When Président Raymond Nicolas Landry Poincaré was born on 20 August 1860, in Bar-le-Duc, Meuse, France, his father, Nicolas Antonin Helene Poincaré, was 35 and his mother, Nanine Marie Ficatier, was 22. He married Henriette Adeline Benucci on 17 August 1904, in Paris, France. He lived in Paris, Akkerman, Bessarabia, Russian Empire in 1934 and France in 1934. He died on 15 October 1934, in Paris, France, at the age of 74, and was buried in Nubécourt, Meuse, France.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Champs-Élysées is over 6,000 feet long and over 200 feet wide. The name is French for Elysian Fields were in Greek mythology was the paradise for the dead heroes. It is one of the oldest avenues in France and is also the location of the Arc de Triomphe.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
From an Old French name, Raimund, of Germanic origin, from ragin ‘advice, decision’ + mund ‘protector’. This was adopted by the Normans and introduced by them to Britain. Subsequently it dropped out of use, but was revived in the middle of the 19th century, together with several other given names of Old English and Norman origin.
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