A letter of marque and reprisal (French: lettre de marque; lettre de course) was a government license in the Age of Sail that authorized a private person...
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officer of the vessel was in possession of a valid letter of marque (lettre de marque or lettre de course, the latter giving corsairs their name), and the...
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Malartic refused to provide a lettre de marque and ordered Émilie to go to the Seychelles to purchase tortoises as food for Isle de France. Émilie departed...
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of the vessel was in possession of a valid Letter of Marque (fr. Lettre de Marque or Lettre de Course), and the officers and crew conducted themselves...
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king of France, they were considered combatants and granted a lettre de marque or lettre de course which legitimized any actions they took under the French...
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History of Seychelles (redirect from Jean-Baptiste Queau de Quincy)
Seychelles acted as a haven for French corsairs (pirates carrying lettres de marque entitling them to prey legally on enemy shipping). Quincy hoped this...
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refused to provide Surcouf a lettre de marque and ordered Émilie to go to the Seychelles to purchase tortoises as food for Île de France. Upon arrival at Mahé...
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arranged by Madame de Montreuil. Following the death of Louis XV in May, Madame de Montreuil successfully petitioned for a new lettre de cachet for Sade's...
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of François de la Noue, two volumes of George Buchanan, the Dialectique of Pierre de La Ramée, the Alphabet de plusieurs sortes de lettres ("Alphabet of...
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Rolling Stone. "À écouter : la moitié de Daft Punk Guy-Man a curaté une playlist ultra solide pour une marque italienne". Trax Magazine (in French)....
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Eric Ciotti prospecte les fillonistes du parti Force Républicaine". La Lettre (in French). 18 November 2021. Archived from the original on 12 September...
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mother, Enriqueta "Quêta" de Laska (died 1925), was of Polish and Portuguese descent, a daughter of Doña Joaquina Maria Marqués de Lonza Lisboa; she had been...
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dernier. [...] Challenges a reçu une lettre d'Alexandre Marque (Cabinet Franklin), avocat de Patrick Drahi nous sommant de ne pas intégrer son client dans...
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(member, secretary, then president of l'Académie des belles-lettres, sciences et arts de La Rochelle) wrote as early as 1867 that Rainguet's estimate...
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le commerce from the English of Josias Tucker, and in 1754 he wrote his Lettre sur la tolérance civile, and a pamphlet, Le Conciliateur, in support of...
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Administrative de Paul Dupont, 1867. 171p. (in French) Notes sur quelques numismates portugais des XVIIe, XVIIIe et XIXe siècles : lettre a M. le vicomte de Ponton...
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Gérard Grandval (category Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres)
Prix de Rome and was a Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and notably designed the Choux de Créteil. Grandval studied at the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly...
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président Daniel Richard". YouTube (in French). 18 May 2009. "Lettre ouverte au Président de la République Française". ecoforum.fr (in French). Archived...
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in collaboration) Le Livre des grandes marques: à la découverte des marques grand public parmi les plus fortes de France, collectif (Milan's editions, 2003)...
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(1979). Catherine de Médicis. Fayard. Gellard, Matthieu (2014). Une Reine Épistolaire: Lettres et Pouvoir au Temps de Catherine de Médicis. Classiques...
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"et la tasse à café rouge de mar e I y da la ma de ctor" can be read "et la tasse à café rouge de marque Illy dans la main de Victor Miesel," and the following...
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(Mollat, G., op cit, pj, no II pp. 49–50. See also Jean XXII (1316–1334) Lettres secretes et curiales relating to France, by Coulon, A. and Clemencet, S...
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SNCF (redirect from Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français)
|journal= (help) "Portrait : Philippe Laylle, le monsieur cinéma de la SNCF |". Lettre du cheminot.fr (in French). 22 October 2017. Archived from the original...
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Retrieved 14 June 2021. "Circulaire relative à la nouvelle stratégie de marque de l'Etat" [Circular relating to the new brand strategy of the State]. www...
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Maria d'Apparecida (category Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres)
d'Apparecida Marques (17 January 1926 – 4 July 2017) was a Brazilian opera singer. She began her working career as a primary school teacher in Rio de Janeiro...
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Prince engine (category Mini (marque))
millionth engine". "BMW et PSA Peugeot Citroën ont signé une lettre d'intention en vue de renforcer leur coopération dans les moteurs à essence". www.edubourse...
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Glossary of French words and expressions in English (redirect from Avant la lettre)
was recognized and named, e.g., "a post-modernist avant la lettre", "a feminist avant la lettre". The expression literally means "before the letter", i.e...
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started writing reviews and essays for La Nouvelle Revue française and Les Lettres nouvelles, prominent literary publications, while studying history and...
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command of the marqués de Villefranca (marquis of Villefranca) started an advance on Siena, and captured various villages. When the marqués died in February...
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François Barbé-Marbois (redirect from François, marquis de Barbé-Marbois)
François, marquis de Barbé-Marbois (31 January 1745 – 12 February 1837) was a French politician. Born in Metz, where his father was director of the local...
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