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In September 1939 Hitler invaded Poland, and France and Great Britain declared war. Both sides built up forces along to the Western Front, but for the next eight months neither side made a move: this was the "phony war". The German Blitzkrieg began in May 1940, and in six weeks of retreating the French lost 130,000 men.
The Paris Commune was declared and lasted 2 months before being violently suppressed by the French army. 31 August: Adolphe Thiers began his term as president of France. 1873: 24 May: Patrice de Mac-Mahon began his term as president of France. 1879: 30 January: Jules Grévy began his term as president of France. 1887: 28 January
The First French Empire, officially the French Republic, [d] then the French Empire after 1809 and also known as Napoleonic France, was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century. It lasted from 18 May 1804 to 3 May 1814 and again briefly from 20 ...
French President Emmanuel Macron searched on Thursday for a new prime minister to replace Michel Barnier, who officially resigned a day after opposition lawmakers voted to topple his government.
French is a Romance language (meaning that it is descended primarily from Vulgar Latin) that specifically is classified under the Gallo-Romance languages.. The discussion of the history of a language is typically divided into "external history", describing the ethnic, political, social, technological, and other changes that affected the languages, and "internal history", describing the ...
[8] French law restricts the access to most civil service jobs (fonction publique) for people who do not have French nationality, though there are exceptions to this: some highly qualified positions (e.g. public research and higher education) are open regardless of citizenship, while some positions (e.g. defense and law enforcement) are open ...
The nearly month-long second trial ended last week with a jury convicting Mark Jensen after only one day of deliberating. The verdict came as a relief to Julie Jensen's friends and family.
French school holidays are the periods when schools in France, and all the pupils in them, have a holiday. The dates are fixed nationally by the Ministry of Education for a period of three years. Holiday dates are given as a Saturday date "after classes", as some schools have lessons on Saturday mornings, and return on a Monday morning.