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| | Vichy France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Vichy France, or the Vichy regime was the de facto French government of 1940-1944 during the Nazi Germany occupation of World War II. | | | Vichy France was established after France surrendered to Germany in 1940, and took its name from the government's capital in Vichy, southeast of Paris near Clermont-Ferrand. | | | The Vichy government's claim to be the de jure French government was challenged by the Free French Forces of Charles de Gaulle, based first in London and later in Algiers, and French governments ever since have held that the Vichy regime was an illegal government run by traitors. |
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| | France (10/05) |
| | Since 2003, France has supported four UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions on Iraq, including UNSCR 1546, which laid out a timetable for Iraqs political transition and reaffirmed UNSC authorization for a Multinational Force in Iraq, at the invitation of the Iraqi government, to stabilize the country. | | | France has voiced strong support for Israeli Prime Minister Sharons Gaza disengagement plan, continues to express concerns on the route of the Israel security barrier in the West Bank, and has called for an international conference before the end of 2005 to help relaunch the roadmap and move towards final status talks. | | | France deployed additional military forces to Cote dIvoire in 2002 and to Central African Republic in 2003 to address crises in both countries and, with EU partners, led an international military operation to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2003. |
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| | France: Environmental Issues |
| | In the aftermath of the oil shocks, the French government took the critical step to reorient the country's energy policy, pledging to achieve energy independence by reducing its reliance on foreign energy supplies. | | | In addition, the organization claims that, over the last 20 years, France has inspected less than 10% of ships entering French ports, instead of the minimum of 25% demanded by the U.N. Convention on Maritime Rules. | | | France is also a leader in adopting the European Commission's 'green paper' on corporate social responsibility, which requires listed companies to publish information relation to the environmental and social impact of their activities in their annual reports. |
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| | Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Vichy France |
| | Vichy France, or the Vichy regime was the de facto French government of 1940-1944 during the Nazi Germany occupation of World War II. | | | Others, particularly the vice-premier Henri Philippe Pétain and the commander-in-chief General Maxime Weygand, insisted that the responsibility of the government was to remain in France and share the misfortune of her people. | | | The Vichy government's claim to be the de jure French government was challenged by the Free French Forces of Charles de Gaulle, based first in London and later in Algiers, and French governments ever since have held that the Vichy regime was an illegal government run by traitors. |
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| | New France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The government of the colony was reformed along the lines of the government of France, with the Governor General and Intendant subordinate to the Minister of the Marine in France. | | | Digitisation project of the national archives of Canada and France | | | New France (French: la Nouvelle-France) describes the area colonized by France in North America during a period extending from the exploration of the Saint Lawrence River, by Jacques Cartier in 1534, to the cession of New France to the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1763. |
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| | 1920 in France -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | It was notable that in the statements issued both by the new president and by the new government, it was proclaimed that France would do her utmost to make the League of Nations a success. | | | Throughout the year there was considerable, though intermittent, discussion on the proposal that France should resume diplomatic relations with the Vatican; and at the end of November the government proposal to renew relations was approved by the Chamber of Deputies by 387 votes to 210. | | | The premier said, however, that France was determined to see the terms of the Treaty of Versailles fulfilled, and although the British government were in favour of allowing the German government to send troops into the Ruhr District, to suppress the Spartacist insurrection there, France viewed these movements of troops with grave concern. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/1/19/1920_in_france.htm
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| | France's New Economy |
| | France also boasts the widest use of stock-option plans in Europe, and is the third largest market for venture capital in the world (behind Britain and the United States). | | | France is attempting to streamline the way in which business interacts with the government, not by deregulating, but by embracing new technology. | | | Even French technology giants such as Vivendi and France Télécom have created their own venture capital funds to promote start-ups in related technologies. |
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| | Harm from the Hague - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) |
