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Anti-French sentiment (Francophobia or Gallophobia) is the fear of, discrimination against, prejudice of, or hatred towards France, the French people, French culture, the French government or the Francophonie (set of political entities that use French as an official language or whose French-speaking population is numerically or proportionally large). [1]
Anti-French sentiment was strong in the wake of France's refusal to support US proposals in the UN Security Council for military action to invade Iraq. While other nations also opposed the US proposals (notably Russia; China; [7] and traditional US allies, such as Germany, Canada, and Belgium), France received particularly ferocious criticism ...
Censorship in France may be traced to the Middle Ages. In 1275 Philip III of France put Parisian scriptoria under the control of the University of Paris which inspected manuscript books to verify that they were correctly copied. [5] Correctness of text, not content, was the concern until the early 16th century, when tracts by Martin Luther were ...
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyPauline Harmange has been a full-time writer for only a year. The 26-year-old French activist was approached, in 2019, by a small publisher to expand ...
In total, 17 French ports participated in the slave trade with over 3,300 slave expeditions. The port of Nantes was France's principal slave port as it was responsible for about 42% of France's slave trade. Other important ports were those of La Rochelle, Marseille, Honfleur, Lorient, Le Havre, Bordeaux and Saint-Malo. [20]
The French government has so far stopped short of declaring a state of emergency — a measure taken to quell weeks of rioting around France that followed the accidental death of two boys fleeing ...
The term "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" first appeared in " 'Round Springfield", an April 1995 episode of The Simpsons, an American animated television show. [2] In the episode, budget cuts at Springfield Elementary School force the school's Scottish janitor, Groundskeeper Willie, to teach French.
France has had enough of Amazon.com and decided to do something about it. The country's lawmakers signed a bill last Thursday that will prevent the online retail behemoth from combining free book ...