A year ago on the front page of “Sud Ouest”
Now recovered from Covid, French tourists are back on vacation: going abroad is becoming fashionable again, the seaside is losing its attraction and rising prices are finding their way into suitcases. What happened to our vacation? Our file. Southwest Archives
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In the calendar
Saint Jean Eudes: great missionary and born orator, founded the “Congregation of Jesus and Mary” and the “Institute of Notre-Dame de Charité” in the 17th century.The Jean-Eudes are brave and pragmatic. Their color: yellow.Their figure: the 3rd.
It happened on August 19
1662Death of the French mathematician, physicist and philosopher Blaise Pascal.1919Independence of Afghanistan.1936Death of the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, shot by Franco's troops.1961 Joséphine Baker receives the Legion of Honor.
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1989A “pan-European picnic” organized on the Hungarian-Austrian border opens the first major breach in the Iron Curtain.2006Toxic waste spilled from the Greek cargo ship Probo Koala and spread in Abidjan killed 17 people.2016The death of the American epidemiologist Donald Henderson, who led the work of the World Health Organization that made possible the eradication of smallpox.
They were born on August 19
Bill Clinton, former President of the United States (1946). Jean-Luc Mélenchon, French politician (1951). Maria de Medeiros, Portuguese actress (1965). Daniel Bravo, Franco-Chilean musician from the group Tryo (1973).