For this purpose, an agreement was signed with the French government, represented by the High Commissioner for French Polynesia, whereby Clipperton became French state property.

On October 13, 1986, a meeting took place regarding the establishment of a permanent base for fishing at Clipperton, between the high commissioner of French Polynesia, representing the state, and the survey firm for the development and exploitation of the island ( SEDEIC ).

On February 21, 2007, the administration of Clipperton was transferred from the High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia to the Minister of Overseas France.

Tradition has it that this was the reason for the expedition of Ru, from Tupua ' i in French Polynesia, who landed on Aitutaki, and Tangiia, also from French Polynesia, both of whom are believed to have arrived on Rarotonga around 800 AD.

In 1990 the Cook Islands signed a treaty with France which delimited the maritime boundary between the Cook Islands and French Polynesia.

1990 — Cook Islands – France Maritime Delimitation Agreement establishes the Cook Islands – French Polynesia boundary

* French Polynesia

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This article describes the geography of French Polynesia.

Map of French Polynesia

: Includes five archipelagoes ; Makatea in French Polynesia is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean-the others are Banaba ( Ocean Island ) in Kiribati and Nauru

* French Polynesia

This article is about the demographic features of the population of French Polynesia, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

* French Polynesia

Politics of French Polynesia takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic French overseas collectivity, whereby the President of French Polynesia is the head of government, and of a multi-party system.

As this expansion into current languages ( mainly Italian and French ) and current topics continued, the press took on another role and made perhaps even more important contributions.

Breton is spoken mainly in Western Brittany, but also in a more dispersed way in Eastern Brittany ( where Gallo is spoken alongside Breton and French ), and in areas around the world that have Breton immigrants.

After graduating from high school in 1963, he moved to Europe, travelling around Paris and Liège, where he formed bands with local musicians and recorded some singles mainly in English and in French but also in Turkish.

The Trekboers, as they were originally known, were mainly of Dutch origin and included Calvinists, such as Flemish and Frisian Calvinists, as well as French Huguenot and German and British protestants who first arrived in the Cape of Good Hope during the period of its administration ( 1652 – 1795 ) by the Dutch East India Company ( Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC ).

The Boer nation is mainly descended from Dutch, German and French Huguenots, who migrated to South Africa during the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries.

The attack on the Bastille in the French Revolution-though afterwards remembered mainly for the release of the handful of prisoners incarcerated there-was to considerable degree motivated by the structure being a Royal citadel in the midst of revolutionary Paris.

The Kingdom of Rarotonga was established in 1858 and in 1888 it became a British protectorate by the request of Queen Makea Takau, mainly to thwart French expansionism.

French citizens also migrated in large numbers, mainly to the colonies in the north African Maghreb region: 1. 3 million settled in Algeria ; 200, 000 in Morocco ; 100, 000 in Tunisia ; while only 20, 000 migrated to French Indochina.

DMT was one of the mainly used psychedelic drugs used in 2009 French movie, titled Enter The Void.

Deconstruction is a form of semiotic analysis, derived mainly from French philosopher Jacques Derrida's 1967 work Of Grammatology.

Of the two main channels, Channel I uses mainly Arabic, while Channel II is dedicated to foreigners and more cultured viewers, broadcasting news in English and French as well as Arabic.

Polynesians 73. 6 %, Mixed Polynesian and French 9. 3 %, European ( mainly French ) 11. 9 %, East Asians ( mainly Chinese ) 4. 7 %.

Mistelle (; ; Spanish, Portuguese, Galician and, from Latin / " mix ") is sometimes used as an ingredient in fortified wines, particularly Vermouth, Marsala and Sherry, though it is used mainly as a base for apéritifs such as the French Pineau des Charentes.

Nowadays, some units of the Légion are in Corsica or overseas possessions ( mainly in French Guiana, guarding Guiana Space Centre ), while the rest are in the south of mainland France.

Today the population of Guadeloupe is mainly of African or mixed descent and largely Roman Catholic, speaking French and a Creole patois ( Antillean Creole ).

During the French Third Republic the Louvre acquired new pieces mainly via donations and gifts.

Lake Champlain ( French: lac Champlain ) is a natural, freshwater lake in North America, located mainly within the borders of the United States ( states of Vermont and New York ) but partially situated across the Canada-United States border in the Canadian province of Quebec.