| | China is not the only country to ban criticism of the government; as of this writing, the government of Victoria (Australia) is suing to suppress a book called Victoria Police Corruption on the grounds that it "scandalizes the courts." This book is available on the Internet outside Australia. | | | The basic idea is reasonable enough: if someone hits your car in France or breaks a contract with your French company, you can sue him in France, then bring the judgment to a court in whichever country he lives in (or has assets in) for enforcement. | | | Meanwhile, works that criticize Islam have faced increasing censorship in Egypt, a Hague treaty participant; this too could be globalized by the Hague treaty. |
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| | Vichy France |
| | The Germans invaded the northern part of France, which became known as the "Occupied Zone." The southern part of France was called the "Free Zone." This zone was located in the town of Vichy, which became the name of their government. | | | The Vichy government gave in to the demands of the Nazis and were told to supply lists of Jews. | | | Through the process of collaboration, Vichy wanted to have a good relationship with Germany, but the Nazis were not interested in treating France as an equal. |
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| | Provisional Government |
| | In France the Provisional Government of the Republic was established by the Free French Forces under Charles de Gaulle after the liberation of the country the Nazis. | | | A Kingdom without a king: The journal of the provisional government in the Revolution of 1688 | | | Provisional governments often occur the result of a revolution or in wartime when an occupied or territory has been liberated or conversely a government has been deposed by an army. |
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| | Chile Ricardo Lagos Escobar (President) News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News |
| | last week after he claimed to have helped save the life of current president Ricardo Lagos when the Pinochet government unleashed a vengeance killing spree in the wake of the... | | | While the surprised government of Chilean President Ricardo Lagos huddled at the presidential palace, the head of Interpol in Chile, Maria Elena Gomez,... | | | But Chilean President Ricardo Lagos said differing views over how to proceed persisted as the two-day Summit of the... |
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| | France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This concept of a Nation agreed upon is opposed to the German concept of a Nation based on ethnicity and race, and it was responsible for much of the conflicts between France and Germany in the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. | | | The right-wing Front National party made significant inroads in the early 1980's, seized on voter concern about the perceived decline of France and 'national dissolution' as a result of immigration and globalisation, by advocating tougher law-and-order and immigration policies. | | | In 2003, France's natural population growth (excluding immigration) was responsible for almost all the natural growth in European population: the population of the European Union increased by 216,000 inhabitants (without immigration), of which 211,000 was the increase in France's population alone, and 5,000 was the increase in all the other countries of the EU combined. |
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| | Vichy France -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | For some five decades after the end of World War II, silence shrouded the subject of France's complicity with Germany's wartime government in the exportation and ultimate execution of some 76,000 French Jews. | | | (1907–82), French political leader, born in Paris, France; admitted to bar at 21, elected deputy at 25; imprisoned by Vichy government 1940, escaped 1941 and served with Free French forces; minister of national economy 1944–45; on UN Economic and Social Council 1947–50; premier 1954–55; author of ‘A Modern French Republic'. | | | formally French State, French État Français (July 1940–September 1944), France under the regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain from the Nazi German defeat of France to the Allied liberation in World War II. |
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| | Comoros Islands, Pierre Pahlavi |
| | France opted then to engage in an official duel with the government in Moroni: The Parisian press accused the Comorian chief of state and his relatives of financial wrongdoings, the French government joined the Comorian opposition to demand the liberation of political dissidents and Air France threatened to suspend its flights to Comoros. | | | When the French government condemns the separatist initiatives and claims - as it did twenty years before - that it cares about the territorial integrity of the archipelago, it forgets that "the Comoros' fate (for a long time and until very recently) was in the hands of Paris. | | | At the local level, governments - elected directly by universal vote - received a large degree of autonomy: the legislative as well as executive powers were their prerogatives, and they could manage their revenues and federal government subsidies themselves. |
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| | History of France |
| | (1991); Tiersky, Ronald, France in the New Europe (1994); Wright, Vincent, The Government and Politics of France, 3d ed. | | | oday, the term metropolitan France refers to the mainland departments and CORSICA, a large island located in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Italy that has been a part of France since 1768. | | | France has six overseas departments: FRENCH GUIANA in South America; GUADELOUPE and MARTINIQUE in the West Indies; MAYOTTE, an island formerly part of the Comoros, located in the Indian Ocean; REUNION, an island in the Indian Ocean; and SAINT PIERRE AND MIQUELON, islands off the east coast of Canada. |
