Traces de France
Pour l’amour du pays, par les yeux du monde
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illustration : Palais de Noordeinde à la Haye, Pays-Bas, avec la devise « Je maintiendrai » en français
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Why do we have surnames? | English Heritage Blog
Most Saxon and early Celtic personal names disappeared quite quickly after the Norman Conquest. French names like William, Robert and Henry become popular among the general population – and for the first time, surnames start to appear.
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French Footprints in South Africa (Eric H. Bolsmann, 2008)
The almost complete absence of direct influences by the French to the wine industry and the culinary arts comes as a surprise, but this is more than made up for by the enormous cultural and scientific contributions they made to South Africa.
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England’s ‘First Refugees’ | History Today Magazine
By 1713 the economic value of the Huguenots was so great to the allies that neither England nor Holland wished to press the issue [allowed them back into France]
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Welcome to Franschhoek
Franschhoek is the most beautiful wine valley in the world
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The contribution of the Huguenots in South Africa | Huguenot Society of South Africa
The Dutch East India Company encouraged the Huguenots to emigrate to the Cape
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Calvin’s Place in History [in History of the Christian Church, Volume VIII] | Christian Classics Ethereal Library
He is scarcely inferior to Augustin among the fathers, or Thomas Aquinas among the schoolmen, and more methodical and symmetrical than either.
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John Calvin, French theologian | Britannica.com
The Calvinist form of Protestantism is widely thought to have had a major impact on the formation of the modern world.
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John Calvin | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA
Undoubtedly the greatest of Protestant divines, and perhaps, after St. Augustine, the most perseveringly followed by his disciples of any Western writer on theology
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Historic privileges shape economic subconscious of nation | Hürriyet Daily News
The agreement that was concluded gave the French a special position in the Ottoman Empire, and one writer has pointed out that the empire became a kind of crown colony.
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Thomas Arbousset (1810 to 1887) | The Dictionary of African Christian Biography
Thomas Arbousset was a French Protestant pioneer missionary in Lesotho
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Saint Bernard of Clairvaux | 1902encyclopedia
ST. BERNARD, one of the most illustrious Christian teachers and representatives of monasticism in the Middle Ages