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Antananarivo (French: Tananarive, pronounced ), also known by its colonial shorthand form Tana, is the capital and largest city of Madagascar.The administrative area of the city, known as Antananarivo-Renivohitra ("Antananarivo-Mother Hill" or "Antananarivo-Capital"), is the capital of Analamanga region. The city sits at 1,280 m (4,199 ft) above sea level in the center of the …

L'église de la Madeleine (French pronunciation: [leɡliːz də la madəlɛn], Madeleine Church; more formally, L'église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine; less formally, just La Madeleine) is a Catholic church occupying a commanding position in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. The Madeleine Church was originally supposed to be built as a Catholic church, but the building was unfinished as a result …

Martinique (/ ˌ m ɑːr t ɪ ˈ n iː k / MAR-tin-EEK, French: (); Martinican Creole: Matinik or Matnik; Kalinago: Madinina or Madiana) is an island and an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France. An integral part of the French Republic, Martinique is located in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea.It has a land area of 1,128 …

PREFACE. So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling …

La Grande Armée (French pronunciation: [ɡʀɑ̃d aʀme]; French for The Great Army) was the main military component of the French Imperial Army commanded by French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte during the Napoleonic Wars.From 1804 to 1808, it won a series of military victories that allowed the French Empire to exercise unprecedented control over most of Europe.

Many words in the English vocabulary are of French origin, most coming from the Anglo-Norman spoken by the upper classes in England for several hundred years after the Norman Conquest, before the language settled into what became Modern English.English words of French origin, such as art, competition, force, machine, and table are pronounced according to English rules …

The ferme générale (French pronunciation: [fɛʁm ʒeneʁal], "general farm") was, in ancien régime France, essentially an outsourced customs, excise and indirect tax operation. It collected duties on behalf of the King (plus hefty bonus fees for themselves), under renewable six-year contracts. The major tax collectors in that highly unpopular tax farming system were known as the …

The Iași pogrom (Romanian pronunciation: (), sometimes anglicized as Jassy) was a series of pogroms launched by governmental forces under Marshal Ion Antonescu in the Romanian city of Iași against its Jewish community, which lasted from 29 June to 6 July 1941. According to Romanian authorities, over 13,266 people, or one third of the Jewish population, were …