Urged on by some of his friends and collaborators, Guénon agreed to establish a new Masonic lodge in France founded upon his " Traditional " ideals, purified of what he saw as the inauthentic accretions which so bedeviled other lodges he had encountered during his early years in Paris.

Urged by his superiors to cut costs, Commander in Chief General Jeffrey Amherst initiated policy changes that helped prompt Pontiac's War in 1763, an uprising against the British military occupation of the former New France.

* France Must Pay Greenpeace $ 8 Million in Sinking of Ship New York Times ( October 3, 1987 )

In 1996, Schwan's introduced the Freschetta pizza line and acquired La Roue du Pay d ' auge, a frozen foods producer in France.

* 1803 – Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $ 15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation.

ODA, $ 95. 29 million ; note-traditional budget subsidies from France ( 2005 est.

Between 1983 and 1987, Ecuador imported an estimated US $ 460 million of arms, primarily from Italy, France, the United States and Britain.

The five top European leagues – the Premier League ( England ), La Liga ( Spain ), Serie A ( Italy ), the Bundesliga ( Germany ) and Ligue 1 ( France ) – attract most of the world's best players and each of the leagues has a total wage cost in excess of £ 600 million /€ 763 million / US $ 1. 185 billion.

Its $ 193 million gross in France puts it just behind Titanic as the most successful film of all time in French theaters.

On 15 May 1991 Italy became for a while the fourth worldwide economic power, overcoming France, with a GDP of US $ 1. 268 trillion, compared to France's GDP of US $ 1. 209 trillion and Britain's of US $ 1. 087 trillion.

The American government used $ 3 million in gold as a down payment, and issued bonds for the balance to pay France for the purchase.

In 1912 the U. S. arranged a 40-year international loan of $ 1. 7 million, against which Liberia had to agree to four Western powers ( America, Britain, France and Germany ) controlling Liberian Government revenues for the next 14 years, until 1926.

On December 17, 1947, the United States agreed to give $ 40 million to France, Austria, China, and Italy.

In 1979, Fayed bought The Ritz hotel in Paris, France for US $ 30 million.

US $ 770 million from France ( 1998 ) / € 605 million ( exchange rate as of 2006-05-07 )

In 2009, retail sales of pasta represented a $ 2. 809 billion market in Italy, $ 1. 402 billion in Germany, and $ 1. 179 billion in France.

After the Gulf War, Qatar's air force infrastructure was upgraded by France for $ 200 million, leading to the order of nine single Mirage 2000-5DEA multi-role combat aircraft and three two seat Mirage 2000-5DDA combat trainers in August 1994.

There was a widespread recognition that something must be done, and " in 1858 Morse was awarded the sum of 400, 000 French francs ( equivalent to about $ 80, 000 at the time ) by the governments of France, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Piedmont, Russia, Sweden, Tuscany and Turkey, each of which contributed a share according to the number of Morse instruments in use in each country.

On June 23rd 2012, South Korea is landmarked to become the 7th member of the 20-50 club ( with the population surpassing 50 million and maintaining per capita income of US $ 20, 000 ), chronologically, after Japan, United States of America, France, Italy, Germany and United Kingdom.

GDP: purchasing power parity $ 48. 3 million, supplemented by annual payments from France of about $ 60 million ( 2003 estimate )

Economic aid ( recipient ): approximately $ 60 million in annual grants from France

At this time the United States was paying $ 80, 000 to the Barbary States as a ' tribute ' for protection against piracy, as did Britain and France.

* Germany ( U. S. $ 3. 35 trillion ), France ( U. S. $ 2. 65 trillion ), United Kingdom ( U. S. $ 2. 17 trillion ) and Italy ( U. S. $ 2. 11 trillion ) followed as the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th largest economies, respectively in 2009.

Perier finally, in one last bid in 1730, cut the price of goods to an advance of 40 per cent above the cost in France.

