At a calligraphy class in Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen slides her brush across the page to form the letters ... the first Portuguese-Vietnamese-Latin dictionary under his own name in 1651, it ...

In Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen practices calligraphy, writing Vietnam's modern script—a legacy of French rule.

When the Avignon-born Jesuit Alexandre de Rhodes published the first Portuguese ... under his own name in 1651, it was primarily intended for missionaries wishing to spread their religion in ...

At a calligraphy class in Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen slides her brush across the page to form the letters and tonal marks of Vietnam’s unique modern script, in part a legacy of French colonial rule.

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If we exclude the sources of the Blue Nile, ultimately a work of nature, the most important and striking monument in Ethiopia ...

Jacob (he was actually baptized with the name of ... s manual alphabet by adding 30 hand shapes each corresponding to a sound instead of to a letter. In 1746 a wealthy French family, the d’Etavignys, ...

When asked about the open letter at the Cultural Council in Brussels earlier this week, French minister of culture Rachida Dati told Euronews: “It is their role to engage and to have a commitment.