Fleche

Masson also was a two-time Belgian national champion and a winner of la Fleche Wallonne.

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Last year, she won a stage in the women's Giro d'Italia, and last week she grabbed attention with an aggressive 40-kilometer solo breakaway at Belgium's Fleche Wallonne race.

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Kirchen, a former national champion and winner of the Fleche Wallonne semi-classic, suffered a heart attack at the Tour of Switzerland in June, apparently bringing a halt to his career.

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Further, important intellectual events were known at La Fleche, including the discovery of the moons of Jupiter by Galileo in 1610.

René Descartes Hatfield, Gary 2008

In Women's World Cup racing, Amber Neben was fifth in La Fleche Wallonne, nine seconds off the lead.

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Discourse, suggesting that it was no accident that the philosophy he learned at La Fleche was uncertain: previous philosophy was bound to be uncertain, since he (Descartes) was now offering a first glimpse of the one true philosophy that he had only recently discovered.

René Descartes Hatfield, Gary 2008

Chris Horner remained in Europe for two one-day ProTour races through Belgium, finishing 19th in La Fleche Wallonne and eighth in Liege-Bastogne-Liege.

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Cycling's season of one-day road races continues in Belgium with La Fleche Wallonne, which also includes a women's event.

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After finishing seventh in the 2006 race he had a stellar spring, capped by victory in the prestigious Fleche-Wallonne classic.

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Olier's heart was preserved, she was suddenly cured 2 Feb., 1659 She was so fortunate as to secure three Hospital Sisters of St. Joseph from the convent of La Fleche in Anjou, Judith Moreau de Bresoles, Catherine Mace, and Marie Maillet.

Archive 2007-12-16 de Brantigny........................ 2007