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1 day ago · François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand [a] (26 October 1916 – 8 January 1996) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1981 to 1995, the longest holder of that position in the history of France. As a former Socialist Party First Secretary, he was the first left-wing politician to assume the presidency under the Fifth ...
- Danielle Mitterrand
Life. Danielle Émilienne Isabelle Gouze was born on 29...
- Giscard d'Estaing
Valéry René Marie Georges Giscard d'Estaing (UK: / ˌ ʒ iː s...
- Jacques Chirac
Afrikaans; Alemannisch; አማርኛ; अंगिका; العربية; Aragonés;...
- Jean-Christophe Mitterrand
Jean-Christophe Mitterrand (born 19 December 1946) is the...
- Princess Marie Bonaparte
Early life The young Marie Bonaparte during the 1890s. She...
- 110 Propositions for France
110 Propositions for France (French: 110 Propositions pour...
- Danielle Mitterrand
1 day ago · The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, [b] often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia. Lasting from 19 July 1870 to 28 January 1871, the conflict was caused primarily by France's determination to reassert its dominant ...
- France and the Rhine Province, Prussia
- German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine
13 hours ago · France is among the globe’s oldest nations, the product of an alliance of duchies and principalities under a single ruler in the Middle Ages. Today, as in that era, central authority is vested in the state, even though a measure of autonomy has been granted to the country’s régions in recent decades. The French people look to the state as ...
5 days ago · Geographical and historical treatment of Hungary, a landlocked country in central Europe. The capital is Budapest. Hungarians, who know their country as Magyarorszag, ‘Land of Magyars,’ are unique among the nations of Europe in that they speak a language that is not related to any other major European language.
2 days ago · France ( /ˈfræns/ (help·info) or /ˈfrɑːns/; French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃s] ), officially the French Republic (French: République française, French pronunciation: [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz] ), is a country in Western Europe. It also includes various departments and territories of France overseas.
3 days ago · Hungarian language, member of the Finno-Ugric group of the Uralic language family, spoken primarily in Hungary but also in Slovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia, as well as in scattered groups elsewhere in the world. Hungarian belongs to the Ugric branch of Finno-Ugric, along with the Ob-Ugric languages, Mansi and Khanty, spoken in western Siberia.
2 days ago · Elevation. highest point: Mont Blanc 4,810 lowest point: Rhone River delta -2 m mean elevation: 375 m note: to assess the possible effects of climate change on the ice and snow cap of Mont Blanc, its surface and peak have been extensively measured in recent years; these new peak measurements have exceeded the traditional height of 4,807 m and have varied between 4,808 m and 4,811 m; the actual ...
