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Fouquet's brasserie was founded in 1899 by Louis Fouquet. The restaurant has been listed as a historical French monument since 1990 (Inventaire des Monuments Historiques). The decor includes mahogany paneling by Jean Royere , [ 2 ] Harcourt portraits of notable actors and actresses, and discreet brass plaques which indicate the favourite tables ...
The interior of Le Vagenende on Boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris A riverside brasserie in Leeds, England The terrace of a brasserie on Groenplaats, Antwerp, Belgium. In France, Flanders, and the Francophone world, a brasserie (pronounced [bʁas(ə)ʁi] ⓘ) is a type of French restaurant with a relaxed setting, which serves dishes and other meals.
The Angevin pretensions to Naples were continued intermittently by the House of Lorraine, which descended from René's eldest daughter. Yolande . Notably, the Valois-Habsburg War of 1551 to 1559 saw Duke Francis of Guise , a member of a cadet branch of the House of Lorraine, lead an unsuccessful French expedition against Naples.
Soon afterwards, on 23 December 1798, Ferdinand fled Naples to Palermo as a French army closed in. In January 1799, the French armies installed a Parthenopaean Republic , but this proved short-lived, and a peasant counter-revolution inspired by the clergy allowed Ferdinand to return to his capital.
In 1959, Paul Gineste de Saurs purchased an Francia restaurant called Le Relais de Venise (the Venice Inn) in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, near Porte Maillot. A descendant of the Gineste de Saurs family in southern France, he was seeking to establish an assured market for the wines produced by the family's Château de Saurs winery in Lisle-sur-Tarn, 50 kilometres northeast of Toulouse.
Dining room of Restaurant Chartier Entrance of Restaurant Chartier. In France, a bouillon (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a traditional (late 19th or early 20th century), spacious restaurant that usually serves traditional French cuisine, in particular a bouillon, which has provided the name for this class of restaurants.
The Invasion of Naples was a front during the War of the Third Coalition, in 1806, when an army of the French Empire led by Marshal André Masséna marched from Northern Italy into the Kingdom of Naples, an ally of the Coalition against France ruled by King Ferdinand IV. The Neapolitan army was defeated at Campo Tenese and rapidly disintegrated.
The Parthenopean Republic (Italian: Repubblica Partenopea, French: République Parthénopéenne) or Neapolitan Republic (Italian: Repubblica Napoletana) was a short-lived, semi-autonomous republic located within the Kingdom of Naples and supported by the French First Republic.