• 26 April 1961 in the midst of the Algerian War (1954–1962). The organisers of the putsch were opposed to the secret negotiations that French Prime Minister...
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  • massacre of 1961 (also called the 17 October 1961 massacre in France) was the mass killing of Algerians who were living in Paris by the French National Police...
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    original on 21 June 2010. "L'énergie nucléaire en France" [Nuclear energy in France]. La France en Chine (in French). 7 January 2008. Archived from the original...
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    southern France, about 30 km (20 mi) north of Marseille. A former capital of Provence, it is the subprefecture of the arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence...
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    A referendum on self-determination for Algeria was held in France on 8 January 1961.: 674  Self-determination was approved by 75% of voters overall and...
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    In chess, en passant (French: [ɑ̃ pasɑ̃], lit. "in passing") describes the capture by a pawn of an enemy pawn on the same rank and an adjacent file that...
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  • of the detonation of a nitrocellulose explosive device. 15 June 1961 A Boeing 707 en route from Paris to Lima caught fire while landing at Lisbon Portela...
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    created as the "District of the Paris Region" in 1961. In 1976, when its status was aligned with the French administrative regions created in 1972, it was...
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  • Mise-en-scène (French: [mi.z‿ɑ̃.sɛn]; English: "placing on stage" or "what is put into the scene") is the stage design and arrangement of actors in scenes...
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    France (Italian: Occupazione italiana della Francia meridionale; French: Zone d'occupation italienne en France) was an area of south-eastern France and...
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  • strikes in France, a series of insurrectional strikes 1958: May 1958 crisis in France 1961: Algiers putsch of 1961 1968: May 1968 events in France, a volatile...
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    The 1961 Tour de France was the 48th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It took place between 25 June and 16 July, with 21 stages...
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    The Kingdom of France is the historiographical name or umbrella term given to various political entities of France in the medieval and early modern period...
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    en France des descendants des Sarrasins, notamment dans toute la région du sud de la Loire, dans les monts d'Auvergne, en Guyenne, en Languedoc et en...
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    Eurovision Song Contest 1961 was the 6th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. Once again, the contest was held in the French seaside city of Cannes...
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    Overseas France (French: France d'outre-mer, also France ultramarine) consists of 13 French-administered territories outside Europe, mostly the remains...
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    outside Fort-de-France and is accessible via the A1 autoroute. Manon Tardon (1913-1989), Resistance fighter Frantz Fanon (1925-1961), psychiatrist, political...
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  • a list of wars involving modern France from the abolition of the French monarchy and the establishment of the French First Republic on 21 September 1792...
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    en France, une construction spatiale. "type 1". Les types de climats en France, une construction spatiale. "type 2". Les types de climats en France,...
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    France  – France Diplomacy Foreigners - Immigrants, INSEE Les immigrés en France, Autorité de la statistique publique, 2011 Focus-Migration: France 2005...
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    died, 54 of them French citizens. Pech, Marie-Estelle (7 January 2015). "L'attentat le plus meurtrier depuis Vitry-Le-François en 1961". Le Figaro. Retrieved...
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    Politics of France President of France renamed from La République En Marche! in September 2022 List on the website of the French Prime Minister (in French)...
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    1982, 1983, 1985, 2017–18 Tahiti Cup: Winners (18): 1950, 1953, 1954, 1957, 1961, 1962, 1966, 1967, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1988,...
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    records (in French). Meteo France. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2018. Retrieved 13 July 2022. "Normes et records 1961–1990: Paris-Montsouris...
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    Annie Fargé (category Belgian emigrants to France)
    2011) was a French actress who worked for a few years on U.S. television and was named "most promising new star in a situation comedy" in 1961 when she played...
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    Vitry-Le-François en 1961". Le Figaro. Archived from the original on 2015-01-09. Retrieved 7 January 2015. Mulholland, Rory (21 December 2014). "French knife attacker...
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    Aisne (category 1790 establishments in France)
    (/eɪn/ ayn, US also /ɛn/ en; French: [ɛːn] ; Picard: Ainne) is a French department in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France. It is named after the...
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    Marseille (redirect from Marseille, France)
    2020 census, the third most populated in France after those of Paris and Lyon. The cities of Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, and 90 suburban municipalities...
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    Trappes (redirect from Trappes, France)
    "Normes et records 1961-1990: Trappes (78) - altitude 167m" (in French). Infoclimat. Retrieved January 5, 2016. "Les jumelages" (in French). Trappes. Retrieved...
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    Intersnack France, potato chips (Vico brand), Vic-sur-Aisne (Aisne) plant, taken over in 1998. Nestlé, (Mousline brand), plant at Rosières-en-Santerre (Somme)...
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