BAM is the unlikely name of a French recording company whose full label is Editions De La boite A Musique.

He did become interested in French politics, and at the age of 26 he obtained a position as a tax collector in the Ferme Générale, a tax farming company, where he attempted to introduce reforms in the French monetary and taxation system to help the peasants.

After the financial collapse of the Italian opera company in 1777 due to financial mis-management, Joseph II decided to end the performance of Italian opera, French spoken drama, and ballet.

He is the successor of Alain Chesnais ( 2010 – 2012 ), a French citizen living in Toronto where he runs his company named Visual Transitions and Wendy Hall of the University of Southampton.

Arianespace SA is a French company founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial space transportation company.

Some beers today, such as Fraoch by the Scottish Heather Ales company and Cervoise Lancelot by the French Brasserie-Lancelot company, use plants other than hops for flavouring.

In 1980, at the invitation of the French Minister of Culture, she founded the baroque dance company " Ris et Danceries ".

The Cuban government in partnership with French company Pernod Ricard, sells its Havana Club internationally, except for the United States and its territories.

Havana Club is owned by the Cuban government and has a business joint venture with the French company Pernod Ricard.

The name of Ciby 2000, the French film production and distribution company founded in 1990, is a play on words on DeMille's name, since " 2000 " in French is " Deux Milles ".

He was hired by the French publishing company Éditions du Seuil as editor of the series Petite Planète ( Small World ).

Now 19 years old, Eugene applied directly to Louis XIV for command of a company in French service, but the King – who had shown no compassion for Olympia's children since her disgrace – refused him out of hand.

The best known: Guru ( USA ) inspired by Mycin, Personal Consultant Plus ( USA ), Nexpert Object ( developed by Neuron Data, company founded in California by three French ), Genesia ( developed by French public company Electricité de France and marketed by Steria ), VP Expert ( USA ).

In 1986, a new expert system generator for PCs appeared on the market, derived from the French academic research: Intelligence Service, sold by GSI-TECSI software company.

There is a total of of railway in France, mostly operated by SNCF, the French national railway company.

These included An Elopement à la Mode and The Pickpocket: A Chase Through London, made by Alf Collins for the British branch of the French Gaumont company, Daring Daylight Burglary, made by Frank Mottershaw at the Sheffield Photographic Company, and Desperate Poaching Affray, made by the Haggar family, whose main business was exhibiting films made by others in their traveling tent theatre.

The French Éclair company was already making films in the United States, and their production of features increased with the transfer of more film-makers when the French industry was shut down at the beginning of World War I.

The Congolese oil sector is dominated by the French parastatal oil company Elf Aquitaine, which accounts for 70 % of the country's annual oil production.

The principal element in the French-Congolese relationship was the highly successful oil sector investment of the French petroleum parastatal Elf Aquitaine, which entered the Congo in 1968 and has continued to grow since then.

Elf Aquitaine was a French oil company which merged with TotalFina to form TotalFinaElf.

Elf Aquitaine's heritage is rooted among three French oil companies: Régie Autonome des Pétroles ( RAP ), Société Nationale des Pétroles d ' Aquitaine ( SNPA ), and Bureau de Recherches de Pétroles ( BRP ).

Elf, at that time owned by France, then undertook a policy to rebuild and promote French motor racing.

In addition, Elf often picked up other good drivers and sponsored them, creating a generation of top French drivers in the 1980s and early 1990s.

In 1965 Hydro joined Elf Aquitaine and six other French companies to form Petronord to perform search for oil and gas in the North Sea.

Bongo was cited in recent years during French criminal inquiries into hundreds of millions of euros of illicit payments by Elf Aquitaine, the former French state-owned oil group.

In a separate French investigation into corruption at the former oil giant Elf Aquitaine, an executive testified that it paid Bongo £ 40m a year via Swiss bank accounts in exchange for permission to exploit his country's reserves.

He gave the French oil company, Elf Aquitaine, privileged rights to exploit Gabon's oil reserves while Paris returned the favor by guaranteeing his grip on power for the indefinite future.

