Speaking shortly before Mr Hollande's address, French War Veterans Minister Kader Arif appeared to rule out a speedy deployment of French troops to Mali.
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Vietnam has turned down a request to scatter the ashes of a French war veteran at the site of a battle which helped end colonial rule by France.
Then, a government decision to inter him in Les Invalides in Paris, where French war heroes have been buried since the 17th century, was reversed because of public outrage.
Last week, as French war planes fought in the Malian sky and French soldiers stepped in after some of Mali's own soldiers abandoned their posts to al Qaeda-linked militants, President Dioncounda Traore welcomed more French troops to the capital's airport.
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.
At one point in a show down among the English and French central bankers over French recovery from the war, the French central banker threatened to redeem its reserves in pound sterling back into gold, as the English went back on the gold standard a few years earlier.
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The rift between the American and French governments over the Iraq war and the anti-French sentiment it generated ravaged sales of BPDR wines by an acknowledged 30% in the U.S. through May.
Her father, Lawrence, had served the Crown by privateering during the French and Indian War and made a fortune.
Commissioned a lieutenant colonel in 1754, he fought the first skirmishes of what grew into the French and Indian War.
In 1755, British General Edward Braddock was mortally wounded as his troops suffered a massive defeat during the French and Indian War.
He had been in combat in the French and Indian War, which was fought between England and France from 1754 to 1763 in North America.
George Washington was preserved by a miracle during the French-Indian war.
This is the moment when General de Gaulle restored the pride of France, the moment he created the founding myth of the post war French republic.
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.
At the end of the war the French sought to regain control of the country.
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.
Lebret contends the recent decline comes from the decision of a few retail executives to deemphasize French wine during the war because of a few complaints.
Its chosen title, Roland Garros, was the name of a legendary World War One French aviator, who had frequented the tennis venue when he studied in Paris.
Maj Malins was a veteran of both Burma and Dunkirk and he also won the Military Cross for leading a mission in French Indochina after the war had ended.
Mr Kerry's knowledge of French prompted scorn from the right-wing US press during his unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 2004, due to the souring of US-French ties over the war in Iraq.
French laws enacted after World War II ban the compilation of information about religious affiliation without permission.
He continued his war with the French over nuclear testing, again visiting Mururoa.
"Go back and read history of the Algerian war and the French, " Mr. Kerry told the German students in Berlin on Tuesday.
The French assumed that the next war would be fought in the same way as the last one but the German Wehrmacht had changed the rules.
Robin Hood and his merry men may have been a group of Kent archers who fought a guerrilla war during a French occupation, a historian has claimed.
Washington (CNN) -- A famous French painting stolen during World War I by the German Army was returned to the government of France by U.S. officials on Thursday.
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This intriguing book, written by a literature professor turned military historian, tells how the British and French convinced themselves during World War I that they were doing just fine on the battlefields.
Whereas Mr Stora's points of reference for the war are usually French and often cultural (he notes the blossoming of French cinema and the opening of the first supermarkets), Mr Wall's are international and geopolitical.
In it he reminds us that, between the mid-17th century and World War I, French was the universal language of diplomacy, culture and fashion and that an ability to read and speak it was essential to anyone claiming to be educated.
And it is interesting to speculate on what might have happened to his reputation if he had been given the interior ministry that he so coveted, and thus been responsible for the French police during the Algerian war or the events of 1968.
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