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A reader consulting a copy of the newspaper Le Canard enchaîné.. The name is a reference to Radical Georges Clemenceau's newspaper L'homme libre (‘The Free Man’), which was forced to close by government censorship and reacted upon its reopening by changing its name to L'homme enchaîné ("The Chained-up Man"); Le Canard enchaîné means ‘The chained-up duck’ but canard (duck) is also ...
By August 2011, French Wikipedia was the 7th most visited site in France, with nearly 16 million unique visitors a month (according to Médiamétrie). In April 2012, it had 20 million unique visitors per month, or 2.4 million per day [10] with over 700 million page views. [11]
It is headed by an executive body, the CASEC (Board of Communal Section) and a deliberative body, ASEC (Assembly of the Communal Section). These two institutions are aided by CDSC (the Development Council of the Communal Section).
The 24-hour notation is used in writing with an h as a separator (h for heure, meaning hour).Example: 14 h 05 (1405 [14:05] hours or 2:05 pm). Though the correct form includes spaces on both sides of the h, it is common to see them omitted: 14h05.
The term is sometimes used to mean the act of leisurely absence from a military unit. [7] This comes from the rich history of Franco-English conflict; as Spain has a similar saying concerning the French (despedida a la francesa), it may have come from the Napoleonic campaign in the Iberian Peninsula which pitted the French against an Anglo-Portuguese and Spanish alliance.
It has also become the de facto lingua franca of diplomacy, science, technology, international trade, logistics, tourism, aviation, entertainment, and the Internet. [10] English accounts for at least 70% of total native speakers of the Germanic languages, and Ethnologue estimated that there were over 1.5 billion speakers worldwide as of 2021.
An early termination fee (ETF) is a charge levied when a party wants to break the term of an agreement or long-term contract.They are stipulated in the contract or agreement itself, and provide an incentive for the party subject to them to abide by the agreement.