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  France - Search View - MSN Encarta
France is a nation of varied landscapes, ranging from coastal lowlands and broad plains in the north, to hilly uplands in south central France, to lush valleys and towering, snow-capped Alps in the east.
France first attained cultural preeminence in Europe during the Middle Ages; later, the wealth of the French crown in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries provided a subsidization of art on a scale comparable to that of the papacy in Rome, attracting to Paris many of Europe’s most talented artists and artisans.
Under provisions established in the Maastricht Treaty, France is among a group of EMU members that have adopted a single, multinational currency, the euro.
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 Third French Republic
The French Third Republic, sometimes written as the IIIrd Republic (1870-1940), was the governing body of France between the Second Empire and the Fourth Republic.
By the late 1870s, with public opinion swinging heavily in favour of a republic, the President of the Republic, Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, himself a monarchist, made one last desparate attempt to salvage the monarchical cause by dismissing the republic-orientated prime minister and appointing a monarchist duke to office.
France's longest lasting regimé since before the 1789 revolution, the Third Republic, was confined to the history books, as unloved at the end as it had been when first created seventy years earlier.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: France
France's national heroine was thus heralded by the fancy of her contemporaries, by Christine de Pisan, and by that Venetian merchant whose letters have been preserved for us in the Morosini Chronicle, as a heroine whose aims were as wide as Christianity itself.
Under the Third Republic, a parliamentary system with two chambers was established on the double principle of a responsible ministry and a president above all responsibility, the latter elected by the two chambers for a period of seven years.
Under the Third Republic, it was under the pretext of a strict enforcement of the law that, in 1880, the Society of Jesus was dissolved, and the other congregations were ordered to apply for authorization with three months.
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 France under the Third Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The era of the Third Republic in France lasted from after the fall of the Second Empire in 1870 to the defeat to Germany in World War II in 1940.
The Republic was also rocked by a series of crises, none more notorious that the Dreyfus Affair in 1894, when a Jewish officer in the French Army was wrongly jailed on charges of spying for Germany.
Despite this turmoil, the midpoint of the Third Republic was known as the belle epoque in France, a golden time of beauty, innovation, and peace with its European neighbors.
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 France - Hekmat
France's infant mortality rate (the number of infants per 1,000 who die before the age of 1) is 4.5, one of the world's lowest.
In 1998 France's total armed forces numbered 317,300 troops; 178,300 were serving in the army, 62,600 were in the navy, 76,400 were in the air force, and the remainder were in the strategic nuclear forces or central staff positions.
France is a charter member of the United Nations, and holds one of five permanent seats on the UN Security Council.
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 French Third Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One of the most surprising aspects of the Third Republic is that it was the first stable republic in France, and the first to win the support of the majority of the population, yet it was never intended to be a long-lasting republic at all.
When France was finally liberated, few called for the restoration of the Third Republic, and a Constituent Assembly was established in 1946 to draft a constitution for a successor, established as the Fourth Republic that December.
France's longest lasting régime since before the 1789 revolution, the Third Republic was consigned to the history books, as unloved at the end as it had been when first created seventy years earlier.
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 Amazon.com: Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940: Books: William l. shirer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Shirer has masterfully sifted through the wreckage of the Third Republic to discover the provocative and disturbing story behind the loss of heart and courage as well as the shocking and immoral betrayal involved in the subsequent collaboration with the Nazis under the notorious Vichy government.
This, then, is an absorbing, thoughtful, and compassionate look at how Germany came to defeat France's Third Republic so easily, at the tragic errors in tactical judgment and the continuing comedy of stupid military errors that constituted the French response to both the preparations for war as well as the invasion itself.
The book gives a survey of the history of the French Third Republic from its founding in the aftermath of the humiliating defeat at the hands of Prussia in 1870, through its crisis in the Dreyfus Affair, victory in World War I and finally to the debacle of 1940.
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 CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE UNDER THE THIRD REPUBLIC
CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE UNDER THE THIRD REPUBLIC: THE SHAME OF MARIANNE by Benjamin F. Martin.
Indeed, his principal boundaries are temporal, those of the French Third Republic, from 1871 to 1914.
He proposes that sexual repression may have contributed to the molestation of young girls during the last several decades of the 19th century, but he also suggests that such crimes may be of "immense" proportions still today (he cites the appeal of Nabokov's LOLITA as a clue).
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 Marseilles France - Lisle France - Information On France - Castle Of Versailles - Versailles Palace - Palace Of ...
However, in sign of recognition to the Republicans, it was forbidden during the reign of Napoleon, Louis Eighteenth and Napoleon the Third.
Returned to its honorary state after the revolution of 1830, it became the national anthem under the Third Republic.
And it is stated, by these local people, that one day a sardine (the little fish!) blocked the entrance to the port.
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