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Chambers Book of Days, by Robert Chambers; The Wicca Book of Days by Gerina Dunwich; Gorillas Among Us: A Primate Ethnographer's Book of Days by Dawn Prince-Hughes; Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus Book of Days by John Gray; Book of Days by China Bayles; The diary of Stanislaus Joyce that he called his "Book of Days” Book of Days, a ...
With six or seven articles each day, the total number of articles, which are in the form of erudite essays, runs to around 2,000. The book has frequently been quoted in other reference books. Chambers carried out his research for the book in 1860 and 1861, primarily in the British Museum in London. He then spent 1862 and 1863 organising the ...
Gregory was born in Clermont, in the Auvergne region of central Gaul. [4] He was born into the upper stratum of Gallo-Roman society as the son of Florentius, Senator of Clermont, by his wife Armentaria II, niece of Bishop Nicetius of Lyon and granddaughter of both Florentinus, Senator of Geneva, and Saint Gregory of Langres.
This article includes French historians and other writers from France making important contributions to history, and having an article in either English or French Wikipedia. The list is organized chronologically, with sections devoted to time periods.
The nineteen-volume work covered French history from Charlemagne to the outbreak of the Revolution. Michelet was one of the first historians to shift the emphasis of history to the common people, rather than the leaders and institutions of the country. Another important French historian of the period was Hippolyte Taine.
In February 1954, only 7% of the French people wanted to continue the fight to keep Indochina out of Ho Chi Minh and his Viet Minh movement. [141] At the Geneva Conference in July 1954 , Pierre France made a deal that gave the Viet Minh control of Vietnam north of the 17th parallel, and allowed France to pull out all its forces. [ 142 ]
a group of admirers; in French, "la claque" is a group of people paid to applaud or disturb a piece at the theatre, though the common meaning of "claque" is "a slap"; clique is used in this sense (but in a pejorative way). connoisseur an expert in wines, fine arts, or other matters of culture; a person of refined taste.
Catholicon - purported first French dictionary: 1499 Thresor de la langue françoyse tant ancienne que moderne : 1606 Dictionnaire de l'Académie française: 1694 to present Littré: 1877 Grand Dictionnaire Encyclopédique Larousse: 1982-1985 Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle: 1866-1890 Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes