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Anne "Annette" Boutiaut Poulard (15 April 1851 – 7 May 1931), one of the Mères of France, was known as Mère Poulard (Mother Poulard), and was a cook and innkeeper in Mont-Saint-Michel, France. She was noted for her omelette creation, the Omelette de la mère Poulard , which became a specialty of the region, and for her hospitality.
A Matter of Resistance (French: La Vie de château) is a 1966 French romantic comedy film co-written and directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau, and starring Catherine Deneuve, Pierre Brasseur, Philippe Noiret and Henri Garcin. [1] Set on the coast of Normandy in the summer of 1944, it received the Louis Delluc Prize in 1965.
Les Délices de la Belgique, ou Description historique, pittoresque et monumentale de ce royaume (Brussels and Leipzig, 1844) with Alexandre Henne , Histoire de Bruxelles (3 vols., Brussels, 1845) Notice historique sur la ville de Vilvorde, son ancien château, ses institutions civiles et religieuses, ouvrage composé d'après des documents ...
This is an incomplete list of castles and châteaux in Belgium. [a] The Dutch word kasteel and the French word château refer both to fortified defensive buildings (castles proper) and to stately aristocratic homes (châteaux, manor houses or country houses).
The present château was erected later by King Leopold II. The edifice was designed by his court architect Alphonse Balat. Since then, the château has always served as a holiday retreat to the Belgian royal family. In 1960, it was the venue for the press presentation of King Baudouin's fiancé Dona Fabiola de Mora y Aragon.
Houtain-le-Val Castle (French: Château de Houtain-le-Val) is a château in Houtain-le-Val, Wallonia, in the municipality of Genappe, Walloon Brabant, Belgium.
Solvay Castle (French: Château Solvay, also called Château de La Hulpe) is a château located in Wallonia in the municipality of La Hulpe, Walloon Brabant, Belgium. Completed for the Marquis Maximilien de Béthune as an imposing manor house on the outskirts of Brussels in the 1840s, the castle stands on a hill overlooking a lake set in a park ...
The Château of Stuyvenberg was built in 1725, acquired for 200,000 Belgian francs by the Belgian State in 1840, and later bought by King Leopold II, who donated it to the Royal Trust. The first Belgian king, Leopold I , used the château for his mistress Arcadie Claret , and their second child Arthur was born there in 1852.