Social Historians in Contemporary France: Essays from " Annales ", ( 1972 )

* 1792 – France declares war against the " King of Hungary and Bohemia ", the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.

* 1918 – World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as " The Red Baron ", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.

Classicizing architectonic structure and decor all ' antica, in the " ancient mode ", became a fashionable way to frame a painted or bas-relief portrait, or protect an expensive and precious mirror during the High Renaissance ; Italian precedents were imitated in France, then in Spain, England and Germany during the later 16th century.

The first Baron was Hamelin de Balun, from Ballon, a small town and castle in Maine-Anjou called " Gateway to Maine ", near Le Mans, today in the Sarthe département of France.

Additionally, in a section in the book entitled, " Open Letter to My Lost France ", Bardot writes that " my country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims ".

Centime ( from Latin centesimus ) is French for " cent ", and is used in English as the name of the fraction currency in several Francophone countries ( including Switzerland, Algeria, Belgium, Morocco and France ).

The name cello is an abbreviation of the Italian violoncello, which means " little violone ", referring to the violone (" big viol "), the lowest-pitched instrument of the viol family, the group of string instruments that went out of fashion around the end of the 17th century in most countries except France, where they survived another half-century or so before the louder violin family came into greater favour in that country too.

*" Calypso ", a 1985 song sung by France Gall

In France, Claude François who re-invented himself as the king of French disco, released " La plus belle chose du monde ", a French version of the Bee Gees hit record, " Massachusetts ", which became a big hit in Canada and Europe and " Alexandrie Alexandra " was posthumously released on the day of his burial and became a worldwide hit.

The Convention was designed to incorporate a traditional civil liberties approach to securing " effective political democracy ", from the strongest traditions in the United Kingdom, France and other member states of the fledgling Council of Europe.

* Catherine Cathiard and Frédéric Lemos, managing director of Foncière LFPI, " First cross-border transfers of seat of European Companies in France: the experience of Foncière LFPI ", JCP E n ° 1, January 2009 ( available in French ).

Indeed the Republic of Independent Guyana, in French La République de la Guyane indépendante and commonly referred to by the name of the capital " Counani ", was created in the area which was disputed by France ( as part of French Guyana ) and Brazil in the late nineteenth century.

In France and French-speaking countries, fried potatoes are formally " pommes de terre frites ", but more commonly " pommes frites ", " patates frites ", or simply " frites ".

In France, the thick-cut fries are called " Pommes Pont-Neuf " or simply " pommes frites ", about 10 mm ; thinner variants are " pommes allumettes " ( matchstick potatoes ), ± 7 mm, and " pommes pailles " ( potato straws ), 3 – 4 mm ( roughly ⅜, ¼ and ⅛ inch respectively ).

* 1898 – Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing " J ' accuse ", a letter accusing the French government of anti-Semitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.

* 1960 – With the success of a nuclear test codenamed " Gerboise Bleue ", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.

The historian William Hepworth Dixon referred to the Code Napoleon as " the sole embodiment of Bacon's thought ", saying that Bacon's legal work " has had more success abroad than it has found at home ", and that in France " it has blossomed and come into fruit ".

Created to fight " outside mainland France ", the Foreign Legion was stationed in Algeria, where it took part in the pacification and development of the colony, by notably drying the marshes in the region of Algiers.

During the post-World War I period ski-lifts were built in Swiss and Austrian towns to accommodate winter visitors, but summer tourism continued to be important ; by the mid-20th century the popularity of downhill skiing increased greatly as it became more accessible and in the 1970s several new villages were built in France devoted almost exclusively to skiing, such a Les Menuires.

U. S. Secretary of State Colin Powell launched the talks on April 3, 2001, and the negotiations continued with mediation by the U. S., Russia, and France until April 6, 2001.

Throughout the 18th century in France, a new wealthy and influential middle-class was beginning to rise, even though the royalty and nobility continued to be patrons of the arts.

Preferring the friendship of France, Abbas Mirza continued the war against Russia's General Kotlyarevsky, but his new ally could give him very little assistance.

Internal and international pressure in particular from France continued and in rescheduled elections held in October 1993, again with the help of the international community Ange-Félix Patassé won a second-round victory.

More French settlers, primarily from the Vienne, Normandie, and Brittany regions of France, continued to populate the colony of Acadia during the latter part of the 17th and early part of the 18th centuries.

The referendum turned out in favour of a continued association with France, partly due to a combined yes vote by the sizable Afar ethnic group and resident Europeans.

Initial results supported a continued but looser relationship with France.

Djibouti's military and economic agreements with France provide continued security and economic assistance.

Helicopter AS-365 N2 Dauphin crashed off the coast of the main island in July 1994, a smaller helicopter AS-355F-2 continued in service until mid-1997 and in 1999 was sold to France.

In France, Italy and Russia, where large budgets continued to allow major development, both monoplanes and all metal structures were common by the end of the 1920s however those countries overspent themselves and were overtaken in the ' 30s by those powers that hadn't been spending heavily, namely the British, the Americans and the Germans.

Francis I continued his leading role as an opponent of Napoleonic France in the Napoleonic Wars, and suffered several more defeats after Austerlitz.

By the 18th century, the term had gained its now common usage in France, and had begun to be used to refer purely to books of magic, which Owen Davies presumed was because " many of them continued to circulate in Latin manuscripts.

The homophile movement began in the late 1940s with groups in the Netherlands and Denmark, and continued throughout the 1950s and 1960s with groups in Sweden, Norway, the United States, France, Britain and elsewhere.

But despite the progress, it continued to lag in the political and mercantile developments then transforming other parts of Europe, most notably in Great Britain, the Low Countries, and France.

In France, Eyes Without a Face ( 1960 ) continued the mad scientist theme, while in Italy director Mario Bava began his own series of horror films.

The period of insurrection and civil war that followed continued until 1148, when Matilda returned to France.

Louis continued his predecessors ' work of creating a centralized state governed from Paris, sought to eliminate remnants of feudalism in France, and subjugated and weakened the aristocracy.

While France continues to revere its rich history and independence, French leaders increasingly tie the future of France to the continued development of the European Union.

Impressionism in music was a movement in European classical music, mainly in France, which appeared in the late nineteenth century and continued into the beginning of the twentieth century.

Though Ribbentrop continued to argue that Britain and France were bluffing, both he and Hitler were prepared as a last resort to risk a general war by invading Poland.

Bismarck manipulated public opinion, resulting in the denial of sale to France and the continued suzerainty of Holland, a member of the customs union with close ties to Prussia.

Sterne continued to struggle with his illness, and departed England for France in 1762 in an effort to find a climate that would alleviate his suffering.