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The Treaty of Alliance (French: traité d'alliance (1778) ), also known as the Franco-American Treaty, was a defensive alliance between the Kingdom of France and the United States formed amid the American Revolutionary War with Great Britain. It was signed by delegates of King Louis XVI and the Second Continental Congress in Paris on February 6 ...
Swiss-Italian Sign Language. Italian Sign Language ( Italian: Lingua dei segni italiana, LIS) is the visual language used by deaf people in Italy. Deep analysis of it began in the 1980s, along the lines of William Stokoe 's research on American Sign Language in the 1960s. Until the beginning of the 21st century, most studies of Italian Sign ...
The French Sign Language ( LSF, from langue des signes française) or Francosign family is a language family of sign languages which includes French Sign Language and American Sign Language . The LSF family descends from Old French Sign Language (VLSF), which developed among the deaf community in Paris. The earliest mention of Old French Sign ...
The Treaty of Troyes was an agreement that King Henry V of England and his heirs would inherit the French throne upon the death of King Charles VI of France. It was formally signed in the French city of Troyes on 21 May 1420 in the aftermath of Henry's successful military campaign in France. [1] It forms a part of the backdrop of the latter ...
Palace of Queluz, where the Convention of Cintra was signed. The Convention of Cintra (or Sintra) was an agreement signed on 30 August 1808, during the Peninsular War. By the agreement, the defeated French were allowed to evacuate their troops from Portugal without further conflict. [1] The Convention was signed at the Palace of Queluz, in ...
The Edict of Nantes ( French: édit de Nantes) was signed in April 1598 by King Henry IV and granted the minority Calvinist Protestants of France, also known as Huguenots, substantial rights in the nation, which was predominantly Catholic . While upholding Catholicism as the established religion, and requiring the re-establishment of Catholic ...
The Paris Agreement (or Paris Accords, Paris Climate Accords) is an international treaty on climate change that was adopted in 2015. The treaty covers climate change mitigation, adaptation, and finance. The Paris Agreement was negotiated by 196 parties at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference near Paris, France.
