Later, French settlers, French-owned companies, and Arab merchants established a plantation-based economy that now uses about one-third of the land for export crops.

* The names of the broadcasting companies not in Roman script are either in English or French, the official languages of the EBU.

German production companies have been quite commonly involved in expensive French and Italian productions from Spaghetti Westerns to French comic book adaptations.

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.

At the same time, the government nationalised land, removed French appointed and traditional chiefs from power, and broke ties with French government and companies.

For more than one hundred years, English and French trading companies had fought one another for supremacy, and by the middle of the 18th century competition between the British and the French had heated up.

In recent years many French companies have re-localized production to Tunisia.

Italian and French companies produce most of the vermouth consumed throughout the world.

Early hints of Chinoiserie appeared in the 17th century in nations with active East India companies: England ( the British East India Company ), Denmark ( the Danish East India Company ), the Netherlands ( the Dutch East India Company ) and France ( the French East India Company ).

Saddam approved a deal granting French oil companies a number of privileges plus a 23 per cent share of Iraqi oil.

After the publication of the Méry video-tape by Le Monde on 22 September 2000, in which Jean-Claude Méry, in charge of the RPR's financing, directly accused Chirac of organizing the network, and of having been physically present on 5 October 1986, when Méry gave in cash 5 millions Francs, which came from companies who had benefited from state deals, to Michel Roussin, personal secretary ( directeur de cabinet ) of Chirac, Chirac refused to follow up his summons by judge Eric Halphen, and the highest echelons of the French justice declared that he could not been inculpated while in functions.

French explorers, missionaries, trading companies, and soldiers gradually extended the area under French control inland from the lagoon region.

Other companies, like the French East India Company and the Danish East India Company also started to make inroads on the Dutch system.

Rennes is the 2nd concentration of ITC firms in France after Paris ( with well-known companies like Atos, SFR, Orange France Telecom, Technicolor R & D, Canon, Mitsubishi, Alcatel-Lucent, Texas Instruments, NXP, Thales or Logica ), and the 3rd innovation potential in agrofood French industry.

The toys are designed by both inside designers and external freelancers ( for example the French artist André Roche based in Munich ) and manufactured by many companies worldwide, such as Produzioni Editoriali Aprile, a small company based in Turin, Italy, run and founded by two brothers, Rugero and Valerio Aprile.

The boom of Italian cinema, which gave Bertolucci his start, slowed in the 1970s as directors were forced to co-produce their films with several of the American, Swedish, French, and German companies and actors due to the effects of the global economic recession on the Italian film industry.

A hundred years before the French Revolution, the buccaneer companies were run on lines in which liberty, equality and fraternity were the rule ,.

In the postwar years France developed a few significant airliners, some of these being planes that could land on water, part of the reason that the French companies were so focused on these flying boats is that in 1936 the French Air Ministry requested transatlantic flying boats that could hold at least 40 passengers.

At 16: 30 on 24 February, infantrymen from three companies of the German 24th ( Brandenburg ) regiment entered the centrepiece of the French fortification system: Fort Douaumont.

With his help, French former minister and Resistance fighter Pierre-Henri Teitgen submitted a report to the Assembly proposing a list of rights to be protected, selecting a number from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights just agreed to in New York, and defining how the enforcing judicial mechanism might operate.

The French oil company Total S. A. is able to operate the Yadana natural gas pipeline from Burma to Thailand despite the European Union's sanctions on Burma.

Referring to non-military uses of the term, in his work The Practice of Everyday Life, French scholar Michel de Certeau suggests strategy and tactics are alike in that they both operate in space and time.

If the Spanish and French were to operate together they would have a superiority of ninety ships of the line.

In February 1949, Silver City established a French sister airline headquartered in Paris to operate vehicle ferry flights from Le Touquet Airport.

One remaining, though symbolic, legacy of Andorra's special relationship with France and Spain, is that the Principality has no postal service of its own – French and Spanish postal services operate side by side, although each of them issues separate stamps for Andorra, instead of using their own.

A French-medium school system, the Lycée Français de Pondichéry, continues to operate under the aegis of the French Minister of National Education.

Aside from time spent serving in Europe as a radio man during WWII, French continued to operate the Star Theatre until he decided to close it in 1971.

This allowed the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine to operate from French ports on the Atlantic coast, much closer to the Atlantic shipping lanes.

According to the legend, French soldiers cut off the middle fingers of English archers, to prevent them from using the English longbow, which required the middle finger to operate.

Unlike in countries where the construction of railways became a field for private enterprise, the state constructed the bulk of the French railway system, and magnanimously invited private companies to operate the lines under leases ( of up to 99 years ).

