NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Vignats

Vignats is a commune and a canton of the d�partement of Calvados, in the Basse-Normandie r�gion, in France. Its postal code is 14700. The INSEE code is 14751.

Administrative

Population: 229
Area: 880 ha
Elevation: 129 m
Canton: Morteaux-Couliboeuf

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Charlie Jensen's Manuscript Collection - French Manuscript Documents (2378 words)
	Approximately 7½" x 11 3/4" ten pages - nine are manuscript - July 5, 1585 Act from Julien Guigout against Servan Picot for the non execution of lordship duties for land acquired in the Brittany region of France..
	March 18, one half acre and one half vergee of land in the woods of Vignats is made under the authority of the two royal tabellions (notary officers in rural areas) named Noel Daunou and Geffroy Bouciniere.
	The Fourches land parcel is sold by Josias Mallet of the parish Saint Nicolas de Vignats to Joseph Boutigny..

JS Online:Gifts of food and kindness arise from the dust of war (689 words)
	His mother, who developed typhoid fever, lived with her parents in Vignats, an even smaller town six miles to the east.
	In August of 1944, German troops were pinned by Allied forces in Falaise, and the town came under heavy bombing.
	The huge machine traveled no more than a couple hundred yards before it was hit by a bomb and, in front of Briere's startled eyes, blown to pieces.

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