During the Legislative Assembly, Brissot's knowledge of foreign affairs enabled him as member of the diplomatic committee to control much of France's foreign policy during this time.

WikiLeaks diplomatic cables titled " NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY ( NPT ) BILATERALS " sent on 6 August 2009 and " FRANCE ' S POSITION ON NUCLEAR ISSUES IN THE RUN-UP " sent on 31 July 2009 ; make it possible to gain an insight to France's thought with regard to nuclear weapons, NPT and disarmament issues.

Kennedy hoped Gavin would be able to improve deteriorating diplomatic relations with France, due to his experiences with the French during World War II, and his wartime relationship with France's President, General Charles De Gaulle.

These diplomatic achievements came at a London conference in 1871, following France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War.

Established in 1872, Sciences Po has traditionally educated France's political and diplomatic elite, and it is generally thought of to be one of the world's most reputable and prestigious schools of the social sciences.

Politically and economically, people feared France's international stature was waning due to inadequate teaching of its political and diplomatic corps.

For instance, the Fashoda Crisis in 1898, while a diplomatic victory for Britain, was a worrying situation as had war broken out, she would have had to fight France alone, and there was always the possibility of Russian intervention on France's side.

Sciences Po Rennes is educating France's political and diplomatic elite, but its academic focus spans not only the political and economic sciences, but also law, communications, finance, business, urban policy, management, and journalism.

Sciences Po Lille is educating France's political and diplomatic elite, but its academic focus spans not only the political and economic sciences, but also law, communications, finance, business, urban policy, management, and journalism.

Recognition by the United Kingdom in the 1904 Entente Cordiale of France's " sphere of influence " in Morocco provoked a German reaction ; the " crisis " of 1905 – 1906 was resolved at the Algeciras Conference ( 1906 ), which formalized France's " special position " and entrusted policing of Morocco jointly to France and Spain.

France's colonial presence north of the Caribbean was reduced to the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, confirming Britain's position as the dominant colonial power in the eastern half of North America.

A second major railroad, the Dakar-Niger built from 1906 – 1923, linked Dakar to Bamako and consolidated the city's position at the head of France's West African empire.

Vergennes claimed that France's limited gains justified his position that their participation had been disinterested.

France's precarious position had been stabilized, the Allies were unable to achieve their goal of forcing harsh terms on the Bourbons, and the war continued.

This military engagement against the Iroquois solidified the position of Champlain with New France's Huron and Algonquin allies, bonds vital to New France in order to keep the fur trade alive.

Ancient models were certainly very much involved, but the style could also be regarded as a revival of the Renaissance, and especially in France as a return to the more austere and noble Baroque of the age of Louis XIV, for which a considerable nostalgia had developed as France's dominant military and political position started a serious decline.

In 2011, after the vote by France in favor of Palestinian State in the UNESCO, the US and Israel ( who were against this decision ) were angry about the France's position.

In September, a delegation of the Arab Higher Committee went to Paris and proposed that Arabs would adopt a neutral position on the North African question in exchange of France's support in the Palestinian question.

Maurras savaged the pre-war French governments for taking an increasingly bellicose position vis a vis Germany at precisely the same time that these governments were weakening France, militarily, socially and politically, thereby making France's downfall in 1940 all but inevitable.

However in 1801 Ferdinand was compelled to make important concessions to the French by the Treaty of Florence, which reinforced France's position as the dominant power in mainland Italy.

Franco-German negotiations initiated on July 9 in 1911 toward the Treaty of Fez led ( on November 4 ) to a convention under which Germany accepted France's position in Morocco in return for territory in the French Equatorial African colony of Middle Congo ( now the Republic of the Congo ).

" She reached fifth position with 104 points which was France's last good result until May 2009, since this country placed 8th ( top 10 ) in 2009.

As Napoleon became increasingly obsessed with military affairs, Cambacérès became the de facto domestic head of government of France, a position which inevitably made him increasingly unpopular as France's economic situation grew worse.

In 2004, Serge Dassault became a senator, and in this position, he has been an outspoken advocate of conservative positions on economic and employment issues, claiming that France's taxes and workforce regulations ruin its entrepreneurs.

In March 1942, Stülpnagel was made German-occupied France's military commander, and in this position, he, along with his personal advisor Lieutenant-Colonel Caesar von Hofacker, went forth with their plans to further the cause of ridding Germany of Hitler.

