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File:Paul Nadar, "Autoportrait au bureau de l'atelier, rue d'Anjou".png - Original (PNG) File:Paul Nadar, "Autoportrait au bureau de l'atelier, rue d'Anjou" - Original.jpg - Original (JPEG) This is a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons ( Featured pictures ) and is considered one of the finest images.
Nadar. / 48.860; 2.396. Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910 [1] ), known by the pseudonym Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloonist, and proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first person to take aerial photographs. [2]
Français langue étrangère. Français langue étrangère (French for French as a foreign language, FLE) is the use of French by non-native speakers in a country where French is not normally spoken, similar to English as a foreign language. There is no single test like the TOEFL, but instead a variety of possible tests used to measure language ...
A Parachute Commando of a GCP Team from the 1st Parachute Hussar Regiment commencing airborne drop. The 1st Parachute Hussar Regiment ( French: 1 er Régiment de Hussards Parachutistes, 1 er RHP) is an airborne cavalry unit in the French Army, founded in 1720 by Hungarian noble Ladislas Ignace de Bercheny. It is stationed in Tarbes and is a ...
e. The rank insignia of the French Navy ( French: Marine Nationale) are worn on shoulder straps of shirts and white jackets, and on sleeves for navy jackets and mantels. Until 2005, only commissioned officers had an anchor on their insignia, but enlisted personnel are now receiving them as well. Although the names of the ranks for superior ...
For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In French spelling, aspirated "h" ( French: h aspiré) is an initial silent letter that represents a hiatus at a word boundary, between the word's first vowel and the preceding word's last vowel. At the same time, the aspirated h stops the normal ...
The French Wikipedia ( French: Wikipédia en français) is the French-language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. This edition was started on 23 March 2001, two months after the official creation of Wikipedia. [1] It has 2,614,421 articles as of 28 May 2024, making it the fourth-largest Wikipedia overall, after the English ...
Plot. Dick Sand is a fifteen-year-old boy serving on the schooner Pilgrim, a whaler that normally voyages across the Pacific in their efforts to find targets. However, this time, the hunting season has been unsuccessful, and as they plan to return home, four people request passage to Valparaiso: Mrs. Weldon, the wife of the hunting firm's owner; her five-year-old son, Jack; his old nanny, Nan ...