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Sauvé was born into a working class French-Canadian family in Cobourg, the son of Pierre and Adeline Sauvé. [1] He obtained employment at the Davidison Rubber factory in Port Hope and in 1972 started to date a 15-year-old high school student, Sharon. [2] Sharon became pregnant and the couple were married in a shotgun wedding in October 1973. [2]
French Affair was a German-French dance-pop band established in 1999. [1] It found its highest popularity in German-speaking countries. They scored a number of hits ...
Marguerite Marie Alibert (9 December 1890 – 2 January 1971 [1] [2]), also known as Maggie Meller, [3] Marguerite Laurent, and Princess Fahmy, was a French socialite.She started her career as a prostitute and later courtesan in Paris, and from 1917 to 1918, she had an affair with the prince of Wales (later Edward VIII).
In the 19th century, it was the site of a notorious French criminal scandal known as "the Red Inn affair." In 1831, after a customer, Jean-Antoine Enjolras, was found dead by a nearby river with his skull smashed in, the owners of the inn, Pierre and Marie Martin, and their employee, Jean Rochette, were arrested and eventually charged with his ...
The French invasion of Honolulu (also known as the Sacking of Honolulu, or the Tromelin Affair) was an attack on Honolulu, capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom, by French admiral Louis Tromelin in 1849 in retribution for the local persecution of Catholics and repression of French trade.
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Jacques Hamelin 1837 by Antoine Maurin. The Indian Ocean was a vital part of the chain of trade links that connected the British Empire.Merchant ships from China, Arabia and East Africa crossed it regularly and at its centre was the British-held continent of India, from which heavily laden East Indiamen brought millions of pounds worth of trade goods to Britain every year. [1]