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  2. Poste restante - Wikipedia

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    In France, La Poste offers the service for letters at an additional cost to be paid by the receiver [12] Letters are kept for 15 days. The service is offered at any post office. The only requirement is to add 'Poste restante' after the recipient's name and before the full address of the post office. [13]

  3. List of ambassadors of the United States to France - Wikipedia

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    The United States has maintained diplomatic relations with France since the American Revolution. Relations were upgraded to the higher rank of Ambassador in 1893. The diplomatic relationship has continued through France's two empires, three monarchies, and five republics. Since 2006 the ambassador to France has also served as the ambassador to ...

  4. V-mail - Wikipedia

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    V-mail. V-mail, short for Victory Mail, was a hybrid mail process used by the United States during the Second World War as the primary and secure method to correspond with soldiers stationed abroad. To reduce the cost of transferring an original letter through the military postal system, a V-mail letter would be censored, copied to film, and ...

  5. Pigeon post - Wikipedia

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    They made the 48-mile passage in about one hour, bringing letters, news clippings from the Los Angeles Times, and emergency summons for doctors. In three seasons of operation only two letters failed to come through, but at $.50 to $1.00 per message the service was not profitable, and in 1898 the Zahn brothers ended the post.

  6. Letters rogatory - Wikipedia

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    Instead, the US court would issue a letter rogatory to a French court, which would then examine Jean in France, and send a deposition back to the requesting court. Insofar as requests to US courts are concerned, the use of letters rogatory for requesting the taking of evidence has been replaced in large part by applications under 28 USC 1782 ...

  7. List of islands of France - Wikipedia

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    Île de la Cité, in Paris on the Seine River. Île aux Cygnes, in Paris on the Seine River. Île aux Dames, on the Seine River. Île de la Jatte, on the Seine River. Île de Reuilly. Île-Saint-Denis, on the Seine River. Île Saint-Germain, on the Seine River. Île Saint-Louis, in Paris on the Seine River. Île Seguin, on the Seine River.

  8. Letters on the English - Wikipedia

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    Letters on the English (or Letters Concerning the English Nation; French: Lettres philosophiques) are a series of essays written by Voltaire based on his experiences living in Great Britain between 1726 and 1729. The book was published first in English in 1733 and then in French the following year, where it was seen as an attack on the French ...

  9. Lettres provinciales - Wikipedia

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    The Lettres provinciales ( Provincial letters) are a series of eighteen letters written by French philosopher and theologian Blaise Pascal under the pseudonym Louis de Montalte. Written in the midst of the formulary controversy between the Jansenists and the Jesuits, they are a defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld from Port-Royal-des-Champs ...