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La Coquille (French pronunciation: [la kɔkij]; Occitan: La Coquilha) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.. La Coquille was on one of the five routes leading to Santiago de Compostela in Spain and it was in this parish that pilgrims were given a coquille Saint-Jacques, a scallop shell symbolic of the Way of St. James, the celebrated pilgrimage ...
Pecten maximus, common names the great scallop, king scallop, St James shell or escallop, is a northeast Atlantic species of scallop, an edible saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Pectinidae. This is the type species of the genus.
Scallop (/ ˈ s k ɒ l ə p, ˈ s k æ l ə p /) [a] is a common name that encompasses various species of marine bivalve mollusks in the taxonomic family Pectinidae, the scallops.However, the common name "scallop" is also sometimes applied to species in other closely related families within the superfamily Pectinoidea, which also includes the thorny oysters.
The Church of Saint-Jacques (12th century) [29] was seriously damaged during the Wars of religion (13 and 14 May 1562) and was almost completely rebuilt in 1710. Nevertheless, it has an imposing Saintonge Romanesque facade dating to the 12th century. 18.40 metres long and 12 metres high, it is divided into three horizontal and vertical sections ...
Jacques Beaupierre, character in the Aaron Elkins novel Skeleton Dance; Jacques LeFleur, a character in the cartoon M.A.S.K. (TV series) Jacques Snicket, a character in the A Series of Unfortunate Events novel series; Jacques Dubrinsky, a character in Carpathian Novels series by Christine Feehan; Jacques Schnee, a character in the animated web ...
Order of Saint Louis Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe Jacques François Coquille ( French pronunciation: [ʒak fʁɑ̃swa kɔkij] ), known as Dugommier ( French pronunciation: [dyɡɔmje] ; 1 August 1738 – 18 November 1794), was a French military leader during the French Revolutionary Wars .
The Vatican says it is unclear how long Pope Francis will stay in hospital and he will not lead Sunday’s Angelus prayer after he was admitted on Friday with a respiratory tract infection.
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