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Vital Lahaye
Vital Lahaye is a Belgian writer and teacher born in 1937. Biography Vital Lahaye was born on 17 January 1937 in Chassepierre, a small village on the banks of the Semois in the province of Luxembourg, fifth in a family of seven children. His mother keeps the grocery store in the village; His father, of Liège origin, was a painter of buildings. He attended the college of Stavelot then that of Virton. Sensitive to social inequalities, he pursued from 1956 to 1960 his studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Liège. Faced with the events of that period (the end of the Belgian colonization in the Congo, the war in Algeria and the denunciation of torture by Henri Alleg), he approached the communist route and met several political leaders from Liège.Yves Leclair, Guy Goffette, sans légende, collection L'œuvre en lumière, éditions Luce Wilquin, (Avin, 2012). From 1960 to 1970 Vital Lahaye became a teacher in free education in Arlon, notably for hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chassepierre
Chassepierre (Gaumais: ''Tchespire'') is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Florenville, located in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium. It was a fully-fledged municipality before the 1977 fusion of the Belgian municipalities. The village is a member of the non-profit organization Les Plus Beaux Villages de Wallonie ("The Most Beautiful Villages of Wallonia"). Geography The main road N83 between Arlon and Bouillon runs along the west side, above the village. The east side of the village is bordered by the Semois, a tributary of the Meuse. Chassepierre is bounded on the south by the French border. Name The name ''Chassepierre'' comes from ''Casa petrea'', the Latin for "stone house". Indeed, the houses of the village are mostly made of stones from the 18th and 19th century. Architectural heritage The church of Saint Martin was built in 1702. Festival The village, considered one of the most charming of Belgium, is mainly famous for its intern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilaya
A wilayah ( ar, وَلاية, wālāya or ''wilāya'', plural ; Urdu and fa, ولایت, ''velâyat''; tr, vilayet) is an administrative division, usually translated as "state", "province" or occasionally as "governorate". The word comes from the Arabic root "''w-l-y''", "to govern": a ''wāli''—"governor"—governs a ''wālāya'' (or ''wilāya''), "that which is governed". Under the Caliphate, the term referred to any constituent near-sovereign state. Use in specific countries In Arabic, ''wilayah'' is used to refer to the states of the United States, and the United States of America as a whole is called ''al-Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amrīkīyah'', literally meaning "the American United States". North Africa and Middle East For Morocco, which is divided into provinces ''and'' wilāyas, the translation "province" would cause the distinction to cease. For Sudan, the term ''state'' and for Mauritania, the term ''region'' is used. * Provinces of Algeria * Provinces of O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 Births
Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into February, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead. * January 15 – Spanish Civil War: Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends inconclusively. * January 20 – Second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. This is the first time that the United States presidential inauguration occurs on this date; the change is due to the ratification in 1933 of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution. * January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and assas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florenville
Florenville (; Gaumais: ''Floravile'') is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium. On 1 January 2016 the municipality had 5,639 inhabitants. The total area is 146.91 km², giving a population density of 38.38 inhabitants per km². It is located on the Semois River, facing the French border. The municipality consists of the following districts: Chassepierre, Florenville, Fontenoille, Lacuisine, Muno, Sainte-Cécile, and Villers-devant-Orval. Other population centers include: Azy, Conques, Laiche, Martué, Lambermont, Le Ménil, and Watrinsart. Orval Abbey is located in Villers-devant-Orval. See also * List of protected heritage sites in Florenville This table shows an overview of the protected heritage sites in the Walloon town Florenville. This list is part of Belgium's national heritage. See also * List of protected heritage sites in Luxembourg (B ... ReferencesUnion des Villes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Izoard
Jacques Izoard (29 May 1936 – 19 July 2008) was a Belgian poet and essayist. He was born Jacques Delmotte at Liège. Life He taught French in secondary technical and vocational education for many years. Under the pseudonym Jacques Izoard, (from the mountain pass), he began writing poetry in 1962 with the release of a first opus: ''Ce manteau de pauvreté'' (This cloak of poverty). Izoard's poetry is characterized by a simple structure and refined and the desire to sound out the words. His work, prolific, has a sixty collections of poetry and an essay on Andree Chedid. Summarizing his poetic system, Lionel Ray speaks of it as a secret and tender attachment to what is the limit of perceptible, but which may have the body The two volumes of his complete works were published in editions by la Difference in 2006 and that same year, the University of Liège devoted a symposium. The day after the funeral of his friend Gaston Compere, he died aged 72, suffered a heart attack at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multiculturalism
