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n. A port city on the Bay of Biscay, in the department of Charente-Maritime, region of Poitou-Charentes, in France.
Wikipedia
La Rochelle is a city in southwestern France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime department.
The city is connected to the Île de Ré by a bridge completed on 19 May 1988. Its harbour opens into a protected strait, the Pertuis d'Antioche.
La Rochelle may refer to:
Places- La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France
- La Rochelle, Haute-Saône, France
- La Rochelle-Normande, Manche, France
- La Rochelle, South Africa, a suburb of Johannesburg
- La Rochelle, Manitoba a small, rural community in Manitoba, Canada.
- John of la Rochelle (died 1245), French Franciscan theologian
- La Rochelle, French cuisine restaurant in Shibuya, Tokyo owned by Iron Chef Hiroyuki Sakai
Usage examples of "la rochelle".
Rouen, La Rochelle through those of Brittany At the port of Blaye deceived by monk and priest.
Like his brother Oscar in La Rochelle, Harald Dahl had made it in no uncertain manner.
King Louis XIII arriving at the siege of La Rochelle with ten thousand men, four horsemen at the head of his escort, holding their muskets, wearing the wide-brimmed hat and jacket of de Treville’.
In the meantime La Rochelle was taken, Richelieu was congratulated by the court of Madrid on this fine victory of the faith, he expressed his thanks, reassembled his army and, with Louis XIII at its head, he sent it across the Monginevro Pass in February of ‘.
For Buckingham had not only led the failed expedition, he had also arranged King Charles's marriage to the sister of Louis XIII and then loaned to the French navy the ships with which Richelieu proceeded to batter La Rochelle and later the half-starved English fleet.
As a first course I can offer you two or three dozen scallops just in from La Rochelle.
They could reach La Rochelle over the mountains in two days of hard riding.