X-Nico

unusual facts about French state


French state

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



see also

China Nuclear International Uranium Corporation

The deal struck in 2007 was part of a policy shift by then Nigerien president Mamadou Tandja to break the four decade de facto monopoly held by Areva, a French state owned nuclear company, by bringing in Sino-U as a competitor.

Denis Sassou Nguesso

He has been cited in recent years during French criminal inquiries into hundreds of millions of euros of illicit payments by Elf Aquitaine, the former French state-owned oil group.

French Institute of Administrative Sciences

Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc, former president of IFSA, former vice-president of the French State Council, member of the French Constitutional Council

Grey Eminence

Political and economic commentator David P. Goldman called this book "the best book on the intelligence operations of the French state" during the Thirty Years' War.

Hanna Ben Dov

Her paintings can be found in several collections, including the French State Collection, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art collection and the Rockefeller Museum collection in New York.

Jean de Chastelet

During all his work for the French state, du Chatelet had never received payment and in 1640 in a precarious financial state his wife Martine wrote the Restitution of Pluto a Latin poem asking for payment and sent rather rashly to Cardinal Richelieu.

Jean-Michel Arnold

He created formal links with La Fémis, The French State Film School whose first President was Jean-Claude Carrière (also President of RIAVS), and with UNESCO's IFTC.

Johann Smidt

Since it was the French state and not the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, which had emancipated the Jews in Bremen, the city took the altered formulation of the Viennese decisions as the legal grounds to revoke - as did a number of confederal states - the emancipation of the Jews in its territory.

Maxwell Armfield

He exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1904, where his painting Faustine was bought by the French State and donated to the Musée du Luxembourg, and is now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

Pine Residence

The French State became the owner of the buildings and tenant of the Beirut municipal forest ground which was adjacent and separated from the Beirut Hippodrome by a simple wooden fence.

Plogoff

In the early 1970s, the French state power company, EDF decided to establish a production's nuclear power plant in Brittany.

Svyatopolk-Mirsky

He was an active participant in the French colonization of Algiers, where he received a large grant of land & allegedly suggested the formation of the French Foreign Legion in order to reduce the burden of Polish exiles on the French state.

Veldenz Castle

In 1804 the castle was nationalized by the French state, then sold off to the Cetto brothers from Sankt Wendel.

Venice Conference

The conference was chaired by Christian Pineau, French Minister for Foreign Affairs, and attended by Walter Hallstein (Federal Republic of Germany), Paul-Henri Spaak (Belgium), Maurice Faure, French State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Gaetano Martino (Italy), Joseph Bech (Luxembourg) and Johan Willem Beyen (Netherlands).