Some, like the British and the French, maintain an elaborate system of personal contacts and have experts constantly studying special areas of the American scene.

He did become interested in French politics, and at the age of 26 he obtained a position as a tax collector in the Ferme Générale, a tax farming company, where he attempted to introduce reforms in the French monetary and taxation system to help the peasants.

Knowing Marlborough's destination, Tallard and Villeroi met at Landau in Alsace on 13 June to rapidly construct an action plan to save Bavaria, but the rigidity of the French command system was such that any variations from the original plan had to be sanctioned by Versailles.

Some bilingual signage may also be seen, such as street name signs in Breton towns, and one station of the Rennes metro system has signs in both French and Breton.

An attempt by the French government to incorporate the independent Breton-language immersion schools ( called Diwan ) into the state education system was blocked by the French Constitutional Council on the grounds that, as the 1992 amendment to the Constitution of the 5th Republic states that French is the language of the Republic, no other language may be used as a language of instruction in state schools.

The other organisations that maintain the SI system, also known by their French initialisms are the General Conference on Weights and Measures () ( CGPM ) and the International Committee for Weights and Measures () ( CIPM ).

" In this way, the common law was eventually incorporated into the legal systems of every state except Louisiana ( which inherited a civil law system from its French colonizers before the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, adopting a code similar to but not directly based on the Napoleonic Code of 1804 ).

Quebec was settled as a French colony, and originally operated under the French civil law system, using the coûtume de Paris.

In Louisiana and former French territories, a formalized system of concubinage called plaçage developed.

Even after the French Revolution, a closed system of social stratification continued through the 19th century.

Significantly, the Quebec Act also replaced the French criminal law presumption of guilty until proven innocent with the English criminal law presumption of innocent until proven guilty ; but the French code or civil law system was retained for non-criminal matters.

The French Revolution also disrupted this system, as the revolutionary State and Napoleon imprisoned a number of diplomats accused of working against France.

The French Prolog computer language, designed in 1972, marks a real advance over expert systems like Dendral or Mycin: it is a shell, that is to say a software structure ready to receive any expert system and to run it.

In 1986, a new expert system generator for PCs appeared on the market, derived from the French academic research: Intelligence Service, sold by GSI-TECSI software company.

Using synchronized clockwork-powered switches at the transmitting and receiving ends, he was able to transmit five messages simultaneously ; the system was officially adopted by the French Post & Telegraph Administration five years later.

The Baudot system was accepted by the French Telegraph Administration during 1875, with the first online tests of his system occurring between Paris and Bordeaux on November 12, 1877.

Baudot received little help from the French Telegraph Administration for his system, and often had to fund his own research, even having to sell the gold medal awarded by the 1878 Exposition Universelle during 1880.

During 1874, French telegraph operator Louis Victor Mimault patented a telegraph system using five separate lines to transmit.

* French catheter scale, a gauge system commonly used to measure the size of a catheter

After the fame surrounding the event, Carrel could not obtain a hospital appointment because of the strong and pervasive anticlericalism in the French University at the time.

Some even seemed to want an event similar to the French Revolution to come to the United States to overthrow the government.

The Fête de la Fédération on the 14 July 1790 was a huge feast and official event to celebrate the uprising of the short-lived constitutional monarchy in France and what people considered the happy conclusion of the French Revolution.

On 30 June 1878, a feast had been arranged in Paris by official decision to honour the French Republic ( the event was commemorated in a painting by Claude Monet ).

This is a popular event in France, broadcast on French TV, and is the oldest and largest regular military parade in Europe.

In a careful study of the historiography of a single event, Duby examines how the Battle of Bouvines has been used and abused in French history.

The term clairvoyance ( from French clair meaning " clear " and voyance meaning " vision ") is used to refer to the ability to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses, a form of extra-sensory perception.

Déjà vu, from French, literally " already seen ", is the phenomenon of having the strong sensation that an event or experience currently being experienced has been experienced in the past.

For short film enthusiasts and cinema professionals, Sagunenay International Short film Festival ( REGARD sur le court métrage au Saguenay, in French ) is now a " must-go event " ( Francois Levesque, Le Devoir ).

French actor Gérard Depardieu was involved in a famous row with American feminists because he mistakenly said he " assisted " a rape in his tumultuous teenage years, while what he really meant was that he had " witnessed " one such event.

Since then, and even in recent years, public spokesmen in Haiti as well as international academics and statesmen have denounced this event as the payment of an illegitimate debt, in several cases calling on the French government to repay it ( the French government has never been willing to repay it, though there was a hoax following the 2010 Haiti Earthquake involving a fake website purporting to offer reparation payment on behalf of the French Government ).

In December 1952, a riot broke out in Casablanca over the murder of a Tunisian labor leader ; this event marked a watershed in relations between Moroccan political parties and French authorities.

* 1762 – French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities ; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.

The French established the fortification to provide time for their army to mobilise in the event of attack, allowing French forces to move into Belgium for a decisive confrontation with German forces.

On April 30, 1877, he deposited a sealed envelope containing a summary of his ideas with the French Academy of Sciences, a standard procedure used by scientists and inventors to establish priority of conception of unpublished ideas in the event of any later dispute.

Painting of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, an event in the French Wars of Religion, by François Dubois

J. E. Caerwyn Williams suggests that this event may be an adaptation of the similar French puys.

After seeing an early film of this event, French skiers / surfers Augustin Coppey, Olivier Lehaneur, Olivier Roland and Antoine Yarmola made their first successful attempts during the winter of 1983 in France ( Val Thorens ), using primitive, home-made clones of the Winterstick.

The madison is a team event in track cycling, named after the first Madison Square Garden in New York, and known as the " American race " in French ( course à l ' américaine ) and in Italian and Spanish as Americana.

Storming of the Bastille, July 14, 1789, an iconic event of the French Revolution

* Construction on the Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais is interrupted by a partial collapse of the choir ; the event unnerves French masons working in the Gothic style.

During cohabitation, when the National Assembly of France and presidency are controlled by opposite parties, the French president is rather weak.

Creoles, Amerindian ethnic groups such as the Houma, Chitimacha, Pointe-au-Chien, Bayougoula, Tunica-Biloxi, Atakapa, Opelousa, Okelousa, and Avoyel, through their cohabitation in south Louisiana's parishes eventually became proficient in Cajun French.

* Some Scholars contend that French Fifth Republic usually operates under a presidential system, but when in cohabitation, this effectively changes, at least in terms of domestic policy, to a parliamentary system, in which the prime minister controls the legislative agenda and the president's powers are limited to foreign policy and defence.

* Although originally believed to be improbable, France was governed under a cohabitation of leaders for almost half the period from 1986-2006, suggesting that French people no longer fear the prospect of having two parties share power.

Unless French voters exercise " ticket splitting ", cohabitation should not occur unless a President feels compelled to call for Assembly elections mid-term, a prospect which cannot be ruled out.

This came during a period when the French government was upheld thanks to a cohabitation between left and right parties.