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Boulogne
Loire
Exeter
Anjou
Salamanca
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Loire

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Definition:
the longest river in France and the 171st longest in the world. With a length of 1,012 kilometres (629 mi), it drains an area of 117,054 km2 (45,195 sq mi), or more than a fifth of France's land area, while its average discharge is only half that of the Rhône.
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Messire Bruyn, he who completed the Castle of Roche-Corbon-les-Vouvray, on the banks of the Loire, was a boisterous fellow in his youth.

Honoré de Balzac. Droll Stories.
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There were some fine photographs of the chateaux of the Loire, and an article as well.

Daphne du Maurier. Rebecca (1938)
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