Some high mountain villages, such as Avoriaz ( in France ) Wengen and Zermatt ( in Switzerland ) are accessible only by cable car or cog-rail trains, and are car free.

In 1893 Maillol opened a tapestry workshop in Banyuls, producing works whose high technical and aesthetic quality gained him recognition for renewing this art form in France.

Among the natives, though Corsican nationalism is strong, and feeling often runs high in favour of a union with Italy, loyalty to France, as evidenced by elections, remains stronger.

At the end of September 2003, the first part of High Speed 1, a high speed link to the Channel Tunnel and on to France and Belgium, was completed, significantly adding to the rail infrastructure of the country.

In the 1930s, as caving became increasingly popular, small exploration teams both in the Alps and in the karstic high plateaus of southwest France ( Causses and Pyrenees ) transformed cave exploration in both a scientific and recreational activity.

After dropping out of high school, he followed his brother Richard to France, where he performed with Le Grand Magic Circus, an avant-garde musical theater group.

The south door of Beauvais Cathedral is in some respects the finest in France ; the upper panels are carved in high relief with figure subjects and canopies over them.

The story idea came from smuggling in the 18th century Romney Marsh, where brandy and tobacco were brought in at night by boat from France to avoid high tax.

The artisans and blacksmiths of Iberia in what is now southern Spain and southwestern France produced various iron daggers and swords of high quality from the 5th to the 3rd century BC, in ornamentation and patterns influenced by Greek, Punic ( Carthaginian ), and Phoenician culture.

The " land of Francia ," from which France gets its name, had high points of expansion under kings Clovis I and Charlemagne.

Since 1962, when France stationed military personnel in the region, French Polynesia has changed from a subsistence economy to one in which a high proportion of the work force is either employed by the military or supports the tourist industry.

Gers, a department of France, is within this region and has high quality poultry, while La Montagne Noire and Lacaune area offers high quality hams and dry sausages.

A high percentage of tourists are from France.

Before 1750 the German upper classes looked to France for intellectual, cultural and architectural leadership ; French was the language of high society.

Haiti agreed to pay the price to lift a crippling embargo imposed by France, Britain, and the United States — but to do so, the Haitian government had to take out high interest loans.

In condominiums, sovereignty is shared between two external powers: e. g. Andorra ( president of France and bishop of Urgell, Spain, co-princes ), and the former Anglo-French New Hebrides ( each nation's head of state was represented by a high commissioner ).

France demanded a high payment for compensation to slaveholders who lost their property, and Haiti was saddled with unmanageable debt for decades.

Some of the lords and their descendants rose to high ranks in their adoptive countries, such as the French royalist Patrice de Mac-Mahon, who became president of France.

Among the early writings of Abbadie were four Sermons sur divers Textes de l ' Ecriture, 1680 ; Réflexions sur la Présence réelle du Corps de Jésus-Christ dans l ' Eucharistie, 1685 ; and two highly adulatory addresses on persons in high stations, entitled respectively Panégyrique de Monseigneur l ' Electeur de Brandebourg, 1684 ; and Panégyrique de Marie Stuart, Reine d ' Angleterre, d ' Ecosse, de France, et d ' Irlande, de glorieuse et immortelle mémoire, décédée à Kensington le 28 décembre 1694, 1695, also published in England as A Panegyric on our late Sovereign Lady, 1695.

Dowland performed a number of espionage assignments for Sir Robert Cecil in France and Denmark ; his high rate of pay notwithstanding, Dowland seems to have been only a court musician.

Similarly, a high court in France convicted Hubbard of fraud in absentia.

These were used to manufacture early tools and weapons, for example, high quality flint found in northern France and southern England was used to create flint tools.

The hot springs, among which those of Les Escaldes in Andorra, Panticosa and Lles in Spain, Ax-les-Thermes, Bagnères-de-Luchon and Eaux-Chaudes in France may be mentioned, are sulphurous and mostly situated high, near the contact of the granite with the stratified rocks.

However, while this is exceptionally high compared with its neighbors in Mauritius, Madagascar and the African continent, it is only 57 % of the 30, 140 euros per capita GDP of metropolitan France in 2007.

