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unusual facts about French president



2001 in sumo

Guests taking part in the hair-cutting ritual include US Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker, an ambassador representing the French President (and sumo fan) Jacques Chirac, Konishiki, Takanohana and finally Akebono's stablemaster Azumazeki Oyakata.

2006 Franco–Italian–Spanish Middle East Peace Plan

On 2006-11-16, France, Italy and Spain announced a new Middle East peace plan proposed by Spanish Premier José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero during talks with French president Jacques Chirac.

Administrative divisions of Chad

On September 5, 1900, a decree signed by the French President Émile Loubet officially created the Territoire militaire des pays et protectorats du Tchad as part of the growing French colonial empire.

Ahmat Acyl

Consequently, when, on October 22, French President François Mitterrand proposed to send an Organisation of African Unity peace contingent into Chad to replace the Libyans, Goukouni and the GUNT asked the Libyans to leave immediately Chad (not without debate: 4 ministers, among whom Acyl, voted against the decision).

Éric Blanc

In 1986 he began his career with an engagement at the Caveau de la République, a venue for new humorists in Paris, performing imitations of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the TV host Frédéric Mitterrand, and the French tennis player Yannick Noah.

Ismail Abdul Rahman

This was, in the Tunku's words, "a sudden change in our policy towards Communist China" that had been influenced by private talks between the Tunku and French President Charles de Gaulle.

Jean Bastien-Thiry

Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry (19 October 1927 – 11 March 1963) was a French Air Force lieutenant-colonel, military air weaponry engineer, (creator of the Nord SS.10/SS.11 missiles) who attempted to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle on 22 August 1962, following Algerian independence.

MISCA

At start of the two-day summit in Paris, French President François Hollande, at the funeral for former South African president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nelson Mandela, was horrified by the dramatic situation in Bangui, he announced that the French military presence in the CAR would double to include 1,200 troops, immediately, possibly within hours.

Rémi Gaillard

Gaillard gained attention in the French media after performing a series of well-documented pranks, including an appearance disguised as a Lorient football player in the 2002 Coupe de France final match, during which he took part in the winners' celebrations and was greeted by the then president of the French Republic, Jacques Chirac.

Roland Michener

Among this litany of guests was United States president Lyndon B. Johnson; Grace, Princess of Monaco; Jacqueline Kennedy; Emperor Haile Selassie; and French president Charles de Gaulle.

Sandy McMahon

The later was derived from the French President Patrice de Mac-Mahon, duc de Magenta, the descendant of an Irish soldier who had severed under Napoleon.

Strasbourg-Ortenau Eurodistrict

The idea of a eurodistrict Strasbourg-Kehl (as it was called then) was officially launched on 22 January 2003, by then-French President Jacques Chirac and then-German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder during a meeting in the Élysée Palace; it was point 24 of the common declaration made on the 40th anniversary of the cooperation treaty between Germany and France.

Yndamiro Restano Díaz

During a 1995 trip to France by Fidel Castro, Danielle Mitterrand, wife of former French President François Mitterrand, requested his release along with that of five other prisoners.


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A Conversation With Gregory Peck

The film also looks at Peck's home life with his family, as well as his public appearances where he meets such notable individuals as then President of the United States Bill Clinton, then French President Jacques Chirac, and filmmaker Martin Scorsese.

Alattyán

On 15 May 2007, the New York Times published an article about looking for the ancestral estate of French president Nicolas Sarkozy's family in Alattyán.

Avenue Charles de Gaulle

Avenue Charles de Gaulle is one of the main streets and principal commercial avenue of N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, which is named after former French president Charles de Gaulle.

Bernadette

Bernadette Chirac (born 1933), wife of former French President Jacques Chirac

Blaesheim

A meeting held in Blaesheim, January 2001, between Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder has given this name to a regular series of informal meetings between the French President, the German Chancellor, and their foreign ministers.

Bolesław Matuszewski

he used the Lumières' Cinématographe to record the official visit to St. Petersburg, of the French President Félix Faure.

Brazzaville Protocol

During the summer of 1986, a first informal meeting was organized by French businessman Jean-Yves Ollivier and French president's counselor for African affairs Jean-Christophe Mitterrand between senior South African, Mozambican and Angolan representatives in the Kalahari Desert.

Carlos Padrós

The game, which ended as a 1-1 draw, was arrange to celebrate the visit of French president, Émile Loubet.

Carnot, Central African Republic

The city takes its name as a tribute to the assassinated French President Sadi Carnot.

Centre for the Study of the Causes of the War

On 16 June 1919, Clemenceau, the French president, presented an ultimatum to Germany--if it did not accept the peace treaty, war would recommence--and on 28 June 1919 Germany accepted the Versailles Treaty.

Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei

They were in possession of two other explosive parcels, one addressed to French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the other to the Belgian Embassy.

Danish House in Paris

The house was inaugurated on 23 April 1966 with a ceremony attended by King Frederick IX of Denmark, Queen Ingrid, Danish prime minister H. C. Hansen, the French president René Coty, Edgar Faure, and Danish fashion designer Erik Mortensen and sculptor Robert Jacobsen who both lived and worked in France.

Editorial Atlántida

Growing international pressure against the regime's Dirty War resulted in a petition campaign organized by Para Tí, in which postcards labeled "Argentina: The Whole Truth" could be torn out by readers and mailed to a list of addresses of the regime's most prominent international critics, including U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Senator Ted Kennedy, and French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, as well as Amnesty International and numerous international newspapers of record.

