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List Of Mayors Of Port Louis
The following is a list of Lord mayors of the city of Port Louis on the island of Mauritius. The island was under French rule until 1810, when the British took power. Mauritius became independent in 1968. * Thomas Enouf, 1790 * François Fressanges, 1791 * Louis Ricard de Bignicourt, 1791 * Louis Etienne Gilbert Grison de Marneville, 1792 * Henri Marie Salaün de Kerbalanec, 1793 * Pierre François Douaud, 1794 * Pierre François Marie Fabre, 1794 * Pierre Couturont (1795-1797) * Claude Antoine Chauvet, 1798 * Auguste Journel, 1799 * Sylvain Roux (1800-1803) * Louis Léchelle, 1850-1853 * Sir Gabriel Froppier, 1854-1855 * Louis Léchelle, 1856 * Emile Pipon, 1856 * Hippolyte Lemière, 1857 * Arthur Edwards, 1858 * Pierre Nelsir Charon, 1859, 1865 * G. de Courson, 1860-1862 * Hippolyte Lemière, 1863-1864 * Pierre Nelsir Charon, 1865 * Charles Pitot, 1866-1867 * Eliaçin Francois, 1868-1869 * Emilien Ducray, 1870-1872 * Eliaçin Francois, 1873-1875 * G.F. Poulin, 1875-1876 * L. Hil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Places In Mauritius ...
This is a list of populated places in Mauritius and Agaléga. Mauritius Agaléga See also * Outer islands of Mauritius * Districts of Mauritius * Geography of Mauritius * ISO 3166-2:MU References ge {{DEFAULTSORT:Places in Mauritius Mauritius geography-related lists Mauritius Mauritius Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label=Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Port Louis District
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Wikipedia
The French Wikipedia (french: Wikipédia en français) is the French-language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. This edition was started on 23 March 2001, two months after the official creation of Wikipedia. It has articles as of , making it the -largest Wikipedia overall, after the English-, Cebuano-, Swedish- and German-language editions, the largest Wikipedia edition in a Romance language. It has the third-most edits, and ranks 6th in terms of depth among Wikipedias. It was also the third edition, after the English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia, to exceed 1 million articles: this occurred on 23 September 2010. In April 2016, the project had 4657 active editors who made at least five edits in that month. In 2008, the French encyclopaedia '' Quid'' cancelled its 2008 edition, citing falling sales on competition from the French edition of Wikipedia. As of , there are users, admins and files on the French Wikipedia. On 2 December 2014, the French-l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timeline Of Port Louis
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Port Louis on the island of Mauritius. Prior to 20th century * 1606 - Dutch settlers start to use this area as a harbour which they call ''Harbour of Tortoises'', after their initial 1598 settlement at ''Port de Warwick'' in Ferney, Vieux Grand Port. * 1721 - French in power on Isle de France; Noord-Wester Haven (harbor) renamed "Port Louis." * 1729 - Hôtel du Gouvernement built. * 1735 - Development of Port Louis begins (approximate date). * 1749 - Le Réduit (fort) built near Port Louis at Moka. * 1772 - Bagne Prison built.Part 2 1 September 2008 * 1774 - Line Barracks or ''Casernes Centrales'' is inaugurated after start of construction in 1740. * 1782 - construction begins.( de) * 1790 - Thomas Enouf becomes mayor of Town of Port Louis. * 1791 - Foundation of ''Collège National'' or ''Collège Colonial'' in Port Louis. This would later become ''Lycée Colonial'' and eventually the island's first Royal College. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipal City Council Of Port Louis
The Municipal City Council of Port Louis (french: Conseil Municipal de Port Louis) also known as Municipality is the local authority responsible for the administration of the city of Port Louis, Port Louis District, Mauritius. The actual Lord Mayor is Daniel Laurent and the Deputy Lord Mayor Marie Désiré Audie Paul Travailleur. Municipal Elections According to the Local Government Act 2011 PART III Section 11, election of councillors to Municipal Town Council shall be held in 2012 and thereafter every 6 years on such date as the President shall appoint. The council is composed of 24 councillors including the Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor who are elected for a period of 2 years, while each of the councillors represent wards throughout the city. In the last elections held on 9 December 2012 the city was divided into 8 wards, the number of registered voters was 111 473. The following councillors were elected during the 2012 Municipal election for the Municipal City Council of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Mauricien
