"largest party in the Assembly, it did not have an absolute majority. The RPR had an alliance with the UDF, which gave them a majority. Such a situation, where the President is forced to work with a Prime Minister who is an opponent, is called a cohabitation. Édith Cresson is the only woman to have held the position of Prime Minister. Aristide Briand holds the record for number of cabinet formations as Prime Minister with 11 times. He served between 1909 and 1929 with some terms as short as 26 days. According to article 21 of the Constitution, the Prime"
"English Canada, he was attacked by several columnists in the Quebec media like Lise Bissonnette and Alain Dubuc in late 1991 as a simpleton who spoke ""Joual"" (a working class Montrealais dialect of Quebec French) with a strong working class accent instead of the Parisian French favored by Quebec elites who saw his use of ""joual"" as a sign that he was an ""Uncle Tom"" to English Canada. In a column in ""Le Devoir"", Bissonnette called Chrétien a ""happy slave"" to the Anglos, a man whose inability to speak Parisian French and whose ""hard federalism"" proved he would always be"
"in ""Le Monde"", arguing that the opposition in Australia to French nuclear testing was strong, and large numbers of ANZAC soldiers who fell in France's defence in the First World War. Some authors in the French press replied by discussing Australia's own human rights record and its supposed ambitions to dominate the Pacific (one cartoon by Plantu portrayed an Australian wearing a very British bowler hat). Despite a large French contribution to the 1991 Iraq Gulf War (called Operation Daguet) and the French presence in Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom), the opposition of French President Jacques Chirac to the 2003 Iraq"
"the French exploited the land of Vietnam as inexhaustible and the Vietnamese people as beasts of burden. During the First Indochina War, (1946–1954) the French justified their colonial return of Vietnam as defense of the white West against the ""péril jaune"" – specifically the Communist Party of Vietnam, as puppets of Red China in the communist conspiracy to conquer the world. Hence, French orientalism defined the Asian Other as less than human, combined with anticommunism, which dehumanisation allowed atrocities against Viet Minh prisoners of war, during ""la sale guerre"", the dirty war against international communism. The Yellow Peril metaphors in"
"the fourth night of riots and announced that 17 companies of riot police (CRS) and seven mobile police squadrons (""escadrons de gendarmerie mobile"") would be stationed in contentious Paris neighborhoods. The families of the two dead youths, after refusing to meet with Sarkozy, met with Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin. Azouz Begag, delegate minister for the promotion of equal opportunity, criticized Sarkozy for the latter's use of ""imprecise, warlike semantics"", while Marie-George Buffet, secretary of the French Communist Party, criticized an ""unacceptable strategy of tension"" and ""the not less inexcusable definition of French youth as 'scum'"" (""racaille"", a term considered"
"million for a fighter aircraft that probably doesn't even have a motor, that has no attack or defence system in it. Did we buy kites? What did we buy?"" The French-language debate was held the next day, on 13 April 2011 and also prominently featured the F-35 purchase as an issue. Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff accused the Harper government of having ""forgotten people"" in the recovery from the Late 2000s recession and indicated that the Conservative government intends to spend billions on fighter jets, corporate tax cuts and new super-prisons, while ignoring regional economic development. Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe"
"train workers. 24,000 people had applied by November 1991. The prospect of a Disney park in France was a subject of debate and controversy. Critics, who included prominent French intellectuals, denounced what they considered to be the cultural imperialism of Euro Disney and felt it would encourage an unhealthy American type of consumerism in France. For others, Euro Disney became a symbol of America within France. On 28 June 1992, a group of French farmers blockaded Euro Disney in protest of farm policies supported at the time by the United States. A journalist at the centre-right French newspaper ""Le Figaro"""
"politics"". In June 2013, ""Minute"" again courted controversy with the front-page headline ""« Jeux de mains, jeux de vilains ! »"", referring to the death of Clément Méric, a far-left antifascist activist, in a brawl with a group of far-right skinheads. This saying is difficult to translate, but is something said to children who are being too rough along the lines of ""it'll all end in tears"" or ""hands are not for hitting"" but with a light-hearted, humorous tone. On 12 November 2013, ""Minute"" made its contribution to the ongoing series of racist insults aimed at French Guianan born Attorney-General"
