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Vincennes — Town in the Val-de-Marne, around the royal château, where kings and a cardinal died
A town grown around the fortress of the kings of France, where a king was born in 1338, and where the last direct Capetian died in 1328, a twenty-three-year-old king in 1574 and Mazarin in 1661 — and the wood bearing its name, on the territory of Paris, hosted the Colonial Exposition in 1931. (Editorial synthesis)
Vincennes is located in the Val-de-Marne. (source: INSEE, Code officiel géographique and Base Mérimée)
Recorded person born in Vincennes: Charles V of France.
2 people who died in Vincennes are recorded: Charles IX and Jules Mazarin.
Recorded event that took place in Vincennes: the end of the direct Capetians.
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