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Paris (city, France)
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......concentrated in the Paris area. Transportation...in the center of the Paris basin (see Île-de-France), and only 90 mi...railroad stations make Paris one of the great transportation...Museum of the Art and History of Judaism, the Place......
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Paris, Treaty of
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......Great Britain. In Africa France yielded Senegal to Great...to Great Britain, and France withdrew its troops from...1783By the Treaty of Paris of Sept. 3, 1783...powers, Britain against France and Spain, with the...greatest triumph in the history of American diplomacy......
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Louis XV (king of France)
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......that realigned (1756) France with Austria, in the...Years War. The Treaty of Paris (see Paris, Treaty of, 1763...marked the loss of most of France's colonial empire and...1956); A. Cobban, A History of Modern France, Vol......
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Vienna, Congress of
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......conferences in European history, called to remake Europe...settlement with defeated France had been reached before...congress convened (see Paris, Treaty of, 1814), but France was represented by Charles...opposed by Austria, France, and Britain, which......
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Norsemen
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......the Low Countries, France, and Spain were lust...particularly lasting in N France. The invaders, whose...cities as Rouen and Paris. Their actions threatened to plunge France back into the barbarism...and continued in history under the name of......
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stained glass
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......mosaics, biblical history and church dogmas...of Saint-Denis (Paris), Chartres, and Le Mans in France, as well as at Canterbury...Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, is a triumph of...Stained Glass: History, Technology and Practice......
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metric system
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......weights and measures planned in France and adopted there in 1799; it has...standard prepared and kept at Sèvres, France, near Paris. Long defined as the distance between...Standards of the United States: A Brief History (1976; U.S. National Bureau......
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U-2 incident
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...U-2 incident, in U.S. and Soviet history, the events following the Soviet downing of an American...the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France in Paris. President Eisenhower's initial claim that he had no knowledge......
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Raynal, Guillaume Thomas François, Abbé
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......was a six-volume history of the European colonies...condemned by the Parlement of Paris (1781) for impiety...Nevertheless, the History was extremely popular...Allowed to return to France, but not Paris, in 1784; his Parisian......
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Beauce
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......region, in Orléanais, N France, in the Paris Basin, between the Seine and Loir...Cher. It is the "granary of France" —a vast, limestone plateau...are grown. The region shared the history of the countship of Chartres......