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The cover sheet to the French translation of the letter drafted by the First Continental Congress in 1774. The Letters to the Inhabitants of Canada were three letters written by the First and Second Continental Congresses in 1774, 1775, and 1776 to communicate directly with the population of the Province of Quebec, formerly the French province of Canada, which had no representative system at ...
A French edition of the last seven volumes (with the first) was published in 1696–7 and asserting that it was a translation from the English. [5] The eight volumes contain 644 letters. [ 4 ]
The first English translation of the Letters were done by the Scottish minister Henry Hunter in 1795. [5] Hunter targeted the translation at British women, believing that Euler intended to educate the females through his work. [6] The translation of Hunter was based on the 1787 Paris Edition, of Marquis de Condorcet and Sylvestre François ...
A letter of credence (French: Lettre de créance, [lɛtʁ də kʁeɑ̃s]) is a formal diplomatic letter that designates a diplomat as ambassador to another sovereign state. Commonly known as diplomatic credentials , the letter is addressed from one head of state to another, asking them to give credence ( French : créance ) to the ambassador's ...
Morieux came across the box of letters at the UK’s National Archives while conducting research for his book “The Society of Prisoners: Anglo-French War and Incarceration in the Eighteenth ...
A note verbale (French pronunciation: [nɔt vɛʁ.bal]) is a formal form of note and is so named by originally representing a formal record of information delivered orally. It is less formal than a note (also called a letter of protest) but more formal than an aide-mémoire. A note verbale can also be referred to as a third person note (TPN).
In French, les objets trouvés, short for le bureau des objets trouvés, means the lost-and-found, the lost property. outré out of the ordinary, unusual. In French, it means outraged (for a person) or exaggerated, extravagant, overdone (for a thing, esp. a praise, an actor's style of acting, etc.); in that second meaning, belongs to "literary ...
The letters of Gustave Flaubert (French: la correspondance de Flaubert), the 19th-century French novelist, range in date from 1829, when he was 7 or 8 years old, to a day or two before his death in 1880. [1] They are considered one of the finest bodies of letters in French literature, admired even by many who are critical of Flaubert's novels. [2]