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99 unusual facts about france


28 cm SK L/40 gun

During World War II these guns were transferred to Brest.

94th Operations Group

Struck troops and gun batteries to aid the advance of the Allies at Saint-Lô in July and at Brest in August.

Achille Rémy Percheron

Achille Rémy Percheron ( 25 January 1797 Paris - 1869) was a French entomologist.

Alexis Bruix

Alexis Vital Joseph, Baron of Bruix, (Brest, France, 1790 - Callao, Peru, 1825), Alejo Bruix in Spanish, was French military who joined to the patriot armies to fought in the Spanish American Wars of Independence.

Anglo-French

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

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.

Auguste Fernbach

Auguste Fernbach (1860-1939) was a French biologist.

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.

Brain stem stroke syndrome

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

Breton mythology

Breton mythology is the mythology or corpus of explanatory and herioc tales originating in Brittany, now in France.

Carron du Villards

Charles Joseph Frédéric Carron du Villards (1801–1860) was a French ophthalmologist whose 1838 book Guide pratique pour l'étude et le traitement des maladies des yeux was an important early text in the field.

Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand

Chantiers et Ateliers A. Normand is a French shipyard in Le Havre.

Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon

With his elder brother Claude de Rouvroy entered the service of Louis XIII as a page and found instant favour with the king.

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.

Count of Penamacor

He accompanied King Afonso V to France in 1477 where he had been sent as Ambassador earlier and was Ambassador to Rome to negotiate Afonso V's marriage to Queen Joana, La Beltraneja, Queen Isabel's nemesis.

De la Huerta–Lamont Treaty

In February 1919, the State Department granted approval to bring together American, British, and French banks concerned with investments in Mexico on the condition that control of the committee's policy remain in American hands.

De Lucy

The first records are about Adrian de Luci (born about 1064 in Lucé, Normandy, France) who went into England after William the Conqueror.

Derhan group

The Derhan group was an element of the French resistance in the Moselle department of France during World War II.

Edith Ker

Édith Ker, born Édith Denise Keraudren (1910–1997) was a French actress born in Brest (Finistère).

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.

Etain

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

Eugen Ritter von Schobert

He received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for his leadership of the VII Corps in the breakthrough of the Maginot Line and the capture of Nancy and Toul.

Europa City

The first aspect considered how well each group accounted for an inclusion of Europa City within the greater area of Roissy-en-France and within the public development project already taking place in and around Gonesse.

European Masters in Interactive Multimedia

European Master in Interactive Multimedia (EMIM) is a partnership between five institutions of higher learning in Europe: Babeş-Bolyai University in Romania, ITIN in France, Staffordshire University in United Kingdom, Tallinn University in Estonia and Yeditepe University in Turkey.

Ex-plicit linez

In addition to his solo works, EXP made numerous guest appearances internationally throughout Japan, China, France and Philippine.

Explicit Lyrics

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

Fort-de-France

At the turn of the 20th century, however, Fort-de-France became economically important after the volcanic eruption of Mount Pelée destroyed the town of Saint-Pierre in 1902.

France amateur national rugby union team

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

France-Albert René

While abroad, he became heavily involved in the politics of the Labour Party, at the time led by Clement Attlee and later Hugh Gaitskell.

"Mad Mike" Hoare and 43 others posed as members of the "Ancient Order of Froth Blowers", a defunct charitable beer-drinking fraternity, visiting the islands as tourists.

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 North Africa

French North Africa was a collection of territories in North Africa controlled by France and centering on French Algeria.

French Senate election, 2008

They were divided in the following way: 1 new Senator each for the Ain, Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Drôme, Eure-et-Loir, Haute-Garonne, Gironde, Hérault, and Guyane départements and one in French Polynesia.

French state

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

Fundacion Yannick y Ben Jakober

Yannick Vu, president of the foundation, a painter and sculptor born in France (1942) is now British.

Gau München-Oberbayern

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

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.

Graceful Inheritance

Graceful Inheritance is the debut album by an American metal band Heir Apparent, released in 1986 by French label Black Dragon Records.

