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Jules De Cuverville
Jules de Cuverville (; 28 July 1834 – 14 March 1912) was a French naval officer who rose to become Chief of Staff of the French Navy. He entered politics in later life, elected to the senate where between 1901 and 1912 he represented Finistère. Life Jules Marie Armand de Cuverville was born at Allineuc, a small village a short distance inland from Saint-Brieuc in Brittany. His father was Louis-Paul de Cuverville who represented the locality on the monarchist benches in the National Assembly between 1849 and 1853. Louis-Paul's family was descended from the lords of the manor at Maucomble in Normandy, some of whom had been Squires to French kings. Other kinsmen included sailors and naval officers, such as his grandfather, the Rear Admiral Louis-Hyacinthe Cavelier de Cuverville. Jules Marie attended school at Saint Sauveur de Redon and the lycée in Rennes before entering naval college in 1850. He emerged in 1852 and participated at the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cavelier De Cuverville, Jules Marie Armand De, Par Gambier, BNF Gallica
A cavalier was a supporter of the Royalist cause during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Cavalier may also refer to: * Cavalier poets of the English Civil War Poet * Cavalier Parliament (1661–1679), Restoration Parliament * Cavalryman * Paladin, in some contexts * Knight * Virginia Cavaliers (historical) * Cavalier (playing card) Corporations * Cavalier Telephone and TV a, U.S. internet and telephone company * Cavalier Records, a defunct American record label * Cavalier Chocolate, a Belgian chocolatier making only chocolate products without adding sugar Dance * Cavalier, principal male role in ''The Nutcracker'' ballet * A ''cavalier'', or ''kavalyé'', is one of the dancers in the Dominican folk dance bélé People *Cavalier Johnson, American politician *Dorothy Cavalier Yanik (1928–2015), American visual artist and educator *René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643–1687), French explorer best known as "La Salle" * J.M.A. Cavelier de Cuverville (1834–1912), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area and 20% of its land area.Sayre, April Pulley (1999), ''Africa'', Twenty-First Century Books. . With billion people as of , it accounts for about of the world's human population. Africa's population is the youngest amongst all the continents; the median age in 2012 was 19.7, when the worldwide median age was 30.4. Despite a wide range of natural resources, Africa is the least wealthy continent per capita and second-least wealthy by total wealth, behind Oceania. Scholars have attributed this to different factors including geography, climate, tribalism, colonialism, the Cold War, neocolonialism, lack of democracy, and corruption. Despite this low concentration of wealth, recent economic expansion and the large and young population make Afr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Folgoët
Le Folgoët (; br, Ar Folgoad) is a commune in the Finistère department and administrative region of Brittany in north-western France. Population In French the inhabitants of Le Folgoët are known as ''Folgoëtiens''. See also * Communes of the Finistère department *List of the works of Bastien and Henry Prigent *List of works of the two Folgoët ateliers After little activity in the 13th and 14th centuries, 15th century Brittany was to see a marked renaissance of carving in stone; it was to be a veritable "golden age" and two main workshops emerged, the "grand atelier ducal du Folgoët", called "du ... * List of the works of the Maître de Plougastel References External linksOfficial website *Mayors of Finistère Association Communes of Finistère {{Finistère-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arsène Lambert
Arsène Lambert (23 June 1834 – 11 January 1901) was a senior French Général, general (''officier général'') who achieved particular distinction in the French conquest of Senegal and, later, in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. In January 1900 he was elected to the Senate (France), French senate, List of senators of Finistère, representing the Finistère Departments of France, département. His senatorial career was brief, however, since he died slightly less than a year later. Biography Personal Arsène Mathurin Louis Marie Lambert was born at four in the morning in Carhaix-Plouguer, Carhaix (Finistère) in the far north-west of France. He was baptised in the town at the church of Tremorus of Brittany, Saint Trémeur the next day. His mother, born Joséphine Maillet, is identified as the owner of a piece of land at Saint-Joseph, Réunion, Saint-Joseph on the Overseas department and region, island département of Réunion, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. His fat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cherbourg
Cherbourg (; , , ), nrf, Chèrbourg, ) is a former commune and subprefecture located at the northern end of the Cotentin peninsula in the northwestern French department of Manche. It was merged into the commune of Cherbourg-Octeville on 28 February 2000,Décret 23 February 2000 which was merged into the new commune of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin on 1 January 2016. Cherbourg is protected by Cherbourg Harbour, between and |
Maritime Prefect
