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1709 - The year of the great winter
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A terrible winter, one of the coldest of all historic times.
The witnesses of this time in Saintonge, Aunis and Angoumois tell about it.
The winter in year 1709 has been one of the coldest of all historic times.
The witnesses from many places of Saintonge, Aunis and Angoumois tell about their experience of these extreme conditions.
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