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Y (French pronunciation: ⓘ ee) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Y bears the shortest place name in France, and one of the shortest in the world . [ 3 ] The inhabitants call themselves Ypsilonien(ne)s , [ 4 ] from the Greek letter Upsilon (Υ), which looks like the letter Y.
In 1667, Douai was taken by the troops of Louis XIV of France, and by the 1668 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, the town was ceded to France. During successive sieges from 1710 to 1712, Douai was almost completely destroyed by the British Army. By 1713, the town was fully integrated into France. Douai became the seat of the Parliament of Flanders .
Royale-les-Eaux is a seaside resort, described in Casino Royale as being "just north of Dieppe" [2] and lying "near the mouth of the Somme before the flat coastline soars up from the beaches of southern Picardy to the Normandy cliffs which run on to Le Havre".
A Floating City, or sometimes translated The Floating City (French: Une ville flottante), is an adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne first published in 1871 in France. [1] At the time of its publication, the novel enjoyed a similar level of popularity as Around the World in Eighty Days . [ 2 ]
France, [X] officially the French Republic, [XI] is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world.
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