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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Francois de Montmorency Laval
Appointed Vicar Apostolic of New France, with the title of Bishop of Petrea, Laval was consecrated on 8 Dec., 1658, by the papal nuncio Piccolomini in the abbatical church of St-Germain-des-Prés, Paris.
Laval's first relation to the pope (1660) breathes admiration for the natural grandeur of the country, courage and hope for the future, and praise for the zeal of the Jesuits.
Laval's foresight made him foster the most cherished devotions of the Church: belief in the Immaculate Conception, the titular of his cathedral, and the cult of the Holy Family, which flourished on Canadian soil (Encyclical of Leo XIII).
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 Pierre Laval   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Laval was the leading spokesman for a faction demanding a new order in the wake of defeat.
Laval was dismissed and arrested on December 13, 1940.
Laval was shot four times while reviewing the Legion des Volontaires Francais at Versailles on August 27, 1941, survived his wounds and was returned to power in Vichy on April 18,1942.
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 MSN Encarta - Search View - Laval
Laval, Pierre (1883-1945), French politician, a member of the Vichy government of German-occupied France during World War II (1939-1945) and a leader in efforts to collaborate with Germany.
After serving as minister of labor in 1932, Laval held the ministry of foreign affairs from 1934 to 1935, and in that capacity he arranged a mutual military assistance pact with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Laval was executed in Fresnes Prison, in Paris.
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 Pierre Laval
Laval developed a close relationship with Otto Abetz, the German ambassador in France, and on 22nd October, 1940, he met Adolf Hitler and proposed that the two countries should work closely together.
Laval recovered and by the spring of 1942 he was ready to return to political life.
Laval never suspected the inhuman system and the atrocities to which the people who were arrested and deported to the east were subjected.
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 Laval   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Laval used to be a set of municipalities but they merged in 1965.
Laval has been growing at such a quick rate ever since that the government of Quebec decided to make it its own administrative region in 1987.
The population of Laval is 284,164 spanning an area 245 sq.
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 AllRefer.com - Pierre Laval (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
With Sir Samuel Hoare (later Viscount Templewood), he proposed (Dec., 1935) a settlement to halt the Italian conquest of Ethiopia; the plan was seen as appeasement of Benito Mussolini, and his government collapsed.
In the Vichy government under Marshal PEtain he became vice premier and foreign minister, but in Dec., 1940, he was dismissed and replaced by Admiral Darlan, apparently on suspicion that he was planning to overthrow PEtain.
Laval defended himself brilliantly and ascribed patriotic motives to his opportunist policies.
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 frlaval
Laval, trusting in God, set about his new ministry with joy and enthusiasm.He was not so arrogant as to assume that people, so recently emancipated, would listen to him just because he was a priest.
Laval awakened in them God's love and their own sense of self worth, despite the oppression and prejudice which was their lot on a daily basis.
Laval to pray and thank God for the life of this man. In 1977, the government of Mauritius declared September 9th, the anniversary of Laval's death, a national holiday.
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 Laval, François Xavier de on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The clergy of New France was under the archbishop of Rouen, and it was the desire of the Jesuits to be directly under the pope that caused Laval to be sent (1659) as vicar apostolic in New France.
Laval returned (1679) to France to protest against the actions of Frontenac and the so-called brandy parliament.
Laval testily disapproved of some of the new bishop's ways, but the church continued strong and Laval's influence continued; when Saint-Vallier was in Europe for long periods (1694-97, 1700-1708) Laval administered the see.
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 Laval on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Laval was a center of the Chouans in the French Revolution.
Pierre Laval: the man in the white tie: Richard Wilkinson exposes prejudice and myth in assessing the career of a key figure in modern French history.(Profiles in Power)
Moody's upgrades Alfa Laval's senior implied rating to Ba1; Senior notes at Ba2; assigns Ba1 to new senior facilities; Outlook stable; Approximately EUR 795.0 million of debt securities affected.
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 Laval, Pierre. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
In the Vichy government under Marshal Pétain he became vice premier and foreign minister, but in Dec., 1940, he was dismissed and replaced by Admiral Darlan, apparently on suspicion that he was planning to overthrow Pétain.
Laval’s government drafted laborers for German factories, cooperated in the persecution and deportation of Jews to death camps, authorized a French fascist militia, and instituted a rule of terror.
His notes for his defense were edited by his daughter, Josée Laval, comtesse de Chambrun, and appeared in English in 1948.
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 LAVAL - LoveToKnow Article on LAVAL
In 1423 he served in the French army against England, and in 1428 was taken prisoner by John Talbot, 1st earl of Shrewsbury, after the capitulation of Laval, which he was defending.
He was made admiral of France in 1437 and marshal in 1439.
After the War of the Public Weal he was restored to favor, and recovered the marshals baton, the king also granting him the offices of lieutenant-general to the government of Paris and governor of Picardy, and conferring upon him the collar of the order of St Michael.
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 Definition of Gustaf de Laval
In 1887 he built a small steam turbine to demonstrate that such devices could be constructed on a that scale, and in 1890 developed a nozzle to increase the speed of the steam entering the turbine.
De Laval also made important contributions to the dairy industry, including the first centifugal milk-cream separator and early milking machines, the first of which he patented in 1894.
Gustaf de Laval is interred in the Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.
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 Pierre Laval   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A member of the Socialist Party from 1903, Laval became a lawyer in Paris in 1909 and promptly made a name for himself by his defense of trade unionists and leftists.
Elected deputy for Aubervilliers in 1914, he urged a negotiated peace to end World War I. Defeated in the 1919 election, he left the Socialist Party in 1920, became mayor of Aubervilliers (1923-44), and was reelected deputy in 1924, leaving the Chamber to become a senator in 1927.
Laval's control of France deteriorated with the growth of the resistance movement and the attacks of extremist collaborators such as Marcel Deat, with whom the Germans forced him to work.
www.j-bradford-delong.net /TCEH/pierrelaval.html   (584 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Laval University of Quebec
The University of Laval was founded in 1852 by the Seminary of Quebec; the royal charter granted to it by Queen Victoria was signed at Westminster, 8 December, 1852.
The control of doctrine and discipline devolves upon a superior council composed of the archbishop and bishops of the Province of Quebec, under the presidency of the Archbishop of Quebec, who is himself chancellor of the university.
Conformably to a decision of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda, dated 1 February, 1876, an extension of the faculties of the university was made in favour of Montreal, the archbishop of which was named vice-chancellor of the university.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/09047b.htm   (1062 words)

