Saintes is a commune and historic town in southwestern France, in the Charente-Maritime department of which it is a sub-prefecture, in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Its inhabitants are called Saintaises and Saintais. Saintes is the second-largest city in Charente-Maritime, with 26,470 inhabitants in 2008. Its immediate surrounds form the second-most populous metropolitan area in the department, with 56,598 inhabitants, the majority of which is fertile, productive fields; a significant minority of the region remains forest, its natural state.
The arrondissement of Le Havre is an arrondissement of France in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region. Since the January 2017 reorganization of the arrondissements of Seine-Maritime, it has 149 communes.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Flour is a Diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. The diocese comprises the department of Cantal. Erected in 1317, the diocese was suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bourges until 2002. With the general reorganization of the structure of the French church by Pope John Paul II, Saint-Flour became the suffragan of the Archdiocese of Clermont. The seat of the bishop is located in Saint-Flour, Cantal.
Route 347 is a provincial highway located in the Lanaudière region of Quebec. The 97-kilometer highway runs from Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier at the junction of Route 158 north of Autoroute 40 and ends in Notre-Dame-de-la-Merci at the junction of Route 125. In Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, it overlaps Route 348 while between north of Saint-Jean-de-Matha and Saint-Émélie-de-L'Énergie it overlaps Route 131.
Aubenton is a commune in the department of Aisne in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France.
UNESCO designated the Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France as a World Heritage site in December 1998. The routes pass through the following regions of France: Aquitaine, Auvergne, Basse-Normandie, Bourgogne, Centre, Champagne-Ardenne, Ile-de-France, Languedoc-Roussillon, Limousin, Midi-Pyrénées, Picardie, Poitou-Charentes, and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. UNESCO cites the routes' role in "religious and cultural exchange", the development of "specialized edifices" along the routes, and their "exceptional witness to the power and influence of Christian faith among people of all classes and countries in Europe during the Middle Ages".
Léocadia is a play by Jean Anouilh that premiered at the Théâtre de la Michodière in Paris on 2 December 1940. It is one of Anouilh's Pièces roses, together with Humulus le muet (1932), Le Bal des voleurs (1938), and Le Rendez-vous de Senlis (1941). For the occasion, Francis Poulenc composed one of his most celebrated songs, "Les Chemins de l'amour", sung by Yvonne Printemps.
Madeleine Ozeray, was a French stage and film actress. She appeared in many films between 1932 and 1980. She is the godmother of theater actor, dancer and singer Frédéric Norbert.
The canton of Mézidon-Canon is a canton of France, located in the Calvados department, in the Normandy region.
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.
Jean Jacques Nicolas Arveuf-Fransquin (1802–76) was a French architect. He designed several châteaux, and undertook work on cathedrals in the French provinces.
Jacques Clancy was a French actor, sociétaire of the Comédie-Française.
Roland Piétri, was a French actor and theatre director.
Paulette Pax was a French actress, theatre director and scenographe.
The GR 70, also known as the Chemin de Stevenson or the Robert Louis Stevenson Trail, is a Grande Randonnée that runs for approximately 225 kilometres (140 mi) through the French departments of Haute-Loire, Lozère and Gard in a generally north–south direction from Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille to Saint-Jean-du-Gard. It follows approximately the route taken by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1878, a journey described in his book Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes.
The canton of Saint-Jean-de-Monts is an administrative division of the Vendée department, western France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Saint-Jean-de-Monts.
