The Gendarmerie is a new branch of the service in which training and education is being supported by the French Military Cooperation in Equatorial Guinea.

French Guinea was established in 1891, taking the same borders as the previous colony of Rivières du Sud ( 1882 – 1891 ).

Prior to 1882, the coastal portions of French Guinea were part of the French colony of Senegal.

In 1894 Rivières du Sud, Coted ' Ivoire and Dahomey were separated into ' independent ' colonies, with Rivières du Sud being renamed the Colony of French Guinea.

In 1895, French Guinea was made a dependent colony, and its Governor then became a Lieutenant Governor to a Governor-General in Dakar.

French Guinea, along with Senegal, Dahomey, Cote-d ' Ivoire and Upper Senegal and Niger each were ruled by a lieutenant governor, under the Governor General in Dakar.

At the time French Guinea was the only colony to refuse the new constitution.

French Guinea became the modern day country of Guinea keeping French as its official language.

Guinea, French

Its current boundaries were deterimined during the colonial period by the Conference of Berlin and the French, who ruled Guinea until 1958.

French domination was assured by the defeat in 1898 of the armies of Samori Touré, Mansa ( or Emperor ) of the Ouassoulou state and leader of Malinké descent, which gave France control of what today is Guinea and adjacent areas.

Under the French, the country formed the Territory of Guinea within French West Africa, administered by a governor general resident in Dakar.

The French withdrew quickly, and on October 2, 1958, Guinea proclaimed itself a sovereign and independent republic, with Sékou Touré as president.

The Republic of Guinea Armed Forces ( French: Forces armées guinéennes ) are the armed forces of Guinea.

The new armed forces were formed by incorporating some of the former French soldiers, after a careful screening process to determine political reliability, with members of the former territorial Gendarmie to form the People's Army of Guinea ( L ' Armee Populaire de Guinee ).

Guinea became the first French African colony to gain independence, on 2 October 1958, at the cost of the immediate cessation of all French assistance.

The Annales School () is a group of historians associated with a style of historiography developed by French historians in the 20th century.

The other organisations that maintain the SI system, also known by their French initialisms are the General Conference on Weights and Measures () ( CGPM ) and the International Committee for Weights and Measures () ( CIPM ).

Most of the population () speaks German ( 129, 592 or 77. 8 %), with Italian being second most common ( 9, 049 or 5. 4 %) and French being third ( 4, 280 or 2. 6 %).

The name Île de la Passion () was officially given to Clipperton in 1711 by French discoverers Martin de Chassiron and Michel Du Bocage, commanding the French ships La Princesse and La Découverte.

Claude Monet () ( 14 November 18405 December 1926 ) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.

Camille Pissarro () ( 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903 ) was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas ( now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies ).

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen () is a fundamental document of the French Revolution, defining the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal.

Évariste Galois () ( 25 October 1811 – 31 May 1832 ) was a French mathematician born in Bourg-la-Reine.

In cooking, espagnole sauce () is one of the mother sauces that are the basis of sauce-making in classic French cooking.

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie () ( 17 May 1866 – Paris, 1 July 1925 ; signed his name Erik Satie after 1884 ) was a French composer and pianist.

The territory is also often called the French Southern Lands () or French Southern Territories, which excludes Adélie Land where French sovereignty is not recognized internationally.

The new constitution created the Directoire () and the first bicameral legislature in French history.

The French Republican Calendar () or French Revolutionary Calendar ( calendrier révolutionnaire français ) was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805, and for 18 days by the Paris Commune in 1871.

Most of the population () speak French ( 128, 622 or 72. 3 %), with English being second most common ( 7, 853 or 4. 4 %) and Spanish third ( 7, 462 or 4. 2 %).

Joual () is the common name for the linguistic features of basilectal Quebec French that are associated with the French-speaking working class in Montreal which has become a symbol of national identity for a large number of artists from that area.

Libre () is a loan word in English borrowed from various Romance languages, including Spanish and French.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

There was only one hitch: the small town of Kehl, on the other side of the Rhine, was still under French jurisdiction.

As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;

He dabbled in verse, could get along well among most of the European languages, and was fluent in French and German.

Greek phone service is worse than French, so that it was to be some little time before contact of any sort was established.

The great spectacle was a source of rancor, and Son et Lumiere, which the French were trying to promote with the Athenians, was the reason.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

This lofty disregard for others was not shared by such men as Pierre Flotte and his associates, that `` brilliant group of mediocre men '', as Powicke calls them, who provided the brains for the French embassy that came to Rome under the nominal leadership of the archbishop of Narbonne, the duke of Burgundy, and the count of St.-Pol.

He was unable to send any more help to his allies on the Continent, and during the next few years many of them, left to resist French pressure unaided, surrendered to the inevitable and made their peace with Philip.

In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.

The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;

For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.

When they lost it, the French artillery moved in, and that was the end for Garibaldi that time, on 30 April 1849.

It was not a part of any one of the three ( later four ) zones for occupation by Soviet, American, British, and French troops respectively.

The Indochina struggle was a war to stay out of in 1954, when Gen. Ridgway estimated it would take a minimum of 10 to 15 divisions at the outset to win a war the French were losing.

`` Remember the French railroad baron who was going to take me floating down the Nile ''??