* March 29 – At the 14th annual Eurovision Song Contest held at the Teatro Real, Madrid, Spain, the final result is a four-way tie for first place between Spain (" Vivo cantando " – Salomé ); United Kingdom (" Boom Bang-a-Bang " – Lulu ); Netherlands (" De Troubadour " – Lenny Kuhr ) and France (" Un jour, un enfant " – Frida Boccara ).

" Boom Bang-a-bang " won the national and went on to come joint 1st in the contest along with France, the Netherlands, and Spain.

Show by Finger Eleven, Marie-Élaine Thibert, Boom Desjardins, Jamil, France Maisonneuve, Xavier Caféïne, Dennis DeYoung, Pascale Picard and Gregory Charles.

In-between, Alexander teamed up with Powers to tour France in 1982 for French punk record label New Rose Records, in 1987 opening for Dramarama and in 2006 for a tour with the legendary Boom Boom band.

* 1995: " Boom Boom Boom ", peaked at # 1 UK, # 2 AUS, # 65 U. S., # 31 U. S. Dance, # 26 U. S. Rhythmic, # 1 GER, # 2 SWE, # 3 France, # 4 CH, # 7 AT, # 22 NL

The RATP Group ( French: Groupe RATP ), also known as the Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens ( English: Autonomous Operator of Parisian Transports ) is a state-owned public transport operator headquartered in Paris, France.

But there is no line between France and Germany, that is, no actual line.

In a brighter nautical vein is Ille De France blue.

But the guilt is shared by the United States, Britain and France, the other members of the atomic club.

Tibet may bleed China as Algeria is bleeding France.

`` Well, this is France, after all ''.

Most of them, the world over, operate on the same principle by which justice is administered in France and some other Latin countries: the customer is to be considered guilty of abysmal ignorance until proven otherwise, with the burden of proof on the customer himself.

Alain Connes (; born 1 April 1947 ) is a French mathematician, currently Professor at the Collège de France, IHÉS, The Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University.

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.

Azincourt (; historically, Agincourt in English ) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.

Azincourt is famous as being near the site of the battle fought on 25 October 1415 in which the army led by King Henry V of England defeated the forces led by Charles d ' Albret on behalf of Charles VI of France, which has gone down in English history as the Battle of Agincourt.

Later on, when he became king in 1509, Henry VIII is supposed to have commissioned an English translation of a Life of Henry V so that he could emulate him, on the grounds that he thought that launching a campaign against France would help him to impose himself on the European stage.

The Plague is in part a historical allegory, in which the plague signifies the German occupation of France from 1940 to 1944 during World War II.

The town Oran, which gets afflicted by pestilence and cut off from the outside world, is the equivalent of France.

The Minsk Group is currently co-chaired by Russia, France, and the United States and has representation from Turkey, the U. S., several European nations, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.

* 1516 – The Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain is signed.

* 1792 – King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.

This use of the title is said to have originated in the right conceded to the king of France, by the concordat between Pope Leo X and Francis I ( 1516 ), to appoint abbés commendataires to most of the abbeys in France.

The earliest recorded use of this term in English is in Thomas Hacket's 1568 translation of André Thévet's book on France Antarctique ; Thévet himself had referred to the natives as Ameriques.

Abalone is also farmed in Australia, Hawaii, Canada, Chile, France, Iceland, Ireland, Mexico, Namibia, New Zealand, South Africa, Thailand, and the United States.

The meat of this mollusk is considered a delicacy in certain parts of Latin America ( especially Chile ), France, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and East Asia ( especially in China, Japan, and Korea ).

La Grande Chartreuse is a Carthusian abbey north of Grenoble, France

The current leader is Roger Chartier, who is Directeur d ' Études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Professeur in the Collège de France, and Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.

Blackman called the porter and had him remove everything but one bottle of brandy, and after that they would have a cocktail or two before dinner, or, on one of their walking trips, beer, or, in France and Italy, wine in moderation.

In 790 he was named abbot of Centulum, also called Sancti Richarii monasterium ( Saint-Riquier ) in northern France, where his brilliant rule gained for him later the renown of a saint.

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.

In the late 1950s she shared an exchange which was called " la croisée de deux sillages " (" the crossing of two wakes ") with actor and true-crime author John Gilmore, then an actor in France who was working on a New Wave film with Jean Seberg.

In France, it is formally called La Fête Nationale ( ; The National Celebration ) and commonly Le quatorze juillet ( ; the fourteenth of July ).

In the Philippines, France, Italy, and Egypt, they are simply called cutter.

' There was a knight of Saint Omer's, retained in wages with the king of England, called sir Denis Morbeke, who had served the Englishmen five year before, because in his youth he had forfeited the realm of France for a murder that he did at Saint-Omer's.

BRP was also licensed to Oriflam in France to create a French language second edition of the Hawkmoon game called Hawkmoon, Nouvelle Edition.

There is a Teochew Chinese Association in Paris called L ' Amicale des Teochews en France.

* Charles V of France ( 1338 – 1380 ), called the Wise

Along with Romani people ( also called Gypsie ), France has long shunned Cagots ( also called Agotes, Gahets, Gafets, Capets, Caqueux ).

In Occupied France, jazz and bebop music plus the jitterbug were banned by the Nazis as decadent American influences, so members of the Resistance met at hidden underground dance clubs called discotheques ( fr.

Hippolyte Fizeau discovered independently the same phenomenon on electromagnetic waves in 1848 ( in France, the effect is sometimes called " l ' effet Doppler-Fizeau " but that name was not adopted by the rest of the world as Fizeau's discovery was three years after Doppler's ).

The name possibly derives from an early weapon, a short wheellock called a dragon because the first dragoons raised in France had their carbine's muzzle decorated with a dragon's head.

An alternative method, called " rythmo band " ( or " lip-sync band "), has historically been utilized in Canada and France.

Elias ' paternal grandfather, Elie ( sometimes called Elias ) Boudinot, was the son of Jean Boudinot and Marie Suire of Marans, Aunis, France.

In 1988 the British artist and friend of Weizenbaum Brian Reffin Smith created and showed at the exhibition ' Salamandre ', in the Musée du Berry, Bourges, France, two art-oriented ELIZA-style programs written in BASIC, one called ' Critic ' and the other ' Artist ', running on two separate Amiga 1000 computers.

When Bernard Stiegler was imprisoned for five years for armed robbery in France, he assembled an " ensemble of disciplines ," which he called ( in reference to Epictetus ) his melete.

* Franz, Duke of Bavaria ( born 1933 ), called " Francis II " by supporters of the Jacobite claim to the thrones of England, Scotland, Ireland and France.

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 ).

As civil authority rapidly deteriorated, with random acts of violence and theft breaking out across the country, members of the nobility, fearing for their safety, fled to neighboring countries ; many of these émigrés, as they were called, funded counter-revolutionary causes within France and urged foreign monarchs to offer military support to a counter-revolution.

He again fought against France during the Second and Third Coalition, when after meeting crushing defeat at Austerlitz, he had to agree to the Treaty of Pressburg, weakening the Austrian Empire and reorganizing Germany under a Napoleonic imprint that would be called the Confederation of the Rhine.

The revolutionary government of France sent diplomat Edmond-Charles Genêt, called " Citizen Genêt ," to America.