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Château de la Croix des Gardes, also known as Villa Perrier, [1] is a mansion in the La Croix-des-Gardes district of Cannes on the French Riviera. It appears as the Sandford Villa in the Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 film To Catch a Thief , with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly .
Le Jeu des 1000 euros (translation: The 1000 Euros Game) is a French daily radio game show broadcast on France Inter. Created in 1958 by Henri Kubnick under the name 100000 francs par jour (translation: 100,000 French Francs By Day ), it is the longest-running program on French radio.
La Croix d'Honneur (French for the cross of honor) is the solitaire card game which is played using a deck of playing cards. It is a pairing game, and was first described in the French book Nouveau Recueil de Patiences , which was printed in Paris in 1885 by the publishing company Watilliaux.
The Combatant's Cross (French: "Croix du combattant") is a French decoration that recognizes, as its name implies, those who fought in combat for France. The Poilus (French combat soldiers) of World War I worked toward recognition by the government, of a special status to those who had participated in the bitter fighting of 1914–1918 (as ...
Reverse of the Cross. The Cross for Military Valour (French: Croix de la Valeur Militaire) is a military decoration of France.It recognizes an individual bestowed a Mention in Dispatches earned for showing valour in presence of an enemy, in theatres of operations which are not subject to the award of the Croix de guerre des théâtres d'opérations extérieures (Cross of War for Foreign ...
The French Guards (French: Régiment des Gardes françaises, pronounced [ʁeʒimɑ̃ de ɡaʁd fʁɑ̃sɛz]) were an elite infantry regiment of the French Royal Army.They formed a constituent part of the maison militaire du roi de France ("military household of the king of France") under the Ancien Régime.
It is seen throughout all of Camargue. It is also present in Marseille (Notre-Dame de la Garde basilica, Church of Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens de l'Estaque , esplanade de la Bonne Mère [8]), in Toulon, [9] in Istres, and in Avignon. [10] The town of Radolfzell, Germany, is a twin city with Istres, so the cross can be found there. [10]
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