Lille, the Glossary
Lille (Rijsel; Lile; Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders.[1]
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A1 autoroute
The A1 Autoroute, also known as l'autoroute du Nord (the Northern Motorway), is the busiest of France's autoroutes.
A22 autoroute
The A22 autoroute is a toll free highway in north western France.
A23 autoroute
The A23 autoroute is a highway in northern France.
A25 autoroute
The A25 is a long motorway in northern France.
A27 autoroute
The A27 autoroute is a toll free autoroute in northern France, approximately long.
Abbey
An abbey is a type of monastery used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess.
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Abdellah Zoubir
Abdellah Zoubir (عبدالله زوبير; born 5 December 1991) is a French professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or a winger for Azerbaijan Premier League club Qarabağ.
Académie Française
The Académie Française, also known as the French Academy, is the principal French council for matters pertaining to the French language.
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Academic art
Academic art, academicism, or academism, is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art.
Achille Liénart
Achille Liénart (7 February 1884—15 February 1973) was a French cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Adélaïde Leroux
Adélaïde Leroux (born 30 December 1982) is a French actress, best known for her role in the 2006 film Flanders.
Alain Baclet
Alain-Pierre Baclet (born 26 May 1986) is a French footballer who plays as a striker for Italian Eccellenza amateurs Promosport.
Alain de Lille
Alain de Lille (Alan of Lille) (Latin: Alanus ab Insulis; 11281202/03) was a French theologian and poet.
Alain Decaux
Alain Decaux (23 July 1925 − 27 March 2016) was a French historian.
Alain Raguel
Alain Raguel (born 6 September 1976 in Lille) is a former French footballer.
Alassane Pléa
Alassane Alexandre Pléa (born 10 March 1993) is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward, left winger or attacking midfielder for Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach.
Albert Calmette
Léon Charles Albert Calmette ForMemRS (12 July 1863 – 29 October 1933) was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist, and an important officer of the Pasteur Institute.
Albert Samain
Albert Victor Samain (3 April 185818 August 1900) was a French poet and writer of the Symbolist school.
Alfred Agache (painter)
Alfred-Pierre Joseph Agache (29 August 1843 – 15 September 1915), also known simply as Alfred Agache, was a French academic painter.
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Amandine Henry
Amandine Chantal Henry (born 28 September 1989) is a French professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for National Women's Soccer League club Utah Royals and the France national team.
Ana Tijoux
Anamaría Tijoux Merino (born 12 June 1977), commonly known by her stage name Ana Tijoux or Anita Tijoux, is a French-born Chilean musician.
Antoine Sibierski
Antoine Sibierski (born 5 August 1974) is a French former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
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Antoinette Bourignon
Antoinette Bourignon de la Porte (13 January 161630 October 1680) was a French-Flemish mystic and adventurer.
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Armand Lemay
Armand Henri Georges Lemay (11 October 1873 – 1963) was a French architect, one of the many prominent designers active in Lille during the era of extensive growth before the First World War.
Arras
Arras (Aros; historical Atrecht) is the prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department, which forms part of the region of Hauts-de-France; before the reorganization of 2014 it was in Nord-Pas-de-Calais. Lille and Arras are cities in France and prefectures in France.
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Arts et Métiers ParisTech
Arts et Métiers ParisTech is a French engineering and research institute of higher education.
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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Atrebates
The Atrebates (Gaulish: *Atrebatis, 'dwellers, land-owners, possessors of the soil') were a Belgic tribe of the Iron Age and the Roman period, originally dwelling in the Artois region.
Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry
Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry (usually known as Joseph Gratry; 10 March 1805 − 6 February 1872) was a French Catholic priest, author and theologian.
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Augustin Laurent
Augustin Laurent (9 September 1896 – 1 October 1990) was a French coal miner, journalist and socialist politician.
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Austrians
Austrians (Österreicher) are the citizens and nationals of Austria.
École Centrale de Lille
() is a graduate engineering school, with roots back to 1854 as the École des arts industriels et des mines de Lille, re-organised in 1872 as Institut industriel du Nord.
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École nationale supérieure de chimie de Lille
The École nationale supérieure de chimie de Lille (ENSCL or Chimie Lille) was founded in 1894 as the Institut de chimie de Lille.
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École supérieure de journalisme de Lille
The École supérieure de journalisme (ESJ Lille) (in English: Superior School of Journalism of Lille) is a private non-profit institution of higher education, a French Grande École in Lille dedicated to journalism and related studies.
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Édouard Chimot
Édouard Chimot (26 November 1880 – 7 June 1959) was a French artist, illustrator and editor whose career reached its peak in the 1920s in Paris, through the publication of fine quality art-printed books.
Édouard Lalo
Édouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo (27 January 182322 April 1892) was a French composer.
Émile Bernard
Émile Henri Bernard (28 April 1868 – 16 April 1941) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and writer, who had artistic friendships with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Eugène Boch, and at a later time, Paul Cézanne.
Baldwin I, Latin Emperor
Baldwin I (Boudewijn; Baudouin; July 1172 –) was the first Emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople; Count of Flanders (as Baldwin IX) from 1194 to 1205 and Count of Hainaut (as Baldwin VI) from 1195 to 1205.
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Battle of Adrianople (1205)
The Battle of Adrianople occurred around Adrianople on April 14, 1205 between Bulgarians and Cumans under Tsar Kaloyan of Bulgaria, and Crusaders under Baldwin I, who only months before had been crowned Emperor of Constantinople, allied with Venetians under Doge Enrico Dandolo.
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Battle of France
The Battle of France (bataille de France; 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign (German: Westfeldzug), the French Campaign (Frankreichfeldzug, campagne de France) and the Fall of France, during the Second World War was the German invasion of France, that notably introduced tactics that are still used.
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BCG vaccine
The Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine is a vaccine primarily used against tuberculosis (TB).
Beeldenstorm
Beeldenstorm in Dutch and Bildersturm in German (roughly translatable from both languages as 'attack on the images or statues') are terms used for outbreaks of destruction of religious images that occurred in Europe in the 16th century, known in English as the Great Iconoclasm or Iconoclastic Fury and in French as the Furie iconoclaste.
Belfries of Belgium and France
The Belfries of Belgium and France are a group of 56 historical buildings designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites, in recognition of the civic (rather than church) belfries serving as an architectural manifestation of emerging civic independence from feudal and religious influences in the former County of Flanders (present-day French Flanders area of France and Flanders region of Belgium) and neighbouring areas which once were possessions of the House of Burgundy (in present-day Wallonia of Belgium).
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Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.
Birthplace of Charles de Gaulle
The Birthplace of Charles de Gaulle is a French museum located in Lille, in the Hauts-de-France, France.
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Boulogne-sur-Mer
Boulogne-sur-Mer (Boulonne-su-Mér; Bonen; Gesoriacum or Bononia), often called just Boulogne, is a coastal city in Northern France. Lille and Boulogne-sur-Mer are cities in France.
