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Name Owner Description Language Availability Arte Belgique: Cooperation between RTBF and ARTE: Cultural network: French: Cable networks in Wallonia, Brussels and Flanders Satellite
Battle of Fontenoy. / 50.5694°N 3.4750°E / 50.5694; 3.4750. The Battle of Fontenoy took place on 11 May 1745 during the War of the Austrian Succession, near Tournai, then part of the Austrian Netherlands, now in Belgium. A French army of 50,000 under Marshal Saxe defeated a Pragmatic Army [ a] of roughly the same size, led by the Duke ...
Mauritius: First newspaper in Mauritius. Published weekly from 1773-01-13 to at least 1790 by Nicolas Lambert in Mauritius. 1800 Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser: English, Afrikaans Cape Town: British South Africa: First newspaper in South Africa. Published weekly from 1800-08-16 to at least 1829 by the British Government in South ...
Signature. Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck[ 1][ a] (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, [ 6] was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities ...
The Abbey of St. Maurice and St. Maurus of Clervaux (Luxembourgish: Benediktinerabtei hellege Moritz) (French: Abbaye Saint-Maurice et Saint-Maur de Clervaux), founded in 1890, is a Benedictine monastery in Clervaux, Luxembourg. It is a member of the Solesmes Congregation in the Benedictine Confederation.
Box office. $2.6–3.3 million [ 3][ 4] Maurice is a 1987 British romantic drama film directed by James Ivory, based on the 1971 novel Maurice by E. M. Forster. The film stars James Wilby as Maurice, Hugh Grant as Clive and Rupert Graves as Alec. The supporting cast includes Denholm Elliott as Dr Barry, Simon Callow as Mr Ducie, Billie Whitelaw ...
Maurice Frère (8 August 1890, Charleroi – 11 August 1970, Side) was a Belgian civil servant and governor of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) from 1944 until 1957. He lectured at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel ).
It was the first murder of a tourist in Mauritius, [2] [3] and the Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam expressed his sympathy to the Harte and McAreavey families. [4] The two hotel workers who were accused of her murder were tried and declared not-guilty by the Supreme Court of Mauritius: they were acquitted on 12 July 2012. [5] [6]