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Chartres

Chartres is a city of France, Préfecture (capital) of the Eure-et-Loir département.

Its cathedral has been inscribed by the UNESCO on the list of World Heritage Sites in 1979.

Chartres was the birthplace of:

Jerôme Pétion de Villeneuve
François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers
Pierre Nicole
Jacques Pierre Brissot

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