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If you follow them far enough to determine whether they are retiring on Thouars, or are marching towards Niort, that is all that is necessary; and you will be able to rejoin us in plenty of time to see the fight at Saumur. "
No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee Stanley L. Wood 1867
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But most of the riches produced by the [Gabonese] oil, mining, timber, transport and port workers benefit the owners and shareholders of companies whose head offices are, for example, in places like Odet (Bolloré), the Tour Montparnasse in Paris (Eramet), La Defense (Areva) or Niort (Rougier, for the exploitation and trade of tropical wood).
Global Voices in English » Gabon: Opposition Continues to Fight Election Result 2009
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Note 8: The civilian internment camp was probably at Niort in the Department of Deux-Sevres (although Nantes in Loire-Inferieure was a possibility).
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When her mother returned to France an impoverished widow, she forced her daughter to beg in the streets before abandoning her to the guardianship of Mme de Neuillant, the wife of the governor of Niort.
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The French censors permitted only the first letter of the camp's name to pass through the mails, and the prison camp at Niort was the closest to Namblard's post at Rochefort.
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Françoise d'Aubigné was born in November 1635 in the prison of the French town of Niort, where her father, the degenerate son of the great Huguenot poet Agrippa d'Aubigné, was serving a sentence for counterfeiting.
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Françoise d'Aubigné was born in November 1635 in the prison of the French town of Niort, where her father, the degenerate son of the great Huguenot poet Agrippa d'Aubigné, was serving a sentence for counterfeiting.
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When her mother returned to France an impoverished widow, she forced her daughter to beg in the streets before abandoning her to the guardianship of Mme de Neuillant, the wife of the governor of Niort.
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And yet it was also in their house at Niort that she had the good fortune to meet the chevalier de Méré, the first and most illustrious theoretician of honnêteté -- the aristocratic art of courtliness, elegance, and mutual pleasure.
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And yet it was also in their house at Niort that she had the good fortune to meet the chevalier de Méré, the first and most illustrious theoretician of honnêteté -- the aristocratic art of courtliness, elegance, and mutual pleasure.
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