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...that pioneering aeroplane pilot and racing driver Henri Rougier won the inaugural Monte Carlo Rally in his Turcat-Méry car (pictured)?
...that Farewell, My Queen, a 2012 film adapted from the Chantal Thomas novel, opened the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival?
...that after capture by English adventurer Sir David Kirke and combat with the Iroquois, surgeon Robert Giffard de Moncel helped start the first hospital in North America?

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