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They built a castle on the river Oise at the place which is now called Pontoise, and appointed Aletramnus to guard it.
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At Auvers, just above Pontoise, which is bound to Méry by an ugly iron bridge across the Oise, is a fine church of the best of twelfth and thirteenth century Gothic, with a series of Romanesque windows in the apse.
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He allowed his mother to found the Abbey of Liz by Melun-sur-Seine, and that of Pontoise, which is called Maubuisson.
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More often he preferred the landscapes outside the city: Pontoise, the banks of the Marne, the forest of Fontainebleau, and leafy green Auvers-sur-Oise, with its small white houses topped by slanting red and blue roofs.
Cézanne's Reflections of Paris Judy Fayard 2011
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An official at the prosecutor's office in Pontoise, a city near Paris where Mr. de Montbrial said the complaint was filed, said she couldn't immediately confirm that it had been registered.
Hotel Maid Claims Witness Tampering in Complaint David Gauthier-Villars 2011
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The Pontoise prosecutor can launch a probe into the complaint or decide not to pursue it.
Hotel Maid Claims Witness Tampering in Complaint David Gauthier-Villars 2011
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The court, in the Paris suburb of Pontoise near the crash site, imposed a $260,000 fine on Continental and ordered it to pay Air France $1.3 million in damages.
French court holds Continental Airlines responsible for 2000 Concorde crash Edward Cody 2010
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As part of his defense, Continental had an elaborate film produced, purporting to show the fire raging as the sleek aircraft roared toward takeoff speed, but the Pontoise judges were not convinced.
French court holds Continental Airlines responsible for 2000 Concorde crash Edward Cody 2010
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As the court in the Paris suburb of Pontoise found 42-year-old Taylor and Continental guilty of manslaughter, it ordered a 15-month suspended sentence for the mechanic and about euro2 million $2.7 million in damages and fines for him and the company.
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The fatal fire, the Pontoise court found, was caused by a series of mishaps that began when a tire exploded after running over a 16-inch metal strip that had fallen from a Continental Airlines DC10 that had taken off from the same runway shortly before the Concorde.
French court holds Continental Airlines responsible for 2000 Concorde crash Edward Cody 2010
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