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Lisieux

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Lisieux is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. [1]

75 relations: Ancient Diocese of Lisieux, Anjou, Île-de-France, Basilica of St. Thérèse, Lisieux, Beatification, Bus Verts du Calvados, Calvados, Calvados (department), Canonization, Carmelites, Catholic Church, César Ruminski, Charlotte Hornets, Château, Cherbourg-Octeville, Chloé Mortaud, Communauté d'agglomération Lisieux Normandie, Communes of France, Communes of the Calvados department, Corail (train), Cupola, Deauville, Departments of France, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Flying ace, France, French Third Republic, Georges Vérez, Henri Verneuil, Henry Chéron, Henry Edridge, Henry II of England, Jean Derode, Joan of Arc, Laeti, Latinisation of names, Le Pré-d'Auge, Lexovii, Lisieux Cathedral, Lourdes, Matthieu Lagrive, Michel Magne, Middle Ages, Moat, Nice, Nicolas Batum, Normandy, Oppidum, Orne, Paris, ..., Paul Cornu, Pays d'Auge, Pierre Cauchon, Poitiers Cathedral, Pommeau, Proto-Celtic language, Pyrenees, Raymond Lantier, Regions of France, Renaissance, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rouen, Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayeux, Rouen, Saint-Georges, Quebec, Saint-Germain-de-Livet, Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, Strasbourg, Subprefectures in France, Taunton, Thérèse of Lisieux, Touques (river), Transport express régional, Trial of Joan of Arc, Urban area (France), Yves Leopold Germain Gaston. Expand index (25 more) »

Ancient Diocese of Lisieux

The Diocese of Lisieux was a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in France, centered on Lisieux, in Calvados.

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Anjou

Anjou (Andegavia) is a historical province of France straddling the lower Loire River.

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Île-de-France

Île-de-France ("Island of France"), also known as the région parisienne ("Parisian Region"), is one of the 18 regions of France and includes the city of Paris.

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Basilica of St. Thérèse, Lisieux

The Basilica of St.

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Beatification

Beatification (from Latin beatus, "blessed" and facere, "to make") is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a dead person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in his or her name.

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Bus Verts du Calvados

Bus Verts du Calvados is a network of interurban buses in the département of Calvados, France.

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Calvados

Calvados is an apple brandy from the Normandy region in France.

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Calvados (department)

Calvados is a department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

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Canonization

Canonization is the act by which a Christian church declares that a person who has died was a saint, upon which declaration the person is included in the "canon", or list, of recognized saints.

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Carmelites

The Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel or Carmelites (sometimes simply Carmel by synecdoche; Ordo Fratrum Beatissimæ Virginis Mariæ de Monte Carmelo) is a Roman Catholic religious order founded, probably in the 12th century, on Mount Carmel in the Crusader States, hence the name Carmelites.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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César Ruminski

César-Jean Ruminski (13 June 1924 − 14 May 2009) was a French football goalkeeper.

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Charlotte Hornets

The Charlotte Hornets are an American professional basketball team based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Château

A château (plural châteaux; in both cases) is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor or a country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally—and still most frequently—in French-speaking regions.

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Cherbourg-Octeville

Cherbourg-Octeville is a city and former commune situated at the northern end of the Cotentin peninsula in the northwestern French department of Manche.

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Chloé Mortaud

Chloè Mortaud (born 19 September 1989, Lisieux, Calvados) is a French actress and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss France 2009.

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Communauté d'agglomération Lisieux Normandie

Communauté d'agglomération Lisieux Normandie is the communauté d'agglomération, an intercommunal structure, centred on the town of Lisieux.

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Communes of France

The commune is a level of administrative division in the French Republic.

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Communes of the Calvados department

The following is a list of the 537 communes of the Calvados department of France.

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Corail (train)

Corail is the name given to a class of passenger rail cars of the SNCF that first entered commercial service in 1975.

