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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of southeast France on the Mediterranean Sea east-southeast of Marseille. First mentioned in the third century AD as a Roman naval station, it became part of France in 1481.

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  • proper noun A city in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, and the préfecture of the département of Var, in France

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  • noun a port city and naval base in southeastern France on the Mediterranean coast

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  • In the fall of 1793, he and Barras led the violent repression of the counterrevolutionary movement in Toulon, where he ordered mass executions of suspected insurgents.

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  • Barbara Barles is a French legal expert based in Toulon, France.

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