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Forez

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Forez , hilly agricultural region, E central France, in the Massif Central , mostly in Loire dept. and partially in Puy-de-Dôme dept. Roanne is the chief town. The region was known as Pagus Forensis under the Carolingians. In the 10th cent. it was an earldom dependent on Burgundy. Annexed to the French crown lands in 1527, it was incorporated into Lyonnais prov. Author not available, FOREZ. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more
Lyonnais
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... It included Lyonnais proper (the region around Lyons , its capital), which Philip IV acquired c.1307; the former counties of Forez and Beaujolais, annexed in 1531; and the tiny dependency of Franc-Lyonnais. It is largely a grazing region, with great industrial ... Read more

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Elite purchases French co. (Elite Israel Chocolate and Sweets Manufacturing Company Ltd., Societe Alimentaire du Forez)
Israel Business Today; 6/26/1992; 213 words ; ... the French chocolate manufacturer SAF - Societe Alimentaire du Forez. Elite is investing $7.65 million for a 51 percent shareholding ... Etienne and ended 1991 with sales of $55 million. In other news, the U.K. company E.D. & F. Man, for many years a major ... Read more
MOT: Three spectators killed in rally crash
AAP Sports News (Australia); 6/5/1999; 128 words ; AAP Sports News (Australia) 06-05-1999 MOT: Three spectators killed in rally crash SAINT-ETIEN ... Three spectators were killed and seven others injured in an accident in the Forez rally near here on Saturday. A 62-year-old man and a 47-year-old woman ... Read more
THE TRAVELLER'S GUIDE TO THE WINES OF THE LOIRE ; Producing reds, whites and roses, the Loire has an astonishing variety of wines. Jim Budd drinks in the splendour of the region
The Independent - London; 10/7/2006; Jim Budd; 1631 words ; ... mountains of the Ardeche - only about 100km from the Mediterranean. Travelling downstream the first appellation is the Ctes de Forez, about 150km from the source. However, it is not until you reach the Loire's halfway mark at the small town of Pouilly that ... Read more
MOT: Rally team in police custody after accident kills three
AAP Sports News (Australia); 6/5/1999; 256 words ; AAP Sports News (Australia) 06-05-1999 MOT: Rally team in police custody after accident kills three SAINT-ETIENNE, France, June 5 AFP - A team competing in the Forez rally were in police custody here on Saturday after their car crashed ... Read more
French students get taste of Olathe.
Olathe News (Olathe, KS); 10/31/2006; 610 words ; ... Teixeira, a senior at Lycee Francois-Mauriac Forez high school. Teixeira said the French ... program. The exchange between Mauriac Forez and Olathe high schools has been in place ... students they met here and go to Mauriac Forez, a school of about 1,700 students. Most ... food. Copyright (c) 2006, The Olathe ... Read more
Unreadable Novels: Toward a Theory of Seventeenth-Century Aristocratic Fiction
Novel; 4/1/2005; Dipiero, Thomas; 9117 words ; ... the story takes place in fifth-century Forez, an idyllic enclave totally removed from ... beginning of the novel we learn that in Forez "there were several different grottoes ... oeil that characterizes the setting at Forez also pertains to the great majority of ... Read more
Tussle over height takes Miss France contest to new low
The Sunday Telegraph London; 1/13/2002; KIM WILLSHER in Paris; 418 words ; ... taller. Miss Brun, 19, who was stripped of the title Miss Loire-Forez in October for not meeting the 5ft 7in minimum height requirement ... distinctly tall tale when she entered and won the Miss Loire- Forez title in September, having not been officially measured. After ... Read more
Beauty is a tall order.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 10/10/2001; 50 words ; ... stretched to qualify. Aurelie Brun, 19, went through the temporary op to make her tall enough to meet the minimum height of 5ft8in for the Miss France contest. Organisers said Brun, who was Miss Loire-Forez, got an unfair advantage and broke the rules. Read more
Miss France pageant has hit another low Winner is too short, says a disqualified would-be contender
Chicago Sun-Times; 1/13/2002; Kim Willsher PARIS--The Miss France contest has descended into farce for a second year running, following claims that the winner does not measure up to the title.; 275 words ; ... appear taller. Brun, 19, who was stripped of the title Miss Loire-Forez in October for not meeting the 5-foot-7-inch minimum height ... clearly a sensitive issue with Brun, who won the Miss Loire-Forez title in September, having not been officially measured. After ... Read more
Pastoral Palimpsest: Writing the Laws of Love in L'Astree.(Critical Essay)
Renaissance Quarterly; 12/22/1999; MEDING, TWYLA; 13795 words ; ... standard by which all lovers are judged in the Forez. In this way, Hylas conforms to the definition ... stands alone against the throngs of the Forez's self-professed constant lovers. It is ... interstice of nature and culture in the Forez: this hinterland is the theater not only ... Read more

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