After a referendum on territorial autonomy on 28 September 1958, French Equatorial Africa was dissolved, and its four constituent states – Gabon, Congo ( Brazzaville ), the Central African Republic, and Chad became autonomous members of the French Community from 28 November 1958.

The French constitutional referendum of September 1958 dissolved the AEF, and on 1 December of the same year the Assembly declared the birth of the autonomous Central African Republic with Boganda as head of government.

In 1674 the French West India Company was dissolved and Grenada became a French Colony rather than a piece of private property in the hands of Companies of Frenchmen.

These noblemen also required the Assembly to be dissolved through threats of war, but, instead of cowing the French, it infuriated them.

It would be dissolved by Spanish and French forces on 27 May 1926.

The French took the city one last time in 1794, when the condominium was dissolved and Maastricht was annexed to the First French Empire.

These cars were not very successful and so the partnership was dissolved after two years, following which Opel's sons signed a licensing agreement in 1901 with the French Automobiles Darracq S. A. to manufacture vehicles under the brand name " Opel-Darracq ".

In 1929 the French dissolved Matsoua's association and he together with some of his friends were jailed and sent in exile to Chad, leading to riots and a campaign of disobedience against the French administration lasting many years.

It was dissolved in 1658 and its assets were acquired by the Company of Cape Vert and Senegal, itself expropriated following the creation by Colbert in 1664 of the French West India Company.

It became the major tool of French colonialism in Senegal, but saddled with debt, it was dissolved 1681 and replaced by another that lasted until 1694, the date of creation of the Royal Company of Senegal, whose director, Andre Brue, would be captured by the Damel of Cay and released against ransom in 1701.

France succeeded in finally claiming Trier in 1794 during the French Revolutionary Wars, and the electoral archbishopric was dissolved.

The Chinese, Russian, German, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian empires dissolved in the first half of the century, with all but the British, French, Portuguese, and Japanese empires collapsing during the course of World War I, and Russia transformed into the communist Soviet Union.

The Palatinate was dissolved in the Wars of the French Revolution.

* Anne of Brittany ( 1477 – 1514 ) — they were married by proxy in Rennes on 18 December 1490, but the contract was dissolved by the Pope in early 1492, by which time Anne had already been forced by the French King, Charles VIII ( the fiancé of Maximilian's daughter Margaret of Austria ) to repudiate the contract and marry him instead.

The abbey closed in the wake of the French Revolution ( the government had all French monasteries dissolved in February, 1790 ).

When the territories voted in the September 1958 referendum to become autonomous within the French Community, the federation was dissolved.

French Indochina was to be dissolved at the start of 1955.

At the start of 1955, French Indochina was dissolved, leaving Diệm in temporary control of the south.

During the French Revolution, the order was dissolved.

At the start of 1955, French Indochina was dissolved, leaving Diệm in temporary control of the south.

The Electoral Palatinate was a much larger territory than what later became known as the Rhenish Palatinate ( Rheinpfalz ), on the left bank of the Rhine, and is now the modern region of the Palatinate in the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate and parts of the French region of Alsace ( bailiwick of Seltz from 1418 to 1766 ).

The same year as Gian Gastone's marriage, the Peace of Ryswick ended the Nine Years ' War: French troops withdrew from the Electoral Palatinate and Johann Wilhelm received the County of Megen.

Following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, a document which had hitherto given rights to Calvinists, in 1685, 2, 000 French Huguenots emigrated to the Electoral Palatinate.

Another disposition of the Electoral Code specifies that any person deprived of the right to be on an electoral roll for a certain period following a judicial sentence is deprived of the right of running for the French National Assembly for double that period, which would bar Juppé for 10 years.

When the French occupied Electoral Mainz on 21 October 1793, Windeck Castle, as an ecclesiastical and noble holding, was seized.

