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La Maison du chat-qui-pelote (The House of the Cat and Racket) is a novel by Honoré de Balzac. It is the opening work in the Scènes de la vie privée ( transl. Scenes of Private Life ), which comprises the first volume of Balzac's La Comédie humaine .
La Chapelle-du-Mont-du-Chat (French pronunciation: [la ʃapɛl dy mɔ̃ dy ʃa]; Arpitan: La Shapèla) is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.
1974 – A U.S. Army soldier stole a Bell UH-1 helicopter (pictured) and landed it on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. 2011 – Arab Spring : Bahraini security forces killed four protesters in a pre-dawn raid at the Pearl Roundabout in Manama , while the " Day of Rage " took place in Libya with nationwide protests against ...
Barthélemy de Laffemas (1545–1612) Barthélemy de Laffemas was an economist, born in Beausemblant, France in 1545. He is officially recorded as dying in Paris in 1612. . However, it is rumoured that he actually died on September 23, 1611, after falling from his ho
In France, the Inspection du travail is the body responsible for checking whether the provisions of the Labour Code or collective agreements are correctly applied in companies. The labor inspectors primarily control whether companies apply the Labor Code on all points : employment contracts , illegal work , working hours, etc.
The Col du Chat is a mountain pass located in France, in the commune of La Chapelle-du-Mont-du-Chat, in the French department of Savoie in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It crosses the Mont du Chat in the Jura Mountains , overlooking Lac du Bourget opposite the town of Aix-les-Bains .
Camille Ournac (31 August 1845 – 24 February 1925) was a wine merchant, miller and French politician.In his political life, he was a member of the Departmental council, and socialist mayor of Toulouse where he initiated several reforms and improvements to the city.
His first roles in cinema were proposed by French filmmaker Cédric Klapisch, who asked him to play in several of his movies, notably in Chacun cherche son chat ("When the Cat is Away", 1996) and in Ni pour ni contre (bien au contraire) in 2003. He was featured in Sally Potter's Yes (2004), in which he played the lead role.