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The French Red Cross (French: Croix-Rouge française), or the CRF, is the national Red Cross Society in France founded in 1864 and originally known as the Société française de secours aux blessés militaires (SSBM). Recognized as a public utility since 1945, the French Red Cross is one of the 191 national societies of the International Red ...
Croix-Rouge station (French pronunciation: [kʁwɑ ʁuʒ]) was the first terminus of Line 10 of the Paris Métro. It opened in 1923, but closed in 1939. It opened in 1923, but closed in 1939. The station was situated in the 6th arrondissement of Paris , between Sèvres–Babylone and Mabillon .
The Kingdom of Cyprus (French: Royaume de Chypre; Latin: Regnum Cypri) was a medieval kingdom of the Crusader states that existed between 1192 and 1489. [2] Initially ruled as an independent Christian kingdom, it was established by the French House of Lusignan after the Third Crusade. [2]
Voyage dans le Haouran et aux bords de la Mer Morte exécuté pendant les années 1857 et 1858, 20 pl. : 50 x 64 cm, Édition A. Bertrand, Paris, 1861. Étude historique et topographique de la tribu de Juda , Gr. in-4° , 164 p., fig., pl. et carte, Édition A. Bertrand, Paris, 1862.
Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoë made a renovation of the Place de la République one of his campaign promises in the 2008 campaign for re-election. [6] The project involved the transformation of the square from a "glorified roundabout" into a pedestrian zone, with 70% of the square's 3.4 hectares and surroundings roads being reserved for pedestrians. [6]
The terminus of Croix-Rouge received only four hundred daily passengers, and Varenne station , the least frequented station of the entire métro network, saw only three hundred passengers per day. As a result, only ten trains of six cars serviced the line, two motor cars serving as first class cars, which saw so little traffic that they were ...
The Cité internationale universitaire de Paris was established after World War I by André Honnorat, rector at the Sorbonne, in cooperation with Émile Deutsch de la Meurthe, in order to create a meeting place for students, researchers and intellectuals from around the world in a spirit of peace, unity and friendly cooperation.
A law was passed on April 30, 1921 establishing the new Croix de guerre for "Théâtres d'opérations extérieurs" (TOE). It was intended to commemorate the individual citations awarded during operations carried out since November 11, 1918 or that would occur in the future, for war service directly related to an expeditionary force used outside of the borders of France, otherwise, the statute ...