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Beams and Shadows. Les Rayons et les Ombres ( French pronunciation: [le ʁɛjɔ̃ e lez‿ɔ̃bʁ], "Beams and shadows", 1840) is a collection of forty-four poems by Victor Hugo, the last collection to be published before his exile, and containing most of his poems from between 1837 and 1840. One biographer (A. F. Davidson) noted that this book ...
Liberalism portal. France portal. v. t. e. Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron ( French: [ʁɛmɔ̃ aʁɔ̃]; 14 March 1905 – 17 October 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, historian and journalist, one of France's most prominent thinkers of the 20th century. Aron is best known for his 1955 book The Opium of the ...
Rayon, also called viscose[ 1] and commercialised in some countries as sabra silk or cactus silk, [ 2] is a semi-synthetic fiber, [ 3] made from natural sources of regenerated cellulose, such as wood and related agricultural products. [ 4] It has the same molecular structure as cellulose.
The splendid fairywren ( Malurus splendens) is a passerine bird in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae. It is found across much of the Australian continent from central-western New South Wales and southwestern Queensland over to coastal Western Australia. It inhabits predominantly arid and semi-arid regions.
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. [ 1] It has 2,629,541 articles as of 18 August 2024, making it the fourth-largest Wikipedia overall, after the English ...
Canada Reads is an annual "battle of the books" competition organized and broadcast by Canada's public broadcaster, the CBC. The program has aired in two distinct editions, the English-language Canada Reads on CBC Radio One, and the French-language Le Combat des livres on Ici Radio-Canada Première . The English edition has aired each year ...
1-59224-035-6. OCLC. 53822776. Preceded by. Godfrey Morgan. Followed by. Kéraban the Inflexible. The Green Ray ( French: Le Rayon vert) is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne published in 1882 and named after the optical phenomenon of the same name. It is referenced in a 1986 film of the same name by Eric Rohmer .
Livre tournois. This infobox shows the latest status before this currency was rendered obsolete. The livre tournois ( French pronunciation: [livʁ tuʁnwa]; lit. ' Tours pound '; abbreviation: ₶ .) was one of numerous currencies used in medieval France, and a unit of account (i.e., a monetary unit used in accounting) used in Early Modern France .