This left Edison's other rivals with little recourse but to import foreign-made films, mainly French and British.

He then began his project of writing a book of one thousand mainly French quatrains, which constitute the largely undated prophecies for which he is most famous today.

There is also a dialect of French centred mainly on the Port au Port Peninsula on the west coast of the island which has had an impact on the syntax of English in the area.

Newfoundland French was deliberately discouraged by the Newfoundland government through the public schools during the mid-20th-century, and only a small handful of mainly elderly people are still fluent in the French-Newfoundland dialect.

However, the committee of this French Missionary Society was not ready to accept his offer, considering his Lutheran theology to be " incorrect ".

His own ideas, especially those expressed in his masterworks, French Rural History ( Les caractères originaux de l ' histoire rurale française, 1931 ) and Feudal Society, were incorporated by the second-generation Annalistes, led by Fernand Braudel.

In 1728 he was elected into the French Academy of Sciences, and two years later into the Royal Society of London.

On February 15, 1912, several KMT members, including Chiang, murdered Tao Chengzhang, the leader of the Restoration Society, in a Shanghai French Concession hospital.

was conferred upon Brewster by Marischal College, Aberdeen ; in 1815 he was made a member of the Royal Society of London, and received the Copley medal ; in 1818 he received the Rumford Medal of the society ; and in 1816 the French Institute awarded him one-half of the prize of three thousand francs for the two most important discoveries in physical science made in Europe during the two preceding years.

After the Society was closed down by the government, he left his hometown and moved to Korçë, continuing his studies in a French secondary school.

Molinari went on to edit the Journal des Économistes, the publication of the French Political Economy Society, from 1881 until 1909.

French Society in Revolution, 1789 – 1799 ( 1999 )

* 1621 – Anne de Xainctonge, French saint, founder of the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin ( b. 1567 )

The Cousteau Society and its French counterpart, l ' Équipe Cousteau, both of which Jacques-Yves Cousteau founded, are still active today.

* The French Lute Society

He is best known for his pioneering studies French Rural History and Feudal Society and his posthumously-published unfinished meditation on the writing of history, The Historian's Craft.

Bloch's own ideas on rural history were best expressed in his masterworks, French Rural History ( Les caractères originaux de l ' histoire rurale française, 1931 ) and Feudal Society ( 1939 ).

The Mars Society French chapter was established in 1999 as " Association Planète Mars ", a non-profit organization with its headquarters in Paris.

* Archibald R. Lewis, The Development of Southern French and Catalan Society, 718 – 1050

The Ottoman Sultan, who favored the French, allowed them to establish an orphanage, the Society of Saint Francis de Sale.

After consultation with both canon lawyers and theologians in France and Germany, Dominique Marie Varlet ( 1678 – 1742 ), a Roman Catholic Bishop of the French Oratorian Society of Foreign Missions, ordained Bishop Steenoven.

Though a congregation of bishops assembled at Paris in December 1761 recommended no action, Louis XV of France ( 1715 – 74 ) promulgated a royal order permitting the Society to remain in the kingdom, with the proviso that certain essentially liberalising changes in their institution satisfy the Parlement with a French Jesuit vicar-general who should be independent of the general in Rome.

This was the pioneering work of Marc Fumaroli who, building on the work of classicist and Neo-Latinist Alain Michel and French scholars such as Roger Zuber, published his famed Age de l ' Eloquence ( 1980 ), was one of the founders of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric and was eventually elevated to a chair in rhetoric at the prestigious College de France.

As a French naval officer he refused to work for the International African Society and instead helped the French in their conquest of the area north of the Congo River.

* 1608 – Jean-Jacques Olier, French priest, founder of Society of Saint-Sulpice ( d. 1657 )

Image: Lute-viol ABosse Fr 1635. jpg | Painting by Abraham Bosse, Musical Society, French, c.

* October 12 – Battle of Tory Island: A British Royal Navy squadron under Sir John Borlase Warren prevents French Republican ships commanded by Jean-Baptiste-François Bompart landing reinforcements for the Society of United Irishmen on the Donegal coast ; Irish leader Wolfe Tone is captured and later dies of wounds.

The history of scientific journals dates from 1665, when the French Journal des sçavans and the English Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society first began systematically publishing research results.