In 1914, when World War I broke out, French troops did not operate any light machine gun.

The Chauchats, as they were retired, were not converted to the Balle N and as a result do not operate well with the Balle N cartridge ( French World War I weapons converted to Balle N will have a noticeable " N " markings ).

Many schools, churches, banks, business and other institutions operate or offer services in French.

The Conseil scolaire de district du Centre-Sud-Ouest ( the French public board ) and the Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud ( the French Catholic board ) also operate schools in Welland.

Thanks to the large population of francophones, both the Conseil scolaire de district du Centre-Sud-Ouest ( the French public board ) and the Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud ( the French Catholic board ) operate elementary and secondary schools in Welland.

On mobilisation in August 1914 the decision was made to conform to the two-division army corps organisation employed by the French armies alongside which the BEF was to operate.

The Second Battle of Cape Finisterre in October 1747. The Western Squadron was a new strategy by Britain's naval planners to operate a more effective blockade system of France by stationing the Home Fleet in the Western Approaches, where they could guard both the English channel and the French Atlantic coast.

In spite of proposals of the French inventor Clément Ader in 1909 to build a ship with a flat deck to operate aeroplanes at sea, similar to modern aircraft carriers, the French Navy built its first aircraft carrier only in 1920s and did not go further in developing aircraft carriers before World War II.

also began to flesh out its position on the national question in Quebec, even not being able to operate to any degree in French in Quebec.

However, the government of George III did not recognize the French annexation ( being at war continuously with France through the entire period ) and Hanoverian ministers continued to operate out of London.

In secret he also acted as a member of the prisoners' Central Committee, which plotted sabotage, planned a few escapes, and maintained a hidden control over the wretched French slave-laborers.

A biting, pithy parable of the all-pervading hollowness of modern life, the piece has been set by Mlle Lagoon to a sumptuous score ( a single motif played over and over by four thousand French horns ) by existentialist hot-shot Jean-Paul Sartre.

`` It would be like fighting the French and Indian War all over again '', said one military man.

Currently Algerian cinema is in a phase of restructuring ; the French-wing is taking the lead over the Algerian one, and many film production are written in French rather than Algerian arabic.

Later in the 1960s and 1970s, Edmund Leach and his students Mary Douglas and Nur Yalman, among others, introduced French structuralism in the style of Lévi-Strauss ; while British anthropology has continued to emphasize social organization and economics over purely symbolic or literary topics, differences among British, French, and American sociocultural anthropologies have diminished with increasing dialogue and borrowing of both theory and methods.

After heated debates over startup continued through 1993, French and Russian nuclear consultants declared operating conditions basically safe.

* 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim – English and Imperial forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops.

* 1759 – Seven Years ' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French.

* 1809 – The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: the Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.

The French Revolution was now extending its shocks over Italy ; and Canova sought obscurity and repose in his native Possagno.

Asterix or The Adventures of Asterix (, ) is a series of French comic books written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo ( Uderzo also took over the job of writing the series after the death of Goscinny in 1977 ).

The first ironclad battleship, with iron armour over a wooden hull, La Gloire, was launched by the French Navy in 1859 ; she prompted the British Royal Navy to build a counter.

This was the preferred method for protein consumption over animal husbandry, as it required much more work to defend the kept animals against American Indians or the French.

* 1557 – Battle of St. Quentin: Spanish victory over the French in the Habsburg-Valois Wars.

* 1500 – Ludovico Sforza is captured by the Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French.

In the campaign of 1799 he once more opposed Jourdan, whom he defeated in the battles of Ostrach and Stockach, following up his success by invading Switzerland and defeating Masséna in the First Battle of Zürich, after which he re-entered Germany and drove the French once more over the Rhine.

As act two opens, the two groups are now in bitter rivalry over who is the normal group (“ A-1 March ”) Another stranger, a French woman in a feathered coat appears.

In her own defence, Bardot wrote in a letter to a French gay magazine: " Apart from my husband — who maybe will cross over one day as well — I am entirely surrounded by homos.

:* Boston has a celebration annually, hosted by the French Cultural Center for over 35 years.

French losses were immense: over 30, 000 killed, wounded and missing.

For this end, and in order to maintain their momentum, the French and their allies would swing over to the offensive in 1706.

Following Napoleon Bonaparte's victories over the Austrian Empire in Northern Italy – helping to secure France victory in the War of the First Coalition in 1797 – Great Britain remained the only major European power still at war with the French Republic.

During the spring of 1798, Bonaparte assembled over 35, 000 soldiers in Mediterranean France and Italy and developed a powerful fleet at Toulon ; he also formed the Commission des Sciences et des Arts, a body of scientists and engineers intended to establish the French colony in Egypt.