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  • When the race started in Agde, I asked if she was going riding that day.

    USATODAY.com 2005

  • Tensions in the town of Cap d'Agde, which is known as France's "Naked City" thanks to its large nudist population, have risen after locals complained that the nudist quarter had been overrun by raunchy hotels and that children had been confronted with people indulging in sexual acts in public, according to the Independent.

    Traditional Nudists Battle Swingers In France's 'Naked City' 2010

  • The Council of Agde in 506 confirms this feast as one of the highest in the Church life.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Marguerite 2007

  • The Council of Agde in 506 confirms this feast as one of the highest in the Church life.

    Solemnity of the Birth of St. John the Baptist Marguerite 2007

  • Then, wanting to help Jewish women and children, she began work at the Oeuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) in the prefecture of Hérault, rescuing children who were internees in the camps of Agde and Rivesaltes, often by hiding them in her cloak until they reached safety.

    Izieu, Women of. 2009

  • Abbe of Chaliot, bishop of Saint Claude; the other, the Abbe Tourteau, vicar-general of Agde, abbe of Grand – Champ, order of Citeaux, diocese of

    Les Miserables 2008

  • "The concept of lasting local tradition doesn't mean anything anymore," says Josyane Querelle, coordinator of the Federation de Liaisons Anti-Corrida in Agde, just south of Montpellier.

    Fight Over Bullfights 2007

  • _On the contrary, _ As we read in the same Distinction, Gregory writing to Secundinus (Regist. vii) says: "We consider that when a man has made proper satisfaction, he may return to his honorable position": and moreover we read in the acts of the council of Agde:

    Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas

  • Agde, almost as old, displays the decline of a dignified, retired old age; Saint-Gilles-du-Gard was as dirty, but not a whit as pretentious;

    Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose

  • Before 740, he had returned a third time to the South, not as a deliverer, but for pure love of conquest; and by dismantling Nîmes, destroying the maritime cities of Maguelonne and Agde, and taking the powerful strongholds of Arles and Marseilles, he paved the way for his great descendant who nominally united "all France."

    Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose

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