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Location of diplomatic missions of Benin. This is a list of diplomatic missions of Benin. Owing to its small size, the Republic of Benin maintains a very modest diplomatic network abroad. Its paramount relationship is with France, the former colonial power. Honorary consulates are excluded from this list.
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Port-en-Bessin-Huppain ( French pronunciation: [pɔʁ ɑ̃ bɛsɛ̃ˈ ypɛ̃ˈ] ⓘ ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France .
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File: Georges Braque, 1909, Port en Normandie (Little Harbor in Normandy), 81.1 x 80.5 cm (32 x 31.7 in), The Art Institute of Chicago.jpg
Blenheim Palace: “F” marks the corps de logis containing the principal rooms. “A” marks the cour d'honneur , while “B” and “C” are the secondary service wings In architecture , a corps de logis ( French pronunciation: [kɔʁ də lɔʒi] ) is the principal or main block, or central building of a mansion , country or manor house ...
The first written mentions of Flers appear at the end of the twelfth century as Flers (1164–1179) or Flex (1188–1221). Some authors think that the name of the town derives from the German toponym Hlaeri, meaning wasteland or common grazing land, while others suggest an origin in the German Fliessen, from the Dutch vliet or the Latin fluere Latin Fluere, indicating a waterflow, basin or marsh.
This is a list of National Historic Sites of Canada (French: Lieux historiques nationaux du Canada) in France. Canada has designated only two sites outside its borders as National Historic Sites, both of which are war memorials in northern France commemorating Canadian and Newfoundland losses in the First World War. [1]
Maréchal des logis (French for 'marshal of lodgings') is a sub-officer rank used by some units of the French Armed Forces.It is traditionally a cavalry unit rank. There are three distinct ranks of maréchal des logis, which are generally the equivalents of sergeant ranks (although they generally have less responsibility than a British or Commonwealth sergeant).