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French uses the capital É, because the use of a capital letter alters the meaning of the word (État: a State, as in a country; état: a state of being). It also cannot be shortened as coup as is often the case in English- because this literally means a "hit" in French, but can be used figuratively to mean many more things.
In many countries political parties or groups are banned. Parties may be banned for many reasons, including extremism and anti-democratic ideologies, [2] on ethnic or religious grounds, [3] and sometimes simply because the group opposes government policies, with the ban sometimes alleging wrongdoing as the cause. [4]
The Pleading in English Act 1362 (36 Edw. 3 Stat. 1.c. 15), [1] often rendered Statute of Pleading, was an Act of the Parliament of England.The Act complained that because the Norman French language was largely unknown to the common people of England, they had no knowledge of what was being said for or against them in the courts, which used Law French.
The natural borders of France (French: Frontières naturelles de la France) were a nationalist theory developed in France, notably during the French Revolution. They correspond to the Rhine , the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea , the Pyrenees and the Alps , according to the revolutionaries.
the constitutional block is a set of texts recognized as being invested with the same constitutional force as the French Constitution itself. It includes the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789), the preamble of the Constitution of 1946 , and the Charter for the Environment (2004).See also § valeur constitutionnelle .
The French monarchy was irrevocably linked to the Catholic Church (the formula was la France est la fille aînée de l'église, or "France is the eldest daughter of the church"), and French theorists of the divine right of kings and sacerdotal power in the Renaissance had made those links explicit.
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"Speak French, Be Clean", written on the wall of the Ayguatébia-Talau school. The non-French Oïl languages and Franco-Provençal are highly endangered; because of their similarity to standard French, their speakers conformed first in phonology, and then orthography much more readily. The other languages are still spoken but are all considered ...