Seine River
river, France
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Aug. 22, 2024, 4:44 AM ET (Le Monde)
'Obama from the Seine' emerges as option to be next French prime minister
Aug. 17, 2024, 4:07 AM ET (ABC News (U.S.))
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Aug. 17, 2024, 4:07 AM ET (ABC News (U.S.))
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Aug. 12, 2024, 10:26 PM ET (AP)
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Aug. 11, 2024, 2:39 PM ET (AP)
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Seine River, river of France, after the Loire its longest. It rises 18 miles (30 kilometres) northwest of Dijon and flows in a northwesterly direction through Paris before emptying into the English Channel at Le Havre. The river is 485 miles (780 kilometres) long and with its tributaries drains an area of about 30,400 square miles (78,700 square kilometres). It is one of Europe’s great historic rivers, and its drainage network carries most of the French inland waterway traffic. Since the early Middle Ages it has been above all the river of Paris, and the mutual interdependence of the river ...(100 of 1266 words)