Pierre Giffard (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ʒifaʁ]; 1 May 1853 – 21 January 1922) was a French journalist, a pioneer of modern political reporting, a...
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Cap-Rouge Charlesbourg Charlesbourg-Est Château-d'Eau Château-Bigot Courville Giffard L'Auvergne Lac-Saint-Charles Le Plateau Loretteville Montmorency...
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Beauport, Quebec City (redirect from Giffard, Quebec)
amalgamation of seven municipalities (Beauport, Saint-Michel-Archange, Giffard, Villeneuve, Montmorency, Courville and Sainte-Thérèse-de-Lisieux). During...
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competitor, Giffard's Le Vélo. Thus reference to 'Vélo' was dropped and the new paper became simply L'Auto. It was printed on yellow paper because Giffard used...
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Index France portal Journalism portal History of French journalism Pierre Giffard Ivan Chupin, Nicolas Hubé and Nicolas Kaciaf, Histoire politique et économique...
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Cartier-Ville became the Town of Cartierville. Creation of the Village of Giffard from territories taken from the Municipality of Beauport. 1 January: The...
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of the Quadricycle, Armand Peugeot had persuaded the organiser, Pierre Giffard of Le Petit Journal, to use his network of monitors and marshals to vouchsafe...
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Jean-François Cail industrialist SW14 TRIGER Jacques Triger engineer SW15 GIFFARD Henri Giffard engineer SW16 PERRIER François Perrier geographer and mathematician...
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the wife of William McKinley; a Felix the Cat sparkler toy; and an 1880s Giffard air pistol. The tiara's seller initially declines Rick's $43,000 offer...
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Rambouillet and the 2023 event in front of the castle of Rambouillet. Pierre Giffard of Le Petit Journal staged the first Paris-Brest et retour. Despite changes...
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Gadeau de Kerville, naturalist Dominique Gambier [fr], politician Pierre Giffard, journalist, editor Alain Lebaube [fr], writer Maurice Leblanc, writer...
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because he had struck the President of France (Émile Loubet) over the head with a walking stick. Giffard's tone of reporting this led to a group of 'anti-Dreyfusards'...
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configuration of aircraft by Louis Bleriot in 1908. Injector by Henri Giffard in 1858 Internal combustion engine between 1859 and 1861 by Alphonse Beau...
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(2000–2005) Bailiffs Thomas Godfrey Carey, Bailiff (1895–1902) Henry Alexander Giffard, Bailiff (1902–1908) William Carey, Bailiff (1908–1915) Edward Chepmell...
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Peugeot brothers'), with vehicles that were "easy to use". In 1894, Pierre Giffard, editor of Le Petit Journal, organised the world's first motoring competition...
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Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides and Orsainville amalgamated with Charlesbourg, and Courville, Giffard, Montmorency, Sainte-Thérèse-de-Lisieux and Villeneuve, together with the...
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east. Giffard had first come to Quebec in 1621 and had in 1634 travelled with his family as part of a first contingent of immigrants to the Giffard's Beauport...
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largest daily sports newspaper in France, and its Dreyfusard editor, Pierre Giffard. As a result, de Dion withdrew all his advertising from the paper, and...
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Victor Manuel Garcia, painter (1997) Ava Gardner, film star (2001) Henri Giffard, French engineer (1991) Antonio Ginard Rojas, Communications Association...
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Charlesbourg, L'Ancienne-Lorette, Lac-Saint-Charles, Loretteville, Saint-Émile, Sainte-Foy, Sillery, Val-Bélair, Vanier and Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures...
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Miska Magyarics, Slovene poet in Hungary (d. 1883) February 8 – Henri Giffard, French engineer, pioneer in airship technology (d. 1882) February 10 –...
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– Major-General Dudley Johnson 50th Infantry Division – Major-General Giffard Le Quesne Martel III Corps (UK) – Lieutenant-General Ronald Adam 42nd Infantry...
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Observatory of Capodimonte in Naples. September 24 – French engineer Henri Giffard makes the first airship trip, from Paris to Trappes. October 7 – After...
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(histology) Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen (1903–1992), Austria – Giesl ejector Henri Giffard (1825–1882), France – powered airship, injector David J. Gingery (1932–2004)...
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Mélançon* Independent Robert-Giffard Isabelle Roy Québec d'abord 6 La Haute-Saint-Charles Lac-Saint-Charles—Saint-Émile Steeve Verret Québec forte...
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Universal Exposition, she took a flight over Paris with balloonist Pierre Giffard[citation needed] and painter Georges Clairin, in a balloon decorated with...
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Commanding, British Troops in Egypt during World War II General Sir George Giffard, Commander-in-Chief, 11th Army Group in World War II General Sir Thomas...
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technique. 1852: Elisha Otis invents the safety brake elevator. 1852: Henri Giffard becomes the first person to make a manned, controlled and powered flight...
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and his compositions for La Guerre infernale (1908), a novel by Pierre Giffard written during a time of heightened war tension. Robida's illustrations...
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Brigadier Paul Gibson General John Charles Hope Gibsone General Sir George Giffard Major-General Glyn Gilbert General Sir Walter Gilbert, 1st Baronet Major-General...
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