') and the 25th Battalion (the Nova Scotia Rifles) captured the village of | after heavy fighting, with some assistance from two tanks. And finally aft ... |
| Caen | Portsmouth Continental Ferry Port has links to | , Cherbourg-Octeville, St Malo and Le Havre in France, and Santander, Cant ... |
| Chantilly | As part of Epsom and Ewell, the town is twinned with | in northern France |
| Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat | ... the Mediterranean Sea with the important towns and cities of Cannes, Nice, | , and Antibes |
| Bordeaux | #Guyenne and Gascony ( | |
| Bolzano | ... ty's income is that of €6,531,204,473), coming after Mantua, yet surpassing | |
| Toulouse | The county was carved by the Franks out of a former section of the Mark of | when the Alt Urgell area became part of the Carolingian Empire between 785 ... |
| Marseille | ... ation with Rome as its capital. After Mazzini's release in 1831, he went to | , where he organized a new political society called La Giovine Italia (You ... |
| Strasbourg | ... f the Council of Europe, he laid the first stone of the Palace of Europe in | on 15 May 1972. At his initiative, Switzerland recognized North Vietnam an ... |
| Le Bourget | ... traffic. One of the earliest such fields was Paris – Le Bourget Airport at | , near Paris. The first airport to operate scheduled international commerc ... |
| Tichit | ... n current day Mauritania, there exists archaeological sites in the towns of | and Oualata that were initially constructed around 2000 B.C., and was foun ... |
| Bastia | ... arked two battalions of the foreign legion. The Third Battalion was left in | , Corsica, as a regimental depot, and was intended to supply both foreign ... |
| Antibes | ... the important towns and cities of Cannes, Nice, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, and | |
| Brioude | He was buried at | , next to Saint Julian's tomb |
| Corbie | ... uggested that he became the teaching master at the Benedictine monastery of | in 844, when Paschasius Radbertus was made abbot. Additionally, he appears ... |
| Limoges | He was born at | , a member of a noble family of Périgord, the youngest of thirteen childre ... |
| Orléans | In 463 in | , in conjunction with the Roman General Aegidius, who was based in Soisson ... |
| Carthage | ... ion against the Vandal kingdom in North Africa, took part in the capture of | , and remained in Africa with Belisarius' successor Solomon the Eunuch whe ... |
| Cap-Haïtien | # Nord ( | |
| Gueudecourt | ... as planned for 25 September with the objectives of the villages of Thiepval | ;, Lesbœufs and Morval. Like the Battle of Bazentin Ridge on 14 July, the ... |
| Fort-Liberté | # Nord-Est ( | |
| Le Mans | ... y station offers frequent services to Paris, and a few daily connections to | , Nogent-le-Rotrou and Courtalain. The A11 motorway connects Chartres with ... |
| Calais | ... st of Dover in the county of Kent, England, to Cap Gris Nez, a cape near to | in the French of Pas-de-Calais, France. Between these two points lies the ... |
| Narbonne | ... ermont a group of Hunnic raiders and obliged Theodoric to lift the siege of | . In 439 he became Praetorian prefect of Gaul; in that same year he renewe ... |
| Wormhout | By 28 May the Leibstandarte had taken | , only ten miles from Dunkirk. They were responsible for the Wormhoudt mas ... |
| Port-de-Paix | # Nord-Ouest ( | |
| Sireix | ... , 21 May 1762) and wife (m. Assat, 30 May 1719) Marie d'Abbadie de Sireix ( | , 25 March 1694 – Boëil-Bezing, 16 October 1752), daughter of Doumengé Hab ... |
| Port-au-Prince | # Ouest ( | |
| Nantes | ... ves Toulouse and Irun from Bordeaux. A regular train service is provided to | , Nice, Marseille and Lyon. The Gare Saint-Jean is the major hub for regio ... |
| Toulouse | ... together; after he was forced to become regent of the Visigothic kingdom of | , the power of Theodoric was practically extended over a large part of Gau ... |
| Royan | ... n April 1945 against German soldiers (and inadvertently French civilians in | ) - about two weeks before the end of the war |
| Toulouse | ... n, Ohio and St. Louis in the USA (Boeing), Montreal in Canada (Bombardier), | in France and Hamburg in Germany (both Airbus/EADS), the North-West of Eng ... |
| Labrit | The lordship (seigneurie) of Albret ( | ), situated in the Landes, gave its name to one of the most powerful feuda ... |
| Valenciennes | ... dé avenged the defeat of Arras by storming Turenne's circumvallation around | (July 16), but Turenne drew off his forces in good order. The campaign of ... |
| Port-au-Prince | ... ights from Spain to Central America. Air France continues to run flights to | using Airbus A320 aircraft. Today, more European carriers serve Miami Inte ... |
| Bavay | ... y. It was a town of the Nervii, whose "capital" was at Bagacum, present-day | |
| Morval | ... of Ginchy, where the Quadrilateral redoubt had held up the advance towards | —the Quadrilateral was not captured until 18 September. Another attack was ... |
| Jacmel | # Sud-Est ( | |
| Montauban | ... guedoc, the fortified Protestant towns were reduced to two, La Rochelle and | . The brevets were entirely withdrawn in 1629, by Louis XIII, following th ... |
| Nogent-le-Rotrou | ... offers frequent services to Paris, and a few daily connections to Le Mans, | and Courtalain. The A11 motorway connects Chartres with Paris and Le Mans |
| Verberie | Rayne, which is located about [65 km] north-east of London, is twinned with | which is about north-east of Paris in the Department of Picardie, which co ... |
| Les Cayes | # Sud ( | |
| Montaillou | His efforts against the Cathars of | in the Ariège were carefully recorded in the Fournier Register, which he t ... |
| Caen | Born in Le-Locheur (near | , Normandie), his family was of some position, though it seems not to have ... |
| Toulouse | ... Lille, Brussels, Amsterdam, Cologne, Geneva and London. The TGV also serves | and Irun from Bordeaux. A regular train service is provided to Nantes, Nic ... |
| Nice | # | , a Sardinian fie |
| Cherbourg | ... until 5th April 1944, when she parachuted into German-occupied France, near | |
| Landrecies | In 1655 Turenne captured the fortresses of | , Condé and St Ghislain. In 1656 the prince of Condé avenged the defeat of ... |
| Borgne | ... currently in the process of developing a "sister cities" relationship with | , Haiti |
| Soissons | ... n Orléans, in conjunction with the Roman General Aegidius, who was based in | , he defeated the Visigoths, who hoped to extend their dominion along the ... |
| Abbeville | ... returned at once. But his health was broken, and he died on the journey at | on 10 July 1653 |
| Lesbœufs | ... 25 September with the objectives of the villages of Thiepval; Gueudecourt, | and Morval. Like the Battle of Bazentin Ridge on 14 July, the limited obje ... |
| Marseille | ... August 1798 he married Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary, the daughter of a | silk merchant, and sister of Joseph Bonaparte's wife Julie Clary - Désirée ... |
| Thomery | She died at the age of 77, at | (By), France. Many of her paintings, which had not previously been shown p ... |
| Gonaïves | # Artibonite ( | |
| Longwy | ... 15 July. There was a campaign against French fortresses that still held out | ;capitulated on 13 September 1815, the last to do so. The Treaty of Paris ... |
| Ermenonville | ... caused Turkish Airlines Flight 981 to crash into a forest near the town of | , France shortly after leaving Paris. All 346 people were killed in one of ... |
| La Rochelle | ... ot revolt in Languedoc, the fortified Protestant towns were reduced to two, | and Montauban. The brevets were entirely withdrawn in 1629, by Louis XIII, ... |
| Narbonne | ... thers, to the African bishops, to those of Illyria, of Thessalonica, and of | , are extant in re-translations from the Greek; the Latin originals having ... |
| Montbéliard | # | , a fief of Württember |
| Hinche | # Centre ( | |
| Nantes | ... the thoroughfare of the Loire, thus giving access to the sea at the port of | on the western coast, and to the Île-de-France in the east. Chinon offers ... |
| Saint-Cloud | In 1898 he moved to | , near Paris. By the turn of the century, he had become world-famous. His ... |
