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Villeneuve-Loubet was also, from 1920 onwards, the home of Maréchal Philippe Pétain (1856–1951), the "Hero of Verdun" in World War I and chief of state of the Nazi-collaborationist État Français, commonly known as Vichy France, in World War II. The writer and historian Jules Bertaut (1877–1959) died in
André Minangoy (1904-1985) was a French architect. [2] [3] He was particularly active in the Alpes-Maritimes region, taking advantage of the "Trente Glorieuses" boom that hit the Côte d'Azur.
Le Lac (English: The Lake) is a poem by French poet Alphonse de Lamartine.The poem was published in 1820. [citation needed]The poem consists of sixteen quatrains.It was met with great acclaim and propelled its author to the forefront of famous romantic poets.
The Gust of Wind (French: Le grand vent), alternatively titled Le Coup de Vent or High Wind, is an oil-on-canvas painting completed in 1872 by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The composition portrays wind sweeping across the hilly terrain in the Île-de-France region.
The canton of Villeneuve-Loubet is an administrative division of the Alpes-Maritimes department, southeastern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Villeneuve-Loubet. [2] It consists of the following communes: [2] La Colle-sur-Loup; Roquefort-les-Pins; Saint-Paul-de-Vence ...
"Cedar Breaks et le don de crainte" ("Cedar Breaks and the gift of awe") Part 2: "Appel interstellaire" ("Interstellar call") "Bryce Canyon et les rochers rouge-orange" ("Bryce Canyon and the red-orange rocks") Part 3: "Les Ressuscités et le chant de l'étoile Aldebaran" ("The resurrected and the song of the star Aldebaran")
Le lac des fées (The Fairy Lake) is a grand opera in five acts composed by Daniel Auber to a French libretto by Eugène Scribe and Mélesville (the pen name of Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier). The story is set in the Harz Mountains and based on a German ballad. The opera was premiered by the Paris Opera at the Salle Le Peletier on 1 April 1839.
Voyage au pays des arbres is a novel written in French by French Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio. A little boy is bored and dreams of traveling deep into the forest, where he meets a profound old oak and gets invited to a party by some young trees.