* Pierre Adolphe Rost, a member of the Mississippi Senate and commissioner to Europe for the Confederate States, immigrated to Natchez from France.

* Algérie ( Algeria ), once similar to Tunis, but incorporated directly into the French Republic, got its only High commissioner on 19 March 1962: Christian Fouchet ( b. 1911 – d. 1974 ), until its 3 July 1962 independence from France ( Algerian State ; 25 September 1962 People's Democratic Algerian Republic ruled by the FLN, the former armed revolt )

* In Niger, since 13 October 1946 an overseas territory of France ( part of French West Africa, see Senegal ) under a lieutenant-governor, on 19 December 1958 granted autonomy as Republic of Niger, there was a single High commissioner 25 August 1958 – 10 November 1960: Jean Colombani ( b. 1903 ), i. e. still several months after the formal 3 August 1960 independence whilst there was no President

* Tunisia, known as the Régence ( since 3 June 1955 autonomous ), where France had a Resident-general ( posted with the Basha bey of Tunis, who once the French protectorate was terminated on 20 March 1956 restyled his realm al-Mamlaka at-Tunisiyya ' Tunisian Kingdom '), in stead got a High commissioner from 13 September 1955 to 20 March 1956: Roger Seydoux Fornier de Clausonne ( b. 1908 – d. 1985 ); in continued shortly as independent monarchy, but on 25 July 1957 became the Tunisian Republic.

Either together or successively he held the offices of inspector of mines, professor at the School of Mines and at the Polytechnic School, assayer of gold and silver articles, professor of chemistry in the College de France and at the Jardin des Plantes, member of the Council of Industry and Commerce, commissioner on the pharmacy laws, and finally professor of chemistry to the Medical Faculty, to which he succeeded on Fourcroy's death in 1809.

Unlike the French feudalism from which it was derived, the lord of the manor was not granted the " haut " or " bas " jurisdiction to impose fines and penalties as in Europe ; those powers were given to the Intendant of New France, a commissioner sent by the King.

When asked to name the best detective in France, he volunteers his own deputy commissioner, Claude Lebel.

Silas Deane, commissioner to France during the American Revolutionary War, lived in the town.

His long career in public service began as a commissioner to Syria in 1860, where his skillful diplomacy maintained British interests while preventing France from instituting a client state in Lebanon.

After his return from France Prior became under-secretary of state and succeeded John Locke as a commissioner of trade.

Charles Tupper when he was high commissioner helped to negotiate an agreement with France in 1893, but it was signed by the British ambassador representing the Queen of Canada.

In 1599, he was appointed grand commissioner of highways and public works, superintendent of fortifications and grand master of artillery ; in 1602 governor of Nantes and of Jargeau, captain-general of the Queen's gens d ' armes and governor of the Bastille ; in 1604 he was governor of Poitou ; and in 1606 made first duke of Sully and a pair de France, ranking next to princes of the blood.

He also served as a Director of the European Investment Bank, a Director of Air France, and as a government commissioner on the boards of the French Petroleum Company and the French Refinery Company.

German armistice commissioner Graf Ceschi offered Amery the chance to leave France and go to Germany to work in the political arena, but Ceschi was unable to get Amery out of France.

Signifying the determination of France on its intervention in Syria was the naming of General Henri Gouraud as a high commissioner in Syria-Cilicia.

In the year 1540, Vergerio again entered active diplomatic service ; he was at Worms at the religious conference as commissioner for King Francis I of France.

In some countries, such as in many Latin American countries and in France, the title of commissioner is more junior and instead refers to the head of a single police station ( similar to Chief Superintendents in the Commonwealth ).

In the police of France and other French-speaking countries, commissioner ( commissaire ) is a lower rank equating approximately to the British police rank of Superintendent.

After his return to France he was elected Mayor of Valence in 1795, and was commissioner for the département of Drôme under the French Directory.

In the summer of 1940 Baudouin gave his backing to Henri Dhavernas, Inspecteur des Finances, and a former chief commissioner for the Catholic Scouts de France, to found a new official youth movement, the ' Compagnons de France ', which was formally registered as an association in July 1940.