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 Seine-et-Oise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At its disappearance in 1968, Seine-et-Oise consisted of 688 suburban and rural communes surrounding the Seine département to the north, west, and south.
A small part of Seine-et-Oise was also merged with parts of the Seine département (also disbanded on January 1, 1968) to create the three new départements of Hauts-de-Seine, Val-de-Marne, and Seine-Saint-Denis.
Of the remaining 6% of Seine-et-Oise, 18 communes were grouped with 29 communes of the Seine département to create the Val-de-Marne département.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seine-et-Oise   (567 words)

  
 OISE - LoveToKnow Article on OISE
, a river of northern Franfe, tributary to the Seine, flowing south-west from the Belgian frontier and traversing the departments of Aisne, Oise and Seine-et-Oise.
OISE, a department of northern France, three-fourths of which belonged to Ile-de-France and the rest to Picardy, bounded N. by Somme, E. by Aisne, S. by Seine-et-Marne and Seine-etOise, and W. by Eure and Seine-Infrieure.
Oise is served by the Northern railway, on which Creil is an important junction, and its commerce is facilitated by the Oise and its lateral canal and the Aisne, which afford about 70 m.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /O/OI/OISE.htm   (797 words)

  
 SEINE-ET-MARNE - LoveToKnow Article on SEINE-ET-MARNE
Seine-et-Marne is bounded N. by the department of Oise, N.E. by that of Aisne, E. by Marne and Aube, S.E. by Yonne, S. by Loiret and W. by Seine-et-Oise.
The whole department belongs to the basin of the Seine, and is drained partly by that river and partly by its tributaries the Yonne and the Loing from the left, and from the right the Voulzie, the Yres and the Marne, with its affluents the Ourcq, the Petit Morin and the Grand Morin.
The Seine, the Yonne, the Marne, and the Grand Morin are navigable, and, with the canals of the Loing and the Ourcq and those of Chalifert, Cornillon and Chelles, which cut off the windings of the Marne, form a total waterway of over 200 m.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SE/SEINE_ET_MARNE.htm   (595 words)

  
 Val-d'Oise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Val-d'Oise was created when the former départements Seine and Seine-et-Oise were broken up into six départements in 1968.
Val-d'Oise is a French département named after the Oise River, located in the Île-de-France région.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Val-d%27Oise   (72 words)

  
 Ile-de-France --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
The principal rivers in the région are the Seine and its tributaries, the Marne, Oise, and Aisne.
The région is bounded by the départements of Eure to the northwest, Oise and Aisne to the north, Marne, Aube, and Yonne to the east, Loiret to the south, and Eure-et-Loir to the west.
The région is bounded by the départements of Eure to the northwest, Oise and Aisne to the north, Marne, Aube,...
www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9042118   (1331 words)

  
 SEINE-ET-OISE - LoveToKnow Article on SEINE-ET-OISE
It is bounded by the departments of Seine-et-Marne on the E., Loiret on the S., Eure-et-Loir on the W., Eure on the N.W. and Oise on the N. It encloses the department of Seine.
The Seine and the Oise, and the canals of Ourcq and Chelles provide about 120 m.
on the right the Yres, the Marne, the Oise and the Epte, and on the left the Essonne (joined by the Juine, which passes Etampes), the Orge, the Bivre and the Mauldre.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SE/SEINE_ET_OISE.htm   (709 words)

  
 09iledefrance.htm
The galley is a symbol of the fleet which the Romans are said to have stationed to protect the confluence of the Seine and the Oise.
In 1964, Seine and Seine-et-Oise were reorganised into the seven new départements of Essonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Paris, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne, Val-d'Oise and Yvelines.
The pall symbolises the confluence of the Seine and the Oise.
www.briantimms.com /chf/09iledefrance.htm   (12547 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Oise
Seine-et-Oise, formerly a department in north central France entirely surrounding the department of the Seine, which included the city of Paris.
Oise (department), department in northern France, 5,860 sq km (2,263 sq mi) in area, bounded by the departments of Somme on the north, Aisne on the...
Oise (river), river, western Europe, rising in the Ardennes area of southern Belgium.
encarta.msn.com /Oise.html   (98 words)

  
 Ile de France Antimoon Forum
The région of Ile-de-France is named after the original Carolingian kingdom bounded by the rivers Seine and Marne in the south, Oise in the west, Thève in the north, and Beuvronne in the east — thus forming the isle of France.
Autour de Paris, les Hauts-de-Seine, la Seine-Saint-Denis et le Val-de-Marne forment la petite couronne.
La région fut reconstituée après 1945 et la décentralisation administrative à partir de 1964, puis politique en 1982 a consolidé les anciennes provinces.
www.antimoon.com /forum/2004/5463.htm   (687 words)

