Both during the post-World War I breakup of the Ottoman Empire and with the breakup of the British and French empires after World War II, British and French imperial authorities colluded with Arab imperialists to guarantee the latter's nearly uninhibited control over the Middle East.
Trying to preserve her youth, Diane de Poitiers, mistress of French King Henry II, died from drinking gold.
You make the comparison to the mistress of French King Henry II.
In 1916, the Germans sunk the French transport ship Provence II, killing 930.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, French President Jacques Chirac, U.S. President George W. Bush, Russian President Vladimir Putin and a host of other VIPs spontaneously rose to their feet to applaud a march-past by proud veterans from all the Allied nations.
As a French diplomat after World War II, Hessel joined a panel that included former U.S. first lady Eleanor Roosevelt which wrote up the U.N.
French laws enacted after World War II ban the compilation of information about religious affiliation without permission.
The man who symbolized France's resistance to Nazi occupation, he led the French government in exile during World War II and headed the first government after the Liberation.
In 1995, French commandos boarded the Greenpeace ship "Rainbow Warrior II" in the South Pacific.
Queen Elizabeth II is to lay a wreath with French President Jacques Chirac and unveil a statue of Winston Churchill.
The tracks were prime targets of saboteurs fighting the Japanese in World War II, and, afterwards, the French who built the line.
There's the tyrannical Philippe II of Spain, who marries the French princess Elisabeth de Valois, who was originally betrothed to his son Don Carlos.
Captured during World War II, he escaped and pretended to be French--along with a mute "brother, " who spoke no French.
Medals awarded to a World War II pilot who risked his life to drop the French Tricolour over the Arc de Triomphe in occupied Paris in 1942 are being auctioned.
BBC: Daring World War II pilot Ken Gatward's medals auctioned
During World War II, for instance, some sections became hideouts for French Resistance fighters, while other areas were converted by German soldiers into bunkers.
Other embroidery features on the 2015 embroidery panel will depict visits by both Queen Elizabeth I and II, the founding of the veterinary profession in Britain, and French prisoners of war held on parole at Odiham and North Warnborough during the Napoleonic Wars.
His grandfather, a first-generation French immigrant who worked at a cafe downtown, bought the place after World War II.
The heads of state and government and thousands of World War II veterans took part in the ceremonies amid one of the biggest security operations staged on French soil.
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