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The city is named for Rouge River that runs through the area. It is a tributary of the Ottawa River (French: Rivière des Outaouais). The region was always known as La Vallée de la Rouge (English: The Valley of the Red), and the city name was probably chosen for this reason. The now defunct local Air Cadet Squadron number 883 was also called ...
The formalized service à la française was a creation of the Baroque period, helped by the growth of published cookbooks setting out grand dining as it was practiced at the French court, led by François Pierre de la Varenne's Le Cuisinier françois (1651) and Le Pâtissier françois (1653).
The word is derived from the French word cours (run), and came into English in the 14th century. [2] It came to be used perhaps because the food in a banquet serving had to be brought at speed from a remote kitchen – in the 1420 cookbook Du fait de cuisine the word "course" is used interchangeably with the word for serving.
Elevator to the Gallows (French: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud), also known as Frantic in the US and Lift to the Scaffold in the UK, is a 1958 French crime thriller film directed by Louis Malle. The film stars Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet as illicit lovers whose murder plot starts to unravel after one of them becomes trapped in an elevator.
The final stretch of the Eau Rouge, as it joins the river Amblève near Stavelot. The Eau Rouge is a small, 15-kilometre-long (9 mi) stream in the Belgian province of Liège. It is a right tributary of the Amblève. It starts in the Hautes Fagnes ("High Fens") and ends in Challes, near Stavelot in the river Amblève.
Trois milliards sans ascenseur (Translation: Three Billions Without an Elevator) (Italian: Sette cervelli per un colpo perfetto/ Seven Brains for a Perfect Shot) is a 1972 French-Italian film, directed by Roger Pigaut. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti. [3] The script was co-written by Lucio Fulci. [4]
Study on the means of crossing the falls of the canals (Fontinettes), (Etude sur les moyens de franchir les chutes des canaux) The Fontinettes Boat Lift was capable of lifting vessels of 300 tonnes displacement. [2] It was designed to avoid the need to use five locks, which took some 90 minutes, to change height by 13 metres.
The system was designed by José Galván Balaguer, a military engineer, along with León de Torres and León Huerta. [ 1 ] The system was designed to raise water from the Gordejuela springs to the top of the cliff, some 200 metres (660 ft) above sea level, [ 1 ] so that the fresh water could be used in banana plantations in the Orotava Valley ...