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(Encyclopedia) Bennett, James Gordon, 1841–1918, American newspaper proprietor, b. New York City; son of James Gordon Bennett. Educated mostly in France, he took over (1867) from his father the management of the N...

(Encyclopedia) Issy-les-Moulineaux ēsēˈ-lā-mo͞olēnōˈ [key], suburb SW of Paris, Hauts-de-Seine dept., N central France. It i...

(Encyclopedia) Lévi-Strauss, Claude klōd lāˈvē-strous [key], 1908–2009, French anthropologist, b. Brussels, Belgium, Ph.D Univ. of Paris, 1948. He carried out research in Brazil from 1935 to 1939. From 1942 t...

(Encyclopedia) bus [Lat. omnibus=for all], large public conveyance. A horse-drawn urban omnibus was introduced in Paris in 1662 by Blaise Pascal and his associates, but it remained in operation for only a few years....

(Encyclopedia) Cher, river, c.200 mi (320 km) long, rising in the Massif Central and flowing generally NW across central France to join the Loire below Tours. The Berry Canal parallels part of the river. ...

(Encyclopedia) Vosges vōzh [key], department (1990 pop. 38,2100), E France, largely in Lorraine. Épinal is the capital. ...

(Encyclopedia) Loire, department (1990 pop. 747,100), E central France, in part of Beaujolais and Lyonnais. Saint-Étienne is the capital. ...

(Encyclopedia) Landes, department (1990 pop. 313,100), SW France, in Gascony, on the Atlantic coast. Mont-de-Marsan is the capital. ...

(Encyclopedia) Champagne shäNpäˈnyə [key], historic region and former province, NE France, consisting mainly of Aube, Marne, Haute-Marne, and Ardennes depts., which formed the modern administrative region of Cha...

(Encyclopedia) Ivry-sur-Seine ēvrēˈ-sür-sĕn [key], industrial and commercial suburb SE of Paris, Val-de-Marne dept., N ...