It also holds 80 % of an exploration firm called Pecten that explores and drills in various offshore locations including the oil basin near Douala, Cameroon in cooperation with the French government-owned Elf Aquitaine ( now Total ).

* Elf Aquitaine, a French oil company

For 1976, engines developed purely for racing were permitted to compete, with Renault developing a particularly potent V6 ; allied to a sponsorship scheme from oil company Elf the formula was briefly dominated by French teams and drivers ; BMW started to back a works March team and raised the stakes in the late seventies.

Dominant chassis of this era were generally from March and Ralt, with Chevron, the French Elf and Martinis and German Maurers being briefly successful.

They carried such influence in Gabon that following the February 1964 coup, the decision to seek military intervention was taken by the CEO of Union Générale des Pétroles ( UGP ; now known as Elf Aquitaine ), Pierre Guillaumat, Foccart, and other French businessmen and leaders.

DAMS were one of many French teams that were part of the Elf young driver sponsorship program.

Congolese oil has been largely exploited by the French company Elf Aquitaine since its discovery around 1980.

For Jean-Pierre Jabouille it was a victory on home soil, driving a French car ( Renault ), on French tyres ( Michelin ), powered by a French engine ( Renault ), burning French fuel ( Elf ).

As a large part of the Tyrrell budget was provided by Ford, and another significant element came from French state-owned petroleum company Elf, which had an agreement with Renault that precluded supporting a Simca partner, Ken Tyrrell had little alternative ( due to clashing sponsorship deals ) but to buy March 701 chassis as interim solution while developing his own car in secret ; the first Tyrrell bore much resemblance to the MS80.

" Her results attracted a major sponsor in the form of the French oil company Elf.

John, after two encounters with the French, retreated to Aquitaine on 3 July.

Rather than act as guardian to the Duchess and duchy, he decided, he would marry the duchess to his heir and bring Aquitaine under the French Crown, thereby greatly increasing the power and prominence of France and the Capets.

From there ' the younger Henry, devising evil against his father from every side by the advice of the French King, went secretly into Aquitaine where his two youthful brothers, Richard and Geoffrey, were living with their mother, and with her connivance, so it is said, he incited them to join him '.

An amusing anecdote is about Henry III's attending the French Parlement, as Duke of Aquitaine ; however, the King of England was always late because he liked to stop each time he met a priest to hear the mass, so Louis made sure no priest was on the way of Henry III.

Strategically, John faced several challenges: England itself had to be secured against possible French invasion, the sea-routes to Bordeaux needed to be secured following the loss of the land route to Aquitaine, and his remaining possessions in Aquitaine needed to be secured following the death of his mother, Eleanor, in April 1204.

On the continent the French pressed the English as the French army invaded English Plantagenet Aquitaine.

As Duke of Aquitaine, Edward was a vassal to the French king.

The French recapture most of Aquitaine.

Back in France, Philip also schemes with Richard's brother, John of England, to dispossess Richard of his French lands while he is still away, but the intervention of John's ( and Richard's ) mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, foils the plan.

As Duke of Aquitaine, Edward was a vassal of the French king.

In 1325, Edward II was faced with a demand from the French king, Charles IV, to perform homage for the English Duchy of Aquitaine.

One reason the language of Aquitaine is important is because Basque is the last surviving non-Indo-European language in western Europe and it has had some effect on the languages around it, including Spanish and, to a lesser extent, French.

From the 13th century until the French Revolution, Aquitaine was usually known as Guyenne.

Aquitaine consists of 3, 150, 890 inhabitants equivalent to 6 % of the total French population.

The Frankish realm had begun to progress towards becoming the first real imperial power in Western Europe since the fall of Rome ; however, it continued to struggle against external forces such as the Saxons, Frisians, and internal opponents such as Odo the Great ( Old French: Eudes ), the Duke of Aquitaine.

* The Great Raid of 1355 in the Aquitaine – Languedoc region, which crippled southern France economically, and provoked resentment of the French throne among French peasantry.

* that it is derived from Edward's brutal reputation, particularly towards the French in Aquitaine.

Other important French duchies included Burgundy, Brittany, and Aquitaine.

As Duke of Aquitaine, Edward was a vassal to the French king.