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• Contravene
  In many civil law countries (e.g.: France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Spain etc.) '''contravention''' is a less ser ==In France==
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• Mezza Verde Group
  ...persons participating remotely from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France France], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium Belgium], and the [https://en.wiki
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• Entente
  .../Entente_cordiale Entente Cordiale]) the understanding between Britain and France reached in 1904, forming the basis of Anglo-French cooperation in [[World W ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entente_Cordiale Entente Cordiale] between France and United Kingdom.
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• Cro-Magnon
  ...ear [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil Les Eyzies, France] ...rignacian Aurignacian] culture whose remains were well known from southern France and Germany. As additional remains of early modern humans were discovered i
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• Joan of Arc
  ...urs, St. Louis IX, and St. Theresa of Lisieux, one of the patron saints of France.
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• Dossier
  ...ution presents its recommendations only at the end of the hearing. In both France and Germany the investigating magistrate will recommend a [[trial]] only if
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• Annee Philologique
  Scientifique (France) et du National Endowment for
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• Barricades
  .../wiki/Bicycle_stand bicycle stand], or police barriers. They originated in France approximately 50 years ago and are now produced around the world. They were ...le and consequential element in many of the insurrections that occurred in France throughout the 1800s, perhaps most notably in the revolutions of 1830 ("the
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• 64:2 The Foxhall Peoples
  .../wiki/England England] from southern [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France France]. These [[tribes]] were so largely mixed with the forest [https://en.wikipe ...the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland land bridge] still connected France with England; and since most of the early settlements of the [https://norda
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• Hiking
  ...srael, and Jordan. In the Alps of Austria, Slovenia, Switzerland, Germany, France, and Italy walking tours are often made from 'hut-to-hut', using an extensi
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• Silhouette
  ...enne de Silhouette], a French finance minister who, in 1759, was forced by France's credit crisis during the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years_War S
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• Serfdom
  ...at worked lands under their [[control]]. Serfdom was formally abolished in France in 1789.[3]
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• Menagerie
  ..._garden zoological garden]. The term was first used in seventeenth century France in [[reference]] to the [[management]] of household or domestic stock. Late
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• Opera
  ...e 18th century, Italian opera continued to dominate most of Europe, except France, attracting foreign composers such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George
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• 63:5 Dispersion of the Andonites
  ...g/wiki/Ice_sheets ice sheet] reached [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France France] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles British Isles], the d ...ly [[river]] dwellers of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_France France]; they lived along the river [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somme_%28river%
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• Elite
  ...as well, for example in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandes_%C3%A9coles France's Grandes écoles].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite]
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• 2012-12-30-Aaron of Nazi Concentration Camps
  With the entrance of America in the war on the side of England, France and the Soviet Union, we saw our first hope of salvation against Himmler an ...out our liberation, such as the invasions of Italy, then those of southern France and Normandy.
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• Libertine
  ...tants against the increasing number of religious refugees who were fleeing France in even greater numbers". By 1555, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvinist ...new-found adherents in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, particularly in France and Great Britain. Notable among these were [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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• Infrastructure
  ..."[[structure]]". The military sense of the word was probably first used in France, and imported into English around the time of the [[First World War]]. The
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• Enigma (machine)
  ...on and decryption methods were delivered from Poland to United Kingdom and France. The Military intelligence gained through this source, codenamed [[Ultra|U
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• 80:5 The Andite Conquest of Northern Europe
  ...5 The strongholds of the blue man which persisted longest were in southern France, but the last great [[military]] [[resistance]] was overcome along the [htt ...]] throughout all of northern Europe, including northern Germany, northern France, and the British Isles. Central Europe was for sometime controlled by the b
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• 64:1 The Andonic Aborigines
  ...] was [[connected]] by [[land]] with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France France], while later on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa Africa] was joined t ...wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France France] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England England]. In later times they p
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• Supplement
  ...e 2004 version of Life, and Parade; newspaper supplements became common in France and Germany in the mid to late 19th century--they were called feuillton in
