| Annonay Annonay is a commune in the north of the Ardèche department in the Rhône-Alpes region in southern France. It is the most populous commune in the Ardèche department, although it is not the préfecture (capital), which resides in the smaller town of Privas. Annonay
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| National Assembly of France The French National Assembly () is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of France under the Fifth Republic. The other is the Senate (“Sénat”). National_Assembly_of_France
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| Baguette A baguette () is a specific shape of bread, commonly made from basic lean dough, a simple guideline set down by French law, distinguishable by its length, very crisp crust, and slits cut into it to enable proper expansion of gasses and thus formation of the crumb, the inner soft part of bread. The standard diameter of a baguette is approximately 5 or 6English as a French stick or a French bread. Baguette
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| Abbé Pierre L' (born Henri Marie Joseph Grouès Abbé_Pierre
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| Midshipman A midshipman is an officer cadet, or alternatively a commissioned officer of the lowest rank, in the Royal Navy, United States Navy, and many Commonwealth navies. Prior to 1968, the Royal Canadian Navy used the rank of midshipman but after the creation of the Canadian Forces, midshipman was replaced by the rank of naval cadet. Midshipman
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| Flag of France Talk:Flag_of_France
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| Alain Delon Alain Delon (born 8 November 1935) is a César Award-winning French actor. He rose quickly to stardom, and by the age of 23 he was garnering comparisons to famed French actors such as Gérard Philipe and Jean Marais, as well as American actor James Dean. He was even called the male Brigitte Bardot. Over the course of his career, Delon has worked with many well-known directors, including Luchino Visconti, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, Michelangelo Antonioni and Louis Malle. Alain_Delon
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| Baccalauréat baccalauréat (), often known in France colloquially as le bac, is an academic qualification which French and international students take at the end of the lycée (secondary or high school). It was invented under Napoleon I in 1808. It is the main diploma required to pursue university studies. Baccalauréat
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| Aristide Cavaillé-Coll Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (4 February 1811–13 October 1899) was a French organ builder. He is considered by many to be the greatest organ builder of the 19th century because he combined both science and art to make his instruments. He is responsible for innovations in the art and science of organ building permeated throughout the profession and influenced the course of organ building through the early twentieth century. Aristide_Cavaillé-Coll
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| David.Monniaux/archive1 User_talk:David.Monniaux/archive1
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| Council of State (France) In France, the Council of State (FrenchConseil d'État) is an organ of the French national government that provides the executive branch with legal advice and acts as the administrative court of last resort. The Council is primarily made up of high-ranking legal officers. Council_of_State_(France)
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| Libération Libération (affectionately known as Libé) is a French daily newspaper founded in Paris in 1973 by Jean-Paul Sartre, Philippe Gavi, Bernard Lallement and Jean-Claude Vernier, Pierre Victor alias Benny Lévy and Serge July in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. Libération
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| Georges Bernanos Georges Bernanos (20 February 1888, Paris – 5 July 1948, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French author, and a soldier in World War I. Of Roman Catholic and monarchist leanings, he was a violent adversary to bourgeois thought and to what he identified as defeatism leading to France's defeat in 1940.Bernanos was born into a family of craftsmen, and spent much of his childhood in the Pas de Calais region, which became a frequent setting for his novels. Georges_Bernanos
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| Montréal-Mirabel International Airport Talk:Montréal-Mirabel_International_Airport
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| Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité (CRS) () are the riot control forces and general reserve of the French National Police. The CRS were created on 8 December 1944 and the first units were organised by 31 January 1945. The CRS were reorganized in 1948. The task for which they are best known in popular culture is crowd and riot control and re-establishment of order. Their suppressive role and occasional abuse of force has led to criticisms among certain demonstrators. Compagnies_Républicaines_de_Sécurité
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| Grandes écoles The Grandes écoles ("Graduate schools", literally in French "Grand Schools" or "Elite Schools") of France are higher education establishments outside the mainstream framework of the public universities system. Unlike French public universities which have an obligation to accept all candidates of the same region who hold a Baccalauréat, the selection criteria of Grandes écoles rests mainly on competitive written and oral exams, undertaken by students of dedicated preparatory classes. Grandes_écoles
