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Franclens
Franclens is a French commune in the department of Haute-Savoie on the plateau de la Semine, known for underground quarries that supplied Roman Lyon with white building stone.
Gif-sur-Yvette
Gif-sur-Yvette is a commune in Essonne, 23 km southwest of Paris, on the RER B line. A ninth-century village renamed in 1930, it hosts CNRS laboratories and the growing Moulon quarter on the Saclay plateau.
Gouts-Rossignols
Gouts-Rossignols (officially Gout-Rossignol, INSEE 24199) is a rural commune in Dordogne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, formed in 1827 from Gout and Rossignol; 360 inhabitants in 2023, canton of Ribérac, two monuments historiques.
Grasse
Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes commune and chef-lieu in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France; population 50,970 (2023). Known as the world perfume capital, with UNESCO-listed perfumery know-how since 2018.
Grenoble
Grenoble is a city in southeastern France and the prefecture of the Isère department, set in an Alpine valley and known as the "capital of the Alps." It hosted the 1968 Winter Olympics.
Hamblain-les-Prés
Hamblain-les-Prés, a commune in Pas-de-Calais (Hauts-de-France), France, INSEE 62405, canton Brebières, population about 454. Known for its Gallo-Roman villa at Les Bonnettes, excavated 1981, occupied from La Tène I to the 4th century AD.
Hauteville-Lompnes
Hauteville-Lompnes is a town in the Ain department of eastern France, formed in 1942 by merging the villages of Hauteville and Lompnes and known for its tuberculosis sanatoriums and limestone quarries.
Hendaye
Hendaye (Hendaia) is a French Basque border commune in Pyrénées-Atlantiques on the Bidassoa estuary facing Spain; 18,102 inhabitants in 2023, a 3 km beach, Abbadia cliffs, and cross-border Txingudi cooperation.
History of Paris
The history of Paris traces the French capital from Gallic and Roman Lutetia on the Seine through the medieval town, Baron Haussmann's nineteenth-century rebuilding, and the Paris Commune.
Isigny-sur-Mer
Isigny-sur-Mer is a commune in Calvados, Normandy, at the head of the Baie des Veys estuary, formed as a commune nouvelle in 2017. Known for Isigny AOP butter, cream, and caramels, the Cotentin and Bessin marshes, and its June 1944 liberation.
Ivry-sur-Seine
Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne commune (INSEE 94041) on Paris's southeastern edge; 65,064 inhabitants in 2023; former industrial 'banlieue rouge' known for Cite Gagarine and the Gailhoustet-Renaudie social housing.
Jonvelle
Jonvelle, commune in Haute-Saône, France, in a double meander of the Saône; known for a Gallo-Roman villa with bath complex (Monument Historique), a tile workshop, and a medieval priory and castle.
La Bauche
La Bauche: a commune of 6.58 km² in Savoie, France (73360), near Saint-Franc and Attignat-Oncin; distinct from a Vergezac hamlet and a Saintes archaeological site of the same name.
La Boisse
La Boisse is a commune in the Ain department, France, about 20 km northeast of Lyon on the right bank of the Rhône. It is known for the Gallo-Roman villa des Vernes, excavated in 1980 and 2005-2006, and for its church attested since 984.
La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz
La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz (Chapel-Felgeriz) is a commune of about 4,700 people in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, near Rennes, in Rennes Métropole, known for a 2022 Inrap excavation of a Gallo-Roman sanctuary with two temples and a necropolis.
La Côte-St-André
La Côte-Saint-André (La Côte-St-André) is a commune in Isère, France, a Savoyard planned new town of the late 13th century with France's largest timber-covered medieval hall (76 × 29 m), the Château Louis XI, and the 1888 Bronze Age char find at Le Rival; birthplace of Hector Berlioz.
La Rochelle
La Rochelle, Atlantic port city in Charente-Maritime, France; founded 10th century, recorded as Rupella in 961. Known for its medieval towers, the 1627-1628 Great Siege under Richelieu, the Grand Port Maritime, and major tourism.
Langonnet
Langonnet (Breton: Langoned), INSEE code 56100, is a rural commune of 85.4 km² in Morbihan, Brittany, canton of Gourin; 1,930 inhabitants in 2023, home to the Cistercian abbey of Notre-Dame, later a national stud.
Lansargues
Lansargues (Latin Lansarnica) is a commune in Hérault, Occitanie, near the Étang de l'Or between Lunel and Mauguio; a villette of the barony of Lunel from 888, with a 4th-century necropolis, La Laune Gallo-Roman site, classified Saint-Martin church, and arènes.
Lanuéjols
Lanuéjols names two Occitanie communes: Lanuéjols (Gard, 30139) on the Causse Noir at 900 m, attested from 1150, and Lanuéjols (Lozère, 48081), home to a Gallo-Roman mausoleum of the Pomponii, classified Monument Historique since 1840.
Laprugne
Laprugne, commune in Allier (INSEE 03139), Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, in the Montagne bourbonnaise near Vichy; site of the Charrier copper-tin mine (1872-1953) where roquesite was discovered, and uranium-era housing.
Larçay
Larçay, commune in Indre-et-Loire on the left bank of the Cher near Tours, France, known for its late Roman castellum (81 x 66 m, built about 256-270 AD, never finished), a reused mausoleum, a Gallo-Roman villa at Bellevue, and the Bléré-Tours aqueduct.
Latresne
Latresne is a Gironde commune on the right bank of the Garonne, 12 km southwest of Bordeaux, in Entre-deux-Mers. Known for its Gallo-Roman villa, 12th-century Saint-Aubin church, château housing Aérocampus Aquitaine, and 3,714 inhabitants (2023).
Laveyron
Laveyron (Drôme, 26240) is a French Rhône-side commune with a 1st-century AD Inrap-excavated Roman wine establishment, a SAICA Paper France mill, no listed monuments, and a 2017 PLU.
Le Havre
Le Havre, Normandy port city founded by François I in 1517; its WWII-destroyed center was rebuilt 1945–1964 under Auguste Perret in reinforced concrete and inscribed by UNESCO in 2005.
Le Mans
Le Mans, Sarthe prefecture in Pays de la Loire, France; ancient Vindinum, capital of the Cenomani, with 320–360 AD Roman walls, Plantagenêt old town, and the 13.629 km 24 Hours of Le Mans circuit; 146,249 inhabitants in 2023.
Le Mesge
Le Mesge is a commune in the Somme, Hauts-de-France, France (INSEE 80535, pop. 180), known for one of the largest Gallo-Roman villas found by Roger Agache's aerial survey and a royal villa donated by Childebert III to Amiens cathedral.
Le Pouzin
Le Pouzin, Ardèche commune on the right bank of the Rhône at the Ouvèze confluence, known for its 2nd-century Roman bridge, the Cluniac priory of Rompon, and the 1960-1961 CNR road bridge over the Rhône.
Le Ronssoy
Le Ronssoy is a rural commune in the Somme department, Hauts-de-France, France (INSEE 80679), near the Hindenburg Line; 577 inhabitants (2023), 751 ha, taken by British III Corps on 18 September 1918.
Lentilly
Lentilly is a commune in the Rhône department, France, about 18 km northwest of Lyon, with a Chalcolithic dagger, a La Tène farm at Les Fourches, the Brévenne aqueduct arcades, the fanum of Mercruy, and an 1866 hoard of about 200 Julio-Claudian gold aurei.