Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville (12 November 1729 – 31 August 1811) was a French military officer, explorer and nobleman. A contemporary of the British...

orphans, were transported by train from Vienna to Lisbon and then sent to the foster care of Portuguese families. Among the many refugees accepted into Portugal...

Presses de l'Université d'Angers. p. 28. ISBN 2-903075-96-4. Penney, James (2003). "Confessions of a Medieval Sodomite". In Rothenberg, Molly Anne; Foster, Dennis...

the Comte de Buffon, Jean-François Marmontel, Melchior Grimm, Edward Gibbon, the Abbé Raynal, Jean-François de la Harpe, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre...

Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ʒyst]; 25 August 1767 – 10 Thermidor, Year II [28 July 1794]), sometimes nicknamed the Archangel...

Although originally designed for anti-submarine warfare, seven vessels—Comte de Grasse, Merrill, Conolly, John Rodgers, Leftwich, Deyo, and Ingersoll—were...

Love's Blindness (1926) – Benjamin Levy When a Man Loves (1927) – Comte Guillot de Morfontaine King of Kings (1927) – Pharisee Captain Salvation (1927)...

"Boule de Suif", and the dandified and lecherous lieutenant is played by Kurt Kreuger. In 1944, the Mexican film The Escape directed by Norman Foster was...

(including holdings in the Italian Peninsula, the Low Countries and the Franche-Comté). The so-called Age of Discovery featured explorations by sea and by land...

opportunity to launch the War of Devolution in 1667. This captured Franche-Comté and much of the Spanish Netherlands; French expansion in this area was a...

messages from Master R (Comte de St. Germaine) to Paul Foster Case, Ann Davies and Case's wife Harriet. Clark, P. (2013) Paul Foster Case. His Life and Works...

Jules Mazarin, whose career the cardinal had fostered. Richelieu became engaged in a bitter dispute with Marie de Médici, the king's mother, and formerly his...

Ernestine de Lambriquet (Marie-Philippine Lambriquet, 31 July 1778 – 31 December 1813) was the adopted/foster daughter of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie...

245–50. Journal d'émigration du prince de Condé. 1789–1795, publié par le comte de Ribes, Bibliothèque nationale de France. [2] Archived 7 March 2016 at...

was born on December 31, 1735, in Caen, Normandy, France, to the Comte and Comtesse de Crèvecœur (Count and Countess of Crèvecœur). In 1755 he migrated...

to frenetic land purchases in the Île de France. The two families rivalry would come to a head over the comté de Dammartin. The last holder Françoise d'Anjou...

biscuit dough Dessert: pig tails, bacon bananas foster, chocolate chips, avocados Contestants: Ashley DeSilva, Executive Chef from Brunswick, ME (eliminated...

altered the Earth System trajectory in the past (e.g., Summerhayes, 2015; Foster et al., 2017); even abrupt geophysical events do not approach current rates...

insurrection in favor of her son, the Duke of Bordeaux, since then known as the Comte de Chambord. Instead Louis Philippe allowed the Chamber of Deputies to declare...

seems to have taken them to be water spirits. The French pseudo-novel Comte de Gabalis (1670) was important in passing sylphs into the literary sphere...

Joséphine de Beauharnais, the future empress, having conceived the idea of using the Dauphin's existence as a means of dominating the comte de Provence...

bananas foster, passion fruit Contestants: Alexis Trolf, Chef & Owner from Long Beach, NY (eliminated after the appetizer) Sasha Grumman, Chef de Cuisine...

Secrétaire de la Province, avec un mémoire, en date du onze novembre (1873) soumet au Conseil la résolution du Conseil Municipal du Comté de Compton, en...

(1914). Roman History. Loeb Classical Library. Translated by Cary, Earnest; Foster, Herbert B. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-99041-8. Pliny (1938)...

voters perceive the politicians as egoists rather than idealists. This fosters mistrust and a cynical attitude to politics, less civic engagement, and...

century, at first under the leadership of Alexandre Francois Auguste de Grasse, Comte de Grassy-Tilly. A career Army officer, he lived with his family in...

Orthodox bishops Anne-Hilarion de Cotentin de Tourville (1642–1701), French naval commander Auguste Hilarion, comte de Kératry (1769–1859), French poet...

orphanage where he stayed during the week and spent the weekends with a foster family. At the age of 7, he stayed there full-time, but had to leave the...

such as MoveOn.org." At the 2012 Republican National Convention, Kirk met Foster Friess, a prominent Republican donor, and persuaded him to finance the organization...

fortress of Serón, John was shot in the head, and his foster father Luis de Quijada was wounded. De Quijada died of his injuries a week later, on 25 February...