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a surprise attack. In French, [donner] un coup de main means "[to give] a hand" (to give assistance). Even if the English meaning exists as well (as in faire le coup de main), it is old-fashioned. coup d'état (pl. coups d'état) a sudden change in government by force; literally "hit (blow) of state."
According to historian Jacques Delarue, a witness to the operation, 200 police inspectors from Paris and elsewhere, 15 compagnies of the Groupe mobile de réserve (GMR) and squads of French gendarmes and mobile guards (gardes mobiles) were brought to Marseille for the operation. In total, "approximatively 12,000 police men found themselves ...
The French historian Henri Amouroux in La Grande histoire des Français sous l’Occupation, says that 20,000 civilians were killed in Calvados department, 10,000 in Seine-Maritime, 14,800 in the Manche, 4,200 in the Orne, around 3,000 in the Eure. All together, that makes more than 50,000 killed.
On y parle plus de 800 langues, soit environ un huitième de toutes les langues du monde. Si tant de langues se sont développées sur ces terres escarpées, c’est parce que les gens ne s’aventuraient que rarement à plus d’une quinzaine de kilomètres de leur village familial au cours de leur vie.
France was the fourth country to test an independently developed nuclear weapon, doing so in 1960 under the government of Charles de Gaulle. The French military is currently thought to retain a weapons stockpile of around 300 [ 6 ] operational (deployed) nuclear warheads , making it the fourth-largest in the world, speaking in terms of warheads ...
su, d'su, de su sur, dessus on, over top of su la, s'a sur la on the (feminine) su'l sur le on the (masculine) anyway, en tout co [ã tu̥ kɔ], entouco, entéco, ent'lé co, entouka en tout cas, en tous les cas in any case, however, anyway (from English "anyway" addition of this word is non-ubiquitous, but en tout co has broad usage)
The history of France's military nuclear program recounts the path that led France to develop a military nuclear program after World War II.The establishment of the French Nuclear Deterrence Force was based on a French nuclear testing program that began on February 13, 1960, and ended on January 27, 1996.
Paige DeSorbo is not interested in fans' theories on why she and Craig Conover broke up.. The Summer House star, 32, announced on the Monday, Dec. 30 episode of her podcast Giggly Squad that she ...