This company takes the name of archiers du corps or gardes de la manche. |
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Cherbourg is historically, with the Arsenal and the port, the main focus of labour and trades unions of the department of Manche. |
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The city is today one of the three main judicial hubs of Manche, along with Coutances and Avranches. |
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Maurice Denis, one of the leaders and theoricists of the Nabis movement in the 1890s, was a native of Granville, in the Manche department. |
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The largest city in the Department of Manche, it is the result of the merger of the communes of Cherbourg and Octeville. |
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The Gardes de la Manche were distinguished by a heavily embroidered white and gold cassock which they wore over the blue and red and silver uniform of the Body Guard. |
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The French name la Manche has been in use since at least the 17th century. |
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