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• 2005-09-19-Group Separation
  Lubéron, France,
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• Absurd
  ...for their popular [[development]], especially in the devastated country of France.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism]
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• Chivalry
  ...rly [[history]] of mounted "knight" (French: chevalier), which happened in France in the late 10th century. Knights [[possessed]] [[military]] [[training]],
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• Dictation
  ...Bernard Pivot]. In several countries of the world (including Switzerland, France, Belgium, and Canada), the dictations are the subject of structured champio
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• Portage
  Early French explorers in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_France New France] and French Louisiana encountered many rapids and cascades. The [https://en
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• Illuminati
  ...sect of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familists Familists] which arose in France in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_xiii Louis XIII]'s reign
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• Rebellion
  ...have been called rebels. Over 450 peasant revolts erupted in southwestern France between 1590 and 1715.[2] In the United States, the term was used for the [ # History of Peasant Revolts: The Social Origins of Rebellion in Early Modern France., Journal of Social History
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• Suburb
  ..., new suburbs are routinely annexed by adjacent cities. In others, such as France, Arabia, most of the [[United States]], and Canada, many suburbs remain sep
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• Potpourri
  In early 17th Century France fresh herbs and flowers were gathered—starting in [[spring]] and continui
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• 2005-09-11-Man At Arms & Humility
  Massif Central, France, September 11, 2005. Calais, France, September 28, 2005.
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• Appeasement
  ...h_Pact Munich Pact] concluded on 30 September 1938 among Germany, Britain, France and Italy prompted Chamberlain to announce that he had secured "peace for o
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• Titration
  Volumetric analysis originated in late 18th-century France. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Antoine-Henri_Descroizilles F
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• Marketplace
  *In Europe, especially in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France France] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain Britain], street markets, as we *In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France Australia], the largest "open air" market is the [https://en.wikipedia.org/
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• Patron
  ...dle French] : the proprietor of an establishment (as an inn) especially in France
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• Mural
  ...edia.org/wiki/Chauvet_Cave Chauvet Cave] in Ardèche department of southern France (around 30,000 BC). Many [[ancient]] murals have survived in Egyptian [[tom
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• Colleagues
  ...h as Eliot Freidson (USA), Malcolm Waters (Australia) and Emmanuel Lazega (France) have shown that collegiality can now be understood as a full fledged organ
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• Cave
  ...wed toward countries where caving has been popular for many years (such as France, Italy, Australia, the UK, the United States, etc.). As a result, explored
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• World War II
  ...equent declarations of war on Nazi Germany by the British Commonwealth and France. Many belligerents entered the war before or after this date, during a peri
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• 64:4 The Neanderthal Races
  ...n.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France France] on the west, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China China] on the east, and ...t [[hunters]], and the [[tribes]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France France] were the first to adopt the [[practice]] of giving the most successful [[h
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• Curfew
  ...s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_civil_unrest_in_France 2005 civil unrest in France], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Chile_earthquake 2010 Chile earth
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• Arrest
  ...] station, and the term "pinched" is also common. In the United States and France the term "collared" is sometimes used. The term "lifted" is also heard on o
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• Archives
  [[File:lighterstill.jpg]][[File:Stamp-france-selestat_2.jpg|right|frame]] ...me of archives under the supervision of the Directorate of the Archives of France is the largest in the world.
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• Francois Fenelon
  ...author of ''[[The Adventures of Telemachus]]'', a scabrous attack on the [[France|French]] [[monarchy]], first published in 1699. ...a campaign to send the greatest orators in the country into the regions of France with the greatest concentration of [[Huguenots]] to persuade them of the er
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• Atom Bomb
  ...Soviet Union (succeeded as a nuclear power by Russia), the United Kingdom, France, the People's Republic of China, India, Pakistan, and North Korea. In addit
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• Perjury
  ...ears. However prosecutions for perjury are rare. In some countries such as France, Italy, and Germany, suspects cannot be heard under [[oath]] or affirmation
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• Veteran
  ...y married couples would on their wedding day visit a military cemetery. In France, for instance, those wounded in [[war]] are given the first claim on any se
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• Invasion
  ...ns—by Germans against Poland in 1939 and by Allies against Nazi controlled France in 1944—are often called the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_P
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