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unusual facts about BnF



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Bulgarian National Front

In Canada the BNF gained attention for the protests it held in Toronto in 1971 against a visit by Alexei Kosygin, a rally held in Ottawa in 1976 and annual masses held on 9 September, the date of the establishment of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, to commemorate Bulgarian war dead.

Cité de l'économie et de la monnaie

The Bibliothèque nationale de France(BnF) : Governor Christian Noyer and President of the Bibliothèque nationale de France Bruno Racine have signed a cooperation agreement on January 3, 2012, regarding the presentation of coin and banknote collections in the furture Cité de l'économie et de la monnaie.

Jean Miélot

The only two illuminated copies known are Philip's (BnF) and one illuminated by Simon Marmion for Margaret of York.

Jehan de Nuevile

The Chansonnier du Roi (BnF fr.844) ascribes sixteen chansons courtoises to Jehan in its table of contents, although six of these are attributed to two other poets, Gautier d'Espinal and Guiot de Dijon, in the rubrics.

Peter Naur

His last name is the N in the BNF notation (Backus-Naur form), used in the description of the syntax for most programming languages.

Thomas Devaux

In the words of Anne Biroleau-Lemagny, General Curator for 21st Century Contemporary Art Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF), "Thomas Devaux is the author of several ambitious and complex series in which so many fundamental values like evolution in photography come into play. The photography’s index value cannot be denied. It is indeed a direct shot but a shooting immediately considered as a fragment of a future reconstruction.".

At the end of 2012 some of his photographs were included in several collections including those at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF)

Wirth syntax notation

Originally proposed by Niklaus Wirth in 1977 as an alternative to Backus–Naur Form (BNF), it has several advantages over BNF in that it can be defined using itself, it contains an explicit iteration construct, and it avoids the use of an explicit symbol for the empty string (such as or ε).


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