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L'Étoile du Nord is a French phrase meaning "The Star of the North". It is the motto of the U.S. state of Minnesota , [ 1 ] and the only U.S. state motto in French. It was chosen by the state's first governor, Henry Hastings Sibley , and adopted in 1861, three years after Minnesota's admission to the union. [ 2 ]
Minnesota's northerly location in the United States has resulted in its official designation as L'Étoile du Nord ("Star of the North"). There are nineteen official symbols of the US state of Minnesota, as designated by the Minnesota Legislature. [1] The first named symbol is the state's motto, L'Étoile du Nord – French for
L'étoile du nord (The North Star) is an opéra comique in three acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer. The French-language libretto was by Eugène Scribe. The work had its first performance at the Opéra-Comique, Paris, on 16 February 1854. Giacomo Meyerbeer, portrayed in 1847
The Great Seal of the State of Minnesota is the state seal of the U.S. state of Minnesota.It was adopted on May 11, 2024, alongside the state flag, for Statehood Day.It features a common loon, Minnesota's state bird, wild rice, the state grain, and the North Star, representing the state's motto (L'Étoile du Nord), and is themed around Minnesota's nature.
Étoile du Nord (French for Star of the North, i.e. the North Star) may refer to: L'Étoile du Nord, the motto of the U.S. state of Minnesota; L'étoile du nord, an 1854 opéra comique in three acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer "L'Étoile du Nord", a short story by the francophone Belgian writer Georges Simenon
Étoile du Nord (disambiguation) (French: North Star) Nordstern (disambiguation) (German: Northstar) Nordstar (disambiguation) Northstar (disambiguation) North Star (disambiguation) Northern Star (disambiguation)
Several thousand place names in the United States have names of French origin, some a legacy of past French exploration and rule over much of the land and some in honor of French help during the American Revolution and the founding of the country (see also: New France and French in the United States).
Nemrod takes the Étoile du Nord train to Brussels, on which he is robbed and killed. Édouard then takes a room at the boarding house in Charleroi of Madame Baron, Sylvie's mother, with bloodstained clothes and a lot of money that he hides. Despite the suspicions of her younger daughter Antoinette and the other lodgers, the frosty Madame Baron ...