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The OFB was founded in 2020 with the merging of the French Agency for Biodiversity and the National Hunting and Wildlife Office of France. The Agency for Biodiversity had been founded in 2016 through a merger of National Office for Water and Aquatic Environments (the former Higher Fisheries Council) with the National Park Service of France and the Marine Protected Areas Agency.
Open to the public since 1801, the Muséum d'Angers has a long and rich history. The initial nucleus of the collection dates from the French Revolution.By the Decree of 22 November 1790, Gabriel Eleanor Merlet de la Boulaye (1736–1807) is assigned the gathering of all books and natural history collections seized in the national houses.
Abahlali baseMjondolo assembly The Poor People's Alliance outside the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg in 2009. Several popular movements, such as the shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo in South Africa, [11] the Right to the City Alliance in the United States, [12] Recht auf Stadt, [13] a network of squatters, tenants and artists in Hamburg, and various movements in Asia and ...
In 1872, pursuant to a bequest by Jules Cousin (1830 - 1899), the city moved to create a library devoted entirely to the history of the capital: the Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris. The BHVP collection brings together documents dating from the 16th century through the present on the history of Paris and the Île-de-France region ...
Charles had received a collection of manuscripts from his predecessor, John II, and transferred them to the Louvre from the Palais de la Cité. The first librarian of record was Claude Mallet, the king's valet de chambre, who made a sort of catalogue, Inventoire des Livres du Roy nostre Seigneur estans au Chastel du Louvre. Jean Blanchet made ...
The Declaration of the Rights of the Man and of the Citizen of 1793 (French: Déclaration des droits de l'Homme et du citoyen de 1793) is a French political document that preceded that country's first republican constitution. The Declaration and Constitution were ratified by popular vote in July 1793, and officially adopted on 10 August ...
Until the mid-18th century, the local council held their meetings in rented rooms. However, in June 1757, the council acquired the l'hôtel Chapizeau on Rue de Lyon from Marguerite Gouin de Chapizeau. The building had been commissioned by Chapizeau's father in around 1710. The design involved a 12-bay main frontage facing onto Rue de Lyon.
The Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse (French pronunciation: [kɔmisjɔ̃ de dʁwa də la pɛʁsɔn e de dʁwa də la ʒœnɛs], CDPDJ; English: "Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission") is a government agency created by the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms in 1975.