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and its golf courses. It extends between 15 to 20 kilometres inland. It has a curved belt of chalk downs which meet the sea at both ends, the higher being Gris-Nez. It is a well-wooded zone almost entirely within the Caps et Marais d'Opale
Regional Natural Park and is the east end of the
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with silver star for its sacrifice. The
Boulonnais has numerous pill boxes and concrete fortifications from the Nazi occupation of France, as well as some larger Napeolonic forts and remnant buildings, often on the site of earlier fortifications.
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which has many of its own amenities, its own commune so mayoralty since 1856 and during the Second World War, on 8 and 9 September 1943, it was hit as part of
Operation Cockade. This was a diversion by the Allies to fool occupying
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Inland tourism supplements agriculture and other industries, such as storage, processing and distribution, including by summer festivals and concerts. In the off-season several attractions remain open. Château
Mollack in
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into the imminence of a landing on the
English Channel. The bombings, which destroyed 93% of the village, also killed 376 civilians. On 12 August 1944, leader of all Free French Forces and incoming elected President,
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The entirely urban estuary of the Liane has been made uniformly wide and straight as well as supplemented by two wet docks, the Bassin Napoléon and Bassin Loubet, in
Boulogne where it aligns
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Boulogne-sur-Mer: The Belfry, UNESCO World
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782:Townson, W.G.; Wimbledon, W.A. (1979-01-01).
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729:"On the uplift and denudation of the Weald"
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511:Port of Boulogne-sur-Mer
247:La Capelle-les-Boulogne
235:Hesdigneul-les-Boulogne
219:Conteville-lès-Boulogne
41:The Boulonnais, on the
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275:Saint-Etienne-au-Mont
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383:Brunembert
371:Bellebrune
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305:Audembert
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114:la Manche
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