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Cupola

In architecture, a cupola is a relatively small, most often dome-like, tall structure on top of a building.

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Deauville

Deauville is a commune in the Calvados département in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

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Departments of France

In the administrative divisions of France, the department (département) is one of the three levels of government below the national level ("territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the commune.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine

Eleanor of Aquitaine (Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Éléonore,; 1124 – 1 April 1204) was queen consort of France (1137–1152) and England (1154–1189) and duchess of Aquitaine in her own right (1137–1204).

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Flying ace

A flying ace, fighter ace or air ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down several enemy aircraft during aerial combat.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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French Third Republic

The French Third Republic (La Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe République) was the system of government adopted in France from 1870 when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War until 1940 when France's defeat by Nazi Germany in World War II led to the formation of the Vichy government in France.

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Georges Vérez

Georges Armand Vérez was born in Lille on 1 August 1877 and died on 17 January 1932.

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Henri Verneuil

Henri Verneuil, born Ashot Malakian (15 October 1920 – 11 January 2002), was a French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker, who made a successful career in France.

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Henry Chéron

Henry Frédéric Chéron (11 May 1867 – 14 April 1936) was a French lawyer and politician who became active in local politics in the Calvados department of Normandy while still a young man, and always maintained his roots in Normandy.

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Henry Edridge

Henry Edridge (1768 in Paddington – 23 April 1821 in London) was the son of a tradesman and apprenticed at the age of fifteen to William Pether, a mezzotint engraver and landscape painter, and became proficient as a painter of miniatures, portraits and landscapes.

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Henry II of England

Henry II (5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189), also known as Henry Curtmantle (Court-manteau), Henry FitzEmpress or Henry Plantagenet, ruled as Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Count of Nantes, King of England and Lord of Ireland; at various times, he also partially controlled Wales, Scotland and Brittany.

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Jean Derode

Capitaine Jean-Marie-Émile Derode was a World War I flying ace credited with seven aerial victories.

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Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc; 6 January c. 1412Modern biographical summaries often assert a birthdate of 6 January for Joan, which is based on a letter from Lord Perceval de Boulainvilliers on 21 July 1429 (see Pernoud's Joan of Arc By Herself and Her Witnesses, p. 98: "Boulainvilliers tells of her birth in Domrémy, and it is he who gives us an exact date, which may be the true one, saying that she was born on the night of Epiphany, 6 January"). – 30 May 1431), nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" (La Pucelle d'Orléans), is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War and was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint.

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Laeti

Laeti, the plural form of laetus, was a term used in the late Roman Empire to denote communities of barbari ("barbarians") i.e. foreigners, or people from outside the Empire, permitted to settle on, and granted land in, imperial territory on condition that they provide recruits for the Roman military.

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Latinisation of names

Latinisation or Latinization is the practice of rendering a non-Latin name (or word) in a Latin style.

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Le Pré-d'Auge

Le Pré-d'Auge is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

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Lexovii

The Lexovii (Ληξόβιοι, Strabo; Ληξούβιοι, Ptol. ii. 8. § 2), were a Celtic people, on the coast of Gallia, immediately west of the mouth of the Seine.

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Lisieux Cathedral

Lisieux Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Lisieux) is a Roman Catholic church located in Lisieux, France.

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Lourdes

Lourdes (Lorda in Occitan) is a small market town lying in the foothills of the Pyrenees.

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Matthieu Lagrive

Matthieu Lagrive (born December 7, 1979) is a French motorcycle racer.

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Michel Magne

Michel Magne (20 March 1930 in Lisieux, Calvados, France – 19 December 1984 in Cergy-Pontoise, Val-d'Oise) was a French film and experimental music composer.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

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Moat

A moat is a deep, broad ditch, either dry or filled with water, that is dug and surrounds a castle, fortification, building or town, historically to provide it with a preliminary line of defence.

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Nice

Nice (Niçard Niça, classical norm, or Nissa, nonstandard,; Nizza; Νίκαια; Nicaea) is the fifth most populous city in France and the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes département.