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Bouvines
Bouvines (Bovingen) is a commune and village in the Nord department in northern France. Lille and Bouvines are communes of Nord (French department) and French Flanders.
Braderie
A braderie or jaarmarkt (respectively meaning roasting and annual market in Dutch) is a type of grand yearly street fair and street market found in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Northern France and north-west Switzerland, mostly held in the summer months.
Braderie de Lille
The Lille Braderie (French: Braderie de Lille) is a braderie, or annual street market/flea market, that takes place on the weekend of the first Sunday of September in Lille, France, in the northern Hauts-de-France region.
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Bruges
Bruges (Brugge; Brügge) is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country.
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Brussels
Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Erie County.
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Burgundian State
The Burgundian StateB.
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Calais
Calais (traditionally) is a port city in the Pas-de-Calais department, of which it is a subprefecture. Lille and Calais are cities in France.
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Calque
In linguistics, a calque or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation.
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Cambrai
Cambrai (Kimbré; Kamerijk), formerly Cambray and historically in English Camerick or Camericke, is a city in the Nord department and in the Hauts-de-France region of France on the Scheldt river, which is known locally as the Escaut river. Lille and Cambrai are communes of Nord (French department).
Camille Guérin
Jean-Marie Camille Guérin (22 December 1872 – 9 June 1961) was a French veterinarian, bacteriologist and immunologist who, together with Albert Calmette, developed the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), a vaccine for immunization against tuberculosis.
Canton of Lille-1
The canton of Lille-1 is an administrative division of the Nord department, northern France.
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Canton of Lille-2
The canton of Lille-2 is an administrative division of the Nord department, northern France.
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Canton of Lille-3
The canton of Lille-3 is an administrative division of the Nord department, northern France.
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Canton of Lille-4
The canton of Lille-4 is an administrative division of the Nord department, northern France.
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Canton of Lille-5
The canton of Lille-5 is an administrative division of the Nord department, northern France.
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Canton of Lille-6
The canton of Lille-6 is an administrative division of the Nord department, northern France.
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Carolingian Empire
The Carolingian Empire (800–887) was a Frankish-dominated empire in Western and Central Europe during the Early Middle Ages.
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Carolus-Duran
Charles Auguste Émile Durand, known as Carolus-Duran (born Lille, 4 July 1837 – died Paris, 17 February 1917), was a French painter and art instructor.
Centrale Graduate School
The Ecoles Centrales Group is an alliance, consisting of following grandes écoles of engineering.
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Channel Tunnel
The Channel Tunnel (Tunnel sous la Manche), sometimes referred to informally as the Chunnel, is a undersea railway tunnel, opened in 1994, that connects Folkestone (Kent, England) with Coquelles (Pas-de-Calais, France) beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.
Charles Barrois
Charles Eugene Barrois (21 August 18515 November 1939) was a French geologist and palaeontologist.
Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French military officer and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France.
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Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III
The Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III (Université Lille 3 Charles-de-Gaulle) was a French university.
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Charles Frédéric Kuhlmann
Charles Frédéric Kuhlmann (22 May 1803 – 27 January 1881) was a French chemist who patented the reaction for converting ammonia to nitric acid, which was later used in the Ostwald process.
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Charles the Bold
Charles Martin (10 November 1433 – 5 January 1477), called The Bold, was the last Duke of Burgundy from the Burgundian cadet branch of the House of Valois from 1467 to 1477.
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Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V (Ghent, 24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain from 1516 to 1556, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506 to 1555.
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Charles-Joseph Panckoucke
Charles-Joseph Panckoucke (26 November 1736 – 19 December 1798) was a French writer and publisher.
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Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.
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Christ Church, Lille
Christ Church Lille is an English-speaking Anglican Church located in the city of Lille in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, the Flemish area of France.
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Church of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies.
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Citadel of Lille
The Citadel of Lille (Citadelle de Lille; Citadel van Rijsel) is a pentagonal citadel of the city wall of Lille, in France.
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Clarck Nsikulu
Clarck Nsikulu Nsumbu (born 10 July 1992) is a Congolese professional footballer who is currently without a club.
Cologne
Cologne (Köln; Kölle) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region.
Column of the Goddess
The Column of the Goddess is the popular name given by the citizens of Lille (France) to the Memorial of the Siege of 1792.
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Communes of France
The is a level of administrative division in the French Republic.
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Constance Jablonski
Constance Jablonski (born 17 April 1991) is a French model.
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Constantinople
Constantinople (see other names) became the capital of the Roman Empire during the reign of Constantine the Great in 330.
Continental System
The Continental Blockade, or Continental System, was a large-scale embargo by French Emperor Napoleon I against the British Empire from 21 November 1806 until 11 April 1814, during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Conurbation
A conurbation is a region comprising a number of metropolises, cities, large towns, and other urban areas which, through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban or industrially developed area.
County of Boulogne
The County of Boulogne was a county within the Kingdom of France during the 9th to 15th centuries, centred on the city of Boulogne-sur-Mer.
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County of Flanders
The County of Flanders was one of the most powerful political entities in the medieval Low Countries, located on the North Sea coast of what is now Belgium.
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County of Hainaut
The County of Hainaut (Comté de Hainaut.; Graafschap Henegouwen.; comitatus hanoniensis.), sometimes spelled Hainault, was a territorial lordship within the medieval Holy Roman Empire that straddled the present-day border of Belgium and France.
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Dakar
Dakar (Ndakaaru) is the capital and largest city of Senegal.
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Désiré Dihau
Désiré Dihau (2 August 1833 – 20 August 1909) was a French bassoonist and composer.
Deûle
The Deûle (Deule) is a river of northern France which is channeled for the main part of its course (from Lens to Lille).
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Departments of France
In the administrative divisions of France, the department (département) is one of the three levels of government under the national level ("territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes.
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Didier Six
Didier Six (born 21 August 1954) is a French football coach and former player, who most recently worked as manager of the Guinea national football team until October 2021.
Dijon
Dijon is a city that serves as the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. Lille and Dijon are cities in France and prefectures in France.
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The Double, in association football, is the achievement of winning a country's top tier division and its primary domestic cup competition in the same season.
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Dunkirk
Dunkirk (Dunkerque, Duunkerke, Duinkerke or Duinkerken) is a commune in the department of Nord in northern France. Lille and Dunkirk are cities in France, communes of Nord (French department), French Flanders and prefectures in France.
Dutch language
Dutch (Nederlands.) is a West Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language.
Dutch Republic
The United Provinces of the Netherlands, officially the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) and commonly referred to in historiography as the Dutch Republic, was a confederation that existed from 1579 until the Batavian Revolution in 1795.
E-Artsup
e-artsup is a French private school created in 2001 and specialized in digital creativity and multimedia.
