* 2005 – The controversial French law on colonialism is passed, requiring teachers to teach the " positive values of colonialism ".

Members of the Mountain went on to establish the Committee of Public Safety in April 1793 under Robespierre, which would be responsible for The Terror ( 5 September 1793 – 28 July 1794 ), the bloodiest and one of the most controversial phases of the French Revolution.

Starting in September 1793, a period known as the Reign of Terror ensued for approximately 12 months, the bloodiest and one of the most controversial phases of the French Revolution.

Soon, however, Pei and his team won the support of several key cultural icons, including the conductor Pierre Boulez and Claude Pompidou, widow of former French President Georges Pompidou, after whom another controversial museum was named.

Exclusive of his controversial writings, he left behind him a very voluminous series of practical evangelical books, which have long remained the " fireside " favourites of the peasantry of French Protestantism.

Lévesque's government pursues an agenda to secede Quebec from Canada by democratic means and strengthen Francophone Québécois culture in the late 1970s, such as the controversial Charter of the French Language more commonly known in Quebec and Canada as " Bill 101 ".

The depictions of proletarian life, immorality and lawlessness, and the tragic outcome in which the main character dies on stage, broke new ground in French opera and were highly controversial.

In March 2004, the French central government unveiled a controversial plan to transfer regulation of certain categories of non-teaching school staff to the regional authorities.

Minis were initially placed first, second and third in the 1966 rally as well, but were disqualified after a controversial decision by the French judges.

In this test Hadlee, often a controversial character, added to this side of his reputation when he felled ( and hospitalised ) England wicketkeeper and Nottinghampshire teammate Bruce French with a nasty bouncer.

The term " ideology " was born in the highly controversial philosophical and political debates and fights of the French Revolution and acquired several other meanings from the early days of the First French Empire to the present.

In February 1980, Morrison and a group of musicians travelled to Super Bear, a studio in the French Alps, to record ( on the site of a former abbey ) what is considered to be the most controversial album in his discography ; later " Morrison admitted that his original concept was even more esoteric than the final product.

This became somewhat controversial as the French taught in school was not Cajun French.

George Washington and his troops of the Virginia Militia, along with a Half-King and members of his tribe who were loyal to the British routed the French in a controversial battle.

The eccentric photojournalist Peter Throckmorton, out of New York, arrived there in the mid 1950s after a controversial campaign where he was profiling the Algerian War from the point of view of the Algerian rebels fighting against French troops, which would later lead to an alleged altercation between himself and another team member, Claude Duthuit, who was fighting with the French.

The result was the Battle of Schooneveld in June and the Battle of Texel in August, a controversial sequence of engagements in which, at a minimum, poor communications between the French and English commanders assisted the marginal Dutch victory.

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

For instance, the three-step test was invoked as a justification for refusing certain exceptions to copyright wished for by members of the French parliament during the examination of the controversial DADVSI copyright bill.

Since the Renaissance French philosophy has been continuously influenced by Sextus: Montaigne in the 16th century, Pierre-Daniel Huet and François de La Mothe Le Vayer in the 17th century, many of the " Philosophes ," and in recent times controversial figures such as Michel Onfray, in a direct line of filiation between Sextus ' radical skepticism and secular or even radical atheism.

In 1808, it was the site of the signing of the controversial Convention of Sintra, which ended the first French invasion of Portugal.

This controversial finding was first reported by the French psychologist and statistician Michel Gauquelin who, in his book L ' influence des astres (" The Influence of the Stars ", 1955 ), the first rigorous study of astrological claims, suggested that a statistically significant number of sports champions were born just after the planet Mars rises or culminates.

This work had an influence on one of the greatest French riding masters, Francois Robichon de la Gueriniere, as well as a more controversial figure in dressage, Baucher.

" in which Procter " expresses love for Hays ... was a novelist and translator of George Sand and a controversial figure ... dressed in men's clothes and had lived with the sculptor Harriet Hosmer in Rome earlier in the 1850s.

** John Cleland, controversial English novelist ( died 1789 )

A highly versatile artist, Tardi successfully adapted novels by controversial writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline or crime novelist Léo Malet.

Samuel Michael Fuller ( August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997 ) was an American screenwriter, novelist, and film director known for low-budget genre movies with controversial themes.

Pier Paolo Pasolini was a controversial poet and novelist.

