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    Villers-Cotterêts (pronounced [vilɛʁ kɔt(ə)ʁɛ]) is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France, France. It is notable as the signing-place in...
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  • The Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts (French: Ordonnance de Villers-Cotterêts) is an extensive piece of reform legislation signed into law by Francis I of...
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  • Battle of Villers-Cotterêts may refer to: Battle of Villers-Cotterêts (1815), a minor battle between Prussians and the French during the Waterloo Campaign...
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    1st Army had attempted to trap British rearguards at Crépy and Villers-Cotterêts (Villers) but they had slipped away. Air reconnaissance revealed that British...
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    Élisabeth Labouret in Villers-Cotterêts. According to his French biographer Claude Ribbe, it is in the courtyard of Château de Villers-Cotterêts that the young...
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    Château de Villers-Cotterêts (pronounced [ʃɑto d(ə) vilɛʁ kɔt(ə)ʁɛ]) is a historic French château located in the town of Villers-Cotterêts in the Aisne...
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  • The canton of Villers-Cotterêts is an administrative division in northern France. At the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March...
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    Corps (Mouton's) were at Villers-Cotterêts. The III and IV Corps were at Soissons. Grouchy's headquarters were at Villers-Cotterêts. General Pirch II having...
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    Pailleterie (later known as Alexandre Dumas) was born in 1802 in Villers-Cotterêts in the department of Aisne, in Picardy, France. He had two older sisters...
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    the forest of Compiègne, northeast of Paris, between the cities of Villers-Cotterêts and Compiègne. The Château de Pierrefonds includes most of the characteristics...
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