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.

International and domestic services are maintained by TAAG Angola Airlines, Aeroflot, British Airways, Brussels Airlines, Lufthansa, Air France, Air Namibia, Cubana, Ethiopian Airlines, Emirates, Delta Air Lines, Royal Air Maroc, Iberia, Hainan Airlines, Kenya Airways, South African Airways, TAP Air Portugal and several regional carriers.

Germany, France, Japan, and Canada have maintained higher savings rates than the U. S. over the long run.

After achieving independence from France in 1960, Cote d ' Ivoire maintained strong links with France through bilateral defence agreements.

Germany has played a leading role in the European Union since its inception and has maintained a strong alliance with France since the end of World War II.

The Atlantic system had by this time effectively collapsed, although England maintained contacts across the Channel with France, as the Hallstatt culture became widespread across the country.

The two kings maintained a friendly relationship, meeting in 1206 and 1207, until it was rumoured in 1209 that William was intending to ally himself with Philip II of France.

Active diplomatic relationships are maintained with Europe, especially the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland, as well as with Russia, Japan, India, Indonesia, Egypt and China.

Manichaeism maintained a sporadic and intermittent existence in the west ( Mesopotamia, Africa, Spain, France, North Italy, the Balkans ) for a thousand years, and flourished for a time in the land of its birth ( Persia ) and even further east in Northern India, Western China, and Tibet.

Niger has maintained close ties with France, its former colonial power.

Following Niger's independence in 1960, France maintained several hundred advisers at all levels of Niger's government and military.

France, the former colonial power, maintained a continuing but somewhat subdued relationship with Congo, offering a variety of cultural, educational, and economic assistance.

The region maintained more trade with France, and incorporated more recent French culinary traditions well into the 19th century.

They also maintained the traditional ( i. e. nominal ) claims to the Kingdom of France, but none of them tried to make substance of it, though Henry VIII fought wars with France to try to reclaim that title.

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.

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.

Given that France maintained a strong standing army, and that Prussia and the other German states would need weeks to mobilise their conscript armies, the French held the initial advantage of troop numbers and experience.

It was also strategically important to France, which maintained an important naval base and coaling station in its harbor and which integrated it into its earliest air force and airmail circuits, most notably with the legendary Mermoz airfield ( no longer extant ).

As an ally of Pisa it was the enemy of Genoa, and both the King of France and the Emperor endeavoured to subjugate it ; but in spite of this it maintained its municipal liberties.

He also maintained his relations with France.

Talleyrand had meanwhile drafted a " Treaty " which contained the conditions under which the crown of " Holland " was to be offered to Louis: no union of the crowns ; no conscription ; a possible commercial treaty with France ; and the basic freedoms of the Netherlands ( linguistic, religious, judicial ) were to be maintained ; while the civil list was fixed at the " modest sum " of 1. 5 million guilders.

France still maintained a strong influence in the West Indies, and in India maintained five trading posts, leaving opportunities for disputes and power-play with Great Britain.