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Encyclopedia > Fontaines

Fontaine is a French word meaning fountain or natural spring.


Fountain (Duchamp) is the title of a famous sculpture by Marcel Duchamp. Fountain by Marcel Duchamp. ...


Fontaine or Fontaines is the name or part of the name of several communes in France: The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ...

  • Fontaine-au-Bois, in the Nord département
  • Fontaine-au-Pire, in the Nord département
  • Fontaine-Bellenger, in the Eure département
  • Fontaine-Bonneleau, in the Oise département
  • Fontaine-Chaalis, in the Oise département
  • Fontaine-Chalendray, in the Charente-Maritime département
  • Fontaine-Couverte, in the Mayenne département
  • Fontaine-Denis-Nuisy, in the Marne département
  • Fontaine-de-Vaucluse, in the Vaucluse département
  • Fontaine-en-Bray, in the Seine-Maritime département
  • Fontaine-en-Dormois, in the Marne département
  • Fontaine-Étoupefour, in the Calvados département
  • Fontaine-Fourches, in the Seine-et-Marne département
  • Fontaine-Française, in the Côte-d'Or département

Fontaine is also the name of several persons: Aube is a département in the northeastern part of France named after the Aube River. ... The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France, roughly analogous to British counties. ... Isère is a département in the east of France named after the Isère River. ... The Territoire de Belfort is a département in the Franche-Comté région of eastern France. ... Fontaines is a municipality in the district of Val-de-Ruz, in the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. ... Fontaines-sur-Grandson is a municipality in the district of Cossonay of the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. ... Extent of Flemish in the Arrondissement of Dunkirk, 1874 and 1972 Nord (French: North) is a département in the north of France. ... Extent of Flemish in the Arrondissement of Dunkirk, 1874 and 1972 Nord (French: North) is a département in the north of France. ... Eure is a département in the north of France named after the Eure River. ... Oise is a département in the north of France named after the Oise River. ... Oise is a département in the north of France named after the Oise River. ... Charente-Maritime is a département on the west coast of France named after the Charente River. ... Mayenne is a département in northwest France named after the Mayenne River. ... Marne is a department in north-eastern France named after the Marne River which flows through the department. ... The Vaucluse is a département in the southeast of France. ... Seine-Maritime is a French département in Normandy. ... Marne is a department in north-eastern France named after the Marne River which flows through the department. ... Fontaine-Étoupefour is a commune of the département of Calvados, in the Basse-Normandie région, in France. ... For the apple brandy produced in the region, see Calvados (spirit). ... Seine-et-Marne is a French département, named after the Seine and the Marne rivers, and located in the ÃŽle-de-France région. ... For other uses, see Côte dOr (disambiguation). ...


La Fontaine is the name of several persons: Brigitte Fontaine, born in 1939 in Morlaix, Finistère, in the Brittany region of France, is a singer of avant-garde music. ... Claudia Fontaine is an backing vocalist who was born in 28 June of 1960, in Bethnal Green, London, England. ... Jerry Fontaine is a Manitoba politician and former chief of the Sagkeeng band council. ... Joan Fontaine (born October 22, 1917) is a Japanese-born British actress, who became an American citizen in April 1943. ... Just Fontaine (born August 18, 1933 in Marrakech, Morocco) was a French football player. ... Liam Fontaine (b. ... Mz Fontaine real name Naomi Romeo is a Lesbian rapper. ... Nicole Fontaine (born 16 January 1942) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France. ... Larry Phillip (Phil) Fontaine, OM, (born September 20, 1944) is an Aboriginal Canadian leader. ... Pierre François Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853) was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in such close partnership with Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, originally his friend from student days, from 1794 onwards, that it is fruitless to disentangle artistic responsibilities in their work. ... Pierre Fontaine (c. ...


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Jean de La Fontaine - Wikipedia (925 words)
La Fontaine wurde geboren als Sohn eines bürgerlichen, aber mit seinen Chargen zum niederen Amtsadel zählenden Königlichen Rats (Conseiller du Roi) sowie Jagd- und Fischereiaufsehers (Maître des Eaux et Forêts) – ein Amt, das er 1658 erben, aber nie regelmäßig ausüben und 1670 verkaufen sollte.
Nachdem er vergeblich eine Bitt-Ode für Fouquet an den König gerichtet hatte, verreiste er 1663 vorsichtshalber, zusammen mit dem sich ebenfalls gefährdet fühlenden Onkel seiner Frau, für ein paar Monate nach Limoges.
Ebenfalls 1683 wurde La Fontaine in die Académie française gewählt, allerdings bestätigte Ludwig XIV., der inzwischen unter dem Einfluss der fromm gewordenen Mme de Maintenon stand, die Wahl erst nach längerem Zögern.
Godfrey of Fontaines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (583 words)
The "XIV Quodlibeta" of Godfrey, extensively studied and multiplied in manuscript form in the medieval schools, are at present in course of being published for the first time.
Wippel, J.F. The Role of the Phantasm in Godfrey of Fontaines' Theory of Intellection, in C. Wenin, ed., L'homme et son univers au moyen âge (Actes du septième congrès internationale de philosophie médiévale [30 Août-4 Septembre 1982]), Vol.
Wippel, J.F. Godfrey of Fontaines at the University of Paris in the Last Quarter of the Thirteenth Century, in J.A. Aertsen, K. Emery, Andreas Speer, eds., Nach der Verurteilung von 1277.
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