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On 1 January 1912, the military territory of Niger was split off from Upper Senegal and Niger, [4] and was erected into a colony in 1922. Between November 1915 and February 1917, the Colony of Upper Senegal and Niger witnessed vastly popular, temporarily successful, and sustained armed opposition to the colonial government in its western Volta ...
On the right bank of the Seine river was a similar tall tower: the Tour du Coin (corner tower). [1] The towers protected the upstream approach to the Île de la Cité. In 1308, Philip IV bought the tower from Amaury de Nesle. In 1314, a scandal known as the Tour de Nesle affair implicated the daughters-in-law of Philip IV, who were accused of ...
The 1919 creation of French Upper Volta as a civil colony removed the areas of modern Niger west of the Niger River. [4] In 1926, the capital was moved again to Niamey from Zinder . In 1931, Tibesti Cercle ceded to Chad Colony in French Equatorial Africa , and in 1932, the colony of French Upper Volta was divided amongst its neighbors, with the ...
The Tour de Nesle affair was a scandal amongst the French royal family in 1314, during which Margaret, Blanche, and Joan, the daughters-in-law of King Philip IV, were accused of adultery. The accusations were apparently started by Philip's daughter, Isabella. The Tour de Nesle was a tower in Paris where much of the adultery was said to have ...
The canalized Meuse used to be called the "Canal de l'Est — Branche Nord" but was recently rebaptized into "Canal de la Meuse". The waterway can be used by the smallest barges that are still in use commercially almost 40 m (131 ft) long and just over 5 metres (16 ft) wide.
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Map of the former Meuse-Inférieure département. Meuse-Inférieure (French: [møz ɛ̃feʁjœʁ]; Dutch: Beneden-Maas; German: Unteren-Maas; "Lower Meuse") was a department of the French First Republic and French First Empire in present-day Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. It was named after the river Meuse.
The following is a list of the 17 cantons of the Meuse department, in France, following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015: [1] Ancerville Bar-le-Duc-1