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Or·lé·ans

 (ôr-lā-äN′)
A city of north-central France on the Loire River south-southwest of Paris. Founded by Celts and conquered by Julius Caesar in 52 bc, the city was the center of a Frankish kingdom in the sixth century and a residence of the Capetian kings in the tenth century. The English siege of Orléans (1428-1429) was lifted by troops led by Joan of Arc, the "Maid of Orléans."
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orleans

(ˈɔːlɪənz)
n
a fabric formerly woven at Orléans

Orléans

(ɔːˈlɪənz; French ɔrleɑ̃)
n
(Placename) a city in N central France, on the River Loire: famous for its deliverance by Joan of Arc from the long English siege in 1429; university (1305); an important rail and road junction. Pop: 116 256 (2006)

Orléans

(French ɔrleɑ̃)
n
1. (Biography) Charles (ʃarl), Duc d'Orléans. 1394–1465, French poet; noted for the poems written during his imprisonment in England; father of Louis XII
2. (Biography) Louis Philippe Joseph (lwi filip ʒozɛf), Duc d'Orléans, known as Philippe Égalité (after 1792). 1747–93, French nobleman, who supported the French Revolution and voted for the death of his cousin, Louis XVI, but was executed after his son, the future king Louis-Philippe, defected to the Austrians
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Or•lé•ans

(ˈɔr li ənz; Fr. ɔr leɪˈɑ̃)

n.
a city in central France, SSW of Paris. 105,589.
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Noun1.Orleans - a city on the Loire river in north central France; site of the siege of Orleans by the English (1428-1429)
France, French Republic - a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe
2.Orleans - a long siege of Orleans by the English was relieved by Joan of Arc in 1429
siege of Orleans
France, French Republic - a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe
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La Loire, vaste corridor fluvial, est deja bien naviguee quand l'antique cite d'Orleans, Genabum, se constitue (29).
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If you put your back to the Seine and have Notre Dame behind you, and drop in for a moment in St-Julien-le-Pauvre, where Gregory of Tours sang the night office in the shrine that stood there in the sixth century, you may launch yourself from this ancient rectorial church of the medieval university of Paris toward the south, up the hill to Ste-Genevieve, along the route to Orleans (the Roman Genabum), and thus on the way to Rome; indeed, the Roman road is still deep beneath your feet.
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For when anything special or remarkable occurs, the people shout the news from one field to the next, and from farm to farm; step by step the message is received and passed on." In this event, what happened at Genabum at dawn was known before eight o'clock in the country of the Arverni, about 150 miles away.
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