| Rouen | ... parties, and on 10 June 1128 the fifteen-year-old Geoffrey was knighted in | by King Henry in preparation for the wedding |
| Lyon | ... s later in the Vatican Library and published by Niccolò Alamanni in 1623 at | , Latin Anecdota, "unpublished writings"). The Secret History covers rough ... |
| Perpignan | ... d Cerdan as a great sportsman. Cerdan was interred in the Cimetière du Sud, | , Languedoc-Roussillon, |
| Jérémie | # Grand'Anse ( | |
| Strasbourg | ... sman for the European Union, based in the Salvador de Madariaga Building in | |
| Villanders | Oswald's father was Friedrich von Wolkenstein and his mother Katharina von | . When he was ten years old, Oswald left his family and became squire of a ... |
| Strasbourg | ... former, Heinrich Bullinger. After having completed his studies at Basel and | , he returned to Zürich, and became pastor to the neighboring villages |
| Toulouse | ... nd Montferrand both fell easily in early June, and the crusaders headed for | . The town was besieged, but for once the attackers were short of supplies ... |
| Limoges | ... the Vienne joins the fertile southern plains of the Poitou and the city of | to the thoroughfare of the Loire, thus giving access to the sea at the por ... |
| Bandiagara | ... and sixteenth centuries, the Dogon left the area to settle in the cliffs of | . Elsewhere, the remains of high walls are localized in the southwest of B ... |
| Miragoâne | # Nippes ( | |
| Île de la Tortue | ... re. Around 1650, French pirates, or flibustiers, running out of room on the | began to arrive on the coast, and established a colony at Trou-Borded. As ... |
| Biot, Alpes-Maritimes | In 1960, the Musée Fernand Léger was opened in | ,France |
| Seis am Schlern | ... ia"), and was inducted into the Order of the Dragon. He lived for a time in | |
| Nantes | ... the signing is mooted. The Edict itself states merely that it is "given at | , in the month of April, in the year of Our Lord one thousand five hundred ... |
| Carthage | ... ccording to ancient Greek and Roman sources, the founder and first Queen of | (in modern-day Tunisia). She is best known from the account given by the R ... |
| Calais | ... he English contingent and its very definite purpose of making Dunkirk a new | , to be held by England forever, gave the next campaign a character of cer ... |
| Melun | ... ining the land of men and money to aid her son in the East. She fell ill at | in November 1252, and was taken to Paris, but lived only a few days. She w ... |
| Vire | ... ed by 2nd TAF Typhoons, which destroyed or damaged some 81 vehicles. In the | area, where the British Army was under attack, Typhoons flew 294 sorties o ... |
| Angoulême | Isabella became Countess of | in her own right on 16 June 1202, by which time she was already queen of E ... |
| Santiago, Chile | ... ithout significant motorization and the formation of suburbs. In areas like | , a high population density is supported by a multimodal system of walking ... |
| Oran | ... ts in the Algerian coast were conquered and occupied: Mers El Kébir (1505), | (1509), Algiers (1510) and Bugia (1510). The Spaniards left Algiers in 152 ... |
| Boulogne-sur-Mer | ... nce was held in 1904, leading to the first world congress in August 1905 in | , France. There were 688 Esperanto speakers present from 20 nationalities. ... |
| Marseille | ... es Lagarde (10 messidor an III (28 June 1795), a wealthy soap merchant from | with strong political connections, as bibliographer of the museum. With th ... |
| Orléans | ... s appointed vicar of the Madeleine at Paris. For a time he was tutor to the | princes. He became the founder of the celebrated academy at St Hyacinthe, ... |
| Toulouse | ... n embassy to the court of Theodoric II, who had succeeded to his father, at | : this embassy probably confirmed the new King and his people the conditio ... |
| Bordeaux | ... ueen of England. Her marriage to King John took place on 24 August 1200, at | , a year after he annulled his first marriage to Isabel of Gloucester. She ... |
| Angers | ... ver. After the death of Aegidius, he first assisted Comes ("count") Paul of | , together with a mixed band of Gallo-Romans and Franks, in defeating the ... |
| Mulhouse | ... y afterward. When World War I began in August 1914, Göring was stationed at | with his regiment |
| Bougie | ... hen within sight of their port they were driven back by a northerly wind to | on the coast of Africa. Transport to Algiers by sea from this place would ... |
| Boulogne | ... leon planned an invasion of Great Britain, and massed 180,000 effectives at | . However, in order to mount his invasion, he needed to achieve naval supe ... |
| Lourdes | ... in Toulouse before heading west to captured Bigorre, but he was repulsed at | in December 1216. In September 1217, while Montfort was occupied in the Fo ... |
| Toblach | ... d. On 11 November, Italian troops occupied the Brenner Pass and the Pass at | . To secure access to the Inn valley, crucial for an advance into southern ... |
| Metz | ... s the Bald tried to gain control of his kingdom by having himself sacred at | . Cambrai thus reverted, but only briefly, to the Western Frankish Realm. ... |
| Saint-Flour, Cantal | He was born at | and studied theology at Orléans. He was ordained in 1824 and placed in cha ... |
| Delmas | ... Pétionville is an affluent suburban commune located southeast of the city. | is located directly south of the airport and north of the central city, an ... |
| Dieppe | ... inks in the Port of Rouen. The Cross-Channel ferry ports of Caen, Le Havre, | (50 minutes) and Calais, and the Channel Tunnel are within easy driving di ... |
| La Rochelle | ... laces of safety (places de sûreté), which were military strongholds such as | , in support of which the king paid 180,000 écus a year, along with a furt ... |
| Nantes | ... defeated by the betrothal of Anne to Maximilian of Austria, he surrendered | to the French in 1486 |
| Saverdun | ... own of the origins of Jacques Fournier. He is believed to have been born in | in the Comté de Foix around the 1280s to a family of modest means. He beca ... |
| Saint-Étienne | ... e SS divisions continued the advance into France. The Leibstandarte reached | , 250 miles south of Paris, and had advanced further into France than any ... |
| Le Transloy | ... fectively the German fourth defensive position that ran from the village of | in the east to Le Sars on the Albert-Bapaume road |
| Orléans | He was born at Saint-Flour, Cantal and studied theology at | . He was ordained in 1824 and placed in charge of the parish of Puiseaux, ... |
| Strasbourg | ... f the European Parliament for Derbyshire in 1984 and served in Brussels and | for ten years. He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1992 general ... |
| Arrast-Larrebieu | ... from a noble family of the province of Soule, his father Michel was born in | and his mother was Irish. His grandfather Jean-Pierre was an abbot and a n ... |
| Orthez | ... he suburb of St. Esprit. At St. Esprit, as well as at Peyrehorade, Bidache, | , Biarritz, and St. Jean de Luz, they gradually avowed Judaism openly. In ... |
| Calais | At | , Percy openly approaches Chauvelin in a decrepit inn (the Chat gris), who ... |
| Beynac | ... d Montfort; he also occupied Castlenaud and destroyed the fortifications of | . In 1215, Castelnaud was recaptured by Montfort, and the crusaders entere ... |
| Hendaye | ... hiopia, he married Virginie Vincent de Saint Bonnet in 1848, and settled in | where he purchased 250ha to build his castle, and became the mayor of the ... |
| Bapaume | ... eptember, with the French Tenth Army attacking at Albert and pushing toward | , and the German Sixth Army counter-attacking back towards Albert. The lin ... |
| Cambrai | ... le in the north around Gommecourt and for the Fourth Army to attack towards | . The first step required the capture of the German Transloy Line, effecti ... |
| Verdun | ... ncluding parts of modern Luxembourg and Germany. The main cities were Metz, | , Epinal and the historic capital Nancy |
| Cité Soleil | ... Cross reports that seven out of ten Haitians live on less than US$2 a day. | , Haiti's largest slum in the capital of Port-au-Prince, has been called " ... |