Egemen Bağış

He also pointed to the election defeat last year of then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy, a fellow opponent of Turkish EU membership.

Escadron de transport, d'entraînement et de calibrage

In July 1995, the French president Jacques Chirac decided to disslove the Groupe de Liaisons Aériennes Ministérielles (GLAM).

Family Without a Name

This was a decade after the Vive le Québec libre speech of French President Charles de Gaulle, two years after the first election of a contemporary independence party in Quebec, the Parti Québécois, and two years before their promised referendum on independence occurred in 1980.

Françoise Tulkens

She was elected a Section President in 2007 and on 1 February 2011 became one of two Vice-Presidents of the Court, along with the British judge, Sir Nicolas Bratza, and under French President Jean-Paul Costa.

Giuseppe Cei

Later his aerobatic performances in Paris, riding a Farman biplane, led the French President Armand Fallières to declare him Le roi de l'air ("The King of the Air").

Givi Javakhishvili

He also hosted high profile foreign guests in Tbilisi, such as Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Queen of Denmark Margrethe II, French President Georges Pompidou, Shah of Iran Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Cuban leader Fidel Castro and many other prominent figures of the 20th Century.

Guy-André Kieffer

On August 23, 2007, French president Nicolas Sarkozy met with Kieffer's wife Osange Silou-Kieffer in Paris, and expressed his determination to aid in the case.

History of Metz

In 2010, Metz opened a branch of the French National Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou-Metz, designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban and inaugurated by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Hospital, patients, health, territories

On 13 May, the President of House Bernard Accoyer asked the French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Prime Minister François Fillon for permission to discuss the bill, and he was told if the Senate changed the bill considerably, as it announced, the bill would be reexamined.

Jacques Cheminade

In 1983, Cheminade published a statement on the danger of "new fascism" posed by an alleged plot against French president François Mitterrand by some of his socialist ministers, including Jacques Delors and Michel Rocard.

Justine Lévy

In 1995 she married Raphaël Enthoven, the son of her father's best friend, Jean-Paul Enthoven, who left her for model and singer, Carla Bruni (who is now married to former French President Nicolas Sarkozy).

Kelvin Davies

By order of French president Nicolas Sarkozy, in 2012 Davies was awarded French knighthood when he and fellow USC professor Enrique Cadenas, M.D., Ph.D. were named chevaliers of l'Ordre National du Mérite.

Lee Zeitouni affair

In late December 2011, Carla Bruni, the wife of then French President Nicolas Sarkozy, wrote a personal letter to Lee Zeitouni's mother, Kate, in which she shared her condolences and sorrow.

McCartan

French President Charles de Gaulle was descended from the clan through his great-grandmother Angélique McCartan.

Michel Farinet

On 23 February 2008, French president Nicolas Sarkozy visited the International Agricultural Show in Paris.

Military units and formations of NATO

SHAPE was established at Rocquencourt, west of Paris, until 1966, when French president Charles de Gaulle withdrew French forces from the alliance.

Mir EO-4

The French president at the time, François Mitterrand, insisted on attending the launch of the Soyuz TM-7, of which Frenchman Chrétien was a crew member.

Misogyny speech

Gillard told media that she had been approached by world leaders who congratulated her on her speech at the 2012 Asia-Europe Meeting, including French President François Hollande and Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt.

Moh Chelali

On July 14, 2002, he was one of three civilians who overpowered a gunman attempting to assassinate French President Jacques Chirac during Bastille Day celebrations in Paris.

Nickerson Field

In 1989, to accommodate commencement speakers U.S. President George H. W. Bush and French President François Mitterrand, a large platform was constructed to Secret Service specifications on one side of the field.

Omani French Museum

On January 29, 1992, Sultan Qaboos bin Said and the late French President François Mitterrand established a museum in the palace to preserve the historical Omani-French relations.

Panhard EBR

A turretless Panhard EBR vehicle carried the coffin of the late French president Charles de Gaulle at his state funeral.

Paul Desmarais

French President Nicolas Sarkozy came under fire after allegations that his presidential campaign was illegally funded by Liliane Bettencourt, L'Oréal heiress and France's wealthiest woman.

Sérigny is close to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, heads numerous companies, and a member of the board of directors of Imerys, a mining company partially owned by a subsidiary of the Power Corporation of Canada and majority owned by the Desmarais family and tycoon Albert Frère, the richest man in Belgium who was involved in the UN Oil-for-Food scandal.

Peugeot 607

It was first used seven years later by French President Nicolas Sarkozy for his inauguration on May 16, 2007.

Pierre-René Lemas

Pierre-René Lemas (born February 23, 1951 in French Algeria) is the chief of staff of the French President, François Hollande.

Shackleton Barracks

Some days later French President Charles de Gaulle visited Ballykelly to personally award medals to members of the crew.

Simca Vedette

Chapron had another order the next year, to build two four-door convertibles for the French President Charles de Gaulle.

Thiry

Jean Bastien-Thiry (1927–1963), attempted to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle

Uigwe

In 1993, then-French President François Mitterrand returned one copy during a visit to Seoul to sell its high-speed TGV train technology; with the promised to return the remaining collection.

William H. Milliken, Jr.

Also, the collapse of the 1960 summit between Eisenhower, Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev, French President Charles de Gaulle and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, over the downing of an American U-2 spy plane over Soviet territory provided Democrats with ample ammunition.

Yves Calvi

In April 2008, he questioned the French president Nicolas Sarkozy during a special program hosted by Patrick Poivre d'Arvor and David Pujadas.