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Ernest De Bouteiller
Ernest de Bouteiller (10 February 1826, Paris – 26 May 1883) was a French historian and politician. He studied at the École Polytechnique, and for several years served in the French military, receiving the rank of artillery captain in 1857. He later served as deputy mayor of Metz, and from 1864 to 1870 was president of the arrondissement council of Metz. In 1869–70, he held the post of ''député''. In 1872, he was chosen as a chevalier in the Légion d'Honneur.Bouteiller, Ernest de Sociétés savantes de France He served as president of the Société d'archéologie et d'histoire de la Moselle, and from 1874 to 1883 was a member of the Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Île-de-France. Selected works * ''Histoire de Frantz de Sickingen, chevalier allemand du seizième siècle'', 1860 – ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
École Polytechnique , a Japanese video-games developer/publisher
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École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoie, a French commune * École-Valentin, a French commune in the Doubs département * Grandes écoles, higher education establishments in France * The École, a French-American bilingual school in New York City Ecole may refer to: * Ecole Software This is a list of Notability, notable video game companies that have made games for either computers (like PC or Mac), video game consoles, handheld or mobile devices, and includes companies that currently exist as well as now-defunct companies. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metz
Metz ( , , lat, Divodurum Mediomatricorum, then ) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers. Metz is the prefecture of the Moselle department and the seat of the parliament of the Grand Est region. Located near the tripoint along the junction of France, Germany and Luxembourg,Says J.M. (2010) La Moselle, une rivière européenne. Eds. Serpenoise. the city forms a central place of the European Greater Region and the SaarLorLux euroregion. Metz has a rich 3,000-year history,Bour R. (2007) Histoire de Metz, nouvelle édition. Eds. Serpenoise. having variously been a Celtic ''oppidum'', an important Gallo-Roman city,Vigneron B. (1986) Metz antique: Divodurum Mediomatricorum. Eds. Maisonneuve. the Merovingian capital of Austrasia,Huguenin A. (2011) Histoire du royaume mérovingien d'Austrasie. Eds. des Paraiges. pp. 134,275 the birthplace of the Carolingian dynasty,Settipani C. (1989) Les ancêtres de Charlemagne. Ed. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrondissement Of Metz
The arrondissement of Metz is an arrondissement of France in the Moselle department in the Grand Est region. It has 139 communes. Its population is 344,203 (2016), and its area is . Composition The communes of the arrondissement of Metz are: #Amanvillers # Amnéville # Ancerville # Ancy-Dornot # Antilly # Argancy #Arry # Ars-Laquenexy #Ars-sur-Moselle #Aube # Augny # Ay-sur-Moselle #Le Ban-Saint-Martin # Bazoncourt # Béchy # Beux # Bronvaux # Buchy # Burtoncourt # Chailly-lès-Ennery # Chanville # Charleville-sous-Bois # Charly-Oradour # Châtel-Saint-Germain # Cheminot # Chérisey # Chesny # Chieulles # Coincy # Coin-lès-Cuvry #Coin-sur-Seille #Colligny-Maizery # Corny-sur-Moselle # Courcelles-Chaussy # Courcelles-sur-Nied # Cuvry # Ennery # Les Étangs # Failly # Fèves # Féy # Fleury # Flévy # Flocourt # Foville # Glatigny # Goin # Gorze #Gravelotte #Hagondange #Hauconcourt # Hayes # Jouy-aux-Arches #Jury # Jussy # Laquenexy # Lemud # Lessy # Liéhon #Longeville-lès-Met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Député (France)
Deputies (French: ''députés''), also known in English as Members of Parliament (MPs), are the legislators who sit in the National Assembly, the lower house of the French Parliament. The 15th and current legislature of the Fifth Republic has a total of 577 deputies, elected in 577 constituencies across metropolitan (539) and overseas France (27), as well as for French residents overseas (11). Name The term "deputy" is associated with the legislator's task to deputise for the people of his constituency. Current There are currently 577 French deputies. They are elected through the two-round system in single-member constituencies. In 2019, it was reported that the Government of France wanted to cut the number of deputies by 25%. This reform was later abandoned due to a lack of support in the Senate. Numbers The number of deputies is codified in the Constitution of France. Restrictions and privileges Deputies have parliamentary immunity. They can have a dual manda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Légion D'Honneur
The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte, it has been retained (with occasional slight alterations) by all later French governments and regimes. The order's motto is ' ("Honour and Fatherland"); its seat is the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur next to the Musée d'Orsay, on the left bank of the Seine in Paris. The order is divided into five degrees of increasing distinction: ' (Knight), ' (Officer), ' (Commander), ' (Grand Officer) and ' (Grand Cross). History Consulate During the French Revolution, all of the French orders of chivalry were abolished and replaced with Weapons of Honour. It was the wish of Napoleon Bonaparte, the First Consul, to create a reward to commend civilians and soldiers. From this wish was instituted a , a body of men that was not an order of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Von Sickingen
Franz von Sickingen (2 March 14817 May 1523) was an Imperial Knight who, with Ulrich von Hutten, led the so-called "Knights' Revolt," and was one of the most notable figures of the early period of the Protestant Reformation. Sickingen was nicknamed "the last knight" (''der letzte Ritter''), an epithet he shared with his contemporaries Chevalier de Bayard and Emperor Maximilian. Early life Franz von Sickingen was born on 2 March 1481 at Ebernburg Castle in the Palatinate of the Holy Roman Empire to Schweickhardt von Sickingen and his wife Margarethe Puller von der Hohenburg. Franz was married to Hedwig von Flersheim (d. 1515). Having fought for the emperor Maximilian I against Venice in 1508, he inherited large estates on the Rhine, and increased his wealth and reputation by numerous private feuds, in which he usually posed as the friend of the oppressed. In 1513, Sickingen took up the quarrel of Balthasar Schlör, a citizen who had been driven out of Worms, and attacke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moselle (department)
Moselle () is the most populous department in Lorraine, in the east of France, and is named after the river Moselle, a tributary of the Rhine, which flows through the western part of the department. It had a population of 1,046,543 in 2019.Populations légales 2019: 57 Moselle INSEE Inhabitants of the department are known as ''Mosellans''. History 
On March 4, 1790, Moselle became one of th ...
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François Bonnardot
François Bonnardot (19 November 1843, in Demigny – 10 May 1926, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine) was a French archivist and historian. He studied at the École des Chartes and École des Hautes Études, and from 1868 worked as an archivist in Orléans. In 1872 he was named deputy inspector of historical services for the city of Paris, then from 1898 he served as curator at the library in Verdun.Bonnardot François Sociétés savantes de France In 1890 he was named president of the ''''. Selected works * ''Chartes francaises de Lorraine et de Metz'', 1873 – French charters of |
Léon Gautier (historian)
Émile Théodore Léon Gautier (8 August 183225 August 1897) was a French literary historian. He was born at Le Havre, France. He was educated at the École des Chartes, and became successively head of the archives of the ''département'' of Haute-Marne (1856) and archivist at the Imperial Archives in Paris (1859). In 1874 he became a professor of palaeography at the École des Chartes. He was elected a member of the Academy of Inscriptions in 1887, and became chief of the historical section of the National Archives in 1893. Gautier rendered great services to the study of early French literature, the most important of his numerous works on medieval subjects being a critical text (Tours, 1872) with translation and introduction of the ''Chanson de Roland'', and ''Les Épopées françaises'' (3 volumes, 1866–1867; 2nd edition, 5 volumes, 1878–1897, including a ''Bibliographie des chansons de geste''). Works * ''Œuvres poétiques d'Adam de Saint-Victor'' (1858/59) – Poet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War Of Metz
The War of MetzPeter Fraser Purton, ''A History of the Late Medieval Siege, 1200-1500'', (The Boydell Press, 2010), 143–144 or War of Four LordsZdeněk Žalud, "Financiers to the Blind King: Funding the Court of John the Blind (1310–1346)", in Roman Zaoral (ed.), ''Money and Finance in Central Europe during the Later Middle Ages'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), 63-64. (german: Vierherrenkrieg, "four lords' war") was a feudal conflict which devastated the region around Metz between 1324 and 1326. At the Siege of Metz, in 1324, cannons were used,Kelly DeVries and Robert Douglas Smith, ''Medieval Military Technology'', 2nd edit., (University of Toronto Press, 2012), 138. perhaps for the first time in Western Europe. Following a series of quarrels with the city of Metz and mounting debts incurred by its bourgeoisie, King John of Bohemia, his uncle Baldwin, Archbishop of Trier, Count Edward I of Bar, and Duke Frederick IV of Lorraine joined together to form a coalition to take the city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Of Arc
Joan of Arc (french: link=yes, Jeanne d'Arc, translit= an daʁk} ; 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War. Stating that she was acting under divine guidance, she became a military leader who transcended gender roles and gained recognition as a savior of France. Joan was born to a propertied peasant family at Domrémy in northeast France. In 1428, she requested to be taken to Charles, later testifying that she was guided by visions from the archangel Michael, Saint Margaret, and Saint Catherine to help him save France from English domination. Convinced of her devotion and purity, Charles sent Joan, who was about seventeen years old, to the siege of Orléans as part of a relief army. She arrived at the city in April 1429, wielding her banner and bringing hope to the demoralized Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham De Fabert
Abraham de Fabert, marquis d'Esternay (11 October 159917 May 1662) was a Marshal of France. Biography Fabert was the son of Abraham Fabert, seigneur de Moulins (died 1638), a famous printer who rendered great services, civil and military, to Henry IV. This article cites: *''Histoire du maréchal de Fabert'' (Amsterdam, 1697) *P. Barre, ''Vie de Fabert'' (Paris, 1752) *A. Feillet, ''Le Premier Maréchal de France plébéien'' (Paris, 1869) *Bourelly, ''Le Maréchal Fabert'' (Paris, 1880). At the age of fourteen, Abraham de Fabert, against his father's wish, entered the ''Gardes Françaises'', and in 1618 received a commission in the Piedmont regiment, becoming major in 1627. He distinguished himself repeatedly in the constant wars of the period, notably in La Rochelle and at the Siege of Exilles in 1630. His bravery and engineering skill were again displayed in the sieges of Avesnes and Maubeuge in 1637, and in 1642 Louis XIII made him governor of the recently acquired fortress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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