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

Bravado has been alternately described as `` a symbol of the new grandeur of France and myself '' ( De Gaulle ) and `` a decadent, disgusting slob ''!!

Anthropology in France has a less clear genealogy than the British and American traditions, in part because many French writers influential in anthropology have been trained or held faculty positions in sociology, philosophy, or other fields rather than in anthropology.

Azincourt is famous as being near the site of the battle fought on 25 October 1415 in which the army led by King Henry V of England defeated the forces led by Charles d ' Albret on behalf of Charles VI of France, which has gone down in English history as the Battle of Agincourt.

Azerbaijan currently has diplomatic relations with 160 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Libya, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Republic of India, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

The Minsk Group is currently co-chaired by Russia, France, and the United States and has representation from Turkey, the U. S., several European nations, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.

The school has been highly influential in setting the agenda for historiography in France and numerous other countries, especially regarding the use of social scientific methods by historians, emphasizing social rather than political or diplomatic themes, and for being generally hostile to the class analysis of Marxist historiography.

Recently, he has been concerned with the relationship between written culture as a whole and literature ( particularly theatrical plays ) for France, England and Spain.

Léon Fleuriot has suggested Ambrosius is identical to Riothamus, a Brythonic leader who fought a major battle against the Goths in France around the year 470.

A dismissive allusion in the text to the " wealth of Hungary " has suggested the hypothesis that it was written after 1184, at the time when Bela III of Hungary had sent to the French court a statement of his income and had proposed marriage to Marie's sister Marguerite of France, but before 1186, when his proposal was accepted.

He also has a few buildings in the France, Germany, Italy and the USA.

In France the well-known monthly paper Le Monde Diplomatique has advocated the antiglobalization cause and an editorial of its director Ignacio Ramonet brought about the foundation of the association ATTAC.

According to a 2008 television programme, presented by Griff Rhys Jones, “ the flame has only been extinguished once, by a drunken Mexican football supporter on the night that France beat Brazil here in Paris ,” most likely referring to the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final.

Despite his subsequent defeat by the Prussians, Russians and British allies, exile and death, no victorious power has reversed that decision or tried to remove Corsica from France.

In 2008, Brazil has signed a strategic partnership with France and Russia to trade military technology.

Brazil has also begun negotiations with France to have Brazil build 120 Rafale aircraft locally by Embraer.

Basque has no official standing in the Northern Basque Country of France and French citizens are barred from officially using Basque in a French court of law.

During the 1990s, she generated controversy by criticizing immigration, Islamization and Islam in France, and has been fined five times for " inciting racial hatred ".

Article 17 of the Constitution of France gives the President the authority to pardon criminals and, since 1991, the President has pardoned many petty offenders ( mainly traffic offences ) on 14 July.

The Bordeaux metropolitan area has a population of 1, 105, 000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France.

* The name Baptism of Bells has been given to the blessing of ( musical, especially church ) bells, at least in France, since the 11th century.

In spite of the overwhelming British victory in the climactic battle, the campaign has sometimes been considered a strategic success for France.

The museum is one of the best galleries in south west France and has paintings by Degas, El Greco, Botticelli and Goya among others.

Bayonne has the longest tradition of bull-fighting in France and there is a ring beyond the walls of Grand Bayonne.

In the 20th century, it has spread to Germany, Britain, France, and several other countries around the globe.

It is referred to as the Cradle of the French Language, and the Garden of France due to the abundance of vineyards, fruit orchards ( such as cherries ), and artichoke and asparagus fields, which line the banks of the river.

At one point Malbec was grown in 30 different departments of France, a legacy that is still present in the abundance of local synonyms for the variety which easily surpass 1000 names.

As with any two regional variants, there is an abundance of slang terms found in Quebec that are not found in France.

The abundance of fish in the waters surrounding Lawn ( formerly known as Laun ) attracted seasonal fishermen from France, Portugal, Spain and England.

During this time, most of France's players cleared their spots for a new generation of players, which were available in abundance as France Junior national team had won the 2000 junior championship.

