France in WW2

We got our independence from England. The Virginia Company of London sent over colonists such as John Smith. When we won the Revolutionary War, we became a country called the "Union". It broke our tie with England and we could then make our own laws and govern ourselves.

The storming of the Bastille on July 14th, 1789 occured because the people felt the need to arm themselves and arms were stored up at the Bastille. During the reign of Louis XVI, France faced a major financial crisis, triggered by the cost of intervening in the American War of Independence, and exacerbated by an unequal system of taxation. On 5 May 1789, the Estates-General of 1789 convened to deal with this issue, but was held back by archaic protocols and the conservatism of the Second Estate. On 17 June 1789, the Third Estate, with its representatives drawn from the middle class, or bourgeoisie, reconstituted themselves as the National Assembly, a body whose purpose was the creation of a French constitution. The king initially opposed this development, but was forced to acknowledge the authority of the assembly, which subsequently renamed itself the National Constituent Assembly on 9 July. Paris, close to insurrection, and, in François Mignet's words, "intoxicated with liberty and enthusiasm, showed wide support for the Assembly. On 11 July 1789, with troops at Versailles, Sèvres, the Champ de Mars, and Saint-Denis, Louis XVI, acting under the influence of the conservative nobles of his privy council, dismissed and banished his finance minister, Jacques Necker, who had been sympathetic to the Third Estate, and completely reconstructed the ministry. News of Necker's dismissal reached Paris in the afternoon of Sunday, 12 July. The Parisians generally presumed that the dismissal marked the start of a coup by conservative elements. Liberal Parisians were further enraged by the fear that a concentration of Royal troops brought to Versailles from frontier garrisons would attempt to shut down the National Constituent Assembly, which was meeting in Versailles. Crowds gathered throughout Paris, including more than ten thousand at the Palais-Royal.

Camille Desmoulins, a known freemason from the lodge of the Nine Sisters, successfully rallied the crowd by "mounting a table, pistol in hand, exclaiming: 'Citizens, there is no time to lose; the dismissal of Necker is the knell of a Saint Bartholomew for patriots! This very night all the Swiss and German battalions will leave the Champ de Mars to massacre us all; one resource is left; to take arms!' The demonstrators had earlier stormed the Hôtel des Invalides to gather arms (29,000 to 32,000 muskets, but without powder or shot), and were mainly seeking to acquire the large quantities of arms and ammunition stored at the Bastille - on the 14th there were over 13,600 kg (30,000 lb) of gunpowder stored there. At this point, the Bastille was nearly empty of prisoners, housing only seven inmates: four forgers, two "lunatics" and one "deviant" aristocrat. The governor of the Bastille prison was monsieur De Launay. Ninety-eight attackers and one defender had died in the actual fighting. De Launay was seized and dragged towards the Hôtel de Ville in a storm of abuse. Outside the Hôtel a discussion as to his fate began. The badly beaten de Launay shouted "Enough! Let me die!" and kicked a pastry cook named Dulait in the groin. De Launay was then stabbed repeatedly and fell, and his head was sawed off and fixed on a pike to be carried through the streets.

FRANCE WAS A UNIFIED COUNTRY UNTIL JUNE 1940 WHEN THEY SURRENDERED TO HITLER-AFTER THAT THE GERMANS INSTALLED A PUPPET GOVERNMENT NAMED VICHY FRANCE THAT GOVERNED TILL JUNE 1944. THEY ALSO CONTROLLED FRANCE'S NORTH AFRICAN COLONIES OF ALGERIA AND TUNISIA UNTIL THE ALLIES LIBERATED THOSE AREA IN 1943.

"Les deux sont très beaux" translates to "Those two are very beautiful"

"Ryoo mo-tor-guy" is the way to pronounce the French phrase Rue Montorgueil.

Yes France did fall to Germany.

France and Germany.

Germany annexed Alsace and Lorraine from France at the end of the 1870 war. Both provinces became French again in 1918.

Average summer temperatures in Paris are about 19° (celsius / centigrade). The avergae nightly temperature is not detailed on the sites I checked but it is likely to be between 9° to 14° celsius, for an average summer month.

like the verb "être" (to be), the verb "avoir" (to have) is not only a verb by itself but also an auxiliary verb.

you can use it also with everyday situations:

avoir faim, avoir soif, avoir sommeil = to be hungry, to be thirsty, to be sleepy

avoir froid, avoir chaud = to be cold, to be hot

une galaxie (fem.) is the French spelling of a galaxy.

There are many ways to say "see you later" in French. The most usual way is to say au revoir. A more informal way is to say à bientôt, which means "'til next time". You can also say à demain to mean "see you tomorrow".

Collect the garbage.

$6.61433 or $6.61

Bring about WW2 by not wanting peace with Germany and getting ready to attack Germany with the British expeditionary force.

in french, describe is known as 'ecrivez'.

"Petit Fromage" means Little cheese

Why, the French of course! That is where he lived for all his life before he was sent out to Quebec, Canada. so they covered all theexpensesand fees for Jacques Marquette.

"tiens c'est pour toi ça la belle mère" translates "here's this for you the mother-in-law"

he was a French

"Jour-J": literally, "J-Day."

you stole my heart

The Small Spider

Women's Royal Voluntary Service

• France, on June 6, 1944
• The success of the invasion of Normandy was really the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany.
• also called "Operation Overlord"
• involved five separate landings by American, British, and Canadian troops and was commanded by American General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
• Stiff German resistance resulted in nearly 10,000 Allied casualties, but the Germans were ultimately unable to repel the Allied forces.
• Although German resistance continued even after all five beachheads were taken, they had too few troops in the area to be effective.
• August 1944, all of Northern France was under Allied control as Eisenhower began to prepare for the invasion of Germany.
• Many scholars have tried to explain the term "D-Day," suggesting it stood for "decision day" or "disembarkation day," but most likely it comes from the army's use of the term to mean an "undefined day," or the first day of any operation.
• D-Day was originally scheduled for June 5, but the weather did not cooperate. The operation was pushed back to June 6, 1944.
• The D-Day invasion involved 5,000 ships carrying men and vehicles across the English Channel as well as 800 planes dropping over 13,000 men in parachutes. A further 300 planes dropped bombs on German troops defending the beaches. Over 100,000 Allied troops made it to shore that day.
• The most difficult landing of D-Day was at Omaha beach. Navigation problems resulted in many men drowning before they reached land. Omaha Beach also had the largest amount of German troops, and the fighting was fierce. It is the Omaha Beach battle that is reenacted in the opening of the movie Saving Private Ryan.
• 1. The success of D-Day was a death knell for the Germans. Hitler was forced to fight a two-front war against the Russians on the East and the Americans, British, Canadians, and French on the West. Within a year, Hitler committed suicide, and the war was over.
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Means nothing in (mainland) French. That sounds like a French Canadian saying 'Christ, she's posh'.