* 1944 – Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.

The modern French Army retains three Dragoons regiments from the 32 it possessed at the beginning of World War I: the 2nd, which is a nuclear, bacteriologic and chemical protection regiment, the 4th, an armour regiment equipped with Leclerc tanks, and the 13th, which is a special-ops parachute regiment.

In his Histoire Naturelle ( 1749 ), Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, wrote of the " Black Cougar ": " M. de la Borde, King ’ s physician at Cayenne, informs me, that in the American Continent there are three species of rapacious animals ; that the first is the jaguar, which is called the tiger ; that the second is the couguar, called the red tiger, on account of the uniform redness of his hair ; that the jaguar is of the size of a large bull-dog, and weighs about 200 pounds ; that the cougar is smaller, less dangerous, and not so frequent in the neighbourhood of Cayenne as the jaguar ; and that both these animals take six years in acquiring their full growth.

The idea of creating a thinner, lighter lens by making it with separate sections mounted in a frame is often attributed to Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.

The AMX-56 Leclerc, commonly known as the Leclerc, is a main battle tank ( MBT ) built by Nexter of France.

The Leclerc is in service with the French Army and the army of the United Arab Emirates.

The Leclerc is equipped with a GIAT ( Nexter ) CN120-26 120mm smoothbore cannon.

At a combat weight of just 56 tons, the Leclerc is one of the lightest main battle tanks in the world ; this gives it one of the best power-to-weight ratios among the Western tanks ( 27 hp per tonne ) and makes it one of the fastest MBTs of its generation ( 0 to 32 km / h in 5 seconds ).

The gear box is equipped with a hydrokinetic retarder which can slow the Leclerc down at a deceleration rate of 7 m / s² ( 0. 7 g ) which can be very useful at the last moment before it could be hit.

* Leclerc EAU: " Tropicalised " version of the United Arab Emirates ; it is fitted with:

Carrefour was the earliest European hypermarket, starting in 1963 in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, but today, E. Leclerc is the dominant chain in France.

* Leclerc is the main battle tank of the French Army.

Erica's next love interest is the Tibetan monk Jeremy Hunter ( Jean Leclerc ).

In mathematics, Buffon's needle problem is a question first posed in the 18th century by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon:

It was held for writers Victor Hugo ( 1885 ), Maurice Barrès ( 1923 ), Paul Valéry ( 1945 ), Colette ( 1954 ) et Aimé Césaire ( 2008 ), Generals Leclerc ( 1947 ), Giraud ( 1949 ) et de Lattre de Tassigny ( 1952 ) and politicians Georges Coulon ( 1912 ), Albert Lebrun ( 1951 ), Léon Blum ( 1951 ) et Édouard Herriot ( 1957 ) An even higher honour is burial in the Panthéon de Paris.

He became Marshal of France posthumously, in 1952 and is known in France simply as le maréchal Leclerc.

No trace of him was ever found, and it is widely believed that Sobhraj murdered his former accomplice before leaving with Leclerc to sell the jewels in Geneva.

For a time, Leclerc met with some success ; he also brought the eastern part of the island of Hispaniola under the direct control of France in accordance with the terms of the 1795 Treaties of Bâle with Spain.

At about this time, Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, also a native of Montbard, was preparing to bring out a multi-volume work on natural history, the Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, and in 1742 he invited Daubenton to assist him by providing anatomical descriptions.

Leclerc died of yellow fever, which also took many French troops.

This phrase originally referred to Cardinal de Richelieu's right hand man, François Leclerc du Tremblay ( also known as the Père Joseph ), a Capuchin friar who wore grey robes.

Georges Louis Leclerc ( later Count de Buffon ) was born at Montbard, in the Province of Burgundy to Benjamin Leclerc, a minor local official in charge of the salt tax and Anne-Christine Marlin also from a family of civil servants.

General Charles Leclerc, who had married Pauline Bonaparte, also received a command in Saint Domingue in 1801 ( during the last stage of the Haitian Revolution ), and died the same year.

It's also in construction a new shopping center ( Abella ), which will host a E. Leclerc hypermarket.

François Leclerc du Tremblay ( 4 November 1577 – 17 December 1638 ), also known as Père Joseph, was a French Capuchin friar, confidant and agent of Cardinal Richelieu.

Smellie is also noted for his English translation of the famous Histoire Naturelle of the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.

The Flames traded him to the Phoenix Coyotes on February 1, 2006, in a deal also involving Philippe Sauvé, Mike Leclerc and Brian Boucher.

After this reverse, the LRDG force was forced to withdraw and refit, leaving Leclerc the services of one LRDG vehicle from T patrol crucially equipped for desert navigation.

Under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor, a military column, commanded by Colonel Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, and including two battalions of Sara troops, moved north from N ' Djamena ( then Fort Lamy ) to engage Axis forces in Libya, where, in partnership with the British Army's Long Range Desert Group, they captured Kufra.

General Leclerc later, along with the battleship Richelieu, represented France at Tokyo during the Japanese surrender, ending World War II completely.

The UAE went on an expansion drive in 1995, which began with the 1992-93 acquisition of 436 Leclerc Tanks and 415 BMP-3 Armored Vehicles.

The expedition, though initially successful, would soon turn to a disaster, with the French commander and Bonaparte ’ s brother-in-law, Charles Leclerc, dying of yellow fever and almost his entire force destroyed by the disease combined with the fierce attacks by the rebels.

1822-1840 French Canadian trappers Etienne Provost, Francois Leclerc, and Antoinne Robidoux entered the Uintah basin by way of the Old Spanish trail and made their fortunes by trapping the many beaver and trading with the Uintah tribe.

General Leclerc sent a small advance party to enter Paris, with the message that the 2e Division Blindée ( composed of 10, 000 French, 3, 600 Maghrebis and about 350 Spaniards ) would be there the following day.

After going into exile in France, Boyer and Alexandre Pétion, another mulatto, returned in 1802 with the French troops led by General Charles Leclerc.

After the Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot, Dessalines defected from his long-time ally Louverture and briefly sided with Leclerc, Pétion, and Rigaud.

Leclerc set off from Brest in December 1801 and landed at Cap-Français in February 1802, with other warships and a total of 40, 000 troops, publicly repeating Bonaparte's promise that " all of the people of Saint-Domingue are French " and forever free.

In February 1802, General Charles Leclerc arrived with tens of warships and 82, 000 French troops to bring Saint-Domingue under more control.

, after a French defence review, each of the 4 regiments operates 60 Leclerc tanks for a total of 240 in operational units ; with a further 100 Leclercs in combat ready reserve.

The turret of the Leclerc was designed around the auto-loading system in order to avoid the problems common to other tanks with an autoloader.

The Leclerc has an eight-cylinder SACM ( now Wärtsilä ) V8X-1500 1, 500 hp Hyperbar diesel engine and a SESM ESM500 automatic transmission, with five forward and two reverse gears.

* Leclerc T9: Athos thermal camera replaced with a new thermal camera called Iris.