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ﾃ四e-de-Brﾃｩhat
Brﾃｩhat (, ; ) is an island and ''commune'' located near Paimpol, a mile off the northern coast of Brittany. Administratively, it is a commune in the Cﾃｴtes-d'Armor department in northwestern France. Brﾃｩhat is actually an archipelago composed of two main islands, separated only at high tide, and many smaller ones. It is famous for its pink granite rocks, very mild micro-climate and Mediterranean vegetation, due to the warm Gulf Stream coming from across the Atlantic. Many day-trippers come to Brﾃｩhat every day by the ferry service (les Vedettes de Brﾃｩhat) which sails from Pointe de l'Arcouest, to the north of Paimpol, taking about 10 minutes. They come to visit the main tourist attractions, the Paon and Rosedo lighthouses, the St-Michel chapel, the Guerzido beach, the Birlot rwater-mill and the Verrerie of Brﾃｩhat. In June 2023 the local municipality imposed a limit on the numbers of summer tourists, citing "overtourism". Climate Brﾃｩhat features a temperate oceanic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrﾃｩ Cﾃｩsar Vermare
Andrﾃｩ-Cﾃｩsar Vermare (27 November 1869 窶 7 August 1949) was a French sculptor, known for his war memorials and monuments. Biography Vermare was the son of the sculptor Pierre Vermare. He entered the ﾃ営ole nationale supﾃｩrieure des beaux-arts de Lyon, ﾃ営ole nationale des beaux-arts in Lyon in 1886 and studied under Charles Dufraine. In 1891 he moved up to Paris and studied there under Alexandre Falguiﾃｨre, Alfred-Dﾃｩsirﾃｩ Lanson and Laurent Marqueste. 1892 saw his first submission to the Paris Salon de la Sociﾃｩtﾃｩ des artistes franﾃｧais. He was to get an "honourable mention" and then in 1894 he carried off the "Chevavard" prize for his composition entitled ''Giotto enfant''. 1897 saw his ''Orphﾃｩe et Eurydice'' voted the runner-up in that year's Prix de Rome competition and in 1899 his ''La douleur d'Adam et Eve devant le cadavre d'Abel'' won that prestigious prize which took him to Rome's Villa Mﾃｩdicis from 1900 to 1903. On returning to Paris he worked with his father and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre-Marie Le Bozec
Pierre-Marie Le Bozec (; 28 April 1769, in ﾃ四e-de-Brﾃｩhat 窶 15 May 1830, in ﾃ四e-de-Brﾃｩhat) was a French Navy officer. Biography Youth Le Bozec was born to a family of sailors, and started sailing in 1780 on a merchantman. From 1782, he took part in the Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War on the 80-gun ''Deux Frﾃｨres'', captained by his father. From 1787 and 1789, he served as second captain on the ''Comte Esterhazy'' and the ''Colombe'', and on the ''Deux Frﾃｨres'' again. First Republic Le Bozec was promoted to ensign in 1792. The following year, he was given command of the corvette ''Vaillante'', tasked with escort duties in the English Channel. He was involved in a fight with a British corvette, driving her away. He was promoted to lieutenant the same year. In early 1794, Le Bozec was awarded command of the brand new 24-gun corvette ''Rﾃｩpublicaine''. After a number of patrols in the Channel, he joined up with Lhermitte's squadron, bound for Norw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hﾃｩaux De Brﾃｩhat Lighthouse
The Hﾃｩaux de Brﾃｩhat is an active lighthouse in Cﾃｴtes-d'Armor, France, located on the ﾃ四e-de-Brﾃｩhat. The lighthouse is closed to the public. Built by French engineer Lﾃｩonce Reynaud in 1840, it sits on the reefs of Trﾃｩguier, near the Sillon de Talbert. It is on the western end of the Bay of Saint-Brieuc, and marks the entrance to the island of Brﾃｩhat from the ''Trieux'' channel. It was classified as a ''monument historique'' on 23 May 2011. History The French Lighthouse Commission decided to build a lighthouse on the reefs of Trﾃｩguier in 1831, entrusting the construction of a temporary structure to a carpenter from Saint-Brieuc. The project, a white signal light, was completed in 1832, but destroyed within a year due to strong currents and surf. In April 1834, Leonor Fresnel commissioned 32-year-old engineer Lﾃｩonce Reynaud to design a lighthouse. Reynaud's approach was different, and did not fit in with the typical British-style architecture of lighthouses in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paimpol
Paimpol (; ) is a commune in the Cﾃｴtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in northwest France. It is a tourist destination, especially during the summer months when people are attracted by its port and beaches. Geography The town is located in the north of Brittany, at the western end of the bay of Saint-Brieuc, at the bottom of the bay of Paimpol. The town is on the old national road D 786, 72 mi west of Saint-Malo, 23 mi north-west of Saint-Brieuc, 21 mi east of Lannion (sub-prefecture) and 44 mi to the north-east of Morlaix . Guingamp (sub-prefecture) is 18 mi to the south, and Rennes is 88 mi to the south-east. Population Inhabitants of Paimpol are called ''paimpolais'' in French. In 1960 Paimpol absorbed the former communes Kerity and Plounez. The population data given in the table below for 1954 and earlier refer to Paimpol proper, without Kerity and Plounez. Breton language The municipality launched a linguistic plan through Ya d'ar brezhoneg on 29 September 2008. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall (born Moishe Shagal; 窶 28 March 1985) was a Russian and French artist. An early modernism, modernist, he was associated with the School of Paris, ﾃ営ole de Paris, as well as several major art movement, artistic styles and created works in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine art prints. Chagall was born in 1887, into a Belarusian Jews, Jewish family near Vitebsk, today in Belarus, but at that time in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire. Before World War I, he travelled between Saint Petersburg, Paris, and Berlin. During that period, he created his own mixture and style of modern art, based on his ideas of Eastern European and Jewish folklore. He spent the wartime years in his native Belarus, becoming one of the country's most distinguished artists and a member of the modernist avant-garde, founding the Vitebsk Museum of Modern Art, Vitebsk Arts College. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cﾃｴtes-d'Armor
