Napoleon Biography. Napoleon Bonaparte was a military general who became the first emperor of France.
His drive for military expansion changed the world. Synopsis. Napoleon Bonaparte - Facts & Summary. Napoleon Bonaparte was born on August 15, 1769, in Ajaccio, on the Mediterranean island of Corsica.
He was the second of eight surviving children born to Carlo Buonaparte (1746-1785), a lawyer, and Letizia Romalino Buonaparte (1750-1836). Although his parents were members of the minor Corsican nobility, the family was not wealthy. Victor Hugo - A Brief Summary of his Life. Victor Hugo is, without doubt, the most famous figure ever to have lived in the Channel Islands.
He is famous worldwide as both a literary and political celebrity and he has succeeded in the difficult task of being both intellectually respectable and at the same time immensely popular, especially through two of his major works, 'Notre Dame de Paris' and 'Les Misérables', which was completed in Guernsey. He was born in Besançon in 1802 and by the age of 13 had realised that he had a literary calling, his early poems winning a number of awards, including two "mentions" from the Academie Francaise. During the 1820s he became one of the leading figures of the French Romantic movement. In 1830 his position was enhanced by the success of the play 'Hernani' which was subject to fierce controversy, symbolising as it did the conflict between new Romantic ideas and classical French theatre. During the 1830s Hugo concentrated principally on the theatre, with mixed success. History - Napoleon Bonaparte. French language learning games.
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French language, alphabet and pronunciation. French is a Romance language spoken by about 354 million people.
It is the third most spoken language in Europe, after German and English, and is also spoken in parts of Africa, North America, South America, Asia and Oceania. French at a glance Native name: français [fʁ̥ɒ̃sɛ] Linguistic affliation: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Western Romance, Gallo-Romance, Oïl Number of speakers: c. 354 million Spoken in: France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and many other countries First written: 842 AD Writing system: Latin script Status: official language in France, and also in Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Haiti, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Monaco, Niger, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, and Vanuatu Written French The French alphabet (l'alphabet français) French pronunciation Notes.
Le Mont Saint-Michel. Normandy, France: Mont St-Michel. Site officiel de l'office de tourisme du mont saint michel. Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay. Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay Perched on a rocky islet in the midst of vast sandbanks exposed to powerful tides between Normandy and Brittany stand the 'Wonder of the West', a Gothic-style Benedictine abbey dedicated to the archangel St Michael, and the village that grew up in the shadow of its great walls.
Built between the 11th and 16th centuries, the abbey is a technical and artistic tour de force, having had to adapt to the problems posed by this unique natural site. Mont-Saint-Michel et sa baie Sur un îlot rocheux au milieu de grèves immenses soumises au va-et-vient de puissantes marées, à la limite entre la Normandie et la Bretagne, s'élèvent la « merveille de l'Occident », abbaye bénédictine de style gothique dédiée à l'archange saint Michel, et le village né à l'abri de ses murailles.
La construction de l'abbaye, qui s'est poursuivie du XIe au XVIe siècle, en s'adaptant à un site naturel très difficile, a été un tour de force technique et artistique. جبل سان ميشال وخليجه 圣米歇尔山及其海湾. Sacre Coeur, Paris. Arc-De-Triomphe. Arc de triomphe - Centre des monuments nationaux. Arc de Triomphe Paris - Paris Attractions - Arc De Triomphe. The Arc de Triomphe, Paris France. La Tour Eiffel. The Eiffel Tower : official website of the most famous monument of France (Paris)
Eiffel Tower - Paris, France. Eiffel Tower - Facts & Summary. In 1889, Paris hosted an Exposition Universelle (World’s Fair) to mark the 100-year anniversary of the French Revolution.
More than 100 artists submitted competing plans for a monument to be built on the Champ-de-Mars, located in central Paris, and serve as the exposition’s entrance. The commission was granted to Eiffel et Compagnie, a consulting and construction firm owned by the acclaimed bridge builder, architect and metals expert Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel.
While Eiffel himself often receives full credit for the monument that bears his name, it was one of his employees—a structural engineer named Maurice Koechlin—who came up with and fine-tuned the concept. Several years earlier, the pair had collaborated on the Statue of Liberty’s metal armature. Eiffel reportedly rejected Koechlin’s original plan for the tower, instructing him to add more ornate flourishes. Millions of visitors during and after the World’s Fair marveled at Paris’ newly erected architectural wonder. Le Louvre. France. The official website of France. French Culture. The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris by Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal Autumn 2002. Everyone knows la douce France: the France of wonderful food and wine, beautiful landscapes, splendid châteaux and cathedrals.
More tourists (60 million a year) visit France than any country in the world by far. Indeed, the Germans have a saying, not altogether reassuring for the French: “to live as God in France.” Half a million Britons have bought second homes there; many of them bore their friends back home with how they order these things better in France. But there is another growing, and much less reassuring, side to France. I go to Paris about four times a year and thus have a sense of the evolving preoccupations of the French middle classes. I first saw l’insécurité for myself about eight months ago.
Eventually, two women in their sixties told them to stop. A man of about 70 then told them to stop. Another motive for inaction was that, had the youths been arrested, nothing would have happened to them. The laxisme of the French criminal justice system is now notorious. France's burqa ban: women are 'effectively under house arrest' Hind Ahmas walks into a brasserie in the north Paris suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois.
Jaws drop, shoulders tighten and a look of disgust ripples across the faces of haggard men sipping coffee at the bar. "Hang on, what's all this? Isn't that banned? " splutters the outraged waiter behind the bar, waving a wine bottle at her niqab. Ahmas stands firm, clutches her handbag with black-gloved hands and says: "Call the police then. " In April, France introduced a law against covering your face in public.