However, the referendum was again marred by reports of vote rigging on the part of the French authorities, with some 10, 000 Somalis deported under the pretext that they did not have valid identity cards.

For example, 76, 000 Jews would be deported during the German occupation, often with the help of the Vichy French authorities, and murdered in the Nazis ' extermination camps.

During the French and Indian War ( part of the Seven Years ' War — 1757 – 1763 ), the British deported the Acadians and recruited New England Planters to resettle the colony.

After the fall of Louisbourg, the resident French population of Ile Royal were deported to France.

An English retaliation by General Codrington defeated the French forces and deported them to Martinique.

" In 1629 during the Anglo-Spanish war of 1625, the Spanish occupied both islands and deported the English and French inhabitants back to their countries.

Due to French diplomatic pressure, Japan later deported Châu to China.

Although the first French claims date from 1638, when François Cauche and Salomon Goubert visited in June 1638, the island was officially claimed by Jacques Pronis of France in 1642, when he deported a dozen French mutineers to the island from Madagascar.

The name of the parish is derived from the former French colony of Acadia in Canada ( which consisted of the modern provinces of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and much of Maine ) many of whose French-speaking inhabitants were deported to France and then migrated to Louisiana in the Great Upheaval ( see Cajuns ).

The Martinstor, one of the original city City gate | gates in FreiburgOn October 22, 1940, the Nazi Gauleiter of Baden ordered the deportation of all of Baden's Jews, and 350 Jewish citizens of Freiburg were deported to the southern French internment camp of Camp Gurs in the Basses-Pyrénées.

All goods on the island were confiscated and all merchants, Dutch, American, French, even English, deported.

The authorities deported the rest to French Guiana or New Caledonia.

Many French residents of what are now Canada's Maritime provinces, called Acadians, were deported during the Great Expulsion ( 1755 – 63 ).

He planned a coup d ' état known as the Coup of 18 Fructidor, but was arrested, and with fourteen others deported to Cayenne, French Guiana, in 1797.

After the attempt on the First Consul in the Rue Sainte-Nicaise he was deported to French Guiana, but was allowed to return to the French Empire in 1809.

The royalist plot of the Rue Saint-Nicaise on 24 December 1800 allowed him to make a clean sweep of the democratic republicans, who despite their innocence were deported to French Guiana.

Following the war's conclusion, according to historian Benedict Anderson, thousands fled abroad, roughly 20, 000 Communards were executed during the Semaine Sanglante (" Bloody Week "), and 7, 500 were jailed or deported under arrangements which continued until a general amnesty during the 1880s ; this action by Adolphe Thiers forestalled the proto-communist movement in the French Third Republic ( 1871 – 1940 ).

He joined the French Communist Party in 1931 and was later deported to Poland for organizing a strike.

At the border they were captured by the French police, but just as they were about to be deported to the Drancy deportation camp, they were rescued by the resistance, who helped them over the border.

The lawyers use this possibility only for the major cases, when it is really useful ( e. g. for the Hoffmann-Gleman case-16 February 2009-concerning the indemnisation of the daughter of a deported Jew during the World War II because of the French state's responsibility ).

During the occupation a large number of Jewish residents and resistance members were deported to the concentration camps ; in La Baule itself 32 Jewish men, women and children-the youngest of whom was 3 years old-were deported ( with the assistance of the local French police ) to Auschwitz where they all perished.

It was not until word of France's ratification of emancipation arrived back in the colony that Toussaint Louverture and his corps of well-disciplined, battle-hardened former slaves came over to the French Republican side in early May 1794.

Toussaint, however, asserted enough independence that in 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte sent a massive invasion force, under his brother-in-law Charles Leclerc, to increase French control.

The betrayal of Toussaint and news of French actions in Martinique undermined the collaboration of leaders such as Dessalines, Christophe, and Pétion.

The best-known version in French is the free verse edition by Franz Toussaint ( 1879 – 1955 ) published in 1924.

It was translated again by slovene translator and poet Bert Pribac in 2007 from the French Toussaint edition.

* June 8 – Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L ' Ouverture is seized by French troops and is imprisoned at the Fort de Joux.

Henry IV of France | Henry IV, as Hercules vanquishing the Lernaean Hydra ( i. e. the Catholic League ( French ) | Catholic League ), by Toussaint Dubreuil, circa 1600.

Effectively started by members of the National Liberation Front ( FLN ) on November 1, 1954, during the Toussaint Rouge (" Red All Saints ' Day "), the conflict shook the foundations of the French Fourth Republic ( 1946 – 58 ) and led to its eventual collapse.

In the early morning hours of November 1, 1954, FLN maquisards ( guerrillas ) or " terrorists ", as they were called by the French, launched attacks in various parts of Algeria against military and civilian targets in what became known as the Toussaint Rouge ( Red All-Saints ' Day ).

Henry IV of France | Henry IV as Hercules vanquishing the Lernaean Hydra ( i. e. the Catholic League ( French ) | Catholic League ), workshop of Toussaint Dubreuil, ca. 1600

Henry IV of France | Henry IV, as Hercules vanquishing the Lernaean Hydra ( i. e. the Catholic League ( French ) | Catholic League ), by Toussaint Dubreuil, circa 1600.

He fought for years with Toussaint Louverture in the North, helping to defeat the French colonists, the Spanish, British, and finally French national troops.

But there have been persistent reports from Alain Toussaint, Gbagbo's Special Advisor in France, that French forces did indeed make the arrest possible namely by blasting open the corridor that linked the presidential residence to the French embassy in Abidjan, enabling pro-Outtara forces to move in quickly to seize Gbagbo.

In 1794, after the French declared an end to slavery, Toussaint Louverture switched allegiances to the French.

In 1799, the black military leader Toussaint brought under French rule a law which abolished slavery, and embarked on a program of modernization.

Slavery had been abolished in Saint-Domingue since late 1793 and general Toussaint Louverture had created a government with constitution appointing him President for life, although he still swore loyalty to the French nation.

Following the French deportation of Toussaint Louverture and the renewed struggle, Pétion joined the nationalist force in October 1802.

The slaves, led eventually by Toussaint Louverture and then, following his capture by the French in 1801, by Jean-Jacques Dessalines, held their own against French, Spanish, and British opponents, and ultimately achieved independence as Empire of Haiti in 1804 ( Haiti became the first black republic in the world, much earlier than any of the future African nations although it was not until the 19th century that Europeans began establishing colonies in Africa ).

Richard Clayderman ( born Philippe Pagès, 28 December 1953, Paris, France ) is a French pianist who has released numerous albums including the compositions of Paul de Senneville and Olivier Toussaint, instrumental renditions of popular music, rearrangements of movie soundtracks, ethnic music, and easy-listening arrangements of most popular works of classical music.

In 1976, he was invited by Olivier Toussaint, a French record producer, and his partner Paul de Senneville, to record a gentle piano ballad.