Luxist Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. French passport - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_passport

    A French passport (French: passeport français) is an identity document issued to French citizens.Besides enabling the bearer to travel internationally and serving as indication of French nationality (but not proof; the possession of a French passport only establishes the presumption of French nationality according to French law [7]), the passport facilitates the process of securing assistance ...

  3. Tournai - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournai

    Tournai, known as Tornacum, was a place of minor importance in Roman times, a stopping place where the Roman road from Cologne on the Rhine to Boulogne on the coast crossed the river Scheldt. It was fortified under Emperor Maximian in the 3rd century AD, [6] when the Roman limes was withdrawn to the string of outposts along the road.

  4. Grand-Place (Tournai) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand-Place_(Tournai)

    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 roads, [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 ...

  5. Tournaisis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournaisis

    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.

  6. Voyageurs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyageurs

    Voyageurs. Voyageurs (French: [vwajaʒœʁ] ⓘ; lit. 'travellers') were 18th- and 19th-century French and later French Canadians and others who transported furs by canoe at the peak of the North American fur trade. The emblematic meaning of the term applies to places (New France, including the Pays d'en Haut and the Pays des Illinois) and ...

  7. Siege of Tournai (1709) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Tournai_(1709)

    Siege of Tournai (1709) The siege of Tournai was a siege of the city of Tournai, then part of the Kingdom of France, between 28 June and 3 September 1709. [1] A Grand Alliance army under the British Duke of Marlborough successfully forced the surrender of the French garrison during the War of the Spanish Succession.

  8. Tournai Cathedral - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournai_Cathedral

    Tournai Cathedral. The Cathedral of Our Lady (French: Notre-Dame de Tournai; Dutch: Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Doornik), or Tournai Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral, see of the Diocese of Tournai in Tournai, Belgium. It has been classified both as a Wallonia major heritage site since 1936 [5] and as a World Heritage Site since 2000.

  9. Saint-Martin Abbey, Tournai - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Martin_Abbey,_Tournai

    Saint-Martin Abbey, Tournai. Coordinates: 50°36′11″N 3°23′13″E. Preserved side of medieval pledge corridor. Side of the abbot's palace, now city hall. The Saint-Martin Abbey (French: abbaye Saint-Martin) in the historic center of Tournai, in the Wallonia region of Belgium is a former Benedictine abbey, dating back to the 7th century.