On July 14 the Security Council -- with France and Great Britain abstaining -- voted the resolution which drew the U.N. into the Congo.

The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tablet evoking upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.

The Pals ' first day of action, Saturday 1 July 1916, took place in Serre in the north of France.

After the July Revolution of 1830 in France, disturbances in Saxony began in autumn.

In France, it is formally called La Fête Nationale ( ; The National Celebration ) and commonly Le quatorze juillet ( ; the fourteenth of July ).

Article 17 of the Constitution of France gives the President the authority to pardon criminals and, since 1991, the President has pardoned many petty offenders ( mainly traffic offences ) on 14 July.

The Fête de la Fédération on the 14 July 1790 was a huge feast and official event to celebrate the uprising of the short-lived constitutional monarchy in France and what people considered the happy conclusion of the French Revolution.

In July, the Great Fear of aristocratic reprisal against the ongoing French Revolution struck France, arriving in the Barcelonnette area on 31 July 1789 ( when the news of the storming of the Bastille first reached the town ) before spreading towards Digne.

In July 2008, the French Constitution was amended adding article 75-1, stating les langues régionales appartiennent au patrimoine de la France ( the regional languages belong to the heritage of France ).

The Battle of Bouvines, which took place on 27 July 1214, was a medieval battle ending the twelve year old Angevin-Flanders War that was fundamental in the early development of France in the Middle Ages by confirming the French crown's sovereignty over the Angevin lands of Brittany and Normandy.

On 12 July 1960 France agreed to Chad becoming fully independent.

On 12 July 1960 France agreed to the Central African Republic becoming fully independent.

In the course of France's July Monarchy, Louis-Philippe I was styled " King of the French " rather than " King of France ".

Rome was occupied by France ( 11 July – 28 September 1799 ) and again by Naples ( 30 September 1799 – 23 June 1800 ), bringing an end to the Roman Republic.

In September 1914 cavalry comprised 9. 28 % of the total manpower of the British Expeditionary Force in France — by July 1918 this proportion had fallen to 1. 65 %.

Next day the National Assembly of France issued a decree expressing their great sorrow on account of his death ; and the public funeral on 7 July was one of the most striking spectacles of its kind.

The kings of the Ancien Régime and the July Monarchy used the title Empereur de France in diplomatic correspondence and treaties with the Ottoman emperor from at least 1673 onwards.

Helicopter AS-365 N2 Dauphin crashed off the coast of the main island in July 1994, a smaller helicopter AS-355F-2 continued in service until mid-1997 and in 1999 was sold to France.

Following the Treaty of Breda on 31 July 1667 the area was given back to France.

FIDE was founded in Paris, France on July 20, 1924.

Subsequent events that can be traced to the Revolution include the Napoleonic Wars, two separate restorations of monarchy ( Bourbon Restoration and July Monarchy ), and two additional revolutions ( 1830 and 1848 ) as modern France took shape.

By late July, the spirit of popular sovereignty had spread throughout France.

The July Revolution of 1830 in France marked the beginning of disturbances in Saxony that autumn.

In 2009 Cronenberg received the Légion d ' honneur from the government of France.

* Catherine Cathiard and Frédéric Lemos, managing director of Foncière LFPI, " First cross-border transfers of seat of European Companies in France: the experience of Foncière LFPI ", JCP E n ° 1, January 2009 ( available in French ).

Telephones-main lines in use: 36. 441 million ; 35. 5 million ( metropolitan France ) ( 2009 )

Telephones-mobile cellular: 60. 95 million ; 59. 543 million ( metropolitan France ) ( 2009 )

Internet users: 45. 262 million ; 44. 625 million ( metropolitan France ) ( 2009 )

Tostan, France, 2009 ; link courtesy of Tostan International, YouTube.

* Faul, Michel ( 2009 ), Les aventures militaires, littéraires et autres d ' Étienne de Jouy, Editions Seguier, France, March 2009, ISBN 978-2-84049-556-7

It premiered in France in December 2008 and made its US debut on Cartoon Network on November 2, 2009.

Stone tools discovered at Lézignan-la-Cèbe in 2009 indicate that early man was present in France at least 2 years ago.

* McMillan, James F. Twentieth-Century France: Politics and Society in France 1898-1991 ( 2009 )

A Social and Cultural History of Early Modern France ( 2009 ) excerpt and text search

*" Becoming France ," David Bell, The New Republic, 1 April 2009 ( in English )

* Raymond Benjamin ( France ) ( 2009 – present )

* 2009 – Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

* 2009 – The storm Klaus makes landfall near Bordeaux, France.

The museum consequently returned in 2009 five Egyptian fragments of frescoes ( 30 cm x 15 cm each ) whose existence of the tomb of origin had only been brought to the authorities attention in 2008, eight to five years after their good-faith acquisition by the museum from two private collections and after the necessary respect of the procedure of déclassement from French public collections before the Commission scientifique nationale des collections des musées de France.

At the 35th G8 summit in July 2009, Muammar Gaddafi called Switzerland a " world mafia " and called for the country to be split between France, Germany and Italy.

* Round-up of 2009 May Day marches-Radio France Internationale in English

Code de la Médiation annoté et comenté pour orienter la Médiation, Médiateurs Editeurs, Bordeaux France, 2008 – 2009

As of 2009, the CEO for the company is Brian France, grandson of Bill France, Sr. NASCAR is the largest sanctioning body of stock car racing in the United States.

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.

Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds is the story of a group of guerrilla U. S. soldiers in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.