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French personal pronouns (analogous to English I, you, he/she, we, they, etc.) reflect the person and number of their referent, and in the case of the third person, its gender as well (much like the English distinction between him and her, except that French lacks an inanimate third person pronoun it or a gender neutral they and thus draws this distinction among all third person nouns ...
The Napoleonic Code (French: Code Napoléon), officially the Civil Code of the French (French: Code civil des Français; simply referred to as Code civil), is the French civil code established during the French Consulate in 1804 and still in force in France, although heavily and frequently amended since its inception. [1]
From French Honduras britannique: 1968–1972: Now Belize (BIZ) IHO Dutch East Indies code from French Indes orientales hollandaises: 1934–1938: Now Indonesia (INA) KHM Khmer Republic From French République khmère: 1972: Now Cambodia (CAM) MAL Malaya From French Malaisie: 1956–1960: Competed independently before the formation of Malaysia ...
The Indian Ocean Commission (French: Commission de l'Océan Indien, COI) is an intergovernmental organisation that links African Indian Ocean nations: Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion (an overseas region of France), and Seychelles. [1]
The Code noir (French pronunciation: [kɔd nwaʁ], Black code) was a decree passed by King Louis XIV of France in 1685 defining the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire and served as the code for slavery conduct in the French colonies up until 1789 the year marking the beginning of the French Revolution.
The French government awarded the Order of the Black Star in Europe until 1 January 1964. The decolonisation and restructuring of the French colonial empire, one speaks now of the " French Union ", made necessary other adaptations in the French knighthood orders.
The Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT, and commonly named "Transat"), typically known overseas as the French Line, was a French shipping company. Established in 1855 by the brothers Émile and Issac Péreire under the name Compagnie Générale Maritime , the company was entrusted by the French government to transport mails to North America.
Code page 863 (CCSID 863) [2] (also known as CP 863, IBM 00863, OEM 863, MS-DOS French Canada [3]) is a code page used under DOS in Canada to write French [4] (mainly in Quebec) although it lacks the letters Æ, æ, Œ, œ, Ÿ and ÿ.