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| | Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France |
| | Abstractedly speaking, government, as well as liberty, is good; yet could I, in common sense, ten years ago, have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government (for she then had a government) without inquiry what the nature of that government was, or how it was administered? | | | France, by the perfidy of her leaders, has utterly disgraced the tone of lenient council in the cabinets of princes, and disarmed it of its most potent topics. | | | The Chancellor of France, at the opening of the states, said, in a tone of oratorical flourish, that all occupations were honorable. |
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| | A Century of New France: 1663-1763 - Canadian Heritage |
| | Similarly, in political terms: however well-intentioned was the government of New France, however far from meek and docile were its subjects, the mass of the people still had very little say in their own public affairs. | | | By 1747, however, the dwindling flow of trade goods from France, due largely to British strength on the distant Atlantic, spurred on an Indian conspiracy against the French in the Detroit-Lake Erie region. | | | New France yet spread out along the St. Lawrence to the Great Lakes and the northwest beyond; and was linked as well with the new wilderness French realm to be known as Louisiana, that fronted south on the Gulf of Mexico but reached up the Mississippi and Ohio to the Great Lakes country. |
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| | Radicus Internet - Gulf of Guinea states, Congo, Zaire |
| | PARIS, Oct 10 (AFP) - The Nigerian federal government has taken note of a ruling by the International Court of Justice awarding sovereignty of a disputed peninsula to Cameroon and will be studying its impact on its interests, the country's embassy in France said Thursday. | | | LAGOS, Oct 29 (AFP) - The Nigerian organisers of this year's Miss World said Tuesday that dozens of international beauty queens have dropped their threat to boycott the pageant in protest at the sentencing of unmarried mothers to death by stoning. | | | LAGOS, Feb 2 (AFP) - At least 20 people were killed Sunday when an explosion ripped apart a block of shops, banks and apartments in Nigeria's economic capital Lagos and triggered hours of chaos and looting. |
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| | France |
| | In November, after an arson attack destroyed a Jewish school in Gagny, President Chirac stated "an attack on a Jew is an attack on France" and ordered the formation of an inter-ministerial committee charged with leading a crackdown on anti-Semitism. | | | The Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF) operated a hotline to register allegations of threats; from January to November 2002, it received 465 reported threats and attacks, all of which were verified. | | | Two other deportees were also ill. Some observers criticized the Government's apparent failure to recognize the seriousness of Hagos' illness, and the decision to handcuff her during the deportation, which may have made breathing difficult and contributed to her death. |
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| | Microform Sources for United States History |
| | Reports from U.S. diplomats in foreign countries on political and military affairs, studies and statistics on socioeconomic matters, interviews and minutes of meetings with foreign government officials, texts of important letters, instructions, cables sent and received, translations from foreign publications and government documents. | | | India -- Politics and government -- 1919-1947 -- Sources/India -- Politics and government -- 1947---Sources/India -- Foreign relations -- Sources/United States -- Dept. of State -- Archives. | | | Records of the Department of State relating to political relations between the United States and Russia and the Soviet Union, 1910-29. |
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| | French Second Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In spite of the preponderance of the "tricolour" party in the provisional government, so long as the voice of France had not spoken, the socialists, supported by the Parisian proletariat, had exercised an influence on policy out of all proportion to their relative numbers or personal weight. | | | Lamartine, thinking that he was sure to be the choice of the electors under universal suffrage, won over the support of the Chamber, which did not even take the precaution of rendering ineligible the members of families which had reigned over France. | | | It came to power as a result of the 1848 Revolution and is counted as the second republic because the government during the French Revolution is counted as the first, although the revolutionary government is more often discussed as three periods: the National Convention, the Directory, and the Consulate. |
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| | The Chiraqi Regime of Vichy France |
| | One possible reason they don’t tread that line is because of the politically wobbly US government policy toward Ivory Coast, one that essentially supports the Vichy French position. | | | For decades, the Ivory Coast has been a regional bulwark of economic development, with a secular government, full religious freedom, and a President democratically-elected in 2000, Laurent Gbagbo (a Christian). | | | The so-called Linas-Marcoussis “peace accord” that Vichy France recklessly imposed on the elected President Laurent Gbagbo and all Ivorians on January 24, 2003 rewards the mutineering thugs by handing over state power (the ministries of defense and interior) to the pro-al-Qaeda Islamist rebels in the north and west of the Ivory Coast. |
