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French Florida in 1562, by N. Bellin, 18th century. French Florida (Renaissance French: Floride françoise; modern French: Floride française) was a colonial territory established by French Huguenot colonists as part of New France in what is now Florida and South Carolina between 1562 and 1565.
Laudonnière, as depicted in 1846 La Floride françoise (French Florida), by Pierre du Val, 17th century. Rene Goulaine de Laudonnière (French pronunciation: [ʁəne ɡulɛn də lodɔnjɛʁ]; c. 1529–1574) was a French Huguenot explorer and the founder of the French colony of Fort Caroline in what is now Jacksonville, Florida.
Paul et Virginie (French pronunciation: [pɔl e viʁʒini]; sometimes known in English as Paul and Virginia) is a novel by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, first published in 1788. The novel's title characters are friends since birth who fall in love.
Paul et Virginie Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre ( pronounced [ʒak ɑ̃ʁi bɛʁnaʁdɛ̃ də sɛ̃ pjɛʁ] ; also called Bernardin de St. Pierre ) (19 January 1737, in Le Havre – 21 January 1814, in Éragny , Val-d'Oise ) was a French writer and botanist .
"Et s'il n'en restait qu'une (je serais celle-là)" (meaning "and if there were only one woman left (I would be that one)") is the first hit single from Celine Dion's French-language album, D'elles. It premiered on the radio in France, Quebec, Switzerland and Belgium on 14 February 2007 and was released as a music download on the same day.
a location where troops assemble prior to a battle. While this figurative meaning also exists in French, the first and literal meaning of point d'appui is a fixed point from which a person or thing executes a movement (such as a footing in climbing or a pivot). porte-cochère an architectural term referring to a kind of porch or portico-like ...
Virginie is a French feminine given name. It may refer to: Virginie Augustin (born 1973), French comic book artist; Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau (1859–1915 ...
Harmonie was a 40-gun Virginie-class frigate of the French Navy. Her crew scuttled her on 17 March 1797 to avoid having the Royal Navy capture her. She on being burned was reported as pierced for 44 guns [3]