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
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
The proprietors of the Loiret avenged the fright of their fellow-proprietors of the Nièvre.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
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