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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...
Coat of Arms This project is dedicated to The Capetian dynasty a subsequent branch of The Robertians , and its direct descendants. I'm sure there are A LOT of them, so if you would like to contribute, please message me. The Capetian dynasty (/kəˈpiːʃən/; French: Capétiens), also known as the House of France, is a dynasty of Frankish origin, and a branch of the Robertians. It is among th...
French Revolutionary Wars= French Revolutionary Wars were a series of major conflicts, from 1792 until 1802, fought between the French Revolutionary government and several European states. Marked by French revolutionary fervour and military innovations, the campaigns saw the French Revolutionary Armies defeat a number of opposing coalitions and expand French control to the Low Countries, Italy,...
The World War I Somme American Cemetery and Memorial in France is sited on a gentle slope typical of the open, rolling Picardie countryside. The 14.3-acre cemetery contains the graves of 1,844 of our military dead. Most lost their lives while serving in American units attached to British armies, or in operations near Cantigny. The headstones, set in regular rows, are separated into four plots b...
Wöhl / Woehl family that originated in Oberseebach, Bas-Rhin, France. A good number of them migrated to Welland County, Ontario, Canada and settled. A select number emigrated to Buffalo, Erie County, New York, USA.The surname can be seen written in a number of ways depending on where they are using the name. In Oberseebach it was Wöhl and in North America and other places that have issues with ...
Wikipedia =The College of Sorbonne (French: Collège de Sorbonne) was a theological college of the University of Paris, founded in 1253 by Robert de Sorbon (1201-1274), after whom it was named.[1] With the rest of the Paris colleges, it was suppressed during the French Revolution. It was restored in 1808 but finally closed in 1882. In recent times it came to refer to the group of academic facult...
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....
Introduction=This is a sub-project for the Colonial Americas Master Project .New France (French: Nouvelle-France) was the area colonized by France in North America during a period beginning with the exploration of the Saint Lawrence River by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Spain and Great Britain in 1763. At its peak in 1712 (before the Treaty of Utrecht), t...
From the1890s to the 1930s, 1/3 of the population immigrated from the parish of Czernielów Mazowiecki and its neighbouring villages (Bajkowce, Borki Wielkie, Czernielów Ruski, Czołhańszczyzna, Kujdańce, Rusianówka, Romanówka, Stupki, and Smykowce). The purpose of this project is to help researchers connect the original settlers to their ancestors in Austria/Poland. Due to volume, this proje...
The Boshin War (戊辰戦争, Boshin Sensō, lit. "War of the Year of the Yang Earth Dragon"), sometimes known as the Japanese Revolution, was a civil war in Japan, fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and those seeking to return political power to the Imperial Court.The war was founded in dissatisfaction among many nobles and young samurai with the shogunate's handli...
Notable peoples of diasporic Basque descent =* Simón Bolívar , 2nd President of Venezuela* John Sevier , 1st Governor of Tennessee* Ted Williams , American professional baseball player and manager.* Jedediah Smith , American explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the American West Coast and the Southwest during the nineteenth century.* Michel Bastarache , Canadian settler, noted for his role in the e...
There's a lot to clean up in this area, in part because parts obviously are confusing to many people, in part because some of the sequences have been revised recently by historians.For this project we mostly care about the hereditary counts, mostly belonging to the House of Rouergue , not the previous counts appointed by the French kings.From Wikipedia : The first Counts of Toulouse were the ad...
Lo straniero / The Stranger (1967 film, Italy) Directed by Luchino Visconti Crew Producers: Dino De Laurentiis , Alfredo De Laurentiis , Pietro Notarianni and Marcello Mastroianni Written by Luchino Visconti and Suso Cecchi d'Amico . The story is based on the 1942 novel L'Étranger by Albert Camus .
le Prix Goncourt ‧ French literature ‧ since 1903* * * ==Les présidents de l'Académie Goncourt* Alphonse DAUDET ‧ 1897- ‧ * Joris-Karl HUYSMANS ‧ 1900-1907 ‧ * Léon HENNIQUE ‧ 1907-1912 ‧ * Gustave GEFFROY ‧ 1912-1926 ‧ * J.-H. ROSNY aîné ‧ 1926-1940 ‧ * J.-H. ROSNY jeune ‧ 1940-1945 ‧ * Lucien DESCAVES ‧ 1945-1949 ‧ * Colette ‧ 1949-1954 ‧ * Roland DORGELÈS ‧ 1954-1973 ‧ * Hervé BAZIN ‧ 1973-1...
