* 1895 – Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat, and writer ( d. 1960 )

* 1911 – Henri Elzéar Taschereau, French Canadian jurist and Chief Justice of Canada ( b. 1836 )

* 1967 – Léo-Paul Desrosiers, French Canadian journalist and novelist ( b. 1896 )

Modern weapons include the Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka and Tunguska-M1, South Korean K30 Biho and K263A1 radar-guided Vulcan, Chinese Type 95 SPAAA, Swedish CV9040 AAV, Polish PZA Loara, American M6 Bradley Linebacker and M1097 Humvee Avenger, Yugoslavian BOV-3, Canadian ADATS, aging German Gepard, Japanese Type 87 SPAAG and similar versions with the British Marksman turret ( which was also adapted for a number of other users ), Italian SIDAM 25 and Otomatic, and versions of the French AMX-13.

Conversely in francophone Canada, one hundredth of a Canadian dollar is informally called a sou ( penny ), though cent is official in both English and French.

Proponents argued that the name Dominion Day was a holdover from the colonial era, an argument given some impetus by the patriation of the Canadian Constitution in 1982, and others asserted that an alternative was needed as the term does not translate well into French.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC, French: Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes ) is a public organisation in Canada with mandate as a regulatory agency for broadcasting and telecommunications.

* Township ( Canada ), known as canton in Canadian French

Before the speech, US delegations met with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and French President Charles de Gaulle to brief them on the US intelligence and their proposed response.

# Telstar Deluxe ( 1977 ): aka " Video World Of Sports ", same as the Telstar but brown pedestal case with wood panel, made for Canadian market with French and English text.

* 1913 – Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director ( d. 2001 )

* 1811 – Jean-Charles Chapais, French Canadian politician, Father of the Canadian Confederation ( d. 1885 )

* 1997 – Michel Bélanger, French Canadian businessman and banker ( b. 1929 )

* 1964 – Michel Courtemanche, French Canadian comedian

* 1803 – François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier, French Canadian Patriote ( d. 1839 )

* 1964 – Sylvie Moreau, French Canadian actress

* 1952 – Germain Houde, French Canadian actor

While in Ottawa he also collected and published French Canadian Folk Songs, and a volume of his own poetry.

Furthermore, the Eritrean Research Project Team composed of Eritrean, Canadian, American, Dutch and French scientists, discovered in 1999 a site with stone and obsidian tools dated to over 125 000 years old ( from the paleolithic ) era near the Bay of Zula south of Massawa along the Red Sea coast.

1828 – January 9, 1901 ) was a Black Canadian painter whose tonalism and predominantly pastoral subject matter owed much to his admiration for Millet and the French Barbizon School.

* French Canadian fiddling including " crooked tunes ," that is, tunes with irregular beat patterns.

* Métis fiddling, of central and western Canada featuring strong French Canadian influence, but with even more " crooked " tunes.

Mainly or partially francophone or francosphere countries include France, Belgium ( Wallonia is almost entirely francophone, and there is a large French-speaking community in the Brussels-Capital Region and a few bordering municipalities ), Canada ( the province of Quebec is francophone, and there are large French-speaking communities in Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and other Canadian provinces ), United States ( South / Central Louisiana and parts of Maine ), Switzerland, Haiti, the French West Indies and several countries in Africa, including Congo, Burundi, Madagascar and Rwanda, that are former French or Belgian colonies.

The task of taking the raw material of Marcel Pagnol's original trio of French films about people of the waterfront in Marseilles and putting them again on the screen, after their passage through the Broadway musical idiom, was a delicate and perilous one, indeed.

The French critics thought it was characteristic of American films of the 1930s or 1940s ; however, it was mostly characteristic of cheaper American movies, such as Charlie Chan mysteries where people collected in front of a fireplace or at the foot of the stairs in order to explain what happened a few minutes ago.

He was influenced by his predecessor, the French silent film comedian Max Linder, to whom he dedicated one of his films.

David Robinson writes that the film's failure was probably due to it seeming too old-fashioned compared to many of the other films released that year, such as the French New Wave films.

From the film industry, Chaplin drew upon the work of French comedian Max Linder, whose films he greatly admired.

A 1954 article by Truffaut attacked La qualité française (" the French Quality ") and was the manifesto for ' la politique des Auteurs ' which Andrew Sarris later termed the auteur theory — resulting in the re-evaluation of Hollywood films and directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Robert Aldrich, Nicholas Ray, Fritz Lang and Anthony Mann.

The magazine also was essential to the creation of the Nouvelle Vague, or New Wave, of French cinema, which centered on films directed by Cahiers authors such as Godard and Truffaut.

The French surgeon Eugène-Louis Doyen started a series of surgical films sometime before July 1898.

French New Wave films and the non-narrative films of the 1960s used a carefree editing style and did not conform to the traditional editing etiquette of Hollywood films.

These included An Elopement à la Mode and The Pickpocket: A Chase Through London, made by Alf Collins for the British branch of the French Gaumont company, Daring Daylight Burglary, made by Frank Mottershaw at the Sheffield Photographic Company, and Desperate Poaching Affray, made by the Haggar family, whose main business was exhibiting films made by others in their traveling tent theatre.

The French Éclair company was already making films in the United States, and their production of features increased with the transfer of more film-makers when the French industry was shut down at the beginning of World War I.

The other French majors followed suit, and this wave gave rise to the English-language description of films with artistic pretensions aimed at a sophisticated audience as " art films ".

By 1910, the French film companies were starting to make films as long as two, or even three reels, though most were still one reel long.

The Nordisk company was set up there in 1906 by Ole Olsen, a fairground showman, and after a brief period imitating the successes of French and British film-makers, in 1907 he produced 67 films, most directed by Viggo Larsen, with sensational subjects like Den hvide Slavinde ( The White Slave ), Isbjørnenjagt ( Polar Bear Hunt ) and Løvejagten ( The Lion Hunt ).

France installed an import quota of 1: 7, meaning for every seven foreign films imported to France, one French film was to be produced and shown in French cinemas.

Additionally, Cahiers critics such as Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette and Eric Rohmer went on to make films themselves, creating what was to become known as the French New Wave.

The historical drama film Jean de Florette ( 1986 ) and its sequel Manon des Sources ( 1986 ) were among the highest grossing French films in history and brought Daniel Auteuil international recognition.

The French cinema market, and more generally the French-speaking market, is smaller than the English-speaking market ; one reason being that some major markets, including prominently the United States, are reluctant to generally accept foreign films, especially foreign-language and subtitled productions.

* List of French films