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Le Jeu des 1000 euros (translation: The 1000 Euros Game) is a French daily radio game show broadcast on France Inter. Created in 1958 by Henri Kubnick under the name 100000 francs par jour (translation: 100,000 French Francs By Day ), it is the longest-running program on French radio.
La Croix d'Honneur (French for the cross of honor) is the solitaire card game which is played using a deck of playing cards. It is a pairing game, and was first described in the French book Nouveau Recueil de Patiences , which was printed in Paris in 1885 by the publishing company Watilliaux.
On October 10, a deputation of the colonists of la Croix-des-Bouquets, sent by Hanus De Jumécourt, came to Port-Républicain, demanding the execution of this concordat. In 1791, Halaou, the leader of African bands, rebels of the Cul-de-Sac Plain, was killed at Croix-des-Bouquets on February 9. There was a massacre of his group by the soldiers ...
Reverse of the Cross. The Cross for Military Valour (French: Croix de la Valeur Militaire) is a military decoration of France.It recognizes an individual bestowed a Mention in Dispatches earned for showing valour in presence of an enemy, in theatres of operations which are not subject to the award of the Croix de guerre des théâtres d'opérations extérieures (Cross of War for Foreign ...
Croix de Guerre de la Légion des Volontaires Français (for World War II service) The Croix was created by a law of April 2, 1915, proposed by French deputy Émile Briant. The Croix reinstated and modified an older system of mentions in dispatches, which were only administrative honours with no medal accompanying them.
The French Red Cross (French: Croix-Rouge française), or the CRF, is the national Red Cross Society in France founded in 1864 and originally known as the Société française de secours aux blessés militaires (SSBM). Recognized as a public utility since 1945, the French Red Cross is one of the 191 national societies of the International Red ...
The Croix-de-Feu (French: [kʁwa də fø], Cross of Fire) was a nationalist French league of the Interwar period, led by Colonel François de la Rocque (1885–1946). After it was dissolved, as were all other leagues during the Popular Front period (1936–38), La Rocque established the Parti social français (PSF) to replace it.
The Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (English: War Cross 1939–1945) is a French military decoration, a version of the Croix de Guerre created on 26 September 1939 to honour people who fought with the Allies against the Axis forces at any time during World War II.