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The French Wikipedia ( French: Wikipédia en français) is the French-language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. This edition was started on 23 March 2001, two months after the official creation of Wikipedia. [1] It has 2,619,818 articles as of 25 June 2024, making it the fourth-largest Wikipedia overall, after the English ...
France, [a] officially the French Republic, [b] is a country located primarily in Western Europe. It also includes overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, [XI] giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world.
In 1532, Brittany was incorporated into the Kingdom of France. France engaged in the long Italian Wars (1494–1559), which marked the beginning of early modern France. Francis I faced powerful foes, and he was captured at Pavia. The French monarchy then sought for allies and found one in the Ottoman Empire.
bnf.fr (in French) The Bibliothèque nationale de France ( French: [biblijɔtɛk nɑsjɔnal də fʁɑ̃s]; 'National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as Richelieu and François-Mitterrand. It is the national repository of all that is published in France.
Institut français d’études sur l’Asie centrale (IFEAC) - Tachkent; Maison Française d'Oxford (MFO) - Grande-Bretagne; Incidents. In November 2023, the Institut francais in Gaza was hit by an Israeli air strike amid the Israel–Hamas war, but no injuries were reported among staff at the site. References
The New Popular Front (French: Nouveau Front populaire, [nuvo fʁɔ̃ pɔpylɛʁ], abbreviated as NFP) is a broad left-wing electoral alliance of political parties in France launched on 10 June 2024 in response to the snap 2024 French legislative election.
The four main groups of European gens du voyage are: the so-called Oriental Roms, who came from North India in the 13th century and are mainly to be found in Central and Eastern Europe; the Sinti or Manouches, mainly settled in Germany and the large northern half of France; the Gitanos or Kalés, whose presence in the Iberian Peninsula and ...
French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.