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Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque [b] [c] (22 November 1902 – 28 November 1947) was a Free-French general during World War II. He became Marshal of France posthumously in 1952, and is known in France simply as le maréchal Leclerc or just Leclerc .
Lycée Français de La Havane Alejo Carpentier, formerly École Française de la Havane "Alejo Carpentier" (Spanish: Escuela Francesa de La Habana "Alejo Carpentier"), is a French international school with two campuses in Siboney in Playa, Havana, Cuba: one for primary school and one for collège and lycée (junior and senior high school).
Aspects de la France was established in 1947 as a monarchist publication aligned with the Action Française movement. Its creation by Georges Calzant was a response to the prohibition of the daily L'Action française following allegations of collaboration with the Vichy regime in 1944. [1]
The 2nd Brigade of the 8th Armored Division 'qui est l'heritière des traditions de la 2e DB' – carried on the traditions of the 2nd Armored Division. [ 12 ] The French Army was extensively reorganised in 1977, with three-brigade divisions being dissolved and small divisions of four or five manoeuvre regiments/battalions being created. [ 13 ]
The association of Royalist Young Women is intended to unite all young women who wish to contribute to the work of national revival undertaken by Action Française. According to Léon Daudet, the association originated from the efforts of Mlle de Montlivaut in 1905 in the Loir-et-Cher region and Parisian activists who read L'Action française ...
The Fédération nationale des étudiants d'Action française (National Federation of Action Française Students) was an organization uniting student activists of the Action Française movement. The first Action Française Students' Association was created on December 8, 1905, in Paris by Lucien Moreau , [ 1 ] and was strengthened in 1913 with ...
In 1899, Maurice Pujo and Henri Vaugeois left the French nationalist movement Ligue de la Patrie française and established a new one, called Action Française, and its official journal, Revue de l'Action Française. This was their nationalist reaction against the intervention of left-wing intellectuals on the behalf of Alfred Dreyfus. [21]
The Saint-Domingue expedition was a large French military invasion sent by Napoleon Bonaparte, then First Consul, under his brother-in-law Charles Victor Emmanuel Leclerc in an attempt to regain French control of the Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue on the island of Hispaniola, and curtail the measures of independence and abolition of slaves taken by the former slave Toussaint Louverture.