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  2. AQA Baccalaureate - Wikipedia

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    The AQA Baccalaureate (known as the "AQA Bacc" for short) is a British educational qualification launched in April 2009 and managed by Charlotte Christie [1] for the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance, or AQA, to be studied in Years 12 and 13.

  3. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/France- and French-related articles

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    This is considered correct usage in contemporary French, and is the form used by The Chicago Manual of Style and in article titles on the French wiki. in French with capital spelling: Comtesse de, Marquis de... (e.g., Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune; Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon; Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine). While ...

  4. Ronde script - Wikipedia

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    Ronde ('round' in French) is a kind of script in which the heavy strokes are nearly upright, giving the characters when taken together a round look. [1] It appeared in France at the end of the 16th century, growing out from a late local variant of Gothic cursive influenced by North Italian Renaissance types in Rotunda , a bookish round Gothic ...

  5. List of most expensive books and manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    Handwritten manuscript of translation into French of Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Émilie du Châtelet: 1745–49 October 2015 [169] $1.6 $1.22 Summa de arithmetica. First edition of the first vernacular book on algebra and the first description of double-entry bookkeeping. Luca Pacioli: 1494 June 2019 [170] $1.6 ...

  6. Exercises in Style - Wikipedia

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    Exercises in Style (French: Exercices de style), written by Raymond Queneau, is a collection of 99 retellings of the same story, each in a different style.In each, the narrator gets on the "S" bus (now no. 84), witnesses an altercation between a man (a zazou) with a long neck and funny hat and another passenger, and then sees the same person two hours later at the Gare St-Lazare getting advice ...

  7. Template:French Open drawsheets - Wikipedia

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  8. Arches paper - Wikipedia

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    The mill thus produced paper for incunables (the name given to the first printed books), such as the Nuremberg Chronicle by Dürer. Also printed on Arches paper was the Description de l'Égypte commissioned by Napoleon I upon his return from his Egyptian campaign, [ 1 ] and the complete works of Voltaire , a printing project that consumed some ...

  9. Date and time notation in France - Wikipedia

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    The 24-hour notation is used in writing with an h as a separator (h for heure, meaning hour). Example: 14 h 05 (1405 [14:05] hours or 2:05 pm). Though the correct [citation needed] form includes spaces on both sides of the h, it is common to see them omitted: 14h05. The minutes are usually written with two digits; the hour numbers can be ...