Bois des Buttes was a battle honour uniquely awarded to the Devonshire Regiment in memory of the actions of its 2nd Battalion on 27 May 1918, the first...
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Republican Guard (France) (redirect from Compagnie de sécurité des palais nationaux)
first is based at Quartier des Célestins, in Paris, and two others based at Quartier Carnot, also in Paris at the fringe of Bois de Vincennes), Reserve squadron...
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is the hill of Chaillot, a former village. The place was named in honour of the Battle of Trocadero, in which the fortified Isla del Trocadero, in southern...
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Basra, Bazentin, Beaurevoir, Behobeho, Bellewaarde, Bethune, Bligny, Bois des Buttes, Broodseinde, Bullecourt Cambrai 1917, Cambrai 1918, Cameroons 1914–16...
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of chestnut trees edged with hedgerows. The Vestibule d'Honneur (Hall of Honour) is the room which the main entrance to the palace leads into. In this room...
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Tuileries Garden (redirect from Jardins des Tuileries)
The Tuileries Garden (French: Jardin des Tuileries, IPA: [ʒaʁdɛ̃ de tɥilʁi]) is a public garden between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde in the...
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Napoleon III (category Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour)
transformed the Bois de Boulogne into a park to the west of Paris. To the east, he created the Bois de Vincennes, and to the north, the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont...
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On the edges of the city he created major parks, including the Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes, modelled upon the parks he had seen during his exile...
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Basilica of Saint-Denis (category Monuments of the Centre des monuments nationaux)
installed a school for the daughters of members of the French Legion of Honour, which still is in operation. The looting of the church in 1793, by Friedrich...
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Paris during the Second Empire (section The Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens and the Théâtre des Variétés)
cardinal points of the compass: the Bois de Boulogne to the west, the Bois de Vincennes to the east, the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont to the north, and Parc Montsouris...
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1880 and 1914 the celebrations were held at the Longchamp Racecourse in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris. Since World War I the parade has been held on the Champs-Élysées...
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Île de la Cité (section Quai des Orfèvres)
of statues erected by the boatmen of the city in the 1st century AD, honouring both Roman and Gallic gods. In addition to the residence of the Roman...
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at 48 sites, including 754 corpses inside the old quarries near Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, for a total of 6,667. Marxist critics attacked du Camp and his...
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the compass around the city; the Bois de Boulogne to the west; the Bois de Vincennes to the east; the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont to the north; and Parc Montsouris...
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Guerre with palm for its gallant defence of Bois des Buttes on 27 May 1918, the first day of the Third Battle of the Aisne. The Croix de Guerre with palm...
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first studio at about the same time at the Rue des Alouettes in the 19th arrondissement, near the Buttes-Chaumont. The Belle Époque in Paris was the golden...
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Notre-Dame de Paris (redirect from Abbey of the Notre Dame des Prés)
in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France. The cathedral, dedicated in honour of the Virgin Mary (Our Lady), is considered one of the finest examples...
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Panthéon (category Monuments of the Centre des monuments nationaux)
Temple of Humanity", and proposed to decorate it with sixty new murals honouring human progress in all fields. In 1851 the Foucault Pendulum of astronomer...
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Ville-aux-Bois-lès-Pontavert in France to honour the 2nd Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment, who endured particularly heavy fighting at Bois des Buttes during...
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(25 March 1918), to a fellow officer during World War I counter-attack at Bois Favieres, near Maricourt, Somme, France "Dear child, keep me alive." — Henry...
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1951), and Parc de Belleville, situated on the hill between the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont and the Père Lachaise Cemetery. Lawrence & Gondrand 2010, p. 147–148...
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nacional (in Spanish) Bishop Mariano Anastasio Moreno García, O.S.A. † ‘We honour him as a legend’: Ballet icon Johaar Mosaval has died at 95 Jerome Moss...
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Therefore, "the German proletariat are also [...] posed a question of honour, and a very fateful question". However, in several works, including an essay...
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Diaries 2013 Micah Smith Paula Kweskin, Heidi Basch-Harod, Alex Traiman Honour Me 2008 Alex Tweddle Hood 2 Hood: The Blockumentary 2005 Aquis Bryant Aquis...
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Club in 1906. ‘Romany Spring Song’ is on the programme at the 1909 Theydon Bois Choral Society concert in East London. ‘The Fairy Cobbler’ is one of the...
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to utter Euridice's name (Chorus and Orfeo: "Ah, se intorno"/"Ah! Dans ce bois"). Orfeo sends the others away and sings of his grief in the aria "Chiamo...
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Henry Norris Mary Fitton (1578–1647), Elizabethan gentlewoman; maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth Mary FitzMaurice, 4th Countess of Orkney (1755–1831)...
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