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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of French people
Michel Butor is a French novelist and essayist known for contributing to the literary genre of the nouveau roman.
Albert Camus Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was a French author and philosopher and one of the principal luminaries (with Jean-Paul Sartre) of existentialism.
French Congo was the original French colony established in the present-day area of the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and the Central African Republic.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List_of_French_people/Aviators   (157 words)

  
 French - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
French, the language of prostitution, is mostly known for the famous phrase "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?".
The Baboon is the evolution of french people.
French people think the world is flat when it's actually squared, and that france is the center of the galaxy the sun going around it citations:video:millionaire question: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1773116
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/French   (2127 words)

  
  French people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In a legal sense, the French people are the sovereign people of France, composed of all French citizens, regardless of ethnic origins or religious opinions.
French ethnicity, being that of a large and diverse nation-state, is relatively complex and heterogeneous.
The French culture might been already blended in from other races and ethnicities, in cases of some biographical research on the possibility of African ancestry on a small number of famous French citizens like writer Alexandre Dumas and empress Josephine Napoleon was born and raised in the French West Indies.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_people   (7141 words)

  
 French Revolution - MSN Encarta
The effects of the French Revolution were widespread, both inside and outside of France, and the Revolution ranks as one of the most important events in the history of Europe.
From the beginning of the 20th century until the 1970s, the French Revolution was most commonly described as the result of the growing economic and social importance of the bourgeoisie, or middle class.
By 1789 many French people had become critical of the monarchy, even though it had been largely successful in militarily defending France and in quelling domestic religious and political violence.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557826/French_Revolution.html   (988 words)

  
 Egypt: History - French Occupation Period
French restaurants were opened up by the French citizens of Cairo for the new soldiers in their city.
The French were afraid to enact any excessive revenge and were only too glad to accept the confession of the killer, who was a student of religion named Suleiman Alepin.
The British offered to protect the French officer, but he refused their offer and wandered out into the street where he was stoned to death by the people.
www.touregypt.net /hfrench.htm   (4544 words)

  
 National French Week Essay & Poster Winners
A knowledge of French is not only of practical value but it can open the door to a better and deeper understanding of the French people, their culture, their art, their literature, science, and their way of life.
French is a language and culture shared not only by the fifty-five million people of European France, but by many millions more in adjoining Belgium, Luxembourg, and Switzerland, the Canadian province of Quebec, several Caribbean Islands, French possessions in the Atlantic and Pacific, and former French colonies in South America, Asia, and Africa.
French is spoken by more than ninety million people as their mother tongue, and millions of others use it as a second language.
www.frenchteachers.org /nfw/2000/winners.html   (2083 words)

  
 Famous French people
Camille (Charles) Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) was a French composer who is well known for "The Carnival of the Animals" a composition for orchestra, piano, xylophone and harmonica.
Joan persuaded Charles and the generals of the French army to let her take on this task and raised the siege of the town of Orleans.
Napoléon Bonaparte (1769-1821) was a famous French general who became Emperor of France in the aftermath of the French Revolution.
www.earlystart.co.uk /esfrench1/04people.htm   (1823 words)

  
 FRONTLINE: nuclear reaction: Why the French Like Nuclear Energy
French policy makers saw only one way for France to achieve energy independence: nuclear energy, a source of energy so compact that a few pounds of fissionable uranium is all the fuel needed to run a big city for a year.
"People in France can be proud of their nuclear plants, but nobody wants to be proud of having a nuclear dustbin under its feet." In 1990, all activity was stopped and the matter was turned over to the French parliament, who appointed a politician, Monsieur Bataille, to look into the matter.
Bataille went and spoke to the people who were protesting and soon realized that the engineers and bureaucrats had greatly misunderstood the psychology of the French people.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/readings/french.html   (1782 words)

  
 National French Week Essay & Poster Winners
French opens the door ta many books that are less meaningful in English and provides a fuller enjoyment and understanding of such works.
French is essential to gain a complete vignette of French life during any time period, and in America, it is invaluable to learn about New Orleans.
French is spoken as an official language in over 30 countries and it is spoken on five continents.
www.frenchteachers.org /nfw/2001/winners.htm   (1812 words)