| Rouen | When Emile Verhaeren died on 27 November 1916 at | station (by falling under a train), it was Théo van Rysselberghe and his f ... |
| Dieppe | ... re de Rouen-Rive-Droite to Le Havre and Paris, and regional trains to Caen, | and other local destinations in Normandy. Daily direct trains operate to A ... |
| Biarritz | ... b of St. Esprit. At St. Esprit, as well as at Peyrehorade, Bidache, Orthez, | , and St. Jean de Luz, they gradually avowed Judaism openly. In 1640 sever ... |
| Porto Torres | ... ed in favor of Oristano, after more than 1800 years of occupation; Caralis, | and numerous other coastal centres suffered the same fate. There was news ... |
| Wissembourg | ... anisław Poniatowski, father of the future king. Leszczyński then resided at | in Alsace. In 1725, he had the satisfaction of seeing his daughter Maria b ... |
| Aix-en-Provence | ... signed on November 5. On January 27, 1660 the prince asked and obtained at | the forgiveness of Louis XIV. The later careers of Turenne and Condé were ... |
| Belloy-en-Santerre | ... n legion fought and died in vicious battles on the Western front, including | during the Battle of the Somme, where Seeger, after being mortally wounded ... |
| Les Andelys | ... his friend Giovanni Pietro Bellori, who relates that Poussin was born near | in Normandy and that he received an education that included some Latin, wh ... |
| Marseille | ... art. Chevalier made a name as a mimic and a singer. His act in l'Alcazar in | was so successful, he made a triumphant rearrival in Paris |
| Port-au-Prince | Cité Soleil, Haiti's largest slum in the capital of | , has been called "the most dangerous place on Earth" by the United Nation ... |
| Mers El Kébir | ... veral towns and outposts in the Algerian coast were conquered and occupied: | (1505), Oran (1509), Algiers (1510) and Bugia (1510). The Spaniards left A ... |
| Vahrn | ... ken over by Ulrich von Matsch. His body was brought to Monastery Neustift ( | ) and buried near the font in the monastery's church, where his grave was ... |
| Carthage | ... ent Iran, ancient Egypt, ancient Nubia, and Anatolia (Turkey), Ancient Nok, | , the Greeks and Romans of ancient Europe, medieval Europe, ancient and me ... |
| Levallois-Perret | Coachbuilder Henri Chapron from | produced seven convertibles (SM Mylord) and eight sedans (SM Opéra). Origi ... |
| Grenoble | ... by Mr Coolidge), with French translation, notes and appendices, appeared at | in 1904. Another fragment of his vast plan was the work entitled De Helvet ... |
| Oran | ... a west of Cyrenaica, notably Melilla (captured 1497), Mers El Kébir (1505), | (1509), Algiers (1510) and Tripoli (1511), which marked the furthest point ... |
| Nice | ... ar to water temperatures in much of the Northern Mediterranean (for example | ). In Summer, False bay water averages slightly over , with a common high. ... |
| Marseille | ... wards the activities of the metropolis. Movements in Narbonne, Limoges, and | were quickly crushed |
| Clermont-Ferrand | #Auvergne ( | |
| Toulouse | ... their federate settlement lands and became part of the Visigoth kingdom of | , while other than the region of the Garonne river their actual grip on th ... |
| Rouen | ... eir two defeats at Roncevaux. The incursions in 841 caused severe damage to | and Jumièges. The Vikings attackers sought to capture the treasures stored ... |
| Carthage | ... y Geiseric captured the Western Roman province of Africa and its capital of | . Carthage was the richest province of the Western Empire and a main sourc ... |
| Reims | ... elve years old. She had him crowned within a month of his father's death in | and forced reluctant barons to swear allegiance to him |
| Le Sars | ... defensive position that ran from the village of Le Transloy in the east to | on the Albert-Bapaume road |
| Carthage | ... r all to see. After the ceremonies, Maxentius' disembodied head was sent to | ; at this Carthage would offer no further resistance. Unlike his predecess ... |
| Jumièges | ... feats at Roncevaux. The incursions in 841 caused severe damage to Rouen and | . The Vikings attackers sought to capture the treasures stored at monaster ... |
| Châlons-en-Champagne | ... ian. Instead, the two seem to have conspired so that when the armies met at | that autumn, Tetricus simply deserted to the Roman camp and Aurelian easil ... |
| Grande-Rivière-du-Nord | ... in the Plaine-du-Nord in Cormiers (now known as Cormier), near the town of | , where he was born as Jean-Jacques Duclos, the name of his father, who ad ... |
| Bayonne | Under Louis XIII of France the conversos of | were assigned to the suburb of St. Esprit. At St. Esprit, as well as at Pe ... |
| Carpentras | ... partment of Vaucluse. Before the French Revolution it had as suffragan sees | , Vaison and Cavaillon, which were united by the Napoleonic Concordat of 1 ... |
| Oran | ... th of Algeria as far as the river Mulucha (Muluya), about 100 miles west of | . The Numidians were conceived of as two great tribal groups: the Massylii ... |
| Carthaginians | ... mmercial trade and military way-point for many cultures, beginning with the | in the 5th century BC, who called the city Abyla. It was not until the Rom ... |
| Bordeaux | ... wax and iron, however the port's largest trade was in wine from Bayonne and | |
| Strasbourg | #Alsace ( | , cons. souv. in Colmar |
| Boulogne-Billancourt | Born in | , France. He is the son of Bernard Blier. His 1996 film Mon Homme was ente ... |
| Narbonne | ... gment of his Gaul dominion. Toulouse passed to the Franks but the Goth kept | and its district and Septimania, which was the last part of Gaul held by t ... |
| Carthage | ... ed to use this method to permanently destroy the Carthaginian capital city, | (near modern-day Tunis). The buildings were torn down, their stones scatte ... |
| Lyon | ... ll appeals for clemency on 14 August. Caserio was executed by guillotine in | at precisely 5am, 16 August 1894. In front of the guillotine, he exclaimed ... |
| Cavaillon | ... efore the French Revolution it had as suffragan sees Carpentras, Vaison and | , which were united by the Napoleonic Concordat of 1801 to Avignon, togeth ... |
| Plaine-du-Nord | ... to enslaved African parents. Dessalines was a slave on a plantation in the | in Cormiers (now known as Cormier), near the town of Grande-Rivière-du-Nor ... |
| Mers El Kébir | ... e coast of North Africa west of Cyrenaica, notably Melilla (captured 1497), | (1505), Oran (1509), Algiers (1510) and Tripoli (1511), which marked the f ... |
| Lyon | ... he fell in with Giambattista Marino, the court poet to Marie de Medici, at | . Marino employed him on illustrations to his poem Adone (untraced) and on ... |
| Colmar | #Alsace (Strasbourg, cons. souv. in | |
| Montpellier | ... s, settling at Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Tarbes, Bayonne, Bordeaux, Marseille, and | . They lived as Christians; were married by Catholic priests; had their ch ... |
| Beaucourt-sur-l'Ancre | ... aumont Hamel, while on their right the 63rd (Royal Naval) Division captured | , Lieutenant Colonel Bernard Freyberg winning the Victoria Cross in the pr ... |
| Carthage | ... er historians during the third century BC to indicate the territory west of | , including the entire north of Algeria as far as the river Mulucha (Muluy ... |
| Belcaire | ... , who was more concerned with Toulouse than heresy. The crusaders had taken | and besieged Marmande in late 1218 under Amaury de Montfort, son of the la ... |
| Sainte-Maxime | ... any; at the same time, H.R.H. the Duke of Halland was on a private visit to | , France. The Government therefore ordered the Speaker of the Riksdag, Ing ... |
| Port-au-Prince | ... 200 years. The epicenter of the quake was just outside the Haitian capital | . On 10 February the Haitian government gave a death toll of 230,000. Wide ... |
| Puteaux | Bellini died in | , near Paris of acute inflammation of the intestine, and was buried in the ... |
| Carrefour | ... f the airport and north of the central city, and the rather poor commune of | is located southwest of the city. Port-au-Prince commune harbors many low- ... |
