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The Constitution of 1793 ( French: Acte constitutionnel du 24 juin 1793 ), also known as the Constitution of the Year I or the Montagnard Constitution, was the second constitution ratified for use during the French Revolution under the First Republic. Designed by the Montagnards, principally Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Saint-Just, it was ...
Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Paris Agreement (or Paris Accords, Paris Climate Accords) is an international treaty on climate change that was adopted in 2015. The treaty covers climate change mitigation, adaptation, and finance. The Paris Agreement was negotiated by 196 parties at the 2015 ...
Klaus Mäkelä ( Finnish: [ˈklɑu̯s ˈmækelæ]; born 17 January 1996) is a Finnish conductor and cellist. [1] He is currently chief conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic, music director of the Orchestre de Paris, artistic partner and chief conductor-designate of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and music director-designate of the Chicago ...
The Gare de Lyon rail accident ( French: Accident ferroviaire de la gare de Lyon ), occurred on 27 June 1988, when an SNCF commuter train headed inbound to Paris's Gare de Lyon terminal crashed into a stationary outbound train, killing 56 and injuring 57, resulting in the third deadliest rail disaster in peacetime France. [1] [2] [3]
1895 – Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place. 1898 – The Hundred Days' Reform, a planned movement to reform social, political, and educational institutions in China, is started by the Guangxu Emperor, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days.
2016 (Monday) 2015 (Saturday) 2014 (Friday) June 13 is the 164th day of the year (165th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar ; 201 days remain until the end of the year.
Suite française ( French pronunciation: [sɥit fʁɑ̃sɛːz]; 'French Suite ') is the title of a planned sequence of five novels by Irène Némirovsky, a French writer of Ukrainian-Jewish origin. In July 1942, having just completed the first two of the series, Némirovsky was arrested as a Jew and detained at Pithiviers and then Auschwitz ...