From the end of the 18th on into the latter half of the 19th century, the Castle Mill ’ s ownership history raises more questions than it answers: on 21 October 1793, French Revolutionary troops occupied Electoral Mainz ; on 4 November 1797, France annexed the Rhine ’ s left bank ; on 9 February 1801 the German Empire ceded the area to France in the Treaty of Lunéville.

On October 24, 2006 the Chief Electoral Officer of Quebec released a report ( in French only ) " Report on the Evaluation of New Methods of Voting ".

Until the French occupation, its territory was divided between the Archbishopric of Cologne, the Archbishopric of Trier, and the Electoral Palatinate.

Prior to the French occupation, its territory was divided between the Archbishopric of Mainz, the Bishopric of Speyer and the Electoral Palatinate.

Quebec Electoral results: Montreal No. 4, 1892 in French.

The Chief Electoral Officer of Quebec ( in French: Directeur général des élections du Québec, also known as the DGEQ or DGE ) is the official responsible for the administration of the electoral and referendum system in Quebec, Canada.

The new Electoral City Policy of 1789 was meant to strengthen the Elector ’ s influence, but by 1794, French Revolutionary troops had occupied the town, which remained under French rule for the next 20 years.

A dismissive allusion in the text to the " wealth of Hungary " has suggested the hypothesis that it was written after 1184, at the time when Bela III of Hungary had sent to the French court a statement of his income and had proposed marriage to Marie's sister Marguerite of France, but before 1186, when his proposal was accepted.

In 2000, a French court ruled that a government minister's description of anthroposophy as a cult was defamatory.

Basque has no official standing in the Northern Basque Country of France and French citizens are barred from officially using Basque in a French court of law.

For this comment, a French court fined her 30, 000 francs in June 2000.

On 10 June 2004, Bardot was again convicted by a French court for " inciting racial hatred " and fined € 5, 000, the fourth such conviction and fine from a French court.

" God knows I go with a heavy heart ," he wrote six days later to his friend and political ally in England, Lord Godolphin, " for I have no hope of doing anything considerable, unless the French do what I am very confident they will not … " – in other words, court battle.

The great innovations in dance in the 17th century originated at the French court under Louis XIV, and it is here that we see the first clear stylistic ancestor of classical ballet.

The French noble style was danced both at social events and by professional dancers in theatrical productions such as opera-ballets and court entertainments.

At the end of the 17th century, English country dances were taken up by French dancers ; hybrid choreographies exist from this period using the steps from French court dance in English dances.

Examples of historical, clown-like comedic performers have been the pantomimus in ancient Greece, the Lazzi of Commedia dell ' Arte, bouffons, court jesters, as well as the French mime tradition.

Some small improvements were made to law and court procedure, for example all court proceedings were now conducted in English rather than in Law French or Latin.

One exception is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, which locates Arthur's court at " Camelot "; however, in Britain, Arthur's court was generally located at Caerleon, or at Carlisle, which is usually identified with the " Carduel " of the French romances.

Professional dancers began to take the place of court amateurs, and ballet masters were licensed by the French government.

In 1538, King Francis I of France threatened Edmund Bonner — Henry VIII's Ambassador to the French court and later Bishop — with a hundred strokes of the halberd as punishment for Bonner's " insolent behaviour ".

However, a French court ruled, in June 1990, that a special lighting display on the tower in 1989, for the tower's 100th anniversary, was an " original visual creation " protected by copyright.

Prince Eugene of Savoy ( French: François-Eugène de Savoie, German: Eugen von Savoyen, Italian: Principe Eugenio di Savoia-Carignano ; 18 October 1663 – 21 April 1736 ), was one of the most successful military commanders in modern European history, rising to the highest offices of state at the Imperial court in Vienna.

Born in Paris, Eugene grew up around the French court of King Louis XIV.

Together they had had five sons ( Eugene being the youngest ) and three daughters, but neither parent spent much time with the children: his father, a brave, unglamorous French soldier spent much of his time away campaigning, while Olympia's passion for court intrigue meant the children received little attention from their mother.