The 2006 GP Ouest-France, the 69th edition of the GP Ouest-France, took place on August 27, 2006 in the French region of Brittany, in a race in and around the village of Plouay.
Achille Rémy Percheron ( 25 January 1797 Paris - 1869) was a French entomologist.
Antoine-Alexis Cadet de Vaux (1743–1828) was a French chemist and Pharmacist.
In 1932, a quantity of unissued, but water stained Hyderabadi notes in 5, 10, and 100 rupee denominations were recovered from the S.S. Egypt, which sank off the island of Ushant near Brest, northern France in 1922.
The "Bathonien" of some French geologists differs from the English Bathonian in that it includes at the base the zone of the ammonite Parkinsonia Parkinsoni, which in England is placed at the summit of the Inferior Oolite.
Baudoinia compniacensis is black in colour and is partly responsible for the frequently observed phenomenon of 'Warehouse Staining', reported originally from the walls of buildings near brandy maturation warehouses in Cognac, France.
Breton mythology is the mythology or corpus of explanatory and herioc tales originating in Brittany, now in France.
The corporation is bound by a tripartite agreement between the University of Hawaii, the National Research Council (NRC) in Canada and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France.
The terminus at the north end is Luxembourg railway station, whilst the terminals at the south are the French towns of Metz and Nancy.
Championnat de France can refer to many different championships in France.
Claude Carliez (born 10 January 1925 in Nancy) is a French master at arms in classical fencing who became a period and fencing advisor to French films.
About three years later his seigniory of Saint-Simon in Vermandois was erected into a duchy, and he was created a peer of France.
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Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (August 1607 – 3 May 1693), French courtier, was the second son of Louis de Rouvroy, seigneur du Plessis (died 1643), who had been a warm supporter of Henry of Guise and the Catholic League.
Began in Germany and spread to England and France as a reaction against Neoclassicism and against the Age of Enlightenment.
In February 1919, the State Department granted approval to bring together American, British, and French banks concerned with investments in Mexico on the condition that control of the committee's policy remain in American hands.
In 1914 she graduated from medical school, and after the outbreak of the First World War, she worked for a few months at a hospital in Nancy and then helped run a newly organized military hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
Ernest Menault (1830, Angerville -1903) was a French author and zoologist
Étain, France, a commune in the Meuse département in France
European Master in Interactive Multimedia (EMIM) is a partnership between five institutions of higher learning in Europe: Babeş-Bolyai University in Romania, ITIN in France, Staffordshire University in United Kingdom, Tallinn University in Estonia and Yeditepe University in Turkey.
In addition to his solo works, EXP made numerous guest appearances internationally throughout Japan, China, France and Philippine.
Explicit Lyrics is the third studio album recorded by the French artist Ophélie Winter.
While the British used a squadron of Churchill Crocodiles during the fighting at Brest in September 1944, the US Army received a smaller American designed flamethrower mounted upon the M4 Sherman tank during the same month.
In 1985, agents of the DGSE, the primary foreign intelligence agency of France, bombed the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour.
At the turn of the 20th century, however, Fort-de-France became economically important after the volcanic eruption of Mount Pelée destroyed the town of Saint-Pierre in 1902.
The France Amateurs are the amateur national rugby union team of France.
The France under 20 rugby team are the newest representative rugby union team from France.
While abroad, he became heavily involved in the politics of the Labour Party, at the time led by Clement Attlee and later Hugh Gaitskell.
Colonel Charles Hosken France Hayhurst (March 10, 1832 - April 7, 1914) Benefactor.
The first cycle ended with Alizée Sorel as the winner of the competition, while the second cycle (which was held in 2007) saw victory for seventeen-year-old Karen Pillet from Maintenon, France.
In 1979 he was promoted to professor at the National School of Geology in Nancy, where he remained for 12 years.
Devaux trained as a lawyer and worked briefly for a lawyer cousin in Nancy.
French North Africa was a collection of territories in North Africa controlled by France and centering on French Algeria.
Vichy France, 'French state' was the official name of the regime first directed by Philippe Pétain, explicitly opposed to the French Republic
Yannick Vu, president of the foundation, a painter and sculptor born in France (1942) is now British.
