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Previous ruling monarch was Louis XVI as King of the French (1791–1792) Napoleon Bonaparte ( French: Napoléon Bonaparte) [1] was a French politician and army leader who ruled France from 1799 to 1814 and for a short period (the "Hundred Days") in 1815. He became Emperor of the French and King of Italy as Napoleon I.
Old French ( franceis, françois, romanz; French: ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th [2] and the mid-14th century. Rather than a unified language, Old French was a linkage of Romance dialects, mutually intelligible yet diverse.
The National Assembly ( French: Assemblée nationale; pronounced [asɑ̃ble nɑsjɔnal]) is the lower house of the bicameral French Parliament under the Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate ( Sénat ). The National Assembly's legislators are known as députés ( French pronunciation: [depyte] ), meaning "delegate" or "envoy" in ...
Custard tart – Baked dessert consisting of an egg custard-filled pastry crust. Dariole – French pastry and dessert mold. Dame blanche – Ice cream dessert. Éclair – Cream-filled pastry. Flaugnarde – French dessert. Floating island – Dessert made with meringue and crème anglaise. Galette des Rois - Kings' cake.
French-American relations. The Kingdom of France was the first friendly country of the new United States in 1778. The 1778 Treaty of Alliance between the two countries and the subsequent aid provided from France proved decisive in the American victory over Britain in the American Revolutionary War. France, however, was left heavily indebted ...
Apr 11, 2024 · French-language edition of Wikipedia. This page was last edited on 11 April 2024, at 01:15. All structured data from the main, Property, Lexeme, and EntitySchema namespaces is available under the Creative Commons CC0 License; text in the other namespaces is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.
Père Noël, the French Father Christmas. Christmas in France is a major annual celebration, as in most countries of the Christian world. Christmas is celebrated as a public holiday in France on December 25, concurring alongside other countries. Public life on Christmas Day is generally quiet. Post offices, banks, stores, restaurants, cafés ...
