has been part of the new region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The region is named after the Franche Comté de Bourgogne (Free County of Burgundy), definitively...

(ISBN 978-2-88442-007-5). Duparc, Pierre, Le Comté de Genève, Ixe-XVe siècle (Geneva and Paris) 1955. Paul Guichonnet: Genève, de in German, French and Italian in...

Comte de Lautréamont (French: [lotʁeamɔ̃]) was the nom de plume of Isidore Lucien Ducasse (4 April 1846 – 24 November 1870), a French poet born in Uruguay...

The Canton of Geneva, officially the Republic and Canton of Geneva, is one of the 26 cantons of the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of forty-five municipalities...

Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes (French pronunciation: [vɛʁ.ʒɛn]; 29 December 1719 – 13 February 1787) was a French statesman and diplomat. He served...

Joseph Marie, comte de Maistre (French: [də mɛstʁ]; 1 April 1753 – 26 February 1821) was a Savoyard philosopher, lawyer, diplomat, and magistrate. One...

The County of Savoy (French: Comté de Savoie, Italian: Contea di Savoia) was a state of the Holy Roman Empire which emerged, along with the free communes...

and Director of Blue Orchard Finance S.A. of Geneva, a leading microfinance management company. Alexandre de Lesseps was born in Paris, France. His education...

his death in 1178. Amadeus was the son of Aymon I of Geneva (the preceding count) and of Ida de Faucigny. During his lifetime Amadeus I added the city...

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (French: [ʒɔʁʒ lwi ləklɛʁ kɔ̃t də byfɔ̃]; 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician...

The Société de Lecture of Geneva is a private non-profit association founded in 1818. Over the last two centuries, it has preserved and developed an encyclopaedic...

sub-lieutenant, he was commissioned to the rank of cornet in the Brigade de Saint-André of the Comte de Provence's Carbine Regiment on 14 January 1757, and again promoted...

The Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg (Latin: Dioecesis Lausannensis, Genevensis et Friburgensis) is a Latin Catholic diocese in Switzerland, which...

Christien Emmanuel Comte "The King's Conjurer" (born Geneva, June 22, 1788 – Rueil, November 25, 1859), also known simply as Comte, was a celebrated nineteenth-century...

Upper Burgundy, centered on Lake Geneva and including the lands around Besançon that later became the Franche-Comté. Meanwhile, Boso's child son Louis...

region along Lake Geneva, connecting Geneva, Vaud, and the Lower Valais. French is the sole official language in four Swiss cantons: Geneva, Vaud, Neuchâtel...

at an unspecified inn in Switzerland, close to Lake Geneva, Hortense gave birth to a son by Comte de Flahaut secretly, Charles Auguste Louis Joseph ( 21...

The Internationaux du Doubs – Open de Franche-Comté was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was part of the ATP Challenger...

in Geneva, Switzerland. Ponti's mother is Sophia Loren, the actress. Ponti's father is Carlo Ponti Sr., a film producer. Ponti grew up in Geneva, Switzerland...

an initiative called "Team Geneva 2012" that raised 190,000 francs that was shared out between the Swiss athletes. Comte was awarded 15,000 francs to...

Geneva, 2015 MILK, New York, 2015 Michel Comte Neoclassic, Palazzo del Governatore, Parma, 2016 Michel Comte. Light, MAXXI, Rome, 2017 Michel Comte Black...

Franche-Comté region, stretching south into the Rhône-Alpes region and north into the Grand Est region. The range reaches its highest point at the Crêt de la...

Agénor Etienne, Comte de" . Encyclopedia Americana. Naville, Le Comte Agénor de Gasparin (Geneva, 1871) Théodore Borel, Le Comte Agénor de Gasparin (2d ed...

Retrieved 19 July 2021. "Le Comté, 1er fromage AOP de France". Comté (in French). Retrieved 19 July 2021. "Chulucanas: Cerámica de lujo en tierras piuranas"...

Michael Servetus at Geneva on October 27, 1553. In defense of Calvin and the Genevan magistrates, Beza published, in 1554, the work De haereticis a civili...

turned for Geneva, near which he bought a large estate (Les Délices) in early 1755. Though he was received openly at first, the law in Geneva, which banned...

a raclette in which Bleu du Vercors-Sassenage is used. In Franche-Comté, the Bleu de Gex (or "Bleu du Haut Jura") and Morbier, both PDO, are used as variants...

Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry, known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (UK: /ˌsæ̃tɪɡˈzuːpɛri/, US: /-ɡzuːpeɪˈriː/, French:...

The Geneva Revolution of 1782 (French: La révolution genevoise de 1782) was a short-lived attempt to broaden the franchise and include men of modest means...

to conquer the Republic of Geneva. The rationale behind this was that the Republic bordered both Savoy and Franche-Comté, and its annexation to Savoy...