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Battle of Fère-Champenoise


Wassy and Napoleon and the Imperial Guard were yet farther south at Doulevant-le-Château. Well in advance of the rest, Napoleon's cavalry reached Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises near Bar-sur-Aube. On 23 March, the divisions of Michel-Marie Pacthod with 4,000 men and Amey with 1,800 men reached Sézanne. They found an 80-wagon food and equipment convoy in the village with its escort of 800 foot soldiers and one squadron of the 13th Hussar Regiment. Finding that Marmont and Mortier were nearby,
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44th Air Defense Artillery Regiment


training unit, redesignated as the 54th Artillery Replacement Training Regiment. On 20 September 1918 the regiment was reorganized, with its battalions sent to different locations. The 1st Battalion was posted at Angers (Marne-et-Loire) as a training battalion for replacement men. The 2nd Battalion was stationed at Doulevant-le-Château (Haute Marne) and functioned as a replacement battalion for the tractor-drawn artillery regiments. The 3rd Battalion remained at Haussimont and Angers, France and functioned as the training battalion for the railway artillery
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First Battle of Bar-sur-Aube


, the czar accused him of sabotaging the campaign. To placate Alexander, Schwarzenberg agreed to a plan of attack that Gyulai and the Crown Prince submitted to his headquarters. On 23 January, Mortier became aware of Allied movements that indicated there would be a fight the following day. He found that several thousand Don Cossacks under Matvei Platov lurked at Doulevant-le-Château only to the north-east. He sent 500 infantry and 500 cavalry north to Trémilly where they drove off Platov's horsemen that evening. Mortier sent Bourmont
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Château d'Azay-le-Rideau


, as much of the stone for the château came from the Saint-Aignan quarry, which was famous for its hard-wearing rock but was also around away, meaning that the heavy blocks had to be transported to Azay-le-Rideau by boat. The château was still incomplete in 1527, when the execution of Jacques de Beaune, (the chief minister in charge of royal finances and cousin to Berthelot) forced Gilles to flee the country. Possibly fearing the exposure of his own financial misdemeanours, he went into
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Le Château


Le Château had over 50 stores across Canada. By this time, Le Château had shifted to selling mainstream fashion instead of the latest imports from Europe. In December 1983, Le Château had its initial public offering on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX). It raised $7.3 million. By the early 1990s, Le Château had 160 stores and had switched to doing most of its design and manufacturing itself. In the early 1990s, there was a prolonged recession in Canada which hurt most business in the clothing industry. In
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Château de Monte-Cristo


The Château de Monte-Cristo is a writer's house museum located in the country home of the writer Alexandre Dumas, "père". The château was built in 1846 by the architect Hippolyte Durand in Port-Marly, Yvelines, France. Dumas named it after one of his most successful novels: "The Count of Monte Cristo" ("Le Comte de Monte-Cristo", 1845–1846). Durand also built a writing studio on the grounds, which Dumas named the Château d'If after another setting from the same
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Château de Sceaux


The Château de Sceaux is a grand country house in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, approximately six miles from the center of Paris, France. Located in a park laid out by André Le Nôtre, visitors can tour the house, outbuildings and gardens. The Petit Château operates as the Musée de l'Île-de-France, a museum of local history. The commune operates the site as Musée du Domaine départemental de Sceaux. The former château was built for Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV's minister of finance
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Château d'Azay-le-Rideau


The Château d'Azay-le-Rideau () is located in the town of Azay-le-Rideau in the French département of Indre-et-Loire. Built between 1518 and 1527, this château is considered one of the foremost examples of early French renaissance architecture. Set on an island in the middle of the Indre river, this picturesque château has become one of the most popular of the châteaux of the Loire valley. The current château of Azay-le-Rideau occupies the site of a former feudal castle.
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Rennes-le-Château


held that position. His claim can be traced back to a book by Louis Fédié entitled "Le comté de Razès et le diocèse d'Alet" (1880), that contained a chapter on the history of Rennes-le-Château; published as a booklet in 1994. Noël Corbu incorporated this story into his essay "L'histoire de Rennes-le-Château" that was deposited at the Departmental Archives at Carcassonne on 14 June 1962. Fédié's assertions concerning the population and importance of Rennes-le-Château have since been
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Rennes-le-Château


conspiracy theories continue to be a popular ingredient in a publishing industry that is growing exponentially, and is the subject of press articles, radio and television programmes and films. Websites and blogs devoted to the alleged 'mysteries' exist in many different countries and authors' interviews can be accessed on podcasts. Archaeologist Paul Bahn considered the various claims surrounding the village of Rennes-le-Château as pure myth "so beloved of occultists and 'aficionados' of the Unexplained". He ranks the stories among those of the Bermuda Triangle
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Braine-le-Château


Braine-le-Château (in Walloon : "Brinne-Tchestea"; in Dutch : "Kasteelbrakel") is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant. On January 1, 2006, Braine-le-Château had a total population of 9,446. The total area is 22.70 km² which gives a population density of 416 inhabitants per km². The municipality consists of the following sub-municipalities: Braine-le-Château (Kasteelbrakel) proper and Wauthier-Braine (Woutersbrakel). Braine-le
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Bernard Magrez


Bernard Magrez, born 1936, is a French wine magnate who predominantly owns Bordeaux wine estates, including Château La Tour Carnet, Château Pape Clément, Château Fombrauge and Clos Haut-Peyraguey but also a large number of wine producing properties in other French wine regions and other countries, including Spain, Portugal, Chile, Argentina, Japan, Morocco and California. In 2017 it was confirmed that Magrez had bought Château Le Sartre in Bordeaux's Pessac-Léognan. A multi-millionaire, Magrez made his fortune as the founder of
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Hendrik Beyaert


