Although we enjoyed our rounds of the government offices in Vientiane, with officials offering tea and pleasing conversation in French, we were getting nowhere.

This is important because, despite all the efforts of the French government, an appreciable segment of France's export trade in wines is still tainted with a misrepresentation approaching downright dishonesty, and there are many too many negociants who would rather turn a sou than amass a creditable reputation overseas.

But by week's end the Laotian cry of invasion was read as an exaggeration ( see foreign news ), and the U.S. was agreeing with its cautious British and French allies that a neutralist -- rather than a pro-Western -- government might be best for Laos.

The " Days of April " ( journées d ' avril ) is a name appropriated in French history to a series of insurrections at Lyons, Paris and elsewhere, against the government of Louis Philippe in 1834, which led to violent repressive measures, and to a famous trial known as the procès d ' avril.

An attempt to require an Annales-written textbook for French schools was rejected by the government.

The French Revolution ( 1787 – 99 ) that began during his youth was also influential: Ampère ’ s father was called into public service by the new revolutionary government, becoming a justice of the peace in a small town near Lyon.

* 1839 – The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift " free to the world ".

The French withdrew in 1867, and the government they supported quickly collapsed.

* 2006 – A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger ( known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF ).

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

Some even seemed to want an event similar to the French Revolution to come to the United States to overthrow the government.

In 1880, the French government awarded Bell the Volta Prize of 50, 000 francs ( approximately US $ 10, 000 at that time, about $ in current dollars ) for the invention of the telephone, which he used to found the Volta Laboratory, along with Sumner Tainter and Bell's cousin Chichester Bell.

In 1796, during the French Revolution and three years after the declaration of war between France and Great Britain, Étienne-Gaspard Robert met with the French government and proposed the use of mirrors to burn the invading ships of the British Royal Navy.

The parade passes down the Champs-Élysées from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place de la Concorde, where the President of the French Republic, his government and foreign ambassadors to France stand.

In France he was considered as the restorer of the art, which had declined after the time of Louis XIV, and during the last twenty years of his life the French government commissiond him to undertake several works.

The French government relocated from Paris to Bordeaux very briefly during World War II, when it became apparent that Paris would soon fall into German hands ( as in 1870 during war against Prussia and at the beginning of the Franco-Prussian war ).

" However French government applies a principle of precaution against GMO.

The French Monarchy did not concern itself with the minority languages of France spoken by the lower classes, although it did require the use of French for government business.

An attempt by the French government to incorporate the independent Breton-language immersion schools ( called Diwan ) into the state education system was blocked by the French Constitutional Council on the grounds that, as the 1992 amendment to the Constitution of the 5th Republic states that French is the language of the Republic, no other language may be used as a language of instruction in state schools.

The Toubon Law states that French is the language of public education, which means that Breton-language schools do not receive funding from the national government, though the Brittany Region may fund them.

Ms. Turocy has been decorated as Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.

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 evidence is found in two early maps, one made by the Portuguese cartographer Pedro Reinel in about 1522, the very first map to show the Falklands, the other a French copy of a Portuguese map bought in Lisbon by André Thévet ( 1516-1590 ), a Franciscan friar and prolific writer on many subjects ; this copy is now in the manuscript of a large unpublished work by Thevet in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

In 1664 King Louis XIV bought out the independent island owners and established the French West India Company.

In 1766 the French Kingdom annexed Lorraine and the following year bought Corsica from Genoa.

In 1898, after moving to their newly-built factory, the pair bought a Werner " motorcyclist ", which was produced by French manufacturer Werner Brothers.

At the same time the French company Kinétoscope Edison Michel et Alexis Werner bought these machines for the market in France.

The day after he bought the team, Prost signed a three-year deal with French car manufacturer Peugeot, who would supply the team with engines for the 1998 season through the 2000 season.

During this early period of the French rule, the Belgian economy was completely paralyzed: it was forbidden to export from the port of Antwerp, heavy taxes had to be paid in gold and silver coin, while goods bought by the French were paid for with worthless assignats.

In 1982, at the age of 15, Marceau bought back her contract with Gaumont for one million French francs.

Seeking a way out, he borrowed money from his black foster mother Virginia Prentiss, bought the sloop Razzle-Dazzle from an oyster pirate named French Frank, and became an oyster pirate.

In most European countries, subjugation in the French Empire bought with it many products of the French Revolution including democracy, due process in courts, abolition of privileges, etc.

On 30 June 1810 the French army handed over the former principality to the what was now the Kingdom of Bavaria, which it had bought from Napoleon for 15 million francs.

In 1974 Peugeot bought a 30 % share of Citroën, and took it over completely in 1975 after the French government gave large sums of money to the new company.

In 2005 he and his brother bought the castle of Estaing, a famous place in the French district of Aveyron and formerly a possession of the above mentioned admiral d ' Estaing who was beheaded in 1794.

Required to forfeit much of the Hurault wealth at the time of the French Revolution, the family sold it in 1802, at the height of the Empire but bought it back in 1824, during the Restauration under Charles X.

It also bought San Francisco French Bread Company, John J. Nissen Baking Company, Drake's, and My Bread Company.

His father bought of land in Northern Kentucky from his friend George Muse, part of which Muse had been awarded for his military service in the French and Indian War.

Floyd, who had conducted an important survey of Jefferson County in 1774, bought of land from soldiers who had been awarded the parcels for their service in the French and Indian War.

The first Catholic Church was built by French Catholics at Catholic Point, where they had bought land before the United States was formed.

Before James J. Hill bought the Great Northern Railway in 1879 and accepted the task of completing the line from Crookston to the Canadian border, a French-Canadian man founded a town named Louisa, after the French king, in the path of the railroad.

In 1750, Ray had bought the Chaumont castle ( named from the Old French for " bald hill ", and built in two periods around 1500 ), in the Loire Valley of France.

Once the French and Indian War was over, Mr. Rowletter sold the land to a judge from Pittsburgh, George Wallace, who bought around of land, including part of Braddock's Field, on March 4, 1791.

After his father died in 1760, Lamarck bought himself a horse, and rode across the country to join the French army, which was in Germany at the time.