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Awards. Knight of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis. Position held. List of colonial and departmental heads of Réunion (1735–1735) Bertrand-François Mahé, comte de La Bourdonnais (11 February 1699 – 10 November 1753) was a French Navy officer, colonial administrator and nobleman who was employed by the French East India Company.
Maurice Delafosse. Maurice Delafosse (20 December 1870 – 13 November 1926) was a French ethnographer and colonial official who also worked in the field of the languages of Africa. In a review of his daughter's biography of him he was described as "one of the most outstanding French colonial administrators and ethnologists of his time."
Le Petit Journal (pronounced [lə pəti ʒuʁnal]) was a conservative daily Parisian newspaper founded by Moïse Polydore Millaud; published from 1863 to 1944. Together with Le Petit Parisien, Le Matin, and Le Journal, it was one of the four major French dailies. In 1890, during the Boulangiste crisis, its circulation first reached one million ...
Saint-Quentin, Picardy, Kingdom of France. Nationality. French. Known for. Pastel. Maurice Quentin de La Tour (5 September 1704 – 17 February 1788) was a French painter who worked primarily with pastels in the Rococo style. Among his most famous subjects were Voltaire, Rousseau, Louis XV and the Madame de Pompadour.
Jean Cocteau. Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (UK: / ˈkɒktoʊ / KOK-toh, US: / kɒkˈtoʊ / kok-TOH; French: [ʒɑ̃ mɔʁis øʒɛn klemɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost artists of the surrealist, avant ...
Le Journal du Dimanche was created by Pierre Lazareff in 1948. [2] He was managing editor of France Soir at that time. [2] The weekly paper belongs to the Lagardère Group [3] through Hachette Filipacchi Médias. [4] The company is also the publisher of the paper [5] which is based in Paris [4] and which is published on Sundays.
Maurice de Rothschild is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of Malagasy lizard, Paracontias rothschildi. [4]Maurice de Rothschild's African expedition 1904-1905, zoological in nature, was conveyed in a three-volume archive and published in 1922, entitled "Voyage de M. le baron Maurice de Rothschild en Éthiopie et en Afrique orientale anglaise (1904-1905) : résultats ...
On Monday, Dairy Queen dropped its new Fall Blizzard Treat Menu that it says is meant to turn fall dread into a seasonal celebration — and is even giving out free ones to get everyone excited.