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.

Heilbronn League

The Heilbronn League was an alliance between Sweden, France, and the Protestant princes of Western Germany against the Catholic League during the Thirty Years' War.

Henri de La Ferté-Senneterre

In 1632 the French army invaded Lorraine and Henri II naturally found himself before Nancy in 1633.

History of Île-de-France

This proved to be a failure, due to a lack of cooperation from the communes and the departments of the region; they refused to send their representatives to the district council.

Île-de-France

The most populated towns of the Petite Couronne are Boulogne-Billancourt, Montreuil, Saint-Denis, Nanterre and Créteil.

Île-de-France tramway Line 2

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

James Sykes Gamble

Gamble later studied at the École nationale des eaux et forêts, Nancy.

Jean Antoine Coquebert de Montbret

Jean Antoine Coquebert de Montbret (1753, Paris- 6 April 1825) was a French entomologist.

Jean Sainteny

Jean Sainteny or Jean Roger (May 29, 1907 in Vésinet - February 25, 1978) was a French politician who was sent to Vietnam after the end of the Second World War in order to accept the surrender of the Japanese forces and to attempt to reincorporate Vietnam into French Indochina.

Joseph Lennox Pawan

After studying at the Pasteur Institute in France he returned to Trinidad in 1913, first as an Assistant Surgeon at the Colonial Hospital in Port of Spain, and later as the District Medical Officer in Tobago and Cedros, in southwestern Trinidad.

Joseph Merklin

In 1867 the company's grand organ built for the Basilica of St. Epvre in Nancy received a Gold Medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris and Merklin was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur.

Juan de Lángara

For a short while, after the alliance between France and Spain had been concluded, in 1795, Lángara co-operated with Napoléon Bonaparte during his Italian campaign of 1796, and sailed from Cádiz with nineteen ships of the line and ten frigates, brushing aside Rear-Admiral Man's division which Jervis had posted to watch Cádiz, and passed into the Mediterranean Sea.

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.

Katoucha Niane

In 2005, she worked as host of the French language television program France's Next Top Model.

Lakhdar Ben Tobbal

He was one of the original "historical leaders" of the FLN's November 1, 1954 uprising against French colonialism.

Le chemin

Le Chemin, France, commune in the Marne department in the Champagne-Ardenne region in north-eastern France

Leader of the Opposition in the French National Assembly

In France, the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly is the leader of the largest opposition group in the National Assembly.

Leading sire in France

The list below shows the leading Thoroughbred sire of racehorses in France for each year since 1887.

Lioré et Olivier 300

The Lioré et Olivier 300 (abbreviated to LeO 300) was a 1930s French prototype night bomber.

Louis-Philippe Dalembert

Since leaving Haiti, this polyglot vagabond (he juggles seven languages) has lived in Nancy, Paris, Rome, Jerusalem, Brazzaville, Kinshasa, Florence, and has traveled wherever his steps have taken him ... in the renewed echo of his native land.

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.

Lucien Cuénot

His studies on mice were also cut short when German troops invaded the town of Nancy, where he kept his mouse colony.

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").

March for Equality and Against Racism

The March for Equality and Against Racism (French: Marche pour l’égalité et contre le racisme), also called Beurs’ March (Marche des beurs) by French media (beur is the contraction of beu-ra-a which is the backslang of arabe), was an anti-racist march that took place in France in 1983, from October 15 to December 3.

Mhamed Yazid

He joined the nationalist Parti du Peuple Algérien (PPA) in 1942, and later, after moving to Paris, France for university studies, its successor organization, the MTLD, where he became a member of the central committee.

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.

Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert

Having completed his education at the college of Dole, he devoted himself for a time to a half-scholastic, half-literary life at Nancy, but in 1774 he found his way to the capital.

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.

Orchestre national d'Île-de-France

The Orchestre national d'Île de France is a French symphony orchestra founded in 1974, and since 1996 based at Alfortville.

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.

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.

Petitcollin

In the early 1800s, Nicolas Petitcollin, the company's founder, manufactured horn combs in Étain, Meuse, France.

