The Treaty of Versailles ( 1783 ) ( signed along with the Treaty of Paris that officially ended the American Revolution ) created the current Francophone-Anglophone balance in the region: Saint Louis, l ’ île de Gorée, and the Senegal River region were restored to France and the Gambia was left to the British.

The new commune d ' arrondissement of Gorée, which is officially known in French as the Commune d ' Arrondissement de l ' île de Gorée, took possession of the old mairie ( town hall ) in the center of the island.

The Portuguese eventually founded a settlement on the island of Gorée ( then known as the island of Bezeguiche or Palma ), which by 1536 they began to use as a base for the export of slaves.

The département of Dakar is divided into four arrondissements: Almadies, Grand Dakar, Parcelles Assainies ( which literally means " drained lots "; this is the most populous arrondissement of Dakar ), and Plateau / Gorée ( downtown Dakar ).

The commune d ' arrondissement of Dakar-Plateau ( 34, 626 inhabitants ), in the arrondissement of Plateau / Gorée, is the historical heart of the city, and most ministries and public administrations are located there.

The densest and most populous commune d ' arrondissement is Médina ( 136, 697 inhabitants ), in the arrondissement of Plateau / Gorée.

The commune d ' arrondissement of Yoff ( 55, 995 inhabitants ), in the arrondissement of Almadies, is the largest one, while the smallest one is the commune d ' arrondissement of Île de Gorée ( 1, 034 inhabitants ), in the arrondissement of Plateau / Gorée.

Attractions in Dakar include major markets, Dakar Grand Mosque ( built in 1964 ), Dakar Cathedral, Gorée Island, the IFAN Museum of West African culture, the newly completed African Renaissance Monument, clifftop walks and beaches, and Hann Park, home to Senegal Zoo.

Elaborating on comparisons done by Martinus ( 1996 ) and Quint ( 2000 ), Jacobs ( 2008, 2009a, 2009b ) defends the hypothesis that Papiamentu is a relexified offshoot of an early Upper Guinea Portuguese Creole variety, transferred from Senegambia to Curaçao in the second half of the 17th century, a period in which the Dutch controlled the harbour of Gorée, just below the tip of the Cape Verde Peninsula.

* A single post of Resident was also created in Côte d ' Ivoire, i. e. Ivory Coast ( from 1881 subordinated to the Superior Commandant of Gabon and the Gulf of Guinea Settlements ; from 1886 subordinated to the Lieutenant Governors of Guinea ), where in 1842 France had declared protectorates over the Kingdoms of Nzima and Sanwi ( posts at Assinié 1843 – 1870, and Grand Bassam, Fort Dabou 1853 – 1872, part of the Colony of Gorée and Dependencies in Senegal

The Portuguese were the first to establish a presence on Gorée ( circa 1450 CE / AD ), where they built a small stone chapel and used land as a cemetery.

Blaise Diagne, the first African deputy elected to the French National Assembly ( served 1914 to 1934 ), was born on Gorée.

Stirring up the Portuguese, Africans, and even such Dutch merchants as had a grudge against the WIC, he sank 2 ships and captured 2 others under the guns of Gorée ( 22 January 1664 ), and the next day took possession of the fort itself.

A check of the website Old Bailey for " Associated Records 1674-1834 " for an alleged trial in December 1801 and hanging of Sweeney Todd for January 1802 shows no reference ; the only murder trial for this period is that of a Governor / Lt Col. Joseph Wall who was hanged 28 January 1802 for killing a Benjamin Armstrong on 10 July 1782 on the isle of Gorée, West Africa, and the discharge of a Humphrey White in January 1802.

Gorée is a small island 900 metres / 3, 000 feet in length and 350 metres / 1, 165 feet in width sheltered by the Cape Vert Peninsula.

In his song " Garde la pêche " he mentions the island, saying " Gorée c ' est ma terre " ( Gorée is my land / hometown ).

Monument near the Maison des Esclaves on Gorée Island.

* Saugnier, Relation des voyages de Saugnier à la côte d ' Afrique, au Maroc, au Sénégal, à Gorée, à Galam, publiée par Laborde, Paris, Lamy, 1799.

* Histoire des Signares de Gorée du 17ie au 19ie siécle.

