Its five-door liftback body was penned by designers Gaston Juchet and Robert Opron of Citroën SM fame, and the unconventional style ( the wraparound rear window was its most famous feature ) was aimed at giving the car a notchback look in order to overcome customer preference outside France for formal sedans in the segment.

During this period in France, however, opposition to the conflict was growing among many segments of the population, notably the leftists, with the French Communist Party, then one of the country's strongest political forces, which was supporting the Algerian Revolution.

The extending segments were uncooled carbon composites, made by SEP of France.

Presently broadcast from 16: 30 to 18: 00 in France ( 16: 00-18: 00 in Belgium ), this show has several regular segments.

To secure an adequate share of European content, and as a result of the co-production agreement, each season was divided into two segments, the first segment was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ( posing at the fictional location of Seacouver, Washington, United States ), the second in Paris, France.

The framing scenes, on the other hand, both take place in the late Spring of 1940, just at the moment of the defeat of France in the second great world conflict.

* 1789 – In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.

The expulsion of the Jews from France by Philip IV (" the Fair "), in, caused the Jews of Montpellier to take refuge, partly in Provence, partly in Perpignan and partly in Majorca.

* France, not feeling ready for a war against Germany in 1912, took a totally negative position against the war, firmly informing its ally Russia that it would not take part in a potential conflict between Russia and Austria-Hungary if it resulted from the actions of the Balkan League.

But the allies failed to take advantage of French disunity, and by the autumn of 1793 the republican regime had defeated most of the internal rebellions and halted the allied advance into France itself.

In 1809, Francis attacked France again, hoping to take advantage of the Peninsular War embroiling Napoleon in Spain.

Greaves and Hunt were indeed picked for the three group games against Uruguay, Mexico and France, but in the latter game, Greaves suffered a deep gash to his leg which required stitches, and Hurst was called up to take his place in the quarter final against Argentina.

The establishment of the Dual Alliance led Russia to take a more conciliatory stance, and in 1887, the so-called Reinsurance Treaty was signed between Germany and Russia: in it, the two powers agreed on mutual military support in the case that France attacked Germany, or in case of an Austrian attack on Russia.

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.

As Great Britain was still at war with France, a plan was made to take Egypt from the Ottoman Empire, a British ally.

In 1856 France joined the Second Opium War on the British side against China ; a missionary's murder was used as a pretext to take interests in southwest Asia in the Treaty of Tientsin.

" When the inquisitor-general of France learned that Servetus was hiding in Vienne, according to Calvin under an assumed name, he contacted Cardinal François de Tournon, the secretary of the archbishop of Lyon, to take up the matter.

During the war, Krupp was allowed to take over many industries in occupied nations, including Arthur Krupp steel works in Berndorf, Austria, the Alsacian Corporation for Mechanical Construction ( Elsaessische Maschinenfabrik AG, or ELMAG ), Robert Rothschild's tractor factory in France, Škoda Works in Czechoslovakia, and Deutsche Schiff-und Maschinenbau AG ( Deschimag ) in Bremen.

In 1801 Jefferson supported France in its plan to take back Saint-Domingue, then under control of Toussaint Louverture after a slave rebellion.

In January 1802, France sent General LeClerc to Saint-Domingue to re-establish slavery, reduce the rights of free people of color and take back control of the island from slave rebels.

He was obliged in consequence to take refuge in Venice, and, on the accession of Clement, to flee to France.

On the restoration of the Medici in 1530, he had again to take refuge in France, where he composed the greater part of his works.

The Japanese claim to these lands had been supported by the western powers of France, the U. K. and the U. S. at the Treaty of Versailles, who also agreed that Japan could take control of all the territories in China that had formerly been under the dominion of the defeated German Empire.

Alex Chan's take on the 2005 civil unrest in France, The French Democracy, attained mainstream attention and inspired other machinima commentaries on American and British society.

In 1874, she made the decision to take up residence in France.

* 1940 – World War II: The Battle of Gabon ends as Free French Forces take Libreville, Gabon, and all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy France forces.

After attacking and destroying monasteries, including one at Jumieges, they took advantage of the power vacuum created by the disintegration of Charlemagne's empire to take northern France.

He protested the trial of churchmen before Philip's royal courts and the continued use of church funds for state purposes and he announced he would summon the bishops and abbots of France to take measures " for the preservation of the liberties of the Church ".

After a shaky peace of 1486 with King Ferdinand I of Naples failed and Ferdinand repeatedly refused to pay the tariff for his investiture, Innocent excommunicated him in 1489 and invited King Charles VIII of France to come to Italy with an army and take possession of the Kingdom of Naples, a disastrous political event for the Italian peninsula as a whole.

On hearing of the fall of Edessa to the Turks, he had, in December 1145, addressed the bull Quantum praedecessores to Louis VII of France, calling on him to take part in another crusade.

* 1580 – One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, Flanders, or Northern France, takes place.

The annual French Festival takes place throughout Acapulco city and offers a multitude of events that cement cultural links between Mexico and France.

The third congress took place in 1818 to decide the fate of occupied Napoleonic France.

On 15 December 1840, brought back to France from Saint Helena, Napoleon's remains passed under it on their way to the Emperor's final resting place at the Invalides.

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

Breton is not an official language of France, despite pleas from autonomists and others for official recognition and for the language to be guaranteed a place in schools, the media, and other aspects of public life.

In the 17th and 18th centuries a movement of revision took place in France, and succeeded in modifying about half the Breviaries of that country.

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.

* Misspelling of Commentry, a place in France

They fell behind advances in philosophy, law, literature and art taking place in France and Italy.

The D-Day Normandy landings on June 6, 1944 were costly but successful ; a month later the invasion of Southern France took place, and control of the forces which took part in the southern invasion passed from the AFHQ to the SHAEF.

In the revival movement France held a foremost place, owing to the reputation and convincing power of the orator, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire ( 1802 – 1861 ).

Overall, from about 1910, American films had the largest share of the market in all European countries except France, and even in France, the American films had just pushed the local production out of first place on the eve of World War I.

Controls on the association of physical locations to well-known exported products, e. g. wine from the Champagne and Bordeaux regions of France, tin-glazed earthenwares from certain cities in Holland, lace from Chantilly, etc., helped to establish a town's place in global commerce — this led to modern trademarks.

By the 18th century, however, Geneva had come under the influence of Catholic France, which cultivated the city elite, who tended to be at odds with the ordinary townsfolk – to the point that an abortive revolution took place in 1782.

The second round took place in 1949 in Annecy, France.

France prohibits by its penal code and by its press laws public and private communication which is defamatory or insulting, or which incites discrimination, hatred, or violence against a person or a group of persons on account of place of origin, ethnicity or lack thereof, nationality, race, specific religion, sex, sexual orientation, or handicap.

Even at this time, he emphasized that, in the event of war, India ’ s place was alongside the democracies, though he insisted that India could only fight in support of Great Britain and France as a free country.

Nearly all the fighting had taken place in France, and the English army's use of chevauchée tactics ( similar to scorched earth strategies ) had devastated the economy.

By 1913 the French and British had plans in place for joint naval action against Germany, and France moved its Atlantic fleet from Brest to Toulon, replacing British ships.

* 1976 – The Judgement of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine.

* 1968 – The meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France ( National Union of the Students of France ) takes place.