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Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (French: [nikɔla lwi də lakaj]; 15 March 1713 – 21 March 1762), [3] formerly sometimes spelled de la Caille, was a French astronomer and geodesist who named 14 out of the 88 constellations.
The Saint-Nicolas Heritage Site ( French: site du patrimoine de Saint-Nicolas) is a small municipal historic district located in the western part of Lévis, Quebec. It encompasses a group of a half-dozen properties and their dependencies that developed around the estate of a major family. Most of the buildings date from the 19th century, with ...
Théodore [1] (Nicolas) Gobley (French:; 11 May 1811, in Paris – 1 September 1876, in Bagnères-de-Luchon, was the first to isolate and ultimately determine the chemical structure of lecithin, the first identified and characterized member of the phospholipids class.
Biography. Born at la Grave in Oisans, in the Dauphiné, he left France in 1542 to participate in the siege of Perpignan which was then held by Emperor Charles V of Austria. In 1547, he sailed to Scotland where his intervention ended the siege of St Andrews Castle. In 1548, he returned to Scotland to take away Mary, Queen of Scots from ...
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Saint-Jean-Saint-Nicolas ( French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ sɛ̃ nikɔla]; Vivaro-Alpine: Sant Joan Sant Nicolau) is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in southeastern France. [ 3]
Saint-Pierre-des-Corps ( French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ pjɛʁ de kɔʁ] ⓘ) is a commune in the French department of Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France. [ 3 ] It is located about 4 km (2.5 mi) from Tours. During the French Revolution, it was called La Clarté-Républicaine .
Nicolas became the patron saint of the Duchy of Lorraine.The current basilica was built in the 15th and 16th centuries and has fine Renaissance painted glass windows by Nicolas Droguet of Lyon, Valentin Bousch of Strasbourg, Hans von Kulmbach and Veit Hirsvogel from Nuremberg, Georges Millereau and other unknown artists, as well as 19th century replacements for lost glass works.
139–291 m (456–955 ft) 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Saint-Nicolas-du-Pélem ( French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ nikɔla dy pelɛm]; Breton: Sant-Nikolaz-ar-Pelem) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in northwestern France .