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.

The majority of Convention violations that the Court finds today are excessive delays, in violation of the " reasonable time " requirement, in civil and criminal proceedings before national courts, mostly in Italy and France.

Surveying the entire range of French filmmaking today, Tim Palmer calls contemporary cinema in France a kind of eco-system, in which commercial cinema co-exists with artistic radicalism, first-time directors ( who make up about 40 % of all France's directors each year ) mingle with veterans, and there even occasionally emerges a fascinating pop-art hybridity, in which the features of intellectual and mass cinemas are interrelated ( as in filmmakers like Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Olivier Assayas, Maïwenn, Sophie Fillières, Serge Bozon, and others ).

French domination was assured by the defeat in 1898 of the armies of Samori Touré, Mansa ( or Emperor ) of the Ouassoulou state and leader of Malinké descent, which gave France control of what today is Guinea and adjacent areas.

The fruit has a soft texture and a sweet but unique flavor, and today is a commercial crop in several countries, such as Italy, New Zealand, Chile, Greece and France.

It influenced the German and Dutch Autonomen, the worldwide Social Centre movement, and today is influential in Italy, France, and to a lesser extent the English-speaking countries.

In Devil-Worship in France, Arthur Edward Waite compared Taxil's work to what today we would call a tabloid story, replete with logical and factual inconsistencies.

Macedonia today maintains a low debt-to-GDP ratio and is experiencing a revitalized investment interest by companies from Germany, France, Austria, and others.

Though today many historians feel the possibility of France and Italy falling to the communists was remote, it was regarded as a very real possibility by American policy makers at the time.

The Methodist Church exists today in France under various names.

On April 25, 1507, as a member of the Gymnasium Vosagense at Saint Diey ( German: Sankt Didel ) in the duchy of Lorraine ( today Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France ), he produced a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map ( Universalis Cosmographia, both bearing the first use of the name " America ").

After the Government of the German Reich and the Government of the U. S. S. R. have, by means of the treaty signed today, definitively settled the problems arising from the collapse of the Polish state and have thereby created a sure foundation for a lasting peace in the region, they mutually express their conviction that it would serve the true interest of all peoples to put an end to the state of war existing at present between Germany on the one side and England and France on the other.

For example, the Radical Party of the Left in France or the ( originally Italian ) Transnational Radical Party, which exist today, are more focussed on republicanism than on simple liberalism.

In the English-speaking world, the Douay-Rheims Bible — translated from the Latin Vulgate by expatriate recusants in Rheims, France in 1582 ( New Testament ) and in Douai, France in 1609 ( Old Testament )— which was revised by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749 – 1752 ( the 1750 revision is that which is printed today ), was, until the prompting for " new translations from the original languages " given by Pope Pius XII in the 1942 encyclical letter Divino afflante spiritu and the Second Vatican Council, the translation used by most Catholics ( after Divino afflante spiritu, translations multiplied in the Catholic world, just as they multiplied in the Protestant world around the same time beginning with the Revised Standard Version, with various other translations being used around the world for English-language liturgies, ranging from the New American Bible, the Jerusalem Bible, the Revised Standard Version Second Catholic Edition, and the upcoming English Standard Version Catholic lectionary ).

Between 1904 and 1911 several researchers, particularly Leon Guillet of France, prepared alloys that would today be considered stainless steel.

Even today there are still large concentrations of San Marino citizens residing in foreign countries, above all, in the United States, in France and in Argentina.

It was the capital of France at the time of Louis XI, who had settled in the castle of Montils ( today the castle of Plessis in La Riche, western suburbs of Tours ), Tours and Touraine remained until the 16th century a permanent residence of the kings and court.

* The cross-step waltz ( French Valse Boston ), developed in France in the early 20th century and popular in social waltz groups today.

He was also the first Catholic King to rule over Gaul, known today as France.

The Norman army was made up of nobles, mercenaries, and troops from Normandy ( around half ), Flanders, Brittany ( around one third ) and France ( today Paris and Île-de-France ), with some from as far as southern Italy.

