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Title varies: t. 1-5, L'art de verifier les dates des faits historiques, des inscriptions, des chroniques, et autres anciens monuments avant l'ere chretienne...et formant la premiere partie...Paris, 1819 [t. 6-24] L'art de verifier les dates...depuis la naissance de Notre-Seigneur. Tome premiere-dix huitieme. Paris 1818-19
The prepositions à (' to, at ') and de (' of, from ') form contracted forms with the masculine and plural articles le and les: au, du, aux, and des, respectively.. Like the, the French definite article is used with a noun referring to a specific item when both the speaker and the audience know what the item is.
The UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights passed in 1948 is partially inspired by France’s own Déclaration des droits de l’Homme et du citoyen from 1789 and many parallels can be drawn between the two. [26] France works with the UN to advocate “the universal and indissociable nature of human rights”. [27]
Most UN councils use all six languages as official and working languages; however, as of 2023 the United Nations Secretariat uses only two working languages: English and French. [5] The six official languages spoken at the UN are the first or second language of 2.8 billion people on the planet, less than half of the world population. The six ...
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When compared to English, the particularities of French personal pronouns include: a T-V distinction in the second person singular (familiar tu vs. polite vous) the placement of object pronouns before the verb: « Agnès les voit. » ("Agnès sees them.") the existence of distinct pronouns for indirect objects and for certain prepositional objects
The Official Journal of the French Republic (French: Journal officiel de la République française), also known as the JORF or JO, is the government gazette of the French Republic. It publishes the major legal official information from the national Government of France, the French Parliament [2] [3] [4] and the French Constitutional Council. [5]
France most commonly records the date using the day-month-year order with an oblique stroke or slash (”/”) as the separator with numerical values, for example, 31/12/1992. The 24-hour clock is used to express time, using the lowercase letter "h" as the separator in between hours and minutes, for example, 14 h 05.