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1. Toulon was liberated in August 1944 by French troops. (Web site)
2. Toulon is also the birthplace of the novel's antagonist, Javert. (Web site)
3. Toulon is one of four French cities where the extreme-right Front National won the local elections (1995). (Web site)
4. Toulon was Christianized in the fifth century, and the first cathedral built. (Web site)

French Film Director

1. Brigitte Rouan (born 1951 in Toulon) is a French film director and actress. (Web site)

Vice Admiral

1. Promoted to Vice Admiral in 1883, he died at Toulon on 14 March 1890.

Nineteen Years

1. It is the location of the infamous prison, the bagne of Toulon, in which the protagonist Jean Valjean spends nineteen years in hard labour. (Web site)

Southern France

1. Also the bagne of Toulon was a prison in southern France. (Web site)

Battle

1. British naval innovation was retarded by an unseemly dispute between two Admirals in the aftermath of the Battle of Toulon.
2. Born in London, he joined the navy in 1720, but did not see fighting until the Battle of Toulon in 1744.

Siege

1. With the help of fellow Corsican Antoine Christophe Saliceti, Napoleon was appointed artillery commander of the French forces at the siege of Toulon.
2. With the help of fellow Corsican Antoine Christophe Saliceti, Bonaparte was appointed artillery commander of the republican forces at the siege of Toulon. (Web site)
3. The residents were forced to leave, and the Ottoman sailors occupy the town for the winter (see Siege of Nice#The Turks in Toulon). (Web site)

Fleet

1. He spent the winter with his fleet and 30,000 Turkish soldiers in Toulon, but occasionally sent his ships from there to bombard the coasts of Spain.

Barbarossa

1. Barbarossa pillaged the coast of Naples and Sicily before reaching France where Francis made Toulon the Ottoman admirals naval headquarters. (Web site)
2. Barbarossa returned to winter at Toulon, where throughout the winter Christian slaves were openly sold. (Web site)

Allied Invasion

1. Operation Dragoon was the Allied invasion of southern France, on 15 August 1944, as part of World War II. The invasion took place between Toulon and Cannes.

Germans

1. The Germans formulated Operation Lila with the aim of capturing intact the demobilised French fleet at Toulon. (Web site)
2. To avoid capture of their Mediterranean Fleet by the Germans, the Vichy French scuttled it in the harbors of Toulon on November 27, 1942.

Strasbourg

1. The Dunkerque was damaged by shells from HMS Hood at Mers-el-Kebir but escaped to join the Strasbourg at Toulon.
2. One battleship was sunk and two more were damaged; the Strasbourg and a number of super destroyers avoided air attack and escaped to Toulon. (Web site)

Corsica

1. While the occupation of Corsica was being effected, the French at Toulon had so far recovered that they were able to send a fleet to sea.
2. In 1793, having just become Rear Admiral, he served under Sir Samuel Hood at Toulon and in Corsica.

France

1. Back to France, he assumed command of the 74-gun Pluton in the squadron of Admiral Villeneuve in Toulon.
2. It's just before the start of World War II in the south of France, not far from Toulon where the French Mediterranean fleet was docked.

Napoleon Bonaparte

1. At the siege of Toulon, The British are expelled by a French force whose artillery is led by a young captain, Napoleon Bonaparte. (Web site)

Marseilles

1. He then returned via Marseilles, Toulon and Dijon, arriving on April 11, 1842, in Paris. (Web site)
2. The French First Army under Jean de Lattre de Tassigny performed spectacularly in the capture of Toulon and Marseilles.

Marseille

1. CALITOR: Red wine grape variety grown in the Lirac AC north-west of Avignon and in the coastal Bandol AC between Toulon and Marseille, France. (Web site)
2. Since that time, large North African communities settled in and around the big cities, particularly Marseille and Toulon. (Web site)
3. The railroad connected Paris with Marseille (1848) and then with Toulon and Nice (1864). (Web site)

Arles

1. He was choir-master in Toulon, Arles and Toulouse, and was appointed music master at Notre-Dame de Paris in 1694. (Web site)

Provence

1. Provence, together with Toulon, became part of France in 1486.
2. Still in 1519 he raided Provence, Toulon and the Îles d'Hyères in southern France. (Web site)
3. At the top of Mount Faron is a memorial dedicated to the 1944 Allied landings in Provence (Operation Dragoon), and to the liberation of Toulon. (Web site)

French Fleet

1. Jean de Laborde (29 November 1878 - 30 July 1977) was a French Vichyst admiral, famous for the scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon. (Web site)

Toulon

1. The ships were based mostly in Brest, Toulon and Rochefort, as well as in Lorient, le Havre de Grâce, Dunkerque, Bordeaux, Bayonne and Marseille. (Web site)
2. In 1942, as part of the occupation of Vichy France during " Case Anton ", the Germans intended to capture the French fleet at Toulon.
3. The 3rd and 4th Cruiser Divisions, including Georges Leygues avoided the destruction of the French Fleet at Mers-el-Kebir and eventually put into Toulon. (Web site)

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3. Marseille
4. Countries > European Union > France > Southern France
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