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    the population of the commune of Valenciennes was 41,278, and that of the metropolitan area was 399,677. Valenciennes is first mentioned in 693 in a legal...
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  • Valenciennes Football Club (French pronunciation: [valɑ̃sjɛn] ; commonly known as Valenciennes or USVA) is a French association football club based in...
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    Achille Valenciennes (9 August 1794 – 13 April 1865) was a French zoologist. Valenciennes was born in Paris, and studied under Georges Cuvier. His study...
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  • Look up Valenciennes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Valenciennes can mean: Valenciennes, a town and commune on the Scheldt river in the Nord département...
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    Valenciennes lace is a type of bobbin lace which originated in Valenciennes, in the Nord département of France, and flourished from about 1705 to 1780...
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  • be count of the Valenciennes area. Vanderkindere speculated in 1902 (Vol. 2 p. 72) that Emperor Otto I created the March of Valenciennes in the late 940s/early...
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  • Herman de Valenciennes, 12th-century French poet, was born at Valenciennes. His father and mother, Robert and Herembourg, belonged to Hainaut, and gave...
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  • effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Valenciennes. It consists of the following communes: Saint-Saulve Valenciennes "Décret n° 2014-167 du 17 février 2014...
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  • Siege of Valenciennes may refer to: Siege of Valenciennes (1567), a siege during the Eighty Years' War Siege of Valenciennes (1656), a siege during the...
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  • Battle of Valenciennes may refer to: Battle of Valenciennes (1656), fought on 16 July that year during the Franco-Spanish War, resulting in a Spanish...
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