The waspish man stopped me three paces from the bicycle barricade, and asked me in French if I had papers to leave France.

In the first half of the 20th century the Olympic Winter Games were held three times in Alpine venues: the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France ; the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland ; and the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

* 1918 – First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs met three German A7Vs.

There are three licensed mobile network operators ( MNO ) in Belgium, Proximus ( Belgacom ), Mobistar ( France Télécom ) and BASE ( KPN ) and numerous mobile virtual network operators ( MVNO ).

In 1796, during the French Revolution and three years after the declaration of war between France and Great Britain, Étienne-Gaspard Robert met with the French government and proposed the use of mirrors to burn the invading ships of the British Royal Navy.

In academic discussions of the distribution of Basque in Spain and France, it is customary to refer to three ancient provinces in France and four Spanish provinces.

Like so many others, Étienne was eventually forced to flee Paris because of his opposition to the fiscal policies of Cardinal Richelieu, leaving his three children in the care of his neighbor Madame Sainctot, a great beauty with an infamous past who kept one of the most glittering and intellectual salons in all France.

The Battle of Poitiers was fought between England and France on 19 September 1356 near Poitiers, resulting in the second of the three great English victories of the Hundred Years ' War: Crécy, Poitiers, and Agincourt.

Primary sources include more than three hundred choreographies in Beauchamp-Feuillet notation, as well as manuals by Raoul Auger Feuillet and Pierre Rameau in France, Kellom Tomlinson and John Weaver in England, and Gottfried Taubert in Germany.

The classic French historiography often refers to Coalition troops three times more numerous than those of the King of France ( Philip Contamine is not of this opinion: " In front, his opponents did not have a clear numerical superiority ").

France then flew in 300 troops and put three Dassault Mirage F1 jet fighters based in nearby Gabon on standby.

In 2000, the same policy was applied to people who have resided in France, for at least three months from January 1980 to December 1996.

The three years of estrangement following the unilateral declaration of independence and the nationalistic Soilih regime were followed during the conservative Abdallah and Djohar regimes by a period of growing trade, aid, cultural, and defense links between the former colony and France, punctuated by frequent visits to Paris by the head of state and occasional visits by the French president to Moroni.

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The British returned control of Île-Royale to France with the fortress virtually intact three years later under the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle and the French reestablished their forces there.

François I of France was able to convince Leonardo to enter his service, and the last three years of da Vinci's life were spent working in France.

He had no responsibility for the other three zones, controlled by Britain, France and the Soviet Union.

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 ).

There were seventy-four Dominican female houses in Germany, forty-two in Italy, nine in France, eight in Spain, six in Bohemia, three in Hungary, and three in Poland.

The best known: Guru ( USA ) inspired by Mycin, Personal Consultant Plus ( USA ), Nexpert Object ( developed by Neuron Data, company founded in California by three French ), Genesia ( developed by French public company Electricité de France and marketed by Steria ), VP Expert ( USA ).

Finnish data for the early 1980s showed that 30 to 40 percent of those in occupations not requiring much education were the children of farmers, as were about 25 percent in upper-level occupations, a rate two to three times that of France and noticeably higher than that even of neighbouring Sweden.

His company then carried out a confused retreating movement until it was surrounded by the Germans, a few days before France capitulated.

Hans' student days were at a time when Europe was in a new intellectual ferment following the revolutions in America and in France, Germany and Italy were rising from divisive nationalisms and a strong wave of intellectual awareness was sweeping the Continent.

We have seen the cause of democracy, which is, in our view, the cause of civilisation and humanity, receive a terrible defeat ... The events of these last few days constitute one of the greatest diplomatic defeats that this country and France have ever sustained.

As these were the days when kidnapping an heiress was seen as a viable option for obtaining a title, William had dictated a will on the very day he died, bequeathing his domains to Eleanor and appointing King Louis VI of France as her guardian.

The Concordat of 1801 re-established the Roman Catholic Church in France with effect from Easter Sunday, 18 April 1802, restoring the names of the days of the week with the ones they had in the Gregorian Calendar, while keeping the rest of the Republican Calendar, and fixing Sunday as the official day of rest and religious celebration.

Napoleon ordered 10 days of mourning throughout France ; in the United States, thousands wore mourning clothes for months.

Two days later, on 4 September 1870, Leon Gambetta proclaimed a new republic in France.

Using The Movies, Alex Chan, a French resident with no previous filmmaking experience, took four days to create The French Democracy, a short political film about the 2005 civil unrest in France.

Finally, on 26 June, four days after France sued for an armistice with the Third Reich, the Soviet Union issued an ultimatum demanding Bessarabia and, unexpectedly, Northern Bukovina from Romania.

Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.

This life ( not as acceptable in those days as it would become in later years ) and her opinions on organized religion caused her some trouble, and she was imprisoned in the Madelonnettes Convent in 1656 at the behest of Anne of Austria, Queen of France and regent for her son Louis XIV.

Subsequently, in what is known in Egypt as the Tripartite Aggression, Israeli forces, aided by Britain, and France ( which sought to reverse the nationalisation and regain control over the Suez Canal ), invaded Sinai and occupied much of the peninsula within a few days.

Salò transposes the setting of the Marquis de Sade's book from 18th-century France to the last days of Benito Mussolini's regime in the Republic of Salò.

The 2001 Tour de France was particularly difficult, having contained a 67-km long team time trial, two individual time trials and five mountain-top finishes on consecutive days, the second of which being the Chamrousse special category climb time trial.

Grant's first choice, Elihu B. Washburne, given the State Department only as personal favor, served 12 days in office, resigned due to " sickness ", and then was appointed Minister to France.

The start of the war is generally held to be 1 September 1939, beginning with the German invasion of Poland ; Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later.

On 10 June, Italy invaded France, declaring war on both France and the United Kingdom ; twelve days later France surrendered and was soon divided into German and Italian occupation zones, and an unoccupied rump state under the Vichy Regime.

In June, during the last days of the Battle of France, the Soviet Union forcibly annexed Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and then annexed the disputed Romanian region of Bessarabia.

A 10-day week, called décade, was used in France for nine and a half years from October 1793 to April 1802 ; furthermore, the Paris Commune adopted the Revolutionary Calendar for 18 days in 1871.

A few days after the signing of the treaty, William III's predecessor as King of England, James II, who had been deposed by William in 1688, died in France.

** Jeanne Calment, the oldest person ever, dies at age 122 years 164 days in Arles, France.

* July 13 – A hailstorm sweeps across France and the Dutch Republic with hailstones ' as big as quart bottles ' that take ' three days to melt '; immense damage is done.