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1695 – Nine Years' War: At the Battle of Sant Esteve d'en Bas, Catalan miquelets attacked a column of French regular infantry and caused them to surrender. 1959 – An anti-Chinese uprising began as thousands of Tibetans surrounded the Potala Palace in Lhasa to prevent the Dalai Lama from leaving or being removed by the Chinese army.
A French passport (French: passeport français) is an identity document issued to French citizens.Besides enabling the bearer to travel internationally and serving as indication of French nationality (but not proof; the possession of a French passport only establishes the presumption of French nationality according to French law [7]), the passport facilitates the process of securing assistance ...
Pierre Guillemot, Portrait after reports made by the Paris police, 1800–1804. Pierre Guillemot , called "the King of Bignan " was a military leader in Brittany after the French Revolution . Pierre Guillemot was born on 1 November 1759 at a place called Kerdel, in Bignan , and died on 5 January 1805 in Vannes .
The Gouffre de la Pierre Saint-Martin, also called Gouffre Lépineux (Spanish: Pozo Lepineux), is the original entrance to a major cave system located in the massif of La Pierre Saint-Martin (massif de la Larra-Belagua to the Spaniards), in the immediate vicinity of the Franco-Spanish border and the French commune of Arette, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, under ...
Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, [1] [2] categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Historically, flint was widely used to make stone tools and start fires. Flint occurs chiefly as nodules and masses in sedimentary rocks, such as chalks and limestones.
Laussat was born at his family's estate, Château de Bernadets, and baptised at Saint-Martin's Church in Pau. [1] After serving as receveur général des finances in Pau and Bayonne from 1784 to 1789, [2] he was imprisoned during the Terror, but was released and recruited in the armée des Pyrénées.
Pierre-Paul Le Mercier de La Rivière (10 March 1719 – 27 November 1801) was a French colonial administrator and physiocrat economist. Mercier was a councilor at the Parlement of Paris , intendant at Martinique in the West Indies (1759-1764), and noted advocate of Physiocracy. [ 1 ]
L’Artiste peignant un portrait de famille [4] Vue d'une partie du port et des quais de Bordeaux : dit Les Chartrons et Bacalan (View of the Some Ports and Quays in Bordeaux: Les Chartrans and Bacalan) [5] Portrait de Pierre Lacour fils (Portrait of Pierre Lacour, Junior) (1778-1859) [6] Cléopâtre se désolant dans le tombeau de Marc-Antoine ...