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	Desk - LoveToKnow 1911
		The bureau - the word is the French generic appellation for a desk - derives its name from the material with which it was originally covered (Fr.
		In so far as it is possible to generalize upon such a detail it would appear that the bureau was the desk of the yeoman and what we now call the lower middle class, and that the slighter and more table-like forms were preferred by those higher in the social scale.
		The "bureau du roi" is a large cylinder desk elaborately inlaid in marquetry of woods, and decorated with a wonderful and ornate series of mounts consisting of mouldings, plaques, vases and statuettes of gilt bronze cast and chased.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Desk (1309 words)

	Bureau du Roi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bureau du Roi ('King's desk'), known in France as the Secrétaire à cylindre de Louis XV ("Louis XV roll-top secretary"), is the name given to the richly ornamented royal Cylinder desk whose construction was started under Louis XV and finished under Louis XVI of France.
		Made for the new Cabinet du Roi at the Palace of Versailles, it was transferred to the Louvre Museum in Paris after the French Revolution, but has been returned to the Palace of Versailles in the 20th century where it stands again in the room where it was standing before the Revolution, i.e.
		At the heart of Louis XIV's Baroque Versailles stood the Chambre du Roi, the king's bedroom, centered upon the King's Bed behind a railing, and its morning rituals of the lever du Roi (the King's arising), all framing the person of the king in a hieratic canopy of estate, attended by the recently-tamed nobles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bureau_du_Roi (592 words)

	Bureau du Roi - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Bureau du Roi ('King's desk'), known in France as the Secrétaire à cylindre de Louis XV ("Louis XV roll-top secretary"), is the name given to the richly ornamented royal Cylinder desk whose construction was started under Louis XV and finished under Louis XVI of France.
		Made for the new Cabinet du Roi at the Palace of Versailles, it was transferred to the Louvre Museum in Paris after the French Revolution, but has been returned to the Palace of Versailles in the 20th century where it stands again in the room where it was standing before the Revolution, i.e.
		At the heart of Louis XIV's Baroque Versailles stood the Chambre du Roi, the king's bedroom, centered upon the King's Bed behind a railing, and its morning rituals of the lever du Roi (the King's arising), all framing the person of the king in a hieratic canopy of estate, attended by the recently-tamed nobles.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Bureau_du_Roi (579 words)

	Le Louvre museum - France.com
		It has a large furniture collection, whose most spectacular item used to be the Bureau du Roi of the 18th century, now returned to the Palace of Versailles.
		In the 14th century, Charles V turned it into a palace, but Francois I and Henri II tore it down to build a real palace; the foundations of the original fortress tower are under the Salle des Cariatides (Room of the Caryatids) now.
		The existing parts of the Chateau du Louvre were begun in 1546.
	www.france.com /docs/541.html (732 words)

	Bureau 13 - Bureau13
		Bureau 13 is a fictional secret intelligence agency used to investigate and combat supernatural events.
		Bureau 13 has a definite tongue in cheek attitude that is emphasized by both the background stories and the illustrations.
		Bureau 13, now an ultramodern force, more secret than before, fights to stem the growth of ancient magic and the supernatural that threatens the innocent.
	www.kopete.org /Bureau-13.html (443 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Louvre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Built as a fortified royal palace for Philip Augustus in the centre of Paris and in the axis of the Champs-ÃlysÃ©es, parts of it were first opened to the public as a museum on November 8, 1793, during the French Revolution.
		In the 14th century, Charles V turned it into a palace of the arts, but Francois I and Henri II tore it down to build a real palace; the foundations of the original fortress tower are now under the Salle des Cariatides (Room of the Caryatids).
		Napoleon I built the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel (Triumph Arch) in 1805 to commemorate his victories and the Jardin du Carrousel.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Louvre (2010 words)

