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Anne Marie Martinozzi (1637 – 4 February 1672), who served as Surintendante de la Maison de la Reine for Anne of Austria between 1657 and 1666, and married Armand de Bourbon (1629–1666) in 1654, becoming the Princess of Conti, and had issue, among them François Louis de Bourbon, known as Le Grand Conti ("The Great Conti"), an infamous ...
Maison de Soul is a Louisiana-based Zydeco and blues record label. [1] It was founded in 1974 in Ville Platte, Louisiana by Floyd Soileau and remains under his ownership. It is one of four record labels under Soileau's Flat Town Music Company umbrella, and combined the Flat Town labels make up "the largest body of Cajun, zydeco, and swamp music in the world". [2]
The Maison de la Magie Robert-Houdin (French for "Robert-Houdin House of Magic") is a museum which faces the Royal Château de Blois. It is located in the Loir-et-Cher département in the Loire Valley , in France , in the center of the city of Blois . [ 1 ]
Dans le Pacifique Sud, elle vous cerne de toutes parts, se glissant sous votre chemise, dans vos oreilles, vos narines, étreignant tout votre corps jusqu’à ce que de petites gouttes de transpiration viennent perler entre les poils de vos sourcils et de votre moustache. Le temps de trouver un taxi, j’étais trempé de sueur.
Maisons des Illustres is a mark of quality (French: label de qualité) of buildings in France, indicating places where the purpose is to preserve the memory of people distinguished in the political, social and cultural history of France.
House of the Dukes of Brabant (French: Maison des Ducs de Brabant, Dutch: Huis van de Hertogen van Brabant) Various (see below) Set of seven houses grouped behind the same monumental façade designed by Guillaume de Bruyn and modified in 1770 by Laurent-Benoît Dewez, so called because of the busts of the Dukes of Brabant that adorn it. It was ...
What is now the House of Slaves, depicted in this French 1839 print as the House of signare Anna Colas at Gorée, painted by d'Hastrel de Rivedoux. A wall in the Museum: a mural depicting slaves being herded in the African bush by Europeans, a photo of Joseph Ndiaye with Pope John Paul II, a certificate from a US travel agency, and an aphorism – one of many that cover the walls – by Ndiaye.
La Cousine Bette (French pronunciation: [la kuzin bɛt], Cousin Bette) is an 1846 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac.Set in mid-19th-century Paris, it tells the story of an unmarried middle-aged woman who plots the destruction of her extended family.