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1847 In France
Events from the year 1847 in France. Incumbents * Monarch – Louis Philippe I Events *15 April - Bombardment of Tourane: French vessels dispatched by Admiral Cécille bombard Tourane (Da Nang in Vietnam) in response to the persecution of Roman Catholic missionaries. *21 December - Emir Abdelkader surrenders in Algeria and is imprisoned in France. *Jeweler Cartier established in Paris. Births *15 January - Camille Doncieux, first wife of Claude Monet (died 1879) *23 March - Victor Besaucèle, ornithologist (d. 1924) *25 March - Fernand Lataste, zoologist (died 1934) *31 May - Jules Bourgeois, entomologist (died 1911) *16 June - Paul Alexis, novelist, dramatist and journalist (died 1901) *29 June - Charles Gide, economist and historian of economic thought (died 1932) *1 July - Eugène Boullet, entomologist (died 1923) *14 July - Noël Ballay, explorer, colonial administrator and poet (died 1902) *22 July - Jean-Baptiste Bienvenu-Martin, Socialist leader and Minister (died 1 ...
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France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its Metropolitan France, metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas 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. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin (island), ...
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1911 In France
Events from the year 1911 in France. Incumbents *President of France, President: Armand Fallières *Prime Minister of France, President of the Council of Ministers: ** until 2 March: Aristide Briand ** 2 March-27 June: Ernest Monis ** starting 27 June: Joseph Caillaux Events *1 July – Agadir Crisis. *22 August – Theft of ''Mona Lisa'' discovered in The Louvre. (Vincenzo Peruggia is arrested and the painting returned 1913.) *25 September – French battleship French battleship Liberté, ''Liberté'' explodes at anchor in Toulon. *20 December – First robbery of the Bonnot gang. *Champagne Riots. Births January to June *5 January – Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor (died 2001) *15 January – Jean Talairach, neurosurgery, neurosurgeon (died 2007) *16 January – Roger Lapébie, cyclist, won the 1937 Tour de France (died 1996) *17 January – André-Georges Haudricourt, anthropologist and linguistics, linguist (died 1996) *18 January – Charles Delaunay, author, jazz expert, co- ...
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1943 In France
Events from the year 1943 in France. Incumbents *Chief of State: Philippe Pétain * Vice-president of the Council of Ministers: Pierre Laval Events *15 January – Fernand Grenier broadcasts on Radio Londres offering Communist support for Free France. *22 January – Round up of Marseille, organized by Nazi Germany, begins: French police carry out a raid in the Old Port to arrest Jews. *24 January – Round up of Marseille ends with 30,000 people expelled from their neighborhood and 2,000 Jews eventually sent to the extermination camps. *9 February – Rue Sainte-Catherine Roundup: The Gestapo, directed by Klaus Barbie, arrest 86 Jews in Lyon. *21 May – Riom Trial ends, attempt by Vichy France regime to prove that the leaders of the French Third Republic had been responsible for France's defeat by Germany in 1940. *21 June – Resistance leaders Jean Moulin, Henri Aubry (alias Avricourt and Thomas), Raymond Aubrac, Bruno Larat (alias Xavier-Laurent Parisot), André Lassagn ...
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Socialism
Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership. As a term, it describes the economic, political and social theories and movements associated with the implementation of such systems. Social ownership can be state/public, community, collective, cooperative, or employee. While no single definition encapsulates the many types of socialism, social ownership is the one common element. Different types of socialism vary based on the role of markets and planning in resource allocation, on the structure of management in organizations, and from below or from above approaches, with some socialists favouring a party, state, or technocratic-driven approach. Socialists disagree on whether government, particularly existing government, is the correct vehicle for change. Socialist systems are divided into non-market and market f ...
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Jean-Baptiste Bienvenu-Martin
Jean-Baptiste Bienvenu Martin (22 July 1847 – 10 December 1943) was a French Radical leader and cabinet officer. He was born at Saint-Bris-le-Vineux (Yonne), and was educated in the law. Career He held an under prefecture, entered the Council of State, and in 1894 became director under the Minister of the Colonies. He was an unsuccessful senatorial candidate for Yonne in 1897, was elected deputy for Auxerre in that year, was reelected in 1898 and 1902, and in 1905 became Senator for Yonne. In the Chamber he supported the Waldeck-Rousseau and the Combes ministries, and advocated the separation of church and state. In 1904 he organized the new Radical group of the Left. In 1905-06 he held the portfolio of Public Instruction in the Rouvier cabinet; he was Minister of Justice in the Doumergue cabinet in 1913–14, and in the first cabinet organized by René Viviani in June, 1914; and when the War in Europe broke out in 1914, he became Minister of Labor Minister of ...
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1902 In France
Events from the year 1902 in France. Incumbents *President: Émile Loubet *President of the Council of Ministers: Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau (until 3 June), Emile Combes (starting 7 June) Events *13 April – A new car speed record of 74 mph is set in Nice, by Leon Serpollet. *27 April – Legislative Election held. *11 May – Legislative Election held. Arts and literature *January - Alfred Loisy writes '' L'évangile et l'Eglise'', which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis. *George Melies performs play Voyage to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune) Births January–June *11 January – Maurice Duruflé, composer and organist (died 1986) *13 January – Raymond Ruyer, philosopher (died 1987) *18 January – Émile Aillaud, architect (died 1988) *25 January – André Beaufre, colonel (died 1975) *29 January – Arlette Marchal, actress (died 1984) *8 February – André Gillois, writer and radio pioneer (died 2004) *26 February – Jean Bruller, writer and illustrator (died 199 ...
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Noël Ballay
Dr. Noël Eugène Ballay (14 July 1847 – 26 January 1902) was a French auxiliary doctor of the French navy, and a poet. He was an explorer and colonial administrator, the second Governor-General of French West Africa. Early years Noël Ballay was born at Fontenay-sur-Eure on 14 July 1847, the younger son of a farm worker. He attended church schools at Bonneval and then Chartres, then a lay college, graduating as a bachelor in letters in 1864 and in science in 1865. He then became a student at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris. During the 1870 Franco-Prussian War he enlisted in the National Guard of Eure-et-Loir, where he was promoted to sergeant major, fought at Fréteval and later fought for the Paris Commune. After peace was restored he returned to the Faculty of Medicine, and in 1871 started a course as an extern of the Paris hospitals, serving in the Hôpital de la Charité in