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91 unusual facts about France


Albin Haller

Haller founded the École Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques in Nancy and later won the Davy Medal.

Alexandre du Chayla

Count Armand Alexandre de Blanquet du Chayla (1885–1945) was a French nobleman who converted to Russian Orthodoxy.

Andy Akinwolere

His mother and father both lived abroad for a while and he spent a small part of his childhood living in Nancy, France.

Anglo-French

Anglo-French is a term used in contexts involving France and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK).

Antoine Mariotte

After having been performed at Nancy, Le Havre, Marseille, Geneva, and Prague, Mariotte's Salomé was seen at the Opéra on 1 July 1919 with Lucienne Bréval.

Antoine-Alexis Cadet de Vaux

Antoine-Alexis Cadet de Vaux (1743–1828) was a French chemist and Pharmacist.

Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design

An Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design student was the first American to win the 2005 International Competition for Young Fashion Designers in Paris, France.

Arches paper

Arches paper is valued for its durability, and is still made today at the Arches paper mill in Lorraine, France.

Armenia Fund

All-Armenian Fund through its 25 affiliate organizations has presence in 22 countries around the world: United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Great Britain, France, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, and Australia.

Banknotes of Hyderabad

In 1932, a quantity of unissued, but water stained Hyderabadi notes in 5, 10, and 100 rupee denominations were recovered from the S.S. Egypt, which sank off the island of Ushant near Brest, northern France in 1922.

Bathonian Series

The "Bathonien" of some French geologists differs from the English Bathonian in that it includes at the base the zone of the ammonite Parkinsonia Parkinsoni, which in England is placed at the summit of the Inferior Oolite.

Bellieni

Bellieni et Fils was a camera maker in Nancy, France, from the late nineteenth century until the early twentieth century.

Belloy-en-France

The façade is in Renaissance style; the gate, sometimes attributed to Jean Bullant, consists of a tympanum leading to columns grooved in Corinthian capitals, the whole surrounded by a very decorated classic entablature, surmounted in the extremities by two roof lanterns.

Besson MB.35

The Besson MB.35 was a French two-seat spotter and observation floatplane, designed by Besson.

Brain stem stroke syndrome

Jean-Dominique was instrumental in forming the Association du Locked-In Syndrome (ALIS) in France.

Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope

The corporation is bound by a tripartite agreement between the University of Hawaii, the National Research Council (NRC) in Canada and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France.

CFL Line 90

The terminus at the north end is Luxembourg railway station, whilst the terminals at the south are the French towns of Metz and Nancy.

Championnat de France

Championnat de France can refer to many different championships in France.

Claude Carliez

Claude Carliez (born 10 January 1925 in Nancy) is a French master at arms in classical fencing who became a period and fencing advisor to French films.

Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon

Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (August 1607 – 3 May 1693), French courtier, was the second son of Louis de Rouvroy, seigneur du Plessis (died 1643), who had been a warm supporter of Henry of Guise and the Catholic League.

David Hutchins

Hutchins was educated at Blundell's School and the École nationale des eaux et forêts (National School of Water Resources and Forestry) at Nancy, France.

Democratic elements of Roman Republic

Octavian on the other hand received the Roman provinces of the west: Italia (modern Italy), Gaul (modern France), Gallia Belgica (parts of modern Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg), and Hispania (modern Spain and Portugal), these territories were poorer but traditionally the better recruiting grounds; and Lepidus was given the minor province of Africa (modern Tunisia) to govern.

Derhan group

The group had been given the missions of collecting arms for the Liberation, distributing pro-Gaullist propaganda, inciting German draft resisters and French citizens avoiding the Reichsarbeitsdienst labor corps.

Edmund Knyvet

Knyvet's father was slain in a naval battle near Brest on 10 August 1512, and four months later Knyvet's mother died in childbirth between 13 and 21 December 1512.

Edward Pellew Wilson, Jr.

He and his brothers were engineers and developed business in Brazil, Portugal and France.

