• From sun-drenched festivals and Paris in the springtime to peak ski season and planning budget breaks, here are the best times to visit France. (lonelyplanet.com)
  • PARIS - Just two weeks before France learned that Lance Armstrong would confess his sins to Oprah Winfrey, readers of the popular French journalism and investigation website Rue89.com elected the Texan as 'The Sports Bastard of the Year. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • After years of lagging behind London on spawning financial technology startups, Paris this week hosted a show of force aimed at proving the French capital can catch up as more than 1,500 bankers, investors and entrepreneurs gathered. (insurancejournal.com)
  • Insurance executives meet with government officials in Paris Monday to assess the cost of flooding in the Centre and Ile-de-France regions as the Seine river recedes from its highest levels in more than three decades. (insurancejournal.com)
  • Hundreds of people are coming to the building of the French Embassy in Moscow to express their condolences for the victims of the terrorist attacks in Paris. (pravda.ru)
  • Desidido si eight-division world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao na sumabak sa Olympic Games na idaraos sa susunod na taon sa Paris, France. (philstar.com)
  • The photo actually shows a celebration in Paris after France won the 2018 World Cup. (factcheck.org)
  • On Dec. 4, President Donald Trump tweeted about French President Emmanuel Macron and the Paris Agreement, misrepresenting the foreign leader's position on the climate accord. (factcheck.org)
  • A deer in the Rambouillet forest near Paris, France. (nepalnews.com)
  • Several mosques and prayer rooms have also been shut down by French authorities since the Paris attacks. (amnesty.org)
  • PARIS - The French National Agency for Medicines and Health Products Safety (ANSM) has conditionally authorized AMX0035, a new medication aimed at slowing the progression of Charcot disease. (medscape.com)
  • Perfect for a gourmet getaway: this northernmost region of France was awarded the European Region of Gastronomy 2023. (lonelyplanet.com)
  • Cite this: French Regulator Approves Charcot Disease Treatment - Medscape - Oct 23, 2023. (medscape.com)
  • On Wednesday 31 January, French President Emmanuel Macron visited Lund. (lu.se)
  • Flames consume trees at a forest fire in Saint Magne, south of Bordeaux, France, Aug. 10, 2022, in a photo provided by the fire brigade of the Gironde region SDIS 33, (Departmental fire and rescue service 33. (go.com)
  • A wildfire is raging at an 'unprecedented' rate in the famed wine region south of Bordeaux, France, firefighters said Wednesday. (go.com)
  • Ecole internationale de Bordeaux (Talence), France. (who.int)
  • At the upcoming [April 3-4] NATO summit in Strasbourg-Kehl, French President Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to formally announce France's return to NATO's integrated military command, from which President Charles de Gaulle withdrew France in 1966. (rand.org)
  • Thus Sarkozy's decision to return France to NATO's integrated command represents not an abandonment of Gaullism, but rather an attempt to adapt it to France's changed strategic environment. (rand.org)
  • Without a more favorable view toward NATO by France, the eastern European countries and Atlanticist members of the Alliance, above all Britain, are unlikely to support France's effort to strengthen ESDP. (rand.org)
  • The diversity of the landscape is one of France's biggest draws, but don't just look - here are the best ways to get active in the French outdoors. (lonelyplanet.com)
  • At some point on the train speeding from Lyon, France's third largest city, the landscape changes into my mind and memory's picture of the South of France - a scenic route of vineyards, wheat fields, farmhouses and red-roofed village houses. (philstar.com)
  • Mansour compared the French government's decision to France's move last year when they voted in favor of Palestinian membership of UNESCO. (ynetnews.com)
  • The French Cognitive Linguistics Association (AFLiCo) invites you to submit paper proposals for its next workshop, AFLiCo JET 2018. (lu.se)
  • Ms Brigitte Curmi, French Ambassador to Libya, and Dr Jaffar Hussain, WHO Representative to Libya 17 December 2017 - The Government of France and the World Health Organization have recently mutually signed a donation accord for a WHO project to address the immediate needs of extremely vulnerable people in south of Libya. (who.int)
  • However, in a press release dated February 16, 2017, the Institut Curie announced it was stopping use of docetaxel following the death of patients at several facilities in France. (medscape.com)
  • The term "metropolitan France" dates from the country's colonial period (from the 16th to the 20th centuries), when France was referred to as la Métropole (literally "the Metropolis"), as distinguished from its colonies and protectorates, known as les colonies or l'Empire . (wikipedia.org)