  
 Bl. Francis de Laval
Laval would have been ordained a priest before 1647, but the death in quick succession of his father and two older brothers, left him heir to the family responsibilities, and he had to take time off to attend to them.
Laval proved to be the ideal leader: a churchman of vision, a patriot who was still not afraid to defend the Church when civil officials interfered; a noble- man who could command, yet was himself a pattern of humility and devotion.
Laval's focus on education was thorough and durable.
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 Laval   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The city is coextensive with Ile Jesus (Jesus Island) and separated from Ile de Montreal (Montreal Island) by the Riviere des Prairies.
Located near the city of Montreal, Laval is a residential, commercial, and manufacturing center.
The city of Laval was formed and incorporated in 1965, when 14 municipalities amalgamated.
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 Université Laval
Université Laval traces its origins back to 1663, when Monseigneur François de Laval, the first bishop of New France, founded the Séminaire de Québec with the authorization of the King of France, Louis XIV.
As Canada's first university, Université Laval was the first institution in North America to offer higher education in French.
Students are housed in one of four residence halls on the Laval campus, alongside native French speakers.
www.georgetown.edu /programs/oip/os/sites/canada/laval.htm   (317 words)

  
 Search Results for "laval"
Laval, Pierre, (pyer laval´) (KEY), 1883-1945, French politician.
Laval University, at Quebec, Que., Canada; Roman Catholic, coeducational, French language; chartered 1852, an outgrowth of a seminary established 1663 by Bishop Laval....
Laval, François Xavier de, (fraNswa´ zavya´ d laval´) (KEY), 1623-1708, French prelate in Canada, first bishop of Quebec.
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 Laval - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A city and administrative region in Quebec near Montreal: see Laval, Quebec
Laval is also part of the name of several communes of France:
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
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 Laval Room   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Laval Room has been designed for multi-purpose use, mainly as a meeting room, rest room or for informal gatherings and as a reading room and for consulting bibliography.
The project chosen on this occasion was Laval Technopole, of which the Biotech City forms a part, as its operational model is very similar to that of the PCB.
Laval Technopole, situated on the island of Laval, is an industrial park centre aimed at promoting and developing this area of Quebec.
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 City of Laval Library Network - History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The library is integrated into the city of Laval, as a division of the Service des Affaires culturelles.
The libraries became an independent department, the city of Laval was able to obtain grants and subsidies from the Ministère des Affaires culturelles.
The library department is combined with the arts and recreation and community life departments under the name of the Culture, Recreation, and Community Life department.
www.ville.laval.qc.ca /pls/portal30/docs/folder/biblio/html/english/histoire.html   (836 words)

