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- proper noun One of the
départements ofAlsace ,France (INSEE code 67)
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Examples
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Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France on May 4, 2010 at 6: 51 pm Serpico
How Did It Come To This? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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He had been born in 1867 in the region of Petite-Pierre near Saverne (Bas-Rhin), but his family had moved to the French interior after the Franco-Prussian War.
Louise Weiss. 2009
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Then there was the Café du Bas-Rhin on the Boul 'Mich' where
The Belovéd Vagabond William John Locke 1896
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Haut-Rhin and Bas-Rhin, now effaced from the map of France.
In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877
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Directory of the Bas-Rhin, April 26, 1792, and of Dietrich, Mayor of Strasbourg, May 8.
The French Revolution - Volume 2 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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-- There, in Bas-Rhin, near Fort Louis, twenty houses of the aristocrats are pillaged.
The French Revolution - Volume 1 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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In vain has the directory of the Bas-Rhin ordered its release; the Belfort municipality paid no attention to the order.
The French Revolution - Volume 1 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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The Directory of the Bas-Rhin banishes them to Strasbourg or to fifteen leagues from the frontier.
The French Revolution - Volume 1 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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Bas-Rhin will continue to be relatively inferior, so long as it is not governed by priests, and occupied by the
The Roman Question Edmond About 1856
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In the department of the Bas-Rhin, France, and not more than about two leagues north of Strasbourg, lived Antoine Delessert, who farmed, or intended farming, his own land -- about a ten-acre slice of 'national' property, which had fallen to him, nobody very well knew how, during the hurly-burly of the great Revolution.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852 Various 1841
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