  
 Hauts-de-Seine (Department, France)
The quarters also reflected that nine communes of the new department, including Sévres, were formerly in the department of Seine-et-Oise, whereas the remaining ones were formerly in the department of Seine.
It was created in 1964 when the former departments of Seine (75) and Seine-et-Oise (78) were divided.
The field of the shield was quartered and charged with attributes from the coat of arms of the main cities of the department: a nef (ship) for Boulogne-Billancourt, sous-préfecture, symbolizing the location of the city on the river Seine ; bezants for Antony, also sous-préfecture, and a huchet (horn) from the arm of Sèvres.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/fr-92.html   (599 words)

  
 Hauts-de-Seine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hauts-de-Seine was largely part of the Seine département, and to a lesser extent of the Seine-et-Oise département, until 1968.
In the 1990s and early 2000s the Hauts-de-Seine got national attention for a corruption scandal pertaining to the misuse of public funds of the département's housing projects, involving former minister and former president of the conseil général of the Hauts-de-Seine Charles Pasqua and other personalities of the RPR party.
It is small and densely populated and contains the modern office, theatre, and shopping complex known as La Défense with its modern Grande Arche.
www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Hauts-de-Seine   (190 words)

  
 SITOUSLES - MMMg18 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Isodore Claude JACOB [Parents] was born in 1817 in Corbeil, Seine Et Oise.
Felix Gabriel JACOB [Parents] was born on 14 Aug 1824 in Corbeil Essonnes, Seine Et Oise.
Eugenie Berthe JACOB was born on 27 Oct 1851 in St Germains Les Corbeil, Seine Et Oise.
www.users.bigpond.com /mireille6/MMMg18.htm   (295 words)

  
 Seine - the free encyclopedia
The Seine rises in the French région of Burgundy, in the département of Côte-d'Or, 30 km (18 miles) northwest of Dijon at a height of 471 metres (1545 feet).
A seine is also a kind of fishing net.
Its main tributaries are the Aube, Marne and Oise rivers from the north and the Yonne and Eure rivers from the south.
www.free-web-encyclopedia.com /?t=Seine   (295 words)

  
 Prehistoric Europe Encyclopedia Article, History, Biography @ Local Color Art
Cycladic culture decays, being substituted by the new palatine phase of the Minoan culture of Crete.
In the western Danubian region (the Rhine and Seine basins) the culture of Michelsberg displaces its predecessor, Rössen.
About this time, it is believed that Minoan Crete fell under the rule of the Mycenean Greeks.
www.localcolorartists.com /encyclopedia/Prehistoric_Europe   (295 words)

  
 ALL'INSEGNA DEL DIVIN MARCHESE
The Castle of the whip, from the private diary of the Baron de M***, a flagellant of note, Sceaux (Seine), Impr.-édition de Select-Bibliothèque, 26 agosto 1926.
Histoire véridique d'un jeune homme devenu chanteuse nue, Sceaux (Seine), Impr.-édition de 'Select-Bibliothèque', 1927 (in realtà marzo 1928).
Gants glacés et menottes d'or, Sceaux, Select Bibliothèque, 1913.
www.fortunecity.com /victorian/durer/199/insegnab1.htm   (986 words)

  
 British Steam Locos on French Industrial & Lt Railways
Locomotive sold to Brunner and Marchand, dealers, Bouray, Seine et Oise, LV 362, in June 1941.
Later owned by the Société Anonyme des Forges et Aciéries de Nord et Lorraine, Uckange, Moselle, where it was noted as number 5 in June 1961.
Resold in October 1930 to Carrières de la Vallée Heureuse et du Haut Banc, Marquise Rinxent, Pas de Calais, where it was noted derelict in August 1956.
www.irsociety.co.uk /Archives/2/France.htm   (1762 words)

  
 Paix et Liberte Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library
In the fall of 1950, Jean-Paul David, mayor of Mantes, Deputy from Seine-et-Oise and Radical Socialist Party politician, created the organization Paix et Liberté in order to expose what he perceived as the Communist lies presented to the French public through propaganda distributed by the French Communist Party (Parti Communiste Français, PCF).
In fact, the Paix et Liberté poster titled "The Dove that Goes Bang" redesigned Picasso's peace dove adorning the dove with a tank-turret for a head and a cannon for a beak.
This website contains digital images of 35 oversized posters designed by Paix et Liberté; 21 of these are text only and the remaining 14 contain graphic designs either based on Picasso's dove or photographs and caricatures of PCF members or Soviet leaders.
infoshare1.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/mudd/online_ex/paix   (348 words)

  
 Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
His ''Essais en vers et en prose'' ("Attempts in Verse and Prose", 1797) contains the "Marseillaise", a prose tale of the sentimental kind called "Adelaide et Monville", and some occasional poems.
Rouget de Lisle wrote a few other songs of the same kind as the "Marseillaise", and in 1825 he published ''Chants français'' ("French Songs"), in which he set to music fifty songs by various authors.
www.infothis.com /find/Claude_Joseph_Rouget_de_Lisle   (220 words)