Contemporaneously to English Gothic, parallel Romantic literary movements developed in continental Europe: the roman noir (" black novel ") in France, by such writers as François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil, Gaston Leroux, Baculard d ' Arnaud, and Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Albin, Madame de Genlis and the Schauerroman (" shudder novel ") in Germany by such writers as Friedrich Schiller, author of The Ghost-Seer ( 1789 ) and Christian Heinrich Spiess, author of Das Petermännchen ( 1791 / 92 ).

Born in southern France, perhaps in Marseille, Anatoli's literary activity was stimulated early by his learned associates and relations at Narbonne and Béziers.

Links between the two strands – literary and philosophical – of the French school of rhetoric are strong and collaborative, and bear witness to the revival of rhetoric in France.

In France, it saw the nadir of the monarchy and the zenith of the great magnates, especially the dukes of Aquitaine and Normandy, who could thus foster such distinctive contributions of their lands as the pious warrior who conquered Britain, Italy, and the East and the impious peacelover, the troubadour, who crafted out of the European vernacular its first great literary themes.

The texts and literary sources for his work began with a period of interest in Russian folklore, which progressed to classical authors and the Latin liturgy and moved on to contemporary France ( André Gide, in Persephone ) and eventually English literature, including Auden, T. S. Eliot and medieval English verse.

Although neglected in France for much of the 19th century, the music of Berlioz has often been cited as extremely influential in the development of the symphonic form, instrumentation, and the depiction in music of programmatic and literary ideas, features central to musical Romanticism.

In contrasting the literary standards of chivalry with the actual warfare of the age, the historian finds the imitation of an ideal past illusory ; in an aristocratic culture such as Burgundy and France at the close of the Middle Ages, " to be representative of true culture means to produce by conduct, by customs, by manners, by costume, by deportment, the illusion of a heroic being, full of dignity and honour, of wisdom, and, at all events, of courtesy.

The literary convention of courtly love can be found in most of the major authors of the Middle Ages such as Geoffery Chaucer, John Gower, Dante, Marie de France, Chretien de Troyes, Gottfried von Strassburg and Sir Thomas Malory.

He returned to England in 1882, later traveling to various cities in Germany, Austria, France, and Greece on his literary quest.

In France, La Pléiade aimed to break with earlier traditions of French poetry ( especially Marot and the grands rhétoriqueurs ), and, maintaining that French was a worthy language for literary expression, to attempt to ennoble the French language by imitating the Ancients.

In this story, part of the literary cycle known as the Matter of France, Hu Gadarn ( Hugo or Hugun le Fort in the French ) is Emperor of Constantinople and an enemy of Siarlymaen ( Charlemagne ).

The Minister of Culture is, in the Government of France, the cabinet member in charge of national museums and monuments ; promoting and protecting the arts ( visual, plastic, theatrical, musical, dance, architectural, literary, televisual and cinematographic ) in France and abroad ; and managing the national archives and regional " maisons de culture " ( culture centres ).

France has the reputation of being a " literary culture ", and this image is reinforced by such things as the importance of French literature in the French educational system, the attention paid by the French media to French book fairs and book prizes ( like the Prix Goncourt, Prix Renaudot or Prix Femina ) and by the popular success of the ( former ) literary television show " Apostrophes " ( hosted by Bernard Pivot ).

The most famous literary portrayal was written in 1938 by the Slovene writer France Bevk from Gorizia in his novel " The Vicar Martin Čedermac " ( Kaplan Martin Čedermac ).

Roland ( Frankish: Hruodland ) ( died 14 August 778 ) was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the Matter of France.

* FestivalandCo, Shakespeare themed literary festival held in Paris, France at the Shakespeare and Company bookstore

Bailly also gained a high literary reputation by his Éloges of King Charles V of France, Lacaille, Molière, Pierre Corneille and Gottfried Leibniz, which were issued in collected form in 1770 and 1790.

During the whole of the July monarchy he was one of the chief dispensers of literary patronage in France, but in his later years his reputation declined.

Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen was born in Avignon, France, into a literary family.

This compelled him to occupy himself by literary work, and in 1560 he published the first book of his Recherches de la France.

Under the aristocratic ideals of the ancien régime ( the " honnête homme "), the nationalist spirit of post-revolutionary France, and the mass educational ideals of the Third Republic and modern France, the French have come to have a profound cultural attachment to their literary heritage.

Besides literature written in the French language, the literary culture of France may include literature written in other languages of France.