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Les petites filles modèles (English: Good Little Girls) is a novel for children by the Countess of Ségur first published in May 1858. It is the second book of a trilogy (sometimes called the Fleurville Trilogy), with Sophie's Misfortunes (1858) and Les vacances (English: The Holidays) . Hachette was still selling 20 000 copies of this novel ...
The madeleine (French pronunciation:, English: / ˈ m æ d l eɪ n / or / ˌ m æ d l ˈ eɪ n / [1]) or petite madeleine ([pə.tit mad.lɛn]) is a traditional small cake from Commercy and Liverdun, two communes of the Lorraine region in northeastern France.
Biscuiterie Saint-Michel is a French food company, a subsidiary of St Michel Biscuits, which produces and markets dry pastries (cookies) under the St-Michel brand name. It was founded in 1905 in the coastal town of Saint-Michel-Chef-Chef , where is still standing the original factory.
Marie-Madeleine Maufils de Saint-Louis (baptised December 21, 1671 – buried December 5, 1702) was a Religious Hospitaller at the Hôtel-Dieu de Quebec and an early painter in New France. [1] Marie-Madeleine Maufils was born in Quebec, the daughter of Pierre Maufils and Madeleine Poulain. She joined the Religious Hospitallers in 1687.
Marguerite Yourcenar (UK: / ˈ j ʊər s ə n ɑːr, ˈ j ʊ k ə n ɑːr /, [1] [2] US: / ˌ j ʊər s ə ˈ n ɑːr /; [3] French: [maʁɡ(ə)ʁit juʁsənaʁ] ⓘ; born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour; 8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a US citizen in 1947.
Michael Likosky and Laura Norén 26 April 2012 - Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University Law & Public Finance Center on Selection Filter
Madeleine Castaing was a friend of Erik Satie, Maurice Sachs, Blaise Cendrars, André Derain, Jean Cocteau (arranging his house in Milly-la-Forêt), Marc Chagall, Iché, Picasso, Henry Miller, Louise de Vilmorin (to whom she inspired the character of Julietta in the novel of the same name), and Francine Weisweiller (for whom she decorated the ...
Mont-Saint-Michel is a World Wonder in Civilization VI. [36] Mont-Saint-Michel is featured in Onimusha 3: Demon Siege in which the abbey is overrun by demons in both the 16th and 21st centuries and subsequently destroyed. A fictionalized version of the island, Beaumont-Saint-Denis, serves as the location for Sniper Elite 5's third mission. [37]