With the Mirage III withdrawn, the air defence of Brasília and region is done temporarily by a mix of F-5s from 1st GAv and 1st / 14th GAv until 10 Mirage 2000Cs and two Mirage 2000B bought from French Air Force surplus stocks arrive at Anápolis.

The French had a nominally Mach 2 Dassault Mirage IIIV fitted with no less than 8 lift engines that flew ( and crashed ), but did not have enough space for fuel or payload for combat missions.

Other equipment includes the Mirage 2000s, British Hawk aircraft, and French helicopters.

The French in competition with the P. 1154 had developed a version of the Dassault Mirage III capable of attaining Mach 1.

CATIA started as an in-house development in 1977 by French aircraft manufacturer Avions Marcel Dassault, at that time customer of the CAD / CAM CAD software to develop Dassault's Mirage fighter jet, then was adopted in the aerospace, automotive, shipbuilding, and other industries.

Further air support was provided by US Navy units and French Air Force Mirage 2000Ds.

Owing to Peres ' mediation, Israel acquired the advanced Dassault Mirage III French jet fighter, established the Dimona nuclear reactor and entered into a tri-national agreement with France and the United Kingdom, positioning Israel in what would become the 1956 Suez Crisis.

On that same day, a French Mirage 2000 was downed by a Bosnian Serb shoulder-fired SAM near Pale.

France was a close ally of Israel after its establishment: many first-generation Israeli weapons, including the Mirage III, were French and helped the country to win its first wars.

During the 1970s France produced its Dassault Mirage IV nuclear-armed bomber for the French Air Force as a part of its independent nuclear strike force: the Force de Frappe utilizing French-made bombers and IRBMs to deliver French-made nuclear bombs.

After the beginning of the Jet Age of military fighters and bombers, Convair was a pioneer of the delta-winged aircraft design, along with the French Dassault aircraft company, which designed and built the Mirage fighter planes.

French Air Force, which realized 35 % of NATO's strikes, were participating in the mission with 18 Mirage and 19 Rafale.

* Snecma M53, a French afterburning turbofan engine developed for the Dassault Mirage 2000 fighter

In September 2004, Greece started the Mirage 2000BG / EG fleet upgrade to the standard 2000-5 Mk2 and the project was undertaken by the French manufacturer Dassault Aviation and the EAB.

French and Russian teams visited Pakistan on 27 November 1994 and it was speculated that interest in the Russian aircraft was to pressure France into reducing the price of the Mirage 2000.

In contrast, NATO and USAFE had Mirage IV, V-force and brand-new F-111 bombers in addition to French, British, and US precise, solid propelled IRBMs and SLBMs based in Europe and on adjacent waters.

The Dassault Mirage IV, the principal French strategic bomber, was designed to strike Soviet positions as part of the French nuclear triad.

The French Air Force has 234 combat aircraft in service, with the majority being 158 Dassault Mirage 2000 and 62 Dassault Rafale.

* The DGSE exploited a network " Nicobar ", which facilitated the sale of forty-three Mirage 2000 fighter jets by French defence companies to India for a total of more than $ 2 billion, and the acquisition of information about the type of the armour used on Soviet T-72 tanks.

Theories include: the Tu-144 tried to avoid a French Mirage chase plane which was attempting to photograph it, that changes had been made by the ground engineering team to the auto-stabilisation circuits to allow the Tu-144 to outperform Concorde in the display circuit, and that the crew were attempting a manoeuvre — to outshine Concorde — that the aircraft was not capable of.

The reigns of King Przemysł II of Poland ( 1296 ), William the Silent of the Netherlands ( 1584 ), and the French kings Henry III ( 1589 ) and Henry IV ( 1610 ) were all ended by assassins.

The campaign was designed by John, who was the fulcrum of the alliances ; his plan being to draw the French away from Paris southward against himself and keep him occupied, while the main army, under Emperor Otto IV, marched on Paris from the north.

Thus the French crown passed from the House of Capet after the death of Charles IV to Philip VI of France of the House of Valois, a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty,

An Augustinian, he had studied theology in Paris under St. Thomas of Aquinas to become one of the most authoritative thinkers of his time, and tutor to French king Philip IV the Fair, ( 1268-29 November 1314 ).

When the Protestant Henry IV inherited the French throne in 1589, Elizabeth sent him military support.

Meanwhile, James IV of Scotland ( despite being Henry's other brother-in-law ), activated his alliance with the French and declared war on England.

In 1512 the Auld Alliance was renewed and under its terms, when the French were attacked by the English under Henry VIII, James IV invaded England in support.

Henry IV of France, King of List of French monarchs | France and List of Navarrese monarchs | Navarre, was the first French House of Bourbon | Bourbon king.

* 1642 – Marie de ' Medici, French wife of Henry IV of France ( b. 1573 )

* 1610 – François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France ( b. 1578 )

From 1301 the upper Meuse roughly marked the western border of the Holy Roman Empire with the Kingdom of France, after Count Henry III of Bar had to receive the western part of the County of Bar ( Barrois mouvant ) as a French fief from the hands of King Philip IV.

In December 1261, the new French Pope, Urban IV made him cardinal-priest, with the titulus of the church of St. Cecilia.

Philip IV was the force behind this ruthless move, but it has also tarnished the historical reputation of Clement V. From the very day of Clement V's coronation, the king falsely charged the Templars with heresy, immorality and abuses, and the scruples of the Pope were compromised by a growing sense that the burgeoning French State might not wait for the Church, but would proceed independently.

Their French estates were granted to the Knights Hospitallers, but Philip IV held them until his death and expropriated the Templar's bank outright.

He is perhaps best known for the philosophical statement " Cogito ergo sum " (; ), found in part IV of Discourse on the Method ( 1637 – written in French but with inclusion of " Cogito ergo sum ") and § 7 of part I of Principles of Philosophy ( 1644 – written in Latin ).

The practice of civilian duelling, with specifically designed civilian swords such as the Italian Cinquedea and Swiss Baselard, became so popular that according to one scholar: " In France during the reign of Henry IV ( 1589 – 1610 ), more than 4, 000 French aristocrats were killed in duels in an eighteen-year period ... During the reign of Louis XIII ( 1610 – 1643 )... in a twenty-year period 8, 000 pardons were issued for murders associated with duels.

Two dynasties claimed the Spanish throne: the French Bourbons and the Austrian Habsburgs, both closely related to Charles and to his father, Philip IV.

* May 15 – Battle of Forlì between Guelphs and Ghibellines: the French army under Pope Martin IV is defeated by Guido I da Montefeltro.

* With the death of Duke Charles IV of Anjou, Anjou reverts to the French crown under Louis XI of France.

* April 13 – Edict of Nantes: Henry IV of France grants French Huguenots equal rights with Catholics ; this is considered the end of the French Wars of Religion.

* May 27 – François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France ( b. 1578 )

* 1281 – Pope Martin IV authorizes the Ninth Crusade against the newly re-established Byzantine Empire in Constantinople ; French and Venetian expeditions set out toward Constantinople but are forced to turn back in the following year.