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    Bois-Colombes (French pronunciation: [bwa kɔlɔ̃b] ) is a commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department, in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is...
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    Garenne-Colombes is usually simply called "La Garenne", and nicknamed "petit Neuilly". Four towns surround La Garenne-Colombes: Colombes (North), Bois-Colombes...
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    Bois-Colombes is a railway station serving the town Bois-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine department, in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It sees services...
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    centre of Paris. In 2019, Colombes was the 53rd largest city in France. The name Colombes comes from Latin columna (Old French colombe), meaning "column". This...
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    4 April 1826, the sixth child of Mathieu-Joseph Gramme, and died at Bois-Colombes on 20 January 1901. He invented the Gramme machine, a type of direct...
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    built at Hispano-Suiza's French division in the Parisian suburb of Bois-Colombes. Some 100 H6s were built under license by Škoda in Czechoslovakia from...
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    suburb of Levallois-Perret. Production was moved to larger factories at Bois-Colombes, under the name Hispano-Suiza, in 1914 and soon became Hispano-Suiza's...
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    Asnières-sur-Seine (92004) Bois-Colombes (92009) Clichy (92024) Colombes (92025) Courbevoie (92026) Garches (92033) La Garenne-Colombes (92035) Gennevilliers...
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    Asnières-sur-Seine station, while those on Line L (Cergy) also serve Bois-Colombes station which lies just outside the western limit of the commune. A...
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    Claude Lanzmann (category People from Bois-Colombes)
    French literary magazine. Lanzmann was born on 27 November 1925 in Bois-Colombes, France, the son of Paulette (née Grobermann) and Armand Lanzmann. His...
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