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Normandy - remnants of D-Day

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Belle Epoque and bloody epoch:

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Montaubon - history pageant - the Revolution. It's also the birthplace of Daniel Cohn-Bendit, a leader of the May 68 demonstrators:

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Montaubon

In 1360, at the Treaty of Brétigny, it was ceded to the English; they were expelled by the inhabitants in 1414. [muttering: "We'll be back - wait till the UK house price inflation".]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauban

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Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Fri Jan 25th, 2008 at 08:43:13 AM EST
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More nice photos and fascinating historical facts in my Florence diary :-)

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Fri Jan 25th, 2008 at 08:49:10 AM EST
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