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.

Pierre Clereau

Pierre Clereau (died before 11 January 1570) was a French composer, choirmaster, and possibly organist of the Renaissance, active in several towns in Lorraine, including Toul and Nancy.

Pope Pius IX and France

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

Prix Biennal

Prix Biennal is the former title of two separate horse races in France.

Prosper-René Blondlot

Born in Nancy, France, he spent most of his early years there, teaching physics at the University, being awarded three prestigious prizes of the Académie des Sciences for his experimental work on the consequences of Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism.

Race to Mars

Jumping to 2029, the narrator explains the mission, 'Project Olympus' and shows the four NTR spacecraft: Cargo lander Shirase, Mars Surface Habitat Atlantis, Mars lander Gagarin, and Crew Transfer Vehicle Terra Nova. In early 2030, the international crew of six astronauts from the United States, Russia, France, Canada and Japan board Terra Nova to begin their 582 day-month journey to Mars and back.

Ramadan Shlash

Ramadan Shlash (Fr. Chelache), although at one time an official in Deir ez-Zour, is most known for having taken a significant role in the nationalist, anti-colonialist revolt against the French of 1919-1921.

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).

Raymond Appert

Raymond Appert (4 October 1904 – 17 April 1973) was a French general.

Résistance-Fer

The actions of Résistance-Fer were especially effective during the liberation of France.

Rodeo Massacre

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

Roissy-en-France

The closest station to Roissy-en-France is Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 1 station on line B of the Paris Region's express suburban rail system, the RER.

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.

Sisters of Mercy of St. Borromeo

They were originally a pious association of ladies formed in 1626 for the care of the sick in the hospital of St. Charles at Nancy, but became a religious congregation in 1652, after being generously endowed by the father of Emmanuel Chauvenel, a young advocate who had given his life in the service of the sick.

SNCAC Chardonneret

Chardonneret (sometimes known as the Aérocentre NC.840) was a 1940s French four-seat cabin monoplane.

STIF

Syndicat des transports d'Île-de-France, the organizing public transport authority for Paris and the surrounding Île-de-France region.

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.

William VI, Count of Auvergne

William VI of Auvergne (1096–1136) was a French count of the historically independent region of Auvergne, today in central France.


1937–38 Detroit Red Wings season

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

30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS

Soldiers of the division together with an unspecified Italian unit killed 40 civilians in Étobon, France on 27 September 1944, in retaliation of the support given by villagers to the French partisans.

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.

Alexander Lion

After the ceasefire on the Romanian front, he returned to France, serving at Reims and the Somme.

Alexandros Skourletis

In the early 1920s, Alexandros moved to France where he studied Law and Political Science at the University of Paris.

André Castaigne

During a six-year period in France where he divided his time between a winter studio in Paris and a summer studio in Angoulême, he illustrated William Milligan Sloane's The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Richard Whiteing's Paris of To-Day and Bertha Runkle's The Helmet of Navarre.

Automated guideway transit

The VAL (Véhicule Automatique Léger) system in Lille, France, opened in 1983, is often cited as the first AGT installed to serve an existing urban area.

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.

Canal de Tancarville

The Canal de Tancarville is a 25 km waterway in France connecting the English Channel at Le Havre to the Seine at Tancarville.

Chaumont, New York

In 1750, Ray had bought the Chaumont castle (named from the Old French for "bald hill", and built in two periods around 1500), in the Loire Valley of France.

Commercial Cable Company

Connections from Waterville to Weston-super-Mare in England and Le Havre in France were soon established by the submarine route after initial use of landlines from Waterville onward to mainland Britain.

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.

Downhill Challenge

Downhill Challenge is a view-from-behind 3d skiing game developed by Microïds in 1988, published in the US by Brøderbund Software and in France by Loriciel (as Super Ski; in the UK it also had an Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards license).

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.

Earl J. Atkisson

This regiment arrived in France on March 10, 1918 and eventually participated in the Aisne-Marne, St. Mihel, and Meuse-Argonne operations.

