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3 Suisses. 3 Suisses is a French mail order and e-commerce company, with headquarters in Villeneuve-d'Ascq. It is the biggest of the 16 e-commerce brands of Groupe 3SI [ fr; de]. Everett Hutt is the current CEO as of 2022. Since 1981, Otto GmbH owned a 51% share in the company and has been its only shareholder since January 2014.
6.5 Mauricie–Bois-Francs was split in 1997 to create Mauricie and Centre-du-Québec administrative regions (note, the notion of Mauricie as a traditional region long predates this) In January 2000, Québec administrative region was renamed Capitale-Nationale .
Highway shields for Autoroutes 5, 20 and 640 The current Autoroute network in Quebec System information Maintained by Transports Quebec (MTQ) Length 2,381.9 km (1,480.0 mi) Formed 1958 (1958) System links Quebec provincial highways Autoroutes List Former Quebec Autoroute 20 west in Montreal, ~km 66. The Quebec Autoroute System or le système d'autoroute au Québec is a network of freeways ...
Quebec City ( / kwɪˈbɛk / ⓘ or / kəˈbɛk /; [11] French: Ville de Québec ), officially known as Québec ( French pronunciation: [kebɛk] ), [12] is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, [13] and the metropolitan area had a population of 839,311. [14]
The culture of Quebec emerged over the last few hundred years, resulting predominantly from the shared history of the French -speaking North American majority in Quebec. Québécois culture, as a whole, constitutes all distinctive traits – spiritual, material, intellectual and affective – that characterize Québécois society. This term ...
The Cent-Suisses served as model for a military unit of the Duchy of Savoy (later Kingdom of Sardinia ), which was created in 1579 and disbanded in 1798. [8] Other similar units existed in Tuscany, Austria (1745), and Brandenburg (1696–1713). [8] The Pontifical Swiss Guard, founded in 1506, belongs to this tradition.
On September 13, 1759, Quebec City, then the political capital of New France, was taken by the British Army. New France fell a year later. According to the terms of 1760 Articles of Capitulation of Montreal, the French Army was to leave the conquered territory. The ruling elite (French nobles and leading merchants) also left.
The Quebec sovereignty movement (French: mouvement souverainiste du Québec) is a political movement whose objective is to achieve the independence of Quebec from Canada. Sovereignists suggest that the people of Quebec make use of their right to self-determination – a principle that includes the possibility of choosing between integration ...