La Trappe


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La Trappe

(French la trap)
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(Roman Catholic Church) a monastery in NW France, in the village of Soligny-la-Trappe northeast of Alençon: founded in about 1140, site of the Trappist reform of Cistercian order in 1664
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Looming in the distance, as we rode along, was another of the ancient Indian burial-places, called The Monks' Mound; in memory of a body of fanatics of the order of La Trappe, who founded a desolate convent there, many years ago, when there were no settlers within a thousand miles, and were all swept off by the pernicious climate: in which lamentable fatality, few rational people will suppose, perhaps, that society experienced any very severe deprivation.
A nnoncee et abondamment commentee lors des tractations pour la confection de la Loi de Finances 2019, la privatisation de quelques valeurs de l'Eetat, dont la fameuse Mamounia, semble finalement passer a la trappe. Qu'est-ce qui a refroidi les ardeurs du ministre Benchaaboun?
The next two years he applied in La Trappe (Trappist Monastery), which closed its doors on him.
Presqu'un tiers a la trappe La Federation internationale de lutte a confirme, jeudi dernier au soir, l'exclusion du double champion du monde de lutte libre Viktor Lebedev, tout en autorisant les 16 autres lutteurs russes a concourir.
Bell, David N., The Library of the Abbey of La Trappe: A Study of its History from the Twelfth Century to the French Revolution, with an Annotated Edition of the 1752 Catalogue (Medieval Church Studies, 32), Turnhout, Brepols, 2014; hardback; pp.
Oka is a cantaloupe developed in the early part of the 20th century at the Trappist Monastery in La Trappe, Quebec, and was introduced in the United States in 1924.
(15) Certaines se sont mefiees de cette notion anglo-saxonne, qui, trop neutre, pourrait faire passer les femmes a la trappe. << Le genre fait loupe mais peut aussi etre un cache-sexe>>, analyse Genevieve Fraisse, directrice de recherches au CNRS.
Merchant Du Vin Asia announces expansion of portfolio in Chinese market Merchant du Vin has announced that MdV-Asia Ltd., a beer importing company based in Hong Kong and selling throughout China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, has added three Belgian and Dutch breweries to its portfolio: Du Bocq, Dupont, and La Trappe. After four years of selling Samuel Smith, Ayinger, and Xingu in China, the official launch for these additional beers was held in Xi'an, China, on September 16, 2013.