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.

* 1450 – Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years ' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.

* 1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: the city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.

* 1798 – Wolfe Tone's United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connaught.

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

* 1645 – Thirty Years ' War: the Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.

* 1695 – French forces end the Bombardment of Brussels, leaving a third of the buildings in the city in ruins.

* 1831 – French intervention forces William I of the Netherlands to abandon his attempt to suppress the Belgian Revolution.

* 1944 – Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.

* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost at Pondicherry.

* 1808 – Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.

* 1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.

* 1813 – Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.

* 1797 – Citizens of Verona, Italy, begin an eight-day rebellion against the French occupying forces, which will end unsuccessfully.

* 1675 – Franco-Dutch War: forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.

* 1812 – Peninsular War: French troops engage British-Portuguese forces in the Battle of Majadahonda.

As the political situation threatened and eventually overwhelmed Austria, which was repeatedly crushed by French political forces, Salieri's first and most important biographer Mosel described the emotional effect that this political, social, and cultural upheaval had on the composer.

* 1522 – Combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeat a French and Venetian army at the Battle of Bicocca.

* 1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna.

* 1544 – French forces defeat a Spanish army at the Battle of Ceresole.

* 2006 – A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger ( known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF ).

French forces occupied Aargau from 10 March to 18 April 1798 ; thereafter the Bernese portion became the canton of Aargau in the Helvetic Republic and the remainder formed the Canton of Baden.

In 1990 France, led by François Mitterrand, joined the short lived Gulf War against Iraq, the French participation to this war would be called the Opération Daguet.

The massive worldwide press coverage which followed the deaths of the students opened the way for a successful coup which saw French troops ( in " Opération Barracuda ") invade the Central African Empire and restored former president David Dacko to power while Bokassa fled into exile by airplane to the Ivory Coast ( Côte d ' Ivoire ) on 20 September 1979.

The massive press coverage which followed the deaths of the students opened the way for a successful coup which saw French troops ( in Opération Barracuda ) restore former president David Dacko to power while Bokassa was away in Libya on 20 September 1979.

The French military currently prefer names drawn from nature ( such as colors or the names of animals ), for instance Opération Daguet (" brocket deer ") or Opération Baliste (" Triggerfish ").

The Centre d ' Opération des Forces Aériennes Stratégiques ( COFAS ) is a hardened command centre for French nuclear forces in Taverny, Val d ' Oise.

Opération Aphrodite is a French science fiction novel written by Henri René Guieu, under the pseudonym Jimmy Guieu.

Dark Side of the Moon is a French mockumentary by director William Karel which originally aired on Arte in 2002 with the title Opération Lune.

The French said the objectives of Opération Turquoise were:

When French forces entered Rwanda during Opération Turquoise to support the Hutu-dominated interim government, RTLM broadcasted from Gisenyi, calling on ' you Hutu girls to wash yourselves and put on a good dress to welcome our French allies.

Following the Rwandan Genocide and the victory by the army of the Tutsi dominated Rwandan Patriotic Army ( RPA ), many ethnic Hutus, including an unknown number of those who had committed genocide, ( Génocidaires ) fled from the RPF controlled areas to zones controlled by the French as part of Opération Turquoise and into the neighbouring states of Burundi, Zaire, and Tanzania.

The Peanut Butter Solution ( French title: Opération beurre de pinottes ) is a 1985 family film.

The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, codenamed Opération Satanique, was an operation by the " action " branch of the French foreign intelligence services, the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure ( DGSE ), carried out on July 10, 1985.

Installed at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques ( IHÉS ), Grothendieck attracted attention by an intense and highly productive activity of seminars ( de facto working groups drafting into foundational work some of the ablest French and other mathematicians of the younger generation ).

After the French chemists Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, Louis Jacques Thénard, and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac approved the experiments of the young pharmacist Balard, the results were presented at a lecture of the Académie des Sciences and published in Annales de Chimie et Physique.

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.

Ms. Turocy has been decorated as Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.

Eventually in 1555 the civil authorities expelled Knox and his supporters to Geneva, where they adopted a new Prayer Book The Form of Prayers, that derived chiefly from Calvin's French La Forme des Prières.

A French translation, Le Recueil des Prières de la Communauté Chrétienne, was published in 1967.

The French army of 15, 000 men took ground exactly opposite in a similar formation, cavalry on the wings, infantry, including the townsmen ( milice des communes ) in the center, Philip with the cavalry reserve and the royal standard, the Oriflamme, in rear of the men on foot.

In January, 1997, however, the Bangui Agreements were signed and the French EFAO troop was replaced by the 1, 350 soldiers of the Mission interafricaine de surveillance des Accords de Bangui ( MISAB ).

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.

* Caisse des dépôts et consignations, a French government-controlled financial institution

The acronym comes from the French version of its name Conférence européenne des administrations des postes et des télécommunications.

* European Committee for Postal Regulation ( CERP, after the French " Comité européen des régulateurs postaux ")-responsible for postal matters

Geoffroy's name is best known in connection with these tables of " affinities " ( tables des rapports ), which were first presented to the French Academy in 1718 and 1720, as shown below:

In 1863 almost all of the group ’ s paintings were rejected by the Salon, and French Emperor Napoleon III instead decided to place their paintings in a separate exhibit hall, the Salon des Refusés.

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.

In 1894, he established a permanent French administration in the city of Djibouti and named the region Côte française des Somalis ( French Somaliland ), a name which continued until 1967.

In 1967, shortly after the second referendum was held, the former Côte française des Somalis ( French Somaliland ) was renamed to Territoire français des Afars et des Issas.