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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...
INDEX of the PROJECTS NEEDED for the provinces of origin of the French Huguenots: Please come & join & help. Here is a Template for a Huguenot Province of Origin Project . Provinces 1 Isle de France (Paris) 2 Berri Berthault de Saint-Jean 3 Orléanais Avice, Basché, Bruère, Cellier, Cordier, Couvret, Foucher, Godefroy, Grillon, Le Roux, Machepasté, Martineau, Rétif, Rousse...
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...
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* ...
Hundred Years' War= Hundred Years' War was a series of separate conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of France and their various allies for control of the French throne, which had become vacant upon the extinction of the senior Capetian line of French kings. The House of Valois controlled France in the wake of the House of Capet; a Capetian cadet bran...
Country: France Locality: Nord Identified Casualties: 2145 Image By Wernervc - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Location Information Armentieres is a town in the Department of the Nord, on the Belgian frontier, 14.5 kilometres north-west of Lille. From the town of Armentieres take the D945 to Estaires. Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery is signposted off this road just before Erquinghem-sur-la-L...
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 ...
Bucquoy Road Cemetery is situated on the D919 heading south from Arras to Ayette. The Cemetery is on the right-hand side of the road, 9 kilometres from Arras, just before a crossroads with the D36 between Ficheux and Boisleux-au- Mont. In November 1916, the village of Ficheux was behind the German front line, but by April 1917, the German withdrawal had taken the line considerably east of the ...
This Group will focus on cleaning up and expanding the genealogy for the French Canadian Ancestors.Links to those listed in Our French-Canadian Ancestors by Thomas J. Laforest (listing still in progress)Volume 01 Antoine Dionne (1641-1721) , Damien Bérubé (1647-1688) , Grégoire Deblois (1632 - 1705) , Guillaume Couture (1618-1701) , Julien Fortin dit Bellefontaine (1621-1692) , Nicolas Audet di...
Prime Ministers of France Premiers Ministres de la France . ____________________________________________________ 1589-1610 : Maximilien de Béthune , duc de Sully 1610-1617 : Concino Concini , marquis d'Ancre 1624-1642 : Armand Jean du Plessis , cardinal de Richelieu 1642-1643 : - 1643-1661 : Giulio Raimondo Mazarini , cardinal Mazarin 1661-1683 : Jean-Baptiste Colbert
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-doc...
The Battle of Saint-Lô was one of the three conflicts in the Battle of the Hedgerows [Fr.], which took place between July 7 and 19, 1944, in Saint-Lô, Manche, Normandy, France, just before Operation Cobra. Saint-Lô had fallen to Germany in 1940, and, after the Invasion of Normandy, the Americans targeted the city, as it served as a strategic crossroads. American bombardments caused heavy damage...
The Battle of Nancy in September 1944 was a 10-day battle on the Western Front of World War II in which the Third United States Army defeated German forces defending the approaches to Nancy, France and crossings over the Moselle River to the north and south of the city. The battle resulted in U.S. forces fighting their way across the Moselle and liberating Nancy. When the Third Army began its ...
1918 Influenza pandemic - France: Fatalities= Please add to this project any profiles of those perished in France during the' Spanish Flu' pandemic of 1918 To participate in any project- you do need to first be a collaborator - so please join the project using the request link under "actions" at the top right of the page. Visit Geni Wikitext, Unicode and images which gives a great deal of assis...
Families Cauchon, Maupas and Moët, Goujon, etc.==Project created for purpose to collect and find all trace with not yet connected branches, all family members, through history to today around World, and connect all yet unconnected branches based and following at below useful sources. Join to the project, You are welcome. Feel free add any profile with the all surnames in this project were menti...
Presidents of France=Depuis la Révolution française, et l'abolition de la monarchie absolue, la France a connu cinq républiques sous des constitutions différentes.Voir/See Site officiel de la Présidence de la République =====Since the French Revolution, and the abolition of the absolutist monarchy, France has known five republics under differents constitutions.=====# 1792-1804 : Première Républ...
The Saint Helena Medal (French: Médaille de Sainte-Hélène) was the first French campaign medal. It was established in 1857 by a decree of Emperor Napoleon III to recognize participation in the campaigns led by emperor Napoleon I. Emperor Napoléon I, creator of the Order of the Legion of Honour and various other orders, never instituted commemorative campaign medals for his soldiers. In time, m...
Le duché de Bourgogne est fondé en 880 à partir du royaume de Bourgogne, par les rois carolingiens Louis III et Carloman II et les membres princiers de leur famille qui se partagent l'Empire carolingien de Charlemagne dont ils ont hérité. Ils féodalisent tous les royaumes carolingiens de France en duchés et comtés vassaux des rois de France.Richard II de Bourgogne (dit Richard le Justicier) est...
Refugees from the Revolution in Saint Domingue (Haiti) that immigrated into New Orleans, the Gulf Coast and elsewhere from 1791 to 1810.Resources* Settlers of St. Domingue, 1750-1800 * Surnames of Some Saint-Domingue Refugee Families * The Road to Louisiana: The Saint-Domingue Refugees, 1792–1809 * From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influences * The 1809 Immigration of Saint-Domi...
Par un décret du 4 avril 1791, l'Assemblée nationale décide de consacrer le Panthéon à Paris comme nécropole accueillant les cendres des personnalités exceptionnelles qui ont contribué à la grandeur de la France. L'inscription sur le fronton du Panthéon porte l'hommage 'AUX GRANDS HOMMES LA PATRIE RECONNAISSANTE'. La décision d'inhumation au Panthéon appartient au président de la République fra...
Under construction, feel free to contribute! Please attach the profiles of French Huguenots who were born in Béarn. If possible, also add their names into the text below, according to their country of emigration. Background History of Béarn In 1564, Queen Jeanne III of Navarre (Jeanne d'Albret), firmly opposing Rome, declared Catholicism outlawed and disbanded monasteries, confiscating chu...
The Huguenots in Ireland =Around the start of the eighteenth century, as Irish conditions became more settled, two groups of continental Protestant refugees were settled in the country with official, or semi-official help. The first of these, the Huguenots , were French Calvinists persecuted intermittently by the Catholic rulers of France throughout the seventeenth century. The second group wer...
The House of Normandy is the usual designation for the family that were the Counts of Rouen, Dukes of Normandy and Kings of England which immediately followed the Norman conquest of England and lasted until the House of Plantagenet came to power in 1154. It included the Viking Rollo and his descendants, and William the Conqueror and his heirs down through 1135. After that it was disputed betwee...
The Duchy of Alsace was a large political subdivision of the Frankish Empire during the last decade and a half of Merovingian rule. It corresponded to the territory of Alsace and was carved out of southern Austrasia in the last decade of the reign of Dagobert I, probably to stabilize the southern reaches of Austrasia against Alemannia and Burgundy. By the late Middle Ages, the region was consid...