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_Montalban_, now called Montauban (a contraction of _Mons Alba´nus_), in
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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"I'm playing a lot for Montauban, which is great," said the Fijian, whose new team are seventh in the table with three wins and three losses.
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His German-Jewish parents had fled Nazism in 1933 to France and Cohn-Bendit was born in Montauban in 1945, where he spent his entire childhood.
Lia Petridis Maiello: Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Member of the European Parliament, can't accept the German "Nope" to Libya Lia Petridis Maiello 2011
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His German-Jewish parents had fled Nazism in 1933 to France and Cohn-Bendit was born in Montauban in 1945, where he spent his entire childhood.
Lia Petridis Maiello: Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Member of the European Parliament, can't accept the German "Nope" to Libya Lia Petridis Maiello 2011
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When France declared war in 1939, museum officials packed up the painting in a double-walled crate and moved it to various secure underground locations in the Château de Chambord, the Château d'Amboise, the abbey of Loc-Dieu, and the Ingres Museum in Montauban.
Mona Lisa's Miles: The Misadventures Of Leonardo's Masterpiece On the Road 2011
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Blowitz said that wasn't the half of it: le Colonel Flashman had been a distinguished ally of France in China; Montauban would never have got to Pekin without me.
Watershed 2010
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Though of Western design, the ensemble had been created for the Old Summer Palace near Beijing, whose looting and destruction in 1860 by Anglo-French forces (led by General Cousin-Montauban and the eighth Lord Elgin, whose father acquired marbles from the Parthenon) has become a symbol of national humiliation for the Chinese.
The Affair of the Chinese Bronze Heads Eakin, Hugh 2009
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After the German invasion of France she fled to Montauban, where she was reunited with Paul.
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These Parisians came, one from Toulouse, another from Limoges, the third from Cahors, and the fourth from Montauban; but they were students; and when one says student, one says Parisian: to study in Paris is to be born in Paris.
Les Miserables 2008
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* Location: devant la préfecture, Montauban, France
OpEdNews - Diary: Greece Fire: The Flames Are Spreading! 2008
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