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Héaux De Bréhat Lighthouse
The Héaux de Bréhat is an active lighthouse in Côtes-d'Armor, France, located on the Île-de-Bréhat. The lighthouse is closed to the public. Built by French engineer Léonce Reynaud in 1840, it sits on the reefs of Tréguier, 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 Bréhat 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 Tréguier 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 Léonce 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] |
Île-de-Bréhat
Bréhat (, ; ) is an island and ''commune'' located near Paimpol, a mile off the northern coast of Brittany. Administratively, it is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in northwestern France. Bréhat 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 Bréhat every day by the ferry service (les Vedettes de Bréhat) 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 Bréhat. In June 2023 the local municipality imposed a limit on the numbers of summer tourists, citing "overtourism". Climate Bréhat features a temperate oceanic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granite
Granite ( ) is a coarse-grained (phanerite, phaneritic) intrusive rock, intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies underground. It is common in the continental crust of Earth, where it is found in igneous intrusions. These range in size from dike (geology), dikes only a few centimeters across to batholiths exposed over hundreds of square kilometers. Granite is typical of a larger family of ''granitic rocks'', or ''granitoids'', that are composed mostly of coarse-grained quartz and feldspars in varying proportions. These rocks are classified by the relative percentages of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase (the QAPF diagram, QAPF classification), with true granite representing granitic rocks rich in quartz and alkali feldspar. Most granitic rocks also contain mica or amphibole minerals, though a few (known as leucogranites) conta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lighthouses Completed In 1840
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways. Lighthouses mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals, reefs, rocks, and safe entries to harbors; they also assist in aerial navigation. Once widely used, the number of operational lighthouses has declined due to the expense of maintenance and the advent of much cheaper, more sophisticated, and more effective electronic navigational systems. History Ancient lighthouses Before the development of clearly defined ports, mariners were guided by fires built on hilltops. Since elevating the fire would improve visibility, placing the fire on a platform became a practice that led to the development of the lighthouse. In antiquity, the lighthouse functioned more as an entrance marker to ports than as a warning signal for reefs and promontories, unlike many moder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Lighthouses In France
This is a list of lighthouses in France. It includes the French overseas territories. Metropolitan France {, class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto;text-align:center;" ! Name ! class="unsortable", Image ! Water body ! Département ! Location &coordinates ! Year built ! class=unsortable, Notes , - , Phare du Cap Leucate , , Gulf of Lion , Aude , Cap Leucate , 1950 , , - , Planier Light , , Gulf of Lion , Bouches-du-Rhône , Île du Planier (Planier island) , 1959 , The first tower was built in this location in 1320 by Robert d'Anjou. , - , Giraglia , , Ligurian Sea , Haute-Corse , Giraglia Island, north off Cap Corse , 1848 , , - , Héaux de Bréhat Lighthouse , , Atlantic Ocean , Côtes-d'Armor , Île-de-Bréhat , 1840 , , - , Ploumanac'h Lighthouse , , Atlantic Ocean , Côtes-d'Armor , Perros-Guirec , 1946 , An older lighthouse dating from 1860 was destroyed in 1944 and replaced by the current structure. , - , Roches-Douvres Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Cotillard
Marion Cotillard (; born 30 September 1975) is a French actress who has appeared in both European and Hollywood productions. She is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Marion Cotillard, various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two César Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. She became a Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France in 2010 and was promoted to Officer in 2016, the same year she was named a Legion of Honour, Knight of the Legion of Honour. Cotillard began her career at the age of seven. She had her first English-language role in the action series ''Highlander: The Series, Highlander'' (1993) at the age of seventeen, and made her feature film debut in ''The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed (film), The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed'' (1994). Her breakthrough came in the French film ''Taxi (1998 film), Taxi'' (1998), and she won the César Award for Best Support ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jodie Foster
Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress and filmmaker. Foster started her career as a child actor before establishing herself as leading actress in film. She has received List of awards and nominations received by Jodie Foster, several accolades including two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Foster also was awarded with the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2013 and the Honorary Palme d'Or in 2021. Foster began her career as a child model and gained recognition as a teen idol through Disney films including ''Napoleon and Samantha'' (1972), ''Freaky Friday (1976 film), Freaky Friday'' (1976), and ''Candleshoe'' (1977). She appeared in Martin Scorsese's comedy-drama ''Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore'' (1974). For her role as a teenage prostitute in Scorsese's ''Taxi Driver'' (1976), she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Other early fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audrey Tautou
