tunnel through the Col de la Faucille in Gex, linking the canton to Saint-Jean-de-Losne in Burgundy on the Paris-Lyon axis, avoiding Lyon. In 1874 Geneva's...

Givors Irigny Limonest Lyon-I Lyon-II Lyon-III Lyon-IV Lyon-V Lyon-VI Lyon-VII Lyon-VIII Lyon-IX Lyon-X Lyon-XI Lyon-XII Lyon-XIII Lyon-XIV Meyzieu Mornant...

The nine arrondissements of Lyon are the administrative divisions of the City of Lyon. Unlike the spiral pattern of the arrondissements of Paris, or the...

provides rail connections, including a nonstop TGV service to Paris-Gare de Lyon. High-speed rail service also continues east along the Maurienne Valley...

Ptolemaeii Alexandrinii Geographicae. Lyon, Trechsel. Signed as Michel de Villeneuve. Servetus dedicated this work to Hugues de la Porte. The second edition was...

heraldic augmentation of two or three fleurs-de-lis on the chief of their coat of arms; such cities include Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Reims, Le Havre,...

(c. 1490–1556), Imperial ambassador to the English Court of Henry VIII Francis de Sales (1567–1622), bishop of Geneva / Annecy and Catholic Saint. André...

1573 I. Mainoldi Galerati, De titulis Philippi Austrii Regis Cattolici Liber, Bononia H. De Bara, Le Blason des Armoires, Lyon 1585, portrait of Philipo...

Sylvain. "Les sources manuscrites de la Constitution de l'an VIII" [The manuscript sources of the Constitution of Year VIII]. Jus Politicum (22). Fioravanti...

archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France and a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lyon. The archepiscopal see is Chambéry Cathedral, located in the city of Chambéry...

Fernandez de Checa, pp. 3–4 de Saint Humber, p. 23 Silverstone, p. 388 de Saint Hubert, pp. 22–23 Lyon, p. 380 de Saint Hubert, pp. 22, 24 de Saint Hubert...

valli meridionali del Canton Grigioni, Samedan, Engandin Press 1950 Giuliano Pellegrini, Michelangelo Florio e le sue «Regole de la lingua thoscana», in...

was born in 1509 or 1510 in Orbe, then in the Barony of Vaud, now in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. He was the son of Guillaume Viret, a tailor and shearer...

when Emperor Sigismund, raised the County of Savoy into a duchy for Amadeus VIII. The duchy was an Imperial fief, subject of the Holy Roman Empire, until...

Club du Soleil de Saint-Étienne / La Robertanne La Plage des Templiers in Bourg-Saint-Andréol - Rhône-alpes Club du Soleil de Lyon in Lyon Le Chanozois...

Books. Lyons, Martyn; Lyons, Malcolm (1975). France Under the Directory. CUP Archive. ISBN 978-0-521-09950-9 – via Google Books. "La fin tragique de Robespierre...

Ovid) by the Maison Tournes (1542–1567) in Lyon, it is the result of a collaboration between the publisher Jean de Tournes and Bernard Salomon, an important...

yard of the station and the rue de la République. 1947 - Festival d'Avignon begins. 1973 - Canton of Avignon-Est and Canton of Avignon-Ouest created. 1975...

city. The Gare de Grenoble is served by the TGV rail network, with frequent high-speed services (3 hours) to and from Paris-Gare de Lyon, usually with...

part of three cantons: The canton of Évreux-1 includes a part of Évreux and the communes of: Arnières-sur-Iton and Saint-Sébastien-de-Morsent (pop: 24...

Swiss Confederacy: Canton of Bern Canton of Lucerne Canton of Uri Canton of Schwyz Canton of Unterwalden Canton of Glarus Canton of Zug Vogteien of Appenzell...

October – 1 November 1997, Lyon, France. Towards Carfree Cities I conference. Organized by European Youth for Action and the Lyon-based Régroupement pour...

McManus notes that writers have stated that in the year 1300, Pope Boniface VIII directed pilgrims to keep left; however, others suggest that he directed...

state matters in Zürich and spread to several other cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy. Seven cantons remained Catholic, however, which led to intercantonal...

and the Republic of Venice against the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Henry VIII of England, and the Papal States. It arose from animosity over the election...

Lausanne, against Jean de Prangins, the chapter's choice; Palud was later vice-chamberlain of the conclave, in which Amadeus VIII of Savoy was elected Felix...

three leagues from the city and walked barefoot to the cathedral. Charles VIII visited it in 1495, Francis I in 1533. The legendary ancient shrine on the...

tolerance of Muslims, Jews and Cathars—and later of its Protestants. William VIII of Montpellier gave freedom for all to teach medicine in Montpellier in 1180...

constituencies: the seventh (former cantons I, V, VI, and VII) and the eighth (former cantons II, III, IV, VIII, IX). Several politicians have spent...

Louis the Stammerer in 878 received the crown of West Francia from Pope John VIII. At the end of the ninth century, following depredations of the city by Normans...