| Besançon | ... Joseph Hugo (1798–1855) and Eugène Hugo (1800–1837). He was born in 1802 in | (in the region of Franche-Comté) and lived in France for the majority of h ... |
| Carthaginians | ... nean coast of the Iberian Peninsula, it was colonized by Ancient Greeks and | and participated in the pre-Roman Iberian culture |
| Chamalières | Mayor of | : 1967–1974 (Resignation, Became President of the French Republic in 1974) ... |
| Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire | ... ing this time the body of St Benedict was transferred to Fleury, the modern | near Orleans, France |
| Ensisheim | ... ob Balde (January 4, 1604 – August 9, 1668), a German Latinist, was born at | in Alsace |
| Clamart | ... a French government jet, and was admitted to the Percy military hospital in | , a suburb of Paris. The official statement announcing his death failed to ... |
| Valence-d'Agen | ... Panzer Division ("Das Reich") was stationed in the Southern French town of | , north of Toulouse, waiting to be resupplied with new equipment and fresh ... |
| Mortain | A German counter-attack, starting on 7 August, at | , in the Falaise pocket, threatened Patton's break-out from the beachhead. ... |
| Chamalières | Municipal councillor of | : 1967–1977. Reelected in 1971 |
| Drancy | ... Leninakan, Armenia, 1965), Vitebsk (Belarus, 1975), Montreux (Switzerland), | (France), Montgomery (UK), Polizzi Generosa ( Italy), Darkhan (Mongolia, 1 ... |
| Carthage | ... ke of heightened tax rates and depressed trade; riots broke out in Rome and | ; and Domitius Alexander was able to briefly usurp his authority in Africa ... |
| Perpignan | #Roussillon ( | |
| Coutances | ... craft of the 402d Fighter Squadron / 370th Fighter Group on a fuel depot at | , near St. Lô, France. Further use of napalm by American forces occurred i ... |
| Lille | #Flanders and Hainaut ( | parlement in Douai |
| Marmande | ... ed with Toulouse than heresy. The crusaders had taken Belcaire and besieged | in late 1218 under Amaury de Montfort, son of the late Simon. While Marman ... |
| Douai | #Flanders and Hainaut (Lille parlement in | |
| Marseille | ... red him his first major engagement, as a mimic and a singer in l'Alcazar in | to which he received critical acclaim by French theatre critics. In 1918 h ... |
| Sotteville-lès-Rouen | ... census. In descending order of population, the largest of these suburbs are | , Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, Le Grand-Quevilly, Le Petit-Quevilly, and Mont ... |
| Carthaginians | ... soon took it. In the bay Duilius won the first Roman naval victory over the | (260 BC) |
| Estagel | Arago was born at | , a small village near Perpignan, in the département of Pyrénées-Orientale ... |
| Montpellier | ... King of Valencia, King of Majorca (for a time), Count of Barcelona, Lord of | , and (temporarily) Duke of Athens and Neopatria. Each of these titles gav ... |
| Limoges | She flew to the outskirts of | , France on 7 June 1944 (immediately following D-Day) from RAF Tempsford. ... |
| Besançon | #Franche-Comté ( | |
| Bayonne | ... seeking refuge beyond the Pyrenées, settling at Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Tarbes, | , Bordeaux, Marseille, and Montpellier. They lived as Christians; were mar ... |
| Port-au-Prince | ... t point is Pic la Selle, at . The total area of Haiti is and its capital is | . Haitian Creole and French are the official languages |
| Angoulême | ... of Pembroke and returned to France to assume control of her inheritance of | |
| Aix | ... gnon was reduced to the rank of a bishopric and was made a suffragan see of | . The Archdiocese of Avignon was re-established in 1822, receiving as suff ... |
| Mâcon | ... n the department; for instance, in Saône-et-Loire department the capital is | , but the largest city is Chalon-sur-Saône. Departments are divided into o ... |
| Oran | ... and tells Selim Pasha that his father is a Spanish Grandee and Governor of | , named Lostados, who will pay a generous ransom. Unfortunately, Pasha Sel ... |
| Bordeaux | ... refuge beyond the Pyrenées, settling at Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Tarbes, Bayonne, | , Marseille, and Montpellier. They lived as Christians; were married by Ca ... |
| Lyon | ... vast caves near the village of Beaumont, whither, it is said, the people of | had to go in search of him when they sought him to make him their archbish ... |
| Tellancourt | ... f the war, Göring was repeatedly ordered to withdraw his squadron, first to | airdrome, then to Darmstadt. At one point he was ordered to surrender the ... |
| Estaing | In 2005 he and his brother bought the castle of | , a famous place in the French district of Aveyron and formerly a possessi ... |
| Clermont | Avitus was born in | , in a noble family of the senatorial aristocracy of Gallic-Roman origin; ... |
| Angers | ... signated by Sister Cities International.* Adelaide, Australia – since 1983* | , France – since 2011* Koblenz, Germany – since 1991* Lima, Peru – since 1 ... |
| Le Grand-Quevilly | ... argest of these suburbs are Sotteville-lès-Rouen, Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, | , Le Petit-Quevilly, and Mont-Saint-Aignan, each with a population exceedi ... |
| Lyon | Jean Michel Jarre was born in | on 24 August 1948, to composer Maurice Jarre and French Resistance member ... |
| Delmas | ... 2010 earthquake. The city's separate districts (primarily the districts of | , Carrefour, and Pétionville) are all administered by their own local mayo ... |
| Kiens | Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376 or 1377, presumably in Castle Schöneck in | – August 2, 1445 in Meran) was a poet, composer and diplomat. In the latte ... |
| Tindouf | ... Morocco and the Polisario (an independence movement based in the region of | , Algeria). Morocco's claim to sovereignty over the Sahara is based largel ... |
| Ajaccio | #Corsica (off map, | , cons. souv. in Bastia |
| Lyon | ... the Saône to the quicker waters of the Rhone. He disembarked at Lugdunum ( | ). Maximian fled to Massilia (Marseille), a town better able to withstand ... |
| Nantes | ... eorganisation Silja had ordered two new ships from Dubegion-Normandie S.A., | , France to begin year-round traffic from Helsinki to Stockholm (up until ... |
| Marseille | ... ond the Pyrenées, settling at Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Tarbes, Bayonne, Bordeaux, | , and Montpellier. They lived as Christians; were married by Catholic prie ... |
| Chalon-sur-Saône | ... in Saône-et-Loire department the capital is Mâcon, but the largest city is | . Departments are divided into one or more arrondissements. The capital of ... |
| Carrefour | ... rthquake. The city's separate districts (primarily the districts of Delmas, | , and Pétionville) are all administered by their own local mayors who in t ... |
| Troyes | Chesterfield is twinned with Darmstadt in Germany, | in Northern France, Yangquan in the Shanxi province of China and Tsumeb in ... |
| Bastia | #Corsica (off map, Ajaccio, cons. souv. in | |
| Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray | ... order of population, the largest of these suburbs are Sotteville-lès-Rouen, | , Le Grand-Quevilly, Le Petit-Quevilly, and Mont-Saint-Aignan, each with a ... |
| Marseille | ... f the Rhone. He disembarked at Lugdunum (Lyon). Maximian fled to Massilia ( | ), a town better able to withstand a long siege than Arles. It made little ... |
| Carthaginian | ... the opportunity for expansion into Greece itself. Encouraged by the exiled | general Hannibal, and making an alliance with the disgruntled Aetolian Lea ... |
| Nevers | #Nivernais ( | |
| Albertville | ... t, and she formed part of the Canadian team at the 1992 Winter Olympics, in | , France – the first time women competed in biathlon at the Olympics – and ... |
| Le Bourget | ... Concorde F-BTSD has been retired to the "Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace" at | (near Paris) and, unlike the other museum Concordes, a few of the systems ... |
| Grandcourt | ... mber with an attack on the Munich and Frankfurt Trenches and a push towards | . Ninety men of the 16th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry (the "Glasgow ... |
