Château-d'ŒxChâteau-d'Œx (ʃɑto dɛ) is a municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut. Château-d'Œx is first mentioned in 1115 as Oit, Oyz, Oix and Oyez. During the late Paleolithic and Mesolithic (9500 BC to at least 6000 BC) caves around Château-d'Œx served as a seasonal settlement. Bronze Age knives indicate that there was a settlement during that era as well. Many of the local names (combe = valley, joeur = forest, man= rock) and the local dialect are the only traces of a Celtic settlement in the area.
Lycée Louis-le-GrandThe Lycée Louis-le-Grand (lise lwi lə gʁɑ̃), also referred to simply as Louis-le-Grand or by its acronym LLG, is a public Lycée (French secondary school, also known as sixth form college) located on rue Saint-Jacques in central Paris. It was founded in the early 1560s by the Jesuits as the Collège de Clermont, was renamed in 1682 after King Louis XIV ("Louis the Great"), and has remained at the apex of France's secondary education system despite its disruption in 1762 following the suppression of the Society of Jesus.
Petula ClarkPetula Clark CBE (born 15 November 1932) is a British singer, actress, and songwriter. She has had one of the longest careers of any British singer, spanning more than seven decades. Clark's professional career began during the Second World War as a child entertainer on BBC Radio. In 1954 she charted with "The Little Shoemaker", the first of her big UK hits, and within two years she began recording in French. Her international successes have included "Prends mon coeur", "Sailor" (a UK number one), "Romeo", and "Chariot".
Prix GuizotThe Prix Guizot is an annual prize of the Académie Française, which has been awarded in the field of history since 1994 by Fondations Guizot, Chodron de Courcel, Yvan Loiseau and Eugène Piccard. It is awarded to the author of a work of general history. Source: Académie française 1995 Jean-Pierre Valognes, Vie et mort des chrétiens d'Orient, des origines à nos jours (Fayard) 1996 Barbara de Negroni, Lectures interdites. Le travail des censeurs au XVIIIe siècle (Albin Michel) Alain Boureau, Le Droit de cuissage.
Stéphanie LapointeStéphanie Lapointe (born March 26, 1984 in Brossard, Quebec) is a Quebec singer, song writer, television and movie actress and humanitarian activist. She is best known as the winner of the second season of Star Académie. Lapointe discovered and developed her interest in music as a young child. It was in 1992, at the age of 8, that she had her first piano lessons at her elementary school in Brossard (formerly Longueuil) a southern suburb of Montreal.
MâconMâcon (mɑ.kɔ̃), historically anglicised as Mascon, is a city in east-central France. It is the prefecture of the department of Saône-et-Loire in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Mâcon is home to near 34,000 residents, who are referred to in French as Mâconnais. The city gave its name to the nearby vineyards and wine 'appellation'. The city lies on the western bank of the river Saône, between Bresse in the east and the Beaujolais hills in the south. Mâcon is the southernmost city in the department of Saône-et-Loire and the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Demographics of FranceThe demography of France is monitored by the Institut national d'études démographiques (INED) and the Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE). As of 1 January 2021, 65,250,000 people lived in Metropolitan France, while 2,785,000 lived in overseas France, for a total of 68,035,000 inhabitants in the French Republic. In March 2017, the population of France officially reached the 67,000,000 mark. It had reached 66,000,000 in early 2014.
Golden Years (2017 film)Golden Years (Nos années folles) is a 2017 French drama film directed by André Téchiné and starring Pierre Deladonchamps and Céline Sallette. The script was written by Téchiné in collaboration with Cédric Anger adapting Fabrice Virgili and Daniele Voldman's nonfiction book La garconne et l'assassin (The Flapper and the Killer). The plot follows a French army deserter who disguised himself as a woman in order to dodge the authorities. It was shown in the Special Screening section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
Joël HolmèsJoël Holmès (Joël Holmès; 1 August 1928 – 2 September 2009) was a Romanian-born French singer-songwriter. Joël Holmès was born under the name Joël Covrigaru in 1928 in Tighina, where his parents moved from Akkermansky Uyezd (father from the city of Izmail, mother from the village of Talmaza) of the Russian Empire (which owned the zone until 1918). In 1934, Holmès moved to France with his parents.
List of individuals nominated for the Nobel Peace PrizeThe Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and industrialist, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature. Since March 1901, it has been awarded annually (with some exceptions) to those who have "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".
