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The CEGEP offers two types of programs: pre-university and technical. The pre-university programs, which take two years to complete, cover the subject matters which roughly correspond to the additional year of high school given elsewhere in Canada in preparation for a chosen field in university.
Victoriaville (French pronunciation: [viktɔʁjavil]) is a town in south-central Quebec, Canada, on the Nicolet River. Victoriaville is the seat of Arthabaska Regional County Municipality and a part of the Centre-du-Québec (Bois-Francs) region. It is formed by the 1993 merger of Arthabaska, Saint-Victoire-d'Arthabaska and Victoriaville, the ...
Maison de Victor Hugo (French pronunciation: [mɛzɔ̃ də viktɔʁ yɡo], Victor Hugo's House) is a writer's house museum located where Victor Hugo lived for 16 years between 1832 and 1848. [1] It is one of the 14 City of Paris' Museums that have been incorporated since January 1, 2013 in the public institution Paris Musées .
The Maison carrée inspired the neoclassical Église de la Madeleine in Paris, St. Marcellinus Church in Rogalin, Poland, and in the United States the Virginia State Capitol, [3] which was designed by Thomas Jefferson, who had a stucco model made of the Maison carrée while he was minister to France in 1785.
Le Clos Arsène Lupin, Maison Maurice Leblanc is a museum dedicated to the fictional hero Arsène Lupin, created by the writer Maurice Leblanc. The museum is located at 15, rue Guy-de-Maupassant in Étretat, in the former home of Maurice Leblanc.
What is now the House of Slaves, depicted in this French 1839 print as the House of signare Anna Colas at Gorée, painted by d'Hastrel de Rivedoux. A wall in the Museum: a mural depicting slaves being herded in the African bush by Europeans, a photo of Joseph Ndiaye with Pope John Paul II, a certificate from a US travel agency, and an aphorism – one of many that cover the walls – by Ndiaye.
The Maison de Balzac (French pronunciation: [mɛzɔ̃ də balzak], English: Balzac's House) is a writer's house museum in the former residence of French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850). It is located in the 16th arrondissement at 47, rue Raynouard, Paris, France, and open daily except Mondays and holidays; admission to the house is ...
The museum is housed in buildings which are three centuries old, the Hotel Demarne and the Maison du Bel Air. The 17th-century French actor Rosimond acquired the house in 1680. It was home to many famous artists and writers such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir who painted his celebrated La Balançoire and Le Bal du Moulin de la Galette here in 1876.