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France, [IX] officially the French Republic, [X] is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world.
Formerly a coalition of free cities in Holy Roman Empire, attached to Kingdom of France in 1648; annexed by Germany from Franco-Prussian war to the end of World War I and briefly during World War II: Aquitaine: Aquitaine: Occitan: Aquitània Basque: Akitania Saintongeais : Aguiéne: 72 Bordeaux: Guyenne and Gascony: Auvergne: Auvergne: Occitan ...
On 23 July 2010, at the request of Blanc, the FFF suspended all 23 players in the World Cup squad for the team's friendly match against Norway after the World Cup. [44] On 6 August, five players who were deemed to have played a major role in the training boycott were disciplined for their roles, and Nicolas Anelka also received an 18-match ban ...
Apart from low-interest loans, the other funds were grants that did not involve repayment. The debts left over from World War I, whose payment had been suspended since 1931, were renegotiated in the Blum-Byrnes agreement of 1946. The United States forgave all $2.8 billion in debt from the First World War, and gave France a new loan of $650 million.
France lost 10% of its active male population in World War I; the 1.3 million French deaths, along with even more births forgone by potential fathers being off at war, caused a drop of 3 million in the French population, and helped make Dénatalité a national obsession; by 1920 ANAPF had 40,000 members, and in July that year a new law strictly ...
President during World War I. He subsequently served as Prime minister, 1922–1924 and 1926–1929. 11 Paul Deschanel [18] (1855–1922) 18 February 1920 21 September 1920 247 days Democratic Republican Alliance; then Democratic Republican and Social Party
The Kingdom of the Franks (Latin: Regnum Francorum), also known as the Frankish Kingdom, or just Francia, was the largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe.It was ruled by the Frankish Merovingian and Carolingian dynasties during the Early Middle Ages.
Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front) Hauts-de-France, Grand Est, Île-de-France: 20th century cultural 2023 Transnational serial site shared with Belgium incorporates 139 cemeteries and memorials on the Western Front of the First World War. [56] 1569 The Maison Carrée of Nîmes: Occitania: 1st century cultural 2023