Eberhard of Friuli
Eberhard (c. 815 – 16 December 867) was the Frankish Duke of Friuli from 846.
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EDHEC Business School
EDHEC Business School (École des Hautes Etudes Commerciales du Nord) is a French business school (Grande École) with campuses in Lille, Nice, and Paris in France, as well as in London, United Kingdom, and Singapore.
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Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603.
Epitech
The Paris Graduate School of Digital Innovation (École pour l'informatique et les nouvelles technologies, or EPITECH), formerly European Institute of Information Technology, is a private institution of higher education in computer science and software engineering that was founded in 1999.
Erfurt
Erfurt is the capital and largest city of the Central German state of Thuringia.
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Ernest Joseph Bailly
Ernest Joseph Bailly, (or Baillu) who was born at Lille in 1753, studied first in the Academy of Ghent, then at Antwerp, and subsequently at Paris.
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Esch-sur-Alzette
Esch-sur-Alzette (Esch-Uelzecht; Esch an der Alzette or Esch an der Alzig) is a city in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the country's second-most populous commune, with a population of 36,625 inhabitants,.
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ESME-Sudria
The École Spéciale de Mécanique et d'Electricité (English: Special School of Mechanics and Electricity), also known as ESME Sudria is a French private grande école founded in 1905.
Esquermes
Esquermes is a former commune in the Nord department in northern France, since 1858 part of Lille.
Euralille
Euralille is an urban quarter in the centre of Lille, France.
EuroBasket 2015
EuroBasket 2015 was the 39th edition of the EuroBasket championship that was organized by FIBA Europe.
Eurometropolis Lille–Kortrijk–Tournai
Eurometropolis Lille–Kortrijk–Tournai is a metropolitan area in Europe around the transborder agglomeration of the French city of Lille, and the Belgian cities Kortrijk and Tournai.
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European Capital of Culture
A European Capital of Culture is a city designated by the European Union (EU) for a period of one calendar year during which it organises a series of cultural events with a strong pan-European dimension.
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European Doctoral College Lille Nord-Pas de Calais
The European Doctoral College Lille Nord-de-France is part of the Community of Universities and Institutions (COMUE) Lille Nord de France.
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European grouping of territorial cooperation
A European grouping of territorial cooperation (EGTC) is a European Union level form of transnational cooperation between countries and local authorities with legal personality.
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Eurostar
Eurostar is an international high-speed rail service in Western Europe, connecting Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Exurb
An exurb (or alternately: exurban area) is an area outside the typically denser inner suburban area, at the edge of a metropolitan area, which has some economic and commuting connection to the metro area, low housing density, and growth.
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Fall of Constantinople
The fall of Constantinople, also known as the conquest of Constantinople, was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Empire.
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Feast of the Pheasant
The Feast of the Pheasant (French: Banquet du Vœu du faisan, "Banquet of the Oath of the Pheasant") was a banquet given by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy on 17 February 1454 in Lille, now in France.
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Ferdinand, Count of Flanders
Ferdinand (Portuguese: Fernando, French and Dutch: Ferrand; 24 March 1188 – 27 July 1233) reigned as jure uxoris Count of Flanders and Hainaut from his marriage to Countess Joan, celebrated in Paris in 1212, until his death.
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Fives, Nord
Fives is a former commune in the Nord department in northern France, since 1858 part of Lille.
Flanders
Flanders (Dutch: Vlaanderen) is the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium.
Flea market
A flea market (or swap meet) is a type of street market that provides space for vendors to sell previously owned (second-hand) goods.
Food industry
The food industry is a complex, global network of diverse businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the world's population.
Association football is the most popular sport in France.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
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France 3 Nord-Pas-de-Calais
France 3 Nord-Pas-de-Calais is one France 3's regional services, broadcasting to people in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region.
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Franco-Flemish War
The Franco-Flemish War (Guerre de Flandre; Vlaamse opstand) was a conflict between the Kingdom of France and the County of Flanders between 1297 and 1305.
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Franks
Aristocratic Frankish burial items from the Merovingian dynasty The Franks (Franci or gens Francorum;; Francs.) were a western European people during the Roman Empire and Middle Ages.
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French Flanders
French Flanders (La Flandre française) is a part of the historical County of Flanders, where Flemish—a Low Franconian dialect cluster of Dutch—was (and to some extent, still is) traditionally spoken.
French Resistance
The French Resistance (La Résistance) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy régime in France during the Second World War.
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French Revolution
The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.
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Frisians
The Frisians are an ethnic group indigenous to the coastal regions of the Netherlands, north-western Germany and southern Denmark, and during the Early Middle Ages in the north-western coastal zone of Flanders, Belgium.
Gaël Kakuta
Gaël Romeo Kakuta Mambenga (born 21 June 1991) is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for club Amiens.
Gabriel Grovlez
Gabriel Marie Grovlez (4 April 1879 – 20 October 1944) was a French composer, conductor, pianist, and music critic.
Gargantua and Pantagruel
The Five Books of the Lives and Deeds of Gargantua and Pantagruel (Les Cinq livres des faits et dits de Gargantua et Pantagruel), often shortened to Gargantua and Pantagruel or the Cinq Livres (Five Books), is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais.
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Gaspard Thémistocle Lestiboudois
Gaspard Thémistocle Lestiboudois (12 October 1797, Lille – 22 November 1876, Paris) was a French naturalist.
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Gauls
The Gauls (Galli; Γαλάται, Galátai) were a group of Celtic peoples of mainland Europe in the Iron Age and the Roman period (roughly 5th century BC to 5th century AD).
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Genoa
Genoa (Genova,; Zêna) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the sixth-largest city in Italy.
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German military administration in occupied France during World War II
The Military Administration in France (Militärverwaltung in Frankreich; Administration militaire en France) was an interim occupation authority established by Nazi Germany during World War II to administer the occupied zone in areas of northern and western France.
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Germanic peoples
The Germanic peoples were tribal groups who once occupied Northwestern and Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity and into the early Middle Ages.
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Ghent
Ghent (Gent; Gand; historically known as Gaunt in English) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.
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Guy, Count of Flanders
Guy of Dampierre (Gui de Dampierre; Gwijde van Dampierre) (– 7 March 1305, Compiègne) was the Count of Flanders (1251–1305) and Marquis of Namur (1264–1305).
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Habsburg Spain
Habsburg Spain refers to Spain and the Hispanic Monarchy, also known as the Catholic Monarchy, in the period from 1516 to 1700 when it was ruled by kings from the House of Habsburg.
Haifa
Haifa (Ḥēyfā,; Ḥayfā) is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in.
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Hautes études d'ingénieur
HEI Lille or École des Hautes Études d’Ingénieur (French for School of High Studies in Engineering) is a private school of engineering located in Lille, France, member of Lille Catholic University and a French Grande École.
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Hauts-de-France
Hauts-de-France (Upper France, Picard: Heuts d'Franche) is the northernmost region of France, created by the territorial reform of French regions in 2014, from a merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy.
