Ouzouer-sur-Trézée is a

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in the

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in north-central

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. The

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and the river Trézée run through the town. A well-known

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of the town was the French Resistance fighter and spy Count

Robert de La Rochefoucauld Comte Robert Jean Marie de La Rochefoucauld (16 September 1923 – 8 May 2012) was a member of the French Resistance and the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II, and later served as the mayor of Ouzouer-sur-Trézée, a canal to ...

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