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 FRANCE
France's ultimate victory in World War I and World War II after initially being invaded and partly occupied by German forces did not prevent the loss of the colonial empire, the comparative economic status, population and status as a dominant nation state.
France is divided into 26 administrative régions: 22 are in metropolitan France (21 are on the continental part of metropolitan France; one is the "territorial collectivity" of Corse, on the island of Corsica, commonly referred to as a région in common speech), and four are overseas régions.
In 2003, France's natural population growth (excluding immigration) was responsible for almost all the natural growth in European population: the population of the European Union increased by 216,000 inhabitants (without immigration), of which 211,000 was the increase in France's population alone, and 5,000 was the increase in all the other countries of the EU combined.
www.solarnavigator.net /geography/france.htm   (5977 words)

  
 France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
France is a founding member of the European Union, and is the largest member state with respect to land area.
Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the North Sea, and from the Rhine River to the Atlantic Ocean; it is bordered by the United Kingdom, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Andorra, and Spain.
France is also the most energy independent Western country Due to heavy investment in nuclear power, which also makes France the smallest producer of carbon dioxide among the seven most industrialized countries in the world.
france.iqnaut.net   (3496 words)

  
 France
Though the French monarchy is often dated to the 5th century, France's continuous existence as a separate entity begins with the 9th-century division of Charlemagne's Frankish empire into an eastern and a western part.
In recent decades, France's reconciliation and cooperation with Germany have proved central to the economic integration of Europe, including the introduction of the Euro in January 1999.
France joined 11 other EU members to launch the euro on January 1 1999, with euro coins and banknotes completely replacing the French franc in early 2002.
www.knowallabout.com /f/fr/france_1.html   (1360 words)

  
 List of islands of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of islands of metropolitan France and french oversea islands.
Scattered islands (or Îles Éparses) in Indian Ocean:
Islands controlled by France in the Indian and Pacific oceans
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_islands_of_France   (152 words)

  
 Aviation.com - France, Belgium Publish List of Banned Air Carriers
PARIS (AP) _ France and Belgium have issued fllists of airlines prohibited from using their airports, in an attempt to allay public fears about flying after a recent series of deadly crashes.
France's list of banned airlines is: Air Koryo of North Korea; Air St. Thomas of the U.S. Virgin Islands; International Air Services of Liberia; Thailand's Phuket Airlines; and Linhas Aereas de Mocambique and Transairways, both from Mozambique.
It was still listed because the airline had not requested permission to resume flying to French territories, so authorities had not rechecked the company's planes, he said.
www.aviation.com /ap_050829_france_blacklist.html   (840 words)

  
 Hotels and Inns of France :: Travel Accommodation, Tourism :: France Vacation
We are delighted to represent these charming small, independent hotels and inns (chambre d'hote style accommodation, stylish small hotels, farmhouses, chateaux and manor houses) throughout France.
Cap de Castel is a small charming hotel set within a typical medieval village in the rural south of France, convenient to Albi, Toulouse, Carcassonne and Castelnaudary.
Hotel du Poete is a delightful hotel in an exceptional location in the village of Fontaine de Vaucluse - away from the noise and crowds but a minute's walk to the village and to the source (in fact there is a footpath from the hotel's garden to the walk that leads to the source).
www.innsoffrance.com /?r=8   (1077 words)

  
 France
France is the tenth-largest consumer of oil in the world, importing oil from Norway, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Britain; but the nuclear push has lowered the dependency on oil from 71% in 1973 to 37% in 2002.
France opposed the liberation of Iraq from Saddam Hussein's tyranny, but somehow it was ok for the USA to liberate France from Hitler's tyranny (a liberation that cost thousands of French lives).
France has banned headscarves from school, because headscarves are a symbol of the Islamic faith, and French schools are supposed to be free of religious symbols.
www.scaruffi.com /politics/france.html   (16879 words)

  
 World InfoZone - France Information - Page 1
Corsica is a French island in the Mediterranean.
France's population was estimated at 60,876,136 in 2006.
France is famous for its food: baguettes, croissants and Croque-Monsieur (toasted cheese and ham sandwich), regional cheeses and Dijon mustard, onion soup, cassoulet (stew), bouillabaisse (fish stew), and escargots aux grenouilles (snails with frogs' legs).
www.worldinfozone.com /country.php?country=France   (490 words)

  
 Travel to France
In fact, for many people Paris IS France, and the rest of the country is dismissed as les provinces.
Northern France - is considered to be an uninspiring region and, hit hard by the industrial depression and the gloom that descends when it rains, it can be difficult to get very enthusiastic about it.
The Loire river is a proud fleuve, a magnificent entity that is so wide whole islands get lost in it; it is the longest river in France at 628 miles, and it has some very illustrious neighbours.
www.traveltowhere.com /europe/FRANCE.html   (1391 words)