Hôtel de Ville, Lille
The (City Hall) is a municipal building in Lille, France.
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Hellemmes-Lille
Hellemmes (Hellem) is a former commune in the Nord department in northern France, since 1977 an associated part of Lille.
Henri Padé
Henri Eugène Padé (17 December 1863 – 9 July 1953) was a French mathematician, who is now remembered mainly for his development of Padé approximation techniques for functions using rational functions.
High-speed rail
High-speed rail (HSR) is a type of rail transport network utilizing trains that run significantly faster than those of traditional rail, using an integrated system of specialized rolling stock and dedicated tracks.
Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor.
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Hospice Comtesse
The Hospice Comtesse or Hospice Notre-Dame is a 17th-century hospice on Rue de la Monnaie in the Old Town area of Lille, France, first built in 1236 by Joan, Countess of Flanders.
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Hungarians
Hungarians, also known as Magyars (magyarok), are a Central European nation and an ethnic group native to Hungary and historical Hungarian lands (i.e. belonging to the former Kingdom of Hungary) who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language.
IÉSEG School of Management
IÉSEG School of Management (Institut d'Économie Scientifique Et de Gestion, translated to "The Institute of Scientific Economics and Management") is a French grande école, private and graduate business school, established in 1964 in Lille, France.
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Illustrator
An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea.
Indirect election
An indirect election or hierarchical voting, is an election in which voters do not choose directly among candidates or parties for an office (direct voting system), but elect people who in turn choose candidates or parties.
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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.
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Institut catholique d'arts et métiers
Located in six cities in France, Institut catholique d'arts et métiers is a Graduate Engineering school created in 1898.
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Institut industriel du Nord
The Institut industriel du Nord (IDN) was the engineering school and research institute at École Centrale de Lille from 1872 to 1991, within the campus of the Lille University of Science and Technology (France).
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Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques
The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques), abbreviated INSEE or Insee, is the national statistics bureau of France.
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Institut supérieur européen de formation par l'action
The Institut supérieur européen de formation par l'action (ISEFAC) is a French private business school created in 2000.
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Institut supérieur européen de gestion group
The Institut supérieur européen de gestion group (ISEG group, French for Advanced European Institute of Management) is a group of two business schools, ISEG Marketing & Communication School and ISG Programme Business & Management, the former created in 1980, and the latter formed in 2014 when ISEG Business School and ISEG Finance School, each also founded in 1980, merged.
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Iris Mittenaere
Iris Mittenaere (born 25 January 1993) is a French TV host, model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 2016.
Irish College
Irish Colleges is the collective name used for approximately 34 centres of education for Irish Catholic clergy and lay people opened on continental Europe in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
Isabella of Hainault
Isabella of Hainault (5 April 1170 – 15 March 1190; also spelled: Ysabella de Hainault, Ysabelle de Hainaut or Ysabeau de Hainaut) was a Queen of France as the first wife of King Philip II.
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Ismael Ehui
Ismaël Ehui (born 10 December 1986) is a French footballer who plays as a striker.
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
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Jacquemart Giélée
Jacquemart Giélée (often spelt Gielée) was a French poet of the Middle Ages born in Lille.
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James VI and I
James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.
Jardin botanique de la Faculté de Pharmacie
The Jardin botanique de la Faculté de Pharmacie (2 hectares), more formally the Jardin de la Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques de l'Université de Lille 2, is a botanical garden and arboretum operated by the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Université de Lille 2.
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Jardin botanique Nicolas Boulay
The Jardin botanique Nicolas Boulay is a botanical garden operated by the Faculty of Medicine at the Université Catholique de Lille, Lille, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
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Jardin des plantes de Lille
The jardin des plantes de Lille (11 hectares) is a municipal botanical garden located on the rue du Jardin des plantes, Lille, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
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Jean Baptiste Perrin
Jean Baptiste Perrin (30 September 1870 – 17 April 1942) was a French physicist who, in his studies of the Brownian motion of minute particles suspended in liquids (sedimentation equilibrium), verified Albert Einstein's explanation of this phenomenon and thereby confirmed the atomic nature of matter.
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Jean Dieudonné
Jean Alexandre Eugène Dieudonné (1 July 1906 – 29 November 1992) was a French mathematician, notable for research in abstract algebra, algebraic geometry, and functional analysis, for close involvement with the Nicolas Bourbaki pseudonymous group and the Éléments de géométrie algébrique project of Alexander Grothendieck, and as a historian of mathematics, particularly in the fields of functional analysis and algebraic topology.
Jerry Vandam
Jerry Boachie Van Dam (born 8 December 1988), commonly referred to as Jerry Vandam, is a French professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Championnat National 3 club IC Croix.
Joan, Countess of Flanders
Joan, often called Joan of Constantinople (1199 – 5 December 1244), ruled as Countess of Flanders and Hainaut from 1205 (at the age of six) until her death.
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Joseph Kampé de Fériet
Marie-Joseph Kampé de Fériet (Paris, 14 May 1893 – Villeneuve d'Ascq, 6 April 1982) was a French mathematician at Université Lille Nord de France from 1919 to 1969.
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Joseph Valentin Boussinesq
Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (13 March 1842 – 19 February 1929) was a French mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the theory of hydrodynamics, vibration, light, and heat.
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Juggling
Juggling is a physical skill, performed by a juggler, involving the manipulation of objects for recreation, entertainment, art or sport.
Julien Duvivier
Julien Duvivier (8 October 1896 – 29 October 1967) was a French film director and screenwriter.
Kamini (rapper)
Kamini Zantoko is a Black French musician and screenwriter.
Kharkiv
Kharkiv (Харків), also known as Kharkov (Харькoв), is the second-largest city in Ukraine.
Kingdom of France
The Kingdom of France is the historiographical name or umbrella term given to various political entities of France in the medieval and early modern period.
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Kortrijk
Kortrijk (Kortryk or Kortrik; Courtrai; Cortoriacum), sometimes known in English as Courtrai or Courtray, is a Belgian city and municipality in the Flemish province of West Flanders.
La Voix du Nord
La Voix du Nord (or 'The Voice of Nord') is a regional daily newspaper from the north of France.
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a contact team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball.
Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Léon Danchin
Léon Danchin (21 June 1887 - 4 August 1938) was a French artist known for his drawings of animals, primarily sporting dogs.
Leeds
Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England.
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Les Châtiments
Les Châtiments ("The Castigations" or "The Punishments") is a collection of poems by Victor Hugo, first published in 1853, that fiercely attack Napoléon III's Second Empire.
Liège
Liège (Lîdje; Luik; Lüttich) is a city and municipality of Wallonia and the capital of the Belgian province of Liège.
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Ligue 1
Ligue 1, officially known as Ligue 1 McDonald's for sponsorship reasons, is a French professional league for men's association football clubs.
