’ Cette partie de l’Armagnac n’a pas de Chemins de fer, les routes comptant une grande circulation sont rares, et la verité est d’autant plus difficile à faire pénétrer que les agents du gouvernement ont été jusqu’ici les premiers à promettre la restauration de l’Empire, à ...
The division of the Carolingian Empire in 843 created the West Frankish Kingdom, roughly corresponding to the area of modern France. Subsequently, the Franks gave their name to the country (France), the people (Français), and the language. The distinctions between the north and the south, ...
Quebec, the legacy of the French colonial empire in Canada, is a province where politics, media duels, and the referendum ballot are used instead of bullets and bombs in the effort (thus far unsuccessful) to gain independence. Violence, however, was a weapon during the early days of the co...
It witnessed the 1848 revolution and the defeat of the Paris Commune in 1871, the scramble for colonies in North Africa and Indo-China and the end of the Belle poque — an interlude of relative political stability following the Second Empire — with the advent of the Great War in 1914. ...
So although France doesn’t really have French territories in the formal sense of the word, many of the former French colonies that were part of the French empire are now integrated into France as a whole. There are also many, many former colonies that no longer have any ties to France,...
During the Victorian Era, Great Britain had a huge empire. Au cours de l'ère victorienne, la Grande-Bretagne avait un empire immense. Great Britain n informal (the UK) Royaume-Uni nm propre great cause n ([sb], [sth]: deserves charity) grande cause nf Great Dane n (breed of large...
Irène Némirovsky (French: [iʁɛn nemiʁɔfski]; 24 February 1903 – 17 August 1942) was a novelist of Ukrainian Jewish origin born in Kiev Ukraine under the Russian Empire; she lived more than half her life in France, and wrote in French, but was denied French citizenship. Arre...
When the English crown inherited the Angevin lands, forming what has been called the “Angevin Empire” (although there was no emperor), they held more land in “France” than the French crown. Philip II (1165–1223) changed this, winning back some of the English crown’s continental lands...
The fall of the Western Roman Empire in the first half of the 5th century was followed by invasions of Provence by the Visigoths, the Burgundians and the Ostrogoths. There was then a long period of wars and dynastic quarrels, which in turn led to further invasions by the Saracens and th...
French in the Russian empire is always fascinating topic, but nobody talks about German. There were literally millions ethnic Germans with native German in the empire, plus millions more Jews whose native Yiddish was actually a German dialect too ( closer to standard German than what the majority...