Ads
related to: rossignol
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Skis Rossignol S.A., or simply Rossignol, is a French manufacturer of alpine, snowboard, and Nordic equipment, as well as related outerwear and accessories, located in Isère, France. Rossignol was one of the first companies to produce plastic skis.
Rossignol married Catherine Quentin, the daughter of a nobleman and the niece of a bishop. [6] They had two children, Bonaventure and Marie, and "their marriage was a happy one, full of playfulness and endearments." [7] On his deathbed, Louis XIII told his queen that Rossignol was among the men "most necessary to the good of the state."
Bruno Rossignol (born 1958), French choral conductor and composer; Dan Rossignol (fl. 2013), doctor and autism researcher; Felix Rossignol (1920–1981), Canadian NHL ice hockey player; Jean Antoine Rossignol (1759–1802), general of the French Revolutionary Wars; Jim Rossignol (born July 1978), British computer games journalist, critic and other
Rossignol died at Anjouan in 1802, but the people refused to believe that their hero had died - it seemed at the time that he had committed suicide of the Fauborg. Rossignol thus survived in souvenirs, and took a position in the legend after the bad 4-volume novel Le Robinson du Faubourg Saint-Antoine .
The Battle of Rossignol (22 August 1914) one of the first battles of the First World War, was part of the Battle of the Frontiers on the Western Front between the German and French armies. To counter the German invasion of Belgium , the French commander-in-chief, General Joseph Joffre , ordered an attack upon the centre of the German front.
The Rossignol ENT was an experimental automatic rifle of French origin from around the first years of the 20th century. It was the first rifle which used the direct impingement operating system, [ 2 ] which found later use in the Swedish Ag m/42 , the French 1940 MAS and, most notably, the AR-10 and AR-15 series of rifles.