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Nicolas Batum

Nicolas Batum (born December 14, 1988) is a French professional basketball player for the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Normandy

Normandy (Normandie,, Norman: Normaundie, from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is one of the 18 regions of France, roughly referring to the historical Duchy of Normandy.

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Oppidum

An oppidum (plural oppida) is a large fortified Iron Age settlement.

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Orne

Orne is a department in the northwest of France, named after the river Orne.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Paul Cornu

Paul Cornu (June 15, 1881 – 6 June 1944) was a French engineer.

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Pays d'Auge

The Pays d'Auge is an area in Normandy, straddling the départements of Calvados and Orne (plus a small part of the territory of Eure).

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Pierre Cauchon

Pierre Cauchon (1371 – 18 December 1442) was Bishop of Beauvais from 1420 to 1432.

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Poitiers Cathedral

Poitiers Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Poitiers) is a Roman Catholic church in Poitiers, France.

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Pommeau

Pommeau is an alcoholic drink made in north-western France by mixing apple juice with apple brandy: Calvados in Normandy or lambig in Brittany.

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Proto-Celtic language

The Proto-Celtic language, also called Common Celtic, is the reconstructed ancestor language of all the known Celtic languages.

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Pyrenees

The Pyrenees (Pirineos, Pyrénées, Pirineus, Pirineus, Pirenèus, Pirinioak) is a range of mountains in southwest Europe that forms a natural border between Spain and France.

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Raymond Lantier

Raymond François Lantier (11 July 1886, Lisieux – 2 April 1980, Le Vésinet) was a 20th-century French archaeologist.

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Regions of France

France is divided into 18 administrative regions (région), including 13 metropolitan regions and 5 overseas regions.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rouen

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rouen (Latin: Archidioecesis Rothomagensis; French: Archidiocèse de Rouen) is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayeux

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayeux and Lisieux (Latin: Dioecesis Baiocensis et Lexoviensis; French: Diocèse de Bayeux et Lisieux) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in France.

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Rouen

Rouen (Frankish: Rodomo; Rotomagus, Rothomagus) is a city on the River Seine in the north of France.

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Saint-Georges, Quebec

Saint-Georges is a city in the province of Quebec.

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Saint-Germain-de-Livet

Saint-Germain-de-Livet is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

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Saint-Jérôme, Quebec

Saint-Jérôme (2011 Population 68,456), located about northwest of Montreal on the Rivière du Nord.

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Strasbourg

Strasbourg (Alsatian: Strossburi; Straßburg) is the capital and largest city of the Grand Est region of France and is the official seat of the European Parliament.

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Subprefectures in France

In France, a subprefecture (sous-préfecture) is the administrative center of a departmental arrondissement that does not contain the prefecture for its department.

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Taunton

Taunton is a large regional town in Somerset, England.

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Thérèse of Lisieux

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (Sainte-Thérèse de Lisieux), born Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin (2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897), also known as Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, O.C.D., was a French Catholic Discalced Carmelite nun who is widely venerated in modern times.

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Touques (river)

The Touques is a small long coastal river in Pays d'Auge in Normandy, France.

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Transport express régional

Transport express régional (usually shortened to TER) is the brand name used by the SNCF, the French national railway company, to denote rail service run by the regional councils of France, specifically their organised transport authorities.

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Trial of Joan of Arc

The trial of Joan of Arc, which was overseen by an English-backed church court at Rouen, Normandy in the first half of 1431, was one of the more famous trials in history, becoming the subject of many books and films.

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Urban area (France)

An aire urbaine (literal and official translation: "urban area") is an INSEE (France's national statistics bureau) statistical concept describing a core of urban development and the extent of its commuter activity.

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Yves Leopold Germain Gaston

Yves Leopold Germain Gaston was the patriarch of a large family with roots in the City of Silay, in the province of Negros Occidental, Philippines.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisieux

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