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Look up: Sevres

  1. Sèvres
    Fine porcelain produced at a factory in Sèvres, France (now a Paris suburb), since the early 18th century. It is characterized by the use of intensely coloured backgrounds (such as pink and royal...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

  2. Sèvres
    French national porcelain factory and a leading influence on European ceramics fashions c. 1760-1815. Soft-paste porcelain was manufactured exclusively from c. 1740 until the discovery of local china clay deposits enabled true porcelain to be produced from 1768. From the 1750s, Sèvres acquired and maintained its lead in French ceramics, largely due …
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  3. Sèvres
    city, Hauts-de-Seine département, Paris region, France. Sèvres is a southwestern residential suburb of Paris, on the left bank of the Seine River ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/71

  4. Sèvres
    Sèvres (sev'ru) , town (1990 pop. 22,057), Hauts-de-Seine dept., N central France, on the Seine River; a residential suburb SW of Paris. The famous Sèvres ware porcelain is made in the town, which has a ceramics museum founded by Alexandre Brongniart and a ceramics school. Explosives, ...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A084

  5. sevres
    French national porcelain factory and a leading influence on European ceramics fashions c1760-1815.
    Found on http://www.antique-marks.com/antique-ter

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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