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The Château de Castelnaudis a medieval fortress in the commune of Castelnaud-la-Chapelle, overlooking the river Dordognein Périgord, southern France. It was erected to face its rival, the Château de Beynac. History. [edit] The oldest documents mentioning it date to the 13th century, when it figured in the Albigensian Crusade; its ...
The appellation Vin de Pays de l'Atlantique was introduced in 2006, as a complement to the existing range of Bordeaux appellations, and covers grape varieties not permitted in classic Bordeaux, notably Chardonnay for white wines and Syrah for red wines. Nearly 4 million litres of wine is produced under this appellation, 62% of it red.
Blaye ( French: [blaj] ⓘ; Occitan: Blaiapronounced [ˈblajɔ]) is a commune and subprefecture in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. For centuries, Blaye was a particularly convenient crossing point for those who came from the north and went to Bordeaux or further south, to Spain and Portugal. [3]
52–123 m (171–404 ft) 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. La Chapelle-Blanche ( French pronunciation: [la ʃapɛl blɑ̃ʃ] ⓘ, literally The White Chapel; Breton: Ar Chapel-Wenn; Gallo: La Chapèll-Blaunch) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department ...
Jean-Baptiste de La Chapelle. Engraving showing the diving suit conceived by La Chapelle. Jean-Baptiste de La Chapelle (c.1710–1792, Paris) was a French priest, mathematician and inventor . He contributed 270 articles to the Encyclopédie in the subjects of arithmetic and geometry. In June 1747 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of ...
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. La Chapelle-Rablais ( French pronunciation: [la ʃapɛl ʁablɛ] ⓘ) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France . Its inhabitants are called the Capello-Rablaisiens .
Elevation. 1–70 m (3.3–229.7 ft) 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. La Chapelle-de-Brain ( French pronunciation: [la ʃapɛl də bʁɛ̃] ⓘ; Breton: Chapel-Braen) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France .
67–126 m (220–413 ft) 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. La Chapelle-Blanche-Saint-Martin ( French pronunciation: [la ʃapɛl blɑ̃ʃ sɛ̃ maʁtɛ̃] ), commonly known as La Chapelle-Blanche, is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department, central France .