with the elevation of the comté (county) de Vendôme to the rank of duché (duchy), he was also made governor of the Île de France. He joined the king...

diederik cuckoo was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1780 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux from a specimen collected...

Fébus, comte de Foix, prince de Béarn: Signatures, écritures et pouvoirs autour de Gaston III, comte de Foix (in French). Somogy et Université de Pau et...

avoid any repeat of what had unfolded at Marvejols. By the late autumn the rains made the roads impassable, and his troops were increasingly racked with...

head that waits for rains to quench its thirst. The Jacobin cuckoo was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in his Histoire...

sub-prefecture of department 21, the Côte-d'Or department, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. The name "Beaune" derives from the Latinised Gaulish word "Belena"...

a ravine like the bed of a torrent. Nature has made these valleys; the rains of storms have ended with them in the shape of these ravines, trimming what...

later months of 1748, but lifted the siege with the advent of the monsoon rains in October. With the termination of the War of the Austrian Succession in...

record-breaking rains caused a 17-hour closure of the canal; this was the first closure since the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989. The rains also caused an...

widely, especially in winter. Their breeding season coincides with the rains. The cotton pygmy goose was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist...

little of this came to pass. Paris was short on food as a result of extended rains during the summer. As a result of this the price of bread rose greatly....

later months of 1748, but lifted the siege with the advent of the monsoon rains in October. The siege was lifted in October 1748 with the arrival of the...

transportation by canoe to Illinois Country to Lake Michigan. During fall rains and spring snow run-off, St. Joseph River and its valley flooded and people...

do not migrate, they are known to make seasonal movements in response to rains. They are dull grey brown with a black cap, yellow legs and a triangular...

first described in a book by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux in 1781. The bird was also...

garrison at Tarifa over the winter of 1811–1812 was frustrated by torrential rains and an obstinate defence, marking an end to French operations against the...

The city's fate was at hand. But, just as in World War 1, the torrential rains and difficult conditions of the Argonne forest halted the invaders, the...

November to April normally the whole island turns green for the seasonal rains. Summers are hot and fairly humid, but with very little rainfall. The few...

well-watered season can stretch from September to May, caused by heavy rains or by quick melting of snow from the Jura mountains. At its mouth, the discharge...

de Ségur, regarding the situation of the young Nansouty. As a result, in 1788, Nansouty was named interim captain in the light cavalry Franche-Comté Cavalerie...

prevails. Orange in the Vaucluse has 2595 hours of sunshine a year. It rains an average of 80 days a year, for a total of 693.4 mm a year. The maximum...

pygmy goose was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux in 1785. The bird was also...

de; accessed 7 November 2017 (in German) "Le Diable noir". EncycloCiné. Retrieved 9 December 2017. (in French) Erickson, Hal. "Overview: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo"...

football manager Claude Antoine, comte Prieur-Duvernois (1763–1832), French engineer and politician Claude Antoine de Valdec de Lessart (1741–1792), French...

Park Lane being the best British film and "runners up" being It Always Rains on Sunday, My Brother Jonathan, Road to Rio, Miranda, An Ideal Husband,...

surrendered to General George Washington and French Lieutenant General Comte de Rochambeau. The battle is commemorated at Guilford Courthouse National...

well as an Uncle Uno and grandparents. When the grandmother counts, it rains, and when the grandfather counts, it snows. The Count has a personal cloud...

obligations. Moreover, the French soldiers began to suffer from the autumnal rains that drenched the tents pitched in their camps and favoured the spread of...

ammunition for the cannons as well as rations for the men. After the tropical rains started on April 20, men began to sicken and die, probably from malaria...

Australian Bureau of Meteorology. 2005. Ellyard, D. 1994. Droughts and Flooding Rains. Angus & Robertson ISBN 0-207-18557-3 "About East Coast Lows". Bureau of...