/Kattenhuis" took first prize. It was built along the new central boulevard in Brussels and showed clear affinities with the famous Guild Houses at the nearby Brussels Grand Place. Beyaert also designed a number of country houses, including the "Romantic" Château de Faulx-les-Tombes near Namur (1872) which was highly influenced by Viollet-le-Duc's restoration of the Château de Pierrefonds, and the Neo Flemish Renaissance, Castle of Wespelaar (1881–87) in the province of Brabant. Although he had been interested
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Sévérac-le-Château


in France. The castle is located in the municipality of Lapanouse in the French department of Aveyron. The building is registered as historical monuments 1928. Auberoques Castle is a castle in Sévérac-le-Château, France. The castle is located in the municipality of Sévérac-le-Château, in the French department of Aveyron. (Midi Pyrenees) The building is registered as historical monuments 1991. Engayresque Castle is a castle located in the municipality of Sévérac-le-Château near the village of Novis in the Aveyron department
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Château d'Azay-le-Ferron


The Château d'Azay-le-Ferron is a 15th-century castle and 17th-century manor located in the "commune" of Azay-le-Ferron in the Indre "département" of France. It features a garden "à la française" and a French landscape garden dating to the 17th century, redone in the 19th and 20th century. The interior is richly furnished. The château is owned by the city of Tours and is open to the public. Château d'Azay-le-Ferron is situated at an altitude
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Le Château


" Le Château did well at first, and three more stores were opened. However, by the early 1960s the company was close to bankruptcy, and all but the original store were closed. In 1962, Le Château added women's clothing, shortened the name to "Le Château", and switched to selling imported European fashions. The store imported from Carnaby Street in London, a fashion centre at the time, as well as other imports such as French suits and Italian turtlenecks. This worked well, and within a
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Château de Fontenoy-le-Château


The Château de Fontenoy-le-Château is a ruined castle located in the "commune" of Fontenoy-le-Château in the Vosges "département" of north-eastern France. It held a defensive role from the beginning of the 10th century until its partial destruction in 1635, during the Thirty Years' War. In the late 10th century, around 980, the Bishops of Toul, who owned this allodial title, built a large square tower to protect their territory and to close the Valley of Côney River.
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Château de Montrond (Montrond-les-Bains)


The Château de Montrond is a ruined castle in the "commune" of Montrond-les-Bains in the Loire "département" of France. As with other ruined feudal castles in the "département", such as the Château de Rochetaillée in Saint-Étienne and the Château d'Essalois at Chambles, the Château de Montrond-les-Bains has been partly restored. For some years, a mediaeval festival has been organised in August. The castle is named after Mont Rond, a volcanic dyke which dominates the surrounding plain.
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Château de Vendeuvre


The Château de Vendeuvre () is situated in the commune of Vendeuvre, near to Lisieux in Normandy. Classed as a Historic Monument both for its exterior and interior, Vendeuvre is a prototypical aristocratic Norman country house. It was opened to the public in 1983. Vendeuvre was built between 1750 and 1752 from the plans of architect Jacques-François Blondel and is a great example of a country house ("maison de campagne") of the eighteenth century. Its owner, Alexandre Le Forestier, ‘'seigneur’' of
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Le Château


Le Château Inc. is a fashion company founded in 1959 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada that designs, imports and retails a wide range of women's and men's apparel, accessories and footwear. In 2015, the company generated sales of about million. The company sells directly to customers from 211 retail stores in Canada, as well as five throughout the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. As of 2017, Le Château employed more than 2,500 people worldwide. Le Château manufactures about 35% of the merchandise itself in Canadian factories
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Le Château


States. In 2014, Le Château launched a partnership with Dress For Success, a non-profit corporation to help economically disadvantaged women by providing them with interview attire. Le Château has committed over 1.4 million dollars of clothing to the program. Le Château is further collaborating to the cause, through partnerships with stars such as Lauren Holly, having her promote "Dress For Success" to her fans. Herschel Segal, the founder, is the cousin of David Segal, the David behind DavidsTea. He and David co-founded
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Cult wine


600 cases per year) and can command several times their "release price" in the secondary market. The cult wines of Bordeaux tend to be left-bank cabernet-based wines that ranked highly in the Classification of 1855. Château Lafite Rothschild, Château Latour, Château Margaux, Château Haut-Brion, and Château Mouton Rothschild all qualify. Right-bank wines from Pétrus, Château Le Pin, Château Angélus, and Château Cheval Blanc are also highly sought-after. With the exception of Le Pin (which was
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Le Château


few years, Le Château completely phased out the original traditional clothing style to concentrate on selling fashionable imports to youths. Segal claims that Le Château was the first to introduce bell bottoms to Canada, and had the latest European fashion before it even arrived in New York. Le Château played an integral yet little known role in John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1969 Montreal bed-in, providing the signature velour jumpsuits worn by the pair. By 1972, the chain grew to 10 stores, and by the end of the decade
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Château de Bercy


The Château de Bercy was a Louis XIII château located in Bercy, a part of modern-day Charenton-le-Pont in Paris, France. The château was constructed beginning in 1658 for Charles-Henri I de Malon de Bercy by architect François Le Vau, Louis Le Vau's younger brother. It was unfinished upon the death of the younger Le Vau in 1676. Malon de Bercy's son and heir, Charles-Henri II de Malon de Bercy (1678–1742), superintendent of finances, finished its construction,
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Château de Villandry


