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De la Mare was born at 83, Maryon Road, Charlton, then in the county of Kent but now part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich.He was partly descended from a family of French Huguenot silk merchants through his father, James Edward de la Mare (1811–1877), a principal at the Bank of England; his mother was James's second wife, Lucy Sophia (1838–1920), daughter of a Scottish naval surgeon and ...
The Church of the Saintes Maries de la Mer is a Romanesque fortified church built in the 9th century in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in Camargue, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence. Dedicated to Mary, mother of Jesus and to The Three Marys, it is the subject of annual Roma pilgrimage. Since 1840, it has been classified as a French Historical Monument.
90. Le Silence de la mer ( French: [lə silɑ̃s də la mɛʁ], English titles Silence of the Sea and Put Out the Light, is a French novella written in 1941 by Jean Bruller under the pseudonym "Vercors". [ 1] Published secretly in German-occupied Paris in 1942, [ 2] the book quickly became a symbol of mental resistance against German occupiers.
Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer ( French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t maʁi də la mɛʁ], also Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, lit.: " (the) Saint Marys of the Sea", locally Les Saintes, Provençal Occitan: Li Santi Mario de la Mar ), is the capital of the Camargue ( Provençal Occitan Camarga) in the south of France. It is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône ...
Le Silence de la mer (lit. 'The silence of the sea') is a 2004 French-Belgian TV drama film directed by Pierre Boutron, based on the 1942 book of the same name by Jean Bruller (published clandestinely under the pen name "Vercors"), and starring Thomas Jouannet, Julie Delarme and Michel Galabru. The story takes place in 1941 during World War II ...
Arthur James de la Mare was born into a farming family in Saint John, Jersey. [1] He grew up speaking the Norman French patois of his native island. [1] He was educated at Victoria College, Jersey, then won a scholarship to Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he gained a double first in modern languages.
The Hôtel de la Marine ( French pronunciation: [otɛl də la maʁin] ), also known (formerly) as the Hôtel du Garde-Meuble ( pronounced [otɛl dy ɡaʁdəmœbl] ), is an historic building on the Place de la Concorde in Paris, [ 1 ] just east of Rue Royale. It was designed by the architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel and built between 1757 and 1774 ...
William de la Mare's origins are unknown. [1] He obtained a master's degree (Master Regent) in Paris in 1274/5. [2] In Paris, he came under the influence of Bonaventura and Roger Bacon. [3] He returned to England, and is known to have preached in Lincoln.