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The International School of France, or Ermitage, is an international day and boarding school in Maisons-Laffitte, just outside Paris, France. The school was founded in 1941 by Anne-Marie Thommeret, a woman seeking to improve conditions of students during Nazi occupied France World War II .
Maisons-Laffitte is also known for its horse racing track, the Maisons-Laffitte Racecourse, which is why the town is known as the "cité du cheval" and compared with Newmarket in the United Kingdom. Église Saint-Nicolas was mainly built between 1867 and 1872 under architect Eugène Millet , on the land of an old cemetery.
The race was cancelled twice during World War II, in 1939 and 1940. It was held at Maisons-Laffitte in 1941 and Le Tremblay in 1942. It took place at Maisons-Laffitte again from 1943 to 1945, and on the second occasion its distance was 1,400 metres. In the post-war period, from 1946 to 1951, the Prix de Seine-et-Oise was usually held at Saint ...
Maisons-Alfort, in the suburbs of Paris; Maisons-du-Bois-Lièvremont, in the Doubs department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté; Maisons-en-Champagne, in the Marne department; Maisons-Laffitte, in the Yvelines department, Île-de-France Château de Maisons, a 17th-century manor house; Maisons-lès-Chaource, in the Aube department, Grand Est
The Hippodrome de Maisons-Laffitte at 1 avenue de la Pelouse in the northwestern Parisian suburb of Maisons-Laffitte in France was a turf horse racing facility and track for Thoroughbred flat racing. Opened in 1878 by Joseph Oller, inventor of the pari-mutuel machine, it sits on 92 hectares that belonged to the wealthy banker Jacques Laffitte.
Several regional groups of Christian camp and Bible conference leaders in the United States and Canada began to meet informally in the late 1940s and early 1950s. These independent coalitions later combined their efforts under the name Christian Camp and Conference Association International, and eventually incorporated in 1963. [1]
Mome, a U.S. comics anthology trademarked MOME; Møme (born 1989), French DJ; Management of Major Emergency, a qualified course for the OIM; Archaically, an idiot; In Discordianism, a Mome is a female version of a Pope "La Môme Piaf", nickname for French singer Édith Piaf; La Môme, the French title for the film La Vie en rose, based on Piaf ...
Château de Maisons, southeast-facing garden front. The Château de Maisons (now Château de Maisons-Laffitte [ʃato də mɛzɔ̃ lafit]), designed by François Mansart from 1630 to 1651, is a prime example of French Baroque architecture and a reference point in the history of French architecture.