The Château de Villandry is a grand country house located in Villandry, in the "département" of Indre-et-Loire, France. It is especially known for its beautiful gardens. The lands where an ancient fortress once stood were known as "Columbine" until the 17th century. They were acquired in the early 16th century by Jean Le Breton, France's Controller-General for War under King Francis I, and a new château was constructed around the original 14th-century keep where King Philip II of France once
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Fontenoy-le-Château


Fontenoy-le-Château is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France. In January 2013 it merged with the former commune of Le Magny. The poet Nicolas Joseph Florent Gilbert was born on December 15, 1750 in Fontenoy-le-Chateau. Julie-Victoire Daubié (26 March 1824 in Bains-les-Bains – 26 August 1874 in Fontenoy-le-Château). She was the first woman to have graduated from a French university when she obtained a bachelor's degree in Lyon in
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Timothy Corrigan (interior designer)


his childhood home, Corrigan has purchased and renovated several châteaux in France. He reportedly fell in love with the country the first time he traveled there in the 1980s. In 2004, the French government sold him the Château du Grand-Lucé, located in Le Grand-Lucé within France's Loire Valley. The château and its gardens are listed as French National Landmarks, which posed additional challenges during the renovation. His 2013 book, "An Invitation to Château du Grand-Lucé", details Corrigan's against-all
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Louis Le Vau


Louis Le Vau (1612 – 11 October 1670) was a French Classical Baroque architect, who worked for Louis XIV of France. He was born and died in Paris. He was responsible, with André Le Nôtre and Charles Le Brun, for the redesign of the château of Vaux-le-Vicomte. His later works included the Palace of Versailles and his collaboration with Claude Perrault on the Palais du Louvre. Le Vau also designed two mirroring additions across the Parterre to the evergrowing Château de Vincennes, the Château du Raincy
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Vaux-le-Vicomte


The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte is a baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, southeast of Paris in the Seine-et-Marne "département" of France. Built between 1658 to 1661 for Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle Île, Viscount of Melun and Vaux, the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV, the château was an influential work of architecture in mid-17th-century Europe. At Vaux-le-Vicomte, the architect Louis Le Vau, the landscape architect André le Nôtre, and the
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Château de Corroy-le-Château


Castle of Corroy-le-Château () is a medieval castle in the village of Corroy-le-Château, near Gembloux, in the province of Namur, Belgium. Originally built between 1220 and 1230 by William of Brabant, the castle is one of the best-preserved medieval buildings in Belgium, with gigantic round towers and a moat. After some eight hundred years in the possession of the descendants of William of Brabant, the counts of Nassau-Corroy. One of the owners was Alexis of Nassau-Corroy
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Sévérac-le-Château


the college was the work funded by the General Council to set standards (creation of a lift, wall insulation) and technology workshop was turned into a gym. Sévérac Château is a castle in Sévérac-le-Château, France. The castle, now in ruins, is located in the municipality of Sévérac-le-Château, in the French department of Aveyron. The building is classified as historical monuments 1922. The castle belonged to several families: Sévérac (whose last direct descendant was Amaury de Sévérac, Marshal of
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Château d'Azay-le-Rideau


on an island in the middle of the Indre, the château of Azay-le-Rideau seems to rise straight out of the waters of the river, which reflect the castle's façades so that the château appears to float in its own image. The writer Balzac, who lived nearby and was occasionally a guest at the château, deeply admired the building, describing it as 'a facetted diamond, set in the Indre'. This striking setting has helped Azay-le-Rideau to become one of the most famous
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Bussy-le-Château


, the Archbishops of Reims and Sens, and the bishops of Châlons and Langres. In the 16th and 17th centuries the lordship of Bussy-le-Château as well as the lordships of Reynel, Choiseul, Lafauche, Vavray-le-Grand, Blaise, Vignory, and Sexfontaines were part of the prerogative of the House of Amboise. The Lordship of Bussy-le-Château was elevated to the rank of a Marquisate by letter in the month of January 1699. It was then under the control of the Arnolet de
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Château Teyssier


Château Teyssier is a Bordeaux wine producer from the appellation Saint-Émilion, whose "grand vin" is ranked "Grand cru" in the Classification of Saint-Émilion wine. The winery is located in the Right Bank of France’s Bordeaux wine region in the commune of Vignonet, in the department Gironde. In addition to its "Grand vin" Château Teyssier, the estate produces the ""super-cuvées"" Le Dôme, Vieux Château Mazerat, Les Astéries, Le Carré, Clos Nardian as single vineyard wines
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Château d'Ancy-le-Franc


Château d'Ancy-le-Franc is a Renaissance-style château of the 16th century located in the town of Ancy-le-Franc in the department of Yonne, in France. The site was originally occupied by a 12th-century fort, which survived until the end of the sixteenth century . Construction of the existing château began in 1544, at the request of Antoine III de Clermont, brother-in-law of Diane de Poitiers and son of Anne de Husson, countess of Tonnerre. The design of the building
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Château Prieuré-Lichine


Château Prieuré-Lichine, previously Château Le Prieuré and Château Prieuré-Cantenac, is a winery in the Margaux appellation of the Bordeaux region of France, in the commune of Cantenac. The wine produced here was classified as one of ten "Quatrièmes Crus" (Fourth Growths) in the historic Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855. The Château produces a second wine under the label Château de Clairefont (also called Confidences de Prieuré-Lichine since 2008), and a Haut-Médoc, Le Clocher du Prieuré. Originally a
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Villedieu-le-Château