It has also been featured at various film festivals including the Toronto Film Festival; the Berlin International Film Festival; the Cognac Festival du Film Policier, Cognac, France; and the New York New Directors/New Films Festival, New York City; and others.
Since it is the last station before Picardie, STIF fare structures no longer apply beyond it (except on trains linking Pontoise and Creil).
Only the Pfalz, geographically separated from the rest of the state, became part of the French occupation zone.
Following a Global Steering Committee meeting hosted by Services SETA of South Africa and held in London in August 2002, the first Working Session of the GAPPS (initially called Global Performance Based Standards for Project Management Personnel) was held in Lille, France in February 2003.
Graceful Inheritance is the debut album by an American metal band Heir Apparent, released in 1986 by French label Black Dragon Records.
The Guerchais-Roche T.35 and T.39 was a small family of two, three and four seat French-built touring monoplanes of the 1940s.
He was appointed director of the Nancy Conservatory (at the time a National school branch of the Paris Conservatory) from 1894 to 1919, where he established classes in viola in 1894, trumpet in 1895, harp and organ in 1897, then trombone in 1900.
Joining the rebel forces led by Dutty Boukman and Toussaint Louverture, he remained with the revolution until its independence from France in 1804, when he left to try his luck at sea.
Gamble later studied at the École nationale des eaux et forêts, Nancy.
Jean Amila (Paris, 24 November 1910 – 6 March 1995, also known as John Amila, Jean Mekert, or Jean Meckert) was a French author and screenwriter.
After studying at the Pasteur Institute in France he returned to Trinidad in 1913, first as an Assistant Surgeon at the Colonial Hospital in Port of Spain, and later as the District Medical Officer in Tobago and Cedros, in southwestern Trinidad.
In 1867 the company's grand organ built for the Basilica of St. Epvre in Nancy received a Gold Medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris and Merklin was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur.
For a short while, after the alliance between France and Spain had been concluded, in 1795, Lángara co-operated with Napoléon Bonaparte during his Italian campaign of 1796, and sailed from Cádiz with nineteen ships of the line and ten frigates, brushing aside Rear-Admiral Man's division which Jervis had posted to watch Cádiz, and passed into the Mediterranean Sea.
Jules Guérin (14 September 1860 – 10 February 1910) was a French journalist and antisemitic activist.
KIC also offers short, medium and long-term residential foreign language courses in China, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Russia and Spain through partner schools.
In 2005, she worked as host of the French language television program France's Next Top Model.
He was one of the original "historical leaders" of the FLN's November 1, 1954 uprising against French colonialism.
Le Chemin, France, commune in the Marne department in the Champagne-Ardenne region in north-eastern France
In France, the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly is the leader of the largest opposition group in the National Assembly.
The list below shows the leading Thoroughbred sire of racehorses in France for each year since 1887.
Libération-Nord was one of the principal resistance movements in the northern occupied zone of France during the Second World War.
The Lioré et Olivier 300 (abbreviated to LeO 300) was a 1930s French prototype night bomber.
The Third Army, lacking gasoline, was unable to swiftly take both Metz and Nancy, unlike the actions that characterized the rapid advance across France.
Following a year of research, French designer architect Pierre Rambach presented the sketches of the new Lovers' Park project in 2006 and received the approval of the Yerevan City Council.
Lucienne Abraham (1916 – 1970), also known as Michèle Mestre, was a French Trotskyist politician.
Something of, from, or related to Mayotte, an overseas department of France consisting of a main island, Grande-Terre (or Mahoré), a smaller island, Petite-Terre (or Pamanzi), and several islets around these two.
It is considered to be the first act of resistance of World War II in France.
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But the Limousin was South to the line of demarcation and the resistance was mainly a passive one against Vichy France.
Marcel Labey (6 August 1875, Vésinet – 25 November 1968, Nancy) was a French conductor and composer.
The March for Equality and Against Racism (French: Marche pour l’égalité et contre le racisme), also called Beurs’ March (Marche des beurs) by French media (beur is the contraction of beu-ra-a which is the backslang of arabe), was an anti-racist march that took place in France in 1983, from October 15 to December 3.