	Reporters sans frontières - Maroc
		Le 12 janvier 2005, le journaliste Ali Lmrabet a déposé une demande d’autorisation pour la parution d’un nouvel hebdomadaire auprès du bureau des journaux du tribunal de première instance de Rabat, en remplacement de Demain magazine, interdit au Maroc depuis mai 2003.
		En retour, on lui a refusé un récépissé puis l’accès au bureau du procureur du roi.
		Le 12 janvier, le journaliste marocain s’est présenté au bureau des journaux du tribunal de première instance de Rabat pour déposer un dossier de demande de parution d’un nouvel hebdomadaire francophone satirique.
	www.rsf.org /article.php3?id_article=12407 (660 words)

	Palace of Versailles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Louis XIV himself lived there, and symbolically the central room of the long extensive symmetrical range of buildings was the King's Bedchamber (the Chambre du Roi), which itself was centered on the lavish and symbolic state bed, set behind a rich railing not unlike a communion rail.
		All the power of France emanated from this centre: there were government offices here; as well as the homes of thousands of courtiers, their retinues and all the attendant functionaries of court.
		After the Revolution the paintings and sculpture, like the crown jewels, were consigned to the new Musée du Louvre as part of the cultural patrimony of France.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Palace_of_Versailles (2746 words)

	DESK (from Lat. discus... - Online Information article about DESK (from Lat. discus...
		form, the mahogany bureau was usually an exceedingly presentable piece of furniture.
		Indeed, the " Bureau du roi " which was made for Louis XV.
		The " bureau du roi " is a large cylinder desk elaborately inlaid in marquetry of woods, and decorated with a wonderful and ornate series of mounts.consisting of See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /DEM_DIO/DESK_from_Lat_discus_quoit_in_m.html (1769 words)

	Palace of Versailles - tScholars.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Louis XIV himself lived there, and symbolically the central room of the long extensive symmetrical range of buildings was the King's Bedroom (the Chambre du Roi), which itself was centered on the lavish and symbolic state bed, set behind a rich railing not unlike a communion rail.
		All the power of France emanated from this centre: there were government offices here; as well as the homes of thousands of individuals.
		At the Revolution the paintings and sculpture, like the crown jewels, were consigned to the new Musée du Louvre as part of the cultural patrimony of France.
	www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Palace_of_Versailles (2416 words)

	Charles Cheriff Galleries Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He is best known for three masterpieces; La Danse from the Opera of Paris, the decoration on the Flore pavillion at the Louvre, and La Fontaine des quatre parties du monde on the Avenue of the Observatory.
		He continued to use international fairs as a means of exploring new markets, exhibiting at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, the Liege in Belgium and the 1908 Franco-British exhibition in London.
		Relating to a style of the mid 18th century that was characterized by asymmetric curves and heavy carved ornamentation.
	www.charlescheriffgalleries.com /glossary.htm (2011 words)

	Bureau du directeur général des élections
		Une élection est tenue sous ordonnance du lieutenant-gouverneur en conseil et peut avoir lieu n'importe quand à l'intérieur d'une période de cinq ans.
		Les élections sont gérées par le Bureau du directeur général des élections qui travaille de concert avec 55 directeurs de scrutin, lesquels doivent gérer le processus électoral dans leurs circonscriptions électorale respective.
		En 1784, en raison de l'augmentation considérable de la population du comté de Sunbury, la province du Nouveau-Brunswick est née.
	www.gnb.ca /elections/history-f.asp (937 words)

	BUREAUCRACY
		Under the constitutional government, the ministers of the various departments were insensibly led by their bureaus to imitate this practice of kings.
		On Sundays, after walking four times to and fro between the place Royale and Saint- Paul's church (for her mother made her practise the precepts and the duties of religion), her parents took her to the pavement in front of the Cafe Ture, where they sat on chairs placed between a railing and the wall.
		Baudoyer was considered the more able of the two; his position as head of a bureau presupposed labor that was more intricate and arduous than that of a cashier.
	www.fdungan.com /bureaucracy.htm (17083 words)

