Pierres (other)
There are works that are named Pierres, pronounced like Pierre: * ''Pierres'' (novel), a novel of Victor Hugo * ''Pierres'' (poems), a collection of poems of Roger Caillois Pierres is the name of several communes in France: *Pierres, Calvados, in the Calvados ''département'' *Pierres, Eure-et-Loir, in the Eure-et-Loir ''département'' See also *Pierre (other) Pierre is a French given name. Pierre may also refer to: Places * Pierre, South Dakota, USA; the capital of South Dakota * Rivière à Pierre (Batiscan River tributary), in Portneuf Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada * Pierre River (Mit ...

Pierres (novel)
There are works that are named Pierres, pronounced like Pierre: * ''Pierres'' (novel), a novel of Victor Hugo * ''Pierres'' (poems), a collection of poems of Roger Caillois Pierres is the name of several communes in France: *Pierres, Calvados, in the Calvados ''département'' *Pierres, Eure-et-Loir, in the Eure-et-Loir ''département'' See also *Pierre (other) Pierre is a French given name. Pierre may also refer to: Places * Pierre, South Dakota, USA; the capital of South Dakota * Rivière à Pierre (Batiscan River tributary), in Portneuf Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada * Pierre River (Mit ...

Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the greatest French writers of all time. His most famous works are the novels ''The Hunchback of Notre-Dame'' (1831) and ''Les Misérables'' (1862). In France, Hugo is renowned for his poetry collections, such as (''The Contemplations'') and (''The Legend of the Ages''). Hugo was at the forefront of the Romanticism, Romantic literary movement with his play ''Cromwell (play), Cromwell'' and drama ''Hernani (drama), Hernani''. Many of his works have inspired music, both during his lifetime and after his death, including the opera ''Rigoletto'' and the musicals ''Les Misérables (musical), Les Misérables'' and ''Notre-Dame de Paris (musical), Notre-Dame de Paris''. He produced more than 4,000 drawings in his lifetime, and campaigned for social cau ...
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Pierres (poems)
There are works that are named Pierres, pronounced like Pierre: * ''Pierres'' (novel), a novel of Victor Hugo * ''Pierres'' (poems), a collection of poems of Roger Caillois Pierres is the name of several communes in France: *Pierres, Calvados, in the Calvados ''département'' *Pierres, Eure-et-Loir, in the Eure-et-Loir ''département'' See also *Pierre (other) Pierre is a French given name. Pierre may also refer to: Places * Pierre, South Dakota, USA; the capital of South Dakota * Rivière à Pierre (Batiscan River tributary), in Portneuf Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada * Pierre River (Mit ...

Roger Caillois
Roger Caillois (; 3 March 1913 – 21 December 1978) was a French intellectual whose idiosyncratic work brought together literary criticism, sociology, ludology and philosophy by focusing on diverse subjects such as games and play as well as the sacred. He was also instrumental in introducing Latin American authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda and Miguel Ángel Asturias to the French public. After his death, the French Literary award Prix Roger Caillois was named after him in 1991. Biography Caillois was born in Reims, but moved to Paris as a child. There he studied at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, an elite school where students took courses after graduating from secondary school in order to prepare for entry examinations for France's most prestigious university, the École Normale Supérieure. Caillois's efforts paid off and he graduated as a ''normalien'' in 1933. After this he studied at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, where he came into contact with thinkers su ...
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Commune In France
The () is a level of administrative division in the French Republic. French are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipalities in the United States and Canada, ' in Germany, ' in Italy, or ' in Spain. The United Kingdom's equivalent are civil parishes, although some areas, particularly urban areas, are unparished. are based on historical geographic communities or villages and are vested with significant powers to manage the populations and land of the geographic area covered. The are the fourth-level administrative divisions of France. vary widely in size and area, from large sprawling cities with millions of inhabitants like Paris, to small hamlets with only a handful of inhabitants. typically are based on pre-existing villages and facilitate local governance. All have names, but not all named geographic areas or groups of people residing together are ( or ), the difference residing in the lack of administrative powers. Except for the municipal arrondi ...
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France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its Metropolitan France, metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin (island), ...
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Pierres, Calvados
Pierres () is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Valdallière.Arrêté préfectoral
13 October 2015

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Communes of the Calvados department The following is a list of the 528 communes of the Calvados department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):
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Pierres, Eure-et-Loir
Pierres () is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France. With the neighbouring commune of Maintenon, they form an urban satellite of Paris of 7,143 inhabitants (2018).Comparateur de territoire
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Communes of the Eure-et-Loir department The following is a list of the 365 communes of the Eure-et-Loir department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):
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