The government of Haiti is a semi-presidential republic,a multi-party system wherein the President of Haiti is head of state elected directly by popular elections. The Prime Minister acts as head of government and is appointed by the President,chosen from the majority party in the National Assembly. Executive power is exercised by the President and Prime Minister who together constitute the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of the National Assembly of Haiti. The government is organized unitarily,thus the central government delegates powers to the departments without a constitutional need for consent. The current structure of Haiti's political system was set forth in the Constitution of March 29,1987.
Christian Marie Marc Lacroix is a French fashion designer. The name may also refer to the company he founded.
Royal Albert Elisabeth Club de Mons,simply known as R.A.E.C. Mons or Mons,is a defunct Belgian football club formed in Mons,Hainaut Province,in 1910 and based at Stade Charles Tondreau from 1910 to 2015.
The National Assembly consists of the bicameral legislature of the Republic of Haiti,consisting of the upper house as the Senate and the lower house as the Chamber of Deputies .[A88] Both assemblies conduct legislative sessions at the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.[A103]
Alain Richard is a French politician who served as Minister of Defence from 1997 to 2002. A former member of the Socialist Party (PS),he joined La République En Marche! in 2017.
The First Empire of Haiti,officially known as the Empire of Haiti,was an elective monarchy in North America. Haiti was controlled by France before declaring independence on 1 January 1804. The Governor-General of Haiti,Jean-Jacques Dessalines,created the empire on 22 September 1804. After being proclaimed emperor by the Generals of the Haitian Revolution Army,he held his coronation ceremony on 6 October and took the name Jacques I. The constitution of 20 May 1805 set out the way the empire was to be governed,with the country split into six military divisions. The general of each division corresponded directly with the emperor or the general in chief appointed by the emperor. The constitution also set out the succession to the throne,with the crown being elective and the reigning emperor having the power to appoint his successor. The constitution also banned white people,with the exception of naturalised Germans and Poles,from owning property inside the empire.
Events from the year 1967 in France.
Christophe-AndréFrassa is a French politician and a member of the Senate of France. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement Party.
Nathalie Goulet is a member of the Senate of France,representing the Orne department. She is a member of the Union of Democrats and Independents and sits with the political group of the Centrist Union.
Philippe Madrelle was a French politician. A member of the Socialist Party,he served as a Deputy from the Gironde between 1968 and 1980,President of the General Council of Gironde between 1976 and 2015,and Senator from 1980 until his death.
François Patriat is a French politician of Renaissance who has been serving as president of the party's group in the Senate since 2017. He has represented the Côte-d'Or department in the Senate since 2008. Patriat also served as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries in 2002 and President of the Regional Council of Burgundy from 2004 until 2015. He was a member of the Socialist Party before joining La République En Marche! in 2017.
Haute couture is the creation of exclusive custom-fitted high-end fashion design. The term haute couture generally refers to a specific type of upper garment common in Europe during the 16th to the 18th century,or to the upper portion of a modern dress to distinguish it from the skirt and sleeves. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century,Paris became the centre of a growing industry that focused on making outfits from high-quality,expensive,often unusual fabric and sewn with extreme attention to detail and finished by the most experienced and capable of sewers—often using time-consuming,hand-executed techniques. Couture translates literally from French as "dressmaking",sewing,or needlework and is also used as a common abbreviation of haute couture and can often refer to the same thing in spirit.
Studio Harcourt is a photography studio founded in 1933 by Cosette Harcourt at 11,rue Christophe-Colomb in Paris. In 1934,she joined forces with the Lacroix brothers,press bosses and Robert Ricci,son of Nina Ricci to found the Harcourt studio. It is known in particular for its black-and-white photographs of movie stars and celebrities,but having one's photo taken at Harcourt a few times during one's life was once considered standard by the French upper middle class. The studio is currently located at 6,rue de Lota in the 16th arrondisment of Paris.
Gérald Cyprien Lacroix is a Canadian Catholic prelate who has served as the Archbishop of Quebec and Primate of Canada since 2011. He has been a cardinal since 22 February 2014. He was previously Auxiliary Bishop of Quebec. He is a member of the Council of Cardinals and the Secular Institute Pius X.
The Union of Democrats and Independents is a liberal political party in France and former electoral alliance founded on 18 September 2012 on the basis of the eponymous parliamentary group in the National Assembly.
Raphaël Milliès-Lacroix was a French draper and politician from Dax,Landes,in the southwest of the country. He was Minister of the Colonies in 1906–09.
Esther Benbassa is a French-Turkish-Israeli historian and politician. She specializes in the history of Jews and other minorities. Since 2011,Benbassa has served as a French senator,representing Paris from 2017 onwards and Val-de-Marne from 2011 to 2017.
Jean-Pierre François Renaud Lacroix is a French diplomat who has served as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations since 1 April 2017. Prior to this,he worked at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Director for the United Nations between 2014 and 2017,and before that as France's ambassador to Sweden beginning in 2011.
Christophe Castaner is a French politician who served as Minister of the Interior from 16 October 2018 to 6 July 2020 under President Emmanuel Macron. He had been elected in 2017 for a three-year term as chairman of the La République En Marche! party with Macron's support. Castaner was Government Spokesperson under Prime Minister Édouard Philippe in 2017 and Secretary of State for Relations with Parliament from 2017 to 2018. He was also Macron's 2017 presidential campaign spokesman.
