ÃŽle Des Cygnes (other)
ÃŽle des Cygnes may refer to: * ÃŽle des Cygnes (former island) in Paris *another French name for Mauritius See also * Cygne (other) * Swan Island (other) {{disambiguation ...
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ÃŽle Des Cygnes (former Island)
The Île des Cygnes or Île Maquerelle was an island on the river Seine in Paris. It was in the north-west part of the 7th arrondissement, between rue de l'Université and the Seine, the Invalides and the Champ de Mars. The Musée du quai Branly is located on it. It was formed by the merger of the islets known as île des Treilles, île aux Vaches, île Maquerelle, île de Jérusalem and île de Longchamp, and was merged into the ''rive gauche'' of the Seine at the end of the 18th century. History An oak pirogue, built with fir plugs, discovered in August 1806 during the construction of the footings for Pont d'Iéna, was thought to be a Norman boat dating to the Siege of Paris in 885/86, although some scholars believe that it may have dated to the Sequani tribe from the first century B.C. In the 13th century the peasants of Chaillot on the opposite bank had the right to graze their cattle on the île Maquerelle, in exchange for a payment in kind paid to the Abbaye de Saint- ...
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Mauritius
Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label=Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It includes the main island (also called Mauritius), as well as Rodrigues, Agaléga and St. Brandon. The islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues, along with nearby Réunion (a French overseas department), are part of the Mascarene Islands. The main island of Mauritius, where most of the population is concentrated, hosts the capital and largest city, Port Louis. The country spans and has an exclusive economic zone covering . Arab sailors were the first to discover the uninhabited island, around 975, and they called it ''Dina Arobi''. The earliest discovery was in 1507 by Portuguese sailors, who otherwise took little interest in the islands. The Dutch took possession in 1598, establishing a succession of short-lived settlements over a period of about ...
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Cygne (other)
Cygne may refer to: * La Cygne, Kansas, a city in Linn County, Kansas * "Le cygne", a movement of ''The Carnival of the Animals'' by Camille Saint-Saëns * ''Le Cygne'' (journal), a scholarly journal published by the International Marie de France Society See also * Île des Cygnes (other) * Marais des Cygnes (other) * Île aux Cygnes, a small island in the Seine in Paris, France * Cygne blanc, a white-berried seedling of Cabernet Sauvignon discovered in Swan Valley, Western Australia * Danse des petits cygnes, a dance from the ballet ''Swan Lake'' by Tchaikovsky * Notre-Dame-des-Missions-du-cygne d'Enghien Notre-Dame-des-Missions-du-cygne d'Enghien (sometimes referred to as Notre-Dame-des-Missions d'Épinay-sur-Seine) is a French Roman Catholic church located in the commune of Épinay-sur-Seine, near Paris and in the Seine-Saint-Denis department. De ...