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Étienne Mourrut
Étienne Mourrut (4 December 1939 - 19 October 2014) was a French politician. A member of the Rally for the Republic, RPR and the Union for a Popular Movement, UMP, he was deputy of the Gard's 2nd constituency, 2nd District of the Gard between 2002 and 2012 and Mayor of Le Grau-du-Roi between 1983 and 2014. Biography Family On his father's side, he comes from a family of Le Grau-du-Roi, Graulen Fisherman, fishermen. Her mother, descended from Italian immigrants, was born in 1909 and died in 2005 and was a bazaar merchant. Of his seven or eight siblings, two died for France during the World War I, Great War. His parents were "very Catholic", and would later be reticent of their son's engagement in the political system. He had a sister, named Émélie. He was married to Michele - who he encountered during his military service in St. Raphael, see below - in 1962 and was father of two sons, Jean-Michel and Patrice born respectively in 1963 and 1967 and both traders His stepd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Grau-du-Roi
Le Grau-du-Roi (; oc, Lo Grau dau Rei) is a commune in the Gard department in southern France. It is the only commune in Gard to have a frontage on the Mediterranean. To the west is the Herault department and La Grande-Motte village, and to the east is the Bouches-du-Rhone department. Using the sea as a vantage point, the commune has four distinct sections: the right beach (Plage de Rive Droite), the Village, the left beach (Plage de Rive Gauche), Port-Camargue and L'Espiguette. Immediately landwards are the large shallow ''étangs'', saline marshes, which separate it from Aigues Mortes, a neighboring mediaeval walled city that used to be a port. The ''étangs'' are home to numerous flamingoes. Etymology Le Grau-du-Roi comes from the Occitan word ''grau'' (Latin ''gradus''), which refers to the opening of an étang (shallow saline lake), or the watercourse from an etang into the sea. It is roughly equivalent to the usage of the English term bayou. ''Roi'' is the French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Fourth Republic
The French Fourth Republic (french: Quatrième république française) was the Republicanism, republican government of France from 27 October 1946 to 4 October 1958, governed by the fourth republican constitution. It was in many ways a revival of the French Third Republic, Third Republic that was in place from 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War to 1940 during World War II, and suffered many of the same problems. France adopted the constitution of the Fourth Republic on 13 October 1946. Despite the political dysfunction, the Fourth Republic saw an era of great economic growth in France and the rebuilding of the nation's social institutions and Manufacturing, industry after World War II, with assistance from the United States provided through the Marshall Plan. It also saw the beginning of the rapprochement with former longtime enemy West Germany, Germany, which in turn led to Franco-German co-operation and eventually to the development of the European Union. Some attempts were al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capital city, capital of the geographic regions of Greece, geographic region of Macedonia (Greece), Macedonia, the administrative regions of Greece, administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace. It is also known in Greek language, Greek as (), literally "the co-capital", a reference to its historical status as the () or "co-reigning" city of the Byzantine Empire alongside Constantinople. Thessaloniki is located on the Thermaic Gulf, at the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea. It is bounded on the west by the delta of the Vardar, Axios. The Thessaloniki (municipality), municipality of Thessaloniki, the historical center, had a population of 317,778 in 2021, while the Thessaloniki metro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Magnolias (New Iberia, Louisiana)
The Magnolias is a historic cottage located at 115 Jefferson Street, in New Iberia, Louisiana. Built in 1852, the house was modified in about 1920. In 1929 the entire house was moved and rotated 90 degrees, so that it faces Jefferson Street rather than Main Street. It is set back from the street and has modern buildings on each side. The building has a pedimented Greek Revival one-bay portico that is both massive and unusual on a four-bay house. wita map/ref> With . The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 6, 1979. See also *National Register of Historic Places listings in Iberia Parish, Louisiana __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Iberia Parish, Louisiana. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Iberia Parish, Louis ... References New Iberia, Louisiana Creole architecture in Louisiana Houses on the Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
