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Napoleonic Wars The Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionised European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly owing to the application of modern mass conscription. French power rose quickly ...
Camp Gurs was an internment and refugee camp constructed by the French government in 1939. The camp was originally set up in southwestern France after the fall of Catalonia at the end of the Spanish Civil War to control those who fled Spain out of fear of retaliation from Francisco Franco's regime. At the start of the World War II, the French government interned Germans and citizens of other ...
WIP - All help welcomed HUGH CAPET (c. 940 – 24 October 996) was the King of the Franks from 987 to 996. He is the founder of and first king from the House of Capet. The son of the powerful duke HUGUES Hugh the Great and his wife Hedwige of Saxony , he was elected as the successor of the last Carolingian king, Louis V . Hugh was descended from Charlemagne's son Pepin of Italy through his mot...
Bienvenue sur le portail français de Geni !====== For an introduction in English, please go to the International French Portal =====.==Objectif==L’objectif du portail se résume en quatre points…* Faciliter la coopération entre francophones dans la recherche généalogique* L’amorce de nouveaux projets communs qui concernent la communauté francophone* L’ identification de sources permettant aux no...
World War I ( WWI ) was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until the start of World War II in 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter. It involved all the world's great powers, which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (based o...
Broad project to list European immigrants from any European country. From any European country and any date (Century). Everyone is welcome to collaborate and add more profiles.
The University of Paris (French: L'Université de Paris), often known as the Sorbonne or la Sorbonne, was noted as one of the first universities to be established in Europe. It was founded in the mid-12th century in Paris, France, officially recognized between 1160 and 1250.[1] Following the French Revolution, its activities were suspended from 1793 to 1896. With the growth of higher education i...
Split's Immigrants from other Countries by the Beginning of 19th Century and Their SurnamesAt the beginning of the 19th century, Split has seen a rapid increase in population by influx of people migrating from all over Dalmatia, the Apennine peninsula, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and some Mediterranean and European countries. They were doctors, administrative staff, music teachers, craftsmen, s...
Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 (D-Day) with the Normandy landings (Operation Neptune). A 1,200-plane airborne assault preceded an amphibious assault involving more than 5,000 vessels. Nearly 160,000 troops ...
French people and their descendants in Russia
A imigração Francesa Afora a invasão francesas ao Rio de Janeiro e ao Maranhão ainda durante o século XVI, a primeira grande leva de franceses ao país aconteceu com a transferência da família real e da corte portuguesa para o Brasil, em 1808. D. João VI patrocinou a vinda da Missão Artística que trouxe ao Brasil, em 1816, franceses como o pintor Joachim Lebreton com o seu secretário Pierre Dil...
Introduction The King's Daughters (French: Filles du Roi ; Filles du Roy) is a term used to refer to the approximately 800 young French women who immigrated to New France between 1663 and 1673 as part of a program sponsored by Louis XIV . The program was designed to boost Canada's population both by encouraging male immigrants to settle there, and by promoting marriage, family formation and the...
Fleeing religious persecution of Protestants in France after the 1685 revocation of the Edict of Nantes (which had guaranteed their rights), 200 000 French Huguenots emigrated to countries such as Switzerland. Germany, England, America, and South Africa. They came from two main regions in France and the Southern Netherlands, one region stretched from Flanders to the Loire Valley, the other reg...
Le cimetière du Père-Lachaise doit son nom à François d'Aix de La Chaize , plus connu comme le père Lachaise qui, en ce lieu, possédait une maison de campagne en dehors des murs de Paris (du 17ème siècle). Cimetière du Père-Lachaise NL: Aanvullen-meewerken-corrigeren? Welkom! Graag met profiel-&-document-link of via discussie-bijdragen en voor wie wil samenwerken: uitbreiding van pagina-d...
Trying to gather all my royal ancestors in one place. Direct ancestors only. William Henry Whiting was a descendant of King James II, King Charles 1st, 2nd. learnt Urdu from From Abdul Karim (the Munshi) scribe to queen. He grew up at Windsor Castle Victoria. HE was relatedto Prince Francis Teck, princess Mary Adelaide who from evidence they knew personally. He worked on the state Coach His ...
Cemetery Name: Caterpillar Valley New Zealand Memorial Cemetery Location: Somme, France NZ Casualties: 1205 Total Known Casualties: 1205 Image Right Courtesy of CWGC Location Information: Longueval is a village approximately 13 kilometres east of Albert and 10 kilometres south of Bapaume. The Memorial is situated on a terrace in Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, which lies a short dista...
En 1852, la première personne réelle à être représentée est, de son vivant, le président de la République Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte. Le premier défunt honoré est Louis Pasteur sur une série d'usage courant en 1923, inaugurant les premiers timbres sur des personnages célèbres.* Dernière mise-à-jour le 26 octobre 2017 Année en cours 2017 (ref. et remerciements à Bernard Le Lann )== A ==* Claude de...
Victimes de la Révolution française French Portal about the French Revolution on Wikipedia LIST OF THE VICTIMS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION (you can use this list to find, create and add profiles to this project. Of course no "stand alone" profiles :-)) 14 juillet 1789, prise de la Bastille Bernard Jourdan , marquis de Launay, gouverneur de la Bastille (1740-1789), assassiné le 14 juillet ...
Cemetery Name: Grévillers New Zealand Memorial Cemetery Location: Pas de Calais,France NZ Casualties: 446 Total Known Casualties: 446 Location Information: Grevillers (New Zealand) Memorial is situated in Grevillers British Cemetery. Grevillers is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 3 kilometres west of Bapaume. From Bapaume take the RD929 in the direction of Amiens, t...
. . Project collects Performers of the premieres Greatest performers Persons are sorted on this page by roles and birth years . . . Léo Delibes: Lakmé Opera in three acts, in French Music by Léo Delibes Libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gilles Based on Théodore Pavie's story "Les babouches du Brahmane" and novel " Le Mariage de Loti " by Pierre Loti Time: Indian ...
French immigration in Argentina=French Argentines (French: Franco-Argentins; Spanish: franco-argentinos) refers to Argentine citizens of full or partial French ancestry or persons born in France who reside in Argentina. French Argentines form one of the largest ancestry groups after Italian Argentines and Spanish Argentines . Between 1857 and 1946; 261,020 French people immigrated to Argentina....
Background of the Movements===== The French Resistance movement is an umbrella term which covered numerous anti-German resistance groups that were based within France. ===There were a number of resistance movements, some that took direct orders from the Special Operations Executive , there was the communist resistance, groups loyal to de Gaulle , regional resistance movements that wanted indepe...
Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery (French: Cimetière russe de Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois) is part of the Cimetière de Liers and is called the Russian Orthodox cemetery, in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, close to Paris, France. The Cimetière de Liers was created as the second communal cemetery on February 8, 1879 in the city of Sainte Geneviève des Bois in France, 25 km south from Paris. T...
Croatian Emigration indicates that of the Croatians who were reported to have "emigrated", at least 30% eventually returned to their homeland. Hrvati izvan domovine / Croatians outside the homeland Adresar trgovaca, obrtnika i drugih uglednijih pripadnika iz Hrvatske, Dalmacije i Istre nastanjenih u Americi, Africi, Aziji i Australiji iz popis hrvatskih družtava i hrvatskih novina u Ameri...
From "Monastery of Christ in the Desert" The Carthusians are an ancient and important monastic Order in the Catholic Church, founded in France in 1084 by Saint Bruno of Cologne. The Order was and continues to be a mostly hidden one, since its monks and nuns follow a life of strict solitude and prayer. For the most part Carthusians remain in their cell, though they gather in church for Mass a...