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The French Navy did not have a dock large enough to build a 35,000 ton hull that was longer than 250m For comparison, the 247m long SS Île de France had been built at the civilian Louis Joubert Lock at Saint-Nazaire.
On 28 February 1803, he departed for India, arriving at Île de France in August.
The various elements of Gothic architecture emerged in a number of 11th and 12th century building projects, particularly in the Île de France area, but were first combined to form what we would now recognise as a distinctively Gothic style at the 12th century abbey church of Saint-Denis in Saint-Denis, near Paris.
In 1809, he took command of the Astrée and sailed to Île de France to reinforce the frigate squadron under Hamelin, where he witnesses the last stages of the Battle of Grand Port and helped sealing the fate of the last remaining British frigate.
These war brides to Canada emigrated mainly in 1946 in specially commissioned "war bride ships," like the Queen Mary, Letitia, or Mauretania, and the Île de France, landing at Pier 21 in Halifax.
Vice-Admiral Sir William Augustus Montagu, KCH, CB (c. 1785 – 6 March 1852) was a senior and successful officer of the British Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars who served in a number of sea battles and was also in command of the naval brigade in the brief land campaign to capture Île de France in 1810.
AC Bobigny 93 Rugby is a rugby union team from Île-de-France which plays in Fédérale 1 (D3).
École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort, school of veterinary medicine in Val-de-Marne, Île-de-France, France
It opened in 1899 at 4 pont de Clichy on Île des Ravageurs in Asnières-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.
They are based in Les Ulis, Essonne and are currently playing in the Division Supérieure Régionale of Île-de-France, the seventh tier of the French football league system.
Canton of Coulommiers, a French administrative division, located in the arrondissement of Meaux, in the Seine-et-Marne département (Île-de-France région)
Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne, a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France in north-central France
The title, referring to Beaumont-du-Gâtinais in the Île-de-France, was created for Monseigneur Charles-François-Christian de Montmorency-Luxembourg, son of Christian-Louis, prince de Tingry (third son of François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg) and his wife Louise-Madeleine de Harlay, comtesse de Beaumont.
EFREI (École FRançaise d'Électronique et d'Informatique) (French School of Electronics and Computer Science) is a French private engineering school located in Villejuif, Île-de-France, at the south of Paris.
Elected in the Île-de-France constituency on the French Communist Party (PCF) ticket, he sits with the European United Left - Nordic Green Left group, and is its current President.
Massy-Verrières is a station of the Île-de-France RER, located in Massy, at the junction of RER B (B4 section) and RER C (C2 section).
Since it is the last station before Picardie, STIF fare structures no longer apply beyond it (except on trains linking Pontoise and Creil).
Born at Mantes-la-Ville, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France, he began studying the piano at the age of 11 and at age 16 went to Paris where he performed on stage, singing extracts of traditional operettas and lovesongs.
Politically, the President of the Île-de-France region, Jean-Paul Huchon and the Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, both members of the French Socialist Party have been opposed to the initiatives taken by the national government, which are in contradiction with the recent devolution of urban planning matters to local governments.
Guiry-en-Vexin, a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France
The Ile de France International Piano Competition was founded in 1999 in Sartrouville (France) on the initiative of René Girard and his daughter Christine Girard under the honorary presidency of Anne Queffelec.
The most populated towns of the Petite Couronne are Boulogne-Billancourt, Montreuil, Saint-Denis, Nanterre and Créteil.
Île-de-France tramway Line 1 (usually called simply T1) is a tramway operated by the Régie autonome des transports parisiens (Autonomous Operator of Parisian Transports; RATP) just outside the city limits of Paris, connecting Les Courtilles with Noisy-le-Sec, parallel to the Paris northern city limit.
To the east a second planned extension towards Val de Fontenay, which has been blocked for several years due to opposition from the centrist town of Noisy-le-Sec, was approved by the Syndicat des transports d'Île-de-France (STIF) in July 2009 and is scheduled to be constructed in 2015.
Tramway line T2 (Trans Val-de-Seine) is a tramway in Île-de-France.
