From 16 June 1940-1942 the colonial administration remained loyal to Vichy France ( from 1942, under Free French ), but 25 September 1942-13 October 1946 they were, like Madagascar, under British occupation.

Constantin Brâncuși (; surname sometimes spelled Brâncuș ; February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957 ) was a Romanian-born sculptor who made his career in France.

Her father, unable to bear the grief of his loss, and feeling adrift in a foreign country, returned to his native France for 16 years, with only one visit back to Philadelphia.

A protocol signed by France and Ethiopia on 16 January 1954, stated that the demarcation of the boundary between the colony of Dibouti and Ethiopia as considered final, which became effective 28 February of that year.

Deng Xiaoping at age 16, studying in France.

In 1894 and 1895 he filed patents and addenda in various countries for his Diesel engine ; the first patents were issued in Spain ( No. 16, 654 ), France ( No. 243, 531 ) and Belgium ( No. 113, 139 ) in December 1894, and in Germany ( No. 86, 633 ) in 1895 and the United States ( No. 608, 845 ) in 1898.

A protocol signed by France and Ethiopia on 16 January 1954, stated that the demarcation of the boundary between the colony of Dibouti and Ethiopia as considered final, which became effective 28 February of that year.

Civic Buildings: Former Arsenal and Archives of the City of Genève, Former Crédit Lyonnais, Former Hôtel Buisson, Former Hôtel du Résident de France et Bibliothèque de la Société de lecture de Genève, Former école des arts industriels, Archives d ' État de Genève ( Annexe ), Bâtiment des forces motrices, Library de Genève, Library juive de Genève « Gérard Nordmann », Cabinet des estampes, Centre d ' Iconographie genevoise, Collège Calvin, Ecole Geisendorf, Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève ( HUG ), Hôtel de Ville et tour Baudet, Immeuble Clarté at Rue Saint-Laurent 2 and 4, Immeubles House Rotonde at Rue Charles-Giron 11 – 19, Immeubles at Rue Beauregard 2, 4, 6, 8, Immeubles at Rue de la Corraterie 10 – 26, Immeubles at Rue des Granges 2 – 6, Immeuble at Rue des Granges 8, Immeubles at Rue des Granges 10 and 12, Immeuble at Rue des Granges 14, Immeuble and Former Armory at Rue des Granges 16, Immeubles at Rue Pierre Fatio 7 and 9, House de Saussure at Rue de la Cité 24, House Des arts du Grütli at Rue du Général-Dufour 16, House Royale et les deux immeubles à côté at Quai Gustave Ador 44 – 50, Tavel House at Rue du Puits-St-Pierre 6, Turrettini House at Rue de l ' Hôtel-de-Ville 8 and 10, Brunswick Monument, Palais de Justice, Palais de l ' Athénée, Palais des Nations with library and archives of the SDN and ONU, Palais Eynard et Archives de la ville de Genève, Palais Wilson, Parc des Bastions avec Mur des Réformateurs, Place Neuve et Monument du Général Dufour, Pont de la Machine, Pont sur l ' Arve, Poste du Mont-Blanc, Quai du Mont-Blanc, Quai et Hôtel des Bergues, Quai Général Guisan and English Gardens, Quai Gustave-Ador and Jet d ' eau, Télévision Suisse Romande, university of Geneva, Victoria Hall

Because his leave was coming to an end very soon, they married quickly on 16 August at St Jude's Church, Kensington, and then honeymooned in Ryde on the Isle of Wight, before heading via France to Malaya.

By comparison, this proportion reached only 17 per cent in Wallonia, barely 10 per cent in most West European countries, 16 per cent in France and 25 per cent in England.

Patents were eventually granted in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, (, filed May 16, 1991, issued June 22, 1994 and expiring not later than May 16, 2011 ), the United States (, issued May 25, 1993 and expiring not later than January 7, 2012 ) and Japan ( JP 3225440 ).

* 1877 – 16 May 1877 political crisis in France.

In the Netherlands 9. 5 % of young adults ( aged 15 – 34 ) consume soft drugs once a month, comparable to the level of Finland ( 8 %), Latvia ( 9, 7 %) and Norway ( 9. 6 %) and less than in the UK ( 13. 8 %), Germany ( 11, 9 %), Czech Republic ( 19, 3 %), Denmark ( 13, 3 %), Spain ( 18. 8 %), France ( 16, 7 %), Slovakia ( 14, 7 %) and Italy ( 20, 9 %) but higher than in Bulgaria ( 4, 4 %), Sweden ( 4, 8 %), Poland ( 5, 3 %) or Greece ( 3, 2 %).

