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Salle is the French word for 'hall', 'room' or 'auditorium', as in: Salle des Concerts Herz, a former Paris concert hall; Salle Favart, theatre of the Paris Opéra-Comique; Salle Le Peletier, former home of the Paris Opéra; Salle Pleyel, a Paris concert hall; Salle Ventadour, a former Paris theatre; Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, a multipurpose ...
La Salle, LaSalle or Lasalle is part of the names of two men born in 17th century France, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle and René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, for whom many places and things are named:
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (/ l ə ˈ s æ l /; November 22, 1643 – March 19, 1687), was a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, and the Mississippi River.
An extract from a 19th-century dictionary of military terms describes a sallyport thus: those underground passages, which lead from the inner to the outward works ; such as from the higher flank to the lower, to the tenailles, or the communication from the middle of the curtain to the ravelin. When they are constructed for the passage of men ...
The Opéra-Comique (French pronunciation: [ɔpeʁa kɔmik]) is a Paris opera company which was founded around 1714 by some of the popular theatres of the Parisian fairs.In 1762 the company was merged with – and for a time took the name of – its chief rival, the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne.
Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, founder of the De La Salle Brothers and Patron Saint of all teachers. Lasallian educational institutions [1] are educational institutions affiliated with the De La Salle Brothers, a Catholic religious teaching order founded by French priest Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, who was canonized in 1900 and proclaimed by Pope Pius XII as patron saint of all teachers ...
Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (/ l ə ˈ s æ l /) (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist də la sal]; 1651 – 7 April 1719) was a French priest, educational reformer, and founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools.
De La Salle may refer to: Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle (1651–1719), French Catholic priest and educational reformer Lasallian educational institutions , founded by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, also known as the Lasallian Brothers