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... remained for centuries part of the French domain . 2 Like the Central Mountains , the Pyrenees are renowned for their thermal and mineral springs - Salies de Béarn , Barèges , Cauterets , Luchon . To these health resorts must be added ...
... remained for centuries part of the French domain . 2 Like the Central Mountains , the Pyrenees are renowned for their thermal and mineral springs - Salies de Béarn , Barèges , Cauterets , Luchon . To these health resorts must be added ...
Page 42
... remained the centre of national life . If it has fallen behind , it is not because the north was inhabited by a stronger race - the north borrowed many of its leaders from the south - but because the area of the Rhône and Saône valley ...
... remained the centre of national life . If it has fallen behind , it is not because the north was inhabited by a stronger race - the north borrowed many of its leaders from the south - but because the area of the Rhône and Saône valley ...
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... remained second to the north ever since ? First of all , on account of its com- parative isolation . Cut off from Spain by the Pyrenees , opening on the stormy Bay of Biscay and the long - uncharted Atlantic , it is in immediate contact ...
... remained second to the north ever since ? First of all , on account of its com- parative isolation . Cut off from Spain by the Pyrenees , opening on the stormy Bay of Biscay and the long - uncharted Atlantic , it is in immediate contact ...
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... remained until the middle of the nineteenth century the sole basin of the most prosperous port in France . Three generations later , the bulk of the Phocean population left their Asiatic home , driven away by the Persian conquest ; and ...
... remained until the middle of the nineteenth century the sole basin of the most prosperous port in France . Three generations later , the bulk of the Phocean population left their Asiatic home , driven away by the Persian conquest ; and ...
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... remained small . If any resemblance can be traced between the ancient Athenians and the modern Parisians , the reason thereof must be sought elsewhere . § 2. THE CELTS . The Gauls gave their name to the whole country , and were long ...
... remained small . If any resemblance can be traced between the ancient Athenians and the modern Parisians , the reason thereof must be sought elsewhere . § 2. THE CELTS . The Gauls gave their name to the whole country , and were long ...
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