* 1863 – A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fought a force of nearly 2, 000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.

* Camarón Day ( French Foreign Legion )

The French forces included Spahis, Chasseurs d ' Afrique, Foreign Legion cavalry and mounted Goumiers.

There are some 2, 600 French troops, which includes a unit of the French Foreign Legion, the 13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade, stationed in Djibouti.

In 2002, Djibouti agreed to host a U. S. military presence at Camp Lemonnier, a former French Foreign Legion base outside the capital that now houses approximately 3, 500 American personnel.

The French Foreign Legion (, L. E.

The French Foreign Legion was created by Louis Philippe, the King of the French, on 10 March 1831.

The direct reason was that foreigners were forbidden to serve in the French Army after the 1830 July Revolution, so the Foreign Legion was created to allow the government a way around this restriction.

The Foreign Legion was primarily used, as part of the Armée d ' Afrique, to protect and expand the French colonial empire during the 19th century, but it also fought in almost all French wars including the Franco-Prussian War and both World Wars.

The Foreign Legion has remained an important part of the French Army, surviving three Republics, the Second French Empire, two World Wars, the rise and fall of mass conscript armies, the dismantling of the French colonial empire, and the loss of the Foreign Legion's base, Algeria.

To support Isabella's claim to the Spanish throne against her uncle, the French government decided to send the Foreign Legion to Spain.

The 27 June 1854, the French ship Jean Bart embarked two battalions of the Foreign Legion.

Among these losses, 1, 918 of the deaths were from a single regiment of the French Foreign Legion, a fact that testifies to the importance of the Foreign Legion's role in the campaign.

According to French law, the Foreign Legion was not to be used within Metropolitan France except in the case of a national invasion, and was consequently not a part of Napoleon III ’ s Imperial Army that capitulated at Sedan.

* 1924 – Raymond Barre, French politician, Prime Minister of France ( d. 2007 )

* 1930 – Michel Rocard, French politician, Prime Minister of France

* 1904 – Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French politician, 68th Prime Minister of France ( b. 1846 )

In 1980, at the invitation of the French Minister of Culture, she founded the baroque dance company " Ris et Danceries ".

In 1965 he received a joint Erasmus Prize with film director Ingmar Bergman and in 1971 he was made a Commander of the national order of the Legion of Honor by the French Minister of Culture Jacques Duhamel at the Cannes Film Festival.

On February 21, 2007, the administration of Clipperton was transferred from the High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia to the Minister of Overseas France.

Before the speech, US delegations met with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and French President Charles de Gaulle to brief them on the US intelligence and their proposed response.

* Noelle Lenoir's 2007 report on the SE statute, commissioned by the French Minister of Justice

Just as work began at the Champ de Mars, the " Committee of Three Hundred " ( one member for each metre of the tower's height ) was formed, led by Charles Garnier and including some of the most important figures of the French arts establishment, including Adolphe Bouguereau, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Gounod and Jules Massenet: a petition was sent to Charles Alphand, the Minister of Works, and was published by Le Temps.

Because of the controversy surrounding Palmerston's removal as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs because of his letter to the French ambassador endorsing Louis Bonaparte's 2 December 1851 coup, Palmerston could not now be appointed Foreign Minister again so soon after his removal from the same position.

As Prime Minister of the Peelite / Whig coalition government, the Earl of Aberdeen eventually led Britain into war on the side of the French / Ottomans against the Russian Empire.

At the Munich Conference of September 1938, Hitler, the Italian leader Benito Mussolini, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier agreed upon the cession of Sudeten territory to the German Reich by Czechoslovakia.

In March 2006, the French Minister of Culture awarded Lewis the Légion d ' honneur, calling him the " French people's favorite clown ".

* 1937 – Lionel Jospin, French politician, 165th Prime Minister of France

* 1981 – In a private meeting with U. S. President Ronald Reagan, French Prime Minister François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing that the Soviets had been stealing American technological research and development.

Georges Bonnet, the French Foreign Minister 1938 – 39. But Ribbentrop emerged as one of the Nazi Party's leading hardliners.

The French Foreign Minister, Georges Bonnet, once asked Ribbentrop that very question.

On 17 April 1934, French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou issued the so-called " Barthou note " which led to concerns on the part of Hitler that the French would ask for sanctions against Germany for violating Part V of the Versailles treaty.

In November 1937, Ribbentrop was placed in a highly embarrassing situation when his forceful advocacy of the return of the former German colonies led to the British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and the French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos offering to open talks on returning the former German colonies, in return for which the Germans would make binding commitments to respect their borders in Central and Eastern Europe.

The French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet acting on his own initiative told the Italian Ambassador to France, Baron Raffaele Guariglia, that France had accepted Mussolini's peace plan.

In 2004, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin chose Lens to be the site of the new building, called Le Louvre-Lens.

The discovery that movies are a form of fiction was made in the early years of this century and it was made chiefly by two men, a French magician, Georges Melies, and an American employee of Edison, Edwin S. Porter.

* 1924 – Georges Prêtre, French conductor

* 1769 – Georges Cuvier, French biologist ( d. 1832 )

* Cléopâtre ( 1899 film ), a French short film written and directed by Georges Méliès

* 1861 – Georges Méliès, French filmmaker and innovator ( d. 1938 )

* 1862 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright ( d. 1921 )

* 1859 – Georges Seurat, French painter ( d. 1891 )

* 1894 – Georges Guynemer, French aviator ( d. 1917 )

* 1864 – René Georges Hermann-Paul, French artist ( d. 1940 )

* 1899 – Georges Auric, French composer ( d. 1983 )

One of the key persons who greatly influenced fascism, the French revolutionary syndicalist Georges Sorel was greatly influenced by anarchism and contributed to the fusion of anarchism and syndicalism together into anarcho syndicalism.

* 1997 – Georges Groulx, French Canadian actor ( b. 1922 )

* 1919 – Georges Ulmer, French singer and composer ( d. 1989 )

On 17 March 1649 a French expedition of 203 men from Martinique, led by Jacques Dyel du Parquet who had been the Governor of Martinique on behalf of the Compagnie des Iles de l ' Amerique ( Company of the Isles of America ) since 1637, landed at St. Georges Harbour and constructed a fortified settlement, which they named Fort Annunciation.

Soon, however, Pei and his team won the support of several key cultural icons, including the conductor Pierre Boulez and Claude Pompidou, widow of former French President Georges Pompidou, after whom another controversial museum was named.

* 1873 – Georges Ricard-Cordingley, French painter ( d. 1939 )

* 1921 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright ( b. 1862 )

* 1910 – Georges Vedel, French educator ( d. 2002 )

* 1911 – Georges Pompidou, French politician ( d. 1974 )

* 1920 – Georges Pichard, French comics artist ( d. 2003 )

* 1926 – Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter

* 1920 – Georges Marchal, French actor ( d. 1997 )