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France is a European Parliament constituency for elections in the European Union covering the member state of France. It is currently represented by 79 Members of the European Parliament. From 2004 until 2019, eight subdivided constituencies represented France in the European Parliament. [1]
The current Constitution of France was adopted on 4 October 1958. It is typically called the Constitution of the Fifth Republic ( French : LA CONSTITUTION DE LA CINQUIÈME RÉPUBLIQUE) , [1] and it replaced the Constitution of the Fourth Republic of 1946 with the exception of the preamble per a 1971 decision of the Constitutional Council . [2]
Deputies ( French: députés ), also known in English as members of Parliament (MPs), are the legislators who sit in the National Assembly, the lower house of the French Parliament. [1] The 16th and current legislature of the Fifth Republic has a total of 577 deputies, elected in 577 constituencies across metropolitan (539) and overseas France ...
The first written records for the history of France appeared in the Iron Age. What is now France made up the bulk of the region known to the Romans as Gaul. Greek writers noted the presence of three main ethno-linguistic groups in the area: the Gauls, the Aquitani, and the Belgae.
Roman Catholicism. Signature. Henrietta Maria of France (French: Henriette Marie; 25 November [1] 1609 – 10 September 1669) was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland from her marriage to King Charles I on 13 June 1625 until Charles was executed on 30 January 1649. She was mother of his sons Charles II and James II and VII.
Overseas France. Overseas France ( French: France d'outre-mer, also France ultramarine) [note 3] consists of 13 French -administered territories outside Europe, mostly the remains of the French colonial empire that remained a part of the French state under various statuses after decolonization. Some, but not all, are part of the European Union .
The Parlement of Rouen ( French: Parlement de Rouen ), also known as the Parlement of Normandy (French: Parlement de Normandie) after the place where it sat (the provincial capital of Normandy), was a provincial parlement of the Kingdom of France. It replaced the ancient court of the exchequer of Normandy, set up by Rollo, first duke of Normandy .