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    owned by Crédit Mutuel, one of the country's top five banking groups, since 1998, and fully owned since 2017. The Société générale de crédit industriel...
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    Company or Suez Canal Company, full initial name Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez (Universal Company of the Maritime Canal of Suez), sometimes...
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    competition with the Canal du Midi, and on 28 May 1858 the railway took over the lease of the canal. In 1909, the Compagnie du Midi launched a vast program...
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    difficulty. In 1876 an international company, La Société internationale du Canal interocéanique, was created to undertake its construction; two years later...
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  • StudioCanal S.A.S. (formerly known as Le Studio Canal+, Canal Plus, Canal+ Distribution, Canal+ D.A., and Canal+ Production, and also known as StudioCanal International)...
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    The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, historically known as the Chicago Drainage Canal, is a 28-mile-long (45 km) canal system that connects the Chicago...
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    Fonseranes Locks (category Locks on the Canal du Midi)
    staircase locks on the Canal du Midi near Béziers. They consist of eight oval-shaped lock chambers, characteristic of the Canal du Midi, and nine gates...
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    The Panama Canal Zone (Spanish: Zona del Canal de Panamá), also simply known as the Canal Zone, was a concession of the United States located in the Isthmus...
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    "Famille" package from Canal+. In 2021 the channel closed in Metropolitan France, to be replaced by Canal+ Kids and Canal+ Docs. Canal+ Family had an African...
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    Gretz-Armainvilliers Former headquarters of the Crédit Mobilier, now Hôtel Ritz Paris The Hotel Pereire on rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré The former Pereire Villa...
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