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Bordeaux and Fronde
The same year he was sent to Bordeaux to support the Fronde rebellion but achieved little ; he returned to England in August 1653.

Bordeaux and being
The Paris – Bordeaux – Paris race of June 1895 has sometimes been erroneously described as the " first motor race ", despite the 1894 event being decided by speed and finishing order of the eligible racers.
While New World Cabernets are characterized as being drinkable earlier than Bordeaux, premium producers such as the Californian cult wines will produce wines that need time to age and could potentially develop for two to three decades.
On the other hand there are many beautiful châteaux in the Bordeaux region still depicting this Roman villa style of architecture, an example of this being Château Lagorce in Haux.
The provinces of Quercy and Rouergue, despite their old ties with Toulouse, were not incorporated into the gouvernement of Languedoc, instead being attached to the gouvernement of Guienne and its far-away capital Bordeaux.
Some Resistants questioned his activities, but Papon escaped being judged by the Comité départemental de libération ( CDL ) of Bordeaux for his role during Vichy.
By the time of Liberation, the Resistance in Bordeaux was very weak ; it lacked members after being divided by internal dissensions and suffering German repression.
When Barère found out that he was being retried, someone helped him escape from prison and went to Bordeaux, where he lived in hiding for several years.
France has 37 sites inscribed in UNESCO's World Heritage List and features cities of high cultural interest ( Paris being the foremost, but also Toulouse, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Lyon, and others ), beaches and seaside resorts, ski resorts, and rural regions that many enjoy for their beauty and tranquillity ( green tourism ).
The relics ( remains of his head ) of St Simon Stock are retained at the friary, having been preserved in Bordeaux for centuries before being returned to Aylesford in July 1951.
Britain's comprehensive victory over the French at Swinton was marred by the first double sending-off in World Cup annals, France's skipper Jean Barthe and Britain's second-rower Vince Karalius being despatched by Edouard Martung, a police inspector from Bordeaux.
He traveled on April 2, 1786, to the modern-day Dubrovnik ( a vassal city of the Ottoman Empire, then better known with other, Italian name Ragusa ), and then to Constantinople in Turkey ( until September 23, 1786 ), Russia, ( from September 26, 1786 until September 7, 1787, slightly under one year ), Sweden, ( in Stockholm as from September 10, 1787 until November 2, 1787 ), Norway, from November 10, 1787 until departing from Karlskrona in Sweden from December 17, 1787 ), Denmark ( from September 23, 1787 until March 10, 1788 after being received in Denmark orders of capture from Spain no later than January 22, 1788 ), the Free Hanseatic Town of Hamburg, ( from ( April 1, 1788 until the April 27, 1788 ), the Free Town of Bremen, ( leaving on April 27 ), Holland, ( from around the May 2, 1788 until around June 16, 1788 ), some actual Belgian towns and German cities along the Rhine river, Swiss Basel, ( arrival July 30, 1788, and then again after touring German-speaking Switzerland on October 12, 1788 ), Swiss Geneva ( arrival September 25, 1788 ), and France, ( entry around the 3rd and 4th weeks of September 1788, two stays in Marseilles, the second departing there towards Bordeaux on February 26, 1789 via inland waterways ), travels to Rouen, Le Havre and Paris around May 5, 1789, getting papers as " Mr. Meeroff from Livonia " to arrive in Dover, ( England ) and then London on June 19, 1789, taking lodgings at the house of his British friend, " A Barlow ", at 47 Jermyn Street ).
While consumers have benefited with top quality Riesling wines being underpriced in comparison with some of the world's other great wines from places like Bordeaux, Burgundy and California, the economic hardship created by the prices has caused some of the smaller Mosel vineyards to go out of business.
On Nov. 23, 1942, the German ship Ramses attempted unsuccessfully to sail from Batavia ( now called Jakarta ), the ship being in the Pacific when the war started, to Bordeaux with a cargo of rubber.
Despite being politically linked to Spain, Chile's wine history has been most profoundly influenced by French, particularly Bordeaux, winemaking.
Eusebius and the Bordeaux Pilgrim mention the tomb as being located 4 miles from Jerusalem.
On 1 September 2000, after being tracked by the likes of Newcastle United, Aston Villa and Sunderland, Pauleta joined FC Girondins de Bordeaux in France, reportedly for financial and family reasons.
Next is the match against Girondins Bordeaux ( club of Tigana, Giresse, Lacombe and Battiston ), Dinamo being eliminated after 0-1 and 1-1.
Due to the ties of England with Bordeaux, vintners were among the more important people in London during the 14th and early 15th centuries, with four mayors of London being vintners under the reign of Edward II.
Also in the mid 1970s, after being held in Toulouse, Lyon and Bordeaux in recent years, the championship final was taken to Parc des Princes on a permanent basis.
Their sales of units to major U. S. studios resulted in Chamberlins being heard on many pop records of the 1960s including recordings by The Lettermen, Marvin Gaye, Bobby Goldsboro (" Honey "), The Beach Boys, and educator Edmond S. Bordeaux.
In the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855, only one Graves property, Château Haut-Brion, one of the four original First growths, was included among the red wines, with all the rest being Médoc properties.
From 1882, the phylloxera epidemic hit Hungary hard, with the traditional field blends of Eger and the many grapes of Tokaj being replaced with monocultures, often of Blaufränkisch ( Kékfrankos ) and the Bordeaux varieties in red wine districts, and of Furmint, Muscat and Hárslevelű in Tokaj.
After being at the top of the table for several years, then coming second in the 1984-5 championship ( behind Bordeaux ) and in 1985-6 ( behind Paris Saint-Germain ), FC Nantes went through a much more difficult period.
Nevertheless, Bordeaux has experienced problems, with APS being so temperamental that, at one stage, the Mayor issued an ultimatum that if reliability could not be guaranteed, it would have to be replaced with overhead wires.

