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The 100 Books of the Century (French: Les cent livres du siècle) is a list of the hundred most memorable books of the 20th century, regardless of language, according to a poll performed during the spring of 1999 by the French retailer Fnac and the Paris newspaper Le Monde.
Livre des merveilles du monde (BnF Fr2810) is an illuminated manuscript made in France around 1410–1412. It is a collection of several texts concerning commercial, religious, and diplomatic contact between Europe and Asia .
Intermarché (English translation: Intermarket) is a brand of general commercial hypermarkets, supermarkets and convenience stores owned by French retail group Les Mousquetaires.
Le Monde was founded in 1944, [8] [9] at the request of General Charles de Gaulle, after the German army had been driven from Paris during World War II.The paper took over the headquarters and layout of Le Temps, which had been the most important newspaper in France, but its reputation had suffered during the Occupation. [10]
Descartes' Le Monde, 1664. The World, also called Treatise on the Light (French title: Traité du monde et de la lumière), is a book by René Descartes (1596–1650). Written between 1629 and 1633, it contains a nearly complete version of his philosophy, from method, to metaphysics, to physics and biology.
The livre was established by Charlemagne as a unit of account equal to one pound of silver. [citation needed] It was subdivided into 20 sous (also sols), each of 12 deniers.[citation needed] The word livre came from the Latin word libra, a Roman unit of weight and still the name of a pound in modern French, and the denier comes from the Roman denarius.
Le Monde diplomatique was founded in 1954 by Hubert Beuve-Méry, founder and director of Le Monde, the French newspaper of record.Subtitled the "organ of diplomatic circles and of large international organisations, [12]" 5,000 copies were distributed, comprising eight pages, dedicated to foreign policy and geopolitics.
André Paul Guillaume Gide (French: [ɑ̃dʁe pɔl ɡijom ʒid]; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French writer and author whose writings spanned a wide variety of styles and topics.