"Admiral , was fired. Eventually Prime Minister Laurent Fabius admitted the bombing had been a French plot: on 22 September 1985, he summoned journalists to his office to read a 200-word statement in which he said: ""The truth is cruel,"" and acknowledged there had been a cover-up; he went on to say that ""Agents of the French secret service sank this boat. They were acting on orders."" In the wake of the bombing, a flotilla of private New Zealand yachts sailed to Moruroa to protest against a French nuclear test. At that time, French nuclear tests in the Pacific were"
"Le Grand Jury Le Grand Jury (""The Great Jury"") is a French political broadcast of RTL, the main generalist radio network in France. Since 1994, it is also broadcast on LCI, a TV news channel. It took place evening Sundays at 6.30. During one hour, a politician, an employer or a tade unionist is interviewed by journalists of RTL, LCI and of a newspaper. The partner of the broadcast was ""Le Monde"" then ""Le Figaro"" since 2005. In 1987, interviewed in ""Le Grand Jury"", the National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen said ""the holocaust is a detail of the history"
"Leonie Leblanc, a woman in her twenties, walked into a police station in Paris on 9 July 2004 claiming she had been the victim of an antisemitic attack on a suburban RER train. According to her account, six men of North African descent ripped her clothes, cut some of her hair and daubed a swastika on her stomach, knocking over the pram containing her baby. Fellow passengers did nothing to help. The case provoked national outrage for its virulent antisemitism; politicians and the media seized on the incident. President Jacques Chirac, condemned the ""shameful act"", while Israel's prime minister Ariel"
"French anti-communist media portrayed the Viet Minh as part of the ""innombrables masses jaunes"" (innumerable yellow hordes) and one of many ""vagues hurlantes"" (roaring waves) of ""masses fanatisées"" (fanatical hordes). In ""Behind the Bamboo Hedge: The Impact of Homeland Politics in the Parisian Vietnamese Community"" (1991), Gisèle Luce Bousquet, said that the ""péril jaune"", which traditionally colours French perceptions of Asians, especially of the Vietnamese, remains a cultural prejudice of contemporary France. Hence, the Vietnamese people in France are perceived and resented as academic overachievers who take jobs from ""native French"" people. In 2015, the front cover of the January"
"contre l'exploitation outrancière"""" in French. The government of France sent the Junior Minister of Overseas France Yves Jégo to Guadeloupe to negotiate with disgruntled employees and protesters. He proposed a deal to increase the salaries of 45,000 Guadeloupean workers by about $300. Jégo triggered much criticism among Guadeloupean strikers when he suddenly returned to Paris on Monday 9 February for a crisis meeting with French Prime Minister François Fillon. Jégo's departure for the meeting in Paris with Prime Minister Fillon and other ministers was denounced by union leaders as a sign of ""contempt"" for LKP and their supporters during a"
"headline about French-American relations over the Syrian Civil War. Jeremy Clarkson used it on a 4 June 2006 episode of ""Top Gear"", to describe the manufacturers of the Citroën C6. He had previously used it on ""Top Gear"" in June 2003, describing the handling of the Renault Clio V6. Later on in the television show, (Series 13, Episode 5) Clarkson describes the other French drivers as ""cheese-eating sideways monkeys"", referring to the fact that the other drivers were overtaking him whilst sliding sideways. Ned Sherrin selected it for inclusion in the ""Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations"", being introduced in the"
"with a car or ‘destroy his crops’. Two months later a video released in French contained virtually the same message, and a series of strange 'lone wolf' attacks followed on three consecutive days, the perpetrators declaring “'God is Great' in Arabic. Three policemen were stabbed in Joué-lès-Tours, and vehicles were used to run over eleven pedestrians in Dijon and ten in Nantes."" Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet announced an investigation into the Nantes attack, saying ""I wouldn't say it was a terrorist attack. I would call it a deliberate act"". François Hollande, the President of France, ordered an emergency cabinet"
"and angry Scot Jock McBile (Morgan), self-righteous movie critic Gilbert Smythe Bite-Me (Abbott), and chain-smoking bingo player Brenda (Goy). Though these characters would occasionally feature in skits of their own, usually they were used at the beginning of the show to deliver a stream of one liner jokes commentating on the news of that week. The show also featured frequent skits with politicians, who were portrayed as various extreme caricatures of their most infamous personality quirks. Notable re-occurring figures included Prime Minister Jean Chrétien (Abbott), who could barely speak a single sentence of English without committing at least a dozen"
"government, Hagopian's group disregarded the losses of unintended victims and regularly executed dissenting members. Afterwards, French forces promptly arrested those involved. Moreover, this attack eliminated the suspected secret agreement that the French socialist government made with ASALA, in which the government would allow ASALA to use France as a base of operations in exchange for refraining from launching attacks on French soil. Belief in this suspected agreement was further bolstered after ""Interior Minister Gaston Defferre called [ASALA's] cause ""just"", and four Armenians arrested for taking hostages at the Turkish Embassy in September 1981 were given light sentences."" Continuous attacks by"
