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By August 2011, French Wikipedia was the 7th most visited site in France, with nearly 16 million unique visitors a month (according to Médiamétrie). In April 2012, it had 20 million unique visitors per month, or 2.4 million per day [ 9 ] with over 700 million page views.
France, [a] officially the French Republic, [b] is a country located primarily in Western Europe.Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world.
France mandates the use of French in official government publications, public education except in specific cases, and legal contracts; advertisements must bear a translation of foreign words. In Belgium, French is an official language at the federal level along with Dutch and German.
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France dominated League of the Rhine fought against the Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Saint Gotthard in 1664. [35] France fought the War of Devolution against Spain in 1667. France's defeat of Spain and invasion of the Spanish Netherlands alarmed England and Sweden. With the Dutch Republic they formed the Triple Alliance to check Louis XIV's ...
The population of France is growing by 1,000,000 people every three years- an average annual increase of 340,000 people, or +0.6%. [7] France was historically Europe's most populous country. During the Middle Ages, more than one-quarter of Europe's total population was French; [8] by the seventeenth century, this had decreased slightly to one ...
French filmmaker Stéphane Brizé (second from the right) in Buenos Aires in 2019, at an event supported by Institut français d'Argentine. The Institut Français (French capitalization, Institut français; "French institute") is a French public industrial and commercial organization (EPIC).
Ralph Schor, Histoire de l'immigration en France de la fin du XIXe à nos jours, Paris, Armand Colin, 1996. Alexis Spire, Étrangers à la carte. L'administration de l'immigration en France, 1945-1975, Paris, Grasset, 2005. Benjamin Stora, Ils venaient d'Algérie: L'immigration algérienne en France (1912–1992), Paris, Fayard, 1992.