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The Musée Français de la Carte à Jouer (French pronunciation: [myze fʁɑ̃sɛ də la kaʁt a ʒwe]) is a museum of playing cards in Paris, France. It is located at 16, rue Auguste Gervais, in the suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux. Nearby is Mairie d'Issy station, the southern terminus of Paris Métro Line 12. The museum is open Wednesdays ...
Cartes de visite camera with four lenses. Engraving from D. V. Monckhoven. Traité Général Photographie Comprenant tous les Procédés Connus jusqu'à ce Jour; La Théorie de la Photographie Application aux Sciences d’Observation. 1863 1859 carte de visite of Napoleon III by Disdéri, which popularized the carte-de-visite format One of the first cartes de visite of Queen Victoria taken by ...
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France Cartes Cartamundi is a manufacturer of playing cards and games that is based in France at Saint-Max. The company introduced the Ducale brand of playing cards in 1946 and became the largest playing card manufacturer in France in 1962 after acquiring their competitor, Grimaud .
The Sydney 'Star Camera' used in the Carte du Ciel project, original publication, 1892. The Carte du Ciel (French pronunciation: [kaʁt dy sjɛl]; literally, 'Map of the Sky') and the Astrographic Catalogue (or Astrographic Chart) were two distinct but connected components of a massive international astronomical project, initiated in the late 19th century, to catalogue and map the positions of ...
The Catalog of paintings in the Louvre Museum lists the painters of the collection of the Louvre Museum as they are catalogued in the Joconde database. The collection contains roughly 5,500 paintings by 1,400 artists born before 1900, and over 500 named artists are French by birth.
Hérouville-Saint-Clair (French pronunciation: [eʁuvil sɛ̃ klɛːʁ] ⓘ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. It is a suburb of the city of Caen, and lies adjacent to it in a northeasterly direction, along the west side of the Canal de Caen à la Mer. Its inhabitants are called Hérouvillais.
Messier's final catalogue was included in the Connaissance des Temps pour l'Année 1784 [Knowledge of the Times for the Year 1784], the French official yearly publication of astronomical ephemerides. [8] [4] Messier lived and did his astronomical work at the Hôtel de Cluny (now the Musée national du Moyen Âge), in Paris, France.