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Bois de Vincennes (Vincennes, France)

LC control no.sh 98002888
Geographic headingBois de Vincennes (Vincennes, France)
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Variant(s)Parc de Vincennes (Vincennes, France)
Vincennes, Bois de (Vincennes, France)
See alsoParks--France
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Found inWork cat.: 98-115227: Derex, J. Histoire du bois de Vincennes : la forêt du roi et le bois du peuple de Paris, 1997: p. 135 (parc de Vincennes)
Lippincott (Bois de Vincennes: park (2,270 acres) of Paris, France, at city's ESE edge)
Web. geog. (Vincennes, commune, Val-de-Marne dept. E of Paris, extensive park (Bois Vincennes) with zoo and race track)
Britannica Micro.: v. 12, p. 378 (Vincennes, city, eastern residential suburb of Paris. The Bois de Vincennes was enclosed in the 12th century and, as a royal hunting preserve, was the reason for the château being built there. The surviving forest is a park, with a zoo, a racecourse, and a sports stadium)
GeoNames [algorithmically matched] park; 48°49ʹ00ʺN 002°27ʹ00ʺE