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A French-speaking Walloon town[edit] Grand-Place of Tournai. Tournai is a French-speaking town of Belgium. The local language is tournaisien, a Picard dialect similar to that of other municipalities of Hainaut and Northern France. Tournai also belongs to Romance Flanders, like Lille, Douai, Tourcoing, and Mouscron.
Tournaisis. The Tournaisis, or Tournai (Flemish: Doornik ), a territory in the Low Countries in present-day Belgium, is one of Europe's oldest town centres. [1] Located in the Wallonia region of Belgium on the Scheldt River (French: L'Escaut ), northwest of Mons, Tournai residents are primarily French-speaking.
Guillaume de l'Hôpital. Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital [1] ( French: [ɡijom fʁɑ̃swa ɑ̃twan maʁki də lopital]; sometimes spelled L'Hospital; 1661 – 2 February 1704) [a] was a French mathematician. His name is firmly associated with l'Hôpital's rule for calculating limits involving indeterminate forms 0/0 and ∞/∞.
The Battle of Tournay or Battle of Tournai or Battle of Pont-à-Chin (22 May 1794) saw Republican French forces led by Jean-Charles Pichegru attack Coalition forces under Emperor Francis II and Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After a bitter all-day struggle, Coalition troops recaptured a few key positions including Pont-à-Chin, forcing ...
The Diocese of Tournai ( Latin: Dioecesis Tornacensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Belgium. The diocese was formed in 1146, upon the dissolution of the Diocese of Noyon and Tournai, which had existed since the 7th century. [1] It is now suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the ...
20 February; [1] 25 August (translation of relics) Saint Eleutherius of Tournai ( French: Eleuthère) (died c. 532) is venerated as a saint and considered the first bishop of Tournai. [2] The Catholic Encyclopedia writes that "historically there is very little known about St. Eleutherius, but he was without doubt the first Bishop of Tournai."
The Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium ( French: Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, sometimes referred to as La Thérésienne) is the independent learned society of science and arts of the French Community of Belgium. One of Belgium's numerous academies, it is the French-speaking ...
Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital ( French: Hôpital universitaire de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, IPA: [opital ynivɛʁsitɛːʁ də la pitje salpɛtʁijɛʁ]) is a charitable hospital in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. [1] It is part of the Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris and a teaching hospital of Sorbonne University .