Villedieu-le-Château is a commune in the Loir-et-Cher department in central France. Villedieu-le-Château borders the commune of La Chartre-sur-le-Loir (Sarthe) and marks the most eastern extension of the department and of the Bas-Vendômois. The Niclos stream traverses the commune. The village is dominated by the medieval fortified enceinte of a ruined medieval monastic foundation established by the Abbey of the Trinity at Vendôme. The cult of Our Lady of Pity was transferred to the 15th
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Château de Domecy-sur-le-Vault


The Château de Domecy-sur-le-Vault is a château located in Domecy-sur-le-Vault close to Sermizelles in the Yonne department in Burgundy, north-central France. Chateau de Domecy-sur-le-Vault is first mentioned in texts dating back to 1316. At that time, the stronghold was in the hands of the family d'Ostun, in whose possession it remained for over a century. In 1440, the lordship and castle passed by marriage to Edme de Salins, and in 1478,
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Château de Blandy-les-Tours


The Château de Blandy-les-Tours is a medieval castle in the village of Blandy-les-Tours (Seine-et-Marne, France); it is about 5 km from the château de Vaux-le-Vicomte and 10 km from Melun. The castle is in the middle of the village. Its restoration began in 1992. The site was previously a Merovingian necropolis. It was mentioned in a text in 1216. It belonged to Adam II de Chailly, Viscount of Melun and consisted of a simple
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Château Bel Air (Le Haillan)


Château Bel Air, also called the Château du Haillan, is a château in Le Haillan in the outskirts of Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France. The 1820 building is the administrative headquarters of the FC Girondins de Bordeaux, a football club. The two-storey château has elements from the 18th century, and was transformed around 1845. It is faced with rough and dressed stone. The roof includes both slate and tile. The façade is decorated with sculptures and a coat of arms. In the Middle Ages the site was called
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Château du Lude


The Château du Lude is one of the many great châteaux of the Loire Valley (Vallée de la Loire) in France. The château is situated in the commune of Le Lude in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays-de-la-Loire and stands at the crossroads of Anjou, Maine and Touraine. Le Lude is the most northerly château of the Loire Valley and one of the last important historic castles in France, still inhabited by the same family for the last 260 years. The château is testimony to
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Jean-François Regnard


Théâtre des italiens, 1688–96. After inheriting his mother's considerable fortune in 1693, he devoted the time divided between his "hôtel" in Paris and his country house, the château of Grillon, near Dourdan, to writing comedies in verse for the Comédie française, twenty-three in total, the best of them being "Le Joueur" ("The Gamester", 1696), "Le Distrait" (1697), "Les Ménechmes" (1705), and his masterwork, "Le Légataire universel"
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Château d'Ancy-le-Franc


III (brief visit), Henri IV in 1591, Louis XIII in 1631 and Louis XIV in 1674. In 1683, the Clermont-Tonnerre family was forced to sell the land of Ancy-le-Franc and the château to François-Michel Le Tellier, minister of Louis XIV. The following year, Louvois acquired the entire County of Tonnerre, (including the including Château de Maulnes). Following this, he employed well-known landscape architect André Le Nôtre for creating pathways and gardens within the grounds. After
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Château du Broutel


the château. The exterior of the château has been listed as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture since 1969. The back patio, roof, tree-lined driveway and mural paintings are also protected under the same listed status. Château du Broutel dates back to 1714 and is situated in approximately . It was built by Jean-Baptiste Loisel Le Gaucher, one of the senior cavalry officers for Louis XIV. The land on which the Château was built was in the Loisel Le Gaucher family before the building was constructed
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Château des Allymes


The Château des Allymes is a thirteenth-century castle which was rebuilt in the sixteenth century and restored in the nineteenth. It is located in the hamlet of Les Allymes, in the Ambérieu-en-Bugey commune in the Ain department of France, in the Rhône-Alpes region. The castle was built by the Dauphin of Viennois to protect the people from attacks that were ravaging the country. It is approached by the hamlet of Brey-de-Vent, and is the only example of a medieval fortress in Bugey
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Château d'Ainay-le-Vieil


Château d'Ainay-le-Vieil is a 14th-century castle built on the grounds of an earlier 12th century castle in Ainay-le-Vieil, Cher, France. Château d'Ainay-le-Vieil is situated at an elevation of 168 meters. After having bought the castle from Jacques Cœur, Charles de Bigny built a pre-Renaissance Louis XII style chateaux from 1500 to 1505. The castle has been listed as a "Monument historique" since 1968 by the French Ministry of Culture. The castle, now part of
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Vufflens-le-Château


Vufflens-le-Château is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Morges. Vufflens-le-Château has an area, , of . Of this area, or 69.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 13.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 18.7% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 15.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.3%. Out of the forested land, 9.8
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Château de Chanteloup


of François le Franc, the fruit seller), sold it on 21 October 1695 to Louis le Boultz, the Grand Master of Waterworks and Forests of Touraine, Anjou and Maine. Around 1700 Louis le Boultz created large, well-ordered gardens and added other structures, so that it was no longer a simple country house. On 22 February 1708, Louis Le Boultz sold the house and seigneury of Chanteloup to Jean Bouteroue d'Aubigny, who also acquired the office of Grand Master of Waterworks and Forests of France for the "
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Sévérac-le-Château


of Sévérac-le-Château is a southern part of the Massif Central. It is located on the plateau caussenard the same name. Its capital city is a stronghold since antiquity. The territory of this county is part of the regional park of Grands Causses. In the town of Sévérac-le-Château is many sources the most important are therefore that Merdans, the Verlenque and the Aveyron. In the late nineteenth century, the bifurcation of the railway from Béziers to the north ( Neussargues ) and west ( Rodez )
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Château de Villesavin


the early 14th century. The present château was built by Jean le Breton, Lord of Villandry, who was the financial secretary under King François I. The château was designed by the French renaissance style by the same Italian and French masters who built Château de Chambord, away, including Benvenuto Cellini. Le Breton supervised the construction of Chambord on behalf of the king, and decided to build his own home nearby using the same materials and designers, and possibly some of the same budget. The château was constructed between 1527 and 1537
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Château Les Carmes Haut-Brion


