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Saint-Germain-en-Laye — Royal town west of Paris
An old royal town on the heights west of Paris, birthplace of Louis XIV and, two and a half centuries later, the place where the Third Republic’s first president died. (Editorial synthesis)
Saint-Germain-en-Laye is located in Yvelines. (source: INSEE, Code officiel géographique)
5 people born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye are recorded: Charles IX, Claude Debussy, Henry II, Louis XIV, and Philippe I d’Orléans.
2 people who died in Saint-Germain-en-Laye are recorded: Adolphe Thiers and Louis XIII.
2 events that took place in Saint-Germain-en-Laye are recorded: the death of Louis XIII and the edict of Saint-Germain.
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