It is the summer residence of the Presidents of the French Republic.

Among the world leaders who have visited Leinster House to address joint sessions of the Oireachtas are US Presidents John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Australian Prime Ministers Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, John Howard and French President François Mitterrand.

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He read books about the French Revolution, biographies of the Presidents of the United States, books about contemporary Philippine penal and civil codes, and novels such as Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Eugène Sue's Le Juif errant and José Rizal's Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo.

For a list of presidents of the National Constituent Assembly, see: List of Presidents of the French National Assembly.

He is one of only two French Presidents ( the other is Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing ) who were born outside France ( Deschanel in Belgium, Giscard in Koblenz, Germany ).

Territorial Assembly elections were held in each of the eight colonies ( Togo as a UN trust Territory was by this stage on a different trajectory ) on 31 March 1957 under universal sufferage, and the leaders of the winning parties appointed to the newly instituted position of Vice-President of the Governing Council — French Colonial Governors remained as Presidents.

Presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande, surrounded by French Republican Guard | Republican Guards, in the interior court.

He was widely regarded as one of the most popular French Presidents, particularly after highly controversial Alexandre Millerand, who was his predecessor.

Based in Abu Dhabi, the center hosted lectures by notable personalities such as former U. S. Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, former U. S. Vice-President Al Gore, former U. S. Secretary of State James Baker, and former French President Jacques Chirac.

Youlou was elected as a deputy to the Territorial Assembly, and on 1 May 1957 appointed Minister of Agriculture in the newly established Moyen-Congo Government Council, Jacques Opangault was appointed Vice-President displacing the Moyen-Congo French National Assembly deputy Jean-Felix Tchicaya as the leading politician in the country-French colonial governors remained as Presidents until 14 July 1958 when these positions were taken by the elected African Vice-Presidents.

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Sometimes neglected at times of political unrest, the château de Rambouillet became the official summer residence of the French President of the Republic after President Félix Faure chose it as summer residence for himself and his family in 1896 ; Rambouillet thus became the official summer residence of the Presidents of the Third Republic and has retained its position ever since.

On 9 June 2008, the German and French Presidents announced a plan to offer a cedit of 6-8g / km of CO < sub > 2 </ sub > emissions for cars fitted with technologies " not yet taken into consideration during the standard measuring cycle of the emissions of a car ".

* The Executive Council of Corsica, which exercises the type of executive functions held in other French regions by the Presidents of the Regional Councils.

He is fluent in French, and, during his diplomatic career prior to the trip, he had served as a U. S. State Department general services officer in Niger, as an ambassador to Gabon and São Tomé and Príncipe, as Deputy Chief of Mission ( DCM ) in both Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, and Iraq ( taking over as Chief of Mission during the 1990 – 91 Gulf War ), in other diplomatic postings, and in subsequent national security and military advisory roles concerning U. S .- African affairs under Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

French Presidents since De Gaulle have generally pursued fairly close relations with British leaders, including Jacques Chirac working with Tony Blair even during the Iraq War.

French politicians, European commissioners, Presidents, Ministers, athletes and journalists all came to chat with Edhec students.

The name presumably derives from the French royal house which never learned and never forgot ; ;

The Irish accent is, as one would expect, combined with slight inflections from the 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.

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

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.

There is a fairly wide selection of models of English, German and French manufacture from which you can choose from the very small Austin 7, Citroen 2 CV, Volkswagens, Renaults to the 6-passenger Simca Beaulieu.

Eight or ten years ago, a couple of French hoods stole a priceless Khmer head from the Musee Guimet, in Paris, and a week later crawled into the Salpetriere with unmistakable symptoms of leprosy.

The Ifni crisis in the fall of 1957 postponed further consideration of elections, but French consultants were called in and notices of further investigation appeared from time to time.

Venturesome traders, however, continued to come to them from Mobile, and to obtain a considerable number of pelts for the French markets.

British traders from South Carolina incited the Indians against the French, and there developed French and British Factions in the tribe.

To hold them was an essential part of French policy, for they controlled the upper termini of the routes from the north to Mobile.

They threatened constantly to give the British a hold on this region, from whence they could move easily down the rivers to the French settlements near the Gulf.

This was a slow and difficult course, and French trade suffered from the many mistakes of the new group of traders.

There was even a cable in French from a bank in Switzerland that had somehow learned about the Dallas stock offering.

Ideally, the President would like the French to agree on a `` status quo ante '' on Bizerte, and accept a new timetable for withdrawing their forces from the Mediterranean base.

Do you say chantey, as if the word were derived from the French word chanter, to sing, or do you say shanty and think of a roughly built cabin, which derives its name from the French-Canadian use of the word chantier, with one of its meanings given as a boat-yard??

there had been lessons in French from a small Polish nobleman with a really profound distaste for his pupils ; ;

International Atomic Time ( TAI, from the French name Temps atomique international ) is a high-precision atomic coordinate time standard based on the notional passage of proper time on Earth's geoid.

( This contrasted with Malinowski's functionalism, and was quite different from the later French structuralism, which examined the conceptual structures in language and symbolism.

Levant is derived from the French verb lever meaning " to rise " indicating that part of the world where the sun rises.

The al-prefix was probably added through confusion with another legal term, allegeance, an " allegation " ( the French allegeance comes from the English ).

Allegiance is formed from " liege ," from Old French liege, " liege, free ", of Germanic origin.