	Indes Orientales. / Bonne, Rigobert, 1727-1794 / 1791
		Par M. Bonne, Hydrog(raph)e du Roi, au Bureau de la Marine.
		A Paris, chez Lattre Graveur, rue St. Jacques, pres la Fontaine St. Severin, a la Ville de Bordeaux.
		A Paris, Chez Lattre Graveur Ordinaire du Roy, de Mgr.
	www.davidrumsey.com /maps867.html (411 words)

	Filles du Roi
		he Filles du roi were part of King Louis XIV's program to promote the settlement of his colony in Canada.
		Some were given a royal gift of a dowry of 50 livres for their marriage to one of the many unmarried male colonists in Canada.
		These royal gifts are reflected in some of the marriage contracts entered into by the Filles du roi at the time of their first marriages.
	home.earthlink.net /~dussault/Filles.html (251 words)

	Antiques Furniture - Old And Sold Antiques Auction
		The ebenistes (cabinet makers) of the early eighteenth century had inherited a wonderful tradition of furniture making from their predecessors, among whom was the almost legendary Andre Charles Boulle, who died at the age of ninety in the reign of Louis XV.
		Boulle had been appointed ebeniste du Roi in 1672 and it was he who really laid the foundations of the magnificent furniture-making that was to follow.
		It was he who completed the monumental `Bureau du Roi Louis XV' which had been begun by his great master, Jean Francois Oeben.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles02/article1176.shtml (2412 words)

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		Il descendit un matin dans la demeure du Scythe Babouc, sur le rivage de l'Oxus, et lui dit: Babouc, les folies et les excès des Perses ont attiré notre colère: il s'est tenu hier une assemblée des génies de la Haute-Asie pour savoir si on châtierait Persépolis, ou si on la détruirait.
		Deux ou trois personnes, qui paraissaient des rois et des reines, parurent bientôt dans le vestibule de ce palais; leur langage était très différent de celui du peuple; il était mesuré, harmonieux, et sublime.
		Le devoir des rois, l'amour de la vertu, les dangers des passions étaient exprimés par des traits si vifs et si touchants, que Babouc versa des larmes.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext04/8babo10.txt (7092 words)

	OCHA (BURUNDI) FACILITE LE SERVICE INFORMATION
		La famille du Roi NTARE V (Charles NDIZEYE) assassiné le 29 avril 1972 demande que soient élucidées les circonstances de sa mort qui restent toujours obscures.
		Les parlementaires du groupe CNDD ont décidé de ne plus remettre le pied à l’Assemblée Nationale de Transition suite à l’élargissement du bureau qui vient de passer de 6 à 8 membres.
		The First Lady visited AIDS patients in Roi Khaled and Prince Regent Charles hospitals, while the Vice-President attended a mass celebrated for victims of AIDS at Regina Mundi cathedral.
	www.reliefweb.int /ochaburundi/am_brief/bur300404.htm (418 words)

	Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday : newsday.co.tt : (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Champs-Elysees, is also named "La plus belle avenue du monde" in French (the most beautiful avenue in the world), with its large granite sidewalks and plane trees.
		THE LOUVRE MUSEUM (Musee du Louvre) in Paris, is one of the largest and most famous museums in the world.
		It includes a large furniture collection, whose most spectacular item used to be the Bureau du Roi of the 18th Century, now returned to the Palace of Versailles.
	newsday.co.tt /news/0,30962.html (1178 words)

	01 Location Ordinateur Portable Bureau, Videoprojecteur, Matériel Informatique, courte longue durée
		Catégorie 1, Ordinateur de Bureau, pour les durée : 1/2m, 3/5m, 6/9m, 10/12m le tarif indiqué, correspond à la redevance mensuelle, écran CRT 15'' Compris.
		Catégorie 3, Ordinateur de Bureau de bureau Multimédia, traitement Image avancé, pour les durée : 1/2m, 3/5m, 6/9m, 10/12m le tarif indiqué, correspond à la redevance mensuelle, écran LCD 15'' Compris.
		Catégorie 4, Ordinateur de Bureau Développeur / Joueur Pro, pour les durée : 1/2m, 3/5m, 6/9m, 10/12m le tarif indiqué, correspond à la redevance mensuelle, écran LCD 17'' Compris.
	www.01-location-ordinateur.com (531 words)

