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The French forts in Canada were located from the Atlantic Ocean to as far west as the confluence of the North and South Saskatchewan rivers, and as far north as James Bay. Built between the 1640s and the 1750s, a few were captured from rival British fur trading companies like Hudson's Bay Company .
Cheyenne (from the French pronunciation and spelling of the Dakota word Sahi'yena, a diminutive of Sahi'ya, a Dakotan name for the Cree people. [188]) Cheyenne River; Dubois (named after U.S. Senator Fred Dubois, of French-Canadian ancestry) Fontenelle; Fort Laramie; Fremont County (named for John C. Frémont, French-American pioneer and ...
The site had also been listed as endangered between 1993 and 2007. Yellowstone National Park was listed as endangered between 1995 and 2003 because of planned mining operations. [5] The United States has served as a member of the World Heritage Committee five times, 1976–1983, 1987–1993, 1993–1999, 1999–2001, and 2005–2009. [3]
2. St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans. A church has stood in the center of Louisiana's French Quarter’s historic Jackson Square since 1727. The current cathedral, largely restored in the mid-1800s ...
Elements of a 12th-century cloister from Saint-Génis-des-Fontaines Abbey, a Romanesque portal, and a 15th-century chapel in the Philadelphia Museum of Art [5] Part of a Romanesque cloister in the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio [6] Chapel of St Martin de Sayssuel, (St. Joan of Arc Chapel), Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin [7]
Colonial French forts of New France — within the present day United States. Built in New France , including within the domaine of Colonial Louisiana in the Mississippi Basin . Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap
To spark your wanderlust, we've gathered 15 of the most renowned French landmarks in Paris to illustrate the timeless yet ever-changing nature of this city's design history.
Currently, the style is most widely known as Second Empire, [1] Second Empire Baroque, [2] or French Baroque Revival; [3] Leland M. Roth refers to it as "Second Empire Baroque." [4] Mullett-Smith terms it the "Second Empire or General Grant style" due to its popularity in designing government buildings during the Grant administration. [5]