A maritime prefect ( French: ''Préfet maritime'') is a servant of the French State who exercises authority over the sea in a particular region under French jurisdiction, known as a maritime arrondissement (''Arrondissement maritime''). His administration is known as a maritime prefecture (''Préfecture maritime''). As of , there are three maritime prefects in metropolitan France, based in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (Channel and North Sea), Brest (Atlantic Ocean) and Toulon (Mediterranean Sea). Two additional maritime prefects were based in Rochefort until 1927 and Lorient until 1941. As a senior civil servant, the officeholder is appointed by and reports to the Prime Minister. The maritime prefect, who is simultaneously charged of military operations, therefore also reports to the Chief of the Defence Staff (''Chef d'état-major des armées''). History The dignity was created on 27 April 1800 under the French Consulate to unify the command of harbours (civil administrator) and the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dahomey
The Kingdom of Dahomey () was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. Dahomey developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional power in the 18th century by expanding south to conquer key cities like Whydah belonging to the Kingdom of Whydah on the Atlantic coast which granted it unhindered access to the tricontinental triangular trade. For much of the middle 19th century, the Kingdom of Dahomey became a key regional state, after eventually ending tributary status to the Oyo Empire. European visitors extensively documented the kingdom, and it became one of the most familiar African nations to Europeans. The Kingdom of Dahomey was an important regional power that had an organized domestic economy built on conquest and slave labor, significant international trade and diplomatic relations with Europeans, a centralized administration, taxation systems, and an organ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Franco-Dahomean War
The First Franco-Dahomean War was fought in 1890 between France, led by General Alfred-Amédée Dodds, and Dahomey under King Béhanzin. Background At the close of the 19th century, European powers were busy conquering and colonising much of Africa. In what is today Benin, the main colonial power was the French Third Republic. The French had established commercial ties with the indigenous peoples of the area including one of West Africa's most powerful states at the time, the Fon kingdom of Dahomey. In 1851, a Franco-Dahomean friendship treaty was ratified allowing the French to operate commercially and missionaries to enter the country. By 1890, the Fon kingdom of Dahomey was at the height of its power. It laid claim to almost all the coast of modern Benin plus much of south-central Benin as far north as Atcheribé. One of Dahomey's most important tributaries was the small kingdom of Porto-Novo near the coast. The kingdom had been at odds with Dahomey on and off since th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conseil D'amirauté
The Conseil d'amirauté (''Admiralty Council'') was a deliberative committee within the Ministry for the Navy and the colonies of France. It was set up in 1824 and suppressed in 1889. Sources *Auguste Jal, ''Glossaire nautique : Répertoire polyglotte de termes de marine'', 1848, volume 1, p. 119. *Alfred Blanche, ''Dictionnaire général d'administration'', Paris, 1860, p. 278-280. History of the French Navy 1824 establishments in France 1889 disestablishments {{france-hist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Embassy Of France, London
The Embassy of France in London is the diplomatic mission of France to the United Kingdom. Located just off Knightsbridge at Albert Gate, one of the entrances to Hyde Park, London, Hyde Park, it is situated immediately opposite the Embassy of Kuwait in London, Embassy of Kuwait. This building, along with the rest of Queen's Gate, Albert Gate and neighbouring buildings, were designed by the British architect Thomas Cubitt; his son, George Cubitt, who was created Baron Ashcombe in 1892, is Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall's great-great-grandfather. At the time of these buildings' construction in the 1840s, they were by far the tallest structures in the neighbourhood. France also owns various premises along the Cromwell Road, South Kensington which house its Consular, Cultural, Science & Technology and Visa (document), Visa sections. It also has a Trade Mission at 28-29 Haymarket, London, Haymarket and a Paymaster & Comptroller, Financial Comptroller Section at 30 Queen’s Gate Terra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aviso
An ''aviso'' was originally a kind of dispatch boat or "advice boat", carrying orders before the development of effective remote communication. The term, derived from the Portuguese and Spanish word for "advice", "notice" or "warning", an ''aviso'', was later adopted by the French and Portuguese navies to classify their medium-sized warships designed for colonial service. The term continued to be used in the French Navy to classify the patrol frigates until 2012, when the remaining ships of the class were reclassified as offshore patrol ships. It is equivalent to the modern use of "sloop" in other countries. Description The ''Dictionnaire de la Marine Française 1788–1792'' (by Nicolas-Charles Romme) describes ''avisos'' as "small boats designed to carry orders or dispatches". This use became obsolete with the development of means of communicating detailed information at a distance. French ''avisos'' used during World War I and World War II had displacements of 300–7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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