Elsie Ferguson

Following her final marriage at age 51, she and her husband acquired a farm in Connecticut and divided their time between it and her Cap d'Antibes home on the Mediterranean Sea in the south of France.

Eric Heinze

After receiving his Licence and Maîtrise from the Université de Paris, Heinze enrolled as a DAAD scholar at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Escaladieu Abbey

Escaladieu Abbey (French: l'Abbaye de l'Escaladieu) was a Cistercian abbey located in the French commune of Bonnemazon in the Hautes-Pyrénées.

France national under-20 rugby union team

The France Under 20's won two of their five matches and finished 4th in the 2010 Six Nations Championship

Fritz Knipschildt

After training at the Hotel and Restaurant School of Denmark, Knipschildt worked in the Mont Blanc area of France twice, and also in southern Spain.

Fusion cuisine

California cuisine is considered a fusion culture, taking inspiration particularly from Italy, France, Mexico, the idea of the European delicatessen, and eastern Asia, and then creating traditional dishes from these cultures with non-traditional ingredients - such as California pizza.

Gare de Pierrelaye

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

Gérard de Cortanze

He translated works of Spanish writers, such as the Mexican Jose Emilio Pacheco, the Nicaraguan Rubén Darío, Argentine exile in France Juan José Saer, the notebooks of the Spanish painter Antonio Saura (1930–1998), and poems, like those of Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (1892–1938) and the Chilean Vicente Huidobro (1893–1948).

Henry Christy

An account of the explorations appeared in a half-finished book left by Christy, entitled Reliquiae Aquilanicae, being contributions to the Archaeology and Paleontology of Perigord and the adjacent provinces of Southern France; this was completed by Christy's executors, first by Lartet and, after his death in 1870, by Rupert Jones.

Henry George Purchase

In 1915, he was sent on a special mission to France for the purpose of organising a British and American hospital at Neuilly.

Jackie Duffin

Sorbonne, History and Philosophy of Science (PhD)
1985 Diplôme de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, IV Section, Paris
1983 D.E.A.Paris-I-Sorbonne, France
1979 F.R.C.P.(C) Internal medicine
1979 F.R.C.P.(C) Hematology
1979 C.S.P.Q. Hématologie
1974 M.D. University of Toronto

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.

Jean-Jacques Ampère

Moving to Paris, he taught at the Sorbonne, and became professor of the history of French literature at the Collège de France.

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.

Joël Prévost

Born in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of southern France, Prévost was adopted soon after birth by a family from northern France, renamed Jean-Luc Potaux, and grew up at Trith-Saint-Léger, close to the border with Belgium.

Kevin Ayers

After living for many years in Deià, Majorca, he returned to the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s before moving to the south of France.

La Vallon Airfield

La Vallon Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in France, which is located approximately 6 km north-northeast of Montbrison (Departement de la Loire,Rhone-Alpes); about 385 km south-southeast of Paria.

Louis Pouzin

Louis Pouzin (born 1931 in Chantenay-Saint-Imbert, Nièvre, France) invented the datagram and designed an early packet communications network, CYCLADES.

Luçon Cathedral

Luçon Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Luçon) is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and a national monument of France, in Luçon in the Vendée.

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.

Montmorency, Victoria

Montmorency was named after a local farm, Montmorency Estate, which in turn was named for the town of Montmorency, Val-d'Oise, where the French Enlightenment philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau lived briefly.

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

Pegaso Z-102

A Pegaso Z-102 coupé by Saoutchick, owned by Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza, was in this respect the epitome of coachwork sophistication, as it had seats upholstered with leopard skin and controls in gold, and in such a finish it won the 1953 Enghien-les-Bains (France) Grand Prix d'Elegance.

St Mary's Church, Ickworth

The 6th Marquess (d. 1985) was buried in Menton (France) for 25 years until the 8th Marquess had him reinterred in the vault of Ickworth Church in October 2010.

Stratos Boats

Stratos began building boats in 1984, and sells throughout a network of dealers throughout the United States, Australia, France, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Italy and Venezuela.

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.

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.

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.