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Salle is the French word for 'hall', 'room' or 'auditorium', as in: Salle des Concerts Herz, a former Paris concert hall; Salle Favart, theatre of the Paris Opéra-Comique; Salle Le Peletier, former home of the Paris Opéra; Salle Pleyel, a Paris concert hall; Salle Ventadour, a former Paris theatre; Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, a multipurpose ...
An extract from a 19th-century dictionary of military terms describes a sallyport thus: those underground passages, which lead from the inner to the outward works ; such as from the higher flank to the lower, to the tenailles, or the communication from the middle of the curtain to the ravelin. When they are constructed for the passage of men ...
An indoor futsal competition. Futsal is a football-based sport played on a hardcourt like a basketball court, smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors.It has similarities to five-a-side football and indoor football.
There, La Salle named the Mississippi basin La Louisiane [28] in honor of Louis XIV and claimed it for France. [29] [30] During 1682–83, La Salle, with Henry de Tonti, established Fort Saint-Louis of Illinois at Starved Rock on the Illinois River to protect and hold the region for France. [31] La Salle then returned to Montreal and later, to ...
The word parterre comes from the French par and terre and literally translated means "on the ground". [1] The main meaning of the word is the front section of a formal garden , but by the mid-17th century, it was also used to refer both to the ground level of a theatre where spectators stood to watch performances and to the group of spectators ...
La Salle, LaSalle or Lasalle is part of the names of two men born in 17th century France, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle and René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, for whom many places and things are named:
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Prayer hall of the Great Mosque of Kairouan, in Kairouan, Tunisia. In architecture, a hall is a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls. [1] In the Iron Age and early Middle Ages in northern Europe, a mead hall was where a lord and his retainers ate and also slept.