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  2. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    In France, used for an airline pilot (le commandant de bord), in the Army as appellative for a chef de bataillon or a chef d'escadron (roughly equivalent to a major) or in the Navy for any officer from capitaine de corvette to capitaine de vaisseau (equivalent to the Army's majors, lieutenant-colonels and colonels) or for any officer heading a ...

  3. Marseille roundup - Wikipedia

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    Le Patriote résistant, n°578 et 579 (janvier 1988) Delarue, Jacques [in French] (1968). "Part III La destruction du Vieux-Port de Marseille" [The Destruction of the Old Port of Marseille]. Trafics et crimes sous l'occupation [Trafficking and Crimes Under the Occupation] (in French). Paris: Fayard. pp. 237– 275. OCLC 3329965

  4. List of French villages destroyed in World War I - Wikipedia

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    Pair of shell cases enscribed with the names Hurlus and Tahure. Auve [1]; Beauséjour, Marne; Bignicourt-sur-Saultz (3/33 homes remained) [1] 30 men and 45 women and children were taken captive.

  5. Bombing of France during World War II - Wikipedia

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    The French historian Henri Amouroux in La Grande histoire des Français sous l’Occupation, says that 20,000 civilians were killed in Calvados department, 10,000 in Seine-Maritime, 14,800 in the Manche, 4,200 in the Orne, around 3,000 in the Eure. All together, that makes more than 50,000 killed.

  6. Notre-Dame fire - Wikipedia

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    A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Incendie de Notre-Dame de Paris]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Incendie de Notre-Dame de Paris}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

  7. List of destroyed heritage - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic church of La Iglesia de Nuestro Señor de los Reyes in the city of Comayagua was built in 1555. It was damaged by an earthquake in 1808 and the mayor's office ordered it demolished in 1829. [295] The church of Santa Lucia de Jeto in Comayagua was built in 1558 and collapsed in 1808 after an earthquake.

  8. Revolt of Lyon against the National Convention - Wikipedia

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    The municipality also had command of an army of approximately 10,000 which, though largely popular in its composition, was commanded by royalists led by the Count of Précy, with an aristocratic group of officers including Stanislas Marie Adelaide, comte de Clermont-Tonnerre, Virieu, Pantigny, Nolhac, Villeneuve, La Roche d'Angly and de Melon. [7]

  9. French ship Droits de l'Homme (1794) - Wikipedia

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    Droits de l'Homme, was involved in the action of 6 November 1794, chasing the British 74s Canada and Alexander. Droits de l'Homme caught up with Alexander first, but was forced out of action with damage to her rigging, but Alexander was soon caught by Jean Bart and Marat and captured, although she was to be recaptured by the British at the Battle of Groix on 22 June 1795.