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  1922 in France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The year 1922 was signalized at its opening by the conference of Cannes, between France, the United Kingdom, and Belgium, which met to consider the situation created by Germany's declaration of her inability to pay what was demanded of her for 1922.
France at Genoa had held her own; she had neither gained nor lost anything.
The representative of France had refused to sign this statement, insisting that no reduction of the figure of reparations could be considered until some arrangement had been made among the Allies by which France herself should be relieved of part of her debt to England and the United States.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1922_in_France   (2067 words)

  
 BP Global/About BP/France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
BP France is one of the leading retail networks in the Paris region and the number one brand with 270 sites, which equates to an approximate 17% market share in the greater Paris area.
BP France's main manufacturing activities are located in the South of France near Marseilles at the Lavera petrochemicals complex, which employs approximately 1,000 people.
BP France, which has been involved for years in an ongoing programme of road safety focused primarily on road transport safety, is now extending the scope of its work in this field to all its employees.
www.bp.com /sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=459&contentId=2000616   (1147 words)

  
 Timeline France 1921-1967
France was given influence over Syria and Jewish immigration was allowed into Palestine.
France and Germany signed an armistice at Compiegne, on terms dictated by the Nazis.
1962 Mar 18, France and Algerian rebels agreed to a truce.
timelines.ws /countries/FRANCE1921_1967.HTML   (13578 words)

  
 France - Heroes of the Holocaust
Lucien Bunel was born in 1900, in Normandy, France.
After France’s surrender, he spent the next five months as a prisoner of war where he was able to minister to his fellow prisoners.
Marcel was born on December 6, 1921, in Rennes, France, one of nine children.
www.catholichomeschooling.com /curr/hhfrance.htm   (1972 words)

  
 Maximim Gruss' Family
Maximim married at Guémar, France on November 15, 1843 to Marie Anne Biehler, daughter of Maximim Biehler and Elisabeth Witz.
Joseph Gruss was born on September 6, 1852 at Guémar, France.
Adrien Pierre Raymond Gruss was born on November 16, 1893 at Epinal, France.
home.comcast.net /~hlgruss/fam5d.html   (1364 words)

  
 Broadcast Media in France - Radio, TV, Cable
Radio broadcasts on a regular basis began in France in November 1921, transmitted from the Eiffel Tower.
France 2 is one of four public TV networks, financed by government subsidies and advertising.
Since privatization of television and radio broadcasting was authorized in 1982, a wealth of radio programs have flourished in France, now numbering 450 stations broadcasting on some 2,650 frequencies.
www.discoverfrance.net /France/DF_media-bc.shtml   (828 words)

  
 SI.com - Soccer - England-France Statistics - Saturday June 12, 2004 4:13PM
The last goal that France conceded was Tuncay Sanli's goal for Turkey in the 48th minute of the Confederations Cup semi-final in June 2003.
This is the only time France have failed to progress from the group stage in a European Championship.
France gained maximum points from their qualifying campaign.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/soccer/06/12/eng.france.stats   (748 words)

  
 Memorial Volume of the American Field Service in France. 1921. 8/8
A youth of twenty, he went to France as a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Unit, and, shortly after his arrival on the other side, was detailed to one of the camion sections serving the French army on the Chemin des Dames front.
Arriving in France the latter part of April, the Cornell unit was selected as the first contingent of the camion corps just being organized, and on May 8, 1917, left for the hastily organized training camp in the forest of Dommiers near Soissons.
During the latter part of his stay in France he suffered from the effects of gas and diabetes and was for a time transferred to the Provisional Battalion in Paris.
www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/memoir/AFShist/Mem8.htm   (8765 words)

  
 1920_1921
1921 Jan 23, Marija Alseika-Gimbutas, archeologist and pre-historian, was born in Vilnius.
1921 Jun 10, Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince, Consort of Elizabeth II, was born in Greece.
1921 At Melrose Abbey in the Scottish Borders a casket was found with an embalmed heart that was thought to belong to King Robert I of Scotland.
www.shelbyjackman.com /school/timeline/1920_1921.HTML   (12169 words)

  
 Memorial Volume of the American Field Service in France. 1921. 1/8
Educated in France, and loving intensely her people and her traditions, Lines was prepared from the beginning to make any sacrifice for her cause.
It was undoubtedly in no small part his love of danger and adventure which first drew McConnell to France, but by the fall of 1915, these motives had given way entirely, before the keen realization of what the war meant, to a desire to give his utmost to the cause of France.
On March 2d he landed in France, writing in his diary, "It is wonderful to realize that I am here to help!" and three weeks later he was at the front as a member of Section Two.
www.gwpda.org /memoir/AFShist/Mem1.htm   (8864 words)

