Today in Francophone History

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Birthdays

1812 - Victor de Laprade (French poet and critic)

1878 - Lionel Groulx (Québécois nationalist)


Deaths

888 - Charles le Gros, King of France, Holy Roman Emperor

1138 - Simon I, Duke of Lorraine

1151 - Abbot Suger (French statesman and historian)

1790 - Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen (French admiral)

1923 - Alexandre Ribot (French statesman)

1934 - Paul Ulrich Villard (French physicist)

1943 - Sophie Taeuber-Arp (Swiss artist)


Holidays/Celebrations

Togo - Liberation Day


Milestones/Events

888 - Odo, Count of Paris became King of the Franks

1898 - Émile Zola's J'accuse letter exposed the Dreyfus affair

1958 - Western Sahara: Battle of Edchera - Moroccan Liberation Army ambushed Spanish patrol


Errors and Omissions

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