Nièvre
Americannoun
noun
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They took their eldest child, John, with them; Niki, then a few months old, was sent to her grandparents’ château, in Nièvre.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 18, 2016
Georges Mathé was born on July 9, 1922, in Nièvre, France, earned his medical degree from the University of Paris and fought with the Resistance against the Nazis in World War II.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2010
Like some of the villages in the Morvan and in the department of La Nièvre, La Bresse remained till the Revolution an independent commune, a republic in miniature.
From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Matilda Betham-Edwards
It would seem as if all the horses, mules, and donkeys of the Nièvre were brought hither to be shod, the smithy fires keeping up a perpetual illumination.
From East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne by Matilda Betham-Edwards
The Loing canal joins the Seine at Saint Mammes, a few kilomètres lower down, continuing its course of thirty kilomètres to Bleneau in the Nièvre.
From East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne by Matilda Betham-Edwards
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