... correctness of this calculation depends upon the honesty of Mignot, who had charge of the farther end of the string, and was proud of the wonders of his cave SECTION OF THE LOWER GLACIẩRE OF THE PRẫ ... edge was a ridge of deposit beyond the edge of the ice.[8] Patches of limestone paste lay on many parts of the ice-floor In the loftier part of the cave, water dropped from the roof to so large ... hold of every drop of water which does not make its escape in time by the drainage of the cave Thus the spring months will be the great time of the formation of ice, and also of the raising of...
... have relied for making of them in my tales what they were in reality—the centre and the focus of the life ofFrance GUIZOT VAL-RICHER, December, 1869 A POPULAR HISTORY OFFRANCE FROM THE EARLIEST ... cantons of the Basque country, and even at the centre ofFrance in Morvan, a mountainous district of the department of the Nievre, would that the maiden should appear only at the end of the banquet, ... century all kinds of offerings, and where, no doubt, enormous treasure was deposited Such was, in the opinion of the day, the sanctity of the place, that, on the rumor of the projected profanation,...
... MAP OFFRANCE _Shewing the Departments._] FRANCE CHAPTER I THE EARLIER KINGS OFFRANCE France. The country we now know as France is the tract of land shut in by the British Channel, the Bay of ... home The Court of Anne of Austria. The court of France, though never pure, was much improved during the reign of Louis XIII and the regency of Anne of Austria There was a spirit of romance and ... troubles of France, for the last 80 years, had gone to increase the strength of the Dukes of Burgundy The county and duchy, of which Dijon was the capital, lay in the most fertile district of France, ...
... VIII FRANCE SINCE THE REVOLUTION 116 FRANCE Pg CHAPTER I THE EARLIER KINGS OFFRANCE France.—The country we now know as France is the tract of land shut in by the British Channel, the Bay of Biscay, ... 4 The Court of Anne of Austria.—The court of France, though never pure, was much imPg 86proved during the reign of Louis XIII and the regency of Anne of Austria There was a spirit of romance and ... of Flanders in right of his wife; and thus was laid the foundation of the powerful and wealthy house of Burgundy, which for four generations almost overshadowed the crown ofFrance Insanity of...
... Civilisation en France HALLAM The Middle Ages HARE South-eastern France " South-western France History of Joanna of Naples, Queen of Sicily (published 1824) HUNNEWELL Historical Monuments ofFrance JAMES ... fatherland of warriors in real mail and of princes of real power, of the Emperor Pertinax of pagan times, of those who fought successfully against Mahmoud and Tergament, and of many Knights of Malta, ... telling of the Cathedrals of the South which was at once accurate and complete For the Cathedrals of that country are monuments not only of architecture and its history, but of the history of peoples,...
... 'VIVE LE ROI!' A GENTLEMAN OFFRANCE CHAPTER I CHAPTER I THE SPORT OF FOOLS The death of the Prince of Conde, which occurred in the spring of 1588, by depriving me of my only patron, reduced ... CHAPTER XXXVI A GENTLEMAN OFFRANCE BEING THE MEMOIRS OF GASTON DE BONNE SIEUR DE MARSAC by STANLEY WEYMAN CONTENTS * CHAPTER I THE SPORT OF FOOLS * CHAPTER II THE KING OF NAVARRE * CHAPTER III ... links of gold chain left to me It was not without grief and dismay that I saw myself thus stripped of the appurtenances of a man of birth, and driven to groom my own horse under cover of night...
... Organization brought to attention that 203,599 cases of AIDS were reported worldwide by the end of 1989, and estimated the actual number of cases to have been 600,000 Viral Structure - ... disease by using good precautions such as using condoms made of latex rubber People have to remember, that the most reliable person in charge of preventing you from getting AIDS, is yourself! In 1990, ... anyone AIDS doesn't just occur in certain social groups of people We all have to protect ourselves from this infection and learn about it in time to take...
... been stirred by these tales of the heroism of the children ofFrance "While the French were in possession of the village in the early days of the war, an officer of that army made his headquarters ... authentic, and so offers them to the liberty-loving boys and girls of America THE AUTHOR INTRODUCTION The story of the heroism of the Children ofFrance never will be fully told Many of these little ... sources of her information men who have seen and heard on the battlefields of France, and who have related to her these and many other like incidents illustrating the heroism of the Children of France...
... west, of Paris Here he halted in front of the long, dark outer wall of the Cemetery of the Innocents, in which, across the tombstones and among the sepulchres of dead Paris, the living Paris of ... appearance of thinking of himself, not of her; of his own position, not of hers Otherwise he must have looked at her, he must have turned to her; he must have owned the subtle attraction of her unspoken ... lost, and of the Huguenot nobles on the farther side of the river, of whose safety there seemed some hope Tignonville he best knew why said nothing of the fate of his betrothed, or of his own...
