And we've got one more thing for all of you there -- Rock of the Marne!

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Ten days later, two policemen were shot dead in the Val de Marne, east of the capital.

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He died two months later at the Battle of the Marne, when his son was one year old.

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Before he was a year old, the infant Albert lost his father, an early settler in French Algeria, in the battle of the Marne.

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This week, Marne et Champagne, a French champagne maker planning a stockmarket listing, said that it is replacing bank debt with euro400m in bonds, secured against its champagne stocks.

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Pelletier had planned to meet his client soon in preparation for an upcoming trial tied to a May 2010 attack in Villiers-sur-Marne, east of Paris, that left a 26-year-old policewoman dead.

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Some of his childhood, peacetime memories were perhaps as rare as his wartime ones: catching thrushes by hand in the rocky fields, hand-stitching his own shoes, setting up a chimney-sweep business in Nogent-sur-Marne.

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But it was a few years later, walking through the vineyards just north of Epernay in the Marne Valley, that I became aware of the historical significance of a landscape that saw the destruction of thousands of young men in World War I.

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