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Cap Gris Nez: tags: [geography]

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literally "cape grey nose", the closest geographical point in France to England, just 34 km from Dover across the channel.

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Without exchanging more than a few words, [he] was leading her right across the town, to the other side from that where they had landed, and the way towards Cap Gris Nez. The streets were narrow, tortuous, and mostly evil-smelling, with a mixture of stale fish and damp cellar odours.

Baroness Emmuska Orczy. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)

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Cap Gris Nez

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