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Clemenceau (porte-avions)
Clemenceau may refer to: * Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929), French statesman; leader in First World War * Martine Clémenceau (born 1949), French singer * ''Clemenceau''-class aircraft carrier, a class of aircraft carriers of the French Navy ** ''Clemenceau'' (R 98), the lead ship of the class * Clemenceau metro station, a Brussels metro station * Mount Clemenceau, a mountain in the Canadian Rockies * Rue Clémenceau, a commercial and residential street in Beirut, Lebanon * Clemenceau, Arizona Clemenceau is a neighborhood of the city of Cottonwood in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. It was built as a company town in 1917 to serve the new smelter for James Douglas, Jr.'s United Verde Extension Mine (UVX) in Jerome. The town ..., a former smelter town * Clemenceau, Saskatchewan, a hamlet in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan {{disambig, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Clemenceau
Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (, also , ; 28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) was a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A key figure of the Independent Radicals, he was a strong advocate of separation of church and state, amnesty of the Communards exiled to New Caledonia, as well as opposition to colonisation. Clemenceau, a physician turned journalist, played a central role in the politics of the Third Republic, most notably successfully leading France through the end of the First World War. After about 1,400,000 French soldiers were killed between the German invasion and Armistice, he demanded a total victory over the German Empire. Clemenceau stood for reparations, a transfer of colonies, strict rules to prevent a rearming process, as well as the restitution of Alsace–Lorraine, which had been annexed to Germany in 1871. He achieved these goals through the Treaty of Versailles signed at the Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martine Clémenceau
Martine Clémenceau (born 18 March 1949) is a French singer. She won the Yamaha Music Festival in 1971 with the song ''A jour l’amour''. Then, she represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1973 with '' Sans toi'', taking the 15th place. Her song ''Solitaire'', written in 1981 is her most important hit in France, and Laura Branigan in 1983 recorded a cover that was #7 Billboard Hot 100 hit in the US, and #8 in Canada. She sang ''Quelquefois'' as a duet with Claude François Claude Antoine Marie François (; 1 February 1939 – 11 March 1978), also known by the nickname Cloclo, was a French pop singer, composer, songwriter, record producer, drummer and dancer. François co-wrote the lyrics of " Comme d'habitude" ( ... and during the 1990s. She wrote songs especially for Herbert Léonard. In 2005 she received the ''René Jeanne Prize''. References External linksA brief biographyFrance in the Eurovision Song Contest 1973Martine Clémenceau at Myspace.com* * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clemenceau-class Aircraft Carrier
The ''Clemenceau''-class aircraft carriers are a pair of aircraft carriers, ''Clemenceau'' and ''Foch'', which served in the French Navy from 1961 until 2000. From 2000 to 2017, one ship served with the Brazilian Navy as the . The ''Clemenceau'' class was France's first successful aircraft carrier design after World War II. It was the backbone of the French fleet for the duration of its forty years of service. Background By the early 1950s, the French Navy had in service a number of aircraft carriers, the most modern of which was . However, all of them were small and increasingly incapable of operating modern aircraft, which were steadily increasing in size. To ensure French independence in defence matters, a new class of two modern fleet carriers was envisaged. Displacing just under 35,000 tons each, the new ships would be slightly smaller than the Royal Navy's newly commissioned 43,000 ton ships, but they would be capable ships for their size built from scratch to take ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Aircraft Carrier Clemenceau (R98)
''Clemenceau'' () was the French Navy's sixth aircraft carrier and the lead ship of her class. The carrier served from 1961 to 1997, and was dismantled and recycled in 2009. The carrier was the second French warship to be named after Georges Clemenceau, the first being a laid down in 1939 but never finished. ''Clemenceau'' and her sister ship served as the mainstays of the French fleet. During the carrier's career, ''Clemenceau'' sailed more than during 3,125 days at sea. She was equipped to handle nuclear munitions to be delivered by her air complement, and was later modified to fire nuclear-capable missiles. She took part in numerous exercises and cruises, seeing action during the Lebanese Civil War, Gulf War and in air operations over the former Yugoslavia. Description The development of ''Clemenceau'' represented France's effort to produce its own class of multi-role aircraft carriers to replace the American and British ships provided at the end of World War II. The sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clemenceau Metro Station
Clemenceau is a Brussels Metro station on the southern segment of lines 2 and 6. It is located on the /, close to the /, in the municipality of Anderlecht, in the western part of Brussels, Belgium. The station opened on 18 June 1993 and was the terminus of line 2 until Delacroix opened in 2006. It is named after the nearby avenue, itself named after Georges Clemenceau Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (, also , ; 28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) was a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A key figure of the Independent Radicals, he was a ..., a former Prime Minister of France. External links Station ID - Clemenceau bsubway.net Brussels metro stations located underground Railway stations opened in 1993 Anderlecht {{Brussels-metro-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Clemenceau
Mount Clemenceau is the fourth highest mountain in the Park Ranges of the Canadian Rockies. The peak was originally named "Pyramid" in 1892 by Arthur Coleman. The mountain was renamed by the Interprovincial Boundary Survey in 1919 to its present name, which is for Georges Clemenceau, premier of France during World War I. Mt. Clemenceau was first climbed in 1923 by D.B. Durand, H.S. Hall, W.D. Harris and H.B. De V. Schwab. __NOTOC__ Routes There are three standard climbing routes: *West Face II **This is the normal route, similar to the north glacier route (normal) on Mount Athabasca but considered more interesting. The route avoids the steepest parts of the face. *North-East Ridge IV *North Face IV See also *List of mountains in the Canadian Rockies *List of mountain peaks of North America *List of mountain peaks of the Rocky Mountains This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaksThis article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rue Clémenceau
Rue Clemenceau is a commercial and residential street in Beirut, Lebanon. The street was named in honor of Georges Clemenceau who accepted the post of premier of France in 1917 during World War I. The neighborhood straddling Clemenceau Street was prior to the war one of the most cosmopolitan areas of the city and home to Christians, Muslims, Druze and Jews. The street runs east-west from Avenue Fakhreddine, intersecting several streets, including Emir Omar, George Cyr, May Ziadeh, Mexique, Justinien, Nicolas Rebeiz, and Rue John Kennedy where it turns into Bliss Street. Rue Clemenceau is within walking distance to Rue Hamra, Haigazian University, and the American University of Beirut, which is located on Bliss Street. Rue Clemenceau is known for its numerous medical institutes, such as the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC), the Children's Cancer Center of Lebanon, and the Clemenceau Medical Center, which is an affiliate of Johns Hopkins Medicine International. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clemenceau, Arizona
Clemenceau is a neighborhood of the city of Cottonwood in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. It was built as a company town in 1917 to serve the new smelter for James Douglas, Jr.'s United Verde Extension Mine (UVX) in Jerome. The town was originally named Verde after the mine, but it was changed to Clemenceau in 1920 in honor of the French premier in World War I, Georges Clemenceau, a personal friend of Douglas. Clemenceau would later leave a vase designed by the French potter Ernest Chaplet to the town in return. History Originally named Verde, the town was renamed Clemenceau in 1920, both to honor Georges Clemenceau and to avoid possible confusion with nearby Camp Verde. Though now a part of the city of Cottonwood, Verde as it was known had its own post office and station on the Clarkdale branch of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. "Actual construction of Verde, the United Verde Extension's smelter town in the valley, will probably be under way by January 1, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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