France in WW2

He was elected by French Parliament in 1958 after having made vote a new constitution (Fifth Republic), and he was reelected in 1965 by French people after having introduced universal suffrage.

Jacques LeCoq was a French actor mime and acting instructor

They were a political debating society responsible for the creation of the Reign of Terror.

When the French count with their fingers they use the thumb to represent "one".

Showing your thumb up with the other fingers folded, also means "one" or "OK" depending on the context.

When the Germans occupied France they installed their own puppet government under Marshall Petain. The Free French and much of it's navy left France and set up camp in the French colonies of North Africa. When the allies invaded North Africa

they were fired on by Free French ships and quickly sunk, but not before causing

significant casualties on both sides. The land forces of the FF were command by Gen Chas. DeGualle who later joined forces with the allies.

Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, Sword. Yes, that is 5 code names for 5 beaches.

By the landing by sea and air of the combined Allied forces of Britain, Canada and the United States on the beaches of Normandy in France.

D Day is just a codename for the day selected, and is used to describe the landing time, not the name of a battle.

There are eight. It borders Belgium and Luxembourg in the northeast, Germany and Switzerland in the east, Italy and Monaco in the southeast, and Spain and Andorra in the south and southwest.

"Tire" is conjugated from the French verb "tirer", which is to pull, tug or gain. "Tiré" is an adjective, "pulled".

It seems to be human nature to fear what you don't understand, which contradicts our equally natural inclination to be explorers. Before science, people believed that the reasons for things like: the sun rising and setting, the tides going in and out, why some people are born with disabilities and others aren't, etc., as being God's work and only He knows why things are the way things are. Now, we know how a great many things work and why and how to make things better, like medicines and cars and computers so we have access to more places and people and things than ever before. And this is all because of science.

Some people still are afraid and don't trust science to have answers (the biggest issue is, of course the actual age of the Earth and how it was made, and how people evolved instead of just appearing in the garden of Eden. Science can co-exist with religion, but not when people don't want to listen to each other.

The United States was tempted to help France fight the communists in Vietnam. In the 1950s, the American government sent millions of dollars of assistance to France to help with these efforts.

Put it in google translate. Or another translation site. :-)

France couln't control Algeria and it's the reason why she left.

a french general in ww2 which later became the president of France

French-German relations have been time and again tested throughout history. Ever since the 18th century, the two states have had a mutual distrust, constantly fearing an attack from one another. In the Napoleonic Wars, France (the continental European superpower at the time) invaded Prussia (what was then Germany), occupying the area and eventually continuing on to Russia. Although le bleu were stopped by a bitter Russian winter, pushed out of Russia, and eventually out of Prussia, a deep-seated distrust developed between the French and the German states. Later that century, in 1870, the cunning Prussian prime minister Bismarck engineered a unification of the German states by goading France into a declaration of war. Shocking the world, the advanced Prussians smashed the cocky French in the Franco-Prussian War. Reluctantly, France ceded the famous Alsace-Lorraine territory to Prussia. Immediatley after the war, however, the French pledged themselves to getting back their lost territory. They developed Plan XVII, a scheme to take back Alsace-Lorraine from the hated Germans if war should ever break out. In 1882, Germany formed an alliance with Austria-Hungary. France, feeling understandly threatened from the two emerging powers to their east, formed an alliance with Russia in early 1900. These two opposing alliances, along with the desire to create an empire and rising nationalism, led to an incredibly intriguing and costly arms race in Europe. Hundreds of battleships were built; armies were in the millions. Even Great Britain was brought out of its splendid isolationism (Britain had 49 battleships to Germany's 29 at the end of the race). The kindling was there--France wanted to exact revenge and get Alsace Lorraine back while Germany wanted an empire--it just needed a spark. After World War I, in which the French fought gallantly and proudly (for all you French military haters) Germany ceded Alsace-Lorraine back to France in the Treaty of Versailles. The treaty was incredibly harsh on the Germans, another factor which caused the Germans to despise their western neighbor. However, despite the French victory in the Great War, Le Bleu remained wary and suspicious of a German attempt to regain the territory. The memory of France's horrific losses in WWI were still fresh in French minds, and they remained acutely aware of the fact that their population was smaller than the Germans, and thus every man lost was far more costly. This caused France to build the Maginot Line, which heightened the rivalry and distrust between the two collosi.

The French army in 1940 had nearly six million men. After the fall of France, this number shrunk to a few thousand Free French soldiers. During Operation Torch, the French Army of Africa switched sides to the Allies, providing them with 100,000 Moroccans, Algerians and Tunisians. The French Expeditionary Corps fighting in Italy had about the same number of men. In 1945, the Free French forces totaled nearly 1,250,000 men. Interestingly, France never came close to the six million soldiers it had had in 1940.

-President of the Provisional Government of the french republic in 20th August 1944

-Leader of the free french forces in june 18th 1940

-Prime minister of franch and minister of defence in 1st june 1958

-President of the French republic and Co-Prince of Andorra in 8th January 1959

In May 1940, the combined British and French armies were thoroughly beaten by the advancing German army. A plan was devised to rescue the British Army from France but most of the ports were in German hands, so it was decided to evacuate them from the beaches near Dunkirk in northern France. The problem was that the water was too shallow for larger ships to get inshore so hundreds of small boats were sent over to France from southern England to ferry the soldiers from the beaches to the waiting ships off-shore. While this was happening, they were under constant air attack from the German Luftwaffe. By the end of 'Operation Dynamo' around 338,000 British and French troops had been saved - 10 times more than had been expected, but all of their equipment had to be left behind. Because of this, it became known as 'the miracle' of Dunkirk.

As a missionary Priest/explorer he was one of the first White men to see the Mississippi River, as he labored among the Indians. He was of the Jesuit order and was , as the name suggests, a Frenchman.

He traveled to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois around 1622 on his way from Montreal down the Mississippi river where he created permanent settlements.

La vie scolaire translates as "school life" in English. This is also the office in high schools in charge of organisation, where students for exemple are due to report if they are arriving late at school.

The Romans took over Tunisia and western Libya (Tripolitania), which had been Carthaginian territories, after they destroyed Carthage at the end of the Third Punic War in 146 BC.

Comment s'appelle ta mère? in French is "What's your mother's name?" in English.