Other roads connected the city to the main passes for what are today Switzerland and France.

It consisted of what is today most of France ( Austrasia, Neustria and Burgundy ), most of Western Germany, and the Low Countries ( Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands ).

The representatives from Nigeria, France, USSR, Bulgaria, United Arab Republic ( Egypt ), Ethiopia, Jordan, Argentina and Mali supported this view, as worded by the representative from Mali: " wishes its vote today to be interpreted in the light of the clear and unequivocal interpretation which the representative of India gave of the provisions of the United Kingdom text.

The historical language of Alsace is Alsatian, similar to German dialects spoken across the Rhine, but today practically all Alsatians speak French, the official language of France.

Brossolette's fame was helped by his media notoriety before the war on Radio-PTT and on wartime BBC emissions, his networking role that made his name or codename known and remembered over almost every Resistance member in northern France and by flattering early accounts of BCRA's chief Passy in his memoirs.

After the indecisive < ref name =" British historian Townsend Miller "> British historian Townsend Miller: “ But, if the outcome of < nowiki > battle of </ nowiki > Toro, militarily, is debatable, there is no doubt whatsoever as to its enormous psychological and political effects ” in The battle of Toro, 1476, in History Today, volume 14, 1964, p. 270 </ ref > Battle of Toro in 1476 against King Ferdinand II of Aragon, the husband of Isabella I of Castile, he went to France to obtain the assistance of Louis XI, but finding himself deceived by the French monarch, he returned to Portugal in 1477 in very low spirits.

The latter name is derived from a hatter's shop which was situated in front of one of the first bus stations in Nantes, France in 1823.

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

It was formed in 1946, making it the second oldest formal flying aerobatic team ( flying under the same name ) in the world, after the French Patrouille de France formed in 1931.

* Catalan wine, an alternative name used in France for wine made from the Carignan grape

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 ).

On 25 March 1841, France purchased the island of Maore ( the name of the island was corrupted in French to " Mayotte ") ( ratified 13 June 1843 ), which became a colony.

Historians came to apply the name " Capetian " to both the ruling house of France and to the wider-spread male-line descendants of Hugh Capet.

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.

The first explanation is that the ancestral game was introduced to Britain from France during the reign of Charles II of England, and was played under the name of paille-maille or pall mall, derived ultimately from Latin words for " ball and mallet ".

Whilst the name pall mall and various games bearing this name may have been played elsewhere ( France and Italy ) the description above suggests that the croquet-like games were certainly popular in England as early as 1611.

The name " Central Powers " is derived from the location of these countries ; all four were located between the Russian Empire in the east and France and the United Kingdom in the west.

* Certificat de Sécurité Sauvetage, former name of the French national degree required to be flight attendant in France

Catharism (; from, katharos, pure ) was a name given to a Christian religious movement with dualistic and gnostic elements that appeared in the Languedoc region of France and other parts of Europe in the 11th century and flourished in the 12th and 13th centuries.

It survived in France as the name of a coin, the denier.

Also in 1947, the Whiskey à Go-Go nightclub opened in Paris, France, considered to be the world's first commercial discothèque, or disco ( deriving its name from the French word meaning a nightclub where the featured entertainment is recorded music rather than an on-stage band ).

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.

In Esperanto, the names of both lands and nation states were traditionally formed from the ethnic name of their inhabitants plus the suffix-ujo, so for example " France " was Francujo, from franco ( a Frenchman ).

The " land of Francia ," from which France gets its name, had high points of expansion under kings Clovis I and Charlemagne.

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.

This name was officially adopted by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry in 1949, becoming the second element after gallium to be named after France.

" The name " Olympique " was originally proposed but changed to Franciade to commemorate the fact that it had taken the revolution four years to establish a republican government in France.

The French accent had apparently been added to the name by Kekulé's father during the Napoleonic occupation of Hesse by France, in order to ensure that French speakers pronounced the third syllable.