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Seine-et-Oise

American  
[sen-ey-waz] / sɛn eɪˈwaz /

noun

  1. a former department in N France.


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He appointed the Cossack General, Krasnov, as his aide-de-camp, and rented the Villa Choigny at Sauteny, Seine-et-Oise, as the temporary headquarters of the new movement.

From Time Magazine Archive

Imagine a Society comprising several million inhabitants engaged in agriculture, and a great variety of industries—Paris, for example, with the Department of Seine-et-Oise.

From Anarchism and Socialism by Plekhanov, Georgii Valentinovich

Artillery, engineers, troops of the line, cavalry, volunteers of the Seine-et-Oise, you rivalled each other in zeal and ardour.

From Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by Leighton, John

The tax was at the rate of 5 centimes per sheet of 72 square decimetres or less for newspapers published in the departments of Seine and Seine-et-Oise, and 2 centimes for those published elsewhere.

From The Development of Rates of Postage An Historical and Analytical Study by Smith, A. D.

In this way it touches the central province of the Ile-de-France, the main body of which is now divided into the three Departments of the Seine, the Seine-et-Oise, and the Seine-et-Marne.

From France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by Hurlbert, William Henry

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