| Nouméa | Mueo, | , Thi |
| Bozen | ... tyria, where King Friedrich had taken up residence. The cities of Meran and | provided funds and troops to reinforce the fortress, and all other passes ... |
| Dunkirk | ... d of General Heinz Guderian, they took up a position 15 miles south west of | along the line of the Aa Canal, with a bridgehead at Saint Venant. That ni ... |
| Audresselles | ... croix, still remain in the choir of the church of Saint John the Baptist of | (Pas de Calais, France) |
| Bayonne | ... heat, woad, wax and iron, however the port's largest trade was in wine from | and Bordeaux |
| Saint-Lô | Le Verrier was born at | , Manche, France, and studied at École Polytechnique. Following a brief pe ... |
| Angers | A year later, Arthur enrolled in the French Royal Academy of Equitation in | , where he progressed significantly, becoming a good horseman and learning ... |
| Saint-Jean-de-Luz | ... e period the conversos were seeking refuge beyond the Pyrenées, settling at | , Tarbes, Bayonne, Bordeaux, Marseille, and Montpellier. They lived as Chr ... |
| Strasbourg | ... is served, among other lines, by one of the European train routes (Paris – | – Stuttgart – Ulm – Munich – Vienna – Budapest). Direct connections to Ber ... |
| Marseille, France | ... unds for the crusade. In July 1190, Richard and Philip set out jointly from | for Sicily. Philip II had hired a Genoese fleet to transport his army whic ... |
| Versailles | ... ost probably was an effort to tame the upper nobility, João V built his own | , the grand Royal Palace of Mafra |
| Angoulême | In 1634 Balzac was elected to the Académie française. He died at | twenty years later |
| Grenoble | ... the camera used by Massoud's assassins had been stolen in December 2000 in | , France from a photojournalist, Jean-Pierre Vincendet, who was then worki ... |
| Nouadhibou | ... tania's crucial rail link along the border with the Western Sahara, between | and the iron ore mines, complicated relations between Mauritania and Moroc ... |
| Tarbes | ... sos were seeking refuge beyond the Pyrenées, settling at Saint-Jean-de-Luz, | , Bayonne, Bordeaux, Marseille, and Montpellier. They lived as Christians; ... |
| Mulhouse | #Imperial Free City of | #Savoy, a Sardinian fief #Nice, a Sardinian fief #Montbéliard, a fief of W ... |
| Colmar | ... alled his army and defeated the Lentienses near Argentaria (near modern-day | , France.) After this campaign, Gratian, with part of his field army, went ... |
| Perpignan | Arago was born at Estagel, a small village near | , in the département of Pyrénées-Orientales, France, where his father held ... |
| Carthage | ... e campaign was lengthy, and Maximian spent the winter of 297–298 resting in | before returning to the field. Not content to drive them back into their h ... |
| Nantes | ... Free Jazz Hour broadcast on Radio-G 101.5 FM, Angers and Euradio 101.3 FM, | is entirely dedicated to free jazz and other freely improvised music. A l' ... |
| Angers | Spassky played in the 1990 French Championship at | , placing fourth with 10½/15, as Marc Santo Roman won. At Salamanca 1991, ... |
| Bourges | ... and differences. Peterborough is twinned with the following municipalities: | and Forlì are also twinned with each other. The city also has more informa ... |
| Toulouse | In 450, Attila proclaimed his intent to attack the Visigoth kingdom of | by making an alliance with Emperor Valentinian III. He had previously been ... |
| Merano | ... south of and including the area around the modern day cities of Bolzano and | became part of Italia's Regio X. As in the rest of Europe, the Roman era l ... |
| Gassin | Béart was born Emmanuelle Béhart-Hasson in St. Tropez (some sources say | ), on the French Riviera, the daughter of Geneviève Galéa, a former model, ... |
| Blois | ... demned, beheaded and burned (8 July 1617), and Marie was sent into exile in | . Louis created Charles d'Albert, his favourite, the first duke of Luynes |
| Aigues-Mortes | ... ian workers who worked in the salt evaporation ponds of Peccais, erupted in | in 1893, killing at least nine and injuring hundreds on the Italian side |
| Bapaume | ... the Objectives') and that preparations should be made for an advance of to | should German resistance crumble, "If the first attack goes well every eff ... |
| Bolzano | ... y. The part south of and including the area around the modern day cities of | and Merano became part of Italia's Regio X. As in the rest of Europe, the ... |
| Rochefort | ... 4 July. On 15 July, Napoleon surrendered himself to the British squadron at | . The Allies exiled him to the remote South Atlantic island of Saint Helen ... |
| Strasbourg | ... 03) was a French mathematician. He was born at Mutzig in Alsace and died at | , where he was professor. He wrote on series and the derivatives known by ... |
| Besançon | ... ia Superior army, Lucius Verginius Rufus, in a battle near Vesontio (modern | ) |
| Le Tréport | Paul Paray (born | , 24 May 1886 - died Monte Carlo, 10 October 1979) was a French conductor, ... |
| Montpellier | ... e Cathars, and his excommunication was lifted. The crusaders turned towards | and the lands of Raymond-Roger de Trencavel, aiming for the Cathar communi ... |
| Tours | ... s time Severus came under the powerful influence of Saint Martin, bishop of | , by whom he was led to devote his wealth to the Christian poor, and his o ... |
| Tataouine | ... amed it retrospectively after a nearby town to the movie's desert location, | (French spelling) or Tataween spelling in southern Tunisia. Utapau however ... |
| Chamonix | ... Summer Olympics, the sports competitions held at the foot of Mont Blanc in | , Haute-Savoie, France between January 25 and February 5, 1924, organized ... |
| Chalon-sur-Saône | ... aign against the Franks, and marched his army up the Rhine. At Cabillunum ( | ), he moved his troops onto waiting boats to row down the slow waters of t ... |
| Angers | ... d music on the radio. Taran's Free Jazz Hour broadcast on Radio-G 101.5 FM, | and Euradio 101.3 FM, Nantes is entirely dedicated to free jazz and other ... |
| Angoulême | Guez de Balzac was born at | . Originally thought to have been born in 1595, the date was revised in 18 ... |
| Bordeaux | Pierre Paul Broca was born on June 28, 1824, in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, | , France, the son of Benjamin Broca, a medical practitioner and former sur ... |
| Cherchell | ... Priscian was of Greek descent, and was born and raised in Caesarea (modern | , Algeria) the capital of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis. A ... |
| Narbonne | ... it then runs to Carcassonne and turns, reaching the Mediterranean Sea near | . The river is navigable by raft or canoe for nearly all of its length |
| Neuilly-sur-Seine | ... where she died on October 6, 1989, at 11:20 pm, at the American Hospital in | . Davis was 81 years old. She was interred in Forest Lawn—Hollywood Hills ... |
| Metz | ... rial town. The stategic Cannons Railway, which was completed from Berlin to | via Wetzlar in 1882, was also sometimes known as the Wetzlar Railway (Wetz ... |
| Lyon | By mid 1209, around 10,000 crusaders had gathered in | before marching south. In June, Raymond of Toulouse, recognizing the disas ... |
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| Bordeaux | ... er, and in consequence of his representations a new synod was held (384) at | , where Instantius was deposed. Priscillian appealed to the Emperor, with ... |
| Metz | Another theory suggests that the Rule of Chrodegang, archbishop of | (d. 766), was brought by Irish monks to their native land from the monaste ... |
| Bayeux | ... sday Book records Mitcham as Michelham. It was held partly by the Canons of | ; partly by William, son of Ansculf and partly by Osbert. Its domesday ass ... |
| Chamonix | ... pic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in | , France. Originally called Semaine Internationale des Sports d'Hiver ("In ... |
| Moûtiers | He was born around 1225 near | in the Tarentaise region of the County of Savoy, then part of the Kingdom ... |
| Matmâta | ... Tunisian town of Tatouine itself, but instead at Tunisian locations such as | , Djerba, and Tozeur |
