Notable natives and residents include the Slovenian economist Ivan Ples ( 1886 – 1958 ), composer Andrej Volarič ( 1863 – 1895 ), and the Italian Jesuit philologist Gregorio Alasia de Sommaripa ( 1587 – 1626 ), who compiled the first Italian-Slovene dictionary in 1601.

:# Alasia of Savoy, abbess of the monastery of St Pierre in Lyon ( d. 1250 )

Social Historians in Contemporary France: Essays from " Annales ", ( 1972 )

* 1792 – France declares war against the " King of Hungary and Bohemia ", the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.

* 1918 – World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as " The Red Baron ", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.

Classicizing architectonic structure and decor all ' antica, in the " ancient mode ", became a fashionable way to frame a painted or bas-relief portrait, or protect an expensive and precious mirror during the High Renaissance ; Italian precedents were imitated in France, then in Spain, England and Germany during the later 16th century.

The first Baron was Hamelin de Balun, from Ballon, a small town and castle in Maine-Anjou called " Gateway to Maine ", near Le Mans, today in the Sarthe département of France.

Additionally, in a section in the book entitled, " Open Letter to My Lost France ", Bardot writes that " my country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims ".

Centime ( from Latin centesimus ) is French for " cent ", and is used in English as the name of the fraction currency in several Francophone countries ( including Switzerland, Algeria, Belgium, Morocco and France ).

" " In France ", continued the count, " you can try to please the public, but here in Italy it is the actors and actresses whom you must consult, as well as the composer of the music and the stage decorators.

The name cello is an abbreviation of the Italian violoncello, which means " little violone ", referring to the violone (" big viol "), the lowest-pitched instrument of the viol family, the group of string instruments that went out of fashion around the end of the 17th century in most countries except France, where they survived another half-century or so before the louder violin family came into greater favour in that country too.

*" Calypso ", a 1985 song sung by France Gall

In France, Claude François who re-invented himself as the king of French disco, released " La plus belle chose du monde ", a French version of the Bee Gees hit record, " Massachusetts ", which became a big hit in Canada and Europe and " Alexandrie Alexandra " was posthumously released on the day of his burial and became a worldwide hit.

The Convention was designed to incorporate a traditional civil liberties approach to securing " effective political democracy ", from the strongest traditions in the United Kingdom, France and other member states of the fledgling Council of Europe.

* 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 ).

Indeed the Republic of Independent Guyana, in French La République de la Guyane indépendante and commonly referred to by the name of the capital " Counani ", was created in the area which was disputed by France ( as part of French Guyana ) and Brazil in the late nineteenth century.

In France and French-speaking countries, fried potatoes are formally " pommes de terre frites ", but more commonly " pommes frites ", " patates frites ", or simply " frites ".

In France, the thick-cut fries are called " Pommes Pont-Neuf " or simply " pommes frites ", about 10 mm ; thinner variants are " pommes allumettes " ( matchstick potatoes ), ± 7 mm, and " pommes pailles " ( potato straws ), 3 – 4 mm ( roughly ⅜, ¼ and ⅛ inch respectively ).

* 1898 – Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing " J ' accuse ", a letter accusing the French government of anti-Semitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.

* 1960 – With the success of a nuclear test codenamed " Gerboise Bleue ", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.

The historian William Hepworth Dixon referred to the Code Napoleon as " the sole embodiment of Bacon's thought ", saying that Bacon's legal work " has had more success abroad than it has found at home ", and that in France " it has blossomed and come into fruit ".

Created to fight " outside mainland France ", the Foreign Legion was stationed in Algeria, where it took part in the pacification and development of the colony, by notably drying the marshes in the region of Algiers.

In the spring and early summer of that year she met a wealthy foreign tycoon who took her to France, where she later met a very wealthy man and toured all Europe with him.

England, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy had all been rendered for her time and again, and between the prescribed hours of pills and tonics, she had conceived a dreamy passion by lamplight, to see all these places with her own eyes.

With a grant from Les Dames d ' Escoffier, she worked in bakeries and restaurants in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France.

She spent two years in France, where she worked for Anne Willan, the founder of Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne.

Anaïs Nin (; born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977 ) was a French-Cuban author, based at first in France and later in the United States, who published her journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death, her erotic literature, and short stories.

( Musseli told friends she had not wanted to sell her home, but that Lerner urged her to cut her ties with her native city and that she entrusted Lerner with the proceeds of the sale, for investment in the U. S .) The daughter of a World War One French war hero and herself an unsung heroine of the Resistance, whose Corsican forebears were intimates of Napoleon Bonaparte, she later made Lerner the gift of a chateau in France after he declared to her that he wanted a French rural retreat where he could write.

During the 1990s, she generated controversy by criticizing immigration, Islamization and Islam in France, and has been fined five times for " inciting racial hatred ".

Brigitte BardotIn May 1958, Bardot withdrew to the seclusion of Southern France where she had bought the house La Madrague in Saint-Tropez.

In the late 1950s she shared an exchange which was called " la croisée de deux sillages " (" the crossing of two wakes ") with actor and true-crime author John Gilmore, then an actor in France who was working on a New Wave film with Jean Seberg.

In her 2003 book, Un cri dans le silence (" A Scream in the Silence "), she warned of an “ Islamicization of France ”, and said of Muslim immigration: In May 2003 the Movement Against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples ( MRAP ) announced they would sue Bardot for the comments.

In 2008, Bardot was convicted of inciting racial / religious hatred in relation to a letter she wrote, a copy of which she sent to Nicolas Sarkozy when he was Interior Minister of France.

The letter stated her objections to Muslims in France ritually slaughtering sheep by slitting their throats without anesthetizing them first but also said, in reference to Muslims, that she was " fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its habits ".

For six months, she served as regent of England while Henry VIII was in France.

Expelled from France Marie joined her mother in Brussels before eloping with a renegade priest to Geneva, with whom she lived unhappily until her premature death in 1705.

As well as being Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right, she was queen consort of France ( 1137 – 1152 ) and of England ( 1154 – 1189 ).

As Queen of France, she participated in the unsuccessful Second Crusade.

Later, at King Roger's court in Potenza, she learnt of the death of her uncle Raymond ; this appears to have forced a change of plans, for instead of returning to France from Marseilles, they instead sought the Pope in Tusculum, where he had been driven five months before by a Roman revolt.

Rather than risk returning Mary to Scotland with an English army or sending her to France and the Catholic enemies of England, they detained her in England, where she was imprisoned for the next nineteen years.

" She is only a woman, only mistress of half an island ," marvelled Pope Sixtus V, " and yet she makes herself feared by Spain, by France, by the Empire, by all ".

Eka-caesium was discovered in 1939 by Marguerite Perey of the Curie Institute in Paris, France when she purified a sample of actinium-227 which had been reported to have a decay energy of 220 keV.

Francis of Assisi was one of seven children born to Pietro di Bernardone, a rich cloth merchant, and his wife Pica, about whom little is known except that she was originally from France.