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  2. The Impossible Voyage - Wikipedia

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    The original French title of the film, Le Voyage à travers l'impossible, comes from a stage spectacular of the same name, written in 1882 by Jules Verne. Méliès was probably inspired by memories of this play, but otherwise the film bears little connection to it; the plot structure appears to be inspired more closely by a previous Méliès ...

  3. French Union - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Jean Jaurès - Wikipedia

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    Jaurès is the idol and moral compass of the lead character, the union leader Michel, in the French film, The Snows of Kilimanjaro (2011). Michel quotes Jaurès throughout the film to justify and reflect on his actions. His political journey towards democratic socialism is depicted in the 2004 made-for-TV movie "Jaurès, Birth of a Giant" , .

  5. Entente Cordiale - Wikipedia

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    Šubrtová, Marcela. "The Anglo-French Rapprochement and the Question of Morocco." West Bohemian Historical Review 2 (2016): 213–241 online; Taylor, A.J.P. The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848–1918 (1954) online free; Williamson, Samuel R. The politics of grand strategy: Britain and France prepare for war, 1904–1914 (1990).

  6. Category:1904 films - Wikipedia

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  7. French protectorate of Cambodia - Wikipedia

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    This bureaucracy was formed mostly of French officials, and the only Asians freely permitted to participate in government were ethnic Vietnamese, [citation needed] who were viewed as the dominant Asians in the Indochinese Union. In 1904, King Norodom died and rather than pass the throne on to Norodom's sons, the French passed the succession to ...

  8. The Sitting Duck - Wikipedia

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    'The Trade Unionist') [4] is a 2022 French-language thriller film directed by Jean-Paul Salomé from a screenplay he co-wrote with Fadette Drouard. [1] The film is a co-production between France and Germany. The film is an adaptation of the 2019 book of the same name written by Caroline Michel-Aguirre, an investigative journalist for L'Obs. [5]

  9. The Strike (1904 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Workers fleeing the charge of the Gendarmerie. This is the first film adapting some parts of Emile Zola's 1885 novel Germinal. [6]This is the first film quoted by M. Keith Booker to support his demonstration that early working-class film was central not only to the evolution of leftist culture but to the evolution of cinema itself and that early films dealt not only with capitalism, but ...