  
 Alfa laval Separation, Inc. v. U.S.
After a 1996 maintenance inspection, Alfa Laval informed the Navy that certain purifiers on the Navy's DD963 class destroyers were beyond repair, and offered to supply updated models for a total cost of approximately $18.9 million, at a per-unit price of approximately $350,000.
Alfa Laval contends, and we agree, that the Navy's error was prejudicial.
Alfa Laval, an irrefutably competent supplier, submitted the only bid meeting all of the government's requirements, at a lower per-unit price than it had charged for the same purifiers in two recent procurements: it must have had a substantial chance to receive the contract award.
www.ll.georgetown.edu /Federal/judicial/fed/opinions/98opinions/98-5087.html   (1213 words)

  
 City of Laval - General Information
The town of Laval, is located in the West of France, in the department of "La Mayenne" (in France, a department is a subdivision of the national territory).
Historicaly, Laval was the land of a Baron, and became land of a Comte (earl) in 1429.
The town of Laval is also "prefecture" of the Mayenne, meaning that it's the Department's administration center.
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 France.com forums Forums - POPULATION OF LAVAL, FRANCE
I would like to pick up a rental car in Laval rather than Rennes as Rennes is so big to drive to the American Brittany Cemetery in St. james.
I'm not sure about the population of Laval, but it is smaller than Rennes, for sure.
There are rental companies with offices in Laval, so you'll be able to rent a car there.
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 Laval University Robotics Laboratory
The Laval University Robotics Laboratory is part of the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Faculty of Science and Engineering.
Established in 1989 by Professor Clément M. Gosselin, the research team is now composed of more than twenty graduate students and research associates.
Laval University is located in Quebec City, the capital of the province of Quebec, the heart of French North America.
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 Laval University --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Laval's predecessor institution, the Seminary of Quebec, considered the first Canadian institution of higher learning, was founded by François de Montmorency Laval, first Roman Catholic bishop of Quebec, in 1663.
Queen Victoria granted the seminary a university charter in 1852, and it was...
Ordained in the Dominican order in 1928, he was associated with Laval University, Quebec, from 1938 to 1955, first...
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 SWLSB Schools and Centres   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Western Laval High School acknowledges that students have the right to learn and socialize in a supportive, safe and healthy environment.
As such, Western Laval High School is dedicated to creating and maintaining a learning environment of the highest quality.
We promote a learning environment that is characterized by mutual respect for self and others, consideration, social and moral development of all of its members, freedom from discrimination and freedom from any form of disruptive or violent behaviour.
www.swlauriersb.qc.ca /english/schools_centres/schools/western_laval_high.html   (787 words)

  
 CBC - Canada Votes 2004
This riding is located in the central part of the city of Laval, on Île Jésus, north of Montreal.
This riding was created in the 2004 redistribution from 70 per cent of Laval Centre and 17 per cent of Laval West.
It consisted of 32 per cent of Ahuntsic, 26 per cent of Laval, 22 per cent of Dollard and 20 per cent of Duvernay.
www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/riding/064   (719 words)

  
 Pierre Laval
Pierre Laval: the man in the white tie: Richard Wilkinson exposes prejudice and myth in assessing the career of a key figure in modern French history.(Profiles in Power) (History Review)
Partnership Between the Laval Police Department and Correctional Service of Canada Against the Entry of Narcotics Into Leclerc Institution.
Laval faces admission cuts if no reno (Medical Post)
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 CTV.ca | Laval wins its second straight Vanier Cup
Leblanc and Jeronimo Huerta-Flores added singles in the fourth quarter and the Huskies conceded a safety to Laval, which has won three championships in six years and must now be considered the top program in Canada.
Laval's defence surrendered just 34 of the team's 66 points against in the regular season.
Both clubs muddled through a first half, which ended 1-0 for Saskatchewan in what is believed to be the lowest-scoring first half in the game's history, although CIS officials could not confirm that.
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