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Français fondamental (French for 'Fundamental French') is a list of words and grammatical concepts, devised in the beginning of the 1950s for teaching foreigners and residents of the French Union, France's colonial empire. A series of investigations in the 1950s and 1960s showed that a small number of words are used the same way orally and in ...
Members of the French Squadron of the SAS (1st Parachute Chasseur Company, 1ere Compagnie de Chasseurs Parachutistes, 1 e CCP) during the link-up between advanced units of the 1st and 8th armies in the Gabes-Tozeur area of Tunisia. Previously a company of Free French paratroopers, the French SAS were the first of a range of units 'acquired' by ...
against the blow. This word describes the repercussion of a physical or mental shock, or an indirect consequence of an event. contre-jour against daylight. This word (mostly used in art namely photography, cinema or painting) describes the light that illumines an object from the other side of your own point of view. contretemps an awkward clash ...
The Dictionnaire étymologique de l'ancien français (DEAF) is an etymological dictionary of Old French. The lexicographic project was born in the mid-1960s and has been in progress ever since with its headquarters at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Germany). Known and valued amongst linguists, philologists and medievalists ...
1990 : Publication of the ODS 1, replacing the Petit Larousse Illustré (PLI), used as a reference by players until then.; 1994 : Publication of the ODS 2, with 1500 new entries, correcting the few mistakes and omissions of the previous version.
To change a given name, a request can be made before a court (juge des affaires familiales), but except in a few specific cases (such as the Gallicization of a foreign name), it is necessary to prove a legitimate interest for the change (usually that the current name is a cause of mockery or when put together with the surname, it creates a ...
Colours of the Régiment de La Fère. It was raised as the Régiment de la Fère in 1765, from the 1st battalion of the Régiment Royal-Artillerie.In 1791, after the French Revolution, it had the title of its aristocratic patron removed and was given the number 1, as the senior most French regiment of artillery.
The 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment (1 er REC) was created on March 8, 1921 at Sousse from elements of the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment.The title of the 1 er REC would not become official until January 20, 1922, under Decree n°6330-1/11 of January 20, 1922. [6]