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    year, Viollet-le-Duc submitted a budget of 3,888,500 francs, which was reduced to 2,650,000 francs, for the restoration of Notre-Dame and the construction...
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    1998 and 2002, the conversion of francs to euros was carried out at a rate of 6.55957 francs to 1 euro. The French Franc traces its origins to the Carolingian...
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    "Versailles redébusque son bosquet". Libération (in French). Liberation.fr. Retrieved 17 June 2014. Dernier acteur de cette réinterprétation : le photographe...
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    although de Gaulle's biographer does not accept this. Jean Laurent brought 100,000 gold francs in secret funds provided to him by Reynaud. De Gaulle later...
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    Simonnet, Stéphane (2004). Atlas de la Libération de la France. Des débarquements aux villes libérées. Paris: Autrement. ISBN 978-2-7467-0495-4. Suhl...
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    contract granting him 1.5 million francs toward the construction costs: less than a quarter of the estimated 6.5 million francs. Eiffel was to receive all income...
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    during an attempt to break the speed record in a Paris-to-Saigon air race and win a prize of 150,000 francs. The crash site is thought to have been near the...
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    Jean Moulin (category Burials at the Panthéon, Paris)
    codenames Rex and Max: Henri Frenay (Combat) Emmanuel d'Astier (Libération) Jean-Pierre Lévy (Francs-tireurs) Pierre Villon (Front national, not to be confused...
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  • The Day of the Jackal (film) (category Films set in Paris)
    will attempt to shoot de Gaulle during the commemoration of the liberation of Paris during World War II, scheduled three days hence. Lebel plays a recording...
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    Courrières mine disaster (category History of the Pas-de-Calais)
    750,000 francs was raised. This at a time when the daily wage for a miner (a well-paid job compared to other manual work) was less than six francs. Over...
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