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| List of official languages by state This is a complete list of the official languages designated in the sovereign states of the world. It includes all languages that have official language status either statewide or in a part of the state, or that have status as a national language, regional language, or minority language.Only states, which are defined as sovereign, internationally recognised, independent political entities, are listed. List_of_official_languages_by_state
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| French Civil Service French Civil Service ( French_Civil_Service
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| Emergency contraception Talk:Emergency_contraception
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| List of colleges and universities in France The French public higher education system includes universities and other higher education institutes, that provide both education curricula and related degrees up to doctoral degree and also contribute to research activities. They are the backbone of the tertiary education institutions in France.Aside to the nationally-funded public education system that provides recognised degrees to the vast majority of students in France and that keeps tuition fees low, there exist private institutes. List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_France
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| Nu jazz Nu jazz is an umbrella term coined in the late 1990s to refer to music that blends jazz elements with other musical styles, such as funk, soul, electronic dance music, and free improvisation. Also written nü-jazz or NuJazz, it is sometimes called electronic jazz, electro-jazz, e-jazz, jazztronica, jazz house, phusion, "neo-jazz" or future jazz.According to critic Tony Brewer, Nu_jazz
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| Lorient Lorient, or L'Orient, () is a commune and a seaport in the Morbihan department in Brittany in northwestern France. Lorient
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| Automobile safety Automobile safety is the study and practice of vehicle design, construction, and equipment to minimise the occurrence and consequences of automobile accidents. (Road traffic safety more broadly includes roadway design.)Improvements in roadway and automobile design have steadily reduced injury and death rates in all first world countries. Nevertheless, auto collisions are the leading cause of injury-related deaths, an estimated total of 1.2 million in 2004, or 25% of the total from all causes. Automobile_safety
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| Gobelins Manufactory The Manufacture des Gobelins is a tapestry factory located in Paris, France, at 42 avenue des Gobelins, near the Les Gobelins métro station in the XIIIe arrondissement. It is best known as a royal factory supplying the court of Louis XIV and later monarchs; it is now run by the French Ministry of Culture, and open for guided tours several afternoons per week by appointment. Gobelins_Manufactory
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| Multiple citizenship Multiple citizenship is a status in which a person is concurrently regarded as a citizen under the laws of more than one state. Multiple citizenships exist because different countries use different, and not necessarily mutually exclusive, citizenship requirements. Multiple_citizenship
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| Marianne Marianne, a national emblem of the French Republic, is, by extension, an allegory of Liberty and Reason. She represents France as a state, and its values (as opposed to the "Gallic rooster" representing France as a nation and its history, land and culture). Marianne
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| Overseas department An overseas department ( or DOM) is a department of France that is outside metropolitan France. They have the same political status as metropolitan departments.Under the 1946 Constitution of the Fourth Republic, the French colonies of Algeria in North Africa (independent since 1962), Guadeloupe and Martinique in the Caribbean, French Guiana in South America, and Réunion in the Indian Ocean were defined as overseas departments. Overseas_department
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| Maghreb Maghreb (المغرب العربي ), also rendered Maghrib (or rarely Moghreb), meaning "place of sunset" or "western" in Arabic, is a region in North Africa. The term is generally applied to all of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, but in older Arabic usage pertained only to the area of the three countries between the high ranges of the Atlas Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea. Maghreb
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| Adélie Land Adélie Land is the portion of the Antarctic coast between Pourquoi Pas Point at Adélie_Land
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| Faa'a International Airport Faa'a International Airport or Tahiti Faa'a International Airport () is located in the commune (municipality) of Faa'a, on the island of Tahiti, French Polynesia, approximately 5 km (3 miles) southwest from the town center of Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia. Faa'a_International_Airport
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| Papotages/Censure User:Papotages/Censure
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| Fresnes Prison Fresnes Prison (Centre pénitentiaire de Fresnes) is the second largest prison in France, located in the town of Fresnes, Val-de-Marne near the city of Paris. It comprises a large men's jail (maison d'arrêt) of about 1200 cells, a smaller one for women and a penitentiary hospital. Fresnes_Prison
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| President of the European Council The President of the European Council is a position in the European Union that chairs the European Council. At present it is an unofficial low key position (also referred to as the President-in-Office) which rotates between member states every six months.Under the proposed Treaty of Lisbon, this system would be replaced by a permanent two and a half year post. President_of_the_European_Council