The term multiculturalism has a range of meanings within the contexts of sociology, political philosophy, and colloquial use. In sociology and in everyday usage, it is a synonym for "Pluralism (political theory), ethnic pluralism", with the two terms often used interchangeably, and for cultural pluralism in which various ethnic groups collaborate and enter into a dialogue with one another without having to sacrifice their particular identities. It can describe a mixed ethnic community area where multiple cultural traditions exist (such as New York City or London) or a single country within which they do (such as Switzerland, Belgium or Russia). Groups associated with an Indigenous peoples, indigenous, aboriginal or wikt:autochthonous, autochthonous ethnic group and settler-descended ethnic groups are often the focus. In reference to sociology, multiculturalism is the end-state of either a natural or artificial process (for example: legally-controlled immigration) and occurs on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conrad Detrez
Conrad Detrez (1 April 1937, in Roclenge-sur-Geer – 11 February 1985, in Paris) was a Belgian (from 1982 on French) journalist, diplomat and novelist. Biography Conrad Detrez grew up in a small village in the Belgian countryside. In 1962 he traveled to Brazil as a lay missionary. He first stayed in Volta Redonda and from 1963 in Rio de Janeiro. He was a university teacher while at the same time working in the favelas. He discovered his homosexuality and gradually became involved in the resistance to the military dictatorship that was installed in 1964 in Brazil. After being arrested and expelled from Rio de Janeiro in 1967, Detrez stayed some months in Paris, participating in the revolt of May 68. He returned to São Paulo where he became a journalist. In 1969 he secretly met and interviewed Brazilian guerrilla leader Carlos Marighella. In the 1970s Detrez stayed in Algeria (as a teacher) and in Lisbon (as a radio journalist) after the Portuguese Carnation Revolution. Bef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sour El-Ghozlane
Sour El-Ghozlane (or Souk El Ghoziane) is a town and commune in Algeria's central-northern, just-landlocked Bouïra Province. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 42,179. History Pre Historic A prehistoric tool (biface) testifying to the human presence from prehistoric times was found west of the city. It is a town inhabited since prehistoric times, the first city founded in Roman province in the center of deep Algeria, a Roman fortress but originally a Numidian city. Its construction dates from the year 33 av. AD during the reign of Emperor Augustus. Auzia quickly became a powerful city, capital of the highland regions, which relegates to a secondary role the strategic importance of the Roman city of Djemila, the ancient Cuicui, in the wilaya of Setif because of its remoteness from the centers Of Roman power. Roman Empire At the time of the Roman presence in Africa, the city bore the name of Auzia. The remains of a theater have been spotted there. It is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semois
The Semois (; ''Simwès'' in Walloon, often under elided form ''Smwès''; ''Semoy'', ''Sesbach'' in German, ''Setzbaach'' in Luxemburgish of Arlon; and known as the ''Semoy'' in France) is a river flowing from the Ardennes uplands of Belgium and France towards the Meuse, of which it is a right tributary. The source of the Semois is in Arlon, Wallonia, in the Belgian province of Luxembourg, close to the border with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Flowing in a roughly westerly direction, it enters France after passing through the Belgian village of Bohan-sur-Semois and forms about of the Belgian–French border. It joins the Meuse further downstream in Monthermé. The total length of the river is . Other places on the banks of the Semois are Chiny, Florenville, Herbeumont, Bouillon (including the localities of Dohan and Poupehan), and Vresse-sur-Semois Vresse-sur-Semois (, literally ''Vresse on Semois''; wa, Vresse) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Goffette
Guy Gofete (born 18 April 1947) is a Belgian-born poet and writer. Gofete published his first book of poems in 1969. Since then he has worked as an editor at the publishing company Gallimard. Gofete's poetry has been compared to Verlaine (of whom Gofete has written a fictional "biography") - the contemporary French poet Yves Bonnefoy remarked Gofete is an heir to Verlaine. A poet who very courageously has decided to remain faithful to his own personal life, in its humblest moments. He keeps things simple, he is marvelously able to capture the emotions and desires common to us all. Gofete is without question one of the best poets of the present moment in France. Gofete's short fiction (récits) often reimagine historic figures - the poet Paul Verlaine in ''Verlaine d'ardoise et de pluie'' (1995) and again in ''L'autre Verlaine'' (2007) or the painter Pierre Bonnard through his muse Marthe in ''Elle, par bonheur et toujours nue'' (published in English as ''Forever Nude'' in 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arlon
Arlon (; lb, Arel ; nl, Aarlen ; german: Arel ; wa, Årlon; la, Orolaunum) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in and capital of the province of Luxembourg in the Ardennes, Belgium. With a population of just over 28,000, it is the smallest provincial capital in Belgium. Arlon is also the capital of its cultural region: the Arelerland (Land of Arlon in Luxemburgish). The municipality consists of the following districts: Arlon, Autelbas, Barnich, Bonnert, Guirsch, Heinsch, and Toernich. Other population centers include: * Autelhaut * Clairefontaine * Fouches * Frassem * Freylange * Hachy * Heckbous * Rosenberg * Sampont * Schoppach * Sesselich * Seymerich * Stehnen * Sterpenich * Stockem * Udange * Viville * Waltzing * Weyler * Wolberg History Roman and medieval times Before the Roman conquests of Gaul, the territory of Arlon and a vast area to the southeast were settled by the Treveri, a Celtic tribe. The local population adapted relatively easily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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