Search results for "Département in France" - New World Encyclopedia
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- image_desc=The Girondins in the La Force Prison after their arrest| Legislative Assembly originally from the département of Gironde in southwest ...1 KB (146 words) - 17:33, 28 June 2022
- Provence (Provençal Occitan: Provença in classical norm or Prouvènço ... oil, mulberry trees), and cattle are raised in the Camargue. Although Provence ...13 KB (1,926 words) - 08:21, 2 December 2022
- 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 ...12 KB (1,868 words) - 13:42, 3 May 2023
- century tradition of Romanticism is one in which love conquers all, overcoming ... Born in Paris to a father of aristocratic lineage (from a grandaughter ...8 KB (1,162 words) - 14:56, 21 May 2024
- Rennes-le-Château (Rènnas del Castèl in Occitan) is a small medieval ... Starting in the 1950s, a local restaurant owner, in order to increase ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 16:42, 24 February 2023
- Cannes is a French commune located in the department of Alpes-Maritimes ... the fascist governments of Germany and Italy in film selection. ...16 KB (2,525 words) - 19:24, 25 November 2023
- 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 ...6 KB (931 words) - 21:06, 4 October 2022
- 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 ...15 KB (2,117 words) - 06:17, 13 June 2023
- 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 ...20 KB (3,217 words) - 15:13, 21 May 2024
- 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 ...23 KB (3,372 words) - 08:41, 24 January 2024
- 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 ...23 KB (3,549 words) - 07:17, 23 August 2023
- 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 ...24 KB (3,434 words) - 16:28, 29 December 2020
- solve difficult mathematical problems. Early in life, he contemplated becoming ... Fourier was born at Auxerre in the Yonne département of France, the son ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 00:38, 11 August 2022
- 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 ...17 KB (2,614 words) - 03:45, 1 October 2023
- 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 ...17 KB (2,551 words) - 15:25, 6 October 2022
- The dechristianization of France during the French Revolution describes ... priests were executed. The church's role in France was permanently altered. ...27 KB (3,836 words) - 09:01, 28 January 2024
- poets of mid-to-late nineteenth century France. Rimbaud was a literary prodigy ... Rimbaud's rejection of bourgeois values and notions of morality in ...12 KB (1,837 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- statesman, physician and journalist. He led France during World War I and was ... Clemenceau, however, secured France's trusteeship of Syria and the ...28 KB (4,425 words) - 15:12, 21 May 2024
- Saint of Fishermen. The archipelago is France's only remnant of its ... Originally settled in the seventeenth century due to the attraction of ...22 KB (3,091 words) - 20:40, 17 April 2023
- Legislative Assembly originally from the département of Gironde in southwest ... the National Convention until their fall in the insurrection of 31 May – ...34 KB (4,885 words) - 16:31, 15 December 2022