Elizaveta Polonskaya

In 1914 she graduated from medical school, and after the outbreak of the First World War, she worked for a few months at a hospital in Nancy and then helped run a newly organized military hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Ernest Menault

Ernest Menault (1830, Angerville -1903) was a French author and zoologist

Essential Monet

Essential Monet is a discussion book about the paintings of famed French artist Claude Monet.

Etain

Étain, France, a commune in the Meuse département in France

Explicit Lyrics

Explicit Lyrics is the third studio album recorded by the French artist Ophélie Winter.

Foreign espionage in New Zealand

On occasion, foreign spies may be active in New Zealand for reasons not connected with the country itself — the French bombing of the Rainbow Warrior was aimed at Greenpeace rather than New Zealand, and China is sometimes alleged to target New Zealand-based Chinese democracy activists and Falun Gong members more often than it targets the New Zealand government.

In 1985, agents of the DGSE, the primary foreign intelligence agency of France, bombed the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour.

France amateur national rugby union team

The France Amateurs are the amateur national rugby union team of France.

France national under-20 rugby union team

The France under 20 rugby team are the newest representative rugby union team from France.

France-Albert René

Shortly after leaving their Royal Swazi National Airways aircraft, an airport security guard spotted a Kalashnikov assault rifle in their luggage; the discovery launched a gun battle in which hostages were taken.

France-Hayhurst family

Colonel Charles Hosken France Hayhurst (March 10, 1832 - April 7, 1914) Benefactor.

Francis Albarède

In 1979 he was promoted to professor at the National School of Geology in Nancy, where he remained for 12 years.

François-Antoine Devaux

Devaux trained as a lawyer and worked briefly for a lawyer cousin in Nancy.

French National Badminton Championships

The French National Badminton Championships is a tournament organized to crown the best badminton players in France.

French state

Vichy France, 'French state' was the official name of the regime first directed by Philippe Pétain, explicitly opposed to the French Republic

Gau München-Oberbayern

Only the Pfalz, geographically separated from the rest of the state, became part of the French occupation zone.

Georges Guibourg

Born at Mantes-la-Ville, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France, he began studying the piano at the age of 11 and at age 16 went to Paris where he performed on stage, singing extracts of traditional operettas and lovesongs.

Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards

Following a Global Steering Committee meeting hosted by Services SETA of South Africa and held in London in August 2002, the first Working Session of the GAPPS (initially called Global Performance Based Standards for Project Management Personnel) was held in Lille, France in February 2003.

GP Ouest-France

Grand-Prix de Plouay Ouest-France (now known as GP Ouest-France) is an elite cycle race held annually in late summer around a circuit based on the small Breton village of Plouay since 1931.

Guerchais-Roche T.35

The Guerchais-Roche T.35 and T.39 was a small family of two, three and four seat French-built touring monoplanes of the 1940s.

Henri Caesar

Joining the rebel forces led by Dutty Boukman and Toussaint Louverture, he remained with the revolution until its independence from France in 1804, when he left to try his luck at sea.

Île-de-France tramway Line 2

Tramway line T2 (Trans Val-de-Seine) is a tramway in Île-de-France.

Isaac La Peyrère

La Peyrère also argued that Messiah would join with the king of France (that is, the Prince of Condé, not Louis XIV of France) to liberate the Holy Land, rebuild the Temple and set up a world government of the Messiah with the king of France acting as regent.

Jean Braconnier

The first record mentioning him is from the court of Duke René II of Lorraine in 1478, and he was still in the area in 1485, since payment records survive showing that he was employed as a singer in Nancy at the chapel of St. Georges between that year and 1506.

Jules Guérin

Jules Guérin (14 September 1860 – 10 February 1910) was a French journalist and antisemitic activist.

Kaplan International Colleges

KIC also offers short, medium and long-term residential foreign language courses in China, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Russia and Spain through partner schools.

Kosa Pan

The mission landed at the French port of Brest before continuing its journey to Versailles, constantly surrounded by crowds of curious onlookers.