  
 U.S. Navy - Carriers: List of carriers
Stricken from the Navy List 1 Jun 1973.
Stricken from the Navy List 1 Jun 1970.
Stricken from the Navy List 1 Jun 1967.
www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/carriers/cv-list1.html   (802 words)

  
 The Annotated Ramsar List: France
France presently has 23 sites designated as Wetlands of International Importance, with a surface area of 828,585 hectares.
A complex of tidal sands and mudflats and diked marshes on the island of Ré off the Atlantic coast, including active and abandoned salt pans, freshwater marshes, reedbeds, oyster basins, extensive salt pastures, active dunes, dune forests, sandy and rocky coasts, and important seagrass beds (Zostera noltii).
Several physically separate zones on the shores of Lac Léman (Lake Geneva) consisting of alluvial terraces, gravel islands, lacustrine dunes, extensive reedbeds and parts of the Dranse, Redon, Foron and Vion rivers.
www.ramsar.org /profile/profiles_france.htm   (2976 words)

  
 French Colonies - Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
Breton, Basque, and Norman fishermen were fishing off the islands early in the 16th century, and in 1535 Jacques Cartier claimed the islands for France.
The islands voted in 1958 to retain their status as a territory of France, but the French government decided to make them a department of France, and this change was given final approval by the French Senate on July 9, 1976.
While a guillotine and an executioner are sent from France, a convict sentenced to death on the isolated island of Saint-Pierre strives to better himself in the eyes of the police chief's beautiful wife.
www.discoverfrance.net /Colonies/St-Pierre_Miquelon.shtml   (959 words)

  
 FRANCE
GCR list with statement from the applicant's national DX Award Manager that the QSLs are in the possession of the applicant.
DPF - Diplome of the Provinces of France
This is the abbreviation of "Diplome Moulins de France".
www.dxawards.com /DXAwardDir/france-ref.htm   (1423 words)

  
 Friends of Saddam: France & Benelux Archives
Given the tremendous financial stake that France, Germany and Russia had in Saddam's regime, given the compromised position in which the United Nations found itself (because it sold its integrity to Saddam), there was little prospect that the United States would win their support for the war in Iraq.
Saybolt was shown on the list of 270 voucher recipients, with an allocation of 3 million barrels.
France had an interest in the Congo throughout the '80s and early '90s, allegedly concerned about their oil relationships with the democratically elected president Pascal Lissouba, according to the Washington Times.
acepilots.com /unscam/archives/cat_france_benelux.html   (11911 words)

  
 Bloomberg.com: Top Worldwide
France's ban will probably have ``some impact'' on the carrier's image, though operations won't be affected directly because the airline hasn't flown to Europe since April and doesn't intend to introduce flights to the region, Chawanit said.
Phuket Airlines joined the list on June 4 and the other three carriers were all put on the list in 2004.
France first began talking about making public aviation- safety information available after the Jan. 3, 2004, crash in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, of a Boeing 737 flown by Flash Airlines, an Egyptian charter carrier, that killed all 148 passengers and crew aboard, including 135 French citizens who had arranged trips through French tour operators.
www.roosster.com /rstr/l/728621   (1011 words)

  
 Banned airlines list published in France and Belgium
In addition to the list of banned airlines, the DGAC site also published a list of authorised companies including charter airlines.
It wants to issue by the end of the year a list compiled by the 25 member states that would show all banned airlines.
Belgium has also published a separate list of airlines banned from their territory and Switzerland is going to provide its own list on Thursday, Sept.1.
www.enjoyfrance.com /content/view/67/36   (234 words)

  
 France - Amnesty International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Corsica (France): Perpetrators of new wave of racist violence must be brought promptly to justice
These included a number of administrative holding centres in Metropolitan France and similar centres in overseas departments and territories such as Cayenne (French Guiana) or Mayotte.
People held at a reception centre for foreign nationals in Paris were allegedly subjected to acts of violence as well as inhuman and degrading conditions.
web.amnesty.org /report2005/fra-summary-eng   (1961 words)

  
 Where do you want to go birding in France today?
Spain or Greece, France has a lot to offer to the travelling birder, its central position in Western Europe means that there is a wide variety of habitats including the "Guarrigues" and "Maquis" of the Mediterranean coast, 0a choice of montane habitats, mature oak forests of central and eastern France.
Corsica is the 4th largest Mediterranean island with a total surface area of 8722 km2.
It is a region of rolling hills, tidy orchards, green fields, reed fringed lakes and scattered oak woodlands, not to mention a maze of small villages, with their sandy walls, peeling plasterwork, collapsing barns, barking dogs, blind corners, dusty pavements and rusting Renault vans.
www.camacdonald.com /birding/eufrance.htm   (2707 words)

  
 France, Cote D'Azur, Nice, South of France, Corcica, Bonifaccio, Brittany, chartering, charters, Bareboat, crewed, King ...
France, Cote D'Azur, Nice, South of France, Corcica, Bonifaccio, Brittany, chartering, charters, Bareboat, crewed, King Yacht Charters
Visit the exquisite Principality of Monaco, St. Tropez and the glitz of the South of France.
Smell the scent of the wild maquis, and take some time to explore the mountains and waterfalls of this sunny French island.
www.sailingcharters.com /France.htm   (310 words)

