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7 unusual facts about Avenir


Avenir

StoryMill, a novel-writing application, formerly named Avenir

Charles Daoust

During his time in Montreal, he contributed to the newspaper L'Avenir.

Denis-Émery Papineau

He helped found the Revue canadienne, the newspaper L'Avenir and the daily Le Pays.

L'Avenir

L'Avenir, Quebec, municipality located in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec

Louis-Antoine Dessaulles

In 1847, Dessaulles began writing articles for the newspaper L'Avenir; he supported Papineau, opposed the political power of the Roman Catholic Church in Canada East, opposed the union of Upper and Lower Canada and supported annexation with the United States.

Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour

He was named canon of the cathedral of Nîmes in 1822, became known as a preacher, and contributed to L'Avenir.

Mission Priests of the Immaculate Conception

The condemnation of L'Avenir disturbed only temporarily the activity at La Chénaie.


Christophe Rinero

Rinero's greatest achievements have been to win the Tour de l'Avenir in 1998 and the King of the Mountains in the 1998 Tour de France.

L'Avenir Ensemble

The name l'Avenir Ensemble reflects the party's desire to unite New Caledonians of all ethnic groups (White Europeans, Melanesian Kanaks, Polynesian immigrants, etc.) into a shared future, rejecting the ethnic oppositions of the hitherto dominant parties of New Caledonia (White anti-independence parties vs. Kanak pro-independence parties).

Transatlantic tunnel

Suggestions for such a structure go back to Michel Verne, son of Jules Verne, who wrote about it in 1888 in a story entitled Un Express de l'avenir (An Express of the Future).


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