When Gabrielle Marie LAPORTE was born on 12 July 1888, in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France, her father, Adrien Laporte, was 33 and her mother, Antoinette Eugénie Mercadier, was 35. She married Pierre SOULA on 18 April 1907, in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 16 February 1962, in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France, at the age of 73.
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The Eiffel Tower was built the year before the World Expo. During the World Expo in Paris the Eiffel Tower was revealed to the world. It was also during the expo that the Tower was lit up for the first time.
The Dreyfus affair was a huge scandal in the late 19th century and early 20th century French. Alfred Dreyfus was born on October 9, 1859 in Mulhouse, France and died on July 12, 1935 in Paris France. He was convicted of treason. He was accused of being a spy in the German embassy in France.
On July 31, 1914 French socialist leader, Jean Jaurés was murdered. A few days later Germany starts plans to invade France. Britain then started to occupy France. The battles that took place in France were First Battle of the Marne, Gallipoli, Jutland, Battle of Verdun, Battle of the Somme, and the Brusilov Offensive. 25 percent of the allied military deaths that happened in World War I were from France. Between civilian and military deaths France lost 1,697,800 people and 4,266,000 were wounded.
Some characteristic forenames: French Andre, Pierre, Emile, Lucien, Cyprien, Flavien, Marcel, Rosaire, Sylvain, Adrien, Antoine, Armand.
French: topographic name for someone who lived near the gates of a fortified town, a variant of Porte 1, with fused feminine definite article la; or a habitational name from Laporte or La Porte, names of several places in various parts of France. Compare Delaporte .
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