| Boulogne | ... assembled an invasion force called the Army of England around six camps at | in Northern France. He intended to use this invasion force to strike at En ... |
| Carthaginians | ... ) of an ancient and almost unintelligible treaty between the Romans and the | , which he dated to the consulships of L. Iunius Brutus and L. Tarquinius ... |
| Valparaíso | ... s passed in order through the Straits of Magellan to visit Punta Arenas and | , Chile. A stop at Callao Bay, Peru was followed by a month of target prac ... |
| Lyon | Jean Michel André Jarre (born 24 August 1948 in | ) is a French composer, performer and music producer. He is a pioneer in t ... |
| Mutzig | ... 59 – April 8, or April 18, 1803) was a French mathematician. He was born at | in Alsace and died at Strasbourg, where he was professor. He wrote on seri ... |
| Le Petit-Quevilly | ... urbs are Sotteville-lès-Rouen, Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, Le Grand-Quevilly, | , and Mont-Saint-Aignan, each with a population exceeding 20,000 |
| Lyon | ... hs later he performed to an audience of about a million at his home city of | , in celebration of a visit by Pope John Paul II. Watching from Lyon Cathe ... |
| Carthage | ... ice to supernatural figures or forces, such as the one practiced in ancient | , may be only the most notorious example in the ancient world. Anthropolog ... |
| Saint-Antoine-du-Rocher | ... ire Valley in central France, where they lived in the Château du Plessis in | , Indre-et-Loire. During the early 1930s they returned to the United State ... |
| Carcassonne | ... western France. Its source is in the Pyrenees mountains and it then runs to | and turns, reaching the Mediterranean Sea near Narbonne. The river is navi ... |
| Châlons-sur-Vesle | ... Polarornis (Seymour Island, Antarctica). Eupterornis from the Paleocene of | (France) has some features reminiscent of loons, but others seem more simi ... |
| Mont-Saint-Aignan | ... -Rouen, Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, Le Grand-Quevilly, Le Petit-Quevilly, and | , each with a population exceeding 20,000 |
| Grenoble | Born in | , Isère, he had an unhappy childhood in what he found to be stifling provi ... |
| Rouen | Corneille was born at | , France, to Marthe le Pesant de Boisguilbert and Pierre Corneille, a dist ... |
| Aix-en-Provence | ... cordat of 1801 to Avignon, together with the Diocese of Apt, a suffragan of | . However, at that same time Avignon was reduced to the rank of a bishopri ... |
| Sainte-Foy-la-Grande | ... a French physician, surgeon, anatomist, and anthropologist. He was born in | , Gironde. He is best known for his research on Broca's area, a region of ... |
| Mahdia | ... nd Lucha (yellow with a white crescent); Cairo (white with a blue crescent) | ;in Tunisia (white with a purple crescent); Tunis (white with a black cres ... |
| Tozeur | ... uine itself, but instead at Tunisian locations such as Matmâta, Djerba, and | |
| Abomey | ... s from the second regiment. From Cotonou, the legionnaires marched to seize | , the capital of the Kingdom of Dahomey. Two and a half months were needed ... |
| Ensisheim | ... dozens of original Alsatian homes and shops.Castroville is a sister city of | (Alsace) in France |
| Les Ponts-de-Cé | ... a rebellion in 1620, but their forces were easily routed by royal forces at | in August 1620. Louis then launched an expedition against the Huguenots of ... |
| Juan Fernández Islands | ... ore turning east towards the South American coast. The route touched at the | in mid-November 1875, with Challenger reaching the port of Valparaiso in C ... |
| Punta Arenas | ... eiro, the warships passed in order through the Straits of Magellan to visit | and Valparaíso, Chile. A stop at Callao Bay, Peru was followed by a month ... |
| Gonaïves | ... leaving 3,006 people dead in flooding and mudslides, mostly in the city of | |
| Cannes | ... wn as the Hundred Days began after Napoleon escaped from Elba and landed at | (1 March 1815). Travelling to Paris, picking up support as he went, he eve ... |
| Deauville | The most notable places in Calvados include | and the formerly elegant 19th-century casino resorts of the coast |
| Avon | Fontainebleau, together with the neighbouring commune of | and three other smaller communes, form an urban area of 39,713 inhabitants ... |
| Carthage | ... the marks of sacrifice have been found also in Egypt dating 950-720 BCE. In | "[child] sacrifice in the ancient world reached its infamous zenith." Besi ... |
| Carthage | ... deric allowed a new Catholic bishop to take office in the Vandal capital of | , and many Vandals began to convert to Catholicism, to the alarm of the Va ... |
| Santiago, Chile | ... rence, Italy, Hong Kong, London, UK, Madrid, Spain, Strasbourg, France, and | |
| Carcassonne | The next major target was | . The city was well fortified, but vulnerable, and overflowing with refuge ... |
| Rurutu | ... rritories. However, an attempt to land the pinnace on the Austral Island of | was thwarted by rough surf and the rocky shoreline. On 15 August, Endeavou ... |
| Aix-en-Provence | In 1938 he was interned in Camp des Milles, near | , along with fellow surrealist, Hans Bellmer, who had recently emigrated t ... |
| Marseille | ... e Durance, about south-east of Paris, south of Lyon and north-north-west of | . Its coordinates are . Avignon occupies a large oval-shaped area, not ful ... |
| Saint-Dié-des-Vosges | ... de to date, both created by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in | in France. These were the first maps to show the Americas as a land mass s ... |
| Montpellier | ... s, the Canon was still used as a textbook in the universities of Leuven and | |
| Lyon | ... above its confluence with the Durance, about south-east of Paris, south of | and north-north-west of Marseille. Its coordinates are . Avignon occupies ... |
| Montpellier | ... ored in 1822), Valence: (formerly under Lyon), Nîmes (restored in 1822) and | (formerly under Toulouse) |
| Jérémie | ... of Haiti are the Cayemites and Île d' Anacaona. La Navasse located west of | on the south west peninsula of Haiti, is subject to an on-going territoria ... |
| Sainte-Foy-la-Grande | Pierre Paul Broca was born on June 28, 1824, in | , Bordeaux, France, the son of Benjamin Broca, a medical practitioner and ... |
| Yvoire | ... a, formed by a retreating glacier, has a crescent shape that narrows around | on the southern shore. It can thus be divided figuratively into the "Grand ... |
| Béziers | ... ust 1209 the crusaders captured the small village of Servian and headed for | , arriving on July 21. Under the command of the Papal Legate Arnaud-Amaury ... |
| Nîmes | ... the Diocese of Viviers (restored in 1822), Valence: (formerly under Lyon), | (restored in 1822) and Montpellier (formerly under Toulouse) |
| Dol | ... onal designation. Coming from the Kingdom of Gwent, Saint Sampson (abbot of | , in Brittany) is credited with the introduction of Christianity to Guerns ... |
| Porto-Novo | In 1892, King Behanzin was threatening the French protectorate of | and France decided to intervene. A battalion, led by commandant Faurax, wa ... |
| Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales | On January 31, 1915, Thomas Merton was born in | , France, to Owen Merton, a New Zealand painter active in Europe and the U ... |
| Montauban | ... ut to quell the Huguenot rebellion. The siege at the Huguenot stronghold of | had to be abandoned after three months, owing to the large number of Royal ... |
| Colmar | He was professor of mathematics at the Collège de | and entered a mathematical competition which was run by the St Petersburg ... |
| Toulouse | ... ing penance on himself. His time was passed chiefly in the neighbourhood of | , and such literary efforts as he permitted to himself were made in the in ... |
| Montpellier | ... ictories, but were unable to complete a siege, this time at the fortress of | |
| Rouen | Edward of York was born at | in France, the second child of Richard, 3rd Duke of York (who had a strong ... |
| Lyon | ... Roman Rotomagus was the second city of Gallia Lugdunensis after Lugdunum ( | ) itself. Under the reorganization of the empire by Diocletian, Rouen beca ... |
