Pour l’amour du pays, par les yeux du monde
En 1859, Blondin, qui faisait alors ses spectacles en solo, arriva aux chutes du Niagara et annonça qu’il traverserait le terrible ravin.
Le Royaume de Francie occidentale (843-987), également connu sous le nom de Royaume des Francs occidentaux, était la région d’Europe occidentale qui formait la partie occidentale de l’Empire carolingien de Charlemagne (Empereur des Romains 800-814), alors appelée Francie ou Royaume des Francs
Avec la Grande Paix de Montréal, les Amérindiens renoncent à la guerre; ils s’en remettent aussi aux Français pour régler leurs divergences et acceptent de partager leurs territoires de chasse.
L’accord de Montréal crée une ère de paix qui dure jusqu’à la conquête de la Nouvelle-France par les Britanniques en 1760
Il a exploré, mais surtout cartographié précisément pour la première fois, l’intérieur du fleuve Saint-Laurent, du golfe jusqu’à Montréal
Le complexe du Casino de Montréal formé des anciens pavillons de la France et du Québec, occupent aujourd’hui une place centrale dans l’histoire architecturale contemporaine de Montréal.
Enciclopedia colaborativa en la red cubana, en idioma español, que nace de la voluntad de crear y difundir el conocimiento, con todos y para todos.
While using the generic term of Afranja (Land of the Franks) for Europe, Rašīd-al-Dīn clearly mentions France as Afransa
The continuing significance of Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727–1781) is both as a founder of modern economic science and as a powerful shaper of the Enlightenment idea of progress
ST. BERNARD, one of the most illustrious Christian teachers and representatives of monasticism in the Middle Ages
Great as was the influence exerted by Abelard on the minds of his contemporaries and the course of mediaeval thought
Alfred Binet (July 8, 1857 – October 18, 1911) was a French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test
In 1912, the laboratory was officially recognized by the Lyon police. Locard then headed the first official police crime laboratory in the world. This laboratory received world recognition and many great criminalists obtained their knowledge and experience under the guidance of Locard in the years that followed.
Anquetil was nonetheless the first to bring a manuscript of an ancient oriental sacred text other than the Bible to the attention of European scholars.
Chinese has flooded the vocabularies of Corean, Japanese, and Annamite for centuries, but has received nothing in return. In the western Europe of medieval and modern times French has exercised a similar, though probably a less overwhelming, influence
In the last two centuries, French literature has had a significant impact on modern Persian literature
L’innovation de Tellier fait grand bruit en Europe où la compétition fait rage sur les modes de conservation hygiénique des denrées.
At the Paris Congress the name of Edmond Carre was spoken with due reverence as the inventor of the first ice—making machine that was a commercial success
Les frères Carré ont dominé le marché international du froid durant trente ans à la fin du XIXè siècle avec leur « machine à absorption au gaz d’ammoniac » qui fournit de la glace en continu.
via Famous french – France – Encyclopedia of the Nations France – Famous french Principal figures of early French history include Clovis I (466?–511), the first important monarch of the Merovingian line, who sought to unite the Franks; Charles Martel (« the Hammer, » 689?–741), leader of the Franks against the Saracens in 732; his grandson Charlemagne(742–814),…
Fundador de la Academia de Pintura y Dibujo de San Alejandro de La Habana la cual dirigió desde 1818–1833
Undoubtedly the greatest of Protestant divines, and perhaps, after St. Augustine, the most perseveringly followed by his disciples of any Western writer on theology
ST. BERNARD, one of the most illustrious Christian teachers and representatives of monasticism in the Middle Ages