Bordeaux and effectively
He was defeated and killed in 1453 at the Battle of Castillon near Bordeaux, which effectively ended English rule in the duchy of Aquitaine, a principal cause of the Hundred Years ' War.
His death, and the subsequent recapture of Bordeaux three months later, effectively ended the Hundred Years ' War.
Courtesy of his stellar championship performances with Bordeaux, he made his debut on 17 August 1999, in a friendly match with Northern Ireland, and was subsequently picked for the squad which won UEFA Euro 2000, but he only played in one of the six matches of the tournament, in the group match against Netherlands, effectively a dead rubber given that both nations had already qualified both the group.

Bordeaux and Kingdom
Red Bordeaux is called claret in the United Kingdom.
Elvington was the only airfield in the United Kingdom used by the remainder of the Free French Forces, they also flew Handley Page Halifax heavy bombers until they moved to Bordeaux in October 1945 where they became the basis for the new air force of liberated France.
After World War II, the brand became spectacularly popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, selling for the same price as a second growth red Bordeaux wine.
Red Bordeaux, which is traditionally known as claret in the United Kingdom, is generally made from a blend of grapes.

Bordeaux and France
Bordeaux ( ; Gascon: Bordèu ; ) is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.
The Bordeaux metropolitan area has a population of 1, 105, 000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France.
Baron Haussmann, a long-time prefect of Bordeaux, used Bordeaux's 18th century big-scale rebuilding as a model when he was asked by Emperor Napoleon III to transform a then still quasi-medieval Paris into a " modern " capital that would make France proud.
Bordeaux is located close to the European Atlantic coast, in the southwest of France and in the north of the Aquitaine region.
Hugues de Toucy, Archbishop of Sens and Primate of France, presided, and Louis and Eleanor were both present, as were the Archbishops of Bordeaux and Rouen.
France also boasts a number of seaports and harbours, including Bayonne, Bordeaux, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Brest, Calais, Cherbourg-Octeville, Dunkerque, Fos-sur-Mer, La Pallice, Le Havre, Lorient, Marseille, Nantes, Nice, Paris, Port-la-Nouvelle, Port-Vendres, Roscoff, Rouen, Saint-Nazaire, Saint-Malo, Sète, Strasbourg and Toulon.
Bordeaux is known for its wine, as it is throughout the southwest of France, with certain areas offering specialty grapes for its wines.
His first important commission was for two viaducts for the railway line between Lyons and Bordeaux, and the company also began to undertake work in other countries, including the church of San Marcos in Arica, Chile, which was an all-metal prefabricated building, manufactured in France and shipped to South America in pieces to be assembled on site.
Controls on the association of physical locations to well-known exported products, e. g. wine from the Champagne and Bordeaux regions of France, tin-glazed earthenwares from certain cities in Holland, lace from Chantilly, etc., helped to establish a town's place in global commerce — this led to modern trademarks.
* 2009 – The storm Klaus makes landfall near Bordeaux, France.
It is most prominent in Southwest France in regions like Bordeaux, Bergerac and Cahors where it is often blended with Malbec.
Code de la Médiation annoté et comenté pour orienter la Médiation, Médiateurs Editeurs, Bordeaux France, 2008 – 2009
Some of the most important trading ports during the period include both existing and ancient cities such as Aarhus ( Denmark ), Ribe ( Denmark ), Hedeby ( Germany ), Vineta ( Pomerania ), Truso ( Poland ), Kaupang ( Norway ), Birka ( Sweden ), Bordeaux ( France ), York ( England ), Dublin ( Ireland ) and Aldeigjuborg ( Russia ).
* July 1 – The comic ballet La fille mal gardée choreographed by Jean Dauberval is first presented under the title Le ballet de la paille at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, in Bordeaux, France.
Starting his career as a jurist at the University of Bordeaux, Duverger became more and more involved in political science and in 1948 founded one of the first faculties for political science in Bordeaux, France.
Durkheim's articles gained recognition in France, and he received a teaching appointment in the University of Bordeaux in 1887, where he was to teach the university's first social science course.
In the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries, most Hermitage wine that left France did so as a blending component in Bordeaux wines.
They were able to escape because on June 20, 1940, they were issued visas by Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Portuguese consul in Bordeaux, France.
* A synod is held in Bordeaux ( France ).
After the establishment of a French colony in Saint Domingue ( now Haiti ), some mahogany from that island probably found its way to France, where joiners in the port cities of Saint-Malo, Nantes, La Rochelle and Bordeaux used the wood to a limited extent from about 1700.
Just as the industry was recovering through the use of the sulfur-based Bordeaux mixture fungicide, the phylloxera epidemic that had plagued France and other European wine regions reached the island.
The Garonne follows the Aran Valley northwards into France, flowing via Toulouse and Agen towards Bordeaux, where it meets the Gironde estuary.

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