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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.
Beaulieu-sur-Mer is a sister city of Tempe, Arizona, US. Every year, four French students are paired with four American students; they each spend five weeks in one another's country. This student exchange is with the Tempe Sister Cities organisation, which was voted "Best Overall Sister City Program" in 1998 and 2004.
Villefranche-sur-Mer (US: / ˌ v iː l (ə) ˈ f r ɒ̃ ʃ s ʊər ˈ m ɛər /, [3] French: [vilfʁɑ̃ʃ syʁ mɛʁ]; Occitan: Vilafranca de Mar [ˌvilɔˈfʀaŋkɔ de ˈmaʀ]; Italian: Villafranca Marittima [ˌvillaˈfraŋka maˈrittima]) is a resort town in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region on the French Riviera and is located south-west of the ...
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (UK: / ˈ k ɒ k t oʊ / KOK-toh, US: / k ɒ k ˈ t oʊ / kok-TOH, French: [ʒɑ̃ mɔʁis øʒɛn klemɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic.
the Order of Fontevraud ( Fontevristes) the Congregation of Tiron. the Congregation of La Chaise-Dieu ( Casadéens) the Congregation of Saint-Victor ( Victorines) the Bursfelde Congregation. the Alsace Congregation. the Cassinese Congregation (now within the Benedictine Confederation) the Congregation of Chezal-Benoît.
The Simenon family was of Walloon and Flemish ancestry, settling in the Belgian Limburg in the seventeenth century. [3] His mother's family was of Flemish, Dutch and German descent. One of his mother's most notorious ancestors was Gabriel Brühl , a criminal who preyed on Limburg from the 1720s until he was hanged in 1743. [ 3 ]
Courseulles-sur-Mer ( French pronunciation: [kuʁsœl syʁ mɛʁ] ⓘ, lit.'Courseulles on Sea' ), commonly known as Courseulles, is a commune in the Calvados department, Normandy, northwestern France. Until 1957, the town's name was simply Courseulles. [ 3 ] It lies 3 km west of Bernières-sur-Mer and 18 km north of Caen.
Montreuil-sur-Mer ( French pronunciation: [mɔ̃tʁœj syʁ mɛʁ] ⓘ; Picard: Montreu-su-Mér or Montreul-su-Mér; Dutch: Monsterole ), Montreuil-on-the-Sea, is a subprefecture in the Pas-de-Calais Department in northern France. [ 3 ] It was known as Montreuil until 31 December 2022. [ 4 ] It is located on the Canche river, not far from Étaples.