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Terre-de-Haut Racer
Terre-de-Haut (; ) is a commune in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe, including Terre-de-Haut Island and a few other small uninhabited islands of the archipelago (''les Roches Percées''; '' Îlet à Cabrit''; '' Grand-Îlet''; ''la Redonde''). It is the most populous island of the archipelago of Les Saintes. The Fort Napoléon is located in this commune. Tourism Terre-de-Haut is the most tourist-friendly municipality in ''les Saintes'' archipelago, with hotels, bungalows, bars and restaurants. There is little formalized activity, but one can tour the restored Fort Napoleon or rent mopeds. Located there is the beautiful ''Plage de Pompierre'' beach, as well as small guest-houses, eateries, French-Creole shops, and an active harbour where ferries passengers from Guadeloupe arrive. The local people make a living from fishing and from tourism. Visitors are free to explore without modern-day intrusion. The local currency is the Euro, but credit cards are easily accepted. A ...
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Communes Of France
A () is a level of administrative divisions of France, administrative division in the France, French Republic. French are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipality, municipalities in Canada and the United States; ' in Germany; ' in Italy; ' in Spain; or civil parishes in the United Kingdom. are based on historical geographic communities or villages and are vested with significant powers to manage the populations and land of the geographic area covered. The are the fourth-level administrative divisions of France. vary widely in size and area, from large sprawling cities with millions of inhabitants like Paris, to small hamlet (place), hamlets with only a handful of inhabitants. typically are based on pre-existing villages and facilitate local governance. All have names, but not all named geographic areas or groups of people residing together are ( or ), the difference residing in the lack of administrative powers. Except for the Municipal arrondissem ...
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Fort Napoléon Des Saintes
Fort Napoléon (in French: ''Fort Napoléon des Saintes'') is a fortification, located on Terre-de-Haut Island, in the Îles des Saintes, Guadeloupe. Property of the Departmental Council of Guadeloupe, it has been classified as a historical monument since the December 15, 1997. Fort Napoléon was built on the ''morne'' (Caribbean French language, French word for "Hill, bluff") called ''Mire'', it was originally named ''Fort Louis''. It was destroyed by UK, British forces in 1809. It was rebuilt in 1867, and named after Napoleon III, but never saw use in battle, and was instead used as a Prison, penitentiary. It has now been turned into a museum dedicated to the Saintes’ history, culture, and environment. It also has contains the Jardin exotique du Fort Napoléon, a botanical garden dedicated to local succulent plants and iguanas. History From 1759 to 1763, the English took possession of Saintes, Charente-Maritime, Saintes and part of mainland Guadeloupe. The archipelago ...
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Communes Of The Guadeloupe Department
The following is a list of the 32 Communes of France, communes of the Guadeloupe overseas department of France. The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2025):Périmètre des groupements en 2025
BANATIC. Accessed 28 May 2025.
*Communauté d'agglomération CAP Excellence *Communauté d'agglomération Grand Sud Caraïbe *Communauté d'agglomération du Nord Basse-Terre *Communauté d'agglomération du Nord Grande-Terre *Communauté d'agglomération La Riviéra du Levant *Communauté de communes de Marie-Galante Former communes detached from Guadeloupe on 22 February 2007:


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{{Guadeloupe communes Communes of Guadeloupe, Lists of communes of France, Guadeloupe Administrative divisions in North America, Guadeloupe 3 ...
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Jardin Exotique Du Fort Napoléon
The Jardin exotique du Fort Napoléon is a botanical garden specializing in succulents. It is located on the grounds of Fort Napoléon des Saintes, Fort Napoléon at 120 m altitude above Terre-de-Haut, Îles des Saintes, and is open daily. Fort Napoléon was first erected in 1777 as Fort Louis, destroyed by the British in 1809, rebuilt from 1844, and given its present name during the reign of Napoleon III of France. Today's exotic garden was created in 1984 and paired with the Jardin Exotique de Monaco in 1986, with whom it began plant exchanges in 1987. Today the garden contains a collection of local plants and other succulents including Agavaceae, Cactaceae, succulent Euphorbia, and Liliaceae. Of particular interest are its collections of rare and endangered Cactaceae, including ''Mammillaria nivosa'', ''Melocactus intortus'', ''Opuntia dillenii'', ''Opuntia rubescens'', ''Opuntia triacantha'', ''Opuntia tuna'', ''Pereskia aculeata'', ''Pilosocereus nobilis'', and ''Selenicere ...
