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Bourg-la-Reine — A small town south of Paris, where Galois was born
A small town ten kilometres south of Paris, on the Orléans road, renamed Bourg-Égalité under the Revolution. Galois’s grandfather and then his father ran a boarding school there, and the father was its mayor during the Hundred Days and under the Restoration. (Editorial synthesis)
Bourg-la-Reine is located in Hauts-de-Seine. (source: INSEE, Code officiel géographique)
Recorded person born in Bourg-la-Reine: Galois.
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