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arrondissement
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Definition:an administrative division of France, The Netherlands or Canada. France's 101 departments are divided into 342 of them. Basically a district.
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Secretary of State under the Restoration, the Marquis, anxious to re-enter political life, set about preparing for his candidature to the Chamber of Deputies long beforehand. In the winter he distributed a great deal of wood, and in the Conseil General always enthusiastically demanded new roads for his arrondissement.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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