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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.
Swiss German (one selection, terms vary in different dialects):; Füfräppler for a 5 centimes coin; Zëhräppler for a 10 centimes coin; Zwänzgräppler for a 20 centimes coin; [1] Stutz [2] or Franke [3] for a 1 franc coin or change in general; Füüfliiber for a 5 francs coin; [4] Rappe and Batze are specifically used for coin below 1 franc, but also figuratively for change in general [5] [6]
French catheter scale. The French scale, French gauge or Charrière system is commonly used to measure the size of a catheter. It is most often abbreviated as Fr, but can often be seen abbreviated as Fg, FR or F. It may also be abbreviated as CH or Ch (for Charrière, its inventor). However, simply gauge, G or GA generally refers to Birmingham ...
v. t. e. The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics ( NUTS) is a geocode standard for referencing the subdivisions of Switzerland for statistical purposes. [ 1 ] As a member of EFTA Switzerland is included in the NUTS standard, although the standard is developed and regulated by the European Union, [ 2 ] an organization that ...
France is Switzerland's third-largest trading partner (after Germany and Italy) [3] and the two are integrated economically via Swiss treaties with the European Union. Switzerland is also part of the Schengen Area , which abolishes border checks between member states. 220,000 French nationals cross the border to work in Switzerland, [ 5 ] half ...
Swiss Guards ( French: Gardes Suisses; German: Schweizergarde; Italian: Guardie Svizzere) are Swiss soldiers who have served as guards at foreign European courts since the late 15th century. The earliest Swiss Guard unit to be established on a permanent basis was the Hundred Swiss ( Cent-Suisses ), which served at the French court from 1490 to ...
On 7 October 1779, he captured the 20-gun HMS Ariel. [4] Lapérouse was promoted to Captain on 4 April 1780, and was part of the Expédition Particulière under Admiral Ternay, departing Brest on 2 May 1780. [4] From October to November 1780, Amazone sailed from Rhode Island to Lorient, and from there to the Caribbean. [4]
The CSEM is a Swiss research and development centre (R&D) active in the fields of precision manufacturing, digitalization, and renewable energy. [4] It follows a public-private not-for-profit partnership model. CSEM develops and transfers technologies that are considered relevant in progressing the Swiss national economy. [5]