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  2. Banque Canadienne Nationale - Wikipedia

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    Like the other Canadian chartered banks, BCN issued its own paper currency until the Bank of Canada Act of 1934 created the Bank of Canada and it relinquished this right. In 1968, Banque Canadienne Nationale was one of the four original banks to form CHARGEX Ltd. through a licence from BankAmericard , providing Canada with its first interbank ...

  3. National Bank of Canada - Wikipedia

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    The merged bank was renamed "Banque Canadienne Nationale" (BCN) (English, "Canadian National Bank"). In 1968, BCN, in conjunction with a number of other banks, launched Chargex, the first credit card to be issued by a Canadian bank. During the 1970s, Quebec-based rival Provincial Bank of Canada expanded rapidly through a number of acquisitions.

  4. Hôtel particulier - Wikipedia

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    Monographs have been published on some outstanding Parisian hôtels particuliers.; The classic photographic survey, now a rare book found only in large art libraries, is the series Les Vieux Hotels de Paris by J. Vacquer, published in the 1910s and 1920s, which takes Paris quarter by quarter and which illustrates many hôtels particuliers that were demolished during the 20th century.

  5. Doc (computing) - Wikipedia

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    DOC was changed once again into an OLE and CFBF-based format used from Word 97 ("8.0") to 2003 ("11.0"). Word for MS-DOS used its own specific DOC format. [5] In order to allow users of Word 6.0 and Word 95 to be able to open and read documents created in the newer (97–2003) format, Microsoft released the downloadable Word 97 Import Converter ...

  6. Type B videotape - Wikipedia

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    1-inch Type B Helical Scan or SMPTE B is a reel-to-reel analog recording video tape format developed by the Bosch Fernseh division of Bosch in Germany in 1976. The magnetic tape format became the broadcasting standard in continental Europe, but adoption was limited in the United States and United Kingdom, where the Type C videotape format met with greater success.

  7. Société Générale - Wikipedia

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    Retail Banking in France (Société Générale, Crédit du Nord and Boursorama) International Banking and Financial Services (IBFS) Corporate and Investment Banking (SG CIB), with investment banking and fixed income, structured financing, debt and forex activities on the one side, and equity and consulting activities on the other.

  8. Viennoiserie - Wikipedia

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    The popularity of Viennese-style baked goods in France began with the Boulangerie Viennoise, which was opened by Austrian August Zang in 1839. The first usage of the expression pâtisseries viennoises appeared in 1877 in a book by the French author Alphonse Daudet , Le Nabab . [ 2 ]

  9. Gascon dialect - Wikipedia

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    The usual term for Gascon is "patois", a word designating in France a non-official and usually devaluated dialect (such as Gallo) or language (such as Occitan), regardless of the concerned region. [citation needed] [11] It is mainly in Béarn that the population uses concurrently the term "Béarnais" to designate its Gascon forms.