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On 1 February 1956, La Croix began to appear for the first time without a crucifix as a part of its header. In March 1968, the newspaper adopted a tabloid format. In January 1972, the newspaper changed its name to La Croix-l’Événement ("the Cross-the Event"). The choice of the new title was a reflection of the editorship's desire to show ...
The Last Day of a Condemned Man (French: Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné) is a novella by Victor Hugo first published in 1829. It recounts the thoughts of a man condemned to die. Victor Hugo wrote this novel to express his feelings that the death penalty should be abolished.
David Alagna (born in Paris, 1975) is a French stage director and composer.. As a composer he is best known for his opera Le Dernier jour d'un condamné based on the story by Victor Hugo, to a libretto by his brother Frédérico Alagna, himself, and by his older brother Roberto Alagna.
Sentenced to death by beheading on 10 March 1976, Ranucci was the third-to-last person executed in France, and frequently cited as the last due to the notoriety and media frenzy over the case. Ranucci's case greatly influenced the debate over capital punishment in France after the book Le Pull-over rouge (1978) was published by former lawyer ...
Known as "The Ogre of the Ardennes"; with his help of his wife Monique Olivier, kidnapped, raped and murdered predominantly young girls across France and Belgium [15] Frantz, Véronique: 1852–1854 3 3 Executed 1854 Poisoned her employer's mother-in-law and wife to become his mistress; later poisoned him after she learned he planned to remarry ...
This is a category listing, which serves as an index of existing Wikipedia articles about recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France). It is not intended to be an exhaustive listing of all recipients.
On Thursday, 13 May 1993 at 9:27 a.m., Érick Schmitt, dressed in black and wearing a motorcycle helmet and balaclava burst into kindergarten number 8 of the Commandant Charcot school complex on Rue de la Ferme in Neuilly-sur-Seine, where 21 children aged three to four were working with their teacher to make necklaces for Mother's Day. [1]
Statue of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, melted down following a 1941 decision of the Nazi occupation authorities [1] Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (French: [tɔmɑ alɛksɑ̃dʁ dymɑ davi də la pajət(ə)ʁi]; known as Thomas-Alexandre Dumas; 25 March 1762 – 26 February 1806) was a French general, from the French colony of Saint-Domingue, in Revolutionary France.