| Bram | ... largely halted over the winter, but fresh crusaders arrived. In March 1210, | was captured after a short siege. In June the well-fortified city of Miner ... |
| Gonesse | On 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590, registration F-BTSC, crashed in | , France, killing all 100 passengers and nine crew members on board the fl ... |
| Cotonou | ... of the First Foreign Regiment and two others from the second regiment. From | , the legionnaires marched to seize Abomey, the capital of the Kingdom of ... |
| Nice | ... pulated Alsace-Lorraine and Italy on the mixed Italian and French populated | and Corsica. In May 1939, a formal alliance with Germany was signed, known ... |
| Carthage | ... o face a new and formidable opponent: the powerful Phoenician city-state of | . In the three Punic Wars, Chartage was eventually destroyed and Rome gain ... |
| Bapaume | ... man occupied territory, with the British Army still three miles (5 km) from | , a major objective. The German Army maintained its frontline over the win ... |
| Lyon | ... . 202) was Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, then a part of the Roman Empire (now | , France). He was an early church father and apologist, and his writings w ... |
| Carqueiranne | ... s than 80 km by sea from where the unidentified French soldier was found in | , and it remains plausible, but has not been confirmed, that the body was ... |
| Toul | The Roman fortified town of Grand, located 30 km from | , has an amphitheatre and a temple to the Cult of Apollo |
| Bayeux | The Bayeux Tapestry is on display in | and makes the city one of the most-visited tourist destinations in Normand ... |
| Bayonne | ... s (TER) operated by the SNCF to Arcachon, Limoges, Agen, Périgueux, Pau and | |
| Puteaux | ... ia", Bellini was the quintessential composer of bel canto opera. He died in | , France at the age of 33, nine months after the premiere of his last oper ... |
| Montauban | ... Huguenot fortresses were to be razed, but the Huguenots retained control of | and La Rochelle |
| Dieppe | ... 6000, largely Canadian, infantry was landed near the French channel port of | . The German defenders under General von Rundstedt destroyed the invaders. ... |
| Thiepval | ... counter-attacking back towards Albert. The line settled around the town of | and remained there until July 1916, when the Battle of the Somme would be ... |
| Marseille | ... to France in 1942, where he remained during the rest of the war, living in | before moving with his family to Paris after its liberation |
| Fanjeaux | ... nne, other towns surrendered without a fight. Albi, Castelnaudary, Castres, | , Limoux, Lombers and Montréal all fell quickly during the autumn. However ... |
| Sèvres | ... , the kilogram was later defined as the mass of a certain piece of metal in | |
| Bapaume | ... part of the war he fought in France, Passchendaele, the Western Front, near | , and finally marched into Germany, commanding 'A' Battery of 76th Brigade ... |
| Orléans | ... ous Félix-Antoine-Philibert Dupanloup (1802–1878), Roman Catholic bishop of | , who wanted to keep control of women’s education |
| Tours | ... visions of Jesus by Sister Marie of St Peter, a Carmelite nun who lived in | , France, and started the devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus. In 1844, Sis ... |
| Courseulles-sur-Mer | Juno Beach Centre at | , Calvados, commemorates the D-Day landing of the Canadian liberation forc ... |
| Carthage | ... iterranean Sea, Palma was the port used for destinations in Africa, such as | , and Hispania, such as Saguntum, Gades, and Carthago Nova. Though no visi ... |
| Lacanau | ... e Côte d'Argent beach which is Europe's longest, attracting many surfers to | each year. It is also the birth place of Jacques-Yves Cousteau who studied ... |
| Castres | ... Carcassonne, other towns surrendered without a fight. Albi, Castelnaudary, | , Fanjeaux, Limoux, Lombers and Montréal all fell quickly during the autum ... |
| Metz | ... n of the female pope appears in the Dominican Jean de Mailly's chronicle of | , Chronica Universalis Mettensis, written in the early 13th century. In hi ... |
| Remiremont | The largest cities are Épinal, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, Gérardmer and | |
| Juan Fernández Islands | ... of Hoorn was also the birthplace of Schouten. After failing to moor at the | in early March, the ships crossed the Pacific in a fairly straight line, v ... |
| Strasbourg | ... est German town of Kehl, on the right bank of the Rhine right bank opposite | , fled and were evacuated in the course of the Battle of France, on 23 Nov ... |
| Saint-Cyr | ... formance by the pupils of the school of the Maison royale de Saint-Louis in | (a commune neighboring Versailles, and now known as "Saint-Cyr l'École") |
| La Rochelle | ... esses were to be razed, but the Huguenots retained control of Montauban and | |
| Vincennes | ... y Philip II of Savoy, at the demand of the papal nuncios, and imprisoned at | . Through the intercession of several Italian princes—all instigated by Lo ... |
| Bures-sur-Yvette | ... advanced research in mathematics and theoretical physics. It is located in | just south of Paris |
| Marseille | ... ly to southern Gaul, where he confronted the fleeing Maximian at Massilia ( | ). The town was better able to withstand a long siege than Arles, but it m ... |
| Limoges | ... s the major hub for regional trains (TER) operated by the SNCF to Arcachon, | , Agen, Périgueux, Pau and Bayonne |
| Seis am Schlern | ... swald received a third of Castle Hauenstein and the accompanying estates in | . The other two thirds of the castle belong to a knight named Martin Jäger ... |
| Easter Island | ... to which they belong), to the north is Cocos Island at and to the south is | and San Felix Island at |
| Périgueux | ... for regional trains (TER) operated by the SNCF to Arcachon, Limoges, Agen, | , Pau and Bayonne |
| Carthage | ... pecial position because it was central in the Western Mediterranean between | , Spain, the Rhone river and the Etruscan civilization area. The mining ar ... |
| Caen | ... sidence of the dukes, until William the Conqueror established his castle at | |
| Nîmes | ... redirects here. The French municipality of which the name sounds alike, is | |
| Mbacké | ... is called Sëriñ Tuubaa, "Holy Man of Touba". He was born in the village of | in the Kingdom of Baol, the son of a marabout from the Qadiriyya brotherho ... |
| Lisieux | ... of Saint Thérèse de Lisieux brings large numbers of people on pilgrimage to | , where she lived in a Carmelite convent. Every September, Deauville hosts ... |
| Dunkerque | ... even the First World War battlefields in Belgium, by way of the Tilbury to | ferry service and the Belgian railways |
| Strasbourg | ... tic among the exiles, allegedly participated in the uprising. He escaped to | after the Rebellion's defeat and, the following year, he published A Short ... |
| Castelnaudary | ... he only deputy recorded as not taking the oath was Joseph Martin-Dauch from | . He can be seen on the right of David's sketch, seated with his arms cros ... |
| Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois | ... under the same roof. They opened their first hypermarket on 15 June 1963 in | , near Paris in France |
| Castelnaudary | ... ter the fall of Carcassonne, other towns surrendered without a fight. Albi, | , Castres, Fanjeaux, Limoux, Lombers and Montréal all fell quickly during ... |
| Nantes | ... s (1 June 1134 Rouen- 26 July 1158 Nantes) died unmarried and was buried in | #William X, Count of Poitou (1136–1164) died unmarrie |
| Tortuga | ... i also includes various offshore islands. The historically famous island of | (Île de la Tortue) is located off the coast of northern Haiti. The arrondi ... |
| Mâcon | ... Cluniac. This order took its name from the little village of Cluny, N.W. of | , near which, about AD 909, a reformed Benedictine abbey was founded by Wi ... |
| Agen | ... or hub for regional trains (TER) operated by the SNCF to Arcachon, Limoges, | , Périgueux, Pau and Bayonne |
| Vioménil | The Saône river rises at | , in the Vosges. The Anger river also passes through it |
