Before Annales, French history supposedly happened in Paris.

Before the early 1840s, the cane toad had been introduced into Martinique and Barbados, from French Guiana and Guyana.

Before the speech, US delegations met with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and French President Charles de Gaulle to brief them on the US intelligence and their proposed response.

Before the war ended, the colony fell under the Provisional Government of the French Republic.

Before the opening of the Salon, the French Revolution had begun.

Before 1750 the German upper classes looked to France for intellectual, cultural and architectural leadership ; French was the language of high society.

Before Haiti established its independence from French administration in 1804, Haiti ranked as the world's richest and most productive colony.

Some Louisiana urban environments have a multicultural, multilingual heritage, being so strongly influenced by an admixture of 18th century French, Spanish, Native American ( Indian ) and African cultures that they are considered to be somewhat exceptional in the U. S. Before the American influx and statehood at the beginning of the 19th century, the territory of current Louisiana State had been a Spanish and French colony.

Before the Euro, Monaco used the French franc.

Before the French and Spanish occupation of Morocco, which started in 1912, the country's defence force was made of a regular Makhzen army, and of a less organized but much more powerful Berber tribes ' militias.

Before the 1997 war, about 15, 000 Europeans and other non-Africans lived in Congo, most of whom were French.

Before the 1997 civil war, the Republic of the Congo's system of government was similar to that of the French.

Before the French Revolution it had as suffragan sees Carpentras, Vaison and Cavaillon, which were united by the Napoleonic Concordat of 1801 to Avignon, together with the Diocese of Apt, a suffragan of Aix-en-Provence.

Before the French Revolution, France gained territory gradually through the annexation of a mosaic of independent entities.

Before attaining autonomy it had been French Upper Volta and part of the French Union.

Before long, the French navy began to suffer shortages of coal.

Before its commercial premiere in Paris, the film was shown to invited audiences in several French cities, including La Ciotat.

Before he could take delivery, French sailors had to fight Greek brigands for possession.

Before 2001, when Gruyère gained Appellation d ' Origine Contrôlée ( AOC ) status as a Swiss cheese, some controversy existed whether French cheeses of a similar nature could also be labeled Gruyère ( French Gruyère style cheeses include Comté and Beaufort ).

Before World War II, the southern third of Vietnam was the colony of Cochinchina, which was administered as part of French Indochina by a governor in Hanoi.

Before the French had properly disembarked on the south bank, Joan of Arc reportedly launched a precipitous attack on the strongpoint of the Boulevart.

Before the revolution Mubarak tolerated limited political activity by the Brotherhood for his first two terms, but then moved more aggressively to block its influence ( arguably leading to its recent rise in public support ).

Before the Revolution, despite supporting political reform ( including Bolsheviks elected to the Duma, when opportune ), Lenin proposed that capitalism could ultimately only be overthrown with revolution, not with gradual reforms — from within ( Fabianism ) and from without ( social democracy ) — which would fail, because the ruling capitalist social class, who hold economic power ( the means of production ), determine the nature of political power in a bourgeois society.

Before World War I, the Portuguese Republic, established by the revolution of October 5, 1910, was the first of the 20th century.

Before the 1989 revolution, Czechoslovakia was a socialist dictatorship ruled by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, technically together with the coalition of the so called National Front.

Before the free democratic elections could take place after the revolution, a transitional government was created.

Before the industrial revolution, Toledo was a port city on the Great Lakes.

Before the revolution, state penetration of the rural areas was limited by the power of local notables, but under Nasser, land reform reduced their socioeconomic dominance, and the incorporation of peasants into cooperatives transferred mass dependence from landlords to government.

Before the February 1917 Russian revolution, Lenin had formulated a slogan calling for the ' democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry ', but after the February revolution, through his April theses, Lenin instead called for " all power to the Soviets ".

Before the sexual revolution of the 1960s, there was no common non-derogatory vocabulary for non-heterosexuality ; the closest such term, " third gender ", traces back to the 1860s but never gained wide acceptance in the United States.

Before the revolution of July he had been deprived of his office for his liberal tendencies, and had been elected deputy for Évreux.

Before the revolution began, she had kept close to home ; during it, she traveled thousands of miles to be with her husband.

Before the invasion, the revolution was weak.

Before the 19th century, and the spread of the industrial revolution around the globe, nearly all offices were small offices and / or home offices, with only a few exceptions.

Before the Serbian Uprising, he worked for Duke Petar in Resava, whom the dahi murdered during the Slaughter of the Knezes massacre that would spark the revolution.

Before the revolution, Krupskaya worked five years as an instructor for a factory owner who offered evening classes for his employees.

Before the revolution, all social strata in Mongolia had their own manner of dressing.

Before the revolution, the Lezgins were called " Kyurintsy ", " Akhtintsy ", or " Lezgintsy " by the Russians.

Before the communist revolution in China in 1949, an annual ceremony was conducted to the God of the Lake.

Before the revolution Glière had already been honoured three times with the Glinka prize.

Before the October revolution, Ipatieff was a General-Lieutenant of the Russian army and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Before he dies, he reveals his real identity to Florentino while they exchange thoughts about the failure of his revolution and why God forsook him.

Before the 1848 Wallachian revolution, he presided a literary society ( Societatea Literară ) which served as a front for the radical secret association Frăţia.

Before the 1989 revolution, he lived in a state rental house and drove a Dacia purchased in installments.