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unusual facts about France – New Zealand relations



AC Bobigny 93 Rugby

AC Bobigny 93 Rugby is a rugby union team from Île-de-France which plays in Fédérale 1 (D3).

CO Les Ulis

They are based in Les Ulis, Essonne and are currently playing in the Division Supérieure Régionale of Île-de-France, the seventh tier of the French football league system.

EFREI

EFREI (École FRançaise d'Électronique et d'Informatique) (French School of Electronics and Computer Science) is a French private engineering school located in Villejuif, Île-de-France, at the south of Paris.

Essonne

In June 1963 Carrefour S.A. opened the first hypermarket in the Paris region at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois (although the word "hypermarché" was first used only in 1966).

France–Papua New Guinea relations

In November 2007, Papua New Guinea's Oro Province was struck by cyclone Guba, and France provided humanitarian aid in the form of medicine, water purification products, food and clothing for victims with the assistance of the Armed Forces of New Caledonia (FANC) and in the context of the FRANZ agreement.

Grand Paris

Politically, the President of the Île-de-France region, Jean-Paul Huchon and the Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, both members of the French Socialist Party have been opposed to the initiatives taken by the national government, which are in contradiction with the recent devolution of urban planning matters to local governments.

Mennecy-Villeroy porcelain

Mennecy-Villeroy porcelain (or Mennecy porcelain) is a French soft-paste porcelain from the manufactory established under the patronage of Louis-François-Anne de Neufville, duc de Villeroy (1695-1766) and — from 1748 — housed in outbuildings ("les petites maisons") in the park of his château de Villeroy, and in the nearby village of Mennecy (Île-de-France).

Moussa Sissoko

Sissoko began his football career playing for local youth clubs in the Île-de-France region, such as Espérance Aulnay and Red Star FC.

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.

Paul Bocuse

His son, Jérôme, manages the Chefs de France restaurant inside the French pavilion at Walt Disney World's Epcot.


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