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Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône is an industrial town and port annex of Marseille at the mouth of the Rhône River, and includes many parks, large avenues and large farmhouses known as camarguais. The town has three popular beaches: Napoleon beach, Olga beach, and Carteau beach. There are many marshes and cultivated plants nearby, and vast salt ...
Saint-Louis, Haut-Rhin. 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Saint-Louis ( French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ lwi] ⓘ; Alsatian: Sä-Louis; German: Sankt Ludwig) [citation needed] is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France .
Bedous, Béarn, France. Died. 20 June 1778. (1778-06-20) (aged 48) Near the mouth of the Arkansas River. Pierre Laclède Liguest or Pierre Laclède (22 November 1729 – 20 June 1778) was a French fur trader who, with his young assistant and stepson Auguste Chouteau, founded St. Louis in 1764, in what was then Spanish Upper Louisiana, in ...
Jean-Pierre Chouteau. Jean-Pierre Chouteau (10 October 1758 – 10 July 1849) [1] was a French Creole fur trader, merchant, politician, and slaveholder. An early settler of St. Louis from New Orleans, he became one of its most prominent citizens. He and his family were prominent in establishing the fur trade in the city, which became the early ...
Auguste Chouteau. René-Auguste Chouteau Jr. (September 7, 1749, or September 26, 1750 [1] – February 24, 1829 [2] ), also known as Auguste Chouteau, was the founder of St. Louis, Missouri, a successful fur trader and a politician. He and his partner had a monopoly for many years of fur trade with the large Osage tribe on the Missouri River.
The history of the Jews in France deals with Jews and Jewish communities in France since at least the Early Middle Ages. France was a centre of Jewish learning in the Middle Ages, but persecution increased over time, including multiple expulsions and returns. During the French Revolution in the late 18th century, on the other hand, France was ...
St. Louis was home to a cluster of early skyscrapers during the late 19th century. Two of Louis Sullivan's important early skyscrapers stand among a crop of similar office buildings and department stores built up between 1890 and 1915. His Wainwright Building (1891) features strong base-pediment-shaft massing and an insistently vertical pattern ...
Roman Catholicism. Painting of Louis IX by Emile Signol. Louis IX (25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270), commonly revered as Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death in 1270. He is widely recognized as the most distinguished of the Direct Capetians. Following the death of his father, Louis VIII, he was crowned in Reims at the age ...