Lille 2 University of Health and Law
The Lille 2 University of Health and Law (Université Lille 2: Droit et Santé) was a French university for health, sports, management and law.
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Lille 3000
Lille 3000 is an association representing a cultural program promoted by the city of Lille and the Lille 2004 organizing committee.
Lille Airport
Lille Airport (Aéroport de Lille) is an airport located in Lesquin, south-southeast of Lille, a city in northern France.
Lille Cathedral
Lille Cathedral, the Basilica of Notre Dame de la Treille (Basilique-cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-la-Treille de Lille), is a Roman Catholic church and basilica in Lille, France, and the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Lille.
Lille Metro
The Lille Metro (Métro de Lille) is a driverless light metro system located in Lille, France.
Lille OSC
Lille Olympique Sporting Club, commonly referred to as LOSC, LOSC Lille or simply Lille, is a French professional football club based in Lille, Hauts-de-France that competes in Ligue 1, the top division of French football.
Lille Synagogue
Lille Synagogue (Synagogue de Lille) is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 5, rue Auguste Angellie, in Lille, in the Hauts-de-France region of France.
Lille University of Science and Technology
The Lille 1 University of Science and Technology (Université Lille 1: Sciences et Technologies, USTL) was a French university located on a dedicated main campus in Villeneuve d'Ascq, near Lille (Hauts-de-France - European Metropolis of Lille), with 20,000 full-time students plus 14,500 students in continuing education (2004).
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Lille-Europe station
Lille-Europe station (Gare de Lille-Europe) is a SNCF railway station in Lille, France, on the LGV Nord high-speed railway.
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Lille-Flandres station
Lille-Flandres station (Gare de Lille-Flandres, Rijsel Vlaanderen) is the main railway station of Lille, capital of French Flanders.
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List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants
, there were 473 communes in France (metropolitan territory and overseas departments and regions) with population over 20,000, 280 communes with population over 30,000, 129 communes with population over 50,000 and 42 communes with population over 100,000. Lille and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants are cities in France.
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List of French monarchs
France was ruled by monarchs from the establishment of the Kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second French Empire in 1870, with several interruptions.
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List of French royal consorts
This is a list of the women who were queens or empresses as wives of French monarchs from the 843 Treaty of Verdun, which gave rise to West Francia, until 1870, when the Third Republic was declared.
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List of metropolitan areas in Europe
This list ranks metropolitan areas in Europe by their population according to three different sources; it includes metropolitan areas that have a population of over 1 million.
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List of universities and colleges in France
This list of universities and colleges in France includes universities and other higher education institutes that provide both education curricula and related degrees up to doctoral degree and also contribute to research activities.
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Lomme
Lomme (Olm) was a commune in the Nord département of northern France.
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Louis Faidherbe
Louis Léon César Faidherbe (3 June 1818 – 29 September 1889) was a French general and colonial administrator.
Louis Marie Cordonnier
Louis Marie Cordonnier (July 7, 1854, Haubourdin, Nord – 1940) was a French architect, born in Haubourdin and associated principally with Lille and the French Flanders region.
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Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur (27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was named after him.
Louis VIII of France
Louis VIII (5 September 1187 8 November 1226), nicknamed The Lion (Le Lion), was King of France from 1223 to 1226.
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Louis XIV
LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.
Low Countries
The Low Countries (de Lage Landen; les Pays-Bas), historically also known as the Netherlands (de Nederlanden), is a coastal lowland region in Northwestern Europe forming the lower basin of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta and consisting today of the three modern "Benelux" countries: Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands (Nederland, which is singular).
Low-cost carrier
A low-cost carrier (LCC) or low-cost airline, also called no-frills, budget, or discount carrier or airline, is an airline that is operated with an emphasis on minimizing operating costs.
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Lucas Pouille
Lucas Pouille (born 23 February 1994) is a French professional tennis player.
Lydéric and Phinaert
Lydéric and Phinaert were semi-legendary figures tied to the foundation of the French city of Lille.
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Lyon
Lyon (Franco-Provençal: Liyon), formerly spelled in English as Lyons, is the second largest city of France by urban area It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, northeast of Saint-Étienne. Lille and Lyon are cities in France and prefectures in France.
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Lys (river)
The Lys or Leie is a river in France and Belgium, and a left-bank tributary of the Scheldt.
Machine
A machine is a physical system that uses power to apply forces and control movement to perform an action.
Madeleine Damerment
Madeleine Zoe Damerment (11 November 1917 – 13 September 1944) was a French agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization during World War II.
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Maison Devambez
Maison Devambez is the name of a fine printer's firm in Paris.
Maison Folie Moulins
The Maison Folie Moulins is a public building built for the event Lille 2004, European capital of culture.
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Margaret II, Countess of Flanders
Margaret, often called Margaret of Constantinople (1202 – 10 February 1280), ruled as Countess of Flanders during 1244–1278 and Countess of Hainaut during 1244–1253 and 1257–1280.
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Margaret III, Countess of Flanders
Margaret III (13 April 1350 – 16/21 March 1405) was a ruling Countess of Flanders, Countess of Artois, and Countess of Auvergne and Boulogne between 1384 and 1405.
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Marseille
Marseille or Marseilles (Marseille; Marselha; see below) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Lille and Marseille are cities in France and prefectures in France.
Martine Aubry
Martine Louise Marie Aubry (née Delors; born 8 August 1950) is a French politician.
Mary of Burgundy
Mary of Burgundy (Marie de Bourgogne; Maria van Bourgondië; 13 February 1457 – 27 March 1482), nicknamed the Rich, was a member of the House of Valois-Burgundy who ruled a collection of states that included the duchies of Limburg, Brabant, Luxembourg, the counties of Namur, Holland, Hainaut and other territories, from 1477 until her death in 1482.
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Matthias de l'Obel
Mathias de l'Obel, Mathias de Lobel or Matthaeus Lobelius (1538 – 3 March 1616) was a Flemish physician and plant enthusiast who was born in Lille, Flanders, in what is now Hauts-de-France, France, and died at Highgate, London, England.
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Max Immelmann
Max Immelmann (21 September 1890 – 18 June 1916) PLM was the first German World War I flying ace.
Maxime Agueh
Maxime Agueh (born 1 April 1978) is a former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
Maximilian I (22 March 1459 – 12 January 1519) was King of the Romans from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death in 1519.
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Mayor (France)
In France, a mayor (maire) is chairperson of the municipal council, which organises the work and deliberates on municipal matters.
Météo-France
Météo-France is the official French meteorological administration, also offering services to Andorra.
Métropole
A (French for "metropolis") is an administrative entity in France, in which several communes cooperate, and which has the right to levy local tax, an établissement public de coopération intercommunale à fiscalité propre.
Métropole Européenne de Lille
The Métropole Européenne de Lille (MEL; "European Metropolis of Lille") is the, an intercommunal structure, composed by a network of big cities (Lille, Roubaix, Tourcoing, Villeneuve d'Ascq, Armentières etc.) whose major city is the city of Lille.
