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Jean-François André Clervoy (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa ɑ̃dʁe klɛʁvwa]; born 19 November 1958) is a French engineer and a CNES and ESA astronaut. He is a veteran of three NASA Space Shuttle missions.
The region was ceded to the Kingdom of France, and became part of the province of Flanders and Hainaut. The bulk became part of the modern French administrative Nord department, although some western parts of the region, which separated in 1237 and became the County of Artois before the cession to the French, are now part of Pas-de-Calais.
Billionaire Spaceflight Launch Date Arrival Date Notes Dennis Tito: Space Adventures / MirCorp ISS EP-1 (Soyuz TM-32/TM-31) 28 April 2001: 6 May 2001: First billionaire in space, orbital space; first space tourist to the International Space Station [3] [1] [4] Mark Shuttleworth: Space Adventures ISS EP-3 (Soyuz TM-34/TM-33) 25 April 2002: 2 May ...
French Flemish (Fransch vlaemsch, Standard Dutch: Frans-Vlaams, French: flamand français) is a West Flemish dialect spoken in the north of contemporary France.. Place names attest to Flemish having been spoken since the 8th century in the part of Flanders that was ceded to France at the 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees, and which hence became known as French Flanders.
The following is a list of French astronauts, also referred to as spationauts, who have traveled into space, sorted by date of first flight. As of 2024, ten French nationals have been in space. The first French national in space was Jean-Loup Chrétien in 1982.
A French billionaire showed up at a supermarket to fight a gamer who had criticized his internet company for its slow connection. Back in May, social media user @JimmyBLLT called out Xavier Niel ...
It was influential in all neighbouring regions including England, and at its greatest extent its political hegemony stretched north into Zeelandic Flanders in what is now the Netherlands, and deep into French-speaking northern France. Today, "Flanders" is a term referring to the Flemish Region, which is defined as the Dutch-speaking part of the ...
French luxury conglomerate LVMH has added a tiny Parisian bistro to its sprawling empire of designer fashion brands, jewelry makers and hotels. Europe’s richest man liked this Paris bistro so ...