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In 1983, the Socialist Prime Minister of France Pierre Mauroy, the Minister of the Interior Gaston Defferre, and the Minister of Labour Jean Auroux said about the strikers of the CGT's syndicate from the factory of Renault-Billancourt, that they are mainly "immigrants workers", and accused them of being manipulated by "integrists".
The Matra-Cantinieau MC-101 was an early 1950s French experimental two seat helicopter of conventional tail rotor configuration but with its engine mounted close to the main rotor, above the seating.
Five methods of praying the rosary are presented within the works of Saint Louis de Montfort, a French Roman Catholic priest and writer of the early 18th century.
He joined the nationalist Parti du Peuple Algérien (PPA) in 1942, and later, after moving to Paris, France for university studies, its successor organization, the MTLD, where he became a member of the central committee.
A law student, he was active for the nationalist cause from the late 1930s in the Parti du peuple algérien (PPA), and was jailed several times by the colonial authorities of France.
Festival performers come from across the USA and the globe, including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Britain.
In the context of French police and judicial proceedings, for Officier de Police Judiciaire ("officer of judicial police").
:Also called Nuns or Hospitallers of Our Lady of Nancy, founded at Nancy in 1631 by Ven.
Recipients (usually naval or army officers or representatives of Britain or France, highly present in the region during the Napoleonic Wars) were awarded a lozenge-shaped silver radiant star, embroidered in silver thread on an azure background with a star and crescent in the centre, and a red ribbon, to be worn with the crescent to the star's left.
Other countries such as France and the United States require the author of a work to demonstrate some level of creativity.
After a first airdrop, he was arrested and detained four months by Vichy France police.
In the early 1800s, Nicolas Petitcollin, the company's founder, manufactured horn combs in Étain, Meuse, France.
During the Hitler-Stalin pact, the PLC sent a letter to FDR urging him not to aid Poland, France or the United Kingdom, all fighting for their lives under the Nazi onslaught.
Born in Nancy, France, he spent most of his early years there, teaching physics at the University, being awarded three prestigious prizes of the Académie des Sciences for his experimental work on the consequences of Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism.
Ramadan Shlash (Fr. Chelache), although at one time an official in Deir ez-Zour, is most known for having taken a significant role in the nationalist, anti-colonialist revolt against the French of 1919-1921.
So he sold a half-interest in Rancho Honcut to a former employee, Charles Julian Covillaud (b. 21 Nov 1816 in Cognac, France; d. 05 Feb 1867 in Marysville).
The Redressement Français (French Resurgence) was a French anti-parliamentarian movement founded in 1926 by electricity magnate Ernest Mercier.
The actions of Résistance-Fer were especially effective during the liberation of France.
Aiglon ia a French four-seat touring and training monoplane designed and built by Avions Robin.
Rodeo Massacre is the sixth album released by French post-rock band Ulan Bator.
Roissy is the location where the action of the two explicit sadomasochistic novels Story of O (Histoire d'O), and its sequel Retour à Roissy by Pauline Réage take place.
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The closest station to Roissy-en-France is Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 1 station on line B of the Paris Region's express suburban rail system, the RER.
Salvage ethnography started to be applied methodically in visual anthropology as ethnographic film since the fifties by filmmakers such as Jean Rouch in France, Michel Brault and Pierre Perrault in Canada, or António Campos in Portugal (early sixties), followed by others (seventies).
Quantic Dream, a game development studio located in Paris, France, whilst not a 1st-party developer for SCE Worldwide Studios, they have created Sony exclusive games since 2010, and recently stated that they have no interest in ending that exclusivity.
The only substantial Western arms supplier to Iraq was France, which continued to be a major supplier until 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait and all legal arms transfers to Iraq ended.
Chardonneret (sometimes known as the Aérocentre NC.840) was a 1940s French four-seat cabin monoplane.
A tutor from France lives on the floor from September through April to help stimulate French-language growth in the students.
Syndicat des transports d'Île-de-France, the organizing public transport authority for Paris and the surrounding Île-de-France region.
