It ceased to exist on July 30, 1997 (or August 20, 1997, upon publication in the Gazette officielle du Québec) when it was split into the modern-day administrative regions of Mauricie and Centre-du-Québec.
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99 Francs is a 2000 novel by French writer Frédéric Beigbeder.
He was the host of the hit show Age Tendre et Tetes de Bois, which aired from 1961 to 1967 and featured world-renowned artists including The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Stevie Wonder, Isaac Hayes and French singers Johnny Hallyday and Claude Francois.
On 2 February 1910, 35 of Pellerin's Manets were sold for 1,000,000 francs to a consortium of art dealers that included Bernheim-Jeune, Durand-Ruel, and Paul Cassirer, a move that stirred controversy.
On July 12, 2012, PSA Peugeot Citroën announced that it will permanently close the Aulnay-sous-Bois plant due to overcapacity.
The village is commonly called Barisis-aux-bois and is in the heart of the national forest of Saint-Gobain.
Kléber then deployed the remainder of his troops by positioning the divisions of Beaupuy and Haxo on the left flank of the château de La Treille, and those of Louis Vimeux on the right flank of the château de Bois-Grolleau.
It is located in the eastern Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, where many locals are first- or second-generation Muslim immigrants from former French colonies.
There are 6 unincorporated communities in Bois Brule Township: Allans Landing, Belgique, Bishop’s Landing, Claryville, McBride, Menfro and Sereno.
Industrial Park "Réjean Lafrenière" is home to the oriented strand board factory Louisiana-Pacific Canada ltd.
Bois-le-Roi, Seine-et-Marne, a commune in Seine-et-Marne département, France
La Bostonnais, Quebec (municipality), La Tuque (urban agglomeration), Mauricie
The French name "La Chapelloise" is derived from a village in eastern France, Chapelle-des-Bois: Legend says that André Dufresne was teaching the dance there in the 1970s, and since participants did not remember its original name, the dance got famous by the name of the village where the workshop took place.
From 1775 to 1780, the troop put on shows at Amiens, Cambrai, Strasbourg, Colmar, Paris (at the "théâtre des Petits Comédiens du Bois de Boulogne"), Angers, Le Mans, Aix-en-Provence, Toulon, Marseille, Dijon, Passy, Saint-Quentin, Antwerp and Brussels.
The Château Malromé is located in the commune Saint-André-du-Bois, in the French department of Gironde.
The community, Trappist since 1878, was the successor to the Cistercian community of Gomerfontaine, founded in 1207, suppressed in 1792 and re-established in 1802 at Saint-Paul-aux-Bois.
Destillières bought the Château du Raincy, and on 20 October 1806 resold it to Gabriel-Julien Ouvrard for 800,000 francs, payable in letters of exchange.
He studied the classics at Bois-Guillaume, philosophy at Issy (1855-1857), and made his theological studies at Saint-Sulpice, Paris (1857-61).
In 1999, the library of the town La Ville-du-Bois, where Andreou resided while in France, was named in honor of Constantine Andreou.
At the time of his arrest over 15 billion lire in an account in Switzerland was seized registered to his wife, Maria Di Pierr Poggiolini: In addition to a house in Naples, the couple had several billion francs in gold ingots, jewels, paintings and ancient and modern coins (including gold Tsar Nicholas II rubles and South African Krugerrand).
On September 1 of the same year, Weidmann hired a chauffeur named Joseph Couffy to drive him to the French Riviera where, in a forest outside Tours he shot him in the nape of the neck and stole his car and 2500 francs.
A French-American bidding war during the auction on L'Angelus, a work by the popular French painter Jean-François Millet of the Barbizon school, forced the price up to a record-breaking amount of 553,000 francs by Antonin Proust, who was bidding for the Louvre.
His most famous novel Le Coureur de Bois was 1879 revised for young readers under the title Der Waldläufer by the German writer Karl May.
This included the "core team" at Gendarmerie headquarters at Issy-les-Moulineaux, the "running team" of four located at the Gendarmerie data center at Rosny-sous-Bois, and about 1,200 local support staff.
Gerald Fagan has performed as conductor with Maureen Forrester, Lois Marshall, Victor Borge, Ben Heppner, Thomas Paul, Roberta Peters, Janis Taylor, Gary Relyea, Leslie Fagan, Mark Du Bois, Mark Pedrotti, Darryl Edwards, Brian McIntosh and Mary Lou Fallis.