Audrey Justine Tautou (; born 9 August 1976) is a French actress. She made her acting debut at age 18 on television, and her feature film debut in '' Venus Beauty Institute'' (1999), for which she received critical acclaim and won the César Award for Most Promising Actress. Tautou achieved international recognition for her lead role in the 2001 film '' Amélie'', which was critically acclaimed and a major box-office success. She has since appeared in films in a range of genres, including the thrillers '' Dirty Pretty Things'' (2002) and '' The Da Vinci Code'' (2006), and the romantic comedy '' Priceless'' (2006). She was acclaimed for her role in the World War I drama '' A Very Long Engagement'' (2004), and for her portrayal of French fashion designer Coco Chanel in the biographical drama '' Coco avant Chanel'' (2009). She has been nominated three times for the César Award and twice for the BAFTA for Best Actress in a leading role. In June 2004, she became one of the few French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Very Long Engagement
''A Very Long Engagement'' () is a 2004 romantic war drama film, co-written and directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel and Marion Cotillard. It is a fictional tale about a young woman's desperate search for her fiancé who might have been killed during World War I. It was based on the 1991 novel of the same name by Sébastien Japrisot. The film is a co-production between France and the United States. It was released theatrically in France on 27 October 2004 and in the United States on 26 November 2004. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography at the 77th Academy Awards. Marion Cotillard earned the César Award for Best Supporting Actress, while Gaspard Ulliel won the César Award for Most Promising Actor at the 30th César Awards. Plot Five French soldiers are convicted of self-mutilation in order to escape military service during World War I. They are condemned to face near-certain death in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whisky
Whisky or whiskey is a type of liquor made from Fermentation in food processing, fermented grain mashing, mash. Various grains (which may be Malting, malted) are used for different varieties, including barley, Maize, corn, rye, and wheat. Whisky is typically Aging (food), aged in wooden casks, commonly of charred white oak. Uncharred white oak casks previously used for the aging of Port wine, port, rum or sherry may be employed during storage to impart a unique flavor and color. Whisky is a strictly regulated Alcoholic spirit, spirit worldwide with many classes and types. The typical unifying characteristics of the different classes and types are the fermentation of grains, distillation, and aging in Barrel, wooden barrels. Etymology The word ''whisky'' (or ''whiskey'') is an anglicisation of the Classical Gaelic word (or ) meaning "water" (now written as in Modern Irish, and in Scottish Gaelic). This Gaelic word shares its ultimate Indo-European_vocabulary#Natural_features, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glann Ar Mor Distillery
Glann ar Mor distillery is a French whisky distillery located in Pleubian, Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany. History Glann ar Mor was created in 1997 by ''Celtic Whisky Compagnie'', with the first single malt whisky produced in December 1999. In its present form, Glann ar Mor has been operational since June 2005, bottling its first unpeated single malt in late 2008. In November 2009, the first peated single malt (about 30-35 ppm of phenol) was sold under the brand of Kornog ("West Wind" in Breton). The distillery is located on the seafront (''Glann ar Mor'' means "At the edge of the sea" in Breton). Bottles feature the Héaux de Bréhat Lighthouse The Héaux de Bréhat is an active lighthouse in Côtes-d'Armor, France, located on the Île-de-Bréhat. The lighthouse is closed to the public. Built by French engineer Léonce Reynaud in 1840, it sits on the reefs of Tréguier, near the Si .... Whiskies * Glann ar Mor: Unpeated single malt * Kornog: Peated single malt Refe ... [...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] |
Light Characteristic
A light characteristic is all of the properties that make a particular somewhat navigational light identifiable. Graphical and textual descriptions of navigational light sequences and colours are displayed on nautical charts and in Light Lists with the chart symbol for a lighthouse, lightvessel, buoy or sea mark with a light on it. Different lights use different colours, frequencies and light patterns, so mariners can identify which light they are seeing. Abbreviations While light characteristics can be described in prose, e.g. "Flashing white every two seconds", lists of lights and navigation chart annotations use abbreviations. The abbreviation notation is slightly different from one light list to another, with dots added or removed, but it usually follows a pattern similar to the following (see the chart to the right for examples). * An abbreviation of the type of light, e.g. "Fl." for Flashing, "F." for Fixed. * The color of the light, e.g. "W" for White, "G" for Green, "R" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
