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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Angouleme
Britannica 11thANGOULEME. a city of south-western France, capital of the department of Charente, 83 m. N.N.E. of Bordeaux on the railway between Bordeaux and Poitiers. Pop. (1006) 30,040. The town proper occupies an elevated promontory, washed on the north by the Charente an ...
Vol. 2, pp. 41-41
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Angoulbmb
Britannica 11thANGOULBMB, CHARLES DE VALOIS, DUKE OF (1573-1650), the natural son of Charles IX. of France and Marie Touchet, was born on the 28th of April 1573,31 the castle of Fayet in Dauphine. His father, dying in the following year, commended him to the care and favour
Vol. 2, pp. 41-41
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Angoumois
Britannica 11th... nce, nearly corresponding to-day to the department of Charente. Its capital was Angouleme. See Essai d'une bibliothtque historique de fAngoumois, by E. Castaigne (1845).
Vol. 2, pp. 42-42
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Europe
Britannica 11th... ll the world. When, on the yth of April 1823, the French army under the duke of Angouleme crossed the Bidassoa, the great experiment of governing Europe through a central committee of the great powers was at an end. (See VERONA, CONGRESS OF; ALEXANDER I. ; LON ...
Vol. 9, pp. 907-952
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