Even before Luther's dramatic appearance, the lords of the State in Germany, no less than in France and England, had extended their prerogatives into the sphere of ecclesiastical affairs.
Virgin Express France, originally Air Provence Charter, was a French subsidiary of the airline Virgin Express, with its head office on the grounds of Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Tremblay-en-France.
William VI of Auvergne (1096–1136) was a French count of the historically independent region of Auvergne, today in central France.
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In Europe, the teams played a nine-game series in England and France.
In the early 1920s, Alexandros moved to France where he studied Law and Political Science at the University of Paris.
During a six-year period in France where he divided his time between a winter studio in Paris and a summer studio in Angoulême, he illustrated William Milligan Sloane's The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Richard Whiteing's Paris of To-Day and Bertha Runkle's The Helmet of Navarre.
Promoted general of infantry, and assigned to command the new XIVth Army Corps, Werder defeated the French at Dijon and at Nuits, and, when Charles Denis Bourbaki's army moved forward to relieve Belfort, turned upon him and fought the desperate action of Battle of Villersexel, which enabled him to cover the Germans besieging Belfort.
Villanière (slag locality), Salsigne, Mas-Cabardès, Carcassonne, Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
The Canton of Troyes-3 is one of the 22 cantons of the arrondissement of Troyes, in the Aube department, in northern France.
In 1750, Ray had bought the Chaumont castle (named from the Old French for "bald hill", and built in two periods around 1500), in the Loire Valley of France.
She was born in Bergen, Norway during a Christmas holiday to a French father, Jean-Luc Bauer, a professional volleyball player, and a Norwegian mother, Tone Bauer, a handball player who played several years in France.
Sohn's career came to an end on April 25, 1937, in Vincennes, France.
However, a wave of or-suffixed action/horror Hollywood blockbusters and B-movies spread in France in the 1980s including Exterminator, Terminator, and Predator.
Crossair Europe (European Continental Airways) was an airline headquartered on the grounds of EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg in Saint-Louis, Haut Rhin, France, near Basel, Switzerland.
The village’s four crosses and the lime tree on the village green are reminders of Duleek’s links to the struggle between William and James and to wider European unrest at the time of Louis XIV of France.
This regiment arrived in France on March 10, 1918 and eventually participated in the Aisne-Marne, St. Mihel, and Meuse-Argonne operations.
After receiving his Licence and Maîtrise from the Université de Paris, Heinze enrolled as a DAAD scholar at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Members of the IAG included: Azerbaijan, France, Nigeria, Norway, Peru and the United States; Anglo-American, BP, Chevron and Petrobras; the Azerbaijan EITI Coalition, Global Witness, Revenue Watch Institute, West African Catholic Bishops Conference; and F&C Asset Management.
In 1949, Dorion spoke out against the extradition from Canada of Count Jacques Charles Noel Duge de Bernonville, a Vichy France police official who had been an aide to Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie and was wanted in France for having collaborated with the Nazis.
INRIA is a Public Scientific and Technical Research Establishment (EPST) under the double supervision of the French Ministry of National Education, Advanced Instruction and Research and the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry.
The Gare de Cramoisy (Cramoisy station) is a railway station located in the commune of Cramoisy in the Oise department, France.
Franconville - Le Plessis-Bouchard is a station in Franconville, a northwestern suburb of Paris, France.
Pierrelaye is a railway station in the town of Pierrelaye, a northwestern suburb of Paris, France.
He served tours in France, Germany, Korea and Vietnam as well as stateside assignments at Seneca Army Depot, Romulus, New York; Fort Holabird, Maryland; Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Fort Huachuca, Arizona; Fort Hood, Texas; Washington, DC; and Fort McPherson, Georgia.
King Zog I died in Hauts-de-Seine, France, in 1961 and their son, Crown Prince Leka, was proclaimed King Leka I by the royalist government in exile.
He translated works of Spanish writers, such as the Mexican Jose Emilio Pacheco, the Nicaraguan Rubén Darío, Argentine exile in France Juan José Saer, the notebooks of the Spanish painter Antonio Saura (1930–1998), and poems, like those of Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (1892–1938) and the Chilean Vicente Huidobro (1893–1948).
