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(Encyclopedia) Asnières-sur-Seine änyârˈ-sür-sĕn [key], formerly Asnières, industrial suburb of Paris, Hauts-de-Seine dept., N central France, on the Seine River. Boats and perfum...

(Encyclopedia) Lot, river, c.300 mi (483 km) long, rising in the Cévennes Mts., SE France, and flowing W past Mende and Cahors to join the Garonne River. The limestone plateaus through which the Lot winds are inter...

(Encyclopedia) Anne L'Huillier, 1958–, b. Paris, France, French-Swedish physicist, studied at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, and Commissariat à l’Energ...

(Encyclopedia) Malle, Louis lwē mäl [key], 1932–95, French film director, b. Thumeries, France. Malle's motion pictures are noted for their nonjudgmental approach to often taboo material, for which he sought to ...

(Encyclopedia) Auteuil ōtöˈyə [key], old town between the Seine and the Bois de Boulogne, absorbed (1860) into Paris, France. A favorite resort for writers (Molière, La Fontaine, Boileau) in the 17th cent., it ...

(Encyclopedia) Élysée ālēzāˈ [key], palace in Paris, on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. Built in 1718 and once the property of Mme de Pompadour, it has been since 1873 the official residence of the presiden...

(Encyclopedia) Lot lôt [key], department (1990 pop. 156,100), S central France, in Quercy. Cahors is the capital. ...

(Encyclopedia) Oise wäz [key], department (1990 pop. 733,200), N France, in Picardy. Beauvais is the capital. ...

(Encyclopedia) Charente shäräNtˈ [key], department, W France. The capital is Angoulême. The brandy disti...

(Encyclopedia) Tarn tärn [key], department (1990 pop. 343,400), S France, in Languedoc. Albi is the capital. ...