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Medium-capacity rail system
A medium-capacity system (MCS), also known as light rapid transit or light metro, is a rail transport system with a capacity greater than light rail, but less than typical heavy-rail rapid transit.
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Menapii
The Menapii were a Belgic tribe dwelling near the North Sea, around present-day Cassel, during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
Menen
Menen (Menin; Mêenn or Mêende) is a city and municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders.
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Metropolitan area
A metropolitan area or metro is a region consisting of a densely populated urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories which are sharing industries, commercial areas, transport network, infrastructures and housing.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Middle Dutch
Middle Dutch is a collective name for a number of closely related West Germanic dialects whose ancestor was Old Dutch.
Military Administration in Belgium and Northern France
The Military Administration in Belgium and Northern France (Militärverwaltung in Belgien und Nordfrankreich) was an interim occupation authority established during the Second World War by Nazi Germany that included present-day Belgium and the French departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais.
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Minister of the Interior (France)
Minister of the Interior (Ministre de l'Intérieur) is a prominent position in the Government of France.
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Miss France 2016
Miss France 2016 was the 86th Miss France pageant, held in Lille on 19 December 2015.
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Miss Universe 2016
Miss Universe 2016 was the 65th Miss Universe pageant, held at the SM Mall of Asia Arena, in Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines on 30 January 2017.
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MOD'SPE Paris
The MOD'SPE Paris, is a French private school of fashion.
Morini
The Morini (Gaulish: 'sea folk, sailors') were a Belgic coastal tribe dwelling in the modern Pas de Calais region, around present-day Boulogne-sur-Mer, during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
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Mount of piety
A mount of piety is an institutional pawnbroker run as a charity in Europe from Renaissance times until today.
Mouscron
Mouscron (Dutch and Moeskroen,; Picard and Walloon: Moucron) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Hainaut, along the border with the French city of Tourcoing, which is part of the Lille metropolitan area.
Nabil Bentaleb
Nabil Bentaleb (نبيل بن طالب; born 24 November 1994) is a professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for club Lille.
Nablus
Nablus (Nāblus; Šəḵem, ISO 259-3:,; Samaritan Hebrew: script, romanized:; Νeápolis) is a Palestinian city in the West Bank, located approximately north of Jerusalem, with a population of 156,906.
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Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.
National Railway Company of Belgium
The National Railway Company of Belgium (Nationale Maatschappij der Belgische Spoorwegen, NMBS; Société nationale des chemins de fer belges, SNCB; Nationale Gesellschaft der Belgischen Eisenbahnen) is the national railway company of Belgium.
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Neo-Impressionism
Neo-Impressionism is a term coined by French art critic Félix Fénéon in 1886 to describe an art movement founded by Georges Seurat.
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Nervii
The Nervii were one of the most powerful Belgic tribes of northern Gaul at the time of its conquest by Rome.
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Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) are five separate prizes awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, as established by the 1895 will of Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the year before he died.
Nominalism
In metaphysics, nominalism is the view that universals and abstract objects do not actually exist other than being merely names or labels.
Nord (French department)
Nord (officially département du Nord; départémint dech Nord; Noorderdepartement) is a département in Hauts-de-France region, France bordering Belgium.
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Nord éclair
Nord éclair is a French language regional newspaper in Roubaix, France, that has been in circulation since 1944.
Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Nord-Pas-de-Calais; Nord-Pas-Calés); is a former administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it has been part of the new region Hauts-de-France. It consisted of the departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais. Nord-Pas-de-Calais borders the English Channel (west), the North Sea (northwest), Belgium (north and east) and Picardy (south).
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Normans
The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Nortmanni/Normanni) were a population arising in the medieval Duchy of Normandy from the intermingling between Norse Viking settlers and locals of West Francia.
Oceanic climate
An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate or maritime climate, is the temperate climate sub-type in Köppen classification represented as Cfb, typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, generally featuring cool to warm summers and cool to mild winters (for their latitude), with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature.
Old Dutch
In linguistics, Old Dutch (Modern Dutch: Oudnederlands) or Old Low Franconian (Modern Dutch: Oudnederfrankisch) is the set of dialects that evolved from Frankish spoken in the Low Countries during the Early Middle Ages, from around the 6th Page 55: "Uit de zesde eeuw dateren de oudst bekende geschreven woorden en tekstjes in de Lage Landen, waarmee de periode van het oud-Nederlands begint." or 9th Page 27: "Aan het einde van de negende eeuw kan er zeker van Nederlands gesproken worden; hoe long daarvoor dat ook het geval was, kan niet met zekerheid worden uitgemaakt." to the 12th century.
Old French
Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th and the mid-14th century.
Opéra de Lille
The Opéra de Lille is a neo-classical opera house, built from 1907 to 1913 and officially inaugurated in 1923.
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
Oujda
Oujda (وجدة) is a major Moroccan city in its northeast near the border with Algeria.
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P'tit Quinquin (song)
"P'tit Quinquin" is a song by Alexandre Desrousseaux which was written in the Picard language (also known as chti or chtimi) in 1853.
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Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
The Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (Lille Palace of Fine Arts) is a municipal museum dedicated to fine arts, modern art, and antiquities located in Lille.
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Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France. Lille and Paris are cities in France and prefectures in France.
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Pas-de-Calais
The Pas-de-Calais ("strait of Calais"; Pas-Calés; also Nauw van Kales) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders.
Pasteur Institute
The Pasteur Institute (Institut Pasteur) is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, micro-organisms, diseases, and vaccines.
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Patrick Francheterre
Patrick Francheterre (born 19 November 1948) is a French retired ice hockey player, coach, manager and international administrator.
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Paul Gachet
Paul-Ferdinand Gachet (30 July 1828 – 9 January 1909) was a French physician most famous for treating the painter Vincent van Gogh during his last weeks in Auvers-sur-Oise.
Paul Hallez
Paul Hallez (10 September 1846 - 2 November 1938) was a French zoologist and embryologist born in Lille.
Paul Painlevé
Paul Painlevé (5 December 1863 – 29 October 1933) was a French mathematician and statesman.
Phil. Macquet
Phil.
Philip II of France
Philip II (21 August 1165 – 14 July 1223), byname Philip Augustus (Philippe Auguste), was King of France from 1180 to 1223.
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Philip II of Spain
Philip II (21 May 152713 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent (Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598.
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Philip the Bold
Philip II the Bold (17 January 1342 – 27 April 1404) was Duke of Burgundy and jure uxoris Count of Flanders, Artois and Burgundy.
Philip the Good
Philip III the Good (Philippe le Bon.; Filips de Goede.; 31 July 1396 in Dijon – 15 June 1467 in Bruges) ruled as Duke of Burgundy from 1419 until his death in 1467.
