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Arte. Release. 29 October 2015. ( 2015-10-29) –. 19 July 2018. ( 2018-07-19) A Very Secret Service ( French: Au service de la France, lit. 'In Service of France') is a French comedy-drama series created by Jean-François Halin [ fr] and produced by Gilles de Verdière.
The Musée de l'Histoire de France (Museum of French History) is a museum that was created by King Louis Philippe I in the Palace of Versailles and opened in 1837. At the time, it represented an ambitious project of national reconciliation between the hitherto competing narratives of the French monarchy and the French Revolution, to which Louis ...
The war confirms France as the dominant continental power and Bourbon strength over the Habsburgs. 1668: 2 May: Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle: end of the War of Devolution. France obtains Lille and other territories of Flanders from Spain. 1678: Treaties of Nijmegen: A series of treaties ending the Franco-Dutch war.
Stone tools discovered at Chilhac and Lézignan-la-Cèbe indicate that pre-human ancestors may have been present in France at least 1.6 million years ago. [1] Neanderthals were present in Europe from about 400,000 BC , [ 2 ] but died out about 40,000 years ago, possibly out-competed by the modern humans during a period of cold weather.
Beaurevoir, France. Died. 11 April 1944. (1944-04-11) (aged 90) Paris, France. Occupation. Historian. Albert Auguste Gabriel Hanotaux, known as Gabriel Hanotaux (19 November 1853 – 11 April 1944) was a French statesman and historian [ 1] who was France's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1894 to 1895 and 1896 to 1898.
Histoire was launched on 14 July 1997 by an alliance of public holdings ( France Télévisions, INA and La Sept-Arte) and private shareholders ( Pathé, Wanadoo and Suez ). In June 2004, the Groupe TF1 acquired fully Histoire, privatizing it. On 2 January 2012, the TF1 pay-TV channels joined ISP optional packages.
The term new history, from the French term nouvelle histoire, was coined by Jacques Le Goff [1] and Pierre Nora, leaders of the third generation of the Annales school, in the 1970s. The movement can be associated with cultural history, history of representations, and histoire des mentalités. [2] The new history movement's inclusive definition ...
Liberté, égalité, fraternité ( French pronunciation: [libɛʁte eɡalite fʁatɛʁnite] ), French for ' liberty, equality, fraternity ', [ 1] is the national motto of France and the Republic of Haiti, and is an example of a tripartite motto. Although it finds its origins in the French Revolution, it was then only one motto among others and ...