Article: Polish Succession, War of the

Article: Good-bye to la gloire.(France)
National Review;  May 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......in the United States, be interested in France? It is understandable that American policy...inevitability of German domination. By contrast, France's leading role in the appeasement of Serbia...being asked. People would not wonder if France still counted, were policy- making all...

Article: Under Sarkozy, France no longer wants to be Africa's policeman
AP Worldstream;  February 6, 2008 ;     700+ words ...The last time France's ally in Chad was threatened by a coup...Nicolas Sarkozy is trying to prove that France no longer relishes playing the policeman...country did not try to stop them. Instead, France sought the backing of the U.N. Security...

Article: From a community of believers to an Islam of the heart: "conspicuous" symbols, Muslim practices, and the privatization of religion in France.
Sociology of Religion;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......reunification policies, and children born in France have made Islam the second largest religion in France. Five million Muslims live in a country that...conceptions of secularism in the United States and France. As Muslims in a secular society, Maghrebin...

Article: Eye On France: France On The Move: CNN Profiles A Nation.
Albawaba.com;  May 26, 2008 ;     688 words ...Eye On France: France On The Move: CNN Profiles A Nation Luc Besson, Bernard Kouchner and...year in power, CNN International's 'Eye on..' strand decamps to some of France's most iconic landmarks to put the nation under the spotlight as it...

Article: Fascism a la Francaise.(pre-Vichy France)(Books, Arts & Manners)(Column)
National Review;  December 8, 1997 ;     700+ words ...IT WAS a splendid myth. France, defeated on the battlefield but unbowed...bitterly, bleeding him white, until France's Second Armored Division invaded Normandy...participants gone from the scene, that France is finally coming to terms with its...

Article: The origins of Baptists in France.
Baptist History and Heritage;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......once briefly incarcerated in Bayonne, France, as a prisoner of war. (1) The experience...he summed up this way: An evangelized France would be fertile in religious works and...les Baptists Francais. Christian Gaul France played a key role in the history of the...

Article: France Confers Legion d'honneur on Etsuhiko Shoyama, Chairman of Hitachi.
Business Wire;  April 18, 2007 ;     520 words ......HIT)(TOKYO:6501) today announced that France is to confer the order of the Legion d'honne...established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802 and is France's highest order, conferred on individuals...deemed to have made a major contribution to France through their endeavors in the areas of...

Article: France, Relations with
Encyclopedia of Russian History;      700+ words ...FRANCE, RELATIONS WITH If the first official contact between France and Russia was established in 1049, when the daughter of Yaroslav, prince of Kiev, married Henri, King of France, bilateral relations were established with the treaty of...

Article: France in 1938.(Book review)
The Historian;  June 22, 2008 ;     536 words ...France in 1938. By Benjamin F. Martin. (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 252. $18.95.) This author's latest book offers a chronologically organized narrative history of 1938 in France that focuses on France's response to Nazism, culminating in the Munich Accords. Although ...

Article: AP Interview: France opposes global role for NATO
AP Worldstream;  March 18, 2009 ;     674 words ......Washington, and an olive branch for Moscow: France's defense minister laid out French plans...Morin said in an interview Tuesday that France has no regrets about rejoining NATO's...60th anniversary summit on April 3-4. France's role in the 26-member alliance has been...

Article: French Kiss-off: Lafayette, where are you?(reasons France is blocking US plans for war with Iraq)
National Review;  February 24, 2003 ;     700+ words ......times vicious, hostility displayed by France towards the United States in recent months...practical, materialistic, even sordid. Both France and her ally (for this purpose) Germany...quest for weapons of mass destruction. France has similar fears, for she was undoubtedly...

Article: AFP Signs Partnership Agreement with France 24 Television.
Business Wire;  January 15, 2007 ;     424 words ......Correspondents Reports to Come from AFP PARIS -- Agence France-Presse, the international news agency, and France 24, the new French international news television...French, English and Arabic. The agreement with France 24 is a milestone in AFP's development of...

Article: Anatole France
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ...Anatole France The works of the French novelist and essayist Anatole France (1844-1924) combine classical purity of style with...Thibault, who was to take the literary name of Anatole France, was born in Paris on April 16, 1844, the son of a...

Article: France, Undeclared Naval War with
The Oxford Companion to American Military History;      700+ words ...France, Undeclared Naval War with (1798–1800).In the 1778...retained its neutrality when England and Revolutionary France went to war in 1793; and in 1794, John Jay negotiated a...England—in effect, agreeing to limit trade with France. French privateers responded by seizing nearly $200,000...