" Everyday Life and the Challenge to History in Postwar France: Braudel, Lefebvre, Certeau ," Diacritics, Volume 33, Number 1, Spring 2003, pp. 23 – 40 in Project Muse

The U. S. Army brought truck-towed Bofors 40 mm AA guns along with truck-mounted units fitted with mechanized turrets when they sailed, first for Great Britain and then onto France.

If, in England, the wine sold for 70 francs ( or the pound equivalent ), which he then used to buy coal, which he imported into France, and was found to be worth 90 francs in France, he would have made a profit of 40 francs.

When Pissarro returned to his home in France after the war, he discovered that of the 1, 500 paintings he had done over 20 years, which he was forced to leave behind when he moved to London, only 40 remained.

* 1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.

Finnish data for the early 1980s showed that 30 to 40 percent of those in occupations not requiring much education were the children of farmers, as were about 25 percent in upper-level occupations, a rate two to three times that of France and noticeably higher than that even of neighbouring Sweden.

Surveying the entire range of French filmmaking today, Tim Palmer calls contemporary cinema in France a kind of eco-system, in which commercial cinema co-exists with artistic radicalism, first-time directors ( who make up about 40 % of all France's directors each year ) mingle with veterans, and there even occasionally emerges a fascinating pop-art hybridity, in which the features of intellectual and mass cinemas are interrelated ( as in filmmakers like Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Olivier Assayas, Maïwenn, Sophie Fillières, Serge Bozon, and others ).

* 1662 – Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for 40, 000 pounds.

Pasporta Servo in its current form was first published in 1974 with 40 hosts, under the guidance of Jeanne-Marie Cash in France.

A Globescan BBC poll on the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall ( 2009 ) found that 23 % of respondents believe capitalism is " fatally flawed and a different economic system is needed ", with that figure rising to over 40 % of the population in France ; while a majority of respondents including over 50 % of Americans believe capitalism " has problems that can be addressed through regulation and reform ".

By the time the war began, the number of members rose to 250, 000, and the Waffen-SS was formed in August 1940, expanding the earlier armed SS troops who had fought in Poland and France in 1939 – 40, to serve alongside the Wehrmacht, Germany's regular armed forces.

Taxation as a percentage of GDP in 2003 was 56. 1 % in Denmark, 54. 5 % in France, 49. 0 % in the Euro area, 42. 6 % in the United Kingdom, 35. 7 % in the United States, 35. 2 % in Ireland, and among all OECD members an average of 40. 7 %.

During the War of the Second Coalition ( 1799 – 1801 ), Britain occupied most of the French and Dutch colonies ( the Netherlands had been a satellite of France since 1796 ), but tropical diseases claimed the lives of over 40, 000 troops.

* A 40, 000-year-old Neanderthal boy skeleton is found at Le Moustier in southwest France.

Within a few weeks 40, 000 Patriots ( out of a population of 2, 000, 000 ) go into exile in France ( and learn from observation the ideals of the French Revolution ).

** Establishing the first land connection between the United Kingdom and the mainland of Europe, Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the English Channel seabed.

* October 27 – Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for £ 40, 000 ( or 2. 5 million livres ).

If India and Russia could adopt the farming knowledge and technology of France, the world production of wheat would be 40 % higher with a farming area same as the area farmed for wheat in 2009.

In World War I, the National Guard made up 40 percent of the U. S. combat divisions in France.

initially carrying 40, 000 telephone circuits ( simultaneous calls ) between USA, England and France.

After some five years of siege, Manuel II entrusted the city to his nephew and embarked ( along with a suite of 40 people ) on a long trip abroad to seek assistance against the Ottoman Empire from the courts of western Europe, including those of Henry IV of England ( making him the only Byzantine emperor ever to visit England – he was welcomed from December 1400 to January 1401 at Eltham Palace, and a joust took place in his honour ), Charles VI of France, the Holy Roman Empire, Queen Margaret I of Denmark and from Aragon.

France, with one of the largest populations in Europe by the end of the 18th century ( 27 million, as compared to the United Kingdom's 12 million and Russia's 35 to 40 million ), seemed well poised to take advantage of the levée en masse.