  
 History of French Language
French-based Creole is found in Haiti, Mauritius, the French Overseas Departments of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion, and Guyana, in Dominica and St. Lucia, and, although disappearing, in various British-influenced Caribbean islands and in southwestern Louisiana.
When creole coexists with the language on which it is lexically based, it blends with the base language to form a decreolization continuum.
The Foreign Language Teaching Forum List, FLTEACH, is intended to serve as a forum for communication among foreign language teachers at the high school and college levels.
www.discoverfrance.net /France/Language/DF_language.shtml   (1955 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Ecuador & Galapagos Islands (en anglais): Livres en anglais: Rob Rachowiecki,Danny Palmerlee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
You can surf some of the most exciting waves in the world or, if this just seems too strenuous, you can laze on the beach in the equatorial sun, swim in the warm seas and, in the evening, listen to salsa music in a local bar.
The Galapagos Islands, 1000km off the coast of Ecuador, are high on the list of destinations for travelers interested in wildlife.
Travel around the islands is by small ships and boats outfitted with cabins and everything else necessary for a marvelous maritime adventure.
www.amazon.fr /Ecuador-Galapagos-Islands-en-anglais/dp/1740594649   (1048 words)

  
 Islands by Band CD
When The Band announced their retirement from touring, it was with the important addendum that they'd continue to record together.
In actuality, the only album that subsequently emerged was ISLANDS, which also served to finish out the band's contract with Capitol Records.
With the passing of time having removed the pressures of those expectations, ISLANDS can be heard as an album that, while fragmented, includes some fine gems.
www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/6706415/a/Islands.htm   (394 words)

  
 France Travel Guide and Destination Overview on Concierge.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
France Travel Guide and Destination Overview on Concierge.com
I frequently travel to France in first class,...
The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached, or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of CondéNet Inc.
www.concierge.com /destination/france   (328 words)

  
 France - Amnesty International
A synagogue in Marseille was burned down and there was a fire at a Jewish school near Paris.
In May, in a joint statement, AI and Human Rights Watch condemned racist attacks on Jews and Arabs in a number of European countries, including France, and called on the French authorities, among others, to redouble their efforts to combat racism in all its forms and to bring to justice suspected perpetrators of “hate crimes”.
In December proposed legislation to increase penalties for offences of a “racist, anti-Semitic or xenophobic nature” was presented to parliament.
web.amnesty.org /report2003/Fra-summary-eng   (1789 words)

  
 Sheldon Brown's France Photos
Our family lived in France for the 1988-89 school year, in Chevreuse, a small village 30 km southwest of Paris.
These are two islands of the coast of Canada, among the last remaining colonies of France in the Americas.
It is a pay service, but there is a free telephone directory service for all of France.
www.sheldonbrown.com /france.html   (178 words)

  
 Islands and Countries of the Caribbean - Caribbean CHOICE - Your Gateway to the Caribbean!
Islands and Countries of the Caribbean - Caribbean CHOICE - Your Gateway to the Caribbean!
Select your island destination by clicking on the map or selecting from the list of islands underneath the map.
Islands that are part of other island groupings:
www.caribbeanchoice.com /choice.asp?GO=islands   (131 words)

  
 Amazon: Listmania! - View List "faroe islands books"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Since Lonely Planet has drastically reduced its coverage of the Faroes, this 2005 guide is a must-buy for anyone thinking of visiting.
This 2001 book was Lonely Planet's most thorough treatment of the Faroes, with 90+ pages specifically on the islands.
The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History by Jonathan Wylie
www.amazon.com /faroe-islands-books/lm/AKA5BA28SC8X   (341 words)

  
 France Atlas: Maps and Online Resources — Infoplease.com
France Profile: History · Government · Economy · Population …
Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting That Revolutionized Wine by George M. Taber
Betrayal: France, the Arabs, and the Jews by David Pryce-Jones
www.infoplease.com /atlas/country/france.html   (219 words)

  
 GUIDE TO LAW ONLINE: France
International Constitutional Law: France (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) offers English translation of the 1992 constitution and background notes; does not yet include amendments of 1993 and beyond yet provides links to the 1999 Constitution in French
Religious Liberty: The Legal Framework in Selected OSCE Countries (U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe) May 2000; prepared by the Law Library of Congress at the request of the Commision; includes France and ten other countries; includes part 1 (pp.
Bassas da India; Clipperton Island; Europa Island; French Guiana; French Polynesia; French Southern and Antarctic Lands; Glorioso Islands; Guadeloupe; Juan de Nova Island; Martinique; Mayotte; New Caledonia; Reunion; Saint Pierre and Miquelon; Tromelin Island; Wallis and Futuna
www.loc.gov /law/guide/france.html   (455 words)

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