Joachim Murat, 6th Prince Murat (Paris, Île-de-France, France, August 6, 1885 – Paris, Île-de-France, France May 11, 1938), was a member of the Bonaparte-Murat family.
On May 14, 1982 Joëlle visited her sisters in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France, then had dinner with friends with whom she spent the night.
Among former members of the "CRT Ile de France team" is Daba Modibo Keïta from Mali, a heavyweight world champion 2009 and 2007; the first African to become double Taekwondo World Champion.
This year, he has worked with the WDR Big Band, Jose James and the Royal Concertgebouworkest, Patrick Watson and L'Orchestre Nationale d'ile de France, and arranged and conducted Caro Emerald's number one album "The Shocking Miss Emerald".
Maison-Rouge, a commune in the Seine-et-Marne département in the Ile-de-France region in north-central France.
She receives her name from the Château de Gournay in Gournay-sur-Aronde (in the Ile-de-France Province) that her father, Guillaume Le Jars, bought shortly before dying in 1578.
Mennecy-Villeroy porcelain (or Mennecy porcelain) is a French soft-paste porcelain from the manufactory established under the patronage of Louis-François-Anne de Neufville, duc de Villeroy (1695-1766) and — from 1748 — housed in outbuildings ("les petites maisons") in the park of his château de Villeroy, and in the nearby village of Mennecy (Île-de-France).
Sissoko began his football career playing for local youth clubs in the Île-de-France region, such as Espérance Aulnay and Red Star FC.
He later became vice-senechel of Fontenay and Niort, and, in 1585, "lieutenant criminel" (both are officers of public justice) in the Île-de-France region.
The Orchestre national d'Île de France is a French symphony orchestra founded in 1974, and since 1996 based at Alfortville.
Most Vietnamese in France live in Paris and the surrounding Île-de-France area, but a sizeable number also reside in the major urban centers in the south-east of the country, primarily Marseille and Lyon.
The local transport authority (STIF) has systematically reduced the number of fare zones, and from Mid-July 2011 the STIF combined that with Zone 5.
Paul-Marie Coûteaux (born 31 July 1956 in Paris) is the son of André Couteaux and a French politician, writer, and former Member of the European Parliament for Ile-de-France with the Mouvement pour la France, Member of the Bureau of the Independence and Democracy and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Le Pecq, Yvelines is a commune in the Yvelines département of the Île-de-France region of France
The closest station to Roissy-en-France is Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 1 station on line B of the Paris Region's express suburban rail system, the RER.
After its sea trials, the Ile de France traveled to its home port of Le Havre on June 5, 1927.
Before scrapping, the Ile de France was used as a floating prop for the 1960 disaster movie The Last Voyage with the name SS Claridon. During filming the ship was sunk partially, explosive devices were detonated in the interior, and the forward funnel was sent crashing into the deckhouse.
Syndicat des transports d'Île-de-France, the organizing public transport authority for Paris and the surrounding Île-de-France region.
The then 1st Free French Squadron 340 "Ile-de-France" was located in Turnhouse during World War II, from 1941 to 1951, when it relocated to Orange, Vaucluse (France) under the name "Escadron de chasse 02.005 "Ile-de-France"" ("EC 2/5 "Ile-de-France").
near Courgenay in the canton of Villeneuve-l'Archevêque, Yonne, France, is a Cistercian abbey founded in 1127 by a group of monks from the abbey of Preuilly (Seine-et-Marne) who came to settle between the forest of Othe and the forest of Lancy, an area near the borders of Ile-de-France, Champagne and Burgundy that had come to be far from human habitation.
He was active in the Île-de-France in the first decades of the thirteenth century at the latest, since his song De chanter me semont Amours was used as the basis for a contrafactum, Quant ces floretes florir voi, by Gautier de Coincy (died 1236).
Degron planted a vineyard in Crespières, Île-de-France where one of the vines reached a length of 32.8 meters and a height of 2.8 meter.
William of Bures (died 1142) was a French crusader from Bures-sur-Yvette, Ile-de-France.