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According to historical records, a civil law called the Code Civil des Français was formed in 1804, in which most European referred to them as the Napoleon Code. [2] On 24 May 1806 the Netherlands became a French client state, styled the Kingdom of Holland under Napoleon's brother, Louis Bonaparte in which he was instructed by Napoleon to receive and enact the Napoleonic Code.
The French School of Kuala Lumpur (French: Lycée français de Kuala Lumpur Henri-Fauconnier, LFKL; Malay: Sekolah Perancis Kuala Lumpur [1]) is a French international school in Segambut, [2] Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [3] Its education levels range from kindergarten through lycée (senior high school). [2] The school first opened in 1962.
France, [IX] officially the French Republic, [X] is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world.
The French Renaissance was the cultural and artistic movement in France between the 15th and early 17th centuries. The period is associated with the pan-European [1] Renaissance, a word first used by the French historian Jules Michelet to define the artistic and cultural "rebirth" of Europe.
François de La Rochefoucauld, 2nd Duke of La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac (/ ˈ r ɒ ʃ f uː k oʊ /; French: [fʁɑ̃swa d(ə) la ʁɔʃfuko]; 15 September 1613 – 17 March 1680) was an accomplished French moralist of the era of French Classical literature and author of Maximes and Memoirs, the only two works of his dense literary œuvre published.