  
 Category:French people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Articles and media on this topic in other Wikimedia projects can be found at: Commons Category French people
There are 30 subcategories shown below (more may be shown on subsequent pages).
[+] French people by ethnic or national origin
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:French_people   (81 words)

  
 French culture
You find Americans ridiculous, if not stupid or dangerous, with their primary reflex to sue whenever they can get away with it, even if it is their fault (typical example: trying to dry a dog in a micro-wave oven and suing because there's not warning that it shouldn't be done).
The people who appear on the most popular talk shows are mostly entertainers, politicians, or rather strange individuals.
As concerns former French colonies, those of Africa and Asia, you consider that it is a good thing that they are independent.
www.zompist.com /frenchcult.html   (2206 words)

  
 For Good Food, Follow the French People
French food, as is fitting for a former French colony, is well represented in Phnom Penh.
This is a sort of privatized officers’ mess for the French military and serves great food at good prices—arriving at your table swiftly and efficiently.
To make a Frenchman nostalgic, there is the basic croque monsieur for $4 but the menu is far from basic, with cassoulet d’escargot at $7, rabbit cooked in cider and Calvados at $10 and appetizers such as chicken liver eclairs and leek and bacon soup at around $5.
www.camnet.com.kh /cambodia.daily/Restaurant_Guide_99/page_4.html   (1040 words)

  
 The people of France
The French people comprise all French citizens, including the French overseas departments and territories.
These days french people takes much importance to the appearance of people, it seems to be that the fashion had influenced them all, they look to others and likes to be looked at, it's a good point since the restaurants and all recreation places are the most of times clean and well decorated.
Most of the times french people are very courteous and they are direct too, they are accustomed to say the things like they are, direct to the point, if you sometime get annoyed by this, you will later realize that french people are friendly and polite if you get more in touch with them.
www.justfrance.org /france/french-people.asp   (184 words)

  
 Transparent Language - French Language Learning
People who speak French today could not understand the early forms of French spoken before the 12th century or so without specialized study.
Over the years, as different peoples entered the country, the words and grammatical structures deriving from Latin evolved to fit the needs and patterns of the developing French language.
However, although French and English share many words and expressions, don't assume that a French vocabulary word always means what you expect it to mean in English.
www.learn-french-language-software.com /overview.htm   (808 words)

  
 Travel directions maps, tahiti pictures,French region of Outre-Mer [french over-seas territories]
Saint- Barthélmy is one of the dependencies of the Department of Guadeloupe in the French West Indies.
French is mainly spoken with native dialects on some of the outer islands.
The islands are represented by a deputy and a senator in the French Parliament.
www.french-at-a-touch.com /French_Regions/Outre_Mer/outre-mer.htm   (2696 words)

  
 French Expatriates People Society
French retailing, and even some Japanese car and spare parts manufacturers.
On this side of the pond some 82 percent of French and 91 percent of...
It is yet another ghetto, full of French expatriates who will never know what London is or who Londoners really are.
www.iaswww.com /ODP/Society/People/Expatriates/French   (293 words)

  
 People's Daily Online -- French National Assembly votes for new immigration bill
The French National Assembly voted Wednesday in support of the immigration bill presented by Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, which was aimed at tightening rules of foreigners' entry into France.
The bill was passed with a 367-164 vote in the National Assembly, the lower house of French parliament, and will be debated and voted in the Senate on June 6 and June 7.
Results of recent polls showed that more than 60 percent of the French people are unsatisfied with the current immigration policy and most people agree to tighten the immigration law.
english.people.com.cn /200605/18/eng20060518_266732.html   (297 words)

  
 French: People
In 2004, she published La France et la Francophonie, a textbook for the study of French culture and conversation, and edited a volume of the Dictionary of Literary Biographies on twentieth-century French dramatists.
Specializing in French Caribbean literature, Professor Simek is currently working on the concept of literary commitment in the novels of Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé.
Professor Simek holds a B.A. and an M.A. in French from Case Western Reserve University, and received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2005.
www.whitman.edu /french/people.html   (596 words)

