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France

République française

French Republic

Francia

Frankreich

Frankrijk

França

FRA

FR

ISO250

FR00

French

Gallia

Gaul

Gaule

Place Type
nation
Description
Area inhabited by Lower Paleolithic; Celt-speaking Gauls dominated by 5th century BCE; part of Roman Empire 125 BCE-5th century, then under Frankish influence; lost land to England 12th-16th centuries; monarchy fell in Revolution 1792; recurring expansion 16-19th centuries; official language is French, though Provençal, Breton, Flemish, Catalan, Corsican, Basque, and Germanic regional patois are also spoken.
Authority
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
Britannica Book of the Year (1991); Britannica Book of the Year (1993); Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990); Canby, Historic Places (1984); Cassell's German Dictionary (1982); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Engels Woordenboek (1987); ISO Country Codes (1996); ISO Handbook (1988); NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998); NIMA, GNS ADM1 Codes (1999); Novo Dicionário Aurélio (1975); Times Atlas of World History (1993); Times Atlas of the World (1990)...

Born

Ferdinand Kulmer (Croatian, 1925-1998)

Active

Mark di Suvero (American, born China, active United States and France, born 1933)

Dobashi Jun’ichi (Japanese, active France, 1910-1975)

Shiou-Ping Liao (Taiwanese, born 1936)

Frederic Littman (American, born Hungary, 1907-1979)

Gregory Masurovsky (American, active France, 1929-2009)

Yokoi Tomoe (Japanese, born 1942)

Died

Théo Van Rysselberghe (Belgian, 1862-1926)

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