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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.
The canton of Fribourg, also canton of Freiburg ( French: Canton de Fribourg [kɑ̃tɔ̃ d (ə) fʁibuʁ]; German: Kanton Freiburg [ˈfraɪbʊrɡ] ⓘ; Arpitan: Canton de Fribôrg [cɛ̃ˈtɔ̃ də fʁiˈbwa] ⓘ Romansh: Chantun Friburg; Italian: Canton Friburgo) is located in western Switzerland. The canton is bilingual, with French spoken by ...
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 ...
Napoleon III. Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as the second Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed on 4 September 1870. Prior to his reign, Napoleon III was known as Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.
It then decreased to 3.2% in 2014 and held steady for several years, [160] before further dropping to 2.5% in 2018 and 2.3% in 2019. [161] Population growth (from net immigration) reached 0.52% of population in 2004, increased in the following years before falling to 0.54% again in 2017.
Jean-François Rewbell. Jean-François Rewbell as a member of the French Directory. Jean-François Reubell ( French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa ʁøbɛl]) or Rewbell (6 October 1747 – 24 November 1807) was a French lawyer, diplomat, and politician of the Revolution .
Switzerland. The periods of Restoration and Regeneration in Swiss history lasted from 1814 to 1847. "Restoration" is the period of 1814 to 1830, [2] the restoration of the Ancien Régime ( federalism ), reverting the changes imposed by Napoleon Bonaparte on the centralist Helvetic Republic from 1798 and the partial reversion to the old system ...
In the heyday of the 18th century, many personalities visited the French ambassadors in Solothurn. Among the most famous were Voltaire and Giacomo Casanova, who visited Ambassador Anne-Théodore Chevignard, Chevalier de Chavigny, Comte de Toulongeon et Baron d'Uchon, in 1756 and 1758 (Voltaire) and in May and June 1760 respectively (Casanova).