Château Les Carmes Haut-Brion is a Bordeaux wine estate located in the AOC Pessac-Léognan within the region of Graves. In addition to producing a red "grand vin" named Château Les Carmes Haut-Brion, the estate produces the red second wine Le Clos des Carmes. The property shares its origins with châteaux Haut-Brion, La Mission Haut-Brion, Laville Haut-Brion and La Tour Haut-Brion, in once being part of the Haut-Brion estate that belonged to Jean de Pontac. Reportedly
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Ainay-le-Château


Ainay-le-Château is a French commune in the Allier department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of central France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as "Castelainaisiens" or "Castelainaisiennes". Ainay-le-Château is located some south-east of Bourges and south-west of Nevers. The northern border of the commune is the departmental boundary with Cher and the regional boundary with the Centre-Val de Loire region. Access to the commune is by D951 road from Thaumiers in the north which
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Château de Villiers-le-Mahieu


The Château de Villiers-le-Mahieu is a modernised castle in the "commune" of Villiers-le-Mahieu in the Yvelines "département" of France. It was built in the 13th century and was extensively remodelled in the 17th. It is now in use as a hotel. According to legend, the original castle was built by the English in the Middle Ages. The original 13th-century castle moats surround the château. In 1642, the Marquis Claude d'Attilly built the present Renaissance style structure on the remains
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Rennes-le-Château


and the Pyrenees to the south. The area is known for its scenery, with jagged ridges, deep river canyons and rocky limestone plateaus, with large caves underneath. Rennes-le-Château was the site of a prehistoric encampment, and later a Roman colony, or at least Roman villa or temple, such as is confirmed to have been built at Fa, west of Couiza, part of the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis, the wealthiest part of Roman Gaul. Rennes-le-Château was part of Septimania in
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Rennes-le-Château


to the archives" consisted of 28,500,000 gold pieces. This was the treasure of the French crown assembled by Blanche de Castile to pay the ransom of Saint Louis IX, a prisoner of the infidels, the surplus of which she had hidden at Rennes-le-Château. Saunière had only found one part of it, so it was necessary to continue his investigations. Corbu also claimed that Rennes-le-Château was the capital of the Visigoths called "Rhedae", but this was another exaggeration: it was Narbonne that
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Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont


. He made a fortune in shipping and, in 1750, he acquired the Château de Chaumont as a country home where he established a glassmaking and earthenware factory. In 1772, Le Ray signed a contract with the renowned Italian sculptor Jean-Baptiste Nini to oversee his factories and set up the production of portrait medallions: a sculpture in miniature done in terracotta usually for the very wealthy and European Royalty. Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont served King Louis XVI at the Court at Versailles as the Governor of Les Invalides in
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Le Château


the mid 90s Le Château experimented briefly with Goth styled clothing and in 1997, it launched a short lived adolescent girls brand "Jr. Girls." By 1999, the company's stock fell to an eight-year low and the company took a large quarterly loss of $1.3 million in the three months ended July 29, 2000, compared with a profit of $1.1 million a year earlier. This led to a management shakeup, store redesign, changes to the merchandise, and according to Le Château, a concerted effort
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Le Château


." Since then, Le Château has been trying to build up its brand image, and shed the image that its clothes are "only for wearing to nightclubs," a view that still persists. That year, it released a collection based on the 1960s-set Renée Zellweger movie, Down with Love and was the exclusive supplier of clothing to "Canadian Idol" contestants. With many US retailers expanding into Canada, including competitor Express, and fast fashion stores such as H&M and Zara gaining market share, Le Château
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Château du Raincy


Raincy under the Directoire. Neglected and left in a bad state of disrepair since that period, the château designed by Le Vau was demolished and replaced by a conventional neoclassical building in the first decade of the 19th century, at the time of Napoléon I's First Empire, as can be seen in an engraving from 1808. Napoleon I acquired Le Raincy in 1812, but the Prussian army quartered there in 1815. The new château fell into neglect and was eventually demolished in 1819. During the Restoration (1815–1830), Le
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Ainay-le-Château


TF1 in the program "Sept à huit" (Seven to Eight) on 31 January 2010 (retransmitted on 21 April 2013), as well as in the program "la Fabrique de l'Histoire" (Fabric of History) on France Culture on 7 December 2010. List of Successive Mayors of Ainay-le-Château In February 2010, according to the commercial register, "Ainay-le-Château" had 76 companies registered in the commune. There are 61 Real estate and other companies with their headquarters in the town
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Bussy-le-Château


Bussy-le-Château is a commune in the Marne department in the Grand Est region of north-eastern France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as "Bussinais" or "Bussinaises". Bussy-le-Château is located some 15 km north-east of Châlons-en-Champagne and 40 km south-east of Reims. Access to the commune is by road D79 from Suippes in the north which passes through the commune and the village and continues south to Courtisols. The D66 road comes from Somme
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Pagny-le-Château


Pagny-le-Château is a commune of the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France. In 1999 its population was 491. The village is situated between Seurre and Saint-Jean-de-Losne, in the "Val de Saône" on the RD 976. Over the centuries, the village has had several names. The first one was Pancium. Afterwards, it was called Paygnay-le-Château, then Pagny-la-Brûlée. Even though the fortified castles were destroyed the village is now called Pagny
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Château d'Ochsenstein


