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Gonesse

Gonesse is a town in the departement of Val d'Oise north of Paris.

It is immediately north of Le Bourget[?] airport and southwest of Charles De Gaulle International Airport.

King Philip II of France was born here on August 21, 1165.

On June 25, 2000, a Concorde supersonic airliner crashed in Gonesse.

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