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The adjective particulier means "personal" or "private". The English word hotel developed a more specific meaning as a commercial building accommodating travellers; modern French also uses hôtel in this sense. For example, the Hôtel de Crillon on the Place de la Concorde was built as an hôtel particulier and is today a public hotel.
La Grande is Union County's largest city, with a population of 13,082 at the time of the 2010 U.S. Census. The La Grande metro population is 25,076. It is the 16th largest metropolitan area in Oregon. La Grande is located within the Grande Ronde Valley and is the only true valley in Oregon as it is surrounded by mountains.
Palais de la Légion d'Honneur, also known as the Hôtel de Salm, 64 rue de Lille, Paris.. In French contexts, an hôtel particulier is a townhouse of a grand sort. Whereas an ordinary maison (house) was built as part of a row, sharing party walls with the houses on either side and directly fronting on a street, an hôtel particulier was often free-standing, and by the 18th century it would ...
La Grande Maison Tokyo is a Japanese television series that aired from October 2019 to December 2019 at the "Sunday Theater" slot on TBS Television. [1]The series stars Takuya Kimura as disgraced chef Natsuki Obana, who returns to Japan to start a new three-star restaurant following an allergen contamination accident with his food served to an important guest three years ago.
La Grande Maison is a novel by Mohammed Dib published in 1952 by Editions du Seuil. It is the first part of the Algeria trilogy (which also includes The Fire and The Loom ). [ 1 ]
Lille (/ ˈ l iː l /, LEEL; French: ⓘ; Dutch: Rijsel; Picard: Lile; West Flemish: Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders.Positioned along the Deûle river, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the Nord department, and the main city of the European Metropolis of Lille.
A series of Supreme Court decisions in the 1920s foretold a changing national atmosphere; anti-radical emotions were diminishing, and there was a growing willingness to protect freedom of speech and assembly via court decisions. [123] The ACLU defended H. L. Mencken when he was arrested for distributing banned literature.
The Kingdom of Italy (Italian: Regno d'Italia [ˈreɲɲo diˈtaːlja]) was a state that existed from 17 March 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy, until 10 June 1946, when the monarchy was abolished, following civil discontent that led to an institutional referendum on 2 June 1946.