The Château d'Ochsenstein is a ruined castle located in the "commune" of Reinhardsmunster, in the Bas-Rhin "département" of France. It was home to the Ochsensteins, a powerful family from medieval Alsace. The castle sits upon three sandstone spurs and comprises three separate castles: le "Grand Ochsenstein", le "Petit Ochsenstein" and a third building, thought to be called le "Château de Wachelheim". Ochsenstein castle has been classified as a "monument historique" by the French Ministry of Culture since 1898
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Vufflens-le-Château


born in Vufflens-le-Château and lived there in 2000. There were 263 or 41.7% who were born in the same canton, while 107 or 17.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 141 or 22.3% were born outside of Switzerland. The age distribution, , in Vufflens-le-Château is; 103 children or 13.5% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 119 teenagers or 15.6% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 61 people or 8.0%
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Vufflens-le-Château


Vufflens-le-Château about 202 or (32.0%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 174 or (27.6%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a "Fachhochschule"). In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 118 students in the Vufflens-le-Château school district. In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts. During the school year, the political district provided
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Bérenger Saunière


celebrated Mass at an altar constructed in a special conservatory by his Villa Bethania. Saunière's refusal to leave Rennes-le-Château to continue his priesthood in another parish incurred permanent suspension. The epitaph on Saunière's original 1917 gravestone read "priest of Rennes-le-Château 1885-1917". He would be virtually unknown today if not for the fact that he is a central figure in many of the conspiracy theories surrounding Rennes-le-Château. These speculations form the basis of several documentaries and books such as
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Château de Carrouges


, and the château passed to his nephew Jean Le Veneur, Bishop of Lisieux, who became a Cardinal in 1533, and who constructed the Renaissance "châtelet", known as the "pavillon du cardinal Jean Le Veneur". At the time of the French Wars of Religion (1562–98), the château was again strengthened, with the construction of the western bastion, but during the following century the sumptuous grand apartments were built. In the 17th century, Tanneguy II Le Veneur, comte de Tillières (d.1652),
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Rennes-le-Château


, Atlantis, and ancient astronauts as a source of "ill-informed and lunatic books". Likewise another archaeologist Bill Putnam, co-author with John Edwin Wood of "The Treasure of Rennes-le-Château, A Mystery Solved" (2003, 2005) has dismissed all of the popular allegations as pseudo-history. Laura Miller, contributor to "The New York Times" books section, commented how the village of Rennes-le-Château had become "a town that had become the French equivalent of
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Château Louis XIV


system of tenons and mortises. In keeping with age-old techniques, the roofers hand-crafted the slate roof from Angers. The roof also boasts fire pots sculpted in stone and gilded metal spikes on the roof's ridge beam. The Château Louis XIV, nestled in an authentic lush green setting, is consistent with the standards of the 17th century, and its parks and gardens are no exception. In line with André Le Nôtre’s theories for the Château de Versailles and the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte,
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Château de Marly


The Château de Marly was a French royal residence located in what is now Marly-le-Roi, the commune that existed at the northern edge of the royal park, itself situated west of the palace and garden complex at Versailles. Marly-le-Roi is the town that originally grew up in order to service the château, which is now demolished. The town is now a bedroom community for Paris. At the Château of Marly, Louis XIV of France escaped from the formal rigors he was constructing at Versailles.
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Château de Cordès


to Emmanuel d'Allègre. His son, Yves de Tourzel, the marquis d'Allegre, who became a marechal of France in 1724, rebuilt it and transformed it into a residence, and in 1695, commissioned the workshop of Le Nôtre to lay out the garden. In 1965, the new owner restored the château and recreated the gardens. Paul Bourget set the action of his novel, "Le démon de midi", published in 1914, at the Château de Cordès. The château has been listed since 1933 as a "monument
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Château de Bussy-Rabutin


The Château de Bussy-Rabutin, also known as Château de Bussy-le-Grand, is a "château" which developed from a 12th-century castle, located in the commune of Bussy-le-Grand, in the Côte-d'Or department, Bourgogne, eastern France. The castle was founded in the 12th century by Renaudin de Bussy. It was rebuilt in the 14th century, and the Renaissance galleries were added in the 1520s. It was altered during the reigns of Henri II (1547–1559) and Louis
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Ainay-le-Château


passes through the town and continues south to Cérilly. The D951 from Charenton-du-Cher in the north-west to Bessais-le-Fromental in the north-east passes through the north of the commune. The D28 comes from Braize in the south-west to the town then continues north to join the D951. The D64 goes east from the town to Valigny. There are several country roads in the commune linking the villages and hamlets inside. These include Le Castinerie, Salvert, La Bete, Saint-
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Château Le Pin


Château Certan, and the wine was produced in tiny quantities from a farmhouse basement. The property was already called "Le Pin" from a solitary pine tree that grows near the winery. Today the estate comprises 2,7 hectares in one contiguous vineyard surrounding the winery. In 2011 a new winery, designed by the Belgian architectural practice Robbrecht en Daem architecten, was inaugurated using small microcuves and gravity to move the wine. Château Le Pin is considered by some a predecessor of the "garage wines", although this idea is rejected
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Château Teyssier