  
 Royal Family of Europe - pafg17 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
She was buried on 19 Apr 1712 in, St Denis, Seine, France.
He died on 15 Oct 741 in Cressy Sur Oise, Neustria.
Charles "Martel" Mayor Of The Palace Of AUSTRASIA [Parents] was born in 676 in Of, Heristal,, Neustria.
www.ishipress.com /royalfam/pafg17.htm   (1524 words)

  
 SITOUSLES - MMMg10 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Gabriel Felix JACOB [Parents] was born on 3 Sep 1851 in St Germains Les Corbeil, Seine Et Oise.
Augustine Marie RENAUD.Augustine married Gabriel Felix JACOB on 16 May 1874 in St Pierre Du Perray, Corbeil Essonnes, Seine Et Oise.
He married Augustine Marie RENAUD on 16 May 1874 in St Pierre Du Perray, Corbeil Essonnes, Seine Et Oise.
www.users.bigpond.com /mireille6/MMMg10.htm   (257 words)

  
 François Magendie (www.whonamedit.com)
Mémoire sur l’émétine et sur les trois espèces d’ipécacuanha.
Journal de physiologie expérimentale et de pathologie, 1822, 2: 366-371.
Magendie's Formulaire introduced into medical practice several of the newly discovered alkaloids, notably morphine, veratrine, brucine, piperine, emetine, as well as quinine, and strychnine.
www.whonamedit.com /doctor.cfm/2104.html   (3226 words)

  
 Jan's Boulonnais page
These pretty "mareyeuses", heavy-set and full of energy, are often white, blueish, almost mother-of-pearl, and their type can still be found on the farms of the Santerre, the Cambrésis and the pays de Caux.
His head is less bony, the jowl and eye-sockets are less pronounced than those of the Percheron; the expression of his gaze is even more majestic and his ears very prettily shaped.
As early as the XVII century, the Boulonnais horse was known and renowned under this name, and already the merchants from the Picardie and Haute-Normandie came to the area in order to buy foals for their trade.
home.flash.net /~estracrs/boulonnais.html   (1032 words)

  
 Saint King Louis IX Capet of France - Holy Roman Emperor Henry V Franconia
King Philip II Capet (Augustus) of France was born on 22 Aug 1165 in Paris, Seine, France.
He was married to Adelaide (Alix) of Savoy in Apr 1115 in Paris, Seine, France.
King Louis VII Capet (the Younger) of France was born in 1119/20 in Reims, Marne, France.
www.geocities.com /jerry_l.geo/d150.htm   (1373 words)

  
 JewishEncyclopedia.com - LIPPMANN, MAURICE:
Lippmann has published: "L'Art dans l'Armure et dans les Armes." He is an officer of the Legion of Honor.
In 1889 he was appointed a member of the commission of military art for the French Exposition of 1890.
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www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=451&letter=L   (119 words)

  
 Seine-Oise-Marne (SOM). © The Comparative Archaeology WEB
The purpose of this text is to provide a general overview of the culture and is intended as a resource for students and teachers of European Archaeology.
www.comp-archaeology.org /SOM.htm   (119 words)

  
 info: OISE
Oise is part of the current region of Picardie and is situated 35 km north of Paris.
Oise was on of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790.
Oise is a département in the north of France named after the Oise River.
www.mp3-midi.biz /Oise   (119 words)

  
 Category:Archaeological cultures - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As the archaeological cultures refer only to material items, sometimes even the purpose of which is uncertain, the word "culture" can be misleading.
An archaeological culture is a pattern of similar artefacts and features found within a specific area over a limited period of time.
This category currently also includes archaeological industries which are similar to archaeological cultures but are limited only to artefact types.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Archaeological_cultures   (119 words)

  
 Égide - Ile-de-France Region
But Paris also has excellent facilities, such as the very recent Bibliothèque de France, on the banks of the Seine, addressing its very dense population of students and researchers.
Of course, Paris is known throughout the world for sites of tourist and cultural interest like the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe and the Louvre.
www.egide.asso.fr /uk/guide/connaitre/regions/iledefrance.jhtml   (375 words)

  
 THE CONQUEST OF BREAD: NOTES
(2) Summing up the figures given on agriculture, figures proving that the inhabitants of the two départements of Seine and Seine-et-Oise can perfectly well live on their own territory by employing very little time annually to obtain food, we have:--
" Physiologie et culture du blé," by Risler, Paris, 1881.
"Le blé, sa culture intensive et extensive," by Lecouteux, Paris, 1883.
dwardmac.pitzer.edu /anarchist_archives/kropotkin/conquest/notes.html   (298 words)

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