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1 day ago · A France 3 Pays de la Loire set at La Folle Journée. The local press is dominated by the Ouest-France group, which owns the area's two major newspapers: Ouest-France and Presse-Océan. Ouest-France, based in Rennes, covers north-western France and is the country's best-selling newspaper. Presse-Océan, based in Nantes, covers Loire-Atlantique.
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- 6th in France
1 day ago · The proportion of students attending Catholic private schools is the highest in France. The patron saint of Brittany is Saint Anne, the Virgin's mother, but Ivo of Kermartin, a 13th-century priest, called Saint-Yves in French and Sant-Erwan in Breton, can also be considered as a patron saint. His feast, 19 May, is Brittany's national day.
1 day ago · Bernadette Soubirous (/ ˌ b ɜːr n ə ˈ d ɛ t ˌ s uː b i ˈ r uː /; French: [bɛʁnadɛt subiʁu]; Occitan: Bernadeta Sobirós [beɾnaˈðetɔ suβiˈɾus]; 7 January 1844 – 16 April 1879), also known as Bernadette of Lourdes, was the firstborn daughter of a miller from Lourdes (Lorda in Occitan), in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées in France, and is best known for experiencing ...
1 day ago · Jacques Chaban-Delmas, souvent surnommé « Chaban », né Jacques Delmas a le 7 mars 1915 dans le 13e arrondissement de Paris et mort le 10 novembre 2000 dans le 7e arrondissement de Paris, est un résistant, général de brigade et homme d'État français. Il est Premier ministre du 20 juin 1969 au 5 juillet 1972 .
1 day ago · Biographie [ | le code] Jeunesse et formations [ | le code] Une enfance bourgeoise [ | le code] Le château de Rougeville, propriété de la famille Defays, à Saint-Saulve , près de Valenciennes . Pierre-Richard Maurice Léopold Defays naît dans une famille de la grande bourgeoisie de Valenciennes ; il est le fils de Maurice Defays, industriel qui a dilapidé la fortune familiale , et de ...
42 minutes ago · Napoleon III. Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as the second Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed on 4 September 1870. Prior to his reign, Napoleon III was known as Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.
1 day ago · 1537: Boston born English Protestant clergyman and historian John Foxe whose famous literary work, Book of Martyrs “included stories of Jews” and whose writings on Jews show how a powerful writer conceived of the place of Jews in a newly self-concious, Protestant English national identity amidst conflicting currents of theology, race, and politics” “took his bachelor’s degree today ...
