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Harcourts (/ ˈ h ɑːr k ɔːr t s /) is a global Australasian real estate company established in 1888 in Wellington, New Zealand by John Bateman Harcourt. Harcourts operates in 11 countries with 908 offices.
The House of Harcourt is a Norman family, and named after its seigneurie of Harcourt in Normandy.Its mottos were "Gesta verbis praeveniant" (Olonde branch), "Gesta verbis praevenient" (Beuvron branch), and "Le bon temps viendra ... de France" (English branch).
The first-created component of what would eventually become Harcourt was the World Book Company (unrelated to the Chicago-based World Book, Inc. publisher of reference works), which opened its first office in Manila in 1905 and published English-language educational materials for schools in the Philippines.
Harcourt is a surname.. The surname Harcourt originated according to the geographical location, after the town of the same name in Normandy.This surname is 88,694th most common surname in the world, and it is held by approximately 1 in 1,346,056 people in the world, most in America.
Viscount Harcourt, a title in the peerage of the United Kingdom; House of Harcourt, a British and French noble house; Collège d'Harcourt, in Paris, renamed the Lycée Saint-Louis in 1820
Bernard E. Harcourt (born 1963) [1] is an American critical theorist with a specialization in the area of punishment, surveillance, legal and political theory, and political economy.
Mark Dunajtschik was born to ethnically German parents in what was then Yugoslavia in 1935. When he was nine, Yugoslavian forces under Marshal Tito sent Mark, his mother and his sister to a prison camp in Knicanin.
Harcourts appear later among the most important barons of Normandy. Jean II d'Harcourt, for example, was named Marshal of France (French: maréchal de France) and accommodated in his residence King Philip III. In 1338, King Philip VI, set up the seigniory of Harcourt, with the Château d'Harcourt forming its principal town.