Saint-François is the French form of Saint Francis, and is the name of many locations: Saint-François River, a river in Quebec Saint-François Parish,...
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François-Henri Pinault (French: [fʁɑ̃swa ɑ̃ʁi pino]; born 28 May 1962) is a French businessman, the son of billionaire François Pinault. François-Henri...
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Quebec Saint-François-du-Lac, Quebec Saint-François-de-Sales, Quebec in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region (confusingly, some of the other Saint-François were...
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igneous rock in North America. The name of the range is spelled out as Saint Francois Mountains in official GNIS sources, but it is sometimes misspelled in...
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Saint-François-Xavier (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ fʁɑ̃swa ɡzavje]) is a station on line 13 of the Paris Métro in the 7th arrondissement. It is named after...
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Petite-Rivière-Saint-François is a municipality in Quebec, Canada, along the Saint Lawrence River. It is considered the gateway to the Charlevoix region...
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The Church of Saint-Sulpice (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃sylpis]) is a Catholic church in Paris, France, on the east side of Place Saint-Sulpice, in the...
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Saint François d'Assise : Scènes Franciscaines (English: Franciscan Scenes of Saint Francis of Assisi), or simply Saint François d'Assise, is an opera...
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Dominique Galinier (1667-1668) François Dollier de Casson (1671-1674, 1678-1701) François Joseph Lefebvre (1676-1678) François Vachon de Belmont (1701-1732)...
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and Sicily. An admiral of the French Navy, François was famous for bringing the remains of Napoleon from Saint Helena to France, as well as a talented artist...
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reason, Biassou and Jean-François arrested and executed him by November 1791. It has often been assumed that Jean-François and his men rose up in rebellion...
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his naval career. François-Joseph de Grasse was born and raised at Bar-sur-Loup in south-eastern France, the last child of Francois de Grasse Rouville...
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Saint-François (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ fʁɑ̃swa]; Antillean Creole: Senfwanswa) is a town and commune in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe...
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of the Saint Lawrence and Saint-François rivers, at the edge of Lac Saint-Pierre (hence its name, "Saint-François of the lake"). Saint-François-du-Lac...
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The place gained some prominence in the 1770s when Doctor Philippe-Louis-François Badelard named a disease he was researching the "Baie-Saint-Paul maladie"...
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François d'Aguilon (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa daɡilɔ̃]; also d'Aguillon or in Latin Franciscus Aguilonius) (4 January 1567 – 20 March 1617) was a...
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François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, PSS (French: [fʁɑ̃swa də saliɲak də la mɔt fenəlɔ̃]), more commonly known as François Fénelon (6 August 1651...
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by Louis and François Couperin still exists today inside the church; it was built by the most famous organ builders of the time, François-Henri Clicquot...
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single-handed yacht race Route du Rhum, which takes place every four years in November, is between Saint Malo and Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe. The population...
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Les Invalides (redirect from Cathedral of Saint-Louis des Invalides)
from his great-uncle François Mansart's design for a Chapelle des Bourbons [fr] to be built behind the chancel of the Basilica of Saint-Denis, the French...
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year. François Mitterrand took membership for about a year in the Volontaires nationaux (National Volunteers), an organisation related to François de la...
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The Place Saint-Sulpice is a large public square, dominated on its eastern side by the Church of Saint-Sulpice. It was built in 1754 as a tranquil garden...
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Beauceville (redirect from Saint-François-de-Beauce, Quebec)
Centre-ville Saint-François-de-Beauce Saint-François-Ouest Before its creation, the territory where Beauceville currently sits was known as Saint-François-de-la-Beauce...
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Didot family (redirect from François Didot)
François-Ambroise Didot (son of François Didot) was born in 1730 and died in 1804. François-Ambroise Didot inherited the work of his father François....
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Paris Saint-Germain announced the signing of Jean-François on a two-year deal until June 2024. On 16 July 2024, Chelsea signed Jean-François signed to...
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of St. François Xavier before his voyage and, as a Jesuit, was unlikely to have given the river a name honoring the Franciscans. St. Francois County comprises...
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François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa də bɔn dyk də lediɡjɛʁ], 1 April 1543 – 21 September 1626) was a French soldier...
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Dominique François Jean Arago (Catalan: Domènec Francesc Joan Aragó), known simply as François Arago (French: [fʁɑ̃swa aʁaɡo]; Catalan: Francesc Aragó...
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Petit Lac Saint-François or Lake Tomcod is a lake in the municipality of Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton, in regional county municipality (MRC) of Le...
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Saint-François (formerly Saint-François-de-Sales) is the second largest district of Laval, Quebec, Canada, after Duvernay. It was a separate city until...
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