-cuvée" Les Astéries produced since the 2004 vintage is made with fruit from a plot acquired from Château Fonroque located next to Clos Fourtet. The vineyard is composed of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc, with some vines survivors of the 1956 frost. There is an annual production of of Les Astéries. The "micro-cuvée" Le Carré produced since the 2005 vintage hails from a ca. plot acquired from Château Canon, also adjacent to Clos Fourtet. The vineyard is composed of 88% Merlot and 12
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Bussy-le-Château


la Rochefontaine family. The title was confirmed in 1703. In 1770, Bussy-le-Château was held by the Cappy family. Bussy-le-Château takes its name from an ancient fort which appears to have been of considerable size. During the French Revolution, following the decree of the National Convention of 16 October 1793 (25 vendémiaire Year II), which invited communes with names that recalled the memories of the monarchy, feudalism, or superstition, to replace them with other names, the commune changed its name
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Château de Guermantes


Château de Guermantes is a Château located in northern France. Construction of the Château de Guermantes in Lagny-sur-Marne, Seine et Marne, France, was undertaken by Claude Viole (died 1638), whose family had possessed the fief of "Le Chemin" since the mid sixteenth century. Paulin Pondre (1650-1723) purchased the property in 1698. He engaged Jules Hardouin-Mansart for renovations to the building, completed in 1710 (Ministère de la culture), and André Le Nôtre to lay out the
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Château d'Ancy-le-Franc


the French Revolution, the family managed to regain possession of the château. He restored the grounds as well as the interior of the château to its former glory. In 1844, Ancy-le-Franc was sold to Louis Aimé Gaspard de Clermont-Tonnerre, a descendant of Antoine III of Clermont. It then passed between various hands, including those of the princes of Merode. The château is currently owned by a private company, Société Paris Investir SAS, which undertook its restoration, and recognition as a national historical monument
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Neauphle-le-Château


Neauphle-le-Château is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. Neauphle-le-Château gained international fame in 1978 when, on October 8, Iranian Islamic leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini rented and moved into a house there following his exile by the regime of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in the midst of the Iranian Revolution, and after being deported from Iraq where he was taking refuge amongst the Shi'a community. The Ayatollah continued to reside there until the following year
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Château Cany


La Taille for 16,500 livres With the death of Pierre Le Marinier in 1662, his son Balthazar Le Marinier not only inherited the château but also a large amount of real estate. Balthazar Le Marinier married Geneviève der Becdelièvre in 1663 and sold the château and the Seigneurie Cany (excluding the barony of Caniel) to his father-in-law Pierre III de Becdelièvre, Marquis de Quévilly, on June 3, 1683. Pierre IV, Pierre III de Becdelièvre's son, repurchased the barony of Caniel in June, 1713.
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Château du Tertre


descendants owned the estate in the 16th century. Le Tertre passed through the ownership of the Arrérac family and Marquis de Ségur until the 1855 classification. When the estate was owned by Charles Henri, Le Tertre hold a good reputation and was in demand on the Dutch market. It was sold to Henri de Koenigswarter in 1870 under whose ownership Le Tertre's reputation increased further. By World War II the reputation and production had diminished, but in 1961 Château du Tertre was acquired by Philippe Gasqueton, who restored the vineyards and château
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Guy de Rothschild


corner of the rue de Rivoli and the Place de la Concorde in Paris (a property once occupied by Talleyrand and now the United States Embassy) and their country estate at Château de Ferrières, 25 miles east of Paris. Château de Ferrières is a massive house built to a design by Joseph Paxton in the 1850s, based on Paxton's earlier design of Mentmore Towers for Baron Mayer de Rothschild of the English branch of the Rothschild family. He was educated at the Lycée Condorcet and Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris
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Watch Museum of Le Locle


The Watch Museum of Le Locle (French: Musée d'Horlogerie du Locle) is a municipal museum specializing in horology, located in Le Locle, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. It is open to the public. The museum is located in a small historic country manor house, called 'Château des Monts', about one kilometer north of the city center, on a hill. Most visitors combine a visit to this museum with the other world-class horological museum in the region the Musée international d'horlogerie in La Chaux-de
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Château du Verduron


The Château du Verduron also known as the Château des Sphinx owes its original fame to Louis Blouin, who held the prominent position of head valet in the court of Louis XIV of France from 1704 until 1715. Other distinguished owners of the property included Victorien Sardou, the French dramatist and one-time mayor of the Parisian suburb of Marly-le-Roi. The Château du Verduron is located on Place Victorien Sardou in Marly-le-Roi, a commune in the department of Yvelines. Initially a simple one-story
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Gervais de Château-du-Loir


Gervais de Château-du-Loir (1007–1067) was a French nobleman, bishop, and a powerful figure of his time in Northern France. He was Bishop of Le Mans from 1036, and Archbishop of Reims from 1055. His father was Aimon de Château-du-Loir, whilst his mother was Hildeburge de Bellême, daughter of Yves de Bellême. His maternal uncle Avesgaud de Bellême, Bishop of Le Mans raised Gervais and groomed him to succeed to the Bishopric of Le Mans. He was a strong supporter of
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Anizy-le-Château


Anizy-le-Château is a former commune in the department of Aisne in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune of Anizy-le-Grand. The inhabitants of the commune are known as "Aniziens" or "Aniziennes" Anizy-le-Chateau is located some 40 km south by south-east of Saint Quentin and 20 km south-west of Laon. The commune is accessed by the D5 road from Chivy-les-
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Château du Raincy


