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Villers-Cotterêts
Villers-Cotterêts is a commune of the Aisne département in France.
It was the birthplace of Alexandre Dumas, père (1802-1870), novelist.
Villers-Cotterêts is famous because of the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts 1539 signed by François Ier which made French the official language in the kingdom instead of Latin.
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