France

French law is based in some respects on Roman law and is codified. That means that, unlike in the U.S. or England, precedent is relatively unimportant. It's the codified 'rule-book' that really counts. The *basis* of French law dates from the Napoleonic period and is often referred to as the "Code Napoleon" though some of it wasn't fully collated till 1816.

Water is a limited resource: on a regular, France hardly consumes a quarter of the water resources that can be mobilized. Drought periods raise great supply problems, but mainly increase pollution (e.g. summer, 2003). Agriculture is the greatest water consumer (44 %). There had been an important increase in irrigation systems, but also in ground water pumping systems. However, massive fertilizer and liquid manure uses are polluting a great deal of the underground waters with nitrates. Many other users, such as E.D.F, for the nuclear power stations consume a lot of this water. In order to protect the drinking water quality, (about 10 % of the total consumption), industries and cities have to equip themselves with sufficient water-treatment plants. Waste dumping is gradually replaced by reprocessing plants so as not to pollute the ground water. The forests , these are , a heritage which has to be preserved: ¼ of the whole France are forest areas, making it the most important forested area within the E.U; although s, the French forest produces only ¾ our wooden needs and in by-products. However Forest areas, do have many other functions: such as protective for the grounds, preventive in case of landslips and avalanches, limitative in case of flooding. It's a great shelter as far as game is concerned, but it's also a wonderful leisure area. Big forest massifs are part of regional and national parks. However, it suffers great threats such as acid rains, fires and the diseases. The national forests Office (ONF) deals with the public patrimony, and advises private owners (75 % private properties) in order to decrease dangers, and increase productivity. for more information go to http:/elib.kkf.hu/france/francia/environment/EN.htm

Yes, he had three children Philipe (1921) Elizabeth ((1924) and Anne (1928-1948) who died of downs syndrome

Bob The Builder's House.

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Yes, France does have a mixed economy. France's economy consists of agricultural and industrial, along with "skilled" and service sector jobs. For more information, one source is linked below under "Related links".

There have been fights in Paris as many march in support of the Palestinians. Another current event in France is France recently celebrating Bastille Day.

French food Various from region to region, but some traditional french food's are frog's legs and snails.

Most french people never eat frog legs or snails.

For dinner, it depends a lot of the region, and it changes a lot from a family to another. Some families eat a full four-courses meal, some just one dish. Two examples :

Paté with bread

Steak and green beans

cheese

fruits

Tomato salad

Rosted chicken with potatoes

Cheese

Yoghurt

14 961 in the 1999 census. Normandy's population has grown very little since that census.

it depends on what era for instance ,Napoleon in the 18th Century or Charles De Gaulle during the 20th century

Many, many places. The two most important in Paris were the Place de la Révolution (now Place de la Concorde) and Place de Grève (now Place de l'Hôtel de Ville).
During the French Revolution the guillotine was located in front of what is now the city hall of Paris. After the French Revolution, the executions began again in the city center, before the guillotine was moved behind the church of Saint Jacques, Shortly afterward, it was moved to the Grande Roquette prison.
The guillotine was set up in the Place de la Révolution,now the actual Place de la Concorde

They believed that taxes were much too high, (they over the few generations prior lost their respect and fear of the King) and after inflation began to rise, the price of bread (the main staple in their diet) soared at ridiculous prices. Unable to feed themselves or their children, people took to action. Political action was tried but ultimately failed due to the fact that the "third class" was underrepresented.

One must also remember that hungry, uneducated people in mobs have the ability to do really horrible things (such as putting the heads of slain royalty on pikes and parading around as the blood dripped down upon them)... especially with the September massacres. A key figure goading on the people's stupidity and radical violence was Robespierre. He largely organized the movement but was overthrown after he had his former associate and friend (Danton) killed... this is referred to (the people's reaction rather is referred to as) the "Thermidorian Reaction" and paved the way for the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.

But, if you had to pick a events/movements ... I would say the bread riots and the tennis court oaths opened the people's eyes to the social injustices and sparked their desire for revenge and blood shed.

Maximilien Robespierre He was one of many. He led the revolution until he had seen himself as a GOD and was executed. He started what was known as "The Great Terror" which was accountable for most of the bloodshed during the revolution.

la salle claim for Appalachian mountains in the east to the rocky mountains in the west and from the great lakes in the north to the gulf of Mexico in the south

14th of July. On this day in 1789 the French Revolution began with the storming of the Bastille prison. Every year on this day France remembers all the people that died during this horrible revolution.

Answer th After the Battle of Saratoga, France recognized the United States as a nation. How did this help the war effort?

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As with all Presidential political systems it combines the Head of State and the Head of Government power in the hands of one person only. Therefore it is not a stable system. - - - Careful how you characterize the republican form of government. A representative government with power shared between branches of government is quite stable. Take the US government as an example. Everyone knows when the next election is going to happen, the legislature must get the President and the Supreme Court to agree that a law is constitutional, each of the three branches have checks and balances on each other and their is a document that spells out what each branch can and cannot do. There is a winner take all, to the victor go the spoils mentality to elections but the system is set up that way: To have clear winners and losers. Nothing ambiguous there. The so called head of government cannot pass laws unilaterally. One branch of government is embodied in a single person but it's not nearly as powerful as you'd think. Most power resides in the legislature made up of hundreds of people. As for France, They have a semi presidential system. Still a prime minister, still separation of powers, still a Representative Government, still three branches of government. Limited powers. That's the key.

2,987 billion according to the CIA World Factbook in 2008.

The Parisian populace feared an intervention by the foreign regiments of the King. They raided the arsenal of the Invalides where they seized a large quantity of guns and cannons, but no powder (or nearly nothing). Assisted by members of the Garde Nationale (a French-staffed regiment, where soldiers were often Parisians themselves), they went down to the Bastille fortress. The fortress was defended by a small garrison of invalids and Swiss. They set up a siege and held talks, having aimed the cannons and guns towards the fortress. After a while, a volley of bullets was discharged from the fortress and the mob went mad, and attacked the Bastille. The governor, De Launay, ordered to stop firing at the Parisians and had the doors open (he hoped that that would calm the situation, and anyway there was no ammunition to be seized in the Bastille). But he was seized, beaten and afterwards killed by the insurgents. His head was sawn off and paraded on top on a pike.

Charles VII (King since 1422, but only crowned (thanks to Joan of Arc) in July 1429.

Largely by surprise. Germany did not expect to be able to get through the French like they did. France was arguably the strongest country at this point in the war (America had not joined yet). Germany was scared of the French military ready to invade Germany and they just decided to attack and it resulted in a huge unexpected victory. French and English forces that were guarding the border had no time to attack the unexpected German force and consequently a large part of France was occupied by the Germans. Once the English heard of this they immediately began preparing themselves because Germany with that much luck would soon attack England. This was stopped by D-day operations in which Americans, French and British forces forced the Germans out of France.

The most important factor in the loss of the battle for France was that the German Army simply, and unexpectedly, outflanked the French Maginot Line (and rendered it completely useless) by invading Belgium and the Netherlands to the North and sweeping into northern France, causing the heroic British evacuation from the beaches at Dunkirk and the trapping of what was left of the French Army into the southern half of their own country.

To ask Napoleon Bonaparte to agree that the U.S. farmers could trade through New Orleans.

French people are cool , kinda cooky but threr really humrous and Love to have some fun .

Evian and Vichy are famous spa cities in France. They sell bottled water form their sources.

Badoit is not a place but a brand named after its founder, selling natural sparkling water from the village of Saint-Galmier in France.