Ambroise, sometimes Ambroise of Normandy, was a Norman poet and chronicler of the Third Crusade, author of a work called L'Estoire de la guerre sainte, which describes in rhyming Old French verse the adventures of Richard Cœur de Lion as a crusader. The poem is known to us only through one Vatican manuscript, and long escaped the notice of historians.
Mirabel is an off-island suburb of Montreal, located in southern Quebec.
Didot is the name of a family of French printers, punch-cutters and publishers. Through its achievements and advancements in printing, publishing and typography, the family has lent its name to typographic measurements developed by François-Ambroise Didot and the Didot typeface developed by Firmin Didot. The Didot company of France was ultimately incorporated into the modern CPI printing group.
Ambroise-Marie Carré OP was a Catholic priest, author and member of the Académie française. Born in Fleury-les-Aubrais in Loiret, France, Carré studied at l'école Saint-Joseph and the collège Sainte-Croix de Neuilly before entering the Dominican order in 1926 and being ordained a priest in 1933. Not long thereafter, he was to edit, from 1936 until 1939, the Revue des Jeunes. Under the German Occupation, following the capitulation of the French government to the Nazis during the Second World War, Carré aided those persecuted by the Vichy government, regardless of their religion or ethnicity; for this, he was awarded the Légion d'honneur and the Croix de guerre.
Conflans-Sainte-Honorine is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the north-western suburbs of Paris, 24.2 km (15.0 mi) from the center of Paris.
Gilbert Génébrard was a French Benedictine exegete and Orientalist.
Jean-Baptiste Glaire was a French Catholic priest, Hebraist, and Biblical scholar.
Sainte-Eulalie-en-Royans is a French commune in the Drôme department in southeastern the region Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes.
François Vatable was a French humanist scholar, a Hellenist and Hebraist.
Abbé François-Napoléon-Marie Moigno was a French Catholic priest and one time Jesuit, as well as a physicist and author. He considered himself a student of Cauchy.
After a number of French Bible translations in the Middle Ages, the first printed translation of the Bible into French was the work of the French theologian Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples in 1530 in Antwerp, Belgium. This was substantially revised and improved in 1535 by Pierre Robert Olivétan. This Bible, in turn, became the basis of the first French Catholic Bible, published at Leuven in 1550, the work of Nicholas de Leuze and François de Larben. Finally, the Bible de Port-Royal, prepared by Antoine Lemaistre and his brother Louis Isaac Lemaistre, finished in 1695, achieved broad acceptance among both Catholics and Protestants. Jean-Frédéric Ostervald's version (1724) also enjoyed widespread popularity.
Théodore Ballu was a French architect who designed numerous public buildings in Paris. He is the father of the politician Roger Ballu and the grandfather of the industrialist and politician Guillaume Ballu.
Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare is a municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Joliette Regional County Municipality.
The Conseil scolaire catholique Providence is the French language separate school board for southwestern Ontario, Canada. The district manages 23 primary (elementary) schools and 7 secondary schools. The board was previously known as the Conseil scolaire de district des écoles catholiques du Sud-Ouest (CSDÉCSO).
The Commission scolaire des Samares is a francophone school district headquartered Saint-Félix-de-Valois in the Canadian province of Quebec. It comprises several primary schools and high schools across municipalities in the Lanaudière region. The commission is overseen by a board of elected school trustees.
Events from the year 1682 in France
The Sainte-Anne Hospital Center is a hospital located in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, specializing in psychiatry, neurology, neurosurgery, neuroimaging and addiction. With its creation dating to 1651, the organization remains, along with the Esquirol Hospital in Saint-Maurice, the symbol of psychiatric asylums in France.
Alexandre Georges was a French organist and composer.
