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On 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed when 643 civilians, including non-combatant men, women, and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company as collective punishment for Resistance activity in the area including the capture and subsequent execution of a close friend of Waffen-SS ...
Legal terms from other countries that use French language (Belgium, Canada, Switzerland, North Africa, etc.) are not included here. Terms from the French civil code (known as the Napoleonic code) and from French administrative law are generally not included, unless they have repercussions for criminal law. Some common expressions for ...
64 civilians killed by German soldiers, including 15 mutilated or burned alive. 6 February 1934 crisis: 6 February 1934: Place de la Concorde, Paris: 16 (+2000 injured) French police: French police shot at far-right demonstrators, mostly members of Action Française: Assassination of Alexander I of Yugoslavia: 9 October 1934: Marseille 6 (+5 ...
A murder probe has been launched after a British couple in their early sixties were found dead at their home in southwest France.. Detectives fear gangsters with “a score to settle” may have ...
The tragic Paris attacks left 129 dead and many more mourning. But the French refuse to be afraid. Now, the husband of one of the victims has penned a powerful note addressed to his wife's killers ...
In Europe, to scream, to speak very loudly (colloquial) char: car Comes from cart and horse days. In Europe, a char is an army tank or a chariot. crosser: to masturbate; to double-cross, to deceive Verb is "to masturbate" in reflexive form only. crosseur = wanker, swindler. In Europe the French say (se) branler: crier: to obtain In Europe, to ...
In an emergency, dialling 17 will connect the caller to the police. You can also dial the Europe-wide emergency response number 112 to reach an operator for any kind of emergency service (similar to the U.S. and Canadian 911 system). Non-French speakers may experience a delay while an English speaker is located.
Martin Dumollard (June 22, 1810 − March 8, 1862) was a French serial killer condemned to the guillotine after having been arrested and charged with the deaths of maids from 1855 to 1861. His victims were approached in Lyon by Dumollard, who offered them a nice house in Côtière.