Fouquet's downfall gave Colbert a free hand to reduce the national debt through more efficient taxation. The principal taxes included the aides and douanes (both customs duties), the gabelle (salt tax), and the taille (land tax). The taille was reduced at first, and certain tax-collection...
Five days after arriving in the French capital in September, Wang enjoyed a dream debut by firing a spectacular shot outside the area past goalkeeper in the city derby against Paris FC. Shortly afterwards, Wang harvested her first goal in the Champions League and registered a 17-second stunner...
Due to S’s pending travels and our earlier arrival in the Haute Vienne I went to my first French match on the 20th of October, Limoges FC against Poitiers in the National 3. LFC were relegated due to off field problems last season from the National 2. I saw them twice last time we ...
Translate this into any civilized language in the world – the sense is this: “Here’s a poor stranger come into the box – he seems as if he knew nobody; and is never likely, was he to be seven years in Paris, if every man he comes near keeps his spectacles upon his nose: –...
French history for half a century. Preparations for war went on; Francois made a new scheme for a national army, though in practice he preferred the tyrant’s arm, the foreign mercenary. From his day till the Revolution the French army was largely composed of bodies of men tempted out of...
But if football does hold up a mirror to French society, the relationship between the public and the national team has not always been a happy one. Players from the suburbs were being blamed for a mutiny at the 2010 tournament in South Africa, which ended with France crashing out in the ...
Additional information on laboratory results was obtained for a subset of the cohort through a linkage with external data provided by a leading national laboratory network A French version of the DA database, quite similar to its German equivalent but limited to GPs and not including referrals to...
this article examines three distinct manifestations of civilizational rhetoric in three different countries: the Trump administration in the United States, National Rally in France, and PiS in Poland. The article asks the following two questions. What role does civilizationalism play in populist discours...
Greatly modified by anurban renewalplan that was adopted in 1920, Nantes was further altered and extended after having been partly destroyed in World War II. In the 1960s Nantes was designated as one of the eight provincial counterweights to reduce the dominance of Paris on French national life...
The general elections of November 1919 resulted in a massive majority for the right-wingcoalitioncalled theBloc National. The new Chamber set out to enforce theTreaty of Versaillesto the letter; it also sought traditional security guarantees, maintaining the largest standing army inEuropeand attempting...