The most important French social theorist since Foucault and Lévi-Strauss is Pierre Bourdieu, who trained formally in philosophy and sociology and eventually held the Chair of Sociology at the Collège de France.

* Reims, France ; since 1967.

* Angers, France – since 2011

Opposition to Federalists among Democratic-Republicans reached new heights at this time since the Democratic-Republicans had supported France.

*-Bourges, France, since 1989

*-Arcachon, France, since 1989

Article 17 of the Constitution of France gives the President the authority to pardon criminals and, since 1991, the President has pardoned many petty offenders ( mainly traffic offences ) on 14 July.

This was the first time German troops entered in France since 1944, sealing the definitive Franco-German reconciliation.

* The name Baptism of Bells has been given to the blessing of ( musical, especially church ) bells, at least in France, since the 11th century.

In 2003, the NZBS further extended restrictions to preclude permanently donors who had received a blood transfusion in the United Kingdom since January 1980, and in April 2006, restrictions were further extended to include the Republic of Ireland and France.

At one point, almost every major city in the US had a velodrome or two for track racing events, however since the middle of the 20th century cycling has become a minority sport in the US whilst in Continental Europe it continues to be a major sport, particularly in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Italy and Spain.

* Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou, Legitimist ( Blancs d ' Espagne ) pretender to France since 1989.

* Prince Henry, Count of Paris, Legitimist ( Blancs d ' Eu ) and Orléanist pretender to France since 1999.

Conservatism has been the major political force in France since the second world war.

The Corsican language has been influenced by the languages of the major powers taking an interest in Corsican affairs ; earlier by those of the Medieval Italian powers: Tuscany ( 828 – 1077 ), Pisa ( 1077 – 1282 ) and Genoa ( 1282 – 1768 ), more recently by France ( 1768 – present ), which, since 1789, has promulgated the official Parisian French.

French intervention on behalf of the Maronites did not help the Maronite national movement, since France was restricted in 1860 by Britain, which did not want the Ottoman Empire dismembered.

Although it was the world's tallest structure when completed in 1889, the Eiffel Tower has since lost its standing both as the tallest lattice tower and as the tallest structure in France.

The island has been a possession of France since 1897, but is also claimed by Madagascar.

* Lille, France, since 1991

It was her first venture into France since the retreat from Le Havre in 1563.

Lincoln reported that after dinner Oxford spoke of the Queen's impending death, claiming that the peers of England should decide the succession, and suggested that since Lincoln had ' a nephew of the blood royal ... Lord Hastings ', he should be sent to France to find allies to support this aim.

With an increasingly centralized monarchy, the first standing army since Roman times, and the use of artillery, France expelled the English from its territory and came out of the Middle Ages as the most powerful nation in Europe, only to lose that status to Spain following defeat in the Italian Wars.

France became a nuclear power and since the 1990s its military action is most often seen in cooperation with NATO and its European partners.

The French Southern and Antarctic Lands have formed a ( an overseas territory ) of France since 1955.

During the 6 February 1934 crisis, France faced the greatest domestic political turmoil since the Dreyfus Affair when the fascist Francist Movement and multiple far right movements rioted en masse in Paris against the French government resulting in major political violence.

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.

In the 1960s and 1970s, France became a leading supplier and delivered AMX-13 tanks and various aircraft.

Ladas were sold as a budget ' no-frills ' vehicle in several Western nations during the 1970s and 1980s, including Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, though trade sanctions banned their export to the United States.

This process was partially reversed from the 1970s onward, with the introduction of various forms of regional autonomy, in formerly centralised states such as France.

The language was first conceived by a group around Alain Colmerauer in Marseille, France, in the early 1970s and the first Prolog system was developed in 1972 by Colmerauer with Philippe Roussel.

In the 1970s the term " savate " was rarely used in France to refer to the formalised sport: people mostly used the term Boxe-Française Savate, B. F, B. F. S.

Modernist planning fell into decline in the 1970s when the construction of cheap, uniform tower blocks ended in most countries, such as Britain and France.

As a result, political parties, such as Britain's Labour Party, France's Socialist Party ( France ), and Mexico's PRI, which, from the 1930s-the 1970s, fiercely championed the protection of domestic industry and promoted the nationalization of large infrastructural assets, have, since at least the 1990s, abandoned these stances in favor of an internationalist trade policy and public-private partnerships.

Since the late 1970s, there have been direct ferries from Cork to Roscoff, France.

In the late 1970s, political activism in France trailed off with the disillusionment of many left wing intellectuals.

* Russian — Chagall, Marc ( worked mainly in France ): Circus Scene ( late 1960s / early 1970s ), Pierrot lunaire ( 1969 ).

In the 1970s, France tried extra hard to make up its delay on other countries with the programme " delta LP " ( increasing the main lines ).

Thousands of these refugees have resettled in Western countries since the late 1970s, mostly the United States but also in Australia, France, French Guiana, Canada, and South America.

* Going abroad for temporary work as " guest workers " and " resident aliens " who stayed in their new homelands during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s ( to Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom ), however some Serbians returned to Yugoslavia in the 1980s.

Since the 1970s, France has continued being a country of mass immigration.

France has been a regular competitor in the America's Cup since the 1970s.

In the 1970s, Gordon Dutt, Ph. D., a soil scientist from the University of Arizona was intrigued with the similarity between the soil of the Elgin-Sonoita area and that of Burgundy, France.

Nevertheless, as in many parts of France, from about 1980 it was clear that the economic crisis of the 1970s was having a lasting effect in slowing the pace of expansion.

Gbagbo was imprisoned in the early 1970s and again in the early 1990s, and he lived in exile in France during much of the 1980s as a result of his union activism.

He lived in France with Jennifer Baker at a farm in Saint-Paul de Vence for over five years from the very late 1970s, becoming friend of painters Marc Chagall and André Verdet, nearest neighbours ( inspiring some of his songs and musical themes ).

* Eddy Merckx ( not currently residing ), professional cyclist, multiple winner of the Tour de France and Giro d ' Italia in the 1960s and 1970s.

Schneider continued to work in France during the 1970s, most notably with director Claude Sautet on five films.

France built Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor in the late 1970s.

Tourism in Spain was developed during the 1960s and 1970s, when the country became a popular place for summer holidays, especially for tourists from the British Isles, France, Central Europe and Scandinavia.