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Pierre Fauchard (2 January 1679 – 21 March 1761) [1] was a French physician, credited as being the "father of modern dentistry". [2] He is widely known for writing the first complete scientific description of dentistry, Le Chirurgien Dentiste ( "The Surgeon Dentist" ), published in 1728. [2] The book described basic oral anatomy and function ...
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.
Hainaut has an area of 3,831 km 2 (1,479 sq mi) and as of January 2019 a population of 1,344,241. [8] Another notable city is Tournai (Dutch Doornik) on the Scheldt river, one of the oldest cities in Belgium and the first capital of the Frankish Empire . Hainaut province has a rolling landscape, except for the very southern part, the so-called ...
Péruwelz. Péruwelz ( French pronunciation: [peʁwe] or [pɛʁwe]; Picard: Piérwé [pieʀwe]; Walloon: Perwé-e-Hinnot) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium . On 1 January 2018 Péruwelz had a total population of 17,113. The total area is 60.56 km 2 which gives a population density of 280 ...
Tournai fonts are a type of baptismal font made from blue black limestone during the 12th and early 13th centuries in and around the Belgian town of Tournai by local masons. There are seven complete examples in England [2] and a disputed number in Europe: eighty according to one source, [3] or fifty in Northern France and Belgium and two in ...
The Grand-Place ( French: [ɡʁɑ̃ plas]; "Grand Square" [a]) is the main square and the centre of activity of Tournai, Hainaut, Belgium. The square has a triangular shape, owing it to the convergence of several ancient paths, [2] and it covers 7,500 m 2 (81,000 sq ft). As in many Belgian cities, there are a number of cafés and pubs on the ...
Additionally, hospitals where younger members of the Belgian royal family were born are indicated with an asterisk (*). UMC Sint-Pieter / CHU Saint-Pierre, City of Brussels. UVC Brugmann / CHU Brugmann site Paul Brien, Schaerbeek. Kliniek Sint-Jan / Clinique Saint-Jean site Kruidtuin / Botanique, City of Brussels. CHIREC Delta Hospital, Auderghem.