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The indirect election took place from 2 to 10 September 1792 after the election of the electoral colleges by primary assemblies on 26 August. [2] Despite the introduction of universal male suffrage, the turn-out was low, [3] [note 1] though there was an increase in comparison to the 1791 elections—in 1792 11.9% of a greatly increased electorate votes, compared to 10.2% of a much smaller ...
The concept "precautionary principle" is generally considered to have arisen in English from a translation of the German term Vorsorgeprinzip in the 1970s in response to forest degradation and sea pollution, where German lawmakers adopted clean air act banning use of certain substances suspected in causing the environmental damage even though evidence of their impact was inconclusive at that ...
In August 1944, Combat took over the headquarters of L'Intransigeant in Paris, and Albert Camus became its editor in chief.The newspaper's production run decreased from 185,000 copies in January 1945 to 150,000 in August of the same year: [clarification needed] it did not attain the circulation of other established newspapers (the Communist daily L'Humanité was publishing at the time 500,000 ...
The Francophonie or Francophone world is the whole body of people and organisations around the world who use the French language regularly for private or public purposes. The term was coined by Onésime Reclus [ 1 ] in 1880 and became important as part of the conceptual rethinking of cultures and geography in the late 20th century.
Once Thevet was established as cosmographer to the French court, he compiled his Cosmographie Universelle, intended to describe every part of the known world. A dispute arose with a collaborator, François de Belleforest, who left Thevet's employ to publish his own Cosmographie in 1572 before Thevet's work finally appeared in 1575.
"occasional piece"; item written or composed for a special occasion. In French, it means "second-hand hardware." Can be shortened as pièce d'occas ' or even occas ' (pronounced /okaz/). portmanteau (pl. portmanteaux) In English, a portmanteau is a large piece of luggage for clothes that opens (like a book or a diptych) into two parts.
Franglais also refers to nouns coined from Anglo-Saxon roots or from recent English loanwords (themselves not always English in origin), often by adding -ing at the end of a popular word—e.g., un parking ('a car park or parking lot' is alternatively un stationnement in Canadian French, although stationnement means 'the action of parking or ...
PARIS (Reuters) -Parts of a contested new French immigration law go against the constitution and must be scrapped, France's Constitutional Council said on Thursday. The court, a body that ...