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The Île-de-France (/ ˌ iː l d ə ˈ f r ɒ̃ s /; French: [il də fʁɑ̃s] ⓘ; lit. ' Island of France ') is the most populous of the eighteen regions of France, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 residents on 1 January 2023. [1]
The District of the Paris Region was reconstituted into the Île-de-France region on 6 May 1976, thus aligning the status of the region with that of the other French regions, created in 1972. The Prefecture of the Paris Region was renamed Prefecture of Île-de-France (Préfecture de L'Île-de-France). The former Board of Trustees was replaced ...
The Capetians, in a way, held a dual status of King and Prince; as king they held the Crown of Charlemagne and as Count of Paris they held their personal fiefdom, best known as Île-de-France. [16] Some of the king's vassals would grow sufficiently powerful that they would become some of the strongest rulers of western Europe.
Likewise, French Vexin is the part of Vexin inside the région Île-de-France, as opposed to Norman Vexin (Vexin normand) which is in the neighbouring part of the région Normandie. [21] This meaning is also found in the name of the French language (langue française), whose literal meaning is "language of Île-de-France". It is not until the ...
Réunion has a local public television channel, Réunion 1ère, which now forms part of France Télévision, and also receives France 2, France 3, France 4, France 5 and France 24 from metropolitan France, as well as France Ô, which shows programming from all of the overseas departments and territories. There are also two local private ...
Isle de France (Modern French: Île de France, pronounced [il də fʁɑ̃s] ⓘ) was a French colony in the Indian Ocean from 1715 to 1810, comprising the island now known as Mauritius and its dependent territories. It was governed by the French East India Company and formed part of the French colonial empire.
The name of the town literally means "Roissy in the Pays de France", and not "Roissy in the country France". Another example of the use of France in this meaning is the new Stade de France, which was built near Saint-Denis for the 1998 Football World Cup. It was decided to call the stadium after the Pays de France, to give it a local touch. In ...
The role of the King in France was finally ended with the execution of Louis XVI by guillotine on Monday, January 21, 1793, followed by the "Reign of Terror", mass executions and the provisional "Directory" form of republican government, and the eventual beginnings of twenty-five years of reform, upheaval, dictatorship, wars and renewal, with ...