| Massalia | ... s widely separated as the eastern coast of the Black Sea, Eastern Libya and | (Marseille). They included settlements in Sicily and the southern part of ... |
| Calais | ... the strait is criss-crossed from north to south by ferries linking Dover to | and Boulogne. Until the 1990s these provided the only surface-based route ... |
| Île à Vache | ... lfe de la Gonâve. Gonâve Island is moderately populated by rural villagers. | (Cow Island), a lush island with many beautiful sights, is located off the ... |
| Évry | ... market division has its head office in Courcouronnes, Essonne, France, near | |
| Troyes | ... th his prayers, as Saint Genevieve is to have saved Paris. Lupus, bishop of | , is also credited with saving his city by meeting Attila in person |
| Nantes | #Geoffrey, Count of Nantes (1 June 1134 Rouen- 26 July 1158 | ) died unmarried and was buried in Nante |
| Cabourg | ... Deauville hosts the Festival of the American Movie and the beach resort of | hosts the Festival of the Romantic Movie. Annually, the city of Caen celeb ... |
| Toulouse | ... ich") was stationed in the Southern French town of Valence-d'Agen, north of | , waiting to be resupplied with new equipment and freshly trained troops. ... |
| Carthage | ... y the Vandals in the sacking of Rome in 455 CE, and taken to their capital, | . The Byzantine army under General Belisarius might have removed it in 533 ... |
| Lyon | ... the Apostle. ( and ) It began to be developed by the 2nd-century Bishop of | Irenaeus in his controversy with the dualist |
| Rouen | #Geoffrey, Count of Nantes (1 June 1134 | - 26 July 1158 Nantes) died unmarried and was buried in Nante |
| Clermont-Ferrand | He studied at Lycée Blaise-Pascal in | , École Gerson and Lycées Janson-de-Sailly and Louis-le-Grand in Paris. He ... |
| Lastours | The next battle centred around | and the adjacent castle of Cabaret. Attacked in December 1209, Pierre-Roge ... |
| Saint-Cloud | ... sus. It is the county seat of Stearns County. It is named after the city of | , France (in Île-de-France, near Paris), which was named for the 6th-centu ... |
| Calais | In the continuing Hundred Years' War, the English won the city of | in a treaty signed in September. In a meeting with the Estates General in ... |
| Loches | Alfred de Vigny was born in | (a town to which he never returned) into an aristocratic family. His fathe ... |
| Ouistreham | Calvados, via the port of | , is an entrance to the continent from Britain. There are two airports: Ca ... |
| Châtellerault | ... offrey of Lusignan (c. 1226 – 1274). Married in 1259 Jeanne, Viscountess of | , by whom he had issue |
| Arcachon | ... int-Jean is the major hub for regional trains (TER) operated by the SNCF to | , Limoges, Agen, Périgueux, Pau and Bayonne |
| Pecquencourt | ... red the Order of Saint Benedict. He soon became prior of Anchin Abbey, near | , and passed much of his time in the valuable monastery library, studying ... |
| Salorno | ... o the Upper Paleolithic era. In the valley bottoms near Bolzano, Brixen and | , mesolithic hunters resting places were discovered. Stone artefacts recov ... |
| Carqueiranne | ... eported much later having watched a plane crash around noon near the Bay of | off Toulon. An unidentifiable body wearing French colors was found several ... |
| Chantilly, Oise | ... plan for the Somme offensive evolved out of Allied strategic discussions at | in December 1915. Chaired by General Joseph Joffre, the commander-in-chief ... |
| Toulon | ... r having watched a plane crash around noon near the Bay of Carqueiranne off | . An unidentifiable body wearing French colors was found several days afte ... |
| Saint-Martin-de-Ré | ... kingham's failure to protect the Huguenots – indeed, his attempt to capture | then spurred Louis XIII's attack on the Huguenot fortress of La Rochelle – ... |
| Sikasso | ... at, but the fall of other resistance armies, particularly Babemba Traoré at | , permitted the colonial army to launch a concentrated assault against his ... |
| Argentan | Léger was born in | , Orne, Basse-Normandie, where his father raised cattle. Fernand Léger ini ... |
| Koulikoro | ... one railroad, including 729 kilometers in Mali, which runs from the port of | via Bamako to the border with Senegal and continues on to Dakar. The Bamak ... |
| Marseille | ... veral days after his disappearance, east of the Frioul archipelago south of | , and buried in Carqueiranne in September |
| Lombers | ... urrendered without a fight. Albi, Castelnaudary, Castres, Fanjeaux, Limoux, | and Montréal all fell quickly during the autumn. However, some of the town ... |
| Marseille | ... nd Irun from Bordeaux. A regular train service is provided to Nantes, Nice, | and Lyon. The Gare Saint-Jean is the major hub for regional trains (TER) o ... |
| Saint-Félix | He was born at | , in Haute-Savoie, an illegitimate son of Camillo Borghese. In his earlies ... |
| Saint-Quentin | He was born at Seizencourt, near | , and having studied at the University of Paris entered the Order of Saint ... |
| Le Mans | ... f gifts and charities, and died. He was buried at St. Julien's Cathedral in | France |
| Douvres-la-Délivrande | | , Franc |
| Essoyes | ... body was returned to France and buried beside his family in the cemetery at | , Aube, France |
| Forcalquier | ... overnment, between 1135 and 1146. In addition to the Emperor, the Counts of | , of Toulouse and of Provence exercised a purely nominal sway over the cit ... |
| Brixen | ... Alm date to the Upper Paleolithic era. In the valley bottoms near Bolzano, | and Salorno, mesolithic hunters resting places were discovered. Stone arte ... |
| Caen | ... ent of Calvados has several popular tourist areas: the Bessin, the Plain of | , the Bocage Virois, the Côte de Nacre, the Côte Fleurie and the Pays d'Au ... |
| Château-du-Loir | ... turning from a royal council when he was stricken with fever. He arrived at | , collapsed on a couch, made bequests of gifts and charities, and died. He ... |
| Brixen | ... d paid for a memorial stone to be installed on the wall of the cathedral in | . The stone has survived, and shows him in the garb of a Crusader, with th ... |
| Lyon | ... . The doctrine of original sin was first developed in 2nd-century Bishop of | Irenaeus's struggle against Gnosticism. Irenaeus contrasted their doctrine ... |
| Carthage | ... an traders arrived on the North African coast around 900 BC and established | (in present-day Tunisia) around 800 BC. During the classical period, Berbe ... |
| Lyon | ... ordeaux. A regular train service is provided to Nantes, Nice, Marseille and | . The Gare Saint-Jean is the major hub for regional trains (TER) operated ... |
| Eaubonne | ... a living and continued to paint. In 1923 the Éluards moved to a new home in | , near Paris, where Ernst painted numerous murals. The same year his works ... |
| Courtalain | ... ices to Paris, and a few daily connections to Le Mans, Nogent-le-Rotrou and | . The A11 motorway connects Chartres with Paris and Le Mans |
| Metz | On April 7, he captured | . Other cities attacked can be determined by the hagiographic vitae writte ... |
| Limoux | ... towns surrendered without a fight. Albi, Castelnaudary, Castres, Fanjeaux, | , Lombers and Montréal all fell quickly during the autumn. However, some o ... |
| Diourbel | ... rak or Big King ruled the kingdom of Waalo, whose capital was originally at | . The area was nearly depopulated by repeated slaving raids by Moors from ... |
| Toulouse | ... when in 475 the Visigothic king Euric formed the kingdom of Tolosa (modern | , France), he incorporated the territory equivalent to present-day Catalon ... |
| Kairouan | of | , who flourished in the tent |
| Bolzano | ... he Seiser Alm date to the Upper Paleolithic era. In the valley bottoms near | , Brixen and Salorno, mesolithic hunters resting places were discovered. S ... |
| Boulogne | ... d too far to be caught. Constantine joined his father in Gaul, at Bononia ( | ) before the summer of 305 |
| Aix-en-Provence | ... les recognized the plague on 1 September and by 1 November it had spread to | . The earliest recorded invasion of the plague into Spanish territory was ... |