Libération-Nord

Libération-Nord was one of the principal resistance movements in the northern occupied zone of France during the Second World War.

Lorraine Campaign

The Third Army, lacking gasoline, was unable to swiftly take both Metz and Nancy, unlike the actions that characterized the rapid advance across France.

Lovers' Park

Following a year of research, French designer architect Pierre Rambach presented the sketches of the new Lovers' Park project in 2006 and received the approval of the Yerevan City Council.

Luca Coscioni

Afterwards, he began to collaborate with an influential French institute based in Nancy.

Ma Nouvelle-France

"Ma Nouvelle-France" was written by Dion's longtime collaborator Luc Plamondon and produced by Christopher Neil ("Think Twice," "Where Does My Heart Beat Now").

Maquis du Limousin

It is considered to be the first act of resistance of World War II in France.

Marcel Labey

Marcel Labey (6 August 1875, Vésinet – 25 November 1968, Nancy) was a French conductor and composer.

March for Equality and Against Racism

In 1983, the Socialist Prime Minister of France Pierre Mauroy, the Minister of the Interior Gaston Defferre, and the Minister of Labour Jean Auroux said about the strikers of the CGT's syndicate from the factory of Renault-Billancourt, that they are mainly "immigrants workers", and accused them of being manipulated by "integrists".

Maria Justeau

Along with her husband, Eugene Justeau, she saved the lives of many American, Canadian and French soldiers in the area of Saint-Seglin, Brittany, France.

Matignon Agreements

The Matignon Agreements of 1936, an agreement between the French government, employers and labour guaranteeing trade union membership and negotiating rights, a 40-hour working week and paid workers' holidays.

Mustapha Stambouli

A law student, he was active for the nationalist cause from the late 1930s in the Parti du peuple algérien (PPA), and was jailed several times by the colonial authorities of France.

New York Clown Theater Festival

Festival performers come from across the USA and the globe, including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Britain.

Nicolas Rapin

He later became vice-senechel of Fontenay and Niort, and, in 1585, "lieutenant criminel" (both are officers of public justice) in the Île-de-France region.

Not Sokute

Not Sokute is an EP containing five songs and the debut release by French indie singer-songwriter SoKo.

Onra

He moved to France at the age of three and shortly after, lived between France and Côte d'Ivoire, where his mother was based for over twenty years.

Operation Tamarisk

Operation Tamarisk was a Cold War-era operation run by the military intelligence services of the US, UK and France through their military liaison missions in East Germany, that gathered discarded paper, letters, and rubbish from Soviet trash bins and military maneuvers, including used toilet paper.

Order of Penitents

:Also called Nuns or Hospitallers of Our Lady of Nancy, founded at Nancy in 1631 by Ven.

Organ donation

In some nations (for instance, Belgium, Poland, Portugal and France) everyone is automatically an organ donor, although some jurisdictions (such as Singapore, Portugal, Poland,or New Zealand) allow opting out of the system.

Organisation civile et militaire

Histoire d'un mouvement de Résistance, de 1940 à 1946, Presses universitaires de France, 1961

Originality in Canadian copyright law

Other countries such as France and the United States require the author of a work to demonstrate some level of creativity.

Paix et Liberté

Paix et Liberté (French: Peace and Liberty) was an anti-communist movement that operated in France during the 1950s.

Pan-Latinism

Pan-Latinism first arose in prominence in France particularly from the influence of Michel Chevalier who contrasted the "Latin" peoples of the Americas with the "Anglo-Saxon" peoples there.

Paul Rivière

After a first airdrop, he was arrested and detained four months by Vichy France police.

Phan Văn Hớn

Phan Văn Hớn (1830-1886) also called Phan Công Hớn was a Vietnamese farmer who led a revolt against the French in Saigon in 1885.

Philip Keeney

During the Hitler-Stalin pact, the PLC sent a letter to FDR urging him not to aid Poland, France or the United Kingdom, all fighting for their lives under the Nazi onslaught.

