Diving at Bassas Da India requires a permit from the French Government.

Mayotte thus remains under French administration, and the Comorian Government has effective control over only Grande Comore, Anjouan, and Mohéli.

1995 — The French Government resumed its Programme of nuclear-weapons testing at Mururoa Atoll in September 1995 upsetting the Cook Islands.

Before the war ended, the colony fell under the Provisional Government of the French Republic.

In 1960, with the fall of the ruling Dini administration, Ali Aref Bourhan, a Harbist politician, assumed the seat of Vice President of the Government Council of French Somaliland, representing the UNI party.

A year later, Voltaire's old friends began a campaign to have his body buried in the Panthéon, as church property had been confiscated by the French Government.

Category: Government of French Guiana

In 1996, it was designated an historic monument by the French Government.

The result was Pas de Dieux, based on Greek mythology, combined with the music of George Gershwin's Concerto in F. It was a major success, and led to his being honoured with the Chevalier of the Legion d ' Honneur by the French Government.

The French Government also paid ₣ 2. 3 million compensation to the family of the photographer.

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 ).

The Vichy regime flew to Germany when Paris was freed, and the interim Provisional Government of the French Republic was quickly put into place by the Free French.

In May 1998, the French Government named her an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters.

After nearly three weeks of talks, the joint French-British Command decreed that responsibility for armed units under French control were to be handed over to the Independent Government of Lebanon.

From that year until 1810, the island was in charge of officials appointed by the French Government, except for a brief period during the French Revolution, when the inhabitants set up a government virtually independent of France.

The Provisional Government of the French Republic agreed with reservations on August 4.

Mr. Lissouba lost favour with the French government early in his presidency by asking the American-owned Occidental Petroleum company to provide financial support for his Government in exchange for promises of future oil production.

The French Government, undoubtedly recalling Gloucester's effective disowning of the Picquingy Treaty and refusal to accept a French pension, would not have welcomed this accession of one known to be unfriendly to France.

While at Aviation he oversaw the high profile cancellations of the BAC TSR-2 and Concorde projects ( although the latter was later reversed after strong opposition from the French Government ).

New History in France: The Triumph of the Annales, ( 1994, first French edition, 1987 ) excerpt and text search

* 1987 – Pierre Boulanger, French actor

* 1892 – Louis de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1987 )

* 1987 – Dany N ' Guessan, French footballer

Some of the most influential contemporary classical double bass players are known as much for their contributions to pedagogy as for their performing skills, such as US bassist Oscar G. Zimmerman ( 1910 – 1987 ), known for his teaching at the Eastman School of Music and, for 44 summers at the Interlochen National Music Camp in Michigan and French bassist François Rabbath ( b. 1931 ) who developed a new bass method that divided the entire fingerboard into six positions.

Yehonatan Shimʻon Frenḳel writes that '.. the .. Air Wing was formed after the 1987 coup, when the French provided two helicopters as part of its military aid package.

The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture ( Oxford, 1987 – 94 ) vol 1: The Political Culture of the Old Regime, ed.

Companion to the French Revolution ( 1987 ), hundreds of short entries.

His major subsequent films include The French Connection ( 1971 ), in which he played Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle ; The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ); The Conversation ( 1974 ); Superman ( 1978 ), in which he played arch-villain Lex Luthor ; Hoosiers ( 1986 ); Mississippi Burning ( 1987 ); Unforgiven ( 1992 ); The Firm ( 1993 ); Crimson Tide ( 1995 ); Get Shorty ( 1995 ); The Birdcage ( 1996 ); Enemy of the State ( 1998 ); and The Royal Tenenbaums ( 2001 ).

Companion to the French Revolution ( 1987 ), hundreds of short entries.

* 1987 – Yves Allégret, French film director ( b. 1907 )

* 1987 – Samir Nasri, French footballer

* 1903 – Marguerite Yourcenar, French author ( d. 1987 )

* 1987 – Coralie Balmy, French swimmer

* 1933 – Dalida, French singer ( d. 1987 )

* 1934 – Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist ( d. 1987 )

In late 1987 French authorities stopped a merchant vessel, the MV Eksund, which was delivering a 150 ton Libyan arms shipment to European terrorist groups.

* 1987 – Jérémy Ménez, French footballer

" Marc Bloch, Historian ," French Historical Studies 15 ( 1987 ), 195-207 in JSTOR

* 1905 – Yves Allégret, French film director ( d. 1987 )

* 1987 – Aly Cissokho, French footballer

** André Masson, French artist ( d. 1987 )

** Jean Anouilh, French dramatist ( d. 1987 )

* August 16 – Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1987 )