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Ironically, after the German breakthrough at Sedan on the Meuse, a French corps held in reserve to cover this vital sector moved east to the Stenay Gap to protect the Maginot Line's left flank, opening the way for Guderian's panzers to fan out to the NW behind French lines.
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According to a summary of Pelleport's dossier in the archives of the Bastille, he was born in Stenay, a small town near Verdun.
Finding a Lost Prince of Bohemia Darnton, Robert 2008
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When at last he was freed, Pelleport joined his relatives in Stenay, then returned to Paris just in time to witness his former captors being lynched by the crowd on July 14.
Finding a Lost Prince of Bohemia Darnton, Robert 2008
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His last digression turns into a full-fledged autobiography, which gives him an opportunity to insert himself into the action under a disguise of his own — he is a wandering poet just released from the Bastille — and to bring the book to an end, though hardly to closure, by joining the Bohemians for a meal in his favorite tavern in Stenay, the town where he was born.
Finding a Lost Prince of Bohemia Darnton, Robert 2008
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Pelleport seems to have been born in Stenay in 1756 and to have died in Paris around 1810.
Finding a Lost Prince of Bohemia Darnton, Robert 2008
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After this his relics became the focus of a cult at Stenay.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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After this his relics became the focus of a cult at Stenay.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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After this his relics became the focus of a cult at Stenay.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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Mouzon and Stenay, June 2, 1849, was struck by lightning, and two men killed, while about two hundred were struck to the ground.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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Americans reached Stenay and on the 6th they crossed the Meuse.
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