Internationales Maritimes Museum Hamburg - Today, on their national holiday, we would like to wish all our French friends a “joyeux 14 juillet!” The French battleship Richelieu was an upgrade of the
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On this day in 1637 in France, the table knife, as we know it with a rounded end, was invented by Cardinal Richelieu reputedly to cure dinner guests of the habit of
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