Le Grau-du-RoiLe Grau-du-Roi (lə ɡʁo dy ʁwa; Lo Grau dau Rei) is a commune in the Gard department in southern France. It is the only commune in Gard to have a frontage on the Mediterranean. To the west is the Herault department and La Grande-Motte village, and to the east is the Bouches-du-Rhone department. Using the sea as a vantage point, the commune has four distinct sections: the right beach (Plage de Rive Droite), the Village, the left beach (Plage de Rive Gauche), Port-Camargue and L'Espiguette.
Contes et nouvelles en versContes et nouvelles en vers (Tales and Novellas in Verse) is an anthology of various ribald short stories and novellas collected and versified from prose by Jean de La Fontaine. Claude Barbin of Paris published the collection in 1665. La Fontaine drew from several French and Italian works of the 15th and 16th centuries, among them The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Antoine de la Sale's collection Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles, and the work of Bonaventure des Périers.
Dominican CreolesSaint Dominicans (Saint-Domingais), or simply Dominicans (Domingais), also known as Saint Dominguans, or Dominguans, are the people who lived in the French colony of Saint-Domingue before the Haitian Revolution. Dominican Creoles formed an ethnic group native to Saint-Domingue, they were all of the people who were born in Saint Domingue. The Creoles were well educated, and they created much art, such as the famed St. Dominican French Opera; their society prized manners, good breeding, tradition, and honor.
Constitution of LuxembourgThe Constitution of Luxembourg (Lëtzebuerger Constitutioun/Verfassung; Constitution du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg) is the supreme law of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The modern constitution was adopted on 17 October 1868. Whilst the constitution of 1868 marked a radical change in Luxembourg's constitutional settlement, it was technically an amendment of the original constitution. That original constitution was promulgated on 12 October 1841, came into effect on 1 January 1842, and was acutely amended on 20 March 1848, and again on 27 November 1856.
Romorantin - Pruniers Air DetachmentRomorantin - Pruniers Air Detachment (DA 273) is a French Air Force military facility, located southwest of Romorantin-Lanthenay, in the Loir-et-Cher department of central France. Pruniers airfield was part of a huge depot built for the United States Army Air Service during World War I as an aircraft engineering facility. After the Armistice, the airfield stayed operational, with a French Air Force depot built in 1934. The airfield is slightly widened during World War II by the German Luftwaffe, but not much used.
Olivier BianchiOlivier Bianchi (born June 10, 1970, in Paris) is a French politician. A member of the Socialist Party, he has been mayor of Clermont-Ferrand since April 4, 2014 and president of Clermont Auvergne Métropole since April 22, 2014. Bianchi was born on June 10, 1970, in the 11th arrondissement of Paris to a father who was an SNCF agent and a mother who was a childcare worker. He moved around frequently because of his father's profession and lived in different cities (Mende, Marvejols, Sens, Langeac, Le Puy, Aurillac.
Georges DuhamelGeorges Duhamel (ˌdjuːəˈmɛl; dy.amɛl; 30 June 1884 – 13 April 1966) was a French author, born in Paris. Duhamel trained as a doctor, and during World War I was attached to the French Army. In 1920, he published Confession de minuit, the first of a series featuring the anti-hero Salavin. In 1935, he was elected as a member of the Académie française. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twenty-seven times. He was also the father of the musicologist and composer Antoine Duhamel.
Bernard AubertinBernard Aubertin (bɛʁnaʁ obɛʁtɛ̃) was a French artist born in 1934 in Fontenay-aux-Roses, France. He died in August 2015 in Reutlingen, Germany. He met Yves Klein in 1957 and joined the Zero movement during the 1960–1961 period. One of his texts, (′′Esquisse de la situation picturale du rouge dans un concept spatial′′) was published in the Zero magazine, vol 3. July 1961. He is known for his red monochromes (1958), paint and nails on panel, fire paintings, and performance arts.
Louis AlthusserLouis Pierre Althusser (ˌæltʊˈsɛər, ˌɑːltuːˈsɛər; altysɛʁ; 16 October 1918 – 22 October 1990) was an Algerian-born French Marxist philosopher who studied at the École normale supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy. Althusser was a long-time member and sometimes a strong critic of the French Communist Party (Parti communiste français, PCF). His arguments and theses were set against the threats that he saw attacking the theoretical foundations of Marxism.
Kim Jae-hong (author)Kim Jae-hong (김재홍; born 1958) is a South Korean illustrator. He has held many solo and group exhibitions presenting works based on the theme of "humans and nature as one." In 2004, he received the International Children’s Book Award from the Foundation Espace Enfants in Switzerland for his first Picture book, The Children of the Donggang River. Kim was born on February 14, 1958, in Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. He enrolled in the Department of Western Art at Hongik University, but dropped out.
