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The Francophonie or Francophone world is the whole body of people and organisations around the world who use the French language regularly for private or public purposes. The term was coined by Onésime Reclus [ 1 ] in 1880 and became important as part of the conceptual rethinking of cultures and geography in the late 20th century.
A Francophile is a person who has a strong affinity towards any or all of the French language, French history, French culture and/or French people. That affinity may include France itself or its history, language, cuisine , literature , etc.
French is an official language in 27 independent nations. French is also the second most geographically widespread language in the world after English, with about 60 countries and territories having it as a de jure or de facto official, administrative, or cultural language. [1]
The Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF; sometimes shortened to La Francophonie, French: La Francophonie [la fʁɑ̃kɔfɔni], [4] [note 3] sometimes also called International Organisation of La Francophonie in English [5]) is an international organization representing where there is a notable affiliation with French language and culture.
To properly define the Francophone economy, a number of factors need to be considered: the official language of the country, region or area involved in a trade transaction; the language in which goods and services are exchanged (contracts, bank transactions, amicable markets, barter, etc.);
This is a list of the member states of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.These governments belong to an international organisation representing countries and regions where French is the first ("mother") or customary language, where a significant proportion of the population are francophones (French speakers) or where there is a notable affiliation with French culture.
Savings Bank of South Australia: established 1848 as a private institution, nationalised in 1945, merged into the State Bank of South Australia in 1984; State Bank of South Australia: established 1896, collapsed in 1991, subsequently privatised and rebranded as BankSA; Tasmania. State Savings Bank of Tasmania: established 1902, taken over by ...
The advantage of holding a National Bank Act charter is that a national bank is not subject to state usury laws intended to prevent predatory lending. [6] However, in Cuomo v. Clearing House Association, L. L. C. , the Supreme Court ruled that federal banking regulations do not preempt the ability of states to enforce their own fair-lending ...