With France no longer in a position to be the guarantor of the status quo in Eastern Europe, and the Third Reich pushing Romania to make concessions to the Soviet Union, the Romanian government gave in, following Italy's counsel and Vichy France's recent example.

Given that National Education is France's largest employer, and employs more than half of the French state civil servants, the position is traditionally a fairly strategic one.

France's position in particular has been very much maligned within the U. S. After the first UN resolution, France advised the U. S. that it ( the USA ) had sufficient UN support to launch a war and that it ( the USA ) need not return to the UN for a second resolution.

Following initial setbacks for the Revolutionaries, the war changed in France's favour with the appointment of Lazare Carnot to the post of War Minister ( or as the position was formally known-Head of the Committee of Public Safety War Section ).

As the American position weakened, Queen of France's guns were removed and she was sunk as a block ship.

The emergence of the German Empire on the other side of the Rhine, combined with the loss of Alsace and Lorraine, seriously weakened France's strategic position.

Van Paassen was convinced that the British Empire's farsighted military planners and political leaders were not entirely displeased to see France's position weakened by Germany at that time, as it improved Britain's relative dominance over its ancient rival, France, in Britain's drive for worldwide hegemony.

The reality is that Micheline Musseli Pozzo di Borgo, a French aristocrat who at 20 was France's youngest lawyer ever, brought considerable wealth to her marriage to Lerner and lost most of it through him, including nearly $ 600, 000 from the sale of her Parisian apartment, which Lerner placed in investments that either failed or were looted by him during periods of financial desperation.

King Philip II of France's victory at Bouvines, by Vincent of Beauvais

Anne experienced icing problems, it was decided to construct a much larger fortification at Louisbourg to improve defences at the entrance to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and defend France's fishing fleet on the Grand Banks.

Lynch has twice won France's César Award for Best Foreign Film, as well as the Palme d ' Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival.

France's 110 shipping firms employ 12, 500 personnel at sea and 15, 500 on shore.

* 1685 – René-Robert Cavelier establishes Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.

In 1484, about 97 % of France's 13 million people lived in rural villages ; in 1700, at least 80 % of the 20 million people population were peasants.

His death rites took place at the courtyard of the Louvre Palace on September 1, 1965 under the direction of writer and thinker André Malraux, who was at the time France's Minister of Culture.

His release was eventually negotiated, in return for a ransom of 400, 000 livres tournois ( at the time France's annual revenue was only about 1, 250, 000 livres tournois ), and the surrender of the city of Damietta.

On 20 September 1870 the capture of Rome, during the reign of Pope Pius IX, and France's defeat at Sedan, completed Italian unification, and Lazio was incorporated into the Kingdom of Italy.

A native of the Rhône département's Urban Community of Lyon, France's second largest metropolitan area, Marcel-Auguste Ferréol was born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, one of the city's suburbs, and adopted his nom de plume at the start of his writing career in the early 1920s.

* 1795 – The first occupation by United Kingdom of Cape Colony, South Africa with the Battle of Hout Bay, after successive victories at the Battle of Muizenberg and Wynberg, after William V requested protection against revolutionary France's occupation of the Netherlands.

This project incurred debts although it did, at least, make Tours one of France's principal conference centres.

The United Kingdom's army remained a minimal threat to France ; the UK maintained a standing army of just 220, 000 at the height of the Napoleonic Wars, whereas France's army exceeded a million men — in addition to the armies of numerous allies and several hundred thousand national guardsmen that Napoleon could draft into the military if necessary.

Wenders failed his entry test at France's national film school IDHEC ( now La Fémis ), and instead became an engraver in the studio of Johnny Friedlander, an American artist, in Montparnasse.

France's prime minister, Cardinal Fleury, saw the Polish struggle as a chance to strike at Austrian power in the west without seeming to be the aggressor.

Following France's October 10 declaration of war, it began military operations three days later, invading the Duchy of Lorraine and besieging the imperial fortress at Kehl, across the Rhine River from Strasbourg, gaining control of both objectives in a few weeks.

Air France | Air France's Airbus A380, which is operated on the Washington Dulles to Paris-Charles de Gaulle route, taxiing at Dulles Airport.

France's other great hope, that their armies could make a breakthrough in Germany and invade Hanover, was thwarted at the Battle of Minden.

* December 19 – Viet Minh forces begin a war against French occupying forces in Vietnam, succeeding in 1954 with France's surrender at Dien Bien Phu.