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There are direct flights between Brazil and France with the following airlines: Air France, LATAM Brasil and Azul. A road connects the French city of Cayenne to Macapá in Brazil, via. a bridge over the Oyapock River , which is known as the N2 in French Guiana, and BR-156 in Brazil.
The French intrusion into Amapá took place on 15 May 1895, on the border between the Brazilian Amapá state and French Guiana, the culminating event of the territorial dispute known in Portuguese as the Questão do Amapá (Amapá Question). This event marked Captain Charles-Louis Lunier leading French troops in a invasion of Brazilian territory.
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The Brazilian and the French presidents on Tuesday announced a plan to invest 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in the Amazon, including parts of the rainforest in neighboring French Guiana. The two ...
He instead sent France's ambassador to Brazil, representing its Amazonian territory of French Guiana. Deforestation in Lula’s first year in office fell by about half, to a five-year low.
The visit marked the start of a new era in relations between France and South America, but France did not have the resources to match its ambitions. Some, like Étienne Burin des Roziers, the Secretary General of the Presidency who accompanied de Gaulle, wondered whether the President's trip was a "flash in the pan".
At a separate event with French citizens living in Brazil, Macron said his visit marked a tightening of relations since the administration of former President Nicolas Sarkozy, under which a series ...
The Lobster War (also known as the Lobster Operation; Portuguese: Guerra da Lagosta; French: Conflit de la langouste) was a dispute over spiny lobsters that occurred from 1961 to 1963 between Brazil and France. The Brazilian government refused to allow French fishing vessels to catch spiny lobsters 100 miles (160 km) off Brazil's northeastern ...