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As of February 2025, there are 5,115,000 users, 143 admins and 72,921 files on the French Wikipedia. [4] On 2 December 2014, the French-language Wikipedia became the third-largest language edition by number of registered users, [5] overtaking for the first time the German edition, with 2,022,504 registered users, [6] [7] behind the English ...
France, [IX] officially the French Republic, [X] is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world.
30 June – France formally leaves the military structure of NATO. 26 August – Riots occur in French Somaliland. 30 August – France offers independence to French Somaliland. 11 October – France and the Soviet Union sign a treaty for cooperation in nuclear research. 26 October – NATO moves its headquarters from Paris to Brussels.
In June 1940, the 6th Engineer Regiment participated to the combats of the Cadets of Saumur.Missioned by lieutenant-colonel Robert, regimental commander of the depot of the 6th Engineer Regiment, lieutenant Rousseau was the chief head center at Saumur and had at his disposition, for each bridge, one officer with some 30 men : lieutenant Martin on the bridge of Montsoreau, lieutenant Poupon on ...
17 August – Gabon gains independence from France. 28 November – Mauritania becomes independent of France. 5 December – Pierre Lagaillarde, who led 1958 and 1960 insurrections in Algeria, fails to appear in a Paris court. He has reportedly fled with his four fellow defendants to Spain, en route to Algeria. [2]
The Fifth Republic (French: Cinquième République) is France's current republican system of government.It was established on 4 October 1958 by Charles de Gaulle under the Constitution of the Fifth Republic.
2 October – Launch of the Citroën AX supermini. [4] 17 November – Georges Besse, 58-year-old head of carmaker Renault, is shot dead outside his mansion in Paris; left-wing extremists are suspected of his murder. [5] 6 December - Johnny Hallyday released his 35th album Gang.
2 January – Georges Renavent, actor (born 1894). 20 March – Henri Longchambon, politician (born 1896). 22 March – Camille Mandrillon, biathlete and Olympic medallist (born 1890). 26 March – René Guillot, author (born 1900). 6 April – Gabriel Chevallier, novelist (born 1895). 3 May – Darius Paul Dassault, General (born 1882). 14 May