	USFP
		Mohamed GUESSOUS, membre du Bureau Politique et Professeur Universitaire a répondu à vos questions sur le thème de l'expérience démocratique au Maroc: bilan et perspectives.
		Nouzha CHEKROUNI, membre du Bureau Politique et Ministre chargée des Marocains Résidents à l'Etranger, a répondu à vos questions sur le thème de "La femme, l'immigration et la démocratie".
		D’abord la réunion du conseil national, une rencontre très attendue par les observateurs et ensuite la commémoration du quarantième anniversaire de l’assassinat de Benbarka, alors que l’IER achève sa mission dans quelques semaines.
	www.usfp.ma (2725 words)

	Informat.io on Louvre
		The Louvre Museum (Musée du Louvre), in Paris, France, is the largest, and arguably the most famous, museum in the world -- it received a record 7.3 million visitors in 2005.
		The existing part of the Château du Louvre was begun in 1546.
		The new building, under the administration of the Conseil régional du Nord-Pas-de-Calais will have semi-permanent exhibition space covering at least 5000m².
	www.informat.io /?title=Louvre (1564 words)

	ROI - OneLook Dictionary Search
		ROI : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
		R.O.I, ROI, roi : Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms [home, info]
		Phrases that include ROI: return on investment roi, lahai roi, adenet le roi, bureau du roi, bÃ¢timents du roi, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=ROI (163 words)

	SFDRSC - Officers & Soldiers
		Dictionnaire généalogique des Familles du Québec, by René Jetté, Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1983, Montréal.
		The Berthier Co. was detached from the Allier Regiment.
		The Des Portes Co. was formerly the Du Prat Co.
	www.fillesduroi.org /Regiment/Soldiers/soldiers.html (622 words)

	Galerie de photos - Bureau du Directeur général
		Visite de Son Excellence M. Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva, Président de Brésil, au Bureau international du Travail, lundi 2 juin 2003.
		Visite de Sa Majesté Le Roi Abdallah II et Sa Majesté Reine Rania de la Royaume Hachémite de Jordanie au Bureau international du Travail, jeudi 12 juin 2003.
		Visite de Kofi Annan au Groupe de haut niveau du réseau pour l'emploi des jeunes, Bureau international du Travail, 30 juin 2003.
	www.ilo.org /public/french/bureau/dgo/photos/2003/index.htm (124 words)

	Nepal: A Message for the King
		As a friend of Nepal, we must state that King Gyanendra’s decision fourteen months ago to impose direct palace rule in Nepal has failed in every regard.
		It is time the King recognizes that this is the best way to deal with the Maoist insurgency and to return peace and prosperity to Nepal.
		External links to other Internet sites should not be construed as an endorsement of the views or privacy policies contained therein.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/prs/ps/2006/64295.htm (181 words)

	Palace of Versailles Summary
		Other contents went to serve a new and moral public role: books and medals went to the Bibliothèque Nationale, clocks and scientific instruments (Louis XVI was a connoisseur of science) to the École des Arts et Métiers.
		He conceived the bold scheme of refurnishing Versailles, and the refurnished royal Appartements that tourists view today are due to Verlet's successful initiative, in which textiles were even rewoven to refurbish the state beds.
		Today, the wise visitor is standing at the entrance to the Grands appartements du Roi at 8:30, not to spend hours in line.
	www.bookrags.com /Palace_of_Versailles (3997 words)

	OEBEN, JEAN FRANCOIS - Online Information article about OEBEN, JEAN FRANCOIS
		word from burel or bureau, a coarse cloth used for coverings)
		Oeben is also represented in that collection by a pair of inlaid corner-cupboards.
		These with a bureau and a chiffonier in the Garde Meuble in which bouquets of See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /NUM_ORC/OEBEN_JEAN_FRANCOIS.html (604 words)

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