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She was sent to France before World War II (to continue her education), and experienced that war as a young woman in occupied France. Birthplace: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Jean Cocteau Dec. at 74 (1889-1963) Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (French: [ʒɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 ...
Arthur Dillon (3 September 1750 – 13 April 1794) was an Irish Catholic aristocrat born in England who inherited the leadership of a French army regiment, serving both the Ancien Régime during the American Revolutionary War and the French First Republic during the War of the First Coalition. ...
By 1793 there were about 6000 French émigré clergy in England, refugees from the excesses of revolutionary France, their plight arousing the concern of, most famously, Fanny Burney (soon to be d'Arblay) and Hannah More, who both wrote works to support Lady Crewe's committee to raise funds...
a guy from england, a guy from france, a guy from texas, and a guy from mexico, all of a sudden the plane starts falling out of the sky. The pilot says "We a losing altitude we need to get rid of some weight. So they throw everything out of the plane, but its still falling....
My ancestors were French glass makers, the Tyzac / du Thysac family. They came from Belrupt, Alsace to England in the late 1500s. I would love to hear … Marendts from Lambach Alsace Seeking information on Francis Xavier Marendt and Anna Maria (Lander) Marendt who came to America arou...
Oresme, Raoul de Presle and others to transcribe ancient texts. At the death of Charles VI, this first collection was unilaterally bought by the English regent of France, the Duke of Bedford, who transferred it to England in 1424. It was apparently dispersed at his death in 1435.[3][4...
His intention was to create what was then called an Anglo-Chinese or English garden, on the earlier model of Stowe House in England. Carmontelle employed a German landscape architect named Etickhausen and the architect of the Duke, Bernard Poyet, to build the follies and stated that “It ...
was installed into the Louvre during 1837 and 1838, and this was very unusual at the time, as art works from Spain were very rarely seen in France before this time. However, they stopped being exhibited within the Louvre a few years later and were then all sold in London, England in ...
André Michaux, also styled Andrew Michaud, (8 March 1746 – 13 November 1802) was a French botanist and explorer. He is most noted for his study of North American flora. In addition Michaux collected specimens in England, Spain, France, and even, Persia. His work was part of a l...