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France
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Beau Serge -- Chabrol, Quatre Cents Coup -- Truffaut; Hiroshima Mon Amour -- Resnais; Bout de Souffle -- Godard; Jules et Jim -- Truffaut; Cleo de 5 a 7 -- Varda; Le Mepris -- Godard
Shoah -- A;l Jean de Florette -- E; Au Revoir, les Enfants -- B; Nikita -- F; la Haine -- D; L'Humanite -- C
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Longest Day -- A; Bourne Identity - C; To Catch A Thief -- French Riviera; Da Vinci Code -- Louvre; Marie Antoinette -- Versailles
American Film Festival -- Deauville; Short Film Festival -- Clermont Ferrand; Festival of Detective Movies -- Cognac
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Marie Antoinette
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a, b…(c -- the number is 35, not 50).
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Le Redoute -- mail order; Les Galeries Lafayette - traditional department store; Tati -- low budget chain store
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Question 1. The kings probably change a fair bit, but I was not provided with the portraits so cannot properly answer the question.
Question 2. The French Revolution is so...
Prior to this point, such an uprising was essentially unheard of. The French Republic was born, and this was more or less the first major move towards the era of the modern nation-state. Further, the people learned that they could affect change on society, including the way it was constructed and the way people thought about it. The French Revolution was the first time that the humanism that had been developing since the Renaissance was applied to politics. The French Revolution was made possible by the fact that the king was weak -- this weakness gave confidence to Robespierre.
Question 3. Aside from the weakness of the king and the loss of the Seven Years' War, and then lots of hunger, the French Revolution was facilitated by Enlightenment thinking, which caused people to view their world differently, especially in terms of their relationships with royalty and the church. The major writers and thinkers were Rousseau and Montesquieu. The French people had negative feelings about Marie Antoinette in part because she was Austrian. Austria was a traditional enemy of the French, but she also knew little about France or its customs and she did not…
In conclusion, practically everything connected to French culture and society, whether of ancient or modern origins, is protected, promoted and endorsed by the Minister of Culture, part of the French government and operated by a single cabinet member. Some of the areas included in this entity are museums, national monuments, the visual arts (movies and TV), the theatre, music, dance, architecture, literature and the French National Archives, similar to America's
France in the Twentieth Century The Second World War that took place between the years 1939 to 1945 involved the so called Axis Powers on one side, which were, namely, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Japan, and Romania and Bulgaria, and the Allied Powers, which were France, U.S., Britain, the U.S.S.R., Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, and Yugoslavia. (World War Two, 1939 to 1945)
S., is used on events that require drastic recovery processes like floods (natural) or terrorist attacks (man-made). But the MOI would not be in control of the military in such cases (Lindstrom, 2004). "Today, France has 'a pool of specialized judges and investigators adept at dismantling and prosecuting terrorist networks.'" (Perelman, 2006) "France has a system, Vigipirate, used at moments of danger to the country. Instituted in 1978, Vigipirate has two levels,
France -- stability L. Jones France: Fashion in the Global Market Whenever one considers the place of fashion as an industry within a specific nation, it is essential to consider several factors. Despite today's globalizing fashion industry (which is following all sectors of industry), individual "country factors," including the relative stability of the country as a whole, the nature of its political organization, administrative structure, as well as its legislative, and judiciary s
France (West) Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium Question 3… Answer 1: Strong state A conservative country the important role of art and culture a split country universalism -- France's historical mission. Lyon -- A, Rhone-Alps; Marseilles -- C. Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur; Paris -- Ile de France; Strasbourg -- Alsace; Ajaccio -- Corse; Bordeaux -- Aquitaine; Reims - Champagne D -The euro 1A, 2C, 3B, 4D, 5F, 6E, 7G The Louvre Hundred Years' War Waterloo Prussian defeat of France Occupation by German Forces in WWII King Henry
France has embarked on an economic and social experiment that is changing the face of employment in that country. The country has instituted a law requiring 35-hour work weeks, believing that it will stimulate the economy by decreasing unemployment and creating new jobs. It was also expected that such a law would encourage innovation in labor negotiation contracts (Trumbull, 2001). Now that the law has been in force for four