PlayStation 2 retail configurations

The V12 model was first released in black, but a silver edition was available in the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, United Arab Emirates and other GCC Countries, France, Italy, South Africa, and finally, North America.

Pleix

Pleix is a group of digital artists based in Paris, France.

Politeknik Ibrahim Sultan

In order to provide continuous routes, Politeknik Ibrahim Sultan will create articulation with John Moores University and implement twinning programs with Taylor's University for Hospitality program articulated by Toulouse University in France (in preparation for creating course of Bachelor Degree in Hotel & Catering Management soon which is expected in 2013-2015).

Pope Pius IX and France

They came from different countries including France, Holland (the majority), Belgium, Canada and England.

In April 1849, General Oudinot's expeditionary force made its direct attack, and the Constituent Assembly in Rome passed a resolution of protest (7 May 1849), French President Louis Napoleon (the future Napoleon III of France) encouraged Pius IX and assured him of reinforcements from France.

Poulin JP-30

The Poulin JP-30 was a French single-seat agricultural aircraft designed and built by Jean Poulin, of which one example was constructed in 1952.

Rancho Honcut

So he sold a half-interest in Rancho Honcut to a former employee, Charles Julian Covillaud (b. 21 Nov 1816 in Cognac, France; d. 05 Feb 1867 in Marysville).

Robin Aiglon

Aiglon ia a French four-seat touring and training monoplane designed and built by Avions Robin.

Rodeo Massacre

Rodeo Massacre is the sixth album released by French post-rock band Ulan Bator.

SCE Worldwide Studios

Quantic Dream, a game development studio located in Paris, France, whilst not a 1st-party developer for SCE Worldwide Studios, they have created Sony exclusive games since 2010, and recently stated that they have no interest in ending that exclusivity.

SETCA Milan

The SETCA Milan was a French-built two-seat light utility aircraft of the 1940s.

Shakespeare and Company

Shakespeare and Company (bookstore), an English-language bookshop in Paris, France; hosts the annual Shakespeare & Company Literary Festival in June.

Thonon Black Panthers

The Black Panthers of Thonon is a football club French of American football based at Thonon-les-Bains (Haute-Savoie) and created in 1987 by Benoît Sirouet, Nicolas Schpoliansky and Frederic Mériguet.

Virgin Express France

Virgin Express France, originally Air Provence Charter, was a French subsidiary of the airline Virgin Express, with its head office on the grounds of Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Tremblay-en-France.


1937–38 Detroit Red Wings season

In Europe, the teams played a nine-game series in England and France.

AAC Middle Wallop

After D-Day, both the 67th RG moved to its Advanced Landing Ground at Le Molay-Littry (ALG A-9) and IX FC Headquarters moved to Les Obeaux, France in late June 1944 ending the USAAF presence at Middle Wallop.

Albert Vanhoye

Born on 23 July 1923 at Hazebrouck, France, Albert Vanhoye entered the Society of Jesus in 1941 and studied at Jesuit Scholasticates in France and Belgium, as well as obtaining a licentiate and doctorate in sacred scripture with a thesis on the Letter to the Hebrews, from the Pontifical Biblical Institute (the Biblicum) in Rome.

Australian Government Future Fund

In May 2011 the Future Fund was criticized by The Age newspaper for investing A$135.4 million in 15 foreign-owned companies involved in the manufacture of nuclear weapons for the United States, Britain, France and India.

Battle of the Danzig Bay

The Polish Navy of the Second Polish Republic (1919–39) was prepared mostly as means of supporting naval communications with France in case of a war with the Soviet Union.

Ceol an Ghrá

At the Contest, it was performed third on the night, following France's Betty Mars with "Comé-comédie" and preceding Spain's Jaime Morey with "Amanece".

Clem Sohn

Sohn's career came to an end on April 25, 1937, in Vincennes, France.

Cosmix

However, a wave of or-suffixed action/horror Hollywood blockbusters and B-movies spread in France in the 1980s including Exterminator, Terminator, and Predator.