26. 6 % of imports came from Metropolitan France, 16. 1 % from other European countries, 13. 6 % from Singapore ( essentially fuel ), 10. 7 % from Australia, 4. 0 % from New Zealand, 3. 2 % from the United States, 3. 0 % from Japan, and 22. 7 % from other countries.

Metropolitan France 26. 6 %, other European countries 16. 1 %, Singapore 13. 6 %, Australia 10. 7 %, New Zealand 4. 0 %, United States 3. 2 %, Japan 3. 0 %, other countries 22. 7 % ( 2007 )

On 16 July 1940, following Germany's swift and successful occupation of France and the Low Countries and growing impatient with Britain's outright rejection towards his recent peace overtures, Hitler issued Führer Directive No. 16, setting in motion preparations for a landing in Britain.

" The death toll ranged in the tens of thousands, with 16, 594 executed by guillotine ( 2, 639 in Paris ), and another 25, 000 in summary executions across France.

United States 23. 8 %, Trinidad and Tobago 16 %, Netherlands 11. 1 %, Venezuela 6. 3 %, Finland 6. 2 %, United Kingdom 5. 7 %, France 4. 7 % ( 2005 )

Its signature track, and another radio staple for many years to come, was " Always the Sun " ( a No. 15 hit in France and No. 16 hit in Ireland, No. 21 in Australia, No. 30 in the UK, and No. 42 in the Netherlands ).

* January 16 – April 7 – Algeciras Conference to resolve the First Moroccan Crisis between France and Germany.

* June 16 – Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev requests asylum in France while in Paris with the Kirov Ballet.

In recent years he has traveled widely in Europe, conducting in Italy, France, Austria, and Switzerland.

Author of the Albany Plan Of Union, which, had it been adopted, might have avoided the Revolution, he fought the colonists' front-line battles in London, negotiated the treaty of alliance with France and the peace that ended the war, headed the state government of Pennsylvania, and exercised an important moderating influence at the Federal Convention.

`` Waiting For Godot '' sells even better in America than in France.

Very much the political man, Helion felt himself deeply affected by the increasingly pessimistic atmosphere of France and all Europe, whose foundations seemed to him more and more shaky.

but after war came to Europe, he decided to return to France, arriving there in January, 1940.

His company then carried out a confused retreating movement until it was surrounded by the Germans, a few days before France capitulated.

Riding trains, hitching hikes on trucks across Germany, slipping through guarded frontiers with the help of secret guides, he eventually reached Vichy France, and, by the winter of 1943, was back in Virginia.

`` Well, I might not get that far '', I told them, `` as actually I have no papers to enter Germany and, as a matter of fact, no permit to return to France once I leave ''.

The waspish man stopped me three paces from the bicycle barricade, and asked me in French if I had papers to leave France.

I replied in the affirmative, taking out my recently acquired titre d'identite et de voyage, on which was stamped a permission to leave France.

He examined it carefully, handed it back and said, `` Eh bien, you may leave France ''.

`` But I have no permission to re-enter France, and I have just left '', I told him.

`` I must then be standing on the line between France and Germany ''.

But there is no line between France and Germany, that is, no actual line.

You have just given me permission to leave France, which I did.

And as you know, I have no permission to re-enter France once out.

You are still in France ''.

Seeing their hesitation, I said, `` Well, until I have permission to enter Germany, or a visa to re-enter France, I shall be obliged to remain here on the line between two countries '', whereupon I moved to the side of the road, parked my backpack against the small guardhouse on the sidewalk, sat down, took out my typewriter, and began typing the above conversation.

There must have been special feelings of joy and patriotism in the heart of Daniel Morgan too, when the news was received on April 30th of the recognition by France of the independence of the United States.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

But Edward was invading Scotland for precisely the same reason, and his insubordinate vassal was the ally of the king of France.

To the pope, head of the universal Church, to the duke of Burgundy, taking full advantage of his position on the borders of France and of the Empire, or to Othon, who found it quite natural that he should do homage to Edward for Tipperary and to the count of Savoy for Grandson, Flotte's outspoken nationalism was completely incomprehensible.

Underneath all the high-sounding phrases of royal and papal letters and behind the more down-to-earth instructions to the envoys was the inescapable fact that Edward would have to desert his Flemish allies and leave them to the vengeance of their indignant suzerain, the king of France, in return for being given an equally free hand with the insubordinate Scots.

In Europe, Premier Clemenceau, showing his animal proclivities as the `` Tiger of France '', asked Pershing by letter for the creation of special houses where the sexual desires of American men could be satisfied.

Blackman called the porter and had him remove everything but one bottle of brandy, and after that they would have a cocktail or two before dinner, or, on one of their walking trips, beer, or, in France and Italy, wine in moderation.