"members of the neo-Nazi French and European Nationalist Party (PFNE) were arrested for the bombings, which had been intended to provoke tensions between Arabs and Jews in France. They were also suspected of another bombing attack in Paris against the offices of the ""Le Globe"" newspaper on 31 July 1988. Four police officers from the ""Fédération professionnelle indépendante de la police"" (FPIP) union, Patrick Reynes, Daniel Lenoir, Philippe Caplain and Daniel Sirizzotti, were also charged with criminal conspiracy in 1990. They were also thought to have been members of the PNFE. In 1991, Nicolas Gouge was sentenced to 18 years"
"sentiment returned to the fore in the wake of France's refusal to support US proposals in the UN Security Council for military action to invade Iraq. While other nations also opposed the US proposals (notably Russia; China; and traditional US allies, such as Germany, Canada, and Belgium), France received particularly ferocious criticism. In 1990s popular culture, the derogatory phrase ""cheese-eating surrender monkeys"" began as a joke on ""The Simpsons"" in 1995, used by Groundskeeper Willie's character in a satirical manner. ""National Review"" contributor Jonah Goldberg claimed credit for making the term known, with its implicit characterization of the French as"
"executions of many people, hours of torture of prisoners, and violent strike-breaking. Aussaresses was quite candid in his interview in ""Le Monde"" forty years later (May 3, 2001): Concerning the use of torture, it was tolerated, if not recommended. François Mitterrand, the Minister for Justice, had, indeed, an emissary with Massu in judge Jean Bérard, who covered for us and who had complete knowledge of what went on in the night. Aussaresses justified the use of torture by saying how shocked he was by the FLN's massacre at the El Halia mine. He suggested that torture was a small but"
"about France: ""I have… this great misfortune of harboring the most absolute contempt and the most outspoken hatred for that part of Europe where I was born. It does not suit me to see a people once so great henceforth lying on the ground, decomposing"". Throughout ""Les Pléiades"", ordinary people are described variously as ""fools"", ""scoundrels"" and ""brutes"" whom Gobineau likens to animals. Another one of Gobineau's literacy works was his ""Nouvelles Asiatiques"" of 1876, which concerned the impact of miscegenation in modern Asia as reflected in the life stories of a diverse group of people. ""Nouvelles Asiatiques"" is unique"
"April at an undisclosed location. The French Prime Minister Manuel Valls called the attack ""an unacceptable insult to freedom of information and expression"". His cabinet colleague, the Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve attempted to allay public concern by stating that France ""had already increased its anti-hacking measures to protect against cyber-attacks"" following the aforementioned terrorist attacks on January earlier that year, which had left a total of 20 people dead. French investigators later discounted the theory that the attack was connected to ISIL, instead suspecting the APT28 or ""Pawn Storm"", a hacking group with alleged links to the Russian government. Investigators"
"France, China, Vietnam, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and Zimbabwe. He was skeptical of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment and encouraged Canada to withdraw from negotiations around the accord in October 1998. In late November 1996, Simard criticized Charles Aznavour after the well-known troubadour sang some of his best-known songs in English during a concert in Ottawa. The minister was quoted as saying, ""Charles Aznavour is a French singer and when he comes here he should sing in French. It shows a complete ignorance of the reality and sensibilities of Quebec society — it's a provocation."" Simard was re-elected"
"targeting Balladur. Chirac won the 1995 presidential election. In November 1995, his Prime Minister Alain Juppé, ""the best among us"" according to Chirac, announced a plan of Welfare-State reforms which sparked wide social conflict. President Chirac dissolved the National Assembly and lost the 1997 legislative election. He was forced to cohabit with a left-wing cabinet led by Lionel Jospin until 2002. Séguin succeeded Juppé as RPR leader. But, he criticized the ascendancy of President Chirac over the party. He resigned during the 1999 European election campaign, while Pasqua presented a dissident list to advocate the Gaullist idea of a ""Europe"
"bomb exploded, and was uninjured. ASALA claimed responsibility for the attack. French Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy came to the airport and condemned the attack, promising to find and punish the perpetrators. Later he visited the hospital where the most seriously injured were being treated. French President François Mitterrand visited some of the hospitalized victims and condemned the attack, calling it a ""crime for crime's sake"". The Orly bombing came only five days before the second Armenian World Congress was due to open at Lausanne. Shortly after the Orly blast, the French police arrested 51 suspected ASALA militants. According to the"