  • Uncover all of the country's charms by booking flights to France with British Airways. (britishairways.com)
  • In southern France, temperatures are forecast to reach up to 104 degrees Fahrenheit through the end of the week, according to Meteo France, the country's meteorological service. (go.com)
  • Firefighters stand guard to monitor fire outbreaks and restarts near Saint-Magne, southwestern France, on Aug. 10, 2022. (go.com)
  • A firefighting aircraft sprays fire retardant over trees during a wildfire near Belin-Beliet in Gironde, southwestern France, on Aug. 10, 2022. (go.com)
  • After eight gruelling days of racing, Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) etched her name into the history books as the winner of the 2022 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, overcoming illness in the early stages of the race to deliver a dominant victory at the top of La Super Planche des Belles Filles. (cyclingnews.com)
  • To preview our Tour de France Femmes 2022 - The definitive guide to the route's key stages . (cyclingnews.com)
  • Outbreak of pneumococcal pneumonia among shipyard workers in Marseille, France, January to February 2020. (bvsalud.org)
  • University Hospital Institute -Méditerranée Infection (IHU), Marseille, France. (bvsalud.org)
  • French National Public Health Agency (Santé publique France), Marseille, France. (bvsalud.org)
  • Regional Health Agency of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (ARS Paca), Marseille, France. (bvsalud.org)
  • Center for Studies and Research on Health Services and Quality of Life (CEReSS), Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France. (bvsalud.org)
  • During January and February 2020, 37 cases of pneumonia were identified in a shipyard in Marseille, south-eastern France . (bvsalud.org)
  • Over 140,000 acres of French land has burned so far this year, nearly six times more than the average for the country from 2006 to 2021, according to the European Forest Fire System. (go.com)
  • Heavy-handed emergency measures, including late night house raids and assigned residence orders, have trampled on the rights of hundreds of men, women and children, leaving them traumatized and stigmatized, according to a new briefing released by Amnesty International today ahead of Friday's French Parliamentary debate on entrenching emergency measures in the constitution. (amnesty.org)
  • French National Public Health Agency (Santé publique France), Saint Maurice, France. (bvsalud.org)
  • France retains its centuries-long status as a global centre of art, science and philosophy. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the long-term, the EU wants wine-makers in France, Spain and Italy to pull up an eighth of Europe's vines, a radical measure which some French regions are beginning to accept and even act upon. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Allianz SE, Europe's largest insurer, is in discussions with Assicurazioni Generali SpA as it weighs a bid for the company's French operations, according to people familiar with the matter. (insurancejournal.com)
  • The Treaty of Verdun of 843 partitioned the empire, with West Francia becoming the Kingdom of France in 987. (wikipedia.org)
  • Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and Luxembourg to the north, Italy to the south east, Switzerland to the east, Germany to the north east, Andorra and Spain to the south and a maritime border with the United Kingdom. (wikipedia.org)
  • Metropolitan France was settled during the Iron Age by Celtic tribes known as Gauls before Rome annexed the area in 51 BC, leading to a distinct Gallo-Roman culture. (wikipedia.org)
  • Metropolitan France accounts for 82.0% of the land territory, 3.3% of the exclusive economic zone (EEZ), and 95.9% of the population of the French Republic. (wikipedia.org)
  • In overseas France, a person from metropolitan France is often called a métro , short for métropolitain . (wikipedia.org)
  • [ citation needed ] Likewise, they oppose treating overseas France and metropolitan France as separate entities. (wikipedia.org)
  • For example, INSEE used to calculate its statistics (demography, economy, etc.) for metropolitan France only, and to analyze separate statistics for the overseas departments and territories. (wikipedia.org)
  • France is a developed country with the world's seventh-largest economy by nominal GDP and ninth-largest by PPP. (wikipedia.org)
  • Rich with culture, cuisine, ancient architecture and glorious countryside, France is one of the world's most rewarding places to travel. (lonelyplanet.com)
  • This may surprise visitors who find their way to this otherwise modest Basque town in southwestern France . (nationalgeographic.com)
  • The Palestinian envoy to the UN said France has taken a "historic" move in deciding to back the Palestinian move for UN recognition. (ynetnews.com)
