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Les Lettres Françaises (French for "The French Letters") is a French literary publication, founded in 1941 by writers Jacques Decour and Jean Paulhan. Originally a clandestine magazine of the French Resistance in German-occupied territory, it was one of the many publications of the National Front resistance movement.
French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.
A letter of marque and reprisal (French: lettre de marque; lettre de course) was a government license in the Age of Sail that authorized a private person, known as a privateer or corsair, to attack and capture vessels of a foreign state at war with the issuer, licensing international military operations against a specified enemy as reprisal for a previous attack or injury.
In 1977 and 1979, several petitions were signed by a number of prominent French intellectuals, doctors, and psychologists calling for reforms to or the abolition of the French age-of-consent law. A January 1977 petition published in Le Monde criticized the Affaire de Versailles [ fr ] —the detention of three men arrested for sex offences ...
As part of the response to this decision, Herbs re-recorded "French Letter", releasing it as "French Letter '95" and accompanying it with a music video. [13] The re-released version re-entered the charts in the week of 6 August 1995, debuting at #10 and reaching a peak of #9, but remaining on the charts for a shorter run of 8 weeks.
More than 100 letters that never reached the crew of a French warship have been read for the first time since they were sent 265 years ago. More than 100 letters that never reached the crew of a ...
The cover sheet to the French translation of the letter drafted by the First Continental Congress in 1774. The Letters to the Inhabitants of Canada were three letters written by the First and Second Continental Congresses in 1774, 1775, and 1776 to communicate directly with the population of the Province of Quebec, formerly the French province of Canada, which had no representative system at ...
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