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Château de Choisy. Coordinates: 48°45′N 2°30′E. The château at the time of la Grande Mademoiselle. The Château de Choisy was a royal French residence in the commune of Choisy-le-Roi in the Val-de-Marne department, not far from Paris. The commune was given its present name by Louis XV, when he purchased the manor of Choisy and its ...
The Château du Clos Lucé ( French pronunciation: [ʃato dy klo lyse]; or simply Clos Lucé ), formerly called Manoir du Cloux, is a large château located in the center of Amboise, in the department of Indre-et-Loire, in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France. It is located in the natural Val de Loire (formerly called Touraine) region.
Zone 5 uses eight 2-digit codes (51–58) and two sets of 3-digit codes (50x, 59x) to serve South and Central America. Zone 6 uses seven 2-digit codes (60–66) and three sets of 3-digit codes (67x–69x) to serve Southeast Asia and Oceania. Zone 7 uses an integrated numbering plan; two digits (7x) determine the area served: Russia or Kazakhstan.
Corton (wine) Coordinates: 47°04′23″N 4°52′01″E. The Corton hill as seen from southwest. The Corton vineyards on this side of the hill are located in Aloxe-Corton. Corton is an Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) and Grand Cru vineyard for red and white wine in the Côte de Beaune subregion of Burgundy. It is located on a hill ...
Coq au vin (/ ˌ k ɒ k oʊ ˈ v æ̃ /; [1] French: [kɔk o vɛ̃], "rooster/cock with wine") is a French dish of chicken braised with wine, lardons, mushrooms, and optionally garlic.A red Burgundy wine is typically used, [2] though many regions of France make variants using local wines, such as coq au vin jaune (), coq au riesling (), coq au pourpre or coq au violet (Beaujolais nouveau), and ...
The Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin (French for 'Fraternity of Knights of the Wine-Tasters' Cup') is an exclusive Bacchanalian fraternity of Burgundy wine connoisseurs. [ 2 ] Originally formed under the Ancien Régime and re-established in 1934, [ 3 ] the Chevaliers du Tastevin are based at the 12th-century château of the Clos de Vougeot ...
The average annual temperature in Choisy-le-Roi is 12.7 °C (54.9 °F). The average annual rainfall is 607.2 mm (23.91 in) with December as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around 21.0 °C (69.8 °F), and lowest in January, at around 5.3 °C (41.5 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Choisy-le-Roi ...
Jean Talon, Bishop François de Laval and several settlers welcome the King's Daughters upon their arrival. Painting by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale. The King's Daughters (French: filles du roi, or filles du roy in the spelling of the era) is a term used to refer to the approximately 800 young French women who immigrated to New France between 1663 and 1673 as part of a program sponsored by King ...