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Saint-Raphaël , town (1990 pop. 26,799), Var dept., SE France, on the French Riviera . It is an elegant resort and a small commercial port as well as an important naval air base and the site of a naval school. Napoleon Bonaparte landed at Saint-Raphaël on his return from Egypt in 1799.

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