Later Mataré taught physics and mathematics in Wabern near Kassel and gave lectures at the Aachen university, and he was invited to build a semiconductor diode plant for Compagnie des Freins & Signaux Westinghouse in Aulnay-sous-Bois near Paris.
In return for Boudet's services, Napoléon made him a comte d'Empire in 1808 and gave him land with a revenue of 30,000 francs in Swedish Pomerania.
Born into a family of Muslim notables of Fez, Mohamed Ben Abdejlil, who had made the Hajj to Mecca with his father, converted to Catholicism and was baptized in April 7, 1928 in the chapel of Franciscan college of Fontenay-sous-bois, taking the Christian name Jean, with sponsor of French orientalist Louis Massignon.
L'Étanche Abbey, Lorraine, is a former Premonstratensian monastery founded in the 12th century, the ruins of which are near the modern village of Deuxnouds-aux-Bois, in the commune of Lamorville, Meuse, France.
There had been much commotion in 1872, when Jozef Schoep refused to pay a fine of 50 francs for not wanting to declare the birth of his son in French to the municipal administration of Molenbeek.
On his second run at Valenciennes, Dufresne led his team in goals in FIFA 06 at many a game between Guerms and Francs.
She and her husband Roger transferred the church of Saint-Martin of Séez to Evroul and petitioned her uncle, Yves, Bishop of Séez to build a monastery there on lands from her estates.
The musical Robin des Bois' is a modern adaptation of Robin Hood, where the lead role is played by French singer M. Pokora.
Paul Du Bois (1859–1938) was a Belgian sculptor and medalist, born in Aywaille, and died in Uccle.
He has also thrown a bottle of red ink over André Malraux, the French minister of culture at the time, robbed a bank in Nice of 10 francs using a sawn-off shotgun, and cut the tip off one of his own fingers at an art exhibition in Colombia, V Festival de Performance de Cali, in protest at FARC guerillas holding the French-Colombian politician Íngrid Betancourt hostage.
In 1938 what was once a district of Morrinhos became a city with the name Pontalina, derived from the proximity of the Rio dos Bois and the Meia Ponte
Princess Irene Feodorovna (born 7 May 1934 in Fontenay, France); married 1st Biarritz 23 December 1955 (divorced 1959) Andre Jean Pelle (born Biarritz 29 November 1923); married 2d Le Pin 26 December 1962 (divorced) Victor-Marcel Soulas (born Saint-Méen-le-Grand 26 August 1938).
The duel with swords, directed by the Count Leontieff and the Count Avogadro, lasting 26 minutes took place at 5:00 am on 15 August 1897 in the Bois de Marechaux at Vaucresson, France.
On June 23, 2010, part of the highway was closed between Val-des-Bois and Bowman, due to a partial bridge collapse caused by a 5.0 magnitude earthquake.
Route 350 is a provincial highway located in the Mauricie region of Quebec.
The Rivière à la lime flows in the municipality of Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, in the Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Mauricie, in the province of Quebec, Canada.
The two wind quintets (Chants en contrepoints from 1962 and Réflexions sur le jour où Pérotin le Grand ressuscitera from 1969) were both written for the Danzi Quintet, and Bois also wrote solo pieces for some of the members of this well-known ensemble: flutist Frans Vester (Muziek for solo flute, 1961), oboist Koen van Slogteren (Beams, for oboe and piano, 1979), and clarinetist Piet Honingh (Vertiges, 1987).
The territory was once part of the seigneurial system in the 18th century and was travelled by several coureur des bois for the fur industry as well as workers in the logging industry as it was located nearby rich forest lands of the Laurentians and the Haute Mauricie regions near the Saint-Maurice River.
In April 1900, Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe offered the Deutsch de la Meurthe prize, also simply known as the "Deutsch prize", of 50,000 francs to the first machine capable of flying a round trip from the Parc Saint Cloud to the Eiffel Tower in Paris and back in less than thirty minutes.
Graham Du Bois is the subject of the biography, Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois (2000), by Gerald Horne.
The crime takes place at the Chateau du Glandier, located in the forest, near the road leading to Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois and Montlhéry.
After a successful FTP offensive on 7 and 8 June 1944, the arrival of Das Reich troops forced the guerillas to evacuate the city of Tulle (Corrèze), in the Limousin region of France.
The verziau of Gargantua (or vierzeux of Gargantua), also known under the name of Haute-Borne is a menhir at Bois-lès-Pargny in France.
William Frederick de Bois Maclaren (17 November 1856, Glasgow – 3 June 1921) was publisher, businessman and Scout Commissioner for Rosneath, Dunbartonshire, Scotland.