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    The origin of the name La Flèche is uncertain; the word flèche means "arrow" in French. Historian Jacques Termeau, in La Flèche Book No. 9, p. 5-11, has...
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    the roof and the flèche. 2021 – Reconstruction begins two years after the fire that destroyed a large part of the roof and the flèche. 2024 – Expected...
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    website. A flèche is a lead sheathed spire peculiar to French architecture but used widely on churches throughout Quebec. Flèche or flèches (pl), from...
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    the flèche reaches a height of 112.70 m (369.8 ft). The statues on the flèche, made of lead, represent Christ (facing the nave); Saint Paul, Saint Firmin...
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    three Roman Catholic churches in Saint-Lambert: Église catholique de St-Lambert and Église catholique Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin serve Francophone Catholics...
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    Achèvement de la flèche". Fondation de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame. Retrieved 28 January 2021. "Les grandes dates de l'histoire de la Cathédrale de Strasbourg"...
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    of La Flèche, now part of the Prytanée National Militaire and its church of Saint-Louis. Chapel Saint-Thomas of the school in Rennes, now the Église Toussaints...
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    The film La Rose et la Flèche / Robin and Marian (1976), with Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn, opens on the siege of Châlus by Richard Cœur de Lion, played...
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    Château de Montdardier, Montdardier (Gard) Château Jacquesson, Châlons-en-Champagne (Marne) Église Saint-Denis-de-l'Estrée, Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis)...
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    Gothic architecture (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    new flèche, of wood covered with lead, was decorated with statues of the Apostles; the figure of St Thomas resembled Viollet-le-Duc. The flèche was destroyed...
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