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For example, in early 1911, following French press reports contrasting the virility of the Triple Alliance with the moribund state of the Entente, Eyre Crowe minuted: "The fundamental fact of course is that the Entente is not an alliance. For purposes of ultimate emergencies it may be found to have no substance at all.
The French Union (French: Union française) was a political entity created by the French Fourth Republic to replace the old French colonial empire system, colloquially known as the "French Empire" (Empire français). It was de jure the end of the "indigenous" status of French subjects in colonial areas. It was dissolved in 1958, after the ...
23 February - First launch of a French diesel-powered submarine, Aigrette. [2] [3] 8 April - Entente cordiale, a series of agreements signed between the United Kingdom and France. [4] [5] Global cosmetics companies are founded in Paris: Coty, by François Coty, [6] and Garnier, by Alfred Amour Garnier. [7]
Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, also helped found the USFSA.At various times he served as the federation's president and secretary general. On 29 December 1885 Georges de Saint-Clair, the secretary-general of Racing Club de France and delegates from Stade Français had formed the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Course a Pied.
In December 1939, Jean Monnet of the French Economic Mission in London became the head of the Anglo-French Co-ordinating Committee, which coordinated a joint planning of the two countries' wartime economies. The Frenchman hoped for a postwar United States of Europe and saw an Anglo-French political union as a step toward his goal. [1]
1904 State of the Union Address; Date: December 6, 1904 () Venue: House Chamber, United States Capitol: Location: Washington, D.C. [1] Coordinates: Type: State of the Union Address: Participants: Theodore Roosevelt: Previous: 1903 State of the Union Address: Next: 1905 State of the Union Address
A Diplomatic History of the United States (2nd ed. 1942) online; old standard textbook; Bemis, Samuel Flagg and Grace Gardner Griffin. Guide to the Diplomatic History of the United States 1775–1921 (1935) bibliographies; out of date and replaced by Beisner (2003)
That would be compounded by the massive French losses of World War I, roughly estimated at 1.4 million French dead including civilians (or nearly 10% of the active adult male population) and four times as many wounded — and World War II, estimated at 593,000 French dead (one-and-a-half times the number of American dead), of which 470,000 were ...