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11 hours ago · After a failed escape to Austria in June 1791 (the famous Varennes flight), the royal family found themselves imprisoned in the Temple prison.
11 hours ago · Saint Marguerite was born Marie-Marguerite Dufrost de Lajemmerais on Oct. 15, 1701, in Varennes, Quebec, the eldest of six children. When she was 7, her father died, leaving the family in great poverty. Thanks to the influence of one of her great-grandfathers, Marguerite was able to attend schooling at an Ursuline convent when she turned 11.
The economy of Barcelona during this period was increasingly directed towards trade. In 1258 James I of Aragon allowed the merchant guilds of Barcelona to draw ordinances regulating maritime trade in the city's port, [106] and in 1266, he permitted the city to appoint representatives known as consuls to all the major Mediterranean ports of the ...
The attackers first had to capture a small outer work known as Fort St Philippe; after it fell on 13 June, the siege of the town began. The French constructed two sets of trenches, one from the east, the other from the south, each supervised by one of the senior commanders.
Betti became famous for portraying bizarre, grotesque, eccentric, unstable or maniacal roles, like Regina in Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900, Anna the medium in Twitch of the Death Nerve, Giovanna la pazza in Woman Buried Alive, hysterical Rita Zigai in Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina, Therese in Private Vices, Public Virtues, Emilia the servant in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema for which she won ...
11 hours ago · Lluís XVI, Maria Antonieta i els seus fills havien estat detinguts el 20 de juny del 1791 a Varennes (molt a prop de la frontera entre França i els Països Baixos austríacs, l’actual Bèlgica), en ple procés revolucionari i al tram final d’una fugida desesperada, amb una part del tresor reial, que els va costar l’arrest domiciliari al palau de les Teuleries, a París, i la pèrdua de ...
3 minutes ago · It is made up of four interdisciplinary research and training centres located in Quebec City, Montreal, Laval, and Varennes, which focus their efforts on strategic sectors: water, earth, and ...