  • It was revived by Law no. 66-492 of 9 July 1966, on the organization of the police in France. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the 16th century, the French Renaissance saw culture flourish and a French colonial empire rise. (wikipedia.org)
  • overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. (wikipedia.org)
  • The 2 patients with AVB III had pacemakers implanted woman who was hospitalized in September 2004 when she and received angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitor and returned from a 2-month stay in French Guiana. (cdc.gov)
  • On February 10, 1970, an avalanche crashes down on a ski resort in Val d'Isere, France, killing 42 people, mostly young skiers. (history.com)
  • Visitors flock from around the world to visit the beaches and towns of the French Riviera, and winter brings skiers to the mountains before the snow melts to reveal pretty hiking trails in the spring. (britishairways.com)
  • By the 1870s this mood had formed into what its advocates regarded as a coherent philosophical system, the content and label of which they borrowed from the French thinker Auguste Comte . (britannica.com)
  • But the main issue was something else: A whole lot of French people wanted to believe in Armstrong's cancer recovery-to-Tour-triumph storyline, but just couldn't bring themselves to do so. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • In 1896 he was elected to the French Academy, and he was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature. (infoplease.com)
  • Algeria and most French colonies became independent in the 1960s, with the majority retaining close economic and military ties with France. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hidden towns and rolling vineyards - France has it all on offer on a road trip. (lonelyplanet.com)
  • Eventually, after discussions between ANSM, ARSLA, and Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, ANSM decided to authorize the medication in France, despite the EMA's negative opinion. (medscape.com)
  • Five fatal cases of neutropenic enterocolitis , inflammation of the mucosa of the small intestine and colon, have been reported in patients treated with docetaxel , French oncologists were informed in a letter dated February 15 by the ANSM (French National Drug and Health Product Safety Agency). (medscape.com)
  • The letter about the fatal adverse events was sent to oncologists by the ANSM together with the French National Cancer Institute (INCa), and they note that they have launched a phamacovigilance investigation. (medscape.com)
  • Daniel Baal, the former president of the French Cycling Federation and a former Tour de France organizer, put it this way: 'In 1999, some of us had our doubts. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • This collective name for the European regions of France is used in everyday life in France but has no administrative meaning. (wikipedia.org)
  • As a result, since the end of the 1990s INSEE has included the four overseas departments in its figures for France (such as total population or GDP). (wikipedia.org)
  • WHO expresses appreciation for the Government of France on the continued support and financial contribution that make the improvement of the health status of the Libyan population in underserved areas possible, and acknowledges the efforts exerted to support health intervention for the vulnerable population,"Dr Sayed Jaffar Hussain, WHO Representative and Head of its mission in Libya said. (who.int)
  • This new spirit had its parallel in political thought and action as well: in the syndicalist doctrines of Georges Sorel , in the activism of a minority in the labour movement, and in the resurgent nationalism that strongly affected many French young people in the years just before 1914. (britannica.com)
  • Yet that same Hollywood narrative, and Armstrong's superhuman performance, made many French people suspect that they were watching a fictional tale. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The other problem for France is that there are too many growers across the globe producing too much wine - and too few people drinking it, despite the opening of new markets in India and China. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Social media posts are misrepresenting an old photo from France by suggesting the sea of people in the streets shows "[p]eople are waking up against vaccine tyranny. (factcheck.org)
  • Approximately 6000 people in France have ALS, and given their life expectancy, even a brief delay could turn out to be a missed opportunity. (medscape.com)
  • He was probably the most prominent French man of letters of his time. (infoplease.com)
  • At the same time, it sowed suspicion and distrust of French political ambitions and made it harder for France to gain support among its European allies for its broader foreign policy goals, such as strengthening a European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP). (rand.org)