. . Project collects Performers of the premieres Greatest performers Persons are sorted on this page by roles and birth years . . . Hector Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini Opera semiseria in two acts, in French Music by Hector Berlioz Libretto by Léon de Wailly and Henri Auguste Barbier. The story is inspired by the memoirs of the Florentine sculptor Benvenuto Cellini , although ...
. . Project collects Performers and collaborators of the ballet La Sylphide Persons are sorted by roles and birth years . . La Sylphide (English: The Sylph; Danish: Sylfiden) is a romantic ballet in two acts. There were two versions of the ballet; the original choreographed by Filippo Taglioni in 1832, and a second version choreographed by August Bournonville in 1836. Bournonvill...
. . 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 ...
The Collège de France is a renowned higher education and research establishment (grand établissement) in France. It is located in Paris, in the 5th arrondissement, or Latin Quarter, across the street from the historical campus of La Sorbonne at the intersection of Rue Saint-Jacques and Rue des Écoles.It was established in 1530 by King Francis I of France, modeled after the Collegium Trilingue i...
Scope===Scope of this project is to look in to the history of the huguenots in Britain and to indentify those who came and settled in Britain.=The Huguenots=An estimated 50,000 Protestant Walloons and Huguenots fled to England, about 10,000 of whom moved on to Ireland around the 1690s. In relative terms, this could be the largest wave of immigration of a single community into Britain ever. Of t...
For naming conventions, see Medieval Kingdoms of Western Europe . Orléans is the name used by several branches of the Royal House of France, all descended in the legitimate male line from the dynasty's founder, Hugh Capet. It became a tradition during France's ancien régime for the duchy of Orléans to be granted as an appanage to a younger (usually the second surviving) son of the king. While e...
Notable Huguenot descendants - Britain=>>> ===Arts, Entertainment and sports===* Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), British illustrator of Charles Dickens*Tony Cottee, West Ham United and England footballer* Piers Courage , English racing driver*Phil de Glanville, England rugby union international (private profile)* William De Morgan , British art potter, tile designer, and author*G.E.M. de Ste. Cr...
La Profanation de Saint-Denis (1793)======WORK IN PROGRESS=====.After the French Revolution (1789), and during Robespierre's Reign of Terror (1793-1794), the French National Convention ordains the exhumation and destruction of all royal tombs. In October 1793, the profanation of the tombs at the Basilica of Saint Denis is executed. This basilica has been the necropolis for the kings and queens ...
Musée du Louvre ‧ Paris ‧ France==Ⓥlemish 21x - *==Ⓢpanish 14x- * Francisco de GOYA Y LUCIENTES The Countess del Carpio, Marquesa de La Solana 1794-95*==Ⓕrench 81x - * Jean-Antoine WATTEAU (Valenciennes 1684- Nogent/Marne, 1721* Eugène DELACROIX (Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798 – Paris, 1863)* Fouquet* Poussin* Le Brun* Boucher* Chardin* David* Ingres* Géricault*==Ⓓutch 32x - *==Ⓔnglish 8x - *==Ⓘt...
The Malbon Family are descendants of William Malbank, First Baron of Nantwich . He arrived in Britain with Hugh Lupus in 1069 and was made one of the eight barons of the palatine county of Cheshire, gaining lands across southern Cheshire and northern Shropshire. Specifically, as the Third Baron of Nantwich had no male heirs, the Malbons descend from Philip Malbank , the younger son of the Secon...