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which is the largest of the three (40% of the area of Seine-et-Oise). There were 198 communes in the south of Seine-et-Oise (32% of the area of Seine-et-Oise) that became part of the
Essonne department, and the official number 91 was assigned to this department, a number that had been previously used for the
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