Search results for "Old French" - New World Encyclopedia
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- where he started work on a setting of a French libretto by Jean-François ... Hector Berlioz, who went on to portray the old composer as a crotchety pedant ...6 KB (953 words) - 02:42, 5 November 2022
- Secondary education in France falls under the jurisdiction of the ... on the type of baccalauréat. Public French universities are required ...18 KB (2,719 words) - 17:43, 25 January 2023
- In the Germanic languages, the root word led to Old English gos with ... Foie gras (French for "fat liver") is the liver of a goose ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 04:17, 24 May 2024
- ] in French) (May 10, 1788 – July 14, 1827), was a French physicist ... he could barely read when he was eight years old. But at age nine, he is said ...11 KB (1,814 words) - 21:58, 30 November 2021
- of Darkness, and Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. ... Boccaccio's form was mimicked by the French Queen Margerite de Navarre ...11 KB (1,596 words) - 14:27, 20 July 2023
- Guillaume Apollinaire (in French ɡijom apɔliˈnɛʁ ) (August 26, 1880 – November 9, 1918) was a French avant-garde ...11 KB (1,569 words) - 23:21, 11 July 2023
- Rico. They were evading the imposition of French rule over the eastern side ... In 1821, when Duarte was eight years-old, the Creole elite of Santo ...13 KB (2,036 words) - 06:02, 10 May 2024
- time clashed with that of the King of the French, Louis-Philippe. ... Catholic Church in France. Before the French Revolution, the French Catholic ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- who, after being uprooted by the French Revolution, became a great ... the aristocracy, and the whole of the old French society, who instead of ...18 KB (2,651 words) - 05:02, 7 May 2024
- to King James V of Scotland and his French wife, Marie de Guise. In ... The six-day-old Mary became Queen of Scotland when her father died ...19 KB (3,103 words) - 16:03, 7 November 2022
- The French campaign against Korea of 1866, known as Byeonginyangyo ... and intriguing leaders of the 500 year old Joseon dynasty. The Daewongun ...15 KB (2,312 words) - 10:51, 11 April 2024
- in particular Malory relied heavily on the French Arthurian poets of the thirteenth ... and Maleore. The name comes from the Old French adjective maleüré (from ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 21:21, 30 April 2023
- French Polynesia, or as it is known in Tahitian language, Porinetia ... French Polynesia is an archipelago located in the South Pacific Ocean ...18 KB (2,636 words) - 10:55, 11 April 2024
- them. Either embrace the new and reject the old, or embrace the old and reject ... of Catholics, including a number of French Jesuit priests, led to a ...14 KB (2,195 words) - 06:44, 18 April 2024
- 25, 1709 – November 11, 1751) was a French physician and philosopher ... La Mettrie’s writings had considerable influence on French materialists ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 21:12, 4 October 2022
- Charles VI the Well-Beloved, later known as Charles VI the Mad (French: ... as English oppression personifies the French spirit and the French sense ...11 KB (1,689 words) - 00:35, 5 December 2023
- during the Reign of Terror following the French Revolution. It was introduced ... its name) in France at the time of the French Revolution. However, guillotine ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 08:14, 8 January 2024
- Europeans. They were initially met by the French, with whom they became trading ... The term "Algonquin" is French, and may derive from the ...17 KB (2,518 words) - 18:12, 21 July 2023
- in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris) is a French politician. She was the first ... Her offensive public comments about French minorities and failure to ...15 KB (2,117 words) - 06:17, 13 June 2023
- rid of the stereotyped movements and the old hackneyed associations of ... back to the comforting and easy arms of the old, regular metre, which takes ...8 KB (1,239 words) - 14:59, 8 October 2022
