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Essonne
French department / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Essonne (disambiguation).
Essonne is a department to the south of Paris in the Île-de-France region. Its prefecture is Évry. About 1,172,000 people live there (2006 estimation).
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