Philippe Noiret
Philippe Noiret (1 October 1930 – 23 November 2006) was a French film actor.
Philippe Suywens
Philippe Suywens (born December 12, 1971) is a former professional footballer who played as a striker.
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Picard language
Picard (also) is a langue d'oïl of the Romance language family spoken in the northernmost of France and parts of Hainaut province in Belgium.
Pierre De Geyter
Pierre Chrétien Degeyter (8 October 1848 – 26 September 1932) was a Belgian-French socialist and a composer, known for writing the music of The Internationale.
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Pierre Dubreuil
Pierre Dubreuil (March 5, 1872 – January 9, 1944) was a French photographer, born in Lille, who spent his career in France and Belgium.
Pierre Joseph Duhem
Pierre Joseph Duhem (8 July 1758 – 24 March 1807) was a French physician and politician.
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Pierre Mauroy
Pierre Mauroy (5 July 1928 – 7 June 2013) was a French Socialist politician who was Prime Minister of France from 1981 to 1984 under President François Mitterrand.
Pierre-Nicolas Legrand de Lérant
Pierre-Nicolas Sicot, known as Legrand de Lérant or de Sérant (Pont-l'Évêque, 1758 – Bern, 1829), was a French painter.
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Place du Général-de-Gaulle (Lille)
Place du Général-de-Gaulle is an urban public space situated in the commune of Lille, Hauts-de-France region.
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Plague (disease)
Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
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Popular Front (France)
The Popular Front (Front populaire) was an alliance of left-wing movements in France, including the French Communist Party (PCF), the socialist SFIO and the Radical-Socialist Republican Party, during the interwar period.
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Prefectures in France
In France, a prefecture (préfecture) may be. Lille and prefectures in France are cities in France.
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President of France
The president of France, officially the president of the French Republic (Président de la République française), is the executive head of state of France, and the commander-in-chief of the French Armed Forces.
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Prime Minister of France
The prime minister of France (Premier ministre français), officially the prime minister of the French Republic, is the head of government of the French Republic and the leader of the Council of Ministers.
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Prix Breizh
The prix Breizh is a French literary award bestowed under this name since 2001, on the initiative of Gwenn-Aël Bolloré.
Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
Raimbert of Lille
Raimbert of Lille (fl. 1100) was an early medieval nominalist who taught at Lille.
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Raoul de Godewaersvelde
Raoul de Godewaersvelde (born Francis Albert Victor Delbarre) (28 January 1928 – 14 April 1977) was a French singer.
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Raphaël Varane
Raphaël Xavier Varane (born 25 April 1993) is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Serie A club Como.
Rapid transit
Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT), commonly referred to as metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport that is generally built in urban areas.
Reformed Christianity
Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation, a schism in the Western Church.
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Regions of France
France is divided into eighteen administrative regions (régions, singular région), of which thirteen are located in metropolitan France (in Europe), while the other five are overseas regions (not to be confused with the overseas collectivities, which have a semi-autonomous status).
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Renée Adorée
Renée Adorée (born Jeanne de la Fonte; 30 September 1898 – 5 October 1933) was a French stage and film actress who appeared in Hollywood silent movies during the 1920s.
Resistance Medal
The Resistance Medal (Médaille de la Résistance) was a decoration bestowed by the French Committee of National Liberation, based in the United Kingdom, during World War II.
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Roger Salengro
Roger Henri Charles Salengro (30 May 1890, in Lille – 18 November 1936, in Lille) was a French politician.
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
Romance Flanders
Romance Flanders or Gallicant Flanders is a historical term for the part of the County of Flanders in which Romance languages were spoken, such as varieties of Picard.
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Rotterdam
Rotterdam (lit. "The Dam on the River Rotte") is the second-largest city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam.
Roubaix
Roubaix (or; Robaais; Roboais; Picard: Roubés) is a city in northern France, located in the Lille metropolitan area on the Belgian border. Lille and Roubaix are cities in France, communes of Nord (French department) and French Flanders.
Rue Esquermoise
Rue Esquermoise is a street in Lille.
Saint-Joseph Chapel of Saint-Paul College in Lille
The Saint-Joseph Chapel was a historic church on the grounds of Saint-Paul College in Lille, France.
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Saint-Louis, Senegal
Saint Louis or Saint-Louis (Ndar), is the capital of Senegal's Saint-Louis Region.
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Saint-Omer
Saint-Omer (Sint-Omaars; Picard: Saint-Onmé) is a commune and sub-prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department in France.
Sanaa Altama
Sanaa Altama (born 23 July 1990) is a former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
Sarah Ousfar
Sarah Ousfar (born July 28, 1993 in Lille, France) is a French basketball player who plays for club, the top league of basketball for women in France.
Saxons
The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons, were the Germanic people of "Old" Saxony (Antiqua Saxonia) which became a Carolingian "stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany.
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Sébastien Le Prestre, Marquis of Vauban
Sébastien Le Prestre, seigneur de Vauban, later styling himself as the marquis de Vauban (baptised 15 May 163330 March 1707), commonly referred to as Vauban, was a French military engineer and Marshal of France who worked under Louis XIV.
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Scarpe (river)
The Scarpe is a river in the Hauts-de-France region of France.
Scheldt
The Scheldt (Escaut; Schelde) is a river that flows through northern France, western Belgium, and the southwestern part of the Netherlands, with its mouth at the North Sea.
The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate grande école and grand établissement in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences.
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Sciences Po Lille
italic (Lille Institute of Political Studies), officially referred to as italic, is a italic located in Lille, France.
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Serge Lutens
Serge Lutens (born 14 March 1942 in Lille, France) is a French fashion designer, perfume creator, photographer, filmmaker and hair stylist, known principally for the fashion house and fragrance company which bears his name.
Seventeen Provinces
The Seventeen Provinces were the Imperial states of the Habsburg Netherlands in the 16th century.
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Siege of Lille (1667)
The siege of Lille took place during the War of Devolution.
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Skema Business School
SKEMA Business School (School of Knowledge Economy and Management) is one of the leading French business schools, devoted to higher education and research.
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The Socialist Party (Parti socialiste, PS) is a centre-left to left-wing political party in France.
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Somme (department)
Somme (Sonme) is a department of France, located in the north of the country and named after the Somme river.
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Spanish Netherlands
The Spanish Netherlands (Países Bajos Españoles; Spaanse Nederlanden; Pays-Bas espagnols; Spanische Niederlande) (historically in Spanish: Flandes, the name "Flanders" was used as a pars pro toto) was the Habsburg Netherlands ruled by the Spanish branch of the Habsburgs from 1556 to 1714.
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Stade Pierre-Mauroy
The Stade Pierre-Mauroy, also known as the Decathlon Arena – Stade Pierre-Mauroy for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-use retractable roof stadium in Villeneuve-d'Ascq (Métropole Européenne de Lille) in Northern France, that opened in August 2012.
