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The French code of criminal procedure (French: Code de procédure pénale) is the codification of French criminal procedure, "the set of legal rules in France that govern the State's response to offenses and offenders". [1] It guides the behavior of police, prosecutors, and judges in dealing with a possible crime.
The suites were later given the name 'French' (first recorded usage by Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg in 1762). Likewise, the English Suites received a later appellation. The name was popularised by Bach's biographer Johann Nikolaus Forkel, who wrote in his 1802 biography of Bach, "One usually calls them French Suites because they are written in the French manner."
Up to roughly 1340, the Romance languages spoken in the Middle Ages in the northern half of what is today France are collectively known as "ancien français" ("Old French") or "langues d'oïl" (languages where one says "oïl" to mean "yes"); following the Germanic invasions of France in the fifth century, these Northern dialects had developed distinctly different phonetic and syntactical ...
Sport in France plays an important role in French society, which is reflected in its popularity among the French people and the nation's strong sporting history. [1] Various types of sports are played and followed in France, notably cycling, fencing, football, [2] and handball, which has earned France eight victories in world championships and five Olympic medals.
France 5 – public; Arte – public France/Germany; TV5Monde – worldwide broadcast of national programming of francophone countries (France, Swiss, Belgium, Canada) made by Television Suisse Romande, Radio-Canada, RTBF, France 2, France 3, Arte; 24/7 news channels BFM TV – private; I>Télé – private; LCI – private; Euronews ...