  
 VICE PREMIER DARLAN'S SPEECH TO THE FRENCH PEOPLE
We owe our present misery to a regime that led us to defeat, to that regime and not the government of the Marshal, which fell heir to the disastrous situation and is trying to remedy the ills from which you are suffering and to shorten their duration.
This task of the government is triple: to ameliorate the French people's situation, to prepare for peace in that measure a conquered nation can, and to prepare France's future in a new Europe.
If to go along the path the Marshal and his government invite you to follow, it is necessary to conquer your illusions and consent to sacrifices, find your strength in the certainty that that path is the sole path of salvation for your country.
www.ibiblio.org /pha/policy/1941/410610a.html   (1019 words)

  
 French Heritage
As the French name suggests, the shape of the chair legs is literally based on the legs of a lamb.
During this short time, French craftsman loosened their strict adherence to the classical forms the tyrannical Louis XIV adored and look elsewhere for inspiration.
In 1830, the French people lost their patience with Charles X and over three days of horrible fighting, known as Trois Glorieuses, they overthrew his government.
www.frenchheritage.com /Templates/aboutus.cfm?JumpTo=AboutMenuFrFurn   (1617 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Poll: French people hostile, dull, stingy   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The French were voted the world's most unfriendly nation by a landslide in a British poll published on Saturday.
A decisive 46% of the 6,000 people surveyed by travelers' website Where Are You Now said the French were the most unfriendly nation people on the planet, British newspapers reported.
The website's French founder, Jerome Touze, told the papers he had been stunned by the thumping condemnation of his compatriots and sought to blame it on Gallic love-struck sulking.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-05-21-travelerspoll_x.htm?csp=34   (440 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: French Youth Take To Streets Over Labor Law -- April 4, 2006
It is in nobody's interests, and especially not the young people who are looking for a job and waiting for solutions to their difficulties.
One of the hidden features of this conflict in France is that the young people, people under 26, are being discriminated against with this law.
Another echo is the way in which the globalization, which is, after all, the movement of people, of ideas, of goods across porous national borders now, that globalization is putting pressures on the workplace that we don't understand very well.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/europe/jan-june06/france_4-4.html   (2085 words)

  
 Institute of French Studies - People   (Site not responding. Last check: )
She has been teaching at the Institute of French Studies since the fall of 1997.
Her field is the sociology of family and the social construction gender and class identity.
She was one of the speakers at the Institute's Luncheon Seminar in the Spring 98, where she presented her paper "La Socialisation entre école et famille: l'école maternelle en France".
www.nyu.edu /fas/program/frenchstudies/people/Faculty/darmon.html   (150 words)

  
 French
While 30% of French citizens speak English, according to a recent Eurobarometer study, speaking a language is quite different from surfing in it.
People naturally prefer to surf in their own language, unless they have a real reason to surf in English (for work research, better prices, etc.) To increase the intensity of French Internet use, sites that offer French as an option are a must.
French car manufacturer Peugeot- Citroen recently announced that it is considering joining Internet portals set up by the global car industry for the purchase of raw materials, parts, and so on.
glreach.com /gbc/fr/french.php3   (1462 words)

  
 Le Figaro — Actualité en direct et informations en continu
Though fewer racist attacks occurred in 2005, the National Consultative Committee on Human Rights (CNCDH) expresses concern in a report delivered to the prime minister about a major increase in the number of people who declare themselves to be racist.
According to an opinion poll carried out in November 2005, one in three people admit to being racist, 8 per cent more than in 2004 (25.1 per cent).
''Overall, it is entire groups of people - North Africans, Blacks and travellers - who are being discriminated against.'' This change of opinion joins the long-term trend in racist acts, which increased from 200 in 1993 to over a thousand by the new millennium.
www.lefigaro.fr /english/20060323.WWW000000349_one_in_three_french_people_declare_themselves_racist.html   (556 words)

  
 French Culture | people : Kenneth Koch   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The French children you taught certainly developed a love for literature, as you explain in Les couleurs des voyelles, published in 1978.
You compete with John Ashberry for the title of the most French of American Poets: the tradition underlying your poems is indeed deeply French.
The way you weave the French language into English is fascinating: you appropriate the French idiom.
www.frenchculture.org /people/honorees/koch.html   (876 words)

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