* Denis MacEoin, controversial novelist

Written by Michel Lafosse, The Forgotten Monarchy of Scotland: The True Story of the Royal House of Stewart and the Hidden Lineage of the Kings and Queens of Scots ( ISBN 1-86204-234-9 ) is a controversial book published in Shaftesbury, England, in 1998.

These children, known as L ' enfants de la Creuse, were brought to light in 2002 when Réunion exile Jean-Jacques Martial made a legal complaint against politician Michel Debré ( who organized the controversial displacement ) for " kidnapping of a minor, roundup and deportation ".

He also co-authored Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, translated Merleau-Ponty's Sense and Non-Sense, and authored the controversial 1972 book What Computers Can't Do, revised first in 1979, and then again in 1992 with a new introduction as What Computers Still Can't Do.

" Founding member Michel Sitbon cited the arrival of controversial personalities like Claude Karnoouh ( who was never actually an administrator ) and Bruno Drweski, while the Réseau, in a 2005 declaration, said that " administrators favourable to a franco-French petty political conception of the association have been put in minority.

After the sacking of French coach Henri Michel, he was named manager of former side Zamalek, on 30 November 2009. his first match in charge was on December 3, 2009, which ended in a controversial 2 – 1 loss against Haras El Hodood, as opposing player Ahmed Eid Abdel Malek was not supposed to play in that match, having been sent off the previous one.

`` This is a long picture and a controversial one, but basically it is a moral, enthralling and heartbreaking description of humans who have become unlinked from life as perhaps Rome has from her traditional political, cultural and religious glories ''.

The taxonomy of the genus has been controversial.

He adds that this last has been controversial in that it has been claimed that this aspect of the doctrine is not found before the time of Augustine of Hippo, while others allege that it is implicit in the Church of the second and third centuries.

However this has been a controversial subject with Masonic authors saying that it " is impossible to either substantiate or disprove " involvement in the Klan.

The ANC has also gained members through the controversial floor crossing process.

While he has been rated as one of the top-50 eminent psychologists of the 20th century, Jensen remains a controversial figure, largely for his conclusions regarding the causes of race-based differences in intelligence.

So broad a notion has inevitably been elusive and controversial in the history of philosophy, beginning in western philosophy with attempts among the pre-Socratics to deploy it intelligibly.

The license in favour of BVI Cable was controversial, as the Regulator had announced in advance that only three licenses in total would be issued, and BVI Cable TV had crumbling cable television infrastructure, and was in no position to office cellular telephone services ( and to date, has not offered any cellular telephone services, or anything other than simple cable television ).

A controversial figure, Thackeray has attracted significant attention by making statements expressing admiration for Hitler as an artist and demagogue, while condemning the Holocaust, inciting violence against Muslims, expressing support for the LTTE, and taking strong stances on the aspects of popular culture, including fervent opposition to the celebration of Valentine's Day.

Because of this, it has been deemed controversial to label them black people.

Exposure to benzodiazepines during pregnancy has been associated with a slightly increased ( from 0. 06 to 0. 07 %) risk of cleft palate in newborns, a controversial conclusion as some studies find no association between benzodiazepines and cleft palate.

Once labelled by Rolling Stone as " the most controversial woman in the history of rock ", Love's sometimes outrageous behavior has given her a lasting place in pop culture, as well as a polarizing reputation in the media.

This practice can lead to the controversial question of which research group actually discovered an element, a question that has delayed naming of elements with atomic number of 104 and higher for a considerable time.

, two years after its implementation began, the security situation of inside Colombia has shown some measure of an improvement and the economy, while still fragile, has also shown some positive signs according to observers, but relatively little has yet to have been accomplished in structurally solving most of the country's other grave problems, possibly in part due to legislative and political conflicts between the administration and the Colombian Congress ( including those over the controversial project to eventually re-elect Uribe ), and a relative lack of freely allocated funds and credits.

The church has also periodically changed its temple ceremony, gradually omitting certain controversial elements.

Capoeira has a long and controversial history, since historical documentation in Brazil was very scarce in its colonial times.

Since 1987, the CRTC has been involved in several controversial decisions:

Civilization ( or civilisation ) is a sometimes controversial term that has been used in several related ways.

The production of chemical substances that do not normally occur in nature has long been tried, such as the synthesis of sulfuric and nitric acids attributed to the controversial alchemist Jābir ibn Hayyān.

For these and other reasons, phylogenetic nomenclature has been developed ; it is still controversial.

Software piracy has often been given by trade publications and user groups as the reason for the Amiga's demise, but this view is controversial.

Throughout its history, chiropractic has been controversial.