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  2. Municipal Police (France) - Wikipedia

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    The municipal police do not generally carry firearms. At the request of the mayor, the prefect of the department in which the commune or municipality is located may authorise municipal police officers to be armed in certain circumstances or for special night work. In some cities, all municipal police officers are permanently armed.

  3. List of place names of French origin in the United States

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    New Rochelle (founded by French Huguenots and named after La Rochelle, France.) Orleans; Orleans County (possibly named in honor of the House of Orléans) Portage; Raquette River; Rouses Point (named after early settler Jacques Rouse.) Point Au Roche State Park (park located on the shores of Lake Champlain) St. Armand (named for Saint-Armand ...

  4. Directive Principles - Wikipedia

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    The Directive Principles of State Policy of India are the guidelines to be followed by the government of India for the governance of the country. They are not enforceable by any court, but the principles laid down there are considered "Fundamental" in the governance of the country, which makes it the duty of the State [1] to apply these principles in making laws to establish a just society in ...

  5. Comités de défense paysanne - Wikipedia

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    There had previously been groups that espoused agrarian militancy such as the "Assault Sections" of the secretive Franc-Paysannerie movement. [1] [2]It was originally founded by an agricultural editor Henri Dorgères in January 1929 [3] in Rennes, Brittany as the Comité de défense paysanne contre les assurances sociales, [4] [5] the promised extension [6] of which was seen as unacceptably ...

  6. List of diasporas - Wikipedia

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    The Vietnamese also went to Canada, France (and overseas territories), Germany (also the Vietnamese guest workers in the former Communist East Germany), Italy, the Middle East, Australia, and other Asian countries (most went to Hong Kong, when it was a British colony, before the handover to the People's Republic of China in 1997, and Macau ...

  7. Paris Institute of Comparative Law - Wikipedia

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    The Institute administers a library which was created in 1951 and which gathers the Institute's collections and those of the French Society of Comparative Legislation (founded in 1869) and of the French Centre of Comparative Law (founded in 1951). [2]

  8. Paris Police Prefecture - Wikipedia

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    East facade, Préfecture de police and, on the right, Hôtel-Dieu hospital, seen from Notre-Dame de Paris. The Paris Police Prefecture (French: préfecture de police de Paris [pʁefɛktyʁ də pɔlis də paʁi]), officially the Police Prefecture (French: préfecture de police), is the unit of the French Ministry of the Interior that provides police, emergency services, and various ...

  9. Current account (balance of payments) - Wikipedia

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    For example, according to their report the current account balance in billions of US dollars of several countries can be compared, Australia for 2013 was −51.39 and 2014 was −43.69, with each quarter between 2013 Q1 through 2015 Q2 ranging from a low of −14.81 in Q2 2015 to a high of −8.53 in Q1 2014.