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Marie-Josée Frank
Marie-Josée Meyers-Frank (born 12 April 1952 in Echternach) is a Luxembourgish politician. She has been a member of the Christian Social People's Party (CSV) since 1994. Frank was a member of the Chamber of Deputies, representing the Est constituency from 1999 to 2013. She was first elected to the Chamber in the 1999 election, edging four votes ahead of Nicolas Strotz to be elected third on the CSV list in the constituency (in which three CSV members were elected). She held this seat for the five-year term, but narrowly lost the third spot to Lucien Clement in the 2004 election, whilst the CSV was unable to add a fourth seat in Est. However, the appointment of Fernand Boden and Octavie Modert Octavie Modert (born 15 November 1966) is a Luxembourgish politician of the Christian Social People's Party. She was born in Grevenmacher, and she studied in Strasbourg and Reading. In 2004, she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies The chambe ... to the new government vacated ...
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Echternach
Echternach (, ; or locally ) is a commune with town status in the canton of Echternach, in eastern Luxembourg. Echternach lies near the border with Germany, and is the oldest town in Luxembourg. History The town grew around the Abbey of Echternach, which was founded in 698 by St Willibrord, an English monk from Ripon, Northumbria (in present-day North Yorkshire, England), who became the first bishop of Utrecht and worked to Christianize the Frisians. As bishop, he was the Echternach monastery's abbot until his death in 739. It is in his honour that the notable Dancing procession of Echternach takes place annually on Whit Tuesday. The river Sauer that flows past the town now forms the border between Luxembourg and Germany; in the later Roman Empire and under the Merovingians by contrast, the Sauer did not form a border or march in this area. The Roman villa at Echternach (traces of which were rediscovered in 1975) was reputed to be the largest north of the Alps. Echter ...
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