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Christian de Bonchamps, a French explorer who served Leopold in Katanga, expressed attitudes towards such treaties shared by many Europeans, saying, " The treaties with these little African tyrants, which generally consist of four long pages of which they do not understand a word, and to which they sign a cross in order to have peace and to receive gifts, are really only serious matters for the European powers, in the event of disputes over the territories.
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* Nos ancêtres de l ' Antiquité, 1991, Christian Settipani, p. 152
* Nos ancêtres de l ' Antiquité, 1991, Christian Settipani, p. 161
* Jugenddorf-Christophorusschule Königswinter ( CJD )- Private Christian school serving grades Kindergarten to 13 http :// koenigswinter. cjd. de / koenigswinter
The Egyptian identification card controversy began in the 1990s when the government modernized the electronic processing of identity documents, which introduced a de facto requirement that documents must list the person's religion as Muslim, Christian, or Jewish ( the only three religions officially recognized by the government ).
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Perhaps the first use of the term deist is in Pierre Viret's Instruction Chrétienne en la doctrine de la foi et de l ' Évangile ( Christian teaching on the doctrine of faith and the Gospel ) ( 1564 ), reprinted in Bayle's Dictionnaire entry Viret.
' The next year, John Brooke dedicated an English translation of Guy de Brès ' The Staff of Christian Faith to Oxford.
Anjirō became the first Japanese Christian and adopted the name of ' Paulo de Santa Fe '.
Many of the tales in the Golden Legend of Jacob de Voragine also embody folklore elements in a Christian context, as well as the tales of Old Mr. Brennan.
Contemporaneously to English Gothic, parallel Romantic literary movements developed in continental Europe: the roman noir (" black novel ") in France, by such writers as François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil, Gaston Leroux, Baculard d ' Arnaud, and Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Albin, Madame de Genlis and the Schauerroman (" shudder novel ") in Germany by such writers as Friedrich Schiller, author of The Ghost-Seer ( 1789 ) and Christian Heinrich Spiess, author of Das Petermännchen ( 1791 / 92 ).
In the 12th century the Almoravid empire broke up again, only to be taken over by the Almohad invasion, who were defeated by an alliance of the Christian kingdoms in the decisive battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212.
Although it was not legally recognized until 1982, the CGT was originally formed in 1970 by the Christian Democrats and received external support from the World Confederation of Labour ( WCL ) and the Latin American Workers Central ( Central Latinoamericana de Trabajadores — CLAT ), a regional organization supported by Christian Democratic parties.
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Thomas Aquinas, in the introduction to his commentary on the Psalms, defined the Christian hymn thus: " Hymnus est laus Dei cum cantico ; canticum autem exultatio mentis de aeternis habita, prorumpens in vocem.
Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Christian de Portzamparc, the museum reflects Hergé's huge corpus of work which has, until now, been sitting in studios and bank vaults.
Lysosomes were discovered by the Belgian cytologist Christian de Duve in the 1960s.
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** René de Pont-Jest: L ' Expédition du Katanga, d ' après les notes de voyage du marquis Christian de Bonchamps, published in: Edouard Charton ( editor ): Le Tour du Monde magazine ( 1892 – 3 ).
They were to be met there by two expeditions coming from the east across Ethiopia, one of which, from Djibouti, was led by Christian de Bonchamps, veteran of the Stairs Expedition to Katanga.
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This Greek abacus saw use in Achaemenid Persia, the Etruscan civilization, Ancient Rome and, until the French Revolution, the Western Christian world.
In September of 1820, Ampère ’ s friend and eventual eulogist François Arago showed the members of the French Academy of Sciences the surprising discovery of Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted that a magnetic needle is deflected by an adjacent electric current.
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* 1951 – Christian Bobin, French author and poet
Blaise Pascal (; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662 ), was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher.
The French philosopher Voltaire was also influenced by Confucius, seeing the concept of Confucian rationalism as an alternative to Christian dogma.
* Christian ( French actor ) ( 1821 – 1889 ), stage name of Christian Perrin, a 19th-century French actor and singer
Moore asked the commission to assess whether the francophone population of the Ottawa-Gatineau area was sufficiently well-served by existing French radio services, and to consider licensing one or more of the French language applications, which included a Christian music station, a community radio station and a campus radio station for the Université du Québec en Outaouais, in addition to or instead of the approved stations.
The most common derivation provided in English dictionaries is from the Alpine French dialect pronunciation of the word Chrétien ("( a ) Christian "), which was a greeting there.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the translation of the French term into " human creature " implies that the label " Christian " is a reminder of the humanity of the afflicted, in contrast to brute beasts.
Written in French except for one postscript in English, the letters broke Charlotte's image as an angelic martyr to Christian and female duties that had been constructed by many biographers, beginning with Gaskell.
People were ordered by law to drop their Western Christian names ; the titles Mr. and Mrs. were abandoned for the male and female versions of the French word for " citizen "; Men were forbidden to wear suits, and women to wear pants.
Under his auspices the French established a khān ( hostel ) in Sidon, the Florentines a consulate, and Christian missionaries were admitted into the country.
By 1909 after the failure of a syndicalist general strike in France, Sorel and his supporters left the radical left and went to the radical right, where they sought to merge militant Catholicism and French patriotism with their views-advocating anti-republican Christian French patriots as ideal revolutionaries.
In light of the French show of force, the Turks, again, reversed themselves and recognized the French right to protest the Christian sites.
* 1933 – Christian Ferras, French violinist ( d. 1982 )
* 1760 – Christian Kramp, French mathematician ( d. 1826 )
* 1952 – Christian Clavier, French actor
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