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Charles Michels (Paris Métro)
Charles Michels () is a station on Line 10 of the Paris Métro. It is located in the 15th arrondissement. History The station opened as ''Beaugrenelle'' on 13 July 1913 as part of the initial section of line 8 as its temporary southern terminus, and with Opéra as its northern terminus. The line was then extended to Porte d'Auteuil on 30 September that same year, becoming its new southern terminus. It was then named after Place Beaugrenelle (now known as Place Charles Michels). Beaugrenelle ("beautiful Grenelle") was a name given by property developers in the Grenelle district during its urbanisation. On 27 July 1937, the section of line 8 between La Motte-Picquet–Grenelle and Porte d'Auteuil, including ''Beaugrenelle'', was transferred to line 10 during the reconfiguration of lines 8, 10, and the old line 14. On 29 July 1937, line 10 was extended from Duroc to La Motte-Picquet–Grenelle. On 14 July 1945, both the station as well as the nearby Place Beaugrenelle were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris Métro
The Paris Métro (, , or , ), short for Métropolitain (), is a rapid transit system serving the Paris metropolitan area in France. A symbol of the city, it is known for its density within the capital's territorial limits, uniform architecture and Paris Métro entrances by Hector Guimard, historical entrances influenced by Art Nouveau. The system is long, mostly underground. It has 321 stations of which 61 have transfers between lines. The Montmartre funicular is considered to be part of the metro system within which is represented by a 303rd fictive station, "Funiculaire".Statistiques Syndicat des transports d'Île-de-France rapport 2005' (in French) states 297 stations + Olympiades + Les Agnettes + Les Courtilles The Métro has sixteen lines (with an additional Grand Paris Express, four under construction), numbered 1 to 14, with two lines, Paris Métro Line 3bis, Line 3bis and Paris Métro Line 7bis, Line 7bis, named because they used to be part of Paris Métro Line 3, Lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chamber Of Deputies (France)
The Chamber of Deputies (, ) was the lower house of parliament in France at various times in the 19th and 20th centuries: * 1814–1848 during the Bourbon Restoration in France, Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy, the Chamber of Deputies was the lower house of the French Parliament, elected by census suffrage. * 1875–1940 during the French Third Republic, the Chamber of Deputies was the legislative assembly of the French Parliament, elected by two-round system with universal male suffrage. When reunited with the Senate (France), Senate in Versailles, Yvelines, Versailles, the French Parliament was called the National Assembly (France), National Assembly (''Assemblée nationale'') and carried out the election of the President of France, president of the French Republic. During the Bourbon Restoration Created by the Charter of 1814 and replacing the Corps législatif, which existed under the First French Empire, the Chamber of Deputies was composed of individuals electe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marx Dormoy
René Marx Dormoy (, 1 August 1888 – 26 July 1941) was a French socialist politician, noted for his opposition to the far right. Under his leadership as Minister of the Interior in the government of Léon Blum, the French police infiltrated '' La Cagoule,'' which was planning the overthrow of the French Third Republic, led by the Popular Front government. Dormoy directed the arrest and imprisonment of 70 cagoulards in November 1937. The police recovered 2 tons of armaments from their sites. After the Occupation of France, Dormoy as a representative refused to approve providing full powers to Marshal Philippe Petain and the Vichy government. He was arrested in 1940 and interned in house arrest in Montélimar. He was assassinated there in July 1941 by a bomb set off at his house. It was believed to be the work of La Cagoule terrorists. Biography Early career He was born in Montluçon, in Allier as the youngest son of Jean Dormoy, a shoemaker and activist of the French Workers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Bonsergent (Paris Métro)
Jacques Bonsergent () is a metro station, station of the Paris Métro, serving Paris Métro Line 5, line 5 and located in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. History The station was opened on 17 December 1906 as the northern terminus of Line 5 from Place d'Italie (Paris Métro), Place d'Italie, replacing the temporary terminus of Quai de la Rapée (Paris Métro), Quai de la Rapée, before the line was extended to Gare du Nord on 15 November 1907. The stations original name of Lancry is after proximity to the Rue de Lancry and its former local owner, Sieur Lancry. The station kept that name until 1946. The current name refers to the Place Jacques Bonsergent, named after Jacques Bonsergent, an engineer who became the first Parisian (and possibly first French) civilian executed by the German occupation in 1940. Bonsergent was born at Malestroit, in 1912 and was condemned to death by a German military tribunal on 5 December 1940 after being accused, and found guilty, of an act of viol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Môquet (Paris Métro)
