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September 20, 2026 marks 234 years since the Battle of Valmy, in Champagne. French armies under Charles-François Dumouriez and François-Christophe Kel...
On 20 September 1946 Cannes opened the first fully held edition of its international film festival. An edition had been prepared in 1939 as an alterna...
On 19 September 1783, in the forecourt of the Palace of Versailles, Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier sent aloft a hot-air balloon carryin...
On 19 September 1846, in the mountain pastures above the village of La Salette-Fallavaux in the French Alps, two children tending cattle — eleven-year...
On 19 September 1870, Prussian armies and troops from allied German states closed the roads and railways into Paris. The siege lasted until the capitu...
On 19 September 1356, south of Poitiers, the Anglo-Gascon army led by Edward of Woodstock defeated the forces of King John II of France. The date rema...
Adrien-Marie Legendre was born in Paris on 18 September 1752. At 274 years from his birth, his name remains attached to polynomials, an early form of...
18 September 2026 marks 45 years since the French National Assembly voted to approve the bill abolishing the death penalty. François Mitterrand had p...
French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu said in an interview with Le Figaro that the draft 2027 budget will contain an “effort” of about €54 billion....
EDF intends to develop ten small modular nuclear reactors in Europe by 2035, senior vice-president Vakisasai Ramany said on Friday at an event hosted...
President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday, after a meeting at the Élysée with party leaders, that G7 countries would hold a gathering in the coming wee...
18 September 2026 marks 207 years since the birth of French physicist Jean-Bernard-Léon Foucault, known for the experiment that makes Earth’s rotation...
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