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A foreign country is understood as a country not part of France in 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics. 2 An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. An ...
The new government designated the Pantheon "The Temple of Humanity", and proposed to decorate it with sixty new murals honouring human progress in all fields. In 1851 the Foucault Pendulum of astronomer Léon Foucault was hung beneath the dome to illustrate the rotation of the earth. However, on complaints from the Church, it was removed in ...
In the 1960s, a French archaeologist, André Berthier , proposed that the location of Alesia is at Chaux-des-Crotenay in Franche-Comté, at the gate of the Jura mountains—a place that better suits the descriptions in Caesar's Gallic Wars [4] —and indeed, Roman fortifications have been found at that site. In total, around 40 towns and other ...
The Place du Panthéon ([plas dy pɑ̃teɔ̃]) is a square in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. Located in the Latin Quarter , it is named after and surrounds the Panthéon . The Rue Soufflot , west of the Place du Panthéon, runs towards the Boulevard Saint-Michel .
The Panthéon Centre (French: Centre Panthéon), also known as the École de droit de Paris is an academic building in the Latin Quarter urban university campus, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, located at 12, place du Panthéon.
The Alyscamps is a large Roman necropolis, which is a short distance outside the walls of the old town of Arles, France. It was one of the most famous necropolises of the ancient world. The name comes from the Provençal Occitan word Aliscamps, which comes from the Latin Elisii Campi (that is, in French, Champs-Élysées; in English Elysian ...
The Church of the Val-de-Grâce (French pronunciation: [val də ɡʁas]) is a Roman Catholic church in the 5th arrondissement of Paris.The church was built as part of a royal abbey by Anne of Austria, the Queen of France, to celebrate the birth of her son, Louis XIV in 1638.
The battle site was probably atop Mont Auxois, above modern Alise-Sainte-Reine in France, but this location, some have argued, does not fit Caesar's description of the battle. A number of alternatives have been proposed over time, among which only Chaux-des-Crotenay (in Jura in modern France) remains a challenger today.