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Provence (Provençal Occitan: Provença in classical norm or Prouvènço ... oil, mulberry trees), and cattle are raised in the Camargue. Although Provence ...

1370), born Guillaume Grimoard, a native of France, was Pope from 1362 to 1370 ... Guillaume de Grimoard, was a native of Grizac in Languedoc (today part ...

century tradition of Romanticism is one in which love conquers all, overcoming ... Born in Paris to a father of aristocratic lineage (from a grandaughter ...

Rennes-le-Château (Rènnas del Castèl in Occitan) is a small medieval ... Starting in the 1950s, a local restaurant owner, in order to increase ...

Cannes is a French commune located in the department of Alpes-Maritimes ... the fascist governments of Germany and Italy in film selection. ...

known for his operas, which were very popular in the late nineteenth and early ... Massenet was born in Montaud, then an outlying hamlet and now a part of ...

Édith Cresson (born January 27, 1934 as Édith Campion in Boulogne-Billancourt ... her nation and the wider European community in a wide variety of posts. However ...

5, 1794) was a noted orator, a leading figure in the early stages of the French ... Because the French Revolution was in part a reaction to the abuse of power ...

include the Dakar Grand Mosque, built in 1964; Gorée Island, a World ... first president, Léopold Senghor was elected in 1960, and handed power to his ...

Avignon is a commune in southern France with a population of 89,300 in ... Martell. After a long period of semi-autonomy in the empire, Avignon finally came ...

turn towards reliance on nuclear power as France's main energy source. ... of Europe and, having limited his involvement in national politics after his defeat ...

solve difficult mathematical problems. Early in life, he contemplated becoming ... Fourier was born at Auxerre in the Yonne département of France, the son ...

The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) is the National Library of ... maps, coins, and others. All works published in France are deposited to the Library ...

In particular, Les damnés de la terre (The Wretched of the Earth) was ... then a French colony and now a French département. He was born into a mixed ...

The dechristianization of France during the French Revolution describes ... priests were executed. The church's role in France was permanently altered. ...

poets of mid-to-late nineteenth century France. Rimbaud was a literary prodigy ... Rimbaud's rejection of bourgeois values and notions of morality in ...

statesman, physician and journalist. He led France during World War I and was ... Clemenceau, however, secured France's trusteeship of Syria and the ...

Saint of Fishermen. The archipelago is France's only remnant of its ... Originally settled in the seventeenth century due to the attraction of ...

Legislative Assembly originally from the département of Gironde in southwest ... the National Convention until their fall in the insurrection of 31 May – ...

critic whose life spans two major phases in the development of French literature ... makes him one of the most protean figures in French literature. He left behind ...

first woman member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the ... Morisot received training in painting from a young age and she enjoyed ...

of Andorra, is one of the smallest states in Europe. At 180 square miles ... Andorra was created by Charlemagne to serve as a buffer state in order ...

As technology enabled humans to settle in larger numbers, however, more ... The development of microlith tools began in response to these changes. They ...

Paris is the capital city of France, situated on the River Seine, in northern ... crossroads between land and river trade routes in lands of abundant agriculture ...

1916 – January 8, 1996) was President of France from 1981 to 1995, and was ... the best strategy to avoid this was for France and Germany to devolve functions ...

Réunion is an island, located in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar ... It is part of the Mascarene Islands, which are volcanic in origin; Mauritius ...

symbol for humanity's search for meaning in the modern world. for nature, Merton recognized commonalities in the contemplative traditions ...

These songs originated in the (largely pagan) oral tradition that preceded ... Composed in Old French, apparently intended for oral performance by jongleurs ...

In general discussion, a nation-state is variously called a "country ... by the throwing off of kings (for example, in the Netherlands and the United ...

titular president and the last monarch of France. He was the nephew of Napoleon ... leaders and the people of Post-revolutionary France lacked a shared vision of how ...

most common type of educational institutions in many nations. Public schools ... While public schools are to be found in virtually every country, there ...

) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and ... Geneva was a center of the Reformation in the sixteenth century, and was ...

of ideological, political and social upheaval in the political history of France ... and wealth of the elite, and was perpetrated in the name of liberty, equality ...

capital.) It is also the most populated city in French-speaking Western Africa ... him the name of the nearest village. Fleeing in terror, the old man shouted: ...

26, 2019) served as the President of France from May 17, 1995 until May ... responsible economic policies, and was elected in 1995, after campaigning on a ...

"collective suicide" by the lawyers in the Assembly. ... In criminal cases, the expansion of the right ... gave priority to the ...

French Revolution, when armed revolutionaries in Paris, increasingly in conflict ... Conflict between King Louis XVI of France and the country's new revolutionary ...

Cologne (Köln in German) is Germany's fourth-largest city after ... Cologne became a member of the trading guild alliance Hanseatic League ...

a controversial religious sect that flourished in the Languedoc region of France ... in their theology, espousing a stark distinction between the physical ...

), the largest city in Belgium, is also that nation's capital city ... The city’s colorful past is on display in the architectural gems of the ...

he became Agent-General of th2 e Clergy in 1780. In 1789, just before the ... another under French hegemony. He succeeded in obtaining peace with Austria ...

during the period of Jacobin rule (1793–94) in the French First Republic. like his mentor, he would meet the same fate in the Thermidorian Reaction. ...

), archaically spelled Luxemburg, is a small landlocked country in western ... Luxembourg is one of the smallest countries in Europe, and ranked 175th ...

Olive is the common name for a evergreen tree or shrub, Olea europaea ... Olive oil is commonly used in cooking, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and ...

thumb|right|250px|A thirteenth-century slave market in Yemen]] be, an economic commodity based on human life. In the twenty-first century, this ...

the various Western colonies and protectorates in Asia and [Africa]] following ... nation cherished as a sign of membership in the community of nations. The ...

The September Massacres were a series of killings of prisoners in Paris ... 1:00 pm, Georges Danton delivered a speech in the assembly warning citizens ...

The Convention came about in the wake of the King's Flight to Varennes ... from the elected deputies and concentrated in the small Committee of Public ...

The Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe bordered by the ... largest regions are Dutch-speaking Flanders in the north, with 58 percent of ...

Army who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean theater of ... Born in 1885, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and the ...