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Pierrefonds

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Pierrefonds

Town in Montréal Urban Community, southern Québec, Canada, near the southwest end of Montréal Island, along the Rivière des Prairies facing Bizard Island, and 24 km/15 mi southwest of downtown Montréal; population (1991) 48,700. During the 1980s it was one of the urban community's faster-growing residential communities.
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Porthos had, in fact, been involved in a dispute with the Bishop of Noyon in regard to the Pierrefonds property, which adjoined his own, and weary at length of a legal controversy which was beyond his comprehension, he put an end to it by purchasing Pierrefonds and added that name to his others.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
I have still Pierrefonds left, and there I shall find the best man and the best filled coffer.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
You were in Paris, and as for us, we were at Pierrefonds.
The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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