Crazy on the Outside

Meanwhile, the fictional story about Tommy's "France" trip continues to evolve including a relationship with Simone, a French astronaut who was killed on the launchpad so that Tommy's mother would not fly everyone to France to meet her (because she does not exist).

Dewoitine D.332

The three D.333s were used on the Toulouse-Dakar sector of the Air France South American route for several years.Two of these planes were transferred to the Argentine Air Force after WWII and usde along with two 338s.

Dominique Fidanza

In 2006, she moved to France to participate at the French reality television show Star Academy France and she arrived at the end of the show but she lost against Cyril Cinélu.

DSPACE GmbH

The company has Project Centers in Pfaffenhofen (near Munich) and Böblingen (near Stuttgart) and subsidiaries in the USA, UK, France, Japan and China.

Duleek

The village’s four crosses and the lime tree on the village green are reminders of Duleek’s links to the struggle between William and James and to wider European unrest at the time of Louis XIV of France.

Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs israélites de France

The Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs israélites de France (EEIF, Jewish Guides and Scouts of France) is a Jewish Scouting and Guiding organization in France.

Elounda

In 1984, the President of France, François Mitterrand, and Colonel Muammar Gaddafi of Libya met in a luxurious Elounda resort to discuss conflict resolution in Chad.

Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

Members of the IAG included: Azerbaijan, France, Nigeria, Norway, Peru and the United States; Anglo-American, BP, Chevron and Petrobras; the Azerbaijan EITI Coalition, Global Witness, Revenue Watch Institute, West African Catholic Bishops Conference; and F&C Asset Management.

Francis Dhomont

Dhomont's work has won many international awards including at the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition (France), the Magisterium Prize in 1988, Prix Ars Electronica in 1992 (Linz, Austria) and others.

French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation

INRIA is a Public Scientific and Technical Research Establishment (EPST) under the double supervision of the French Ministry of National Education, Advanced Instruction and Research and the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry.

Gare de Cramoisy

The Gare de Cramoisy (Cramoisy station) is a railway station located in the commune of Cramoisy in the Oise department, France.

Gare de Franconville – Le Plessis-Bouchard

Franconville - Le Plessis-Bouchard is a station in Franconville, a northwestern suburb of Paris, France.

Gare de Pierrelaye

Pierrelaye is a railway station in the town of Pierrelaye, a northwestern suburb of Paris, France.

Gornji Hrašćan

Dražen Ladić, former goalkeeper of the Croatian national football team and winner of the bronze medal at the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France, grew up in the village.

History of the violin

In the 19th and 20th centuries numerous violins were produced in France, in Saxony and the Mittenwald in what is now Germany, in the Tyrol, now parts of Austria and Italy, and in Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic.

Incourt

Incourt, Pas-de-Calais, a commune of the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France

Jacopo Foroni

After studies with Alberto Mazzucato in Milan Foroni worked as a conductor in France, Belgium and Holland before arriving in Sweden in 1849 to work for Vincenzo Galli's opera company at the Mindre teatern where he gave the Swedish premieres of works by Bellini and Donizetti as well as the young Verdi.

Jacqueline Robin

Jacqueline Robin (December 11, 1917 in Saint-Astier, Dordogne – February 3, 2007 in Taverny) was a French pianist.

Jean-Louis Jaley

Jean-Louis Nicolas Jaley (born in Paris in 1802, died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1866) was a French sculptor.

Jervis B. Webb Company

The company headquarters is in Farmington Hills, Michigan, with offices and manufacturing plants internationally including Carlisle, South Carolina; Harbor Springs, Michigan; Boyne City, Michigan; Hamilton, Ontario; Northampton, England; Ludwigshafen, Germany; Palaiseau, France; Barcelona, Spain; Shanghai, China and Bangalore, India.

Mâcon Cathedral

Mâcon Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Vincent de Mâcon) is a Roman Catholic church and former cathedral in Mâcon, Burgundy, France.

Marylene Dosse

Ms Dosse was born in Domfront in Normandy, France - the only place in which her mother could find a hospital which had not been taken over by the invading German armed forces.