The Château du Raincy was constructed between 1643 and 1650 by Jacques Bordier, "indendant des finances", on the site of a Benedectine priory on the road from Paris to Meaux, in the present-day commune of Le Raincy in the Seine-Saint-Denis department of France. Louis Le Vau was put in charge of the design of the building. The gardens are traditionally ascribed to André Le Nôtre and the interior decoration to Charles Le Brun. This team of masters also worked on the châteaux at Vaux-le
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Pomerol AOC


hectares (50 acres) that is very atypical of the soils found in rest of Pomerol, but because the vineyard of the noted estate of Château Pétrus is planted on more than half of these hectares, its influence on the wine has been much discussed in the literature. Other vineyards which have at least some planting on this "bouttonière" include Château La Conseillante, Château L'Évangile, Château Lafleur, Château Gazin, Château Trotanoy, Château Clinet, Château le Gay and Vieux Château Certan. According to Catherine Moueix the "clinkers
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French wine


the third Thursday of November. Bordeaux is a large region on the Atlantic coast, which has a long history of exporting its wines overseas. This is primarily a red wine region, famous for the wines Château Lafite-Rothschild, Château Latour, Château Mouton-Rothschild, Château Margaux and Château Haut-Brion from the Médoc sub-region; Château Cheval Blanc and Château Ausone in Saint-Émilion; and Château Pétrus and Château Le Pin in Pomerol. The red wines produced are usually blended, from Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot
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Aix-les-Bains


roulette, blackjack, etc.). The Casino Grand-Cercle was ranked at 24th in the classification of French casinos, on the basis of its gross product from the games for the fiscal year of 2004-2005. The Château of the Rock of the King is a 20th-century château. It is located on the heights of Aix-les-Bains, built on a hillside, the château dominates much of the town and overlooks the racecourse and golf course among others. It was built in 1900 by the
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Le Pontet, Vaucluse


the home of Championnat de France Amateurs club, US Le Pontet. Le Pontet is also a town of culture. Since decades, the Château de Fargues and the Roberty's Domain are the scene of several culture events. The Château de Fargues is also the city's school of music and dance. Le Pontet also has an auditorium, a pétanque area and theaters. Le Pontet has one of the main commercial areas of Europe, called Avignon Nord. This area includes hundreds of shops, two shopping centers, a cinema,
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Château-d'Œx


. It consists of the villages of Château-d'Œx, L'Etivaz, Les Moulins and Les Granges, 35 hamlets and 22 alpine herding camps. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is "Gules, a tower embattled Or, a wall embattled of the same in the dexter, surmounted by a crane Argent" Château-d'Œx has a population () of . , 19.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 5%.
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Château Les Ormes-de-Pez


Château Les Ormes-de-Pez, or Château Ormes de Pez, (French for "The Elms of Pez") is a winery in the Saint-Estèphe appellation of the Bordeaux wine region of France, near the hamlet of Pez. The wine produced here was classified as one of 9 "Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnels" in the 2003 listing. Though this classification is currently annulled, it is expected to be revived by the 2009 vintage, but without use of the quality divisions such as ""exceptionnel"".
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Château Fortia


the nineteenth century, being owned at one point by the French branch of the Gondi family, until it was purchased by Bernard Le Saint in 1890. Le Saint was a former director who maintained the official journal of the Egyptian government. He further expanded the estate and gave it its current name, Château Fortia. In 1919, his daughter Edmée married a decorated World War I pilot, Baron Pierre Le Roy de Boiseaumarié. When Baron Le Roy died in 1967, the estate passed to his son Henri Le Roy. In
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Château-Thierry


, later transformed in Château-Thierry ("Castle of Thierry", Thierry is the French or early Roman language translation of Theuderic). In 946, the castle of Château-Thierry was the home of Herbert le-Vieux, Count of Omois (Fr: "comte d'Omois") of the House of Vermandois & Soissons. Château-Thierry was the site of two important battles. The Battle of Château-Thierry (1814) in the Napoleonic Wars between France and Prussia, and Battle of Château-Thierry (
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Oulchy-le-Château


Oulchy-le-Château is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. The town is located about from Paris, between Soissons to the north and Château-Thierry to the south. It is directly accessible by highway. On the night of 2/3 March 1814, the area was taken by imperial troops commanded by Captain Parquin. In 1976, the commune of Cugny-lès-Crouttes was absorbed. The village contains a bakery, supermarket, butcher shops, pharmacy, doctor, nightclub
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Sévérac-le-Château


Sévérac-le-Château (Languedocien: "Severac del Castèl") is a former commune in the Aveyron department in southern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Sévérac-d'Aveyron. The Château de Sévérac is a 13th-century castle that dominates the town. It is open to the public. This new area of 72,724km² resulting from the merger of two regions of southern France roughly corresponds to the ancient Languedoc, Haut-Languedoc ( Toulouse ) and Lower Languedoc ( Montpellier )
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Château de Commarque


The Château de Commarque is a hillside castle located between Sarlat and Les Eyzies, in the "commune" of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil in the Dordogne "département", southern France. It stands on a rocky outcrop in the valley of the river La Beune in the Vezere valley region. The castle was founded during the 12th century, or possibly slightly prior to it, upon the request of the abbots of Sarlat. At this time the Château de Commarque was only a wooden tower, and its primary
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Château de Robert le Diable


The Château de Robert le Diable is a French feudal castle from the time of the Dukes of Normandy. It is more properly, though less commonly, known as the Château de Moulineaux. It is situated at Moulineaux, near Rouen, in the "département" of Seine-Maritime at the side of the A13 autoroute. It takes its name from Robert the Devil who, according to some, was Robert I, Duke of Normandy, the father of William the Conqueror. However, there is no evidence that this person
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Marly-le-Roi


Marly-le-Roi is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, from the centre of Paris. Marly-le-Roi was the location of the Château de Marly, the famous leisure residence of the Sun King Louis XIV which was destroyed after the French Revolution. The Marly-le-Roi National Estate and Park now occupies much of the grounds of the former château, including restored waterways and lawns
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