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3 Suisses. 3 Suisses is a French mail order and e-commerce company, with headquarters in Villeneuve-d'Ascq. It is the biggest of the 16 e-commerce brands of Groupe 3SI [ fr; de]. Everett Hutt is the current CEO as of 2022. Since 1981, Otto GmbH owned a 51% share in the company and has been its only shareholder since January 2014.
TV5Monde. TV5Monde ( French pronunciation: [te ve sɛ̃k mɔ̃d] ), formerly known as TV5, is a French public television network, broadcasting several channels of French-language programming. It is an approved participant member of the European Broadcasting Union. [1] The network is available across Europe on satellite via Astra 19.2°E and ...
Carnival of Binche. The Carnival of Binche ( French: Carnaval de Binche) is an annual festival held in Binche, Hainaut, Belgium, during the Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday preceding Ash Wednesday. [1] The carnival's history dates back to approximately the 14th century, [2] and it is today one of the best known of several that take place ...
Baron Jean Charles Louis Tardif d'Hamonville (30 August 1830 in Saint-Mihiel – 1899), was a French ornithologist and conchologist, and the author of a number of books on natural history. He was mayor of the town and lived at the Château de Manonville. [1] He was the son of Antoine Edouard Tardif d'Hamonville (1797–1865) and Barbe Louise ...
Henri Storck (5 September 1907 – 17 September 1999) was a Belgian writer, filmmaker and documentarist.. In 1933, he directed, with Joris Ivens, Misère au Borinage, a film about the miners in the Borinage area.
His main œuvre was his "Atlas des champignons de France, Suisse et Belgique" ("Atlas of the fungi of France, Switzerland and Belgium"), which covered 283 species, having originally been published in 15 parts from 1906 until 1910, each with 8 plates, and finally summarised in two volumes in 1910. The 120 chrome-lithographic watercolour plates ...
England. Nationality. Belgian. Occupation (s) feminist, poet. Marguerite Aimee Rosine Coppin (2 February 1867 – 1947) born in Brussels, was a Belgian novelist and poet. She became a feminist and pioneer in female emancipation and equal rights for women. [1] She was compared with women's rights activists Amelia Bloomer and Emmeline Pankhurst.
Romandy ( French: Romandie or Suisse romande; Arpitan: Romandia) [note 1] is the French-speaking historical and cultural region part of Switzerland. In 2020, about 2 million people, or 22.8% of the Swiss population, lived in Romandy. [1] The majority of the romand population lives in the western part of the country, especially the Arc ...