Search results for "Département in France" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Provence (Provençal Occitan: Provença in classical norm or Prouvènço ... oil, mulberry trees), and cattle are raised in the Camargue. Although Provence ...
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  • 1370), born Guillaume Grimoard, a native of France, was Pope from 1362 to 1370 ... Guillaume de Grimoard, was a native of Grizac in Languedoc (today part ...
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  • century tradition of Romanticism is one in which love conquers all, overcoming ... Born in Paris to a father of aristocratic lineage (from a grandaughter ...
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  • Rennes-le-Château (Rènnas del Castèl in Occitan) is a small medieval ... Starting in the 1950s, a local restaurant owner, in order to increase ...
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  • Cannes is a French commune located in the department of Alpes-Maritimes ... the fascist governments of Germany and Italy in film selection. ...
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  • known for his operas, which were very popular in the late nineteenth and early ... Massenet was born in Montaud, then an outlying hamlet and now a part of ...
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  • Édith Cresson (born January 27, 1934 as Édith Campion in Boulogne-Billancourt ... her nation and the wider European community in a wide variety of posts. However ...
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  • 5, 1794) was a noted orator, a leading figure in the early stages of the French ... Because the French Revolution was in part a reaction to the abuse of power ...
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  • include the Dakar Grand Mosque, built in 1964; Gorée Island, a World ... first president, Léopold Senghor was elected in 1960, and handed power to his ...
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  • Avignon is a commune in southern France with a population of 89,300 in ... Martell. After a long period of semi-autonomy in the empire, Avignon finally came ...
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  • turn towards reliance on nuclear power as France's main energy source. ... of Europe and, having limited his involvement in national politics after his defeat ...
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  • solve difficult mathematical problems. Early in life, he contemplated becoming ... Fourier was born at Auxerre in the Yonne département of France, the son ...
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  • The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) is the National Library of ... maps, coins, and others. All works published in France are deposited to the Library ...
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  • In particular, Les damnés de la terre (The Wretched of the Earth) was ... then a French colony and now a French département. He was born into a mixed ...
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  • The dechristianization of France during the French Revolution describes ... priests were executed. The church's role in France was permanently altered. ...
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  • poets of mid-to-late nineteenth century France. Rimbaud was a literary prodigy ... Rimbaud's rejection of bourgeois values and notions of morality in ...
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  • statesman, physician and journalist. He led France during World War I and was ... Clemenceau, however, secured France's trusteeship of Syria and the ...
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  • Saint of Fishermen. The archipelago is France's only remnant of its ... Originally settled in the seventeenth century due to the attraction of ...
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  • Legislative Assembly originally from the département of Gironde in southwest ... the National Convention until their fall in the insurrection of 31 May – ...
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  • critic whose life spans two major phases in the development of French literature ... makes him one of the most protean figures in French literature. He left behind ...
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