The Cﾃｴtes-d'Armor ( , ; ; , ), formerly known as Cﾃｴtes-du-Nord until 1990 (, ), is a department in the north of Brittany, in northwestern France. In 2019, it had a population of 600,582.Populations lﾃｩgales 2019: 22 Cﾃｴtes-d'Armor INSEE History French Revolution Cﾃｴtes-du-Nord was one of the original 83 departments created on 4 March 1790 following the French Revolution. It was made up from the near entirety of the ancient Pays de Saint-Brieuc, most of historical[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes Of France
A () is a level of administrative divisions of France, administrative division in the France, French Republic. French are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipality, municipalities in Canada and the United States; ' in Germany; ' in Italy; ' in Spain; or civil parishes in the United Kingdom. are based on historical geographic communities or villages and are vested with significant powers to manage the populations and land of the geographic area covered. The are the fourth-level administrative divisions of France. vary widely in size and area, from large sprawling cities with millions of inhabitants like Paris, to small hamlet (place), hamlets with only a handful of inhabitants. typically are based on pre-existing villages and facilitate local governance. All have names, but not all named geographic areas or groups of people residing together are ( or ), the difference residing in the lack of administrative powers. Except for the Municipal arrondissem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geneviﾃｨve Vergez-Tricom
Geneviﾃｨve Vergez-Tricom (16 July 1889 窶 7 December 1966) was a French geographer and historian. After a career in history, she specialized in geography, where she was one of the first French women to be teachers and publish in geographical publications. She developed the use of film to teach geography and her educational movies were widely distributed. Her work on Romania was awarded the Grand Prize of Geography of Ferdinand I of Romania. Biography Geneviﾃｨve Vergez-Tricom was born in Paris in 1889 and studied at Paris-Sorbonne where she obtained a bachelor's degree and a higher education diploma in 1923. She published numerous notes in the ''Annales de la gﾃｩographie'' and, under the influence of Emmanuel de Martonne, moved into geomorphology with a noted and long-standing reference dissertation on the relief of the surroundings of Paris. From 1922 to 1926, she was responsible for practical work at the Sorbonne. Thanks to Emmanuel de Martonne, she was seconded from 1924 to 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goudji
Goudji Goudji ( Georgian:痺批壯ヲ痺｣痺ｯ痺 "痺低Ε痺ｯ痺" 痺雪帋ヰ痺ｨ痺｣痺吼ヴ痺壯) (born 6 July 1941) is a French sculptor and goldsmith of Georgian origin who was born in Soviet Georgia. Biography Goudji was born in Borjomi and spent his youth in Batumi with his family. His father was a doctor and his mother was a Professor of natural science. He had an elder brother, by two years. He studied sculpture at the Art school of Tbilisi between 1958 and 1962. He left Georgia in 1962 for Moscow, where he started a career as a sculptor, while dreaming of becoming a goldsmith. In 1969 he married Katherine Barsacq who worked at the French embassy in Moscow. He moved to France in January 1974 after five years of personal intervention on his behalf by President Georges Pompidou. He became a French naturalized citizen in 1978. In Paris he made jewelry and decorative objects for art galleries. Artworks His artwork combines the technique of the tinsmith with hard stone incrustations in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verrerie Of Brehat
La Verrerie (; is a municipality in the district of Veveyse in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It was formed on 1 January 2004 by the union of the municipalities of Le Crﾃｪt, Grattavache, and Progens.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 19 July 2011 The municipality is administered from Le Crﾃｪt. Geography La Verrerie has an area of . Of this area, or 78.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 14.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 6.6% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.5% is unproductive land.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palm Trees
The Arecaceae () is a family of perennial, flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales. Their growth form can be climbers, shrubs, tree-like and stemless plants, all commonly known as palms. Those having a tree-like form are colloquially called palm trees. Currently, 181 genera with around 2,600 species are known, most of which are restricted to tropical and subtropical climates. Most palms are distinguished by their large, compound, evergreen leaves, known as fronds, arranged at the top of an unbranched stem, except for the Hyphaene genus, who has branched palms. However, palms exhibit an enormous diversity in physical characteristics and inhabit nearly every type of habitat within their range, from rainforests to deserts. Palms are among the best known and most extensively cultivated plant families. They have been important to humans throughout much of history, especially in regions like the Middle East and North Africa. A wide range of common products and foods are d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agapanthus
''Agapanthus'' () is a genus of plants, the only one in the subfamily Agapanthoideae of the family Amaryllidaceae. The family is in the monocot order Asparagales. The name is derived . Some species of ''Agapanthus'' are commonly known as lily of the Nile, or African lily in the UK. However, they are not lily, lilies and all of the species are Indigenous (ecology), native to Southern Africa (South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique), though some have become naturalized in scattered places around the world (Australia, Great Britain, Mexico, Ethiopia, Jamaica, etc.).Klaus Kubitzki. 1998. "" pages 58窶60. In: Klaus Kubitzki (editor). 1998. ''The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants'' volume III. Springer-Verlag: Berlin;Heidelberg, Germany. Species boundaries are not clear in the genus, and in spite of having been intensively studied, the number of species recognized by different authorities varies from 6 to 10. The type species for the genus is ''Agapanthus africanus''."Agapa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
