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Portrait by Hardouin Quitter. The text reads: "Mr de Mesmes Chevalier Comte d'Avaux Conseiller du conseil d'estat du Roy Tres Chrestien, Ambassadeur extraordinaire et Plenepotre de Sa Majesté pour les Traittez de paix à Nimmegue" Portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud. [a] Note the cordon bleu and the breast cross of the Order of the Holy Spirit.
Whereas an ordinary maison (house) was built as part of a row, sharing party walls with the houses on either side and directly fronting on a street, an hôtel particulier was often free-standing and, by the 18th century, would always be located entre cour et jardin – between the cour d'honneur (an entrance court) and the garden behind. [2]
The store is located in one of the hôtels particuliers of Place Vendôme, Number 28. This building has a three-story Jules Hardouin Mansart facade, behind which Charvet occupies seven floors, [176] each owner on the Place having built to his own needs. This is the only store directly operated by Charvet. [177]
Vendays-Montalivet (French pronunciation: [vɑ̃dajs mɔ̃talivɛ]; Occitan: Vendais e Montalivet) is a commune in the Gironde department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in Southwestern France. Climate
Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall (9 October 1947 – 7 January 2018), known professionally as France Gall, was a French yé-yé singer. In 1965, at the age of 17, she won the tenth edition of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Poupée de cire, poupée de son", representing Luxembourg.
The Maison de la paix houses the classroom space for most of the Graduate Institute's masters and PhD programme courses as well as the office space for its professors and administration. The Maison de la paix is home to the Davis Library, named after alumna and benefactor Kathryn Wasserman Davis and her husband Shelby Cullom Davis. The library ...
Roubaix (US: / r uː ˈ b eɪ / roo-BAY, French: or ⓘ; Dutch: Robaais; West Flemish: Roboais; Picard: Roubés) is a city in northern France, located in the Lille metropolitan area on the Belgian border.