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This is a list of National Historic Sites of Canada (French: Lieux historiques nationaux du Canada) in France. Canada has designated only two sites outside its borders as National Historic Sites, both of which are war memorials in northern France commemorating Canadian and Newfoundland losses in the First World War. [1]
Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët: ... CA Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie: Government • Mayor ... is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France ...
The French Republic has one of the world's largest diplomatic networks, and is a member of more multilateral organisations than any other country. [1] [2]France's permanent representation abroad began in the reign of Francis I, when in 1522 he sent a delegation to the Swiss.
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The Company of One Hundred Associates (French: formally the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France, or colloquially the Compagnie des Cent-Associés or Compagnie du Canada), or Company of New France, was a French trading and colonization company chartered in 1627 to capitalize on the North American fur trade and to administer and expand French colonies there. [1]
Manoir de Saint-Ortaire, au Dézert private; Château du Tourps in Anneville-en-Saire, vestiges of the feudal manor, 18th-century château, private, visible from outside; Manoir de Vauville and its botanical gardens in Vauville, private, open to visitors
Main building, viewed from the southwest. The Château de Cany is a château located in Cany-Barville, a French municipality in the department of Seine-Maritime.It was built by Pierre Le Marinier towards the end of Louis XIII's reign and served as a family residence.
The first written mentions of Flers appear at the end of the twelfth century as Flers (1164–1179) or Flex (1188–1221). Some authors think that the name of the town derives from the German toponym Hlaeri, meaning wasteland or common grazing land, while others suggest an origin in the German Fliessen, from the Dutch vliet or the Latin fluere Latin Fluere, indicating a waterflow, basin or marsh.