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Rassemblement Pour La République
The Rally for the Republic ( ; RPR ) was a Gaullism#Political legacy after de Gaulle, Gaullist and Conservatism in France, conservative List of political parties in France, political party in France. Originating from the Union of Democrats for the Republic (UDR), it was founded by Jacques Chirac in 1976 and presented itself as the heir of Gaullism, Gaullist politics. It was one of the two major parties in French politics, alongside the Socialist Party (France), Socialist Party. On 21 September 2002, the RPR was merged into the Union for the Presidential Majority, later renamed the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). History The defense of the Gaullist identity against President Giscard d'Estaing (1976–1981) In 1974, the divisions in the Gaullist movement permitted the election of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to the Presidency of the French Republic. Representing the pro-European and pseudo-Orleanist centre-right, he was the first non-Gaullist to become head of state since the be ...
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Union Pour Un Mouvement Populaire
The Union for a Popular Movement ( ; UMP ) was a liberal-conservative political party in France, largely inspired by the Gaullist tradition. During its existence, the UMP was one of the two major parties in French politics along with the Socialist Party (PS). In May 2015, the party was succeeded by The Republicans. Nicolas Sarkozy, the then president of the UMP, was elected president of France in the 2007 French presidential election, until he was later defeated by PS candidate François Hollande in the 2012 presidential election. After the November 2012 party congress, the UMP experienced internal fractioning and was plagued by monetary scandals which forced its president Jean-François Copé to resign. After Sarkozy's re-election as UMP president in November 2014, he put forward an amendment to change the name of the party to The Republicans, which was approved and came into effect on 30 May 2015. The UMP enjoyed an absolute majority in the National Assembly from 2002 to 2012, ...
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Miscellaneous Right
Miscellaneous right (', ''DVD'') in France refers to centre-right or right-wing candidates who are not members of any large party. This can include members of small right-wing parties, dissidents expelled from their party for running against their party's candidate, or candidates who were never formal members of a party. Numerous ' candidates are elected at both local and national levels. See also * Independent conservative, a term used in the United Kingdom and Canada as a label for independent candidates with conservative views *Independent Liberal (Australia), a member of the Liberal Party of Australia who either contests an election or sits in a legislature as an independent * Independent Republican (United States), a term used in the United States for independent candidates who loosely identify with the ideals of the national Republican Party but who choose not to formally affiliate with the party *Miscellaneous centre Miscellaneous centre (''Divers centre'', ''DVC'') ...
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Parti Socialiste
''Parti Socialiste'' (Socialist Party) may refer to: * Parti Socialiste (Belgium) * Parti Socialiste (France) * Parti Socialiste (Mauritius) (PS), see List of political parties in Mauritius * Parti Socialiste Mauricien (PSM), see List of political parties in Mauritius * Parti Socialiste du Sénégal, Senegal * Parti Socialiste Suisse, Switzerland * Partie Socialiste (Tunisia) See also * List of socialist parties Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. The list of parties using the exact name ''"Socialist Party"'' is to be found in the Socialist Party article. Socialist Party may also refer to the wide variety of ...
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Euro
The euro (currency symbol, symbol: euro sign, €; ISO 4217, currency code: EUR) is the official currency of 20 of the Member state of the European Union, member states of the European Union. This group of states is officially known as the euro area or, more commonly, the eurozone. The euro is divided into 100 1 euro cent coin, euro cents. The currency is also used officially by the institutions of the European Union, by International status and usage of the euro, four European microstates that are not EU members, the British Overseas Territory of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, as well as unilaterally by Montenegro and Kosovo. Outside Europe, a number of special territories of EU members also use the euro as their currency. The euro is used by 350 million people in Europe and additionally, over 200 million people worldwide use currencies pegged to the euro. It is the second-largest reserve currency as well as the second-most traded currency in the world after the United Sta ...
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îles Des Saintes
The Îles des Saintes (; ), also known as Les Saintes (, ), is a group of small islands in the archipelago of Guadeloupe, an overseas department of France. It is part of the Canton of Trois-Rivières and is divided into two communes: Terre-de-Haut and Terre-de-Bas. It is in the arrondissement of Basse-Terre and also in Guadeloupe's 4th constituency. History Pre-Columbian ''Les Saintes'', due to their location in the heart of the Lesser Antilles, were frequented first by Indian tribes coming from Caribbean and Central America. ''Caaroucaëra'' (the Arawak name of ''Îles des Saintes''), although uninhabited due to the lack of spring water, were regularly visited by Arawak peoples then Kalinagos living on the neighbourhood islands of Guadeloupe and Dominica around the 9th century. They went there to practise hunting and fishing. The archaeological remains of war axes and pottery dug up on the site of ''Anse Rodrigue's Beach'' and stored at "Fort Napoléon" museum testify the ...
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