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Le Grau-du-Roi ( French pronunciation: [lə ɡʁo dy ʁwa]; Occitan: Lo Grau dau Rei) is a commune in the Gard department in southern France. It is the only commune in Gard to have a frontage on the Mediterranean. To the west is the Herault department and La Grande-Motte village, and to the east is the Bouches-du-Rhone department.
Henri Christophe. Henri Christophe [1] ( French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi kʁistɔf]; 6 October 1767 – 8 October 1820) was a key leader in the Haitian Revolution and the only monarch of the Kingdom of Haiti . Christophe was of Bambara ethnicity in West Africa. [2] Beginning with the slave uprising of 1791, he rose to power in the ranks of the ...
Chambre du Roi. La Chambre du Roi ( French pronunciation: [la ʃɑ̃bʁ dy ʁwa] ), "the king's bedchamber"), has always been the central feature of the king's apartment in traditional French palace design [1] Ceremonies surrounding the daily life of the king — such as the levée (the ceremonial raising and dressing of the king held in the ...
Adam de la Halle (1245–50 – 1285–8/after 1306) was a French poet-composer trouvère. Among the few medieval composers to write both monophonic and polyphonic music, in this respect he has been considered both a conservative and progressive composer, resulting in a complex legacy: he cultivated admired representatives of older trouvère genres, but also experimented with newer dramatic works.
Tens of thousands of people gathered Wednesday in the southern French city of Marseille to welcome the Olympic torch and mark another milestone in the lead-up to the Summer Games in Paris. A ...
In 1699, Isaac Newton wrote about equations with an infinite number of terms in his work De analysi per aequationes numero terminorum infinitas. Mathematics. Hermann Weyl opened a mathematico-philosophic address given in 1930 with: Mathematics is the science of the infinite. Symbol
Signature. René of Anjou ( Italian: Renato; Occitan: Rainièr; 16 January 1409 – 10 July 1480) was Duke of Anjou and Count of Provence from 1434 to 1480, who also reigned as King of Naples as René I from 1435 to 1442 (then deposed). Having spent his last years in Aix-en-Provence, he is known in France as the Good King René ( Occitan: Rei ...
Jean Talon, Bishop François de Laval and several settlers welcome the King's Daughters upon their arrival. Painting by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale. The King's Daughters (French: filles du roi, or filles du roy in the spelling of the era) is a term used to refer to the approximately 800 young French women who immigrated to New France between 1663 and 1673 as part of a program sponsored by King ...