  • When is the best time to visit France? (lonelyplanet.com)
  • It isn't that the French were ever particularly fond of the seven-time Tour de France winner, but feelings here are, well, a little complicated. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • From the slopes of Chamonix to time-stamped chateaux, you'll have to visit more than once to see everything France has to offer. (britishairways.com)
  • This category is NOT intended ONLY for photographs taken in 1903, nor is it intended for media uploaded or scanned in 1903, as the parent Category:France by year goes in time past the invention of photography, scanners or computers. (wikimedia.org)
  • Want to see time in Morzine or in other cities in France? (booked.net)
  • Vaccine introduction status in France over time. (who.int)
  • As a precaution, given the occurrence within an unusually short period of time, of these two similar cases at the Institut Curie and those at other healthcare facilities in France, the Institut Curie has stopped using docetaxel to treat breast cancer. (medscape.com)
  • And what is the influence of their time of exposure to French, of their actual age, or of the development of their Swedish language? (lu.se)
  • in Overseas France object to the use of the term la France métropolitaine due to its colonial history. (wikipedia.org)
  • All 24 bedrooms are spotlessly clean and feature wooden floors and expensive Toile-de-Jouy fabrics that are more often spotted in French countryside châteaux. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • French President Georges Pompidou declared it a national tragedy, and authorities ordered evacuations of other resorts in the region. (history.com)
  • It is difficult to see how the French authorities can possibly argue that they represent a proportionate response to the threats they face," said John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International's Director for Europe and Central Asia. (amnesty.org)
  • France (French: [fʁɑ̃s] ), officially the French Republic (French: République française [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛːz]), is a country located primarily in Western Europe. (wikipedia.org)
  • Until recently, the history of French Frigate Shoal (the name is that officially adopted by the United States Geographic Board, October 1, 1924) has been a quiet one. (archive.org)
  • The process began under Socialist President Francois Mitterrand, who gave the green light for combined operations between French and NATO forces in the Bosnian crisis and increased French participation on a selective basis in meetings of NATO defense ministers and the Alliance's military Committee. (rand.org)
  • It prevented France from exerting influence within the Alliance commensurate with its contribution to NATO military operations. (rand.org)
  • The fifth overseas department, Mayotte , has been included in the figures for France since the mid-2010s too. (wikipedia.org)
  • From soaring alpine peaks to billowing lavender fields and azure rivers, France has hikes to match every ability. (lonelyplanet.com)
  • From tucked away private coves to some of the most glamorous places in Europe - here's our pick of the best beaches France has to over. (lonelyplanet.com)
  • Willis Towers Watson has concluded its negotiations with OAAGC, the French aviation brokerage, and has now completed the acquisition of its team and book of business. (insurancejournal.com)
  • Willis Towers Watson has entered into exclusive negotiations with OAAGC, the French aviation brokerage, to acquire its team and book of business. (insurancejournal.com)
  • We worked hard with France, maybe we did not reach everything that each side wants, this is the nature of negotiations in the multilateral track. (ynetnews.com)
  • This is how chocolate was originally consumed in France," owner Marie-Claudine Maudet tells me, "by melting the bar into milk and frothing it. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • In contrast, overseas France is the collective name for all the French départements and territories outside Europe . (wikipedia.org)
  • Metropolitan and overseas France together form the French Republic. (wikipedia.org)
  • in the overseas departments have opposed this separate treatment, arguing that the then four overseas departments were fully part of France. (wikipedia.org)
  • But the evolution of the French, German and UK markets shows the. (foodnavigator.com)
  • Was the Tour de France Femmes a watershed moment, or a cherry on top for a cultural shift that has already taken place? (cyclingnews.com)
  • The Tour de France Femmes will cover 1,029 kilometres and include back-to-back mountain stages, two stages for the puncheurs, a stage packed with gravel sectors, and four flat stages that could either end in bunch sprints or breakaway wins. (cyclingnews.com)
  • The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars significantly shaped the course of European history. (wikipedia.org)