... fertility classes of Northeastern and Southwestern France More questions were raised by the existence of a whorl effect showing the existence of significant whorl-to-whorl variation of branch diameter: ... undertaken to estimate the components of the residual variance of the non-linear least-square global model, i.e the additional sources of variations, once all of the covariates had been taken into ... basal diameter (cm) of the ith branch from the jth whorl of the kth tree GUH’k : distance between tree k apex and the whorl j of this j tree (in m) ak, bk, pk: parameters of the tree model (see...
... bottom to top) of the population of E nigricornis on the different verticils of the crowns of trees; between parenthesis: number of eggs Figure Distribution of the population of E nigricornis ... method of indirect counting consists of stapling on to the trunk strips of double-slotted corrugated cardboard covered with two flat surfaces, one made out of kraft paper, the other of greaseproof ... west of the Mediterranean area, where it is endemic Its introduction into the South-East ofFrance is at the origin of the rapid multiplication of xylophagous which brought about the dieback of...
... oak in France has penetrated northwards to above the 45th parallel, to the Vendée and the southern extremity of the Dombes Because of the above ecological and of holm oak, we considered it of interest ... populations of holm oak present notable differences, though no abrupt discontinuities are apparent The south ofFrance is the site of extreme types: Q ilex and Q rotundifolia, but with a continuum of ... heights of the same tree or taken in isolation in relatively clear or densely wooded areas The effects of the organization and spatialtemporal evolution of populations on the biochemical structure of...
... the kind of fruit in the collecting localities, is available Influence of D the type of fruit in the population studied The heterogeneity demonstrated in table might be due to the kind of fruit ... analysis to populations exclusively to the South ofFrance II Material and methods A Collections Wild made were collected and brought to the labofrozen and then used for electrophoresis All the ... latitude Because of the overlap between the latitudinal distribution and the nature of the fruit in our populations (fig 1), it was necessary to examine the latitudinal relationships of allelic frequencies...
... I.-Founding of the Bank ofFrance - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 11.-The charter or privilege of the Bank of France- Crisis of 1805 -111.-The fundamental statutes of the Bank ofFrance ... evolution of credit with a single bank of issue regulated in its operations.-Loans on securities, 1834.-Formation of new departmental banks.Plurality of banks of issue.-Branch offices of the Bank of France. -Crisis ... the time of the founding of the Bank of France- a bank which was to possess later the sole right of issue for the whole of France, influencing a t the same time the general organization of the credit...
... presentation of the data in a way to sway the audience into thinking a certain way is a good example of issue framing In this case, the application of different methods of calculating the net impact of ... they have lost their national identity because of the dilution of their culture This is the foundation of the second area of resentment: erosion of national identity and pride (Guibernau 2010: ... higher levels of education and occupational skills tend to be more in favour of immigration than those who are less educated or skilled, regardless of the level of education or skill of immigrants...
... queens ofFrance there were during the sixteenth century, and three of these may be accepted as types of purity, piety, and goodness: Claude, first wife of Francis I.; Elizabeth of France, wife of ... effects of the civil war, all thefts, murders, incests, and adulteries, as well as the profanation of the sepulchres of the ancestors of the royal family, the burning of the bones of Louis XI and of ... the morals of polite society, and the ideal love of the time They are a medley of crude equivocalities, of the grossness of the fabliaux, of Rabelais, and of the delicate preciosity of the seventeenth...
... pleasantest officers' "Y" in France, but owing to the daily diminishing of the personnel at G.H.Q the business of the "Y" is rapidly falling off I was sent here principally on account of my knowledge of ... depth of wells, Roman methods of heating water, etc., all with the continuous stream of jokes that congenial Americans keep up when they are off for a good time These were the officers of F Co., ... lonely This whole immense silence and desertion told of pressing crowds, of fierce exertion, of wild excitement, of cursing and of praying, of roaring and blazing and dying Eight months ago it...
... final til midnight of the last day of the month of any such announcement The official release date of all Project Gutenberg Etexts is at Midnight, Central Time, of the last day of the stated month ... day the Duke of Gloucester died of the small-pox, by the great negligence of the doctors 14th (Office day) I got L42 15s appointed me by bill for my employment of Secretary to the 4th of this month, ... list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file for those who may wish to sample the author's ideas before making an entire meal of them D.W.] THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A F.R.S CLERK OF...
... final til midnight of the last day of the month of any such announcement The official release date of all Project Gutenberg Etexts is at Midnight, Central Time, of the last day of the stated month ... founder of Quebec; and it is a rich part of our heritage that he founded New France in the spirit of unselfishness, of loyalty, and of faith BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Original Text The best edition of ... Trading Companies of New France, ' p 49.] We are now on the threshold of Champlain's career, but only on the threshold The voyage of 1603, while full of prophecy and presenting features of much interest,...
... to France with so little of accurate knowledge of the corps, of the possibilities for enlistment, and of the nature of the requirements for the service Our knowledge of it, up to the time of ... sense of height." He saw towns, villages, networks of trenches, columns of toy troops moving up ribbons of road all in the patterns of a Turkish rug And the next day, he was at the headquarters of ... air vibrated with the hum of machinery, with the clang of hammers upon anvils and the roar of motors in process of being tested There was a small army of women doing work of many kinds They were...