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| Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport or Pointe-à-Pitre - Le Raizet Airport , also known as Aéroport Guadeloupe Pôle Caraïbes in French, is an airport in Abymes, near Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. It is the main hub for Air Caraïbes and is located 3 km from the main town. It is the largest of the 6 airports in the archipelago.Runway 11/29 is the longest of any runway in the Caribbean, allowing aircraft as large as the A380 to take off and land without difficulty. Pointe-à-Pitre_International_Airport
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| Identity document "National identity card" redirects here. For cards referred to in the English language as "national identity card", seeNational identity card (disambiguation).An identity document (also called a piece of identification or ID) is any document which may be used to verify aspects of a person's . Identity_document
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| List of special forces units Talk:List_of_special_forces_units
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| Chikungunya Chikungunya (in the Makonde language "that which bends up") virus (CHIKV) is an insect-borne virus, of the genus, Alphavirus, that is transmitted to humans by virus-carrying Aedes mosquitoes. , there have been recent outbreaks of CHIKV associated with severe morbidity. Chikungunya
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| Treaty of the Pyrenees Treaty of the Pyrenees was signed in 1659 to end the war between France and Spain that had begun in 1635 during the Thirty Years' War. It was signed on Pheasant Island, a river island on the border between the two countries. The kings Louis XIV of France and Philip IV of Spain were represented by their prime ministers, Cardinal Mazarin and Don Luis de Haro, respectively. Treaty_of_the_Pyrenees
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| César Baldaccini César Baldaccini (1 January 1921 in Marseille - 12 June 1998 in Paris), usually called César was a noted French sculptor.César was at the forefront of the Nouveau Réalisme movement with his radical compressions (compacted automobiles, discarded metal, or rubbish), expansions (polyurethane foam sculptures), and fantastic representations of animals and insects. César_Baldaccini
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| Étienne Méhul Etienne Henri (or Nicolas) Méhul (June 22, 1763 - October 18, 1817) was a French composer, "the most important opera composer in France during the Revolution." He was also the first composer to be called a "Romantic". Étienne_Méhul
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| Dassault Mirage F1 Dassault_Mirage_F1
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| Secondary education in France In France, secondary education is in two stages collèges () cater for the first four years of secondary education from the ages of 11 to 15; lycées () provide a three-year course of further secondary education for children between the ages of 15 and 18. Pupils are prepared for the baccalauréat () (baccalaureate, colloquially known as le bac). The baccalauréat can lead to higher education studies or directly to professional life. Secondary_education_in_France
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| Education in France French educational system is highly centralized, organized, and ramified. It is divided into three different stages primary education (enseignement primaire); secondary education (enseignement secondaire); higher education (enseignement supérieur). Primary and secondary education are predominantly public (private schools also exist, in particular a strong nationwide network of primary and secondary Catholic education). Education_in_France
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| Dassault Mirage 2000 Dassault_Mirage_2000
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| French Navy The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale (National Navy) and often called La Royale (LiterallyThe Royal Navy), is the maritime arm of the French military. It consists of a full range of vessels, from patrol boats to guided missile frigates, and operates one nuclear aircraft carrier and ten nuclear submarines (four of which are submarine-launched ballistic missile–capable (SNLEs)). French_Navy
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| French Sign Language French Sign Language (langue des signes française or LSF) is the sign language of the deaf in the nation of France. According to Ethnologue, it has 50,000 to 100,000 native signers.French Sign Language is related to Dutch Sign Language (NGT), German Sign Language (DGS), Flemish Sign Language (VGT), Belgian-French Sign Language (LSFB) Irish Sign Language (ISL), American Sign Language (ASL), and Quebec Sign Language (LSQ). French_Sign_Language
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| Imidacloprid effects on bee population Talk:Imidacloprid_effects_on_bee_population
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| Sarcelles Sarcelles
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| Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (26 February 1725 French inventor. He is believed to have built the first self-propelled mechanical vehicle. This claim is disputed by some sources, however, which suggest that Ferdinand Verbiest, as a member of a Jesuit mission in China, may have been the first to build a 'car' around 1672. Nicolas-Joseph_Cugnot
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| Milly-la-Forêt Milly-la-Forêt is a commune in the Essonne department in France. Milly-la-Forêt
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