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This article examines the role played by Marie Petit (b. 1673) in the French diplomatic mission to Safavid Iran from 1706 to 1708. The paper situates her among the small group of French women who exercised diplomatic authority in the reign of Louis XIV and highlights the particular roles played by gender and religion in Petit's arrest and incarceration. The article argues that while Petit's gender and alleged sexually illicit behavior may have been used by her opponents as one of the main pretexts for incarcerating her, it was by no means unheard of for French women to exercise diplomatic authority under Louis XIV, and some of these women were similarly accused of illicit sexual behavior. In order to explain why French authorities were so hostile to Petit's playing a leading role in the French diplomatic mission after the appointed envoy, Jean-Baptiste Fabre (ca. 1650-1706), died in Yerevan, the article emphasizes the perception among certain French authorities that Petit was threatening French interests in promoting Catholic missionary work in the Levant and in supporting the Uniate Armenian Christians against the \"schismatic,\" or Gregorian, Armenian Christians.

Investigators say 39-year-old Marie Petit Louis was arrested Tuesday following a two-year investigation that began shortly before Annette Reff died in 2012. She's charged with exploitation of the elderly in a complicated bank transfer scheme.

Investigators say 39-year-old Marie Petit Louis was arrested Tuesday following a two-year investigation that began shortly before Annette Reff died in 2012. She's charged with exploitation of the elderly in a complicated bank transfer scheme.

Then there's the time spent researching historical data to stay authentic. \"Our dinner recipes,\" [Marie Petit] noted, \"came from the militia's recipe book, \"Colonial Favorites,\" which has recipes from Colonial Williamsburg {Va.}, and others from the \"Complete Housewife,\" a recipe book first published in England in 1749 and reissued about 20 years later in New Jersey. It's sold at the Arsenal for $8.\" The group remembers to compliment [Abel Conklin]'s chef, Michael O'Connor, for his sangfroid with colonial cuisine. And they talk of Sundays ahead, when militia members will rotate as guides for Sunday open house (1 to 4 p.m.) at the Arsenal. The Petits do guide duty about once a month telling visitors about the Arsenal and showing them around the little museum upstairs. \"A lot of people in Huntington don't even know it's there and it's the only Arsenal in the eastern United States still in existence,\" Marie Petit says. \"It was built as a granary in 1740, but during the Revolution there were 1,000 pounds of black powder stored there for the men mustering on the Green in 1776. That area is the oldest in Huntington.\" BY THE WAY Want to know what to say today to the guy in green tie or the colleen in green?

\"I lost everything and don't know what to do,\" [Marjorie Louis] said, while waiting at a bus depot, en route to Les Cayes. \"I have no place to live. My daughter has heart problems and I want to make sure she continues to get care. I don't know when I will return here. But as soon as it gets better [I will].\" \"We love our country, we saw it getting better,\" said Joanne Gautierre, who owned a beverage warehouse. \"[The year] 2009 showed promise and hope. But now after this happened I am really afraid of an epidemic. All of these dead bodies around us and not enough people to move them out. We don't want to get sick and die.\" \"It's too much, so many people dead,\" [Marie Petit-Homme] said, clutching the youngest of her three children. \"Oh, what has Haiti done to deserve this?\"

U.S. District Judge Robert L. Hinkle in Tallahassee ruled on Aug. 21 that the ban added to Florida's constitution by voters in 2008 violates the 14th Amendment's guarantees of equal protection and due process. Hinkle issued a stay delaying the effect of his order, meaning no marriage licenses would be immediately issued for gay couples. Investigators said 39-year-old Marie Petit Louis was arrested Tuesday following a two-year investigation that began shortly before Annette Reff died in 2012. She's charged with exploitation of the elderly in a complicated bank transfer scheme. Petit Louis was a regular at Miami's Magic City Casino and a member of the High Roller's Club.

Huntington Town Supervisor Stephen Ferraro, in colonial officer's uniform, reviewed the troops - members of the Huntington Militia (of which Petit had been commander), the Third New York Regiment of the Brigade of the American Revolution (in which he had been an infantryman), and the Regiment d'Auxerrois, the French regiment (of which he had been a colonel). Women in colonial dress sang colonial songs, and members of the fife and drum corps played late 18th-Century music. \"Then the supervisor presented me with a hatchment, a word dating to 1540, meaning a tablet with the deceased person's coat of arms. They used the Town of Huntington's,\" [Marie Petit] said. The hatchment was painted by Hank Poh of Northport. Marie Petit had a similar surprise in April at a historical re-enactment at the New Windsor Cantonment at Vails Gate, N.Y., the Hudson-area site of George Washington's New York headquarters during the American Revolution where the Petits attended reenactments every year. \"They planted a white dogwood there in his honor and gave me a lovely French flag from the Eighteenth Century,\" she said. Petit, before retirement as a tool-and-die craftsman with Republic Aviation in Farmingdale, was noted as a meticulous reproducer of historic artifacts. While his wife would sew the period uniforms from man-made fibers, Petit used to craft the brass and pewter buttons, camp tools, and military equipment.

The village-green event \"was a beautiful colonial-style ceremony called `The Mourning of the Deceased,' \" his wife said. Rufus Langhans, the town historian and a friend of Petit's, recited \"The Lord's Prayer,\" and Town Supervisor Stephen Ferraro, in a colonial officer's uniform, reviewed the troops - members of the Huntington Militia, of which Petit had been commander; the Third New York Regiment of the Brigade of the American Revolution, in which he had been an infantryman, and of the Regiment d'Auxerrois, the French regiment, of which he had been a colonel. After a group of women in colonial dress sang, members of the fife and drum corps played late 18th Century music, including a period-style French tune to mark Petit's ties to France. \"Then the supervisor presented me with a hatchment, a word dating to 1540s {meaning a tablet bearing the coat of arms of a deceased person}. We hadn't researched [Roger Petit]'s, so they used the Town of Huntington's,\" Marie Petit said. The hatchment was painted by another militia buff, artist Hank Poh of Northport. He never got to use his beloved fife. [Gary Vorwald] said the movie's director, Michael Mann, \"didn't want to have what he called `those piccolo things.' \" But just as the old-time fife and drum corps kept morale up, Vorwald and buddies entertained the modern-day troops with period music. \"For that eve-of-battle scene we passed the time playing `Lilliburlero' and other old tunes to probably 11 p.m. or midnight and they filmed all through the night.\"

The Conservative Government says it's cracking down on big corporations using legal loopholes and tax havens to aggressively avoid taxes. But CBC Radio-Canada has learned that Luxembourg, a popular European tax haven, is home to subsidiaries of a Canadian Crown corporation. A heavily redacted document obtained under Access to Information shows a secret tax arrangement between Luxembourg and the Public Service Pension Investment Board. The Board manages the pensions of all federal employees, including retired Mountie Jeff Filliter. Some Luxembourg secrets are now revealed. Hundreds of legal tax arrangements prepared by accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers for its clients ended up in the hands of the International Consortium of Investigative Reporters, including the unredacted version of the Pension Board's document. The document shows the Canadian Crown corporation set up a maze of companies in Luxembourg to buy real estate in Germany. The complex structure helped it sidestep a 20-million-dollar land transfer tax in Germany by exploiting a loophole that has since been closed.

Un groupe d'Haïtiens de Montréal qui rêvent de participer à reconstruire leur pays ont décidé de se donner les moyens de leurs ambitions. Ils terminent en ce moment un cours d'opérateur de machinerie lourde. Ce n'est pas le travail qui manque là-bas, il faudra quand même trouver un employeur. Anne-Louise Despatie.