Guy Prosper Eustache Môquet (, 26 April 1924 – 22 October 1941) was a young French French Communist Party, Communist activist. During the German military administration in occupied France during World War II, German occupation of France in World War II, he was taken hostage by the Nazis and executed by firing squad in Châteaubriant in retaliation for attacks on Germans by the French Resistance; Môquet went down in history as one of its symbols. The farewell letter he wrote to his family at age 17 is now a mandatory reading in all French high schools. Biography Guy Prosper Eustache Môquet was born on 26 April 1924 in the XVIIIe arrondissement, 18th arrondissement of Paris. He studied at the Lycée Carnot and joined the Mouvement Jeunes Communistes de France, Communist Youth Movement. After the occupation of Paris by the Nazi Germany, Germans and the installation of the Vichy France, Vichy government, he was denounced on 13 October 1940 and arrested at the Gare de l'Est (P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corentin Celton (Paris Métro)
Corentin Celton () is a station on line 12 of the Paris Métro in the commune of Issy-les-Moulineaux. History The station opened as ''Petits Ménages'' on 24 March 1934 as part of the extension of the line from Porte de Versailles. It was then named after the nearby ''hospice des Petits-ménage'', a retirement home for elderly couples, as well as widowers and widowers capable of paying a modest fee. The hospice was relocated from the 7th arrondissement of Paris to Issy-les-Moulineaux in 1863, leaving a large area for the expansion of Le Bon Marché department store. On 15 October 1945, the station was renamed ''Corentin Celton'', after the hospice was renamed ''Hôpital Corentin-Celton'' in February that year. Its namesake, ''Corentin Celton'' (1901–1943), was an employee there and was a member of the French Resistance; he was shot by the Nazis at Fort Mont-Valérien. Hence, the station, along with 7 other stations, were renamed after the Second World War to honour the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corentin Cariou (Paris Métro)
Corentin Cariou () is a Metro station, station of the Paris Métro. History Corentin Cariou opened on 5 November 1910 with the commissioning of the first section of line 7 between Opéra (Paris Métro), Opéra and Porte de la Villette (Paris Métro), Porte de la Villette with service provided by all trains on the line until 18 January 1911, when a branch opened from Louis Blanc (Paris Métro), Louis Blanc to Pré-Saint-Gervais (Paris Métro), Pré-Saint-Gervais, resulting in 1 of every 2 trains serving this branch. It was once again served by all trains on the line when the branch from Louis Blanc to Pré-Saint-Gervais was split to form an independent line, Paris Métro Line 7bis, line 7bis, on 3 December 1967. It was originally named ''Pont de Flandre'', after the nearby bridge spanning the ''Canal de Saint-Denis'' on which the rue de Flandre ran on, the main road in La Villette. On 10 February 1946, the station was renamed after Corentin Cariou (1898–1942) who was a member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colonel Fabien (Paris Métro)
Colonel Fabien () is a station on Paris Métro Line 2, on the border of the 10th arrondissement of Paris, 10th and 19th arrondissement of Paris, 19th arrondissements under the ''Boulevard de la Vilette''. Location The station is located under Boulevard de la Villette, to the southeast of Place du Colonel Fabien. Oriented approximately along a northwest/southeast axis, it is positioned between the ''Jaurès'' and ''Belleville'' metro stations. In the direction of ''Porte Dauphine'', this is the last underground station before the above-ground section of the line. History The station was opened on 31 January 1903 as part of the extension of line 2 from Anvers (Paris Métro), Anvers to ''Bagnolet'' (now called Alexandre Dumas (Paris Métro), Alexandre Dumas). It was originally named ''Combat'' after the ''Place du Combat'', which was named after the ''Barrière du Combat'', a gate built for the collection of taxation as part of the Wall of the Farmers-General; the gate was built ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Hotz
Karl Hotz (29 April 1877, Wertheim am Main, Germany – 20 October 1941, Nantes, France) was a Lt. Colonel in the German military during World War II. With the occupation of France by Nazi Germany in June 1940, Hotz became the military governor of the German military administration in Nantes. He was assassinated in Nantes by French communists on 20 October 1941, one of the first German soldiers killed by the French Resistance. His assassination led to a massive manhunt for his killers and the retaliatory execution of 48 French citizens by the Germans. Relations between the German occupiers and French officials in Nantes had been cooperative until the executions which contributed to worsening relationships between the French and their German occupiers. Early life Hotz was born in 1877 in Wertheim am Main. He became an army officer and served in Metz where he learned to speak French. He lived in Nantes from 1930 to 1933 as head of a project to build an underground canal system ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalitarianism, totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", referred to the Nazi claim that Nazi Germany was the successor to the earlier Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and German Empire (1871–1918). The Third Reich, which the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich, ended in May 1945, after 12 years, when the Allies of World War II, Allies defeated Germany and entered the capital, Berlin, End of World War II in Europe, ending World War II in Europe. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Nazi Party began to eliminate political opposition and consolidate power. A 1934 German referendum confirmed Hitler as sole ''Führer'' (leader). Power was centralised in Hitler's person, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
