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The Quint in its current form seems to have begun as the Contact Group excluding Russia. Nowadays, Quint leaders discuss all major international topics participating in video conferences or meeting one another in various forums such as NATO, the OSCE, the G20 [8] and the UN. The Quint meets also at ministerial and experts' level.
In 1901, the Divan became the Théâtre de la Comédie Mondaine. In 1946 it became a famous travesti cabaret Madame Arthur, closed in 1994. [3] In 1994, it was reopened as Le Divan du Monde ('The World Divan'), featuring world music concerts of all genres. The Hip Hop dancers Bintou Dembélé performed there in the late 1990s. [4]
Phare du Monde ("Lighthouse of the world") was an observation tower planned for the 1937 World Fair in Paris, France.The Phare du Monde, advertised as a "Pleasure Tower Half Mile High" [1] was designed by Eugène Freyssinet, and was to be a 701-metre (2,300 feet) tall concrete tower with a light beacon and a restaurant on the top.
Charles wrote most of his military biography of king Louis XIV of France after his military career had ended. According to his elder brother, Joseph Sevin de Quincy, the author of Mémoires du chevalier de Quincy, who also had a military career, Charles borrowed freely from the latter's diaries, without attribution, for the military history in that work.
Charles-Henri "Charles" Alloncle (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl alɔ̃kl]; born 21 October 1993) is a French politician who has represented the 9th constituency of the Hérault department in the National Assembly since 2024. He is a member of the Union of the Right for the Republic (UDR). [1]
Le Muy (French pronunciation: [lə mɥi]; Occitan: Lo Muei) is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France.. Le Muy was one of the first places to be liberated in the Allied invasion of Southern France in August 1944.
According to legend, the origin of the Ommegang of Brussels goes back to a local devout woman named Beatrix (Béatrice or Beatrijs) Soetkens. She had a vision in which the Virgin Mary instructed her to steal the miraculous statue of Onze-Lieve-Vrouw op 't Stocxken ("Our Lady on the little stick") from the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp, bring it to Brussels, and place it in the chapel of the ...
Grand Palais. The Réunion des Musées Nationaux (French pronunciation: [ʁeynjɔ̃ de myze nɑsjɔno]; abbr. RMN) is a French cultural umbrella organisation, an établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial (EPIC), formed in 2011, through the merger of the Paris National Museums and the Grand Palais.