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Migration from the UK to France has increased rapidly from the 1990s onwards. Estimates of the number of British citizens living in France vary from 261,000 [1][6] to 400,000. [3][7][8][9] Besides Paris, many British expatriates tend to be concentrated in the regions of southern France, Brittany, and recently the island of Corsica.
An Air France Concorde. The supersonic commercial aircraft was developed jointly by the United Kingdom and France. The Concorde supersonic commercial aircraft was developed under an international treaty between the UK and France in 1962, and commenced flying in 1969. It was a technological success but a financial disaster and was closed down ...
Brittany (/ ˈ b r ɪ t ən i / BRIT-ən-ee; French: Bretagne, pronounced ⓘ; Breton: Breizh, pronounced [bʁɛjs, bʁɛx]; [1] [dubious – discuss] Gallo: Bertaèyn or Bertègn, pronounced [bəʁtaɛɲ]) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica in Roman Gaul.
1934–1937: Sir George Clerk. 1937–1939: Sir Eric Phipps. 1939–1940: Sir Ronald Hugh Campbell. No representation from 1940 to 1944, due to the German occupation of France during the Second World War. 1944–1948: Sir Alfred Duff Cooper, (previously Representative to the Free French in Algiers from 1943) 1948–1954: Sir Oliver Harvey.
The Embassy of the United Kingdom in Paris is the chief diplomatic mission of the United Kingdom in France. It is located on one of the most famous streets in France, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. The current British Ambassador to France is Menna Rawlings. [1] The embassy also represents the British Overseas ...
The British diaspora consists of people of English, Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish, Cornish, Manx and Channel Islands ancestral descent who live outside of the United Kingdom and its Crown Dependencies. In 2008, the United Kingdom's Foreign and Commonwealth Office estimated that at least 80% of New Zealanders had some British ancestry, however ...
The dual monarchy of England and France existed during the latter phase of the Hundred Years' War when Charles VII of France and Henry VI of England disputed the succession to the throne of France. It commenced on 21 October 1422 upon the death of King Charles VI of France, who had signed the Treaty of Troyes which gave the French crown to his ...
Franco-British Union. Map of the Franco-British Union as proposed in 1940. A Franco-British Union is a concept for a union between the United Kingdom and France. Such a union was proposed during certain crises of the 20th century; it has some historical precedents.