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Belgium is a federal state comprising three communities and three regions that are based on four language areas. For each of these subdivision types, the subdivisions together make up the entire country; in other words, the types overlap. The language areas were established by the Second Gilson Act, which entered into force on 2 August 1963.
Executive. The Cabinet of the French Community of Belgium ( French: Gouvernement de la Communauté française) is the executive branch of the French Community, and it too sits in Brussels. It consists of a number of ministers chosen by the parliament and is headed by a Minister-President . Government of the French Community – Jeholet.
The Minitel was a videotex online service accessible through telephone lines, and was the world's most successful online service prior to the World Wide Web. It was invented in Cesson-Sévigné, near Rennes, Brittany, France. The service was rolled out experimentally on 15 July 1980 [1] in Saint-Malo, France, and from autumn 1980 in other areas.
The Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium ( French: Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, sometimes referred to as La Thérésienne) is the independent learned society of science and arts of the French Community of Belgium. One of Belgium's numerous academies, it is the French-speaking ...
Le Chat. Le Chat ( Le Cat in English-language editions [1]) is a Belgian comic strip, created by Philippe Geluck. Foremost published daily in the newspaper Le Soir from March 22, 1983, until March 23, 2013, [2] it is since issued directly as complete albums. Right from the start, it quickly became one of the bestselling Franco-Belgian comics ...
An international co-production of France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, [5] the film follows a young Parisian girl whose cat leads her to unravel a thrilling mystery over the course of a single evening. A Cat in Paris premiered at the Saint-Quentin Ciné-Jeune Film Festival on 15 October 2010. It was released theatrically on 15 ...
Charleroi ( UK: / ˈʃɑːrlə.rwʌ /, US: /- rɔɪ, - rwɑː /, [2] [3] French: [ʃaʁləʁwa] ⓘ; Walloon: Tchålerwè [tʃɑːlɛʀwɛ]) is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. The city is situated in the valley of the Sambre, in the south-west of Belgium, not far from the border with France.
Le Chat Noir ( French pronunciation: [lə ʃa nwaʁ]; French for "The Black Cat") was a 19th century entertainment establishment in the bohemian Montmartre district of Paris. It was opened on 18 November 1881 at 84 Boulevard de Rochechouart by impresario Rodolphe Salis, and closed in 1897 not long after Salis' death.