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Bollé Brands is an eyewear and head protection group that designs, markets and distributes sunglasses, safety glasses, goggles and ski and bicycle helmets. The group owns the brands Bollé, Bollé Safety , Cébé, H2Optix, Spy Optic and Serengeti and is headquartered in Lyon , France .
The brand was developed by Corning.In 1984, Corning considered closing Serengeti due to poor financial performance. However, entrepreneur Zaki Mustafa convinced the board that he could save the brand.
a location where troops assemble prior to a battle. While this figurative meaning also exists in French, the first and literal meaning of point d'appui is a fixed point from which a person or thing executes a movement (such as a footing in climbing or a pivot). porte-cochère an architectural term referring to a kind of porch or portico-like ...
In 1945, a French film version was released as Boule de Suif, released in the US in 1947 as Angel and Sinner. This film directed by Christian-Jaque , based on a screenplay by Henri Jeanson and starring Micheline Presle and Louis Salou, also imported much of the character of the lecherous Prussian soldier from the Maupassant story "Mademoiselle ...
Amédée Bollée (1844–1917), a French bellfounder and automobile pioneer; Annegret Bollée (born 1937), German linguist and academic; Léon Bollée (1870–1913), a French automobile manufacturer and inventor Léon Bollée Automobiles; Stade Léon-Bollée, a multi-purpose stadium in Le Mans, France
The historians M. Charles Read, H.-L. Lacordaire and Paulin Richard have determined [7] that his father was the Protestant Jan (or Jean/Johann) Bolt (or Bolte/Boul/ Bolle [8]) [9] but at his own (Catholic) marriage, André-Charles Boulle named his father as "Jean Boulle".
Boules (/ b uː l /, French pronunciation:), or jeu de boules, [1] is a collective name for a wide range of games similar to bowls and bocce in which the objective is to throw or roll heavy balls as closely as possible to a small target ball, called the jack. 'Boules' itself is a French loanword that usually refers to the game especially played ...
Additionally, snake and krait bites and envenomation cause significant morbidity; understanding the mechanism by which bungarotoxins work can improve treatment options in such situations. According to the World Health Organization , approximately 5.4 million people are bitten by snakes each year with 2.7 million people becoming envenomed. [ 7 ]