However, when Catherine was denied the corresponding rank of dame pour accompagner to the prince's wife, Marie-Joséphine, due to her relatively low birth, Laval resigned his post in Provence's household.

Spaceflight became an engineering possibility with the work of Robert H. Goddard's publication in 1919 of his paper ' A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes '; where his application of the de Laval nozzle to liquid fuel rockets gave sufficient power for interplanetary travel to become possible.

During 1927 – 30 Laval began to accumulate the sizable personal fortune which later gave rise to charges that he had used his political position to line his own pockets.

Tardieu gave Laval until May Day to get the project through.

Spaceflight became an engineering possibility with the work of Robert H. Goddard's publication in 1919 of his paper ' A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes '; where his application of the de Laval nozzle to liquid-propellant rockets gave sufficient power that interplanetary travel became possible.

Following a final conversation with French Premier Pierre Laval, Hitler gave orders for Corsica to be occupied on 11 November, and Vichy France the following day.

Les Humains is a song created by aKido in 1998 which featured samples from a speech Pierre Falardeau gave at Université Laval in Quebec.

From 1602-1607, a French sailor, François Pyrard de Laval spent time on the Maldives, and gave a detailed account of the customs of the islanders during the Utheemu dynasty.

* 1935 – Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.

* January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims.

Shortly after Ethiopia's initial appeal, Minister of Foreign Affairs Pierre Laval of France and Foreign Secretary Samuel Hoare met with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in Rome.

On January 7, 1935, a meeting between Laval and Mussolini resulted in the " Franco – Italian Agreement ".

The Stresa Front was an agreement made in Stresa, a town on the banks of Lake Maggiore in Italy, between French foreign minister Pierre Laval, British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald, and Italian prime minister Benito Mussolini on April 14, 1935.

* Ted de Corsia ( Huey Long, Herbert Hoover, Benito Mussolini, General Hugh Johnson, Pierre Laval, gangster roles )

After many discussions during the 1920s, in 1935 the Franco-Italian Agreement was signed between Benito Mussolini and Pierre Laval, which included a provision under which Italy would receive the Aouzou strip, which was to be added to Libya.

On January 7, 1935, he and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval signed the Franco – Italian Agreement giving him a free hand in the Abyssinia Crisis with Ethiopia, in return for an alliance against Hitler.

The December 1935 Hoare – Laval Pact was an attempt by British Foreign Secretary Samuel Hoare and French Prime Minister Pierre Laval to end the conflict in Abyssinia by proposing to partition the country into an Italian sector and an Abyssinian sector.

But in November 1935, the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare and the French Prime Minister, Pierre Laval, had secret discussions in which they agreed to concede two-thirds of Abyssinia to Italy.

In October 1935, Laval and British foreign minister Samuel Hoare proposed a " realpolitik " solution to the Abyssinia Crisis.

On September 10, Pierre Laval, Anthony Eden, and even Sir Samuel Hoare agreed on limitations to sanctions against Italy.

Laval was devoted to his family, a fact even his enemies admitted.

Deviation routes are bypasses intended for truck traffic to circumvent urban areas, and are identified by an even number prefixing the number of the nearby Autoroute that it bypasses ( for example, Autoroute 440 in Laval ).

Carrefour Laval has a reputation of being a stepping door for many international retail chains looking to gain a foothold either in the province, the country or even North America.

He served Charles VII faithfully in all his wars, even against the dauphin ( 1456 ), and when the latter became king as Louis XI, Laval was dismissed from the marshal's office.

During his imprisonment pending the verdict of his treason trial, Laval wrote his only book, his posthumously published Diary, which his daughter, Josée de Chambrun smuggled out of the prison page by page.

Alfred Jarry ( 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907 ) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany ; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side.

Three years after the volcano's last eruption, on 19 December 1973, the Cousteau team was filming on Deception Island, Antarctica when Michel Laval, Calypsos second in command, was struck and killed by a propeller of the helicopter that was ferrying between Calypso and the island.

In 1610, by which time most Dutch and English ships visited the island on their home voyage, François Pyrard de Laval deplored the deterioration since his last visit in 1601, describing damage to the chapel and destruction of fruit trees by cutting down trees to pick the fruit.

Montreal is neighbored both by municipalities that lie on the same island in the St. Lawrence River, as well as " off-island suburbs " including the two largest, Laval ( located on a neighboring island ) and Longueuil ( on the mainland ), as well as a " ring " of smaller municipalities on the South and North shores of the river.

The wings of the triptych show King Rene with Mary Magdalene, St. Anthony and St. Maurice on one side, and Queen Jeanne de Laval, with Saint Catherine, John the Evangelist, and Saint Nicholas on the other.

# Jeanne de Laval, on 10 September 1454, at the Abbey of St. Nicholas in Angers

Instead, he gained the ear of professors at Laval University in Quebec City, and Bull and a number of graduate students started work on a tunnel similar to the one he had earlier built at the UofT.

While the baccalaureate degree in Quebec civil law is the terminal professional degree for entry into the bar admission programme of the Barreau du Québec ( Bar of Quebec ), a candidate for entry into the training programme of the Chambre des Notaires du Québec must, after that baccalaureate degree, go on to obtain a Diplôme de deuxième cycle en droit notarial ( graduate studies Diploma of Notarial Law ) from Université de Montréal, Université Laval, Université d ' Ottawa or Université de Sherbrooke that requires two semesters of full-time study.

He then went on to study economics and political science at Université Laval.

Goddard also used a De Laval nozzle for the first time on a rocket, doubling the thrust and increasing the efficiency by several times.

After graduating from high school, he attended Loyola College, receiving in 1906 a Bachelor of Arts degree in church devotional fellowship, and then went on to earn in 1911 his Bachelor of Laws degree from the Montreal campus of the Université Laval.

It flows on either side of Île Bizard ( part of Montreal ), it then divides the Island of Montreal ( Montreal ) to the south from Île Jésus ( Laval ) to the north, after which it flows into the St. Lawrence River at the eastern tip of the Island of Montreal.

Laval signed on, but the motion was defeated.

Laval from then on belonged to the club of former ministers from which new ministers were drawn.

1926 marked the definitive break between Laval and the left, but he maintained friends on the left.

Laval called on financial experts such as Jacques Rueff, Charles Rist and Adéodat Boissard.

Laval declared on embarking for America on 16 October 1931, " France remained healthy thanks to work and savings.

Such breach could only be approved by the National Assembly and thus the survival of the Laval Government rested on the legislative body's approval of the moratorium.