meters (49 ft) high. The river was first called Cane or Caen River by Jean Alfonse in 1544. The name riviere aux Outardes came in use following its appearance...
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Island and Île aux Aigrettes. Protecting St Brandon Islands Protecting Fauna of St Brandon Atoll The Thirteen Islands of St Brandon - Images of Île Raphael...
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Réunion (redirect from Île Bourbon)
under the First Empire, General Decaen named it Île Bonaparte (after Napoleon), and in 1810 it became Île Bourbon again. It was eventually renamed Réunion...
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Mauritius (redirect from Île Maurice)
/məˈrɪʃəs/ . Mauritius is also commonly known as Maurice (pronounced [mɔʁis]) and Île Maurice in French, Moris (pronounced [moʁis]) in Mauritian Creole. The island...
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1925 11,320 ha (28,000 acres) Île aux Basques [fr] 1927 933 ha (2,310 acres) Senneville [fr] 1936 569 ha (1,410 acres) Île aux Hérons [fr] 1937 622 ha (1...
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Louisiana Journey", p.115 Stovall, p. 205. Lafleur, Gérard (1985). "Les juifs aux îles françaises du vent (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles)" (PDF). Bulletin de la Société...
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72–75. ROS47. Jean-Paul Kauffmann (1993). L'Arche des Kerguelen: Voyage aux Îles de la Désolation (in French). Paris: éditions Flammarion. p. 209. ISBN 2-08-066621-5...
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beside a black grand piano below Square Barye [fr] at the southeast point of Île Saint-Louis. The singer wore a black satin bustier under a black feather...
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l'Avocaire, l'île aux Fous, L'île du Gouvernement, Petit Mapou, Grand Mapou, La Baleine, L'Île Coco, Île Raphael, Verronge, l'île aux Bois and Baleines...
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enfants du bagne de Belle-Île". France Inter (in French). 2020-03-01. Retrieved 2024-06-07. "La colonie pénitentiaire de Belle-Ile". patrimoines-archives...
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Guadeloupe (redirect from Île de Basse-Terre)
Amérique (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Guyane, Saint-Dominique) et en France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Ibis rouge. p. 67. ISBN 978-2-84450-369-5. Archived...
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indigenous forests and a range of endangered plants and animals. Off the coast, Ile aux Aigrettes is a small island where the original ecosystems of Mauritius...
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Protestant François Leguat and five of his followers for two years on Ile aux Fouquets after that Leguat's group had reached Mauritius from Rodrigues...
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island was settled by French colonists in the 18th century, who named it Île aux Cochons (Hog Island). They allowed their livestock free range on the island...
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S.; Lightfoot, Kent; McManamon, Francis; Milner, George (2009). "L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site". Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia...
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original on 26 February 2018. Retrieved 3 December 2021. "André Lucrèce". Île en île (in French). 17 June 2004. Archived from the original on 23 May 2021....
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impressions of local inhabitants dancing and singing popular bombas in Voyage aux îles de Ténériffe, la Trinité, Saint-Thomas, Sainte-Croix et Porto Ricco. Bomba...
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Ozark (phonetic rendering of either aux Arks, "of the Ark(ansas)" or aux Arcs, "of the arches", or possibly aux arcs-en-ciel, "of the rainbows") Ozark...
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French cuisine (section Paris and Île-de-France)
Mille-feuille Macaron Éclair Dessert Crème brûlée Mousse au chocolat Crêpe Île flottante French regional cuisine is characterized by its extreme diversity...
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Hurricane Hugo (category Hurricanes in Îles des Saintes)
Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via Newspapers.com. "1989 Hugo". Pluies extrêmes aux Antilles. Météo-France. Archived from the original on October 20, 2019. Retrieved...
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2011-11-28. "Yves Jégo en visite aux Saintes". www.claire-leguillochet.com. Archived from the original on 2009-05-23. îles des Saintes Marie-Galante la Désirade...
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Hesse-Kassel weren't able to liberate it. Capture of Belle Île 7 April-8 June - British capture Belle Île from France Capture of Agra 3 May-12 June - Bharatpur...
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(2004). "Portrait of a community: The Blacks of Quebec, 1629–1900" (PDF). Cap-aux-Diamants. "Report finds Black health-care and other workers underrepresented...
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presidential wreath on the Île d'Yeu where it had been buried before. A small museum glorifying Pétain, the Historical Museum of the Île d’Yeu, displays writings...
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2013. "Accès aux Terres australes françaises". Archived from the original on May 2, 2014. Retrieved November 19, 2013. "Accès aux îles Eparses". Archived...
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glass panels, lights and illuminated glass ceilings for the ocean liners SS Île de France in 1927 and the SS Normandie in 1935, and for some of the first-class...
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also referred to as "the Chapel of Ex-votos," has nearly 1000 ex-votos (canes, crutches, etc.) suspended within it, left behind by pilgrims during the...
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2015. "Accès aux Terres australes françaises". Taaf.fr. Archived from the original on 2 May 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2015. "Accès aux îles Eparses". Taaf...
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List of executioners (section Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines)
Pierre Daucourt 1693–1732 Jean Gueldre 1732–1760 Henri Gueldre 1760–1805 Nicolas Cané 1805–1825 François Cané 1825–1835...
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taken up by the Belgian-French Jacques-Antoine Moerenhout in his Voyage aux îles du grand océan (1837). After 1926, Colonel James Churchward popularized...
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