It will run through the beginning of the Capetian dynasty to nowadays and will focus on everything related to France and its history.
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Des policiers, membres des CRS, manient la matraque rue Saint-Jacques à Paris lors des heurts entre les manifestants appelés par l’Unef et les forces de l’ordre qui bouclaient le Quartier Latin le 6 mai 1968.
On the 6th of May 1968, CRS (Republican Security Companies, riot control forces) using the baton on street Saint Jean in Paris during fights between the Student Union UNEF and the police in the Quartier Latin. @credits
A gauche, le poteau frontière au musée du souvenir à Saint-Cyr l’Ecole après la guerre. A droite, le même poteau au musée du Souvenir à Coëtquidan aujourd’hui.
On the left, border post between France and Germany in the Memory museum of Saint Cyr after WW1. On the right the same one in the museum of Saint Cyr Coëtquidan.
Jésus Revient - La vie est un long fleuve tranquille
Life Is a Long Quiet River (French: La vie est un long fleuve tranquille) is a French comedy by Étienne Chatiliez of 1988.
In a maternity clinic two children from families with completely different social backgrounds are switched at birth. One goes on to live in an upper middle-class family while the other to a poor family. Twelve years later, the mistake is discovered and the child living with the poor family is taken back by his parents, but keeps in touch with his former family and makes them encounter his new brothers and sisters. A series of satirical and comedic scenes follow.
Due in part to the film’s being shown on French television rather often, it has gained a sort of cult following among young French people. The song ‘Jésus Reviens’ sung at church in the film is instantly recognisable to many French youth as a key example of the film’s many satirical digs at the French Catholic bourgeois culture in the era it was filmed.
The now (as of 2003) decommissioned Ariane 4 launch pad. To the left is the moving protection building which shielded the rocket from weather during launch operations. To the right is the tower containing the umbilical fuelling and power lines, as well as a lightning conductor. In the centre foreground is the rocket transport vehicle which moved the upright rocket from the assembly buildings to the pad. The round structure behind is the water tower used for cooling and acoustic dampening on launch.
The Ariane 5 pad is about half a kilometre to the left of this photo. The new Vega launch pad, under construction as of 2007, is obscured by the umbilical tower. The Soyuz pad is being constructed several kilometres further north from here. The assembly buildings are to the south, behind the camera.
The Guiana Space Centre or, more commonly, Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG) is a French and European spaceportnear Kourou in French Guiana. Operational since 1968, it is particularly suitable as a location for a spaceport as it fulfills the two major geographical requirements of such a site:
- it is quite close to the equator, so that the spinning earth can impart some extra velocity to the rockets for free when launched eastward, and
- it has uninhabited territory (in this case, open sea) to the east, so that lower stages of rockets and debris from launch failures cannot fall on human habitations.
The European Space Agency, the French space agency CNES, and the commercial Arianespace company conduct launches from Kourou. This is the spaceport used by the ESA to send supplies to the International Space Stationusing the Automated Transfer Vehicle.
The location was selected in 1964 to become the spaceport of France. When the European Space Agency (ESA) was founded in 1975, France offered to share Kourou with ESA. Commercial launches are bought also by non-European companies. ESA pays two thirds of the spaceport’s annual budget and has also financed the upgrades made during the development of the Ariane launchers.
Article premier.
Le peuple français décidera souverainement de ses futures institutions. À cet effet, une Assemblée nationale constituante sera convoquée dès que les circonstances permettront de procéder à des élections régulières, au plus tard dans le délai d’un an après la libération complète du territoire. Elle sera élue au scrutin secret à un seul degré par tous les Français et Françaises majeurs, sous la réserve des incapacités prévues par les lois en vigueur. […]
Article 17.
Les femmes sont électrices et éligibles dans les mêmes conditions que les hommes.
Ordonnance du 21 avril 1944
relative à l’organisation des pouvoirs publics en France
après la Libération
L’ordonnance du 21 avril 1944 régit le fonctionnement du Gouvernement provisoire de la République française, présidé par Charles de Gaulle, qui a succédé au Comité français de la Libération nationale (CFLN). Il accorde notamment, par l’article 17, le droit de vote aux femmes françaises ainsi que leur éligibilité.
The ordonnance of the 21st of April 1944 institutes the fonctionning of the Gouvernement Provisoire de la République Française (Provisional Government of the French Republic) led by De Gaulle and which succeded to the Comité Française de la Libération Nationale (French Committee of the National Liberation). It allows women, by the article 17, to vote and to be elected.
Théatre des Champs Elysées, Paris, France
The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées is a theatre at 15 avenue Montaigne. Despite its name, the theatre is not on the Champs-Élysées but nearby in another part of the 8th arrondissement of Paris.
Opened in 1913, it was designed by French architect Auguste Perret and founded by journalist and impresario Gabriel Astruc to provide a venue suitable for contemporary music, dance and opera, in contrast to traditional, more conservative, institutions like the Paris Opera. It hosted the Ballets Russes for its first season, staging the world première of the Rite of Spring on Thursday May 29, 1913, thus becoming the celebrated location of one of the most famous of all classical music riots.
This website (in French, sorry) is about the artistic depiction of WW1. It proposes some pieces of art created during the conflict by well known artists of that time, as well as extracts from soldiers’ diaries or novels about the war.
La Gueuse - Yvonneck
Les Camelots du roi used to be the action force of the far right league l’Action Française and created an important repertoire of songs, such as La Gueuse (their nickname for the 3rd Republic)
The song curses the upholders of democracy such as Jews (“youpins” being a pejorative term), free-massons, foreigners. The deputies Jaurès or Briand… are promised the same end as the Republic. After killing the hated Republic, the Camelots are invited to restore the monarchy.
Accueil des troupes françaises en Alsace 1919 © cc - 2013 - Welcoming French troops in Alsace, 1919
Le Petit Prince - Saint Exupéry
The Little Prince (French: Le Petit Prince), first published in 1943, is a novella and the most famous work of the French aristocrat, writer, poet and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944)
