Most of the Maquis cells — like the Maquis du Limousin or the Maquis du Vercors-took names after the area they were operating in.

When Germans began a forced labor draft ( Service du travail obligatoire, STO ) in France in the beginning of 1943, thousands of young men fled and joined the Maquis.

* Maquis de l ' Ain et du Haut-Jura

* Maquis du Grésivaudan in the French Alps

* Maquis du Limousin in the Massif Central

* Maquis du Mont Mouchet in the Auvergne

* Maquis du Vercors in the French Alps

USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress es dropping supplies to the Maquis du Vercors in 1944.

Historians still debate how effective the French Résistance was militarily, but for instance the neutralization of the Maquis du Vercors alone involved the commitment of over 10, 000 German troops within the theater, with several more thousands held in reserve, in a period when the Allied invasion was breaking out of Normandy and French Operation Jedburgh commandos were being dropped nearby to the south to prepare for the Allied landing in Provence.

The region became noteworthy during World War II when the Maquis du Vercors led the French Resistance against the German occupation and established the Free Republic of Vercors in June and July 1944.

* Maquis du Vercors

He joins the Maquis du Vercors, the groups of resistants.

* Maquis du Vercors, a section of the French Resistance to the Germans and Vichy régime during World War II, active in the district

File: Arbuste du maquis minier sur la massif de Tiébaghi ( Koumac ). jpg | Maquis minier bush in Tiébaghi Mountain ( Koumac )

It is located on Route Maquis de Jean Pierre ( D20 ) thirty minutes from Rodez, one hour from the Gorges du Tarn, two hours northeast of Toulouse, and six and a half hours due south of Paris.

During the War he entered the élite École polytechnique and fought for the Resistance ( in the Maquis du Vercors ).

In 1943 the steering committee of Combat learned that refugees from the Service du travail obligatoire forced labour had fled to Haute-Savoie and the Maquis had been created in the mountainous massifs.

The third and final series is based on the actions of the Maquis du Vercors and the events in Vassieux-en-Vercors, though the locations used are given fictional names, such as the village being named Couermont and the plateau " Le Crest ".

* " The Maquis ", second-season episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that introduced the above group

A few years later she became a member of the Maquis renegade group, and began developing a profound hatred of the Cardassians.

He subsequently resigned from Starfleet and joined a rogue group known as the Maquis.

In the American Star Trek science-fiction franchise, the Maquis are a 24th Century paramilitary organization or terrorist group first introduced in the 1994 episode " The Maquis " of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, who subsequently also appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager.

Chakotay, leader of the Maquis group, becomes first officer.

Thanks to coded messages transmitted over the BBC radio, each Maquis group was alerted of the impending D-Day by listening for seemingly meaningless messages such as " the crow will sing three times in the morning " or any other pre-arranged messages read in a continuous flow over the British airwaves.

On the Vercors plateau, a Maquis group fought about 8, 000 soldiers under General Karl Pflaum and was defeated with 600 casualties.

The science fiction franchise Star Trek prominently featured a resistance group called the Maquis.

The game Resistance: Retribution features a resistance group called " Maquis ".

In " Blaze of Glory ", the characters confront the issue of ethnic cleansing when the Maquis – a resistance group of former Federation citizens now living in Cardassian space – are hunted down and ask for the assistance of Sisko, who used to criticize their methods.

* Maquis des Glières-resistance group that fought the Milice

The Jedburgh teams normally parachuted in by night to meet a reception committee from a local Resistance or Maquis group.

Before the trio leaves, an anonymous transmission from the demilitarized zone attributes the bombing of the Bok ' Nor and the recent kidnappings to a group calling itself the Maquis.

* This episode lays the groundwork for the Deep Space Nine conflict between the Federation, the Cardassians, and the Maquis separatist group.

Simone Weil who fought for the French resistance ( the Maquis ) argued in her final book The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind that for society to become more just and protective of liberty, obligations should take precedence over rights in moral and political philosophy and a spiritual awakening should occur in the conscience of most citizens, so that social obligations are viewed as fundamentally having a transcendent origin and a beneficent impact on human character when fulfilled.

