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Officially the French Republic is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands
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Did 17th Cent. French Gentlemen Necessarily Use a Scabbard for Dress Swords?
A scabbard is paired with the sword it is supposed to encase, not with the belt to which it is attached.
Carrying a sword without a scabbard is not a very good idea (to put it mildly): not only it is …
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Did the USSR have a more positive relationship with France than other west european countrie...
Soviet Union tried to strike at the weak link of the Western Aliance - France. … France never forgave the humiliation of having been liberated - and France worked hard to show its independence from the British and Americans, culminating in leaving the NATO military organization - de …
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In which estate were the soldiers prior to the French revolution?
Remember that, unlike England with its primogeniture, in France the title was inherited by all sons, there there were plenty of petty nobles with no means of self-support besides their sword. …
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Why was France granted an equal status among victors of World War II?
The main reason for the status of France after the WW2 was Churchill's position. … The war contribution of France was mostly in denying Germany the use of the French navy. The rest (resistance, Normandie-Neimen &c) is easily balanced by the Vichy France collaboration. …
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Were any French aristocrats guillotined facing up?
New World Encyclopedia:
[in 19th century Germany]... victim being decapitated either face up or down
depending on how the executioner predicted they would react to the
sight of the machine
The stron …
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Was it viable to continue the battle of France in the French colonies in 1940?
Your family is either in the occupied part of France or in the Vichy zone; either way you put them in harms way and you will be branded a traitor, not a hero. … Churchill even offered to release France from the obligation not to make a separate peace (signed in March 1940) in exchange for the ships, or to create a Franco-British Union State. …
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Why didn't France and the UK invade Germany in September 1939?
Broadly speaking, there are two strategies in winning a war: "attrition" (starving the enemy into surrender) and "overwhelming" (defeating the enemy on the battlefield).
Both sides tried both strate …
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Did France & Italy continue to develop and manufacture sophisticated military hardware once ...
Citroën:
During the German occupation of France in World War II Boulanger
refused to meet Dr. Ferdinand Porsche or communicate with the German
authorities except through intermediaries. …
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