Belgium, like France, controlled African countries like the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( formerly Zaire ), Rwanda, and Burundi until the early 1960s.

The bank is controlled by a board of directors, which is composed of the elite central bankers of 11 different countries ( US, UK, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Sweden ).

He had no responsibility for the other three zones, controlled by Britain, France and the Soviet Union.

Without access to cheap Indian saltpeter ( controlled by the British ), for hundreds of years France had relied on saltpetermen with royal warrants, the droit de fouille or " right to dig ", to seize nitrous-containing soil and demolished walls of barnyards, without compensation to the owners.

Territorial growth of Italian Libya: Territory ceded by Ottoman Empire 1912 ( dark-green ) but effectively Italy controlled only five ports ( black ), territories ceced by France and Britain 1919 and 1926 ( light-green ), territories ceced by France and Britain 1934 / 35 ( red )

Since France had been defeated on these two fronts, states previously conquered and controlled by Napoleon saw a good opportunity to strike back.

Initially governed in four sectors controlled by the four Allied powers ( United States, United Kingdom, France and the Soviet Union ), tensions of the Cold War escalated until the Soviet forces implemented the Berlin Blockade, which the Western allies relieved with the dramatic airlift.

The Bourbons of France held a strong claim to Luxembourg, the Emperor of Austria on the other hand had controlled the duchy until the revolutionary forces had joined it to the French republic ( he reportedly was not enthusiastic about regaining Luxembourg and the Low Countries, being more interested in the Balkans ).

It controlled the other counties ' policies in a union, which led in 948 to the independence of Barcelona under Count Borrel II, who declared that the new dynasty in France ( the Capets ) were not the legitimate rulers of France nor, as a result, of his county.

* France was nearly surrounded by territory controlled by the two Habsburg states ( Spain and the Holy Roman Empire ), and was eager to exert its power against the weaker German states ; this dynastic concern overtook religious ones and led to Catholic France's participation on the otherwise Protestant side of the war.

* August 8 – Wilbur Wright flies in France for the first time demonstrating true controlled powered flight in Europe.

Krebs piloted the first fully controlled free-flight with the La France.

( Note: France effectively controlled northern Italy from 1796 to 1814.

This bar of metal, like the international prototype kilogram, is maintained under controlled conditions at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures headquarters in France, which is one of the principal measurement standards laboratories of the world.

During the wars with France, opposition emerged in England against perceived injustices by a papacy largely controlled by the French crown.

Henry at the time also claimed the Kingdom of France and controlled various parts of northern France.

Lille was part of the zone under control of the German commander in Brussels, and was never controlled by the Vichy government in France.

In 911, the bishop of Narbonne was unable to return to France from Rome because the Moors from Fraxinet controlled all the passes in the Alps.

At the same time, French officials realized that the Habsburg empire of Austria was no more the danger it had been in the heyday of the Habsburgs, back in the 16th and 17th centuries, when they controlled Spain and most of Europe and presented a formidable challenge to France.

Josquin was born in the area controlled by the Dukes of Burgundy, and was possibly born either in Hainaut ( modern-day Belgium ), or immediately across the border in modern-day France, since several times in his life he was classified legally as a Frenchman ( for instance, when he made his will ).

For a long part of the middle ages Cottian Alps have been divided between Duchy of Savoy, which controlled their northern part and the easternmost slopes, and the Dauphiné, at the time independent from France kingdom.

By the 1960s the school was building a vast publishing and research network reaching across France, Europe, and the rest of the world.

Berlin is situated in northeastern Germany, approximately west of the Polish border, in an area of low-lying marshy woodlands with a mainly flat topography, part of the vast Northern European Plain which stretches all the way from northern France to western Russia.

Amongst the vast Neolithic collections of the Carnac stones in Brittany, France, several dozen dolmens are found.

The vast majority of ethnic Franks, divided between Salians and Ripuarians, were confined respectively to the Low Countries, the northeastern tip of modern France and the Rhine river banks all the way down to near the Main and Hesse areas.

The vast majority of these two gases have been produced and leaked by the former Soviet Union, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the Republic of France.

Between the 1870s and the beginning of World War I in 1914, the United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands — the established colonial powers in Asia — added to their empires vast expanses of territory in the Middle East, the Indian Subcontinent, and South East Asia.

Therefore, he was able to hold knowledge across a vast array of subjects: " the international world order, the political and economic organisation of contemporary society, especially France, the institutional and legal frameworks that regulate the lives of ordinary citizens, the educational system, the media networks that control and disseminate information.

Elected president in what Jefferson called the Revolution of 1800, he oversaw the purchase of the vast Louisiana Territory from France ( 1803 ), and sent the Lewis and Clark Expedition ( 1804 – 1806 ) to explore the new west.

After that, Versailles was never again the seat of the capital of France, but the presence of the French Parliament there in the 1870s left a vast hall built in one aisle of the palace which is still used by the French Parliament when it meets in Congress to amend the French Constitution, as well as when the French president addresses the two chambers of the French Parliament.

The Soviet Union, concerned due to Germany's goals of capturing vast areas of eastern Europe, wrote a treaty of mutual assistance with France.

At the time, the Dukes of Burgundy, a cadet branch of the French royal family, with their sophisticated nobility and court culture, were the rulers of vast territories on the eastern and northern boundaries of modern-day France.

Maximilian's wife had inherited the vast Burgundian domains in France and the Low Countries upon her father's death in the Battle of Nancy on 5 January 1477.

At the same time, Austria was becoming more involved in competition with France in Western Europe, with Austria fighting the French in the Third Dutch War ( 1672 – 1679 ), the War of the League of Augsburg ( 1688 – 1697 ) and finally the War of the Spanish Succession ( 1701 – 1714 ), in which the French and Austrians ( along with their British, Dutch and Catalonian allies ) fought over the inheritance of the vast territories of the Spanish Habsburgs.

While some were returned to France at the 1763 Treaty of Paris a vast swathe of North America was ceded to the British.

The necessity to maintain a vast army against France meant that less money could be spent on the navy, weakening the Republic's power against England.

The cessation of war in France left vast numbers of French, English, Gascon and Navarrese soldiers and freebooters in search of mercenary employment, and many of these soon became involved in the wars of Castille and Aragon, both of which bordered Navarre.

The Parlement of Toulouse was the supreme court of justice for this vast area of France, the court of last resort whose rulings could not be appealed, not even to the Parlement of Paris.

It is the principal ferry crossing point between England and France, with the vast majority of Channel crossings being made between Dover and Calais.

In 1947, France created the nominally politically independent Saar Protectorate and merged it economically with France in order to exploit the area's vast coal reserves.

One of the first examples was the unofficial use of the title " grand duke " by the dukes of Burgundy during the 15th century, when they ruled a vast tract of modern day eastern France as well as most of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.

As the only child of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, and his wife Isabella of Bourbon, she was the heiress to the vast, and vastly wealthy, Burgundian domains in France and the Low Countries upon her father's death in the Battle of Nancy on 5 January 1477., and was accordingly often referred to as " Mary the Rich ".

Masséna set off for France with a vast sum of gold, looted from Portugal and Spain.

The vast majority of the more than 80, 000 prisoners sent to the Devil's Island Prison System never made it back to France.