''Le Mauricien'' is a French-language newspaper, based and distributed in Mauritius. The newspaper, founded in 1908, is released daily and is one of the most read in Mauritius. The publishers, Le Mauricien Ltd., also publish ''Week-End'', ''Week-End Scope'' and ''Turf Magazine''. It is an independent newspaper. History ''Le Mauricien'' was founded in 1908 and celebrated its hundredth anniversary in 2008. Some former editors include Raoul Rivet, André Masson, Lindsay Rivière among others. The editor and director was Raoul Rivet from 1922 to 1957.''Le Mauricien'' adopted the offset press in 1978 and subsequently experienced changes namely by growing from four pages to the current forty-eight page daily edition. Its price has evolved as well. In 1978, the newspaper's office was set on fire which and was later deemed as a criminal act. ''Le Mauricien'' adopted a "midi" format known as the Berliner format in 2010. The pages increased to 48 and this becomes similar to leading pape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kader Bhayat
Abdool Kader Bhayat, most commonly known as Kader Bhayat (1936-2012) was a Mauritian lawyer, politician and former minister. He died on 15 November 2012 at the age of 76. Early life and career In 1936 Kader Bhayat was born in a wealthy family which originated from Surat in the state of Gujarat, India. He travelled to England where he studied law and was called to the Bar at the ''Lincoln's Inn''. Political career He joined the Mauritian Militant Movement (MMM) in 1972 and soon became one of the party's foremost spokesperson, along with Anerood Jugnauth and Paul Bérenger. He is credited for his efforts to keep the party alive when its leadership was thrown in jail by the Labour Party-PMSD regime for close to a year in 1972 following the 1970 Triolet No.5 by-elections and the December 1971 strikes. Kader is the one who maintained communication between the political prisoners and their supporters known as "militants". He was elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1976 in Constitue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddy J
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Port Louis
Port Louis (french: Port-Louis; mfe, label= Mauritian Creole, Polwi or , ) is the capital city of Mauritius. It is mainly located in the Port Louis District, with a small western part in the Black River District. Port Louis is the country's economic, cultural and political centre, and most populous city. It is administered by the Municipal City Council of Port Louis. According to the 2012 census conducted by Statistics Mauritius, the population was 147,066. History Port Louis was used as a harbour by the Dutch settlers from 1606, when they started to refer to the area as ''Harbour of Tortoises''. In 1736, under French government, it became the administrative centre of Mauritius and a major reprovisioning halt for French ships during their passage between Asia and Europe, around the Cape of Good Hope. The Port is named in honour of King Louis XV. During this period of French colonization, Mauritius was known as Ile de France. The French governor at that time, Bertrand-Franç ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (in traditional Hindi: Shivsagar Ram Gulam) (18 September 1900 – 15 December 1985; often referred to as ''Chacha Ramgoolam'' or ''SSR'') was a Mauritian physician, politician, and statesman. He served as the island's only chief minister, first prime minister, and fifth governor-general. He is widely recognized as the nation's founding father (French: ''père de la nation''), although the anti-independence political group at the time of British Mauritius used to call him as a pun in French ''la perte de la nation'' (English: the misleader of the nation). After Guy Rozemont's death in 1956, Ramgoolam became the leader of the Labour Party of Mauritius till his death in 1985. According to Dr. A. G. Wilkins, post-doctoral researcher in contemporary Indian Ocean islands history at the University of Michigan LSA, regardless of what detractors say, Sir Shivsagar was a man of exceptional tenacity, wisdom and courage. He possessed a lion's personality and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HathiTrust
HathiTrust Digital Library is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via Google Books and the Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries. History HathiTrust was founded in October 2008 by the twelve universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation and the eleven libraries of the University of California. The partnership includes over 60 research libraries across the United States, Canada, and Europe, and is based on a shared governance structure. Costs are shared by the participating libraries and library consortia. The repository is administered by the University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o .... The executive director of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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