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  • Other philanthropic individuals opened salles d'asile (daycare facilities), which cared for children too young for school but too old for the crèche.

    2. The July Monarchy 2001

  • To this period also belongs the sharp conflict regarding the franchises, or droit d'asile

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • DE RAM, Synodicum Belgicum, I (Mechlin, 1828); DE SCHREVEL Biogr.nat. de Belgique, XVIII (Brussels, 1905); CLAESSENS, Hist. des archevêques de Malines (Louvain, 1881); PROOST, Hist. du droit d'asile en Belgique (Ghent, 1870).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • After the lay school I saw the daily instruction offered in the churches; I saw the salles d'asile, in which four-year-old children, at a given whistle, like soldiers, made evolutions around the benches, at a given command lifted and folded their hands, and with strange, quivering voice sang laudatory hymns to God and to their benefactors, and I convinced myself that the educational institutions of the city of Marseilles were exceedingly bad.

    Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood 1906

  • LE FIGARO: Depuis le début de l'année, près de huit cents demandeurs d'asile sont arrivés en provenance de Libye, espérant atteindre l'Italie.

    A New Dark Age Is Dawning 2009

  • It is an international obligation that pertains to any state that has ratified the Geneva convention, 'adds Pierre Henry, director general of France terre d'asile, one of the most important French associations to work with refugees and stateless people.

    cafebabel.com 2009

  • It is an international obligation that pertains to any state that has ratified the Geneva convention, 'adds Pierre Henry, director general of France terre d'asile, one of the most important French associations to work with refugees and stateless people.

    cafebabel.com 2009

  • République démocratique du Congo (RDC) / Des réfugiés congolais fuient vers le Sud-Soudan Le HCR appelle instamment le Kenya à cesser les refoulements de demandeurs d'asile somaliens Zimbabwe / Magistrate orders investigation on torture of journalist La France condamne les actions militaires engagées au Darfour (27 janvier 2009)

    Database of Press Releases related to Africa 2009

  • Prorogation de date limite de dépot des dossiers Les conflits en Afghanistan et en Somalie font augmenter le nombre des demandeurs d'asile UEMOA / Appel à candidature pour le recrutement de cadres junior Greenpeace / Communiqué de presse / Monsieur Sarkozy, les forêts tropicales ne sont pas une « matière première » comme les autres!

    Database of Press Releases related to Africa 2009

  • Prorogation de date limite de dépot des dossiers Les conflits en Afghanistan et en Somalie font augmenter le nombre des demandeurs d'asile UEMOA / Appel à candidature pour le recrutement de cadres junior Greenpeace / Communiqué de presse / Monsieur Sarkozy, les forêts tropicales ne sont pas une « matière première » comme les autres!

    Database of Press Releases related to Africa 2009

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