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  • Paul Ricœur (February 27, 1913 – May 20, 2005) was a French philosopher ... was at the Sorbonne that Ricoeur met the French philosopher Gabriel Marcel ...
    18 KB (2,604 words) - 01:31, 23 November 2022
  • The Fédération internationale de football association (FIFA, French ... was founded in Paris on May 21, 1904—the French name and acronym persist ...
    12 KB (1,724 words) - 00:03, 25 March 2024
  • quot; is the Russian term, derived from French "lycee"), offering ... classes in Greece and Cyprus. The French word for an upper secondary ...
    14 KB (2,070 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
  • In 1952, Poulet became a professor of French Literature at Johns Hopkins ... Prix de la Critique littéraire and the French Academy’s Prix Durchon ...
    12 KB (1,794 words) - 01:13, 29 November 2022
  • ) It is also the most populated city in French-speaking Western Africa. ... me bidjan," which in the Ebrié language means "I've just ...
    16 KB (2,261 words) - 04:48, 14 June 2023
  • He was a gifted linguist (fluent in French, Greek, Hebrew, German, Italian ... Tyndale introduced new words into the English language: ...
    14 KB (2,095 words) - 20:44, 13 May 2023
  • ) is a casserole-style dish of Spanish and French influence originating in ... Rice stews have a long lineage in the culinary traditions of the French ...
    19 KB (2,856 words) - 22:44, 16 December 2021
  • 31, 1867) was one of the most influential French poets and critics of the ... moral anomie, was labeled obscene by the French government and Baudelaire ...
    15 KB (2,281 words) - 01:56, 4 December 2023
  • * Curcuma in Portuguese and French * Куркума (kurkuma) in Macedonian * Kurkuma in Finnish * Gurkmeja in Swedish * 欝金 (ukon) in Japanese ...
    16 KB (2,344 words) - 19:02, 6 November 2022
  • The French campaign against Korea of 1866, known as Byeonginyangyo ... control of the government in 1864, twelve French Jesuit priests living and ...
    15 KB (2,312 words) - 10:51, 11 April 2024
  • |langs=The Tuareg language(s) (Tamasheq, Tamajeq, Tamahaq) ... The Tuareg (sometimes spelled Touareg in French, or Twareg in English ...
    17 KB (2,554 words) - 18:38, 2 May 2023
  • Vanuatu was the location of a unique Anglo-French government system, it operates ... between English language and French language speakers. The legal system ...
    19 KB (2,664 words) - 14:35, 3 May 2023
  • 23, 1873 – 1957) was a German-born, French ethnographer and folklorist ... Germany, into a family of mixed Dutch-French immigrants. When he was six ...
    14 KB (2,061 words) - 03:57, 15 August 2023
  • Lake Geneva or Lake Léman (French Lac Léman, le Léman, or Lac de ... Roman culture, eventually developing the French language. ...
    16 KB (2,589 words) - 23:17, 21 October 2022
  • educated elites from the West generally spoke French or German. On arriving into some villages dressed appropriately and singing and dancing, putting ...
    11 KB (1,586 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
  • him to be one of the greatest Spanish-language poets in history. He experimented ... vigor to the stale, monotonous Spanish-language poetry of the time. He is ...
    13 KB (2,077 words) - 19:46, 20 August 2022
  • that of Pushkin, though the domination of French, the language of the Russian ... His duel with a son of the French ambassador led to his being returned ...
    12 KB (1,892 words) - 17:52, 9 November 2022
  • to King James V of Scotland and his French wife, Marie de Guise. In ... to Inchmahome Priory, and turned to the French ambassador Monsieur D'Oysel. ...
    19 KB (3,103 words) - 16:03, 7 November 2022
  • The word "gravel" comes from the French gravelle, meaning "coarse sand." == Size range == As noted above, the term gravel ...
    6 KB (948 words) - 18:27, 20 January 2023
  • code where the word premier, ([[French language|French]] for "first ... is an exception to this pattern. The French language did not make use of ...
    14 KB (2,290 words) - 22:35, 20 November 2023

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