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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northeast France on the Seine River east-southeast of Paris. A pre-Roman town, it was a prosperous commercial center in the Middle Ages and was noted for its annual fairs, which set standards of weights and measures for much of Europe.
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- proper noun The capital of the
département ofAube , inFrance
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Examples
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It has been called "the rarest of occult manuscripts" 1 and the only surviving copy is owned by the library in Troyes, France.
- Boing Boing 2006
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Mr. Baroin, who is also mayor of Troyes southeast of Paris, first came into government as a junior minister under Mr. Chirac, after serving as his spokesman during the successful 1995 election campaign
France Makes Baroin Finance Minister William Horobin 2011
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The Arthurian legend is an interesting one that has seen and continues to see countless retellings, due to the fact that there is very little evidence proving the existence of a warrior king known as Arthur; mentions of Merlin and Guenevere are even rarer, while Lancelot is a complete fabrication by Chrétien de Troyes in the twelfth century.
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Mr. Baroin, who is also mayor of Troyes southeast of Paris, first came into government as a junior minister under Mr. Chirac, after serving as his spokesman during the successful 1995 election campaign
France Makes Baroin Finance Minister William Horobin 2011
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The Arthurian legend is an interesting one that has seen and continues to see countless retellings, due to the fact that there is very little evidence proving the existence of a warrior king known as Arthur; mentions of Merlin and Guenevere are even rarer, while Lancelot is a complete fabrication by Chrétien de Troyes in the twelfth century.
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We have Chretien de Troyes 'stuff, that's the french arthurian tradition, that and a few lesser known authors.
Trainspotting’s John Hodge Rewriting Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur Project | /Film 2010
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I don't think I've ever seen anyone so surprised since'since I proved to Professor Smythe that I was just as conversant with Chretian des Troyes in the original as any of his other students.
red dust Ryn Cricket 2010
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During a recent visit to France, I visited Aux Crieurs de Vin, a wine bar in Troyes, in Champagne.
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In the eleventh century R. Solomon ben Isaac (Rashi) of Troyes, France, noted that a woman could do four things at one and the same time: “Watch the vegetables, spin flax, teach a song to a woman for a fee, and warm silkworm eggs in her bosom.”
Entrepreneurs. 2009
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Today a technician in Troyes, south-east of Paris, stabbed himself in front of other staff during a management meeting.
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009
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