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jour de la Révolution — Revolution Day The other days, decades, and months were also serially numbered. On 24 October ( le 3 du 2e mois ; later: le 3 Brumaire ) of the same year, the poet Philippe-François-Nazaire Fabre, known as Fabre d'Églantine , made public his dislike of this naming convention ( "le premier jour de la première ...
It became L'Observateur aujourd'hui in 1953 and France-Observateur in 1954. The name Le Nouvel Observateur was adopted in 1964. [4] The 1964 incarnation of the magazine was founded by Jean Daniel and Claude Perdriel. [5] The head office is in the building to the left, 10–12 Place de la Bourse, Paris
c'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre "it is magnificent, but it is not war" — quotation from Marshal Pierre Bosquet commenting on the charge of the Light Brigade. Unknown quotation in French. cause célèbre An issue arousing widespread controversy or heated public debate, lit. 'famous cause'.
French etching from 1789 depicting the storming of the Bastille, commemorated as Bastille Day. There are eleven official public holidays in France, [1] of which three are movable days which always fall on a weekday. The Alsace region and the Moselle department observe two additional days. [2]
The saying is always in an English-speaking context, and was evidently a word-for-word mistranslation of English "What will be will be", using the free relative pronoun what. [8] In Spanish, Italian, French, or Portuguese, "what" must be translated as "that which" (lo que, quel che, ce qui, o que). [16]
France 24 (France vingt-quatre in French) is a French state-owned publicly funded international news television network based in Paris. [1] Its channels, broadcast in French, English, Arabic and Spanish, are aimed at the overseas market. [2] Based in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux, the service started on 6 December 2006. It is aimed at ...
Aujourd'hui (French pronunciation: ⓘ, Today) was a daily newspaper in Vichy France published between 1940 and 1944 in Paris. It was founded by journalist Henri Jeanson , [ 1 ] who edited the publication during the autumn of 1940. [ 2 ]
Rosemonde Gérard. Louise-Rose-Étiennette Gérard, known as Rosemonde Gérard (April 5, 1866, Paris – July 8, 1953, Paris) was a French poet and playwright. She was the wife of Edmond Rostand (1868–1918, author of Cyrano de Bergerac), and was a granddaughter of Étienne Maurice Gérard, who was a Marshal and a Prime Minister of France.