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The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock ...
Kakariko Village (カカリコ村, Kakariko-mura) is a fictional village of The Legend of Zelda series that appears in A Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, Four Swords Adventures, Twilight Princess, A Link Between Worlds, and Breath of the Wild. Kakariko is often portrayed as a prosperous small town. Karnaca. Dishonored 2.
Algonquin Bay is a small town in Northern Ontario, a fictionalized version of the city of North Bay . Alissar. Lyon Sprague de Camp. Novarian series. A Novarian city-state. Al-Ybi. Terry Pratchett. Discworld. Al-Ybi is a mostly unremarkable desert city in Klatch.
Biography. Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant was born on 5 August 1850 at the late 16th-century Château de Miromesnil (near Dieppe in the Seine-Inférieure (now Seine-Maritime) Department, France), the elder son of Gustave de Maupassant (1821–99) and Laure Le Poittevin, [ 6] whose family hailed from the prosperous bourgeoisie.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (French:; 6 August 1715 – 28 May 1747) was a French writer and moralist. He died at age 31, in broken health, having published the year prior—anonymously—a collection of essays and aphorisms with the encouragement of Voltaire, his friend. He first received public notice under his own name in 1797 ...
Category: French writers by city. ... Writers from Paris (3 C, 1,515 P) Q. Writers from Quimper (9 P) R. Writers from Reims (30 P) Writers from Rennes (36 P)
Few of the writers of Paris were actually born in Paris; they were attracted to the city first because of its university, then because it was the center of the French publishing industry, home of the major French newspapers and journals, of its important literary salons, and the company of the other writers, poets, and artists.
Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758), author of Lettres d'une Péruvienne. Abbé Prévost (1697–1763), author of Manon Lescaut. Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1707–1777) Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), philosophe, author of Julie, or the New Heloise. Denis Diderot (1713–1784), philosophe, author of Rameau's Nephew.