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Toulon is the second-largest French city by urban area on the Mediterranean coast after Marseille. Toulon is an important centre for naval construction, fishing, wine making, and the manufacture of aeronautical equipment, armaments, maps, paper, tobacco, printing, shoes, and electronic equipment.
The Hôtel de Ville (French pronunciation: [otɛl də vil], City Hall) is a historic building in Toulon, Var, southern France, standing on Avenue de la République.
Rugby Club Toulonnais (French pronunciation: [ʁyɡbi klœb tulɔnɛ]), also referred to as Rugby Club Toulon or simply Toulon, is a French professional rugby union club based in Toulon and competing in the Top 14. Located on the French Riviera, in the Provence region, the club plays its home games at the 17,500-capacity Stade Mayol.
The siege of Toulon (29 August – 19 December 1793) was a military engagement that took place during the Federalist revolts and the War of the First Coalition, part of the French Revolutionary Wars. It was undertaken by forces of the French Republic against Royalist rebels supported by Anglo-Spanish forces in the southern French city of Toulon .
The Métropole Toulon Provence Méditerranée (French pronunciation: [metʁɔpɔl tulɔ̃ pʁɔvɑ̃s meditɛʁane]) is the métropole, an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Toulon. It is located in the Var department, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, southeastern France.
Édouard-Thomas de Burgues, comte de Missiessy (French pronunciation: [edwaʁ tɔmɑ byʁɡ də misjesi]; 23 April 1756, Forcalquier, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence – 24 March 1837, Toulon) was a French naval officer and admiral. He joined the navy in April 1766, as a volunteer aboard his father's ship and spent most of his early service in the ...
Jean Gaspard de Vence (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ɡaspaʁ də vɑ̃s]; 6 April 1747 – 12 March 1808) was a French privateer, admiral and Maritime Prefect of Toulon.
The Bagne of Toulon was a notorious bagne, or penal establishment in Toulon, France, made famous as the place of imprisonment of the fictional Jean Valjean, the hero of Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables. It was opened in 1748 and closed in 1873.