August, from the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry showing a group of travelers and the Duc's Château d ' Étampes in the background

in negotiating a peace agreement was signed in Tripoli in February 2007, between President Bozizé and the head of the Front démocratique du people centrafricain ( FDPC ) rebel movement ( who is also said to have close ties to Union of Democratic Forces for Unity ( UFDR ), the rebel group that seized several cities in northern C. A. R.

* 1970 – October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days.

* Kabyles du Pacifique, a group of Algerians deported to New Caledonia after an uprising in 1871.

In this group, the explorer Antoine Simon Le Page du Pratz may be the first historian of Louisiana with his Histoire de la Louisiane ( 3 vols., Paris, 1758 ; 2 vols., London, 1763 )

The group won the Grand Prix du Disque of the Charles Cros Academy ( previously won by such groups as Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix ) in 1971.

Reels are featured in many pieces of Quebec singers and bands ; for example: La Bolduc, La Bottine Souriante and even the more modern néo-trad group Les Cowboys Fringants ( like the song Mon Pays suivi du Reel des aristocrates ).

Jean Przyluski introduced the term sino-tibétain ( Sino-Tibetan ) as the title of his chapter on the group in Meillet and Cohen's Les Langues du Monde in 1924.

* April 20 – In Quebec, Canada, members of the terrorist group Front de libération du Québec, bomb a Canadian Army recruitment center, killing night watchman Wilfred V. O ' Neill.

* December 3 – October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days.

Also, de Gournay ( 1712 – 1759 ) ( who was the Intendant du commerce ) brought together a group of young researchers including François Véron Duverger de Forbonnais ( 1722 – 1800 ) and one of the two most famous physicrats, Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot ( 1727 – 81 ).

In High-Change in Bond Street ,— ou — la Politesse du Grande Monde ( 1796 ), James Gillray caricatured the lack of etiquette in a group of men leering at women and crowding them off a pavement.

* the Central group ( the watershed between the Little St Bernard Pass and the Col du Mont Cenis )

In Ventôse and Germinal ( roughly late winter and early spring ) he published, under the nom de plume of Lalande, soldat de la patrie, a new paper, the Eclaireur du Peuple, ou le Défenseur de Vingt-Cinq Millions d ' Opprimés, which was hawked clandestinely from group to group in the streets of Paris.

The Front de libération du Québec ( FLQ ; ) was a far left-wing Québécois nationalist and Marxist-Leninist paramilitary group in Quebec, Canada.

Finally the members of the Bordeaux group, joined with others from Nantes reached an agreement with Langlois, and on 8 November 1839, ‘ La Compagnie de Bordeaux et de nantes pour la Colonisation de l ’ Île du Sud de la Nouvelle Zélande et ses Dépendances ’ presented its petition to the Government.

He was the leader of the Chenier cell of the Front de libération du Québec ( FLQ ), a group whose members were also responsible for a decade of bombings and armed robberies.

: Defendant Nick du Toit said he was introduced to Thatcher in South Africa last year by Simon Mann, the leader of 70 men arrested in Zimbabwe in March suspected of being a group of mercenaries heading to Equatorial Guinea.

The group was considering to use The Firebird by Igor Stravinsky, but Taylor noted that his " Le Sacre du printemps would be something on that order ", to which Disney replied upon hearing a recording, " This is marvelous!

The group included: Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim du Bellay and Jean-Antoine de Baïf.

and younger officers like Ardant du Picq who tended to view fighting performance as rooted in the individual's and group psychology and suggested detailed analysis of this.

In The Water Babies, Kingsley tells of a group of humans called the Doasyoulikes who are allowed to do " whatever they like " so gradually lose the power of speech, degenerate into gorillas, and are shot by the African explorer Paul du Chaillu.

Together with the writer Raymond Queneau and artist Marcel Duchamp, he was a member of the Rue du Château group.

In March 1560 a group of disaffected nobles ( led by Jean du Barry, seigneur de la Renaudie ) attempted to abduct the young Francis II and eliminate the Guise faction.