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Coordinates: 48.8628°N 2.3620°E. Marché des Enfants Rouges. The Marché des Enfants Rouges is the oldest covered market [1] in Paris, France. It was established in 1628 [1] as the "petit marché du Marais" and is located at 39 Rue de Bretagne in the Marais (3rd) arrondissement. The market has been listed as a historic monument since 1982.
Frontispiece and title page of Le Bourgeois gentilhomme from a 1688 edition. Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (French pronunciation: [lə buʁʒwa ʒɑ̃tijɔm], translated as The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Middle-Class Aristocrat, or The Would-Be Noble) is a five-act comédie-ballet – a play intermingled with music, dance and singing – written by Molière, first presented on 14 October 1670 before ...
In May 1914 the name of the town of L'Ha became officially L'Ha -les-Roses (meaning "L'Ha the roses") in honour of the renowned rose garden. Laid out in thirteen formal sections, today Roseraie du Val-de-Marne has a total of 13,100 rose bushes featuring 3200 species and varieties. The garden has modern French and foreign roses on one side, the ...
The Royal Saint-Hubert Galleries were designed by the young architect Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar, who determined to sweep away a warren of ill-lit alleyways between the Rue du Marché aux Herbes / Grasmarkt and the Rue Montagne aux Herbes Potagères / Warmoesberg and replace a sordid space where the bourgeoisie scarcely ventured into with a covered shopping arcade more than 200 m (660 ft) in ...
28. The " Ballade des dames du temps jadis " (" Ballade of Ladies of Time Gone By") is a Middle French poem by François Villon that celebrates famous women in history and mythology, and a prominent example of the ubi sunt? genre. It is written in the fixed-form ballade format, and forms part of his collection Le Testament in which it is ...
Officially Francophone areas in red. Belgian French (French: français de Belgique) is the variety of French spoken mainly among the French Community of Belgium, alongside related Oïl languages of the region such as Walloon, Picard, Champenois, and Lorrain (Gaumais). The French language spoken in Belgium differs very little from that of France ...
The Rue du Marché aux Fromages ( French: [ʁy dy maʁ.ʃe o fʁɔ.maʒ]) or Kaasmarkt ( Dutch ), meaning "Cheese Market Street", now also known by its nickname the Rue des Pittas or Pitastraat ("Pitta Street"), is a historic street in Brussels, Belgium, near the Grand-Place/Grote Markt (Brussels' main square). [ 1][ 2][ 3] It is lined with ...
La Marseillaise. " La Marseillaise " [a] is the national anthem of France. The song was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by France against Austria, and was originally titled " Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin " [b] ("War Song for the Army of the Rhine ").