Brigitte BardotIn May 1958, Bardot withdrew to the seclusion of Southern France where she had bought the house La Madrague in Saint-Tropez.

The British forces were retired from the conflict and Israel, having seized interests in the Sinai region, withdrew soon leaving France alone in Egypt.

In November 1803, France withdrew its 7, 000 surviving troops from Saint-Domingue ( more than two-thirds of its troops died there ) and gave up its ambitions in the western hemisphere.

In 1933, Japan simply withdrew from the League rather than submit to its judgement, as did Germany the same year ( using the failure of the World Disarmament Conference to agree to arms parity between France and Germany as a pretext ), and Italy in 1937.

Early in 1306, Clement V explained away those features of the Papal bull Clericis Laicos that might seem to apply to the king of France and essentially withdrew Unam Sanctam, the bull of Boniface VIII that asserted papal supremacy over secular rulers and threatened Philip's political plans.

France sent a congratulatory telegram to India but later on withdrew it.

After sending more than 20, 000 troops to try to regain the colony in 1802, France withdrew its 7, 000 surviving troops in late 1803, shortly before Haiti declared independence.

Unable to attack Austria directly, and unwilling to invade the intervening German states for fear of drawing Great Britain and the Dutch into the conflict, France consolidated its position in Lorraine, and withdrew its troops across the Rhine for the winter.

King Albert I stayed in Belgium with his troops to lead the army while the government withdrew to Le Havre, France.

Although Louis took Maastricht and William's attack against Charleroi failed, Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter defeated the Anglo-French fleet three times, forcing Charles to end England's involvement by the Treaty of Westminster ; after 1673, France slowly withdrew from Dutch territory ( with the exception of Maastricht ), while making gains elsewhere.

It was rumoured ( and believed by many people in England and France ) that he intended to seize the throne for himself and supplant the rightful heir, his nephew Richard, the Black Prince's son, but there seems to have been no truth in this and on the death of Edward III and the accession of the child Richard II Gaunt sought no position of regency for himself and withdrew to his estates.

After major defeats in Normandy in July and August, 1944, remnants of German forces withdrew across the Low Countries and eastern France towards the German border by the end of August.

France withdrew its last soldiers from Vietnam in April 1956.

Tomb of Victor Emanuel II at the Pantheon In 1870, after two failed attempts by Garibaldi, he also took advantage of the Prussian victory over France in the Franco-Prussian War to capture Rome after the French withdrew.

Following the break with Cocteau, Durey withdrew to the south of France to work at the home he owned in St Tropez.

With Becket he withdrew to France during the king's displeasure ; he returned with him in 1170, and was in Canterbury at the time of Becket's assassination.

In November 1803, France withdrew its surviving 7, 000 troops, less than one-third of the forces sent to the island.

The no-fly zones persisted until the 2003 invasion of Iraq, although France withdrew from participation in patrolling the no-fly zones in 1996, citing a lack of humanitarian purpose for the operation.

He withdrew from political life to write his Mémoires d ' outre-tombe (" Memoirs from Beyond the Grave '", published posthumously 1848 – 1850 ), which is considered his most accomplished work, and his Études historiques ( 4 vols., designed as an introduction to a projected History of France ).

Williams then went on to win the Open Gaz de France in Paris when Jelena Dokić withdrew from the final, and the Proximus Diamond Games in Antwerp, Belgium, defeating Henin in the final.

Discouraged by the lack of official response to the land claims he was putting forward, he began an association with British Communists, who published articles he wrote in their publications. In 1932 to 1933, he briefly studied economics in Moscow at the Comintern School, KUTVU ( University of the Toilers of the East ) but left after the Soviet Union ( worried about Hitler's growing power and seeing Britain and France as potential allies ) withdrew its support for the movement against British and French colonial rule in Africa.

On the revolution of 1848 he withdrew completely from political life ; and in 1855 he accepted the professorship of natural history at the Collège de France.

Following this year's contest, France withdrew from competing the following year, with the broadcaster announcing that the songs were " a monument to drivel ".

) Haut commissaire 25 November 1958 – 20 June 1960: Pierre Auguste Michel Marie Lami ( b. 1909 ); meanwhile on 4 April 1959 the Sudanese Republic ( now Mali ) and Senegal formed the Mali Federation and his term ended at the 20 June 1960 independence of that Mali Federation from France ( on 20 August 1960 the Republic of Senegal withdrew from the thus dissolved Mali Federation ).

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

We can force Britain and France out of the Suez, but we cannot so much as try to force the Russian tanks back from Budapest.

Initially we will import the thermoelectric materials and modules from France but later we will manufacture in this country.

Hans' student days were at a time when Europe was in a new intellectual ferment following the revolutions in America and in France, Germany and Italy were rising from divisive nationalisms and a strong wave of intellectual awareness was sweeping the Continent.

First was the period of codification of existing law: the Code Napoleon in France and the peculiar codification that, in fact, resulted from Austin's restatement and ordering of the Common Law in England.

Or, in the words of Anatole France, `` The law in its majestic equality must forbid the rich, as well as the poor, from begging in the streets and sleeping under bridges ''.

Secretary-General Hammarskjold decided that it would be preferable if the U.N. troops sent into the Congo were to come from African, or at least nonwhite, nations -- certainly not from the U.S., Russia, Great Britain or France.

A suggestion from Louis De Broglie, a physicist in France, showed us that these electrons are not point particles but waves.

Both composers turn up on new imports from France.

The Navy had an estimated 2, 500 personnel whose major naval units consisted of nine patrol / coastal vessels from Spain and France.

Most of the craft detailed are from the 1980s or earlier, but the navy acquired new boats from Spain and France in the 1990s.

The Alps, one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretch approximately across eight Alpine countries from Austria and Slovenia in the east, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, France to the west and Italy and Monaco to the south.

Murder on the Links began with news from France, a wife debunked, who claimed intruders tied her up and murdered her husband.

The Plague is in part a historical allegory, in which the plague signifies the German occupation of France from 1940 to 1944 during World War II.

The town Oran, which gets afflicted by pestilence and cut off from the outside world, is the equivalent of France.

* 1803 – Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $ 15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation.

* 1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.

His pamphlet " The Art of Organ Building and Organ Playing in Germany and France " ( 1906, republished with an appendix on the state of the organ-building industry in 1927 ) effectively launched the 20th century Orgelbewegung, which turned away from romantic extremes and rediscovered baroque principles — although this sweeping reform movement in organ building eventually went further than Schweitzer himself had intended.

He received his medical degree from Université de Lyon, and practiced in France and in the United States at the University of Chicago and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

Alexis Carrel was also a member of learned societies in the U. S., Spain, Russia, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Vatican City, Germany, Italy and Greece and received honorary doctorates from Queen's University of Belfast, Princeton University, California, New York, Brown University and Columbia University.

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.

* 1960 – The Central African Republic declares independence from France.

* 1962 – Representatives from the Russian Orthodox Church and Vatican City meet in Metz, France, and come to an agreement wherein the Russian church would send observers to the Second Vatican Council and in exchange, the Roman Catholic Church would refuse to condemn Communism.