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Steam engine
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.
Strasbourg
Strasbourg (Straßburg) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France, at the border with Germany in the historic region of Alsace. Lille and Strasbourg are cities in France and prefectures in France.
Street performance
Street performance or busking is the act of performing in public places for gratuities.
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Suburb
A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area which is predominantly residential and within commuting distance of a large city.
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Terraced house
A terrace, terraced house (UK), or townhouse (US) is a kind of medium-density housing that first started in 16th century Europe with a row of joined houses sharing side walls.
Tertiary sector of the economy
The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle).
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Textile industry
The textile industry is primarily concerned with the design, production and distribution of textiles: yarn, cloth and clothing.
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TGV
The TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse,, "high-speed train"; formerly TurboTrain à Grande Vitesse) is France's intercity high-speed rail service, operated mainly by SNCF.
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The Internationale
"The Internationale" (italic) is an international anthem that has been adopted as the anthem of various anarchist, communist, socialist, democratic socialist, and social democratic movements.
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The Mountain
The Mountain (La Montagne) was a political group during the French Revolution.
Tlemcen
Tlemcen (translit) is the second-largest city in northwestern Algeria after Oran and is the capital of Tlemcen Province.
Toponymy
Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of toponyms (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage and types.
Tour de Lille
Tour de Lille (previously known as Tour du Crédit-Lyonnais between 1995–2006) is an office skyscraper in Euralille, the business district of the Lille metropolitan area.
Tourcoing
Tourcoing (Toerkonje; Terkoeje; Tourco) is a city in northern France on the Belgian border. Lille and Tourcoing are communes of Nord (French department) and French Flanders.
Tournai
Tournai or Tournay (Doornik; Tornai; Tornè; Tornacum) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the Province of Hainaut, Belgium.
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668)
The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle or Aachen ended the War of Devolution between France and Spain.
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Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria.
Turin
Turin (Torino) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy.
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UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL) is an annual club association football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competition winners through a round robin group stage to qualify for a double-legged knockout format, and a single leg final.
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UEFA Europa League
The UEFA Europa League (previously known as the UEFA Cup), abbreviated as UEL or sometimes UEFA EL, is an annual football club competition organised since 1971 by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European football clubs.
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Université catholique de Lille
The Université Catholique de Lille (commonly known as "La catho"), officially the Fédération universitaire et pluridisciplinaire de Lille (according to its statutes), is a federation of higher education establishments, of Catholic inspiration, created in 1973.
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University of Douai
The University of Douai (Université de Douai) (Universiteit van Dowaai) was a former university in Douai, France.
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University of Lille
The University of Lille (Université de Lille, abbreviated as ULille, UDL or univ-lille) is a French public research university based in Lille, Hauts-de-France.
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University of Lille Nord de France
The Community of Universities and Institutions (COMUE) Lille Nord de France (formerly Université Lille Nord de France) was a French Groups of Universities and Institutions (COMUE) spread over multiple campuses and centered in Lille (North - Hauts-de-France).
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Vaccine
A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious or malignant disease.
Valenciennes
Valenciennes (also,,; Valencijn; Valincyinnes or Valinciennes; Valentianae) is a commune in the Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France. Lille and Valenciennes are communes of Nord (French department).
Valladolid
Valladolid is a municipality in Spain and the primary seat of government and de facto capital of the autonomous community of Castile and León.
Véhicule Automatique Léger
Véhicule Automatique Léger or VAL is a type of driverless (automated), rubber-tyred, medium-capacity rail transport system (people mover).
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Vichy France
Vichy France (Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State (État français), was the French rump state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II.
Victor Chocquet
Victor Chocquet (9 December 1821 – 7 April 1891) was a French art collector and an ardent propagandist of Impressionism.
Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885), sometimes nicknamed the Ocean Man, was a French Romantic writer and politician.
Vieux-Lille
Vieux-Lille (Old Lille) is a district in the north of Lille.
Vikings
Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.
Villeneuve-d'Ascq
Villeneuve-d'Ascq (Neuvile-Ask) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. Lille and Villeneuve-d'Ascq are communes of Nord (French department) and French Flanders.
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Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.
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Wallonia
Wallonia (Wallonie), officially the Walloon Region (Région wallonne), is one of the three regions of Belgium—along with Flanders and Brussels.
War of the First Coalition
The War of the First Coalition (Guerre de la Première Coalition) was a set of wars that several European powers fought between 1792 and 1797, initially against the constitutional Kingdom of France and then the French Republic that succeeded it.
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War of the Spanish Succession
The War of the Spanish Succession was a European great power conflict fought between 1701 and 1714.
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Wazemmes
Wazemmes is a former commune in the Nord department in northern France, merged into Lille in 1858.
West Flanders
West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen; West Vloandern; (Province de) Flandre-Occidentale; Westflandern) is the westernmost province of the Flemish Region, in Belgium.
West Flemish
West Flemish (West-Vlams or West-Vloams or Vlaemsch (in French Flanders), West-Vlaams, flamand occidental) is a collection of Low Franconian varieties spoken in western Belgium and the neighbouring areas of France and the Netherlands.
William Birdwood
Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, (13 September 1865 – 17 May 1951) was a British Army officer.
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World Esperanto Congress
The World Esperanto Congress (Universala Kongreso de Esperanto, UK) is an annual Esperanto convention.
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World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.
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World war
A world war is an international conflict that involves most or all of the world's major powers.
Wrocław
Wrocław (Breslau; also known by other names) is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia.
Yves de Lille
Jean Verdière, in religion Yves de Lille (active 1609-1628), was a Flemish Capuchin friar who wrote an account of a pilgrimage to Holy Land undertaken in 1624–1625.
Yvonne Chauffin
Yvonne Chauffin (26 March 1905, Lille – 6 December 1995, Caudan) was a 20th-century French writer.
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (born 29 December 1923) is a French mathematician and physicist.
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Yvonne Furneaux
Yvonne Furneaux (born Elisabeth Yvonne Scatcherd; 11 May 1926 – 5 July 2024) was a French-British actress.
2005 French riots
A three-week period of riots took place in the suburbs of Paris and other French cities in October and November 2005.
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The 2010–11 season is the 78th season of competitive professional football in France.
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2010–11 Ligue 1
The 2010–11 Ligue 1 season was the 73rd since its establishment.
2011 Coupe de France final
The 2011 Coupe de France final was the 93rd final of France's most prestigious football cup competition.
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2020–21 Ligue 1
The 2020–21 Ligue 1 season, also known as Ligue 1 Uber Eats for sponsorship reasons, was a French association football tournament within Ligue 1.
2021 Trophée des Champions
The 2021 Trophée des Champions was the 26th edition of the French super cup.
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2024 Summer Olympics
The 2024 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad and officially branded as Paris 2024, is an international multi-sport event taking place from 24 July to 11 August 2024 in France, with the opening ceremony having taken place on 26 July.
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References
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