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Website. www .redoute-bonn .de. The Redoute in Bad Godesberg, now part of Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, is a hall opened in 1792 for balls of the court of Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria. When Bonn was the location of the government of the Federal Republic of Germany, from 1949 to 1990, state receptions were held at the Redoute.
La Redoute was founded in 1837 when Joseph Pollet, son of a rural family, moved to the capital of the French wool region, Roubaix. There he opened the first worsted spinning operation, inventing a number of processes. His son, Charles, took up the torch and, in 1873, built a factory on a plot at rue de Blanchemaille and rue de La Redoute.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Pierre-Joseph Redouté ( French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ʒozɛf ʁədute], 10 July 1759 – 19 June 1840), was a painter and botanist from the Austrian Netherlands, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at the Château de Malmaison, many of which were published as large coloured stipple engravings ...
Order of Good Cheer. To share in the fellowship and good cheer enjoyed among the "nevoux noblise" of New France as they wintered together in Port-Royal and to revel in the Glory of King Henri IV. The Order of Good Cheer ( French: L'Ordre de Bon Temps) was originally a French Colonial order founded in 1606 by suggestion of Samuel de Champlain.
The expression Laissez les bons temps rouler (alternatively Laissez le bon temps rouler, French pronunciation: [lɛse le bɔ̃ tɑ̃ ʁule]) is a Louisiana French phrase. The phrase is a calque of the English phrase "let the good times roll", that is, a word-for-word translation of the English phrase into Louisiana French Creole. This phrase is ...
130. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind ( French: Psychologie des Foules; literally: Psychology of Crowds) is a book authored by Gustave Le Bon that was first published in 1895. [ 1][ 2] In the book, Le Bon claims that there are several characteristics of crowd psychology: "impulsiveness, irritability, incapacity to reason, the absence of ...
Reductions ( Spanish: reducciones, also called congregaciones; Portuguese: redução, pl. reduções) were settlements established by Spanish rulers and Roman Catholic missionaries in Spanish America and the Spanish East Indies (the Philippines ). In Portuguese-speaking Latin America, such reductions were also called aldeias.
Redoute de Rivedoux. A redoubt (Fr: "Redoute") was built in 1674 as part of the effort by Vauban to fortify the coast. The redoubt is square in shape, with two connected projections (called "épaulement") which could be used as artillery platforms. Inside the redoubt, a house for the garrison, a well for water and an underground storage room ...