  • Penguin Island, 1909), an allegorical novel satirizing French history. (infoplease.com)
  • This disaster was the worst such incident in French history. (history.com)
  • This category includes works , events and everything related to the history of France in 1903 . (wikimedia.org)
  • A Parallel History of France and England. (upenn.edu)
  • It is of a magnitude of a historic level and I am sure that many other European countries will follow the example of France and we thank them in advance for being on the side of history and the side of humanity," Riyad Mansour told reporters. (ynetnews.com)
  • France was one of the major participants of World War I, from which it emerged victorious at great human and economic cost. (wikipedia.org)
  • The cultural climate of the later 19th century in France, as in the Atlantic world generally, was strongly marked by the current called positivism . (britannica.com)
  • The terrible strain and disillusionment of World War I weighed heavily on French cultural life during the interwar era, leading to the development of the literary and artistic movement called Dadaism . (britannica.com)
  • With world-class art, incredible food, and endless opportunities for outdoor activities, how do you choose where to go in France? (lonelyplanet.com)
  • The collapse of the empire initiated a period of relative decline, in which France endured a tumultuous succession of governments until the founding of the French Third Republic during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. (wikipedia.org)
  • It was dissolved after the Liberation , by order of the Provisional Government of the French Republic on 16 November 1944. (wikipedia.org)
  • The French also showed great creativity in pure science and made major discoveries in a wide variety of fields. (britannica.com)
  • La Perouse goes on to describe how the next day a careful survey was made of the shoal, which the discoverer named ' Basse des Fregates Francaises , shoal of the French Frigates, because it has nearly proved the final termination of our voyage. (archive.org)
  • The word 'gruyere' is 'generic', a US Court of Appeals told two consortiums who had argued the term should only be used to describe cheese made in a specific region of Switzerland and France. (foodnavigator.com)
  • Over 1,000 firefighters, nine planes and two helicopters have been mobilized to address the fire, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said in a statement Wednesday. (go.com)
  • Differences and Similarities between Children and Adults Acquiring French - On the Respective Roles of Age of Onset of Acquisition and Input for Developing Morphosyntax. (lu.se)
  • The current Constitution of France does not specify a national emblem. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the High Middle Ages, France was a powerful but decentralized feudal kingdom, but from the mid-14th to the mid-15th centuries, France was plunged into a dynastic conflict with England known as the Hundred Years' War. (wikipedia.org)
  • Internally, France was dominated by the conflict with the House of Habsburg and the French Wars of Religion between Catholics and Huguenots. (wikipedia.org)
  • XL Catlin has enhanced its directors & officers insurance offering in France with the launch of three coverages catering respectively to mid-sized companies, publicly listed companies and financial institutions. (insurancejournal.com)
  • Announcement Take a look in our shop for French Vintage and Antique collectibles Flea market items. (etsy.com)
  • For additional up-to-date information about internet speeds in France as a whole, visit the Speedtest Global Index ™ or read our recent Market Reports for provider information . (speedtest.net)
  • The French Revolution of 1789 overthrew the Ancien Régime and produced the Declaration of the Rights of Man, which expresses the nation's ideals to this day. (wikipedia.org)
  • France, a member of the UN Security Council, had under former President Nicolas Sarkozy promised to support Abbas if he opted for the upgrade option and broke from its closest allies last year voting in favor of giving the Palestinians full membership of the UN's cultural agency UNESCO. (ynetnews.com)
  • We asked three travel writers about the their favorite under-the-radar vacation spots in their native France. (lonelyplanet.com)
  • From visa-free travel in the Schengen Zone to working holidays, here's everything you need to know about the visa requirements for France. (lonelyplanet.com)
  • La France Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie, Vendée department, Pays de la Loire region, France. (magnumphotos.com)
  • La France Bellecombe, Jura department, Franche-Comte region. (magnumphotos.com)
  • La France Saint-Georges-de-Didonne, Charente-Maritime department, Poitou-Charentes region. (magnumphotos.com)
  • French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne tweeted that she will be visiting the region on Thursday. (go.com)