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Valmy — Village in the Marne, site of the 1792 cannonade
A Champagne village whose windmill named the cannonade that stopped the invasion — “From this place and this day dates a new era,” noted Goethe, present in the Prussian ranks. (Editorial synthesis)
Recorded event that took place in Valmy: the Battle of Valmy.
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