Mickael Turtle

Mickael Turtle (a.k.a. Mickael the Turtle) from New Caledonia (France) is a fictional turtle who hit the French music charts with a reworking of the Ghostbusters theme.

Mlle Raucourt

By 1770 she was back in France at Rouen, and her success as Euphmie in Belloy's Gaston et Bayard caused her to be called to the Comédie Française, where, in 1772, she made her debut as Dido.

Morry Taylor

In February 2013, Taylor met harsh criticism in France after a letter he wrote to the French minister of industrial renewal, Arnaud Montebourg.

Nicolae Dărăscu

He traveled extensively and lived in the south of France (Toulon and Saint-Tropez, 1908), to Venice (1909), in Romania (to Vlaici, Olt County, 1913, and in Southern Dobruja - Balchik, 1919).

Order of Interbeing

Plum Village Buddhist Center in the Dordogne region of France is established by TNH and Sister Chan Khong

Potentilla delphinensis

It is endemic to France, where it is limited to the southern French Alps (Savoie et Dauphiné: Bauges; Isère; Hautes-Alpes, Col du Lautaret).

Ranks in the French Army

Six marshals of France have been given the even more exalted rank of "marshal general of France" (maréchal général de France): Biron, Lesdiguières, Turenne, Villars, Saxe and Soult.

Rover Light Six

The act to promote the new Rover Light Six in a headline-grabbing campaign was the brainchild of former motorcycle tester and pioneer publicist Dudley Noble, in which a Light Six was to race the Blue Train across France from Calais to St Raphael on the Côte d'Azur.

Sara Moulton

She began working in restaurants immediately, first in Boston, Massachusetts, and then in New York City, taking off time only for a postgraduate apprenticeship with Master Chef Maurice Cazalis of the Henri IV Restaurant in Chartres, France, in 1979.

Sir George Staunton, 1st Baronet

He was born in Cargins, Co Galway, Ireland and educated at the Jesuit College, Toulouse, France (abtaining an MD in 1758) and the School of Medicine in Montpellier, France.

St Andrews Castle

This peaceful interlude came to end, however, when a French fleet arrived bringing an Italian engineer Leone Strozzi who directed a devastating artillery bombardment to dislodge the Protestant lairds.

Stefanía Fernández

She also traveled to Cannes, France, on 9 December 2009, for the Five Star Diamond awards, with Miss USA Kristen Dalton, and to Willemstad, Curaçao and Barquisimeto, Venezuela, as well, in early January 2010, for the Procesión de la Divina Pastora (Procession of the Holy Shepherdess).

Talbot Tagora

Fewer than 20,000 Tagora models were ever built, all of them at the former Simca factory in Poissy, near Paris, France.

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec

The popularity of the comic has made it much in demand for adaptation into other media, the first to be approved by Tardi being a projected trilogy of live-action feature films adapted and directed by Luc Besson, the first of which, also titled The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec was released in France on 14 April 2010 and latterly in numerous other markets, including the United Kingdom.

Vauvenargues

Vauvenargues, a commune of the Bouches-du-Rhône département in southern France, near Aix-en-Provence

Volontaire Civil à l'Aide Technique

Volontaire Civil à lAide Technique (VCAT) is a voluntary service in the French overseas territories for citizens from France, citizens of other EU member states or citizens of countries belonging to the European Economic Area.

Walther Linis

They started in France and sailed through the Suez Canal to Arabia where they unloaded oil and continued over the Pacific shoreline to San Diego in California and on into the Panama Canal to the Gulf island of Aruba, waterless island but they could get oil board and then took 12 trips between many U.S. cities in the east shore, the boat went several times to the port of Tampico in Mexico from 1957-58.

Zakaria Bakkali

After Bakkali's superb Champions League-debut, Belgium coach Marc Wilmots selected him in the 25-man squad in the friendly-game against France.

ZChocolat.com

zChocolat.com is headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, France, and has a dedicated logistics center in Forcalquier Alpes de Haute Provence and U.S. office in Ojai, California.