There are several types of meringue, the sweetened, uncooked beaten egg whites that form the " islands " of Floating Island ( also known in French as île flottante ), the partly cooked toppings of lemon meringue pie and other meringue-topped desserts, and the classic dry featherweight meringue.

* Coco Island ( île aux Cocos ), southernmost island of the Cargados Carajos Shoals

Being located at the tip of the Leman peninsula ( presqu ' île de Léman ), Yvoire delimits the two main parts of the Lake Geneva, the " petit lac " and the " grand lac ".

Several important attractions are found on the island, including the Stewart Museum ( Fort de l ' Île Sainte-Hélène ), the La Ronde amusement park, the Biosphere ( an interpretative museum about the Saint Lawrence River installed in the former American Pavilion from Expo ), and an Aquatic Complex ( French Complexe aquatique de l ' île Sainte-Hélène ) that includes 3 exterior pools.

What induced him to leave was the brilliant success of his first book, John Bull et son île ( translated as John Bull and his Island ), which in its French and English forms was so widely read as to make his pseudonym a household word in England and America.

Apart from a cycle of three post-apocalyptic novels ( L ' autoroute sauvage, La mort en billes and L ' île brûlée ), all Gilles Thomas ' novels take place in a fictional universe where humanity is no longer restricted to the Earth as its only habitat.

* Fire and Ice ( French: Le combat dans l ' île ), a 1962 French film with a screenplay by Jean-Paul Rappeneau

There are several islands in Outardes Bay of which the most notable are White Island ( île Blanche ), a rock of white granite high, and Mine Island ( île de la Mine ), a bare red rock reaching high.

L ' île de Tulipatan ( The Island of Tulipatan ) is an opéra bouffe ( a form of operetta ), in one act by Jacques Offenbach to an original French libretto by Henri Chivot and Alfred Duru.

Borowczyk moved into live-action feature film with Goto, l ' île d ' amour ( Goto, Isle of Love ) ( 1968 ) and Blanche ( 1971 ), both tales of illicit love thwarted by jealous husbands, and both starring his own wife, Ligia Branice.

* Cours de la rivière de Sanaga ou Sénégal depuis son embouchure jusqu ' à l ' île de Bilbas / Suite du cours de la rivière de Sénégal depuis l ' isle de Bilbas jusqu ' au sault du Rocherde Govina / levé par un ingénieur francois, 1718.

The peninsula of Saint-Tropez is part of the Massif des Maures, along with the peninsula of Giens and the islands offshore of Hyères ; Porquerolles, Port-Cros, and île du Levant.

French explorer Samuel de Champlain's observation that the summits of the island's mountains were free of vegetation as seen from the sea led him to call the island " île des Monts Déserts ", or island of the Bare Mountains.

From Guillaume Rey Étude sur les monuments de l ' architecture militaire des croisés en Syrie et dans l ' île de Chypre ( 1871 ).

Plan of Krak des Chevaliers from Guillaume Rey Étude sur les monuments de l ' architecture militaire des croisés en Syrie et dans l ' île de Chypre ( 1871 ).

In 1956, Nuns ' Island ( île des Sœurs ) was amalgamated with Verdun, which is on the Island of Montreal.

The borough of Verdun is located in the southeastern part of the Island of Montreal and also includes Nuns ' Island ( île des Sœurs ).

* Buache, Jean-Nicholas ( 1806 ) " Recherches sur l ' île Antillia et sur l ' époque de la découverte de l ' AmériqueMémoires de l ' Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, Vol.

* Gaffarel, Paul ( 1882 ) " L ' île des Sept Cités et l ' île Antilia ", Congresso Internacional de Americanistas, Actas de la Cuara Reunión, Madrid, Madrid: Fortanet, vol.

* Catalogue des mollusques de l ' île de la Reunion ( 1863 ).

Quai des Antilles, île de Nantes, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France

By that time the name Saint-Paul had fallen out of use, and the name île des Sœurs was officialized.

* Mon aventure à l ' île des Forbans ( Grasset, 1958 )

* Catalogue des lépidoptères insectes Néuroptères de l ’ île de Corse ( 1832 )

The Battle of the Basque Roads, also Battle of Aix Roads ( French: Bataille de l ' île d ' Aix, also Affaire des brûlots, rarely Bataille de la rade des Basques ) was a naval battle during the Napoleonic Wars off the Island of Aix.