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    Birthplace of Charles de Gaulle (category History of Lille)
    obtained the Maisons des Illustres label in 2011. Located at 9 rue Princesse, in the Old Lille district, the museum welcomes between 19,000 and 20,000 visitors...
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    junction of Vieux-Lille and the city center, and around the cathedral, are some of Lille's oldest: rue de la Clef, rue de la Grande-Chaussée, rue des Chats-Bossus...
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    of Maine, owned the Hôtel du Maine (destroyed 1838) on the rue Bourbon (now the rue de Lille), very near the Palais Bourbon. Her younger sister, the Duchess...
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    empty land to the west of the Hôtel de Seignelay [fr] on the rue de Bourbon (now rue de Lille) and commissioned the architect Robert de Cotte to design a...
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    his wife had purchased an unfinished house in Paris on the rue de Bourbon (now rue de Lille) from his wife's sister, Marie Thérèse de Bourbon. It was originally...
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    The Hôtel de Toulouse, former Hôtel de La Vrillière is located at 1 rue de La Vrillière, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. Originally, the mansion had...
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    located 120 km (75 mi) north of Paris and 100 km (62 mi) south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme department in the region of Hauts-de-France...
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    Henriette of Bavaria. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, she was a princesse du sang. Forced to marry the Duke of Maine, legitimised son of Louis XIV...
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    (defunct) Prostitution in Ivory Coast is legal. Abidjan Marcory Zone 4 Rue Princesse Prostitution is illegal. Nairobi Koinange Street Prostitution in Mauritania...
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    beauty (around the "rue de la Monnaie"), Nantes with its passage Pommeraye, Strasbourg offering French-German architecture and Lille's downtown in north...
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