We are the 58th day of the year and today we celebrate Honorine.
She was martyred in the year 303 during the last Roman persecution, her relics were brought from Normandy in Île-de-France to Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.
She is the patron saint of prisoners.
The sun rises two minutes earlier at 7:39 a.m. and sets two minutes later at 6:29 p.m.
In terms of weather, the South is expecting snowfall on Monday.
February 27
1902: birth of American novelist John Steinbeck (died December 20, 1968)
1932: birth of American actress Elizabeth Taylor (died March 23, 2011)
1933: Reichstag fire, which will allow the Nazis to suspend individual freedoms by attributing this act to the German Communists
1940: discovery of carbon 14
1958: car insurance becomes compulsory in France
1982: Jean-Jacques Annaud receives the César for best film for
La guerre du feu
1989: death of Konrad Lorenz, founder of modern ethology
1997: Ireland legalizes divorce
2010: a strong earthquake followed by a tsunami killed more than 520 people in Chile
2012:
The Artist
, silent and black and white film by Michel Hazanavicius, triumphs at the 84th Oscars evening by winning five statuettes
2013: death of Stéphane Hessel, former resistance fighter and French diplomat, author of the bestseller
Indignez-vous
2015: Russian opponent Boris Nemtsov is assassinated in Moscow
some birthdays
Yolande Moreau, Belgian actress born in 1953
Thomas Pesquet, astronaut born in 1978
Saying of the day
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Jelly of Sainte-Honorine day, makes the whole valley sad.
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