An account of the explorations appeared in a half-finished book left by Christy, entitled Reliquiae Aquilanicae, being contributions to the Archaeology and Paleontology of Perigord and the adjacent provinces of Southern France; this was completed by Christy's executors, first by Lartet and, after his death in 1870, by Rupert Jones.
In 1915, he was sent on a special mission to France for the purpose of organising a British and American hospital at Neuilly.
He got on intimate terms with Fleury and seconded his brother in his efforts to maintain friendly relations with France; he represented Great Britain at the congress of Soissons and helped to conclude the treaty of Seville (November 1729).
Incourt, Pas-de-Calais, a commune of the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France
Jean-Louis Nicolas Jaley (born in Paris in 1802, died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1866) was a French sculptor.
Jean-Paul Bertrand-Demanes (born 13 May 1952 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a former football goalkeeper from France, who earned eleven international caps for the French national team during the 1970s and was part of the French team in the 1978 FIFA World Cup.
Dahlerup was also inspired by Notre-Dame la Grande in Poitiers, France, and by the synagogue in Toledo, Spain.
After living for many years in Deià, Majorca, he returned to the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s before moving to the south of France.
La Vallon Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in France, which is located approximately 6 km north-northeast of Montbrison (Departement de la Loire,Rhone-Alpes); about 385 km south-southeast of Paria.
La Varenne, Maine-et-Loire, a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in France
Louis Pouzin (born 1931 in Chantenay-Saint-Imbert, Nièvre, France) invented the datagram and designed an early packet communications network, CYCLADES.
Luçon Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Luçon) is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and a national monument of France, in Luçon in the Vendée.
Martin Soldat is a 1966 French comedy film directed by Michel Deville and starring Robert Hirsch, Véronique Vendell, Walter Rilla, Marlène Jobert and Anthony Sharp.
By 1770 she was back in France at Rouen, and her success as Euphmie in Belloy's Gaston et Bayard caused her to be called to the Comédie Française, where, in 1772, she made her debut as Dido.
Montmorency was named after a local farm, Montmorency Estate, which in turn was named for the town of Montmorency, Val-d'Oise, where the French Enlightenment philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau lived briefly.
In February 2013, Taylor met harsh criticism in France after a letter he wrote to the French minister of industrial renewal, Arnaud Montebourg.
Plum Village Buddhist Center in the Dordogne region of France is established by TNH and Sister Chan Khong
Pierre Camille Lucien Hilaire Jean Bellocq (born November 25, 1926 in Bedenac, Charente-Maritime, France) is a French-American artist and horse racing cartoonist known as "Peb".
It is endemic to France, where it is limited to the southern French Alps (Savoie et Dauphiné: Bauges; Isère; Hautes-Alpes, Col du Lautaret).
This peaceful interlude came to end, however, when a French fleet arrived bringing an Italian engineer Leone Strozzi who directed a devastating artillery bombardment to dislodge the Protestant lairds.
The 6th Marquess (d. 1985) was buried in Menton (France) for 25 years until the 8th Marquess had him reinterred in the vault of Ickworth Church in October 2010.
Fewer than 20,000 Tagora models were ever built, all of them at the former Simca factory in Poissy, near Paris, France.
The popularity of the comic has made it much in demand for adaptation into other media, the first to be approved by Tardi being a projected trilogy of live-action feature films adapted and directed by Luc Besson, the first of which, also titled The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec was released in France on 14 April 2010 and latterly in numerous other markets, including the United Kingdom.
Torfou, Maine-et-Loire, a commune of the Pays de la Loire region of France
Vauvenargues, a commune of the Bouches-du-Rhône département in southern France, near Aix-en-Provence
Later in 1952, he completed his post-graduate studies at the Institute of Urbanism and Urban Development of Sorbonne University in Paris, France.
Volontaire Civil à lAide Technique (VCAT) is a voluntary service in the French overseas territories for citizens from France, citizens of other EU member states or citizens of countries belonging to the European Economic Area.