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| | France in New Century |
| | He found democratic institutions distasteful and inefficient, and sought to strengthen the executive powers of the President in the new government, but he did demonstrate an abiding respect for the will of the people. | | | France was influenced by the fact that a sizeable part of the population was French landowners with European backgrounds who had lived in Algeria for generations. | | | France acquiesced in the face of Hitler's aggression in the Rhineland, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. |
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| | Foreign office comes under fire in Senate: Fazl's mistreatment in France -DAWN - Top Stories; 10 December, 2004 |
| | The government assured the opposition that its sentiments would be immediately passed on to the foreign office for taking up the matter with France. | | | Leader of the House Wasim Sajjad held out an assurance that the matter would be brought to the notice of the foreign office with instructions to take it up with the French government for clarification. | | | They regretted that the government of Pakistan had not taken any notice of the incident which, they said, was a breach of privilege of parliament. |
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| | France (10/05) |
| | Since 2003, France has supported four UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions on Iraq, including UNSCR 1546, which laid out a timetable for Iraqs political transition and reaffirmed UNSC authorization for a Multinational Force in Iraq, at the invitation of the Iraqi government, to stabilize the country. | | | France has voiced strong support for Israeli Prime Minister Sharons Gaza disengagement plan, continues to express concerns on the route of the Israel security barrier in the West Bank, and has called for an international conference before the end of 2005 to help relaunch the roadmap and move towards final status talks. | | | France deployed additional military forces to Cote dIvoire in 2002 and to Central African Republic in 2003 to address crises in both countries and, with EU partners, led an international military operation to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2003. |
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| | France in modern times - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Nazi Germany occupied three fifths of France's territory (the Atlantic seaboard and most a France north of the Loire), leaving the rest to the new Vichy collaboration government established on July 10, 1940 under Henri Philippe Pétain. | | | This massive influx has created tensions in contemporary France, especially over issues of "integration into French society" and the notion of a "French identity", and in recent years the most controversal issues have been with regards to muslum populations (at 7%, Islam is the second largest religion in today's France; see Islam in France). | | | Since the 1960s, France has experienced a great deal of Jewish immigration from the Mediterranean and North Africa, and the Jewish population in France is estimated at around 600,000 today. |
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| | France: history 1515-1815 - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about France: history 1515-1815 |
| | France was on the verge of civil war when Bonaparte – aided by Talleyrand and the Directory member Emmanuel-Joseph Sièyes – carried out the coup of 19 Brumaire (1799), destroyed the Directory, and set up the government known as the Consulate. | | | This treaty was due largely to the growing feeling in France that the real enemy of French national unity was Spain, and Charles IX planned a united attack of Protestants and Catholics on Spain. | | | The succeeding age of Louis XIV was the logical conclusion of Richelieu's domestic and foreign policies. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Reflections on the Revolution in France |
| | Abstractedly speaking, government, as well as liberty, is good; yet could I, in common sense, ten years ago, have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government (for she then had a government) without inquiring what the nature of that government was? | | | Most of Burke's fellow Whigs joined him in opposition to the revolutionary government of France, and the Reflections became Burke's most significant intellectual legacy after his death in 1797. | | | Burke's critics made much of the intemperate language he used to attack the leaders of the French Revolution, his eulogizing of King Louis XVI of France and his wife, and the various factual inaccuracies concerning specific events in France and the political arrangements of the new constitution in that country. |
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| | Arizona Daily Wildcat - A Wider Lens: France's legal discrimination - Wednesday, February 18, 2004 |
| | As far as equality goes, it's striking to note what lengths the French government will go to appease the 5,000- to 6,000-strong Sikh population of the country in the face of the millions of Muslims, Christians and Jews who are to be affected. | | | There are 6 million Muslims in France who are loathed by a large percentage of the population. | | | Finally we come to fraternity, an idea that is not reflected in the adoption of this law, which clearly benefits a number of people in the country who have it in for the country's religious minority. |
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