"his country was at war with terrorism, but not at war with Islam or Muslims. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said, ""The terrorists' religion is not Islam, which they are betraying. It's barbarity."" The attack received immediate condemnation from dozens of governments worldwide. International leaders including Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, Stephen Harper, Narendra Modi, Benjamin Netanyahu, Angela Merkel, Matteo Renzi, David Cameron, Mark Rutte and Tony Abbott offered statements of condolence and outrage. Some English-language media outlets republished the cartoons on their websites in the hours following the shootings. Prominent examples included Bloomberg News, ""The Huffington Post"", ""The Daily Beast"","
"uniforms. During the Occupation, the French applied nicknames to the Germans that often used the word ""vert"", calling the Germans ""haricots verts"" (green beans), ""sauterelles verts"" (green locusts), and ""race verte"" (green race). In France during the occupation, the color green was indelibly associated with the Germans. For the French people, the defeat of June 1940 came as a very profound shock, something that they could never imagine would actually happen. The experience of the Occupation was a deeply psychologically disorienting one for the French as what was once familiar and safe become strange and threatening. Many Parisians could not"
"prime minister. The symbol of a ""modern"" French socialism, he was weakened by the ""Infected blood scandal"". His government was accused of having knowingly let doctors give haemophiliacs transfusions of blood infected by HIV. A judicial process similar to impeachment acquitted him of all personal moral responsibility in the matter. After the sinking of the ""Rainbow Warrior"", a Greenpeace ship, on 10 July 1985, Prime Minister Fabius summoned journalists to his office on 22 September 1985 to read a 200-word statement in which he said: ""The truth is cruel,"" and acknowledged that ""Agents of the French secret service sank this"
"the six other leaders were sentenced to death and executed by firing squad at Fort Mont Valérien, in the western suburbs of the city, on February 22, 1942. Most of the resistance by ordinary Parisians was symbolic: encouraged by the BBC, students scribbled the letter V for ""Victory"" on walls, blackboards, tables, and on the side of cars. The Germans tried to co-opt the 'V' campaign, placing huge Vs. symbolizing their own victories, on the Eiffel Tower and the National Assembly, but with little effect. From the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact in August 1939, until June 1941, the Communists"
"severely beaten by French commandos in 1973), made international news and heralded an invigorated protest movement from New Zealand and Australia which eventually forced the French to cease nuclear testing in the Pacific in 1996. The French Military conducted more than 200 nuclear tests at Mururoa and Fangataufa atolls over a thirty-year period, 40 of them atmospheric. Greenpeace continued an unrelenting protest offensive in French Polynesia up until 1996. According to French journalist Luis Gonzales-Mata in Actual magazine 1976, large numbers of Polynesians had been secretly sent on military flights to Paris for treatment for cancer. Tahitian activist Charlie Ching"
"of famous; he was big and black; most important, he was an American, one of us, not some cheese-eating, surrender specialist Froggie."" In the anime/manga webseries """", in an episode, England angrily referred to France as ""You Cheese-eating surrender monkey!"", only in the English dub. Cheese-eating surrender monkeys ""Cheese-eating surrender monkeys"", sometimes shortened to ""surrender monkeys"", is a pejorative term for French people. It was coined in 1995 by Ken Keeler, a writer for the television series ""The Simpsons"", and has entered two Oxford quotation dictionaries. The term ""cheese-eating surrender monkeys"" first appeared in 'Round Springfield"", an episode from April"
"(STO), ""Obligatory Work Service"". The attitude of the Parisians toward the occupiers varied greatly. Some saw the Germans as an easy source of money; others, as the Prefect of the Seine, Roger Langeron (arrested on 23 June 1940), commented, ""looked at them as if they were invisible or transparent."" The attitude of members of the French Communist Party was more complicated; the Party had long denounced Nazism and Fascism, but after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact on 23 August 1939, had to reverse direction. The editors of the Communist Party newspaper, ""L'Humanité"", which had been closed down by the"
"break my heart.’"" Frank Gervasi, Collier's Weekly: ""He went round Italy speaking fluent Italian to bootblacks and waiters who abound in southern Italy, asking them about Fascism. (He said:) ‘You can keep your Mussolinis and your Grand Fascist Council. These are the guys that have to make a go of things. You’ve got to get down to earth.'"" Robert Dunnett, BBC: ""Has red hair, a melancholy face with kindly eyes. He’s rather short. You just can’t help loving the man. His heart is the size of a giant’s and there’s no one in Algiers he hasn’t done a kind turn"