  
 Memorial Volume of the American Field Service in France. 1921. 5/8
December 2, 1916, he sailed on the Rochambeau for France and upon his arrival was, with six of his countrymen, organized into the Vosges Detachment, which continued in Alsace the work begun by Section Three.
WHEN two-score students in the University of California offered their services to France, one of the most enthusiastic supporters of the abstract idea, as well as a leader in the actual organizing of the college unit for the American Field Service, was Benjamin Howell Burton, junior.
On his arrival in France in the American Field Service he was immediately made an adjutant in his camion section, and later on, though he was the youngest man in his squadron, he was appointed one of three Flight Commanders.
www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/memoir/AFShist/Mem5.htm   (9817 words)

  
 World ORT educational charity supporting Jewish and world-wide causes. Western Europe Review 2005
ORT France provides schooling and vocational adult education at its seven schools and centres located in Paris, Strasbourg, Lyons, Toulouse and Marseilles.
Founded in 1921, ORT France suffered during the German occupation but resurged after the war and played a vital role in educating and training North African Jews who immigrated during the decolonisation period of the 1950s and 1960s.
In Paris, ORT France provides courses adapted to the specific requests of companies wanting to retrain and upgrade new employees in the fields of ICT and foreign languages.
www.ort.org /asp/article.asp?id=332   (1256 words)

  
 Engine House #5 Museum
Her apparatus was eventually motorized, as typified by the 1921 La France Engine posing on her ramp, and finally, on her 100th birthday in 1980, she was slated to be torn down.
By demolition time, her brick had been painted tuscan red, most of her decoration covered over with plaster, and her usefulness was at an end.
The 1921 La France is part of the fire museum's permanent collection.
www.enginehouse5.org   (530 words)

  
 Timeline 1920-1921
1921 Aug 3, Marilyn Maxwell, actress (East of Sumatra), was born.
1921 Aug 3, The 1st aerial crop dusting was in Troy, Ohio, to kill caterpillars.
1921 Aug 12, Marjorie Reynolds, actress (Peggy-Life of Riley), was born in Buhl, Idaho.
timelines.ws /20thcent/1920_1921.HTML   (13284 words)

  
 National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall
The world’s first African American woman aviator, Bessie Coleman, earned her pilot’s license in 1921 in France, two years before her more famous contemporary, Amelia Earhart.
In 1921 she earned an international pilot’s license from the highly respected Federation Aeronautique International.
She returned to the United States and spent the next five years touring the country, giving exhibition flights, barnstorming and parachuting at airports.
www.greatwomen.org /women.php?action=viewone&id=182   (326 words)

  
 France Law: Internet Law Library
Agreement between Germany and France Relative to Morocco (1909)
Declaration between the governments of France and Spain, respecting the integrity of Morocco (1904)
Declaration between the United Kingdom and France Respecting Egypt and Morocco (1904)
www.lawmoose.com /internetlawlib/60.htm   (428 words)

  
 The U.S. Women's Motor Corps in France, 1914-1921 - Questia Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The massive relief effort engendered by World War I gave women an opportunity to demonstrate and develop their skills on a previously unknown scale.
Each of these services relied on women drivers to perform their work in France.
The AFFW and Le Bienetre volunteers drove supplies to hospitals and soldiers...
www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=5000318432   (344 words)

  
 UNIAPAC - International Christian Union of Business Executives
Several of the leaders of these national federations have played a role in the Catholic Church's Social Doctrine, such as Léon Harmel who led his family's textile firm in the North of France (Val des Bois).
To continue international contacts the decision was taken on that occasion in Rome to organise further 'Conférences Internationales des Associations Patronales Catholiques' on a regular basis.
This was the first step of creation of UNIAPAC : 1931 - Foundation of UNIAPAC in Rome with the name of "International Conferences of Catholic Employers" by already existing associations of Catholic Entrepreneurs from France, Belgium and The Netherlands and observers/delegates from Italy, Germany and Czechoslovakia.
uniapac.org /history.php   (910 words)

  
 St. Louis Public Library: Reburial list of Soldiers From St. Loius Who Died During WWI M - Z
LOUIS POST-DISPATCH January 1921 to December 1922, of all the soldiers who died in France and were later returned for reburial in St. Louis.
This was accomplished as part of a four year government program that honored requests of the deceased nearest relatives for the body to be returned to American.
Year Index N Nagel, (Pvt.) Adolph John [Died in France] “29 Soldier Dead …” #9/1/1921 p1, 9/2/1921 p25, #9/4/1921 p3 Newcomb, (Sgt.) Charlie B. [KIA] 8/14/1921 p9B Nolan, (Pvt.) Murt [Died in France] 5/29 p11B, “Bodies of 48 Soldiers…” #5/30/1921 p3 Noonan, (Bugler) Edward J. [Died in France] 1/20/1922 p29 Noonan, William H. Jr.
www.slpl.lib.mo.us /libsrc/obww1reburialb.htm   (409 words)

  
 Europe - France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Analysis of Arrests in Paris [France], June 1848
Disturbances in France, 1830-1860 and 1930-1960: Intensive Sample
Height of Students of the Ecole Polytechnique [France], 1794-1887
www.sscnet.ucla.edu /issr/da/index/europe-france.htm   (101 words)

  
 Research Collections in Microform: Census Reports, 1855-1921 (France) - Bowling Green State University
Title: Census Reports (France, Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques)
Content Description: Summaries of census data for France from 1855 to 1921.
Each census is in one box, except where noted: 1855; 1856; 1866; 1872; 1876; 1881; 1886; 1891; 1896 (4 boxes); 1901 (4 boxes); 1906 (2 boxes); 1911; 1921.
www.bgsu.edu /colleges/library/infosrv/MicroCollections/censusfrance.htm   (129 words)

  
 Anatole France Life Stories, Books, & Links
On this day in 1924 the French writer and man of letters, Anatole France died.
No books are presently listed for Anatole France in this category.
The TinL masthead features photography by Natasha D'Schommer, and the book art featured is by Jim Rosenau.
todayinliterature.com /biography/anatole.france.asp   (116 words)

  
 Deng Xiaoping --  Encyclopædia Britannica
He abandoned many orthodox communist doctrines and attempted to incorporate elements of the free-enterprise system into the Chinese economy.
19, 1997, Beijing, China), transformed China's drab and listless society into a dynamic industrial workforce by compromising traditional communist doctrines and adopting a free-enterprise system "with Chinese characteristics." While studying (1921-24) in France, he joined the fledgling communist...
Mao's death and the purge of the Gang of Four left Hua Guofeng (Hua Kuo-feng), a compromise candidate elevated by Mao in the wake of the purge of Deng Xiaoping, as the official leader of China.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9114667?tocId=9114667   (623 words)

  
 Silent Era : PSFL : Manhatta (1921)
A growing source of silent era film information.
AKA [New York, the Magnificent]; and as [The Smoke of New York] in France.
/ Premiere 24 July 1921, at the Rialto Theatre, New York, New York.
www.silentera.com /PSFL/data/M/Manhatta1921.html   (86 words)

  
 In Flight: Lillian Dabney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Accordion with cut, reverse folds featuring fl and white photo images of Bessie Coleman, first African American to receive a pilot's license in 1921 from France after refusal to US flight schools.
Hand lettering in red gouache on fl, Fabriano paper, with a 1995 U.S. postage stamp of the aviatrix on the cover.
All content is the responsibility of the Guild of Book Workers.
palimpsest.stanford.edu /byorg/gbw/gallery/inflight/18.shtml   (130 words)

  
 Used Book Central / Bookcase / Award Winners /Nobel Prize for Literature
1970 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - U.S.S.R. Samuel Beckett - France
1958 - Boris Pasternak - U.S.S.R. Albert Camus - France
1938 - Pearl S. Buck - U.S. Roger Martin Du Gard - France
www.usedbookcentral.com /award_winners_nobel_prize_in_literature.html   (216 words)

  
 KZ Mauthausen-GUSEN 10th Anniversary of Marcel Callo´s Beatification
KZ Mauthausen-GUSEN 10th Anniversary of Marcel Callo´s Beatification
Several hundred pilgrims from France, Germany, Hungary and Austria followed the invitation and came to the original sites of the late martyrdom of MARCEL CALLO at MAUTHAUSEN, GUSEN and ST.GEORGEN/GUSEN.
General-Vicarius Roger CHOPIN (Delegate of the Archbishop of Rennes, France),
www.gusen.org /pers/callo10x.htm   (327 words)

  
 Saint-Saëns, Camille
Born: Friday, October 9, 1835 in Paris, France
Died: Friday, December 16, 1921 in Algiers, Algeria
CLICK HERE for Sheet Music by this composer.
stevenestrella.com /composers/composerfiles/saint-saens1921.html   (160 words)

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