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The foreign alliances of France have a long and complex history spanning more than a millennium. One traditional characteristic of the French diplomacy of alliances has been the "Alliance de revers" (i.e. "Rear alliance"), aiming at allying with countries situated on the opposite side or "in the back" of an adversary, in order to open a second front encircling the adversary and thus re ...
France progressively carved for itself a huge colony, which would form French Indochina in 1887. France continued to rule Vietnam as a colony until France's defeat in the First Indochina War and the proclamation of Vietnam's independence in 1954. France has an embassy in Hanoi and a consulate-general in Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam has an embassy ...
The Allies invaded France and Napoleon abdicated on 6 April 1814. The conservative Congress of Vienna reversed the political changes that had occurred during the wars. Napoleon's attempted restoration, a period known as the Hundred Days , ended with his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
In the mid-1950s, France's image was deeply damaged among its allies, who saw it as a country incapable of adopting a foreign policy and a relationship with NATO that was stable and coherent over time, which ranged from ministerial crisis after ministerial crisis, regularly poses new demands and expects ever greater aid from the United States ...
France and its Western allies plan to lodge a protest with the United Nations' nuclear watchdog to criticise Iran's decision to curb cooperation with the agency, the French foreign minister said ...
LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Many of France's allies breathed a sigh of relief on Monday after Marine Le Pen's far-right party failed to win a snap election, but they noted that a messy coalition ...
France intends to complete a bilateral security guarantee accord with Ukraine by the start 2024, its foreign ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday. G7 countries in June unveiled an international ...
The French made allies of most of the Indian tribes and enabled them to attack villages in New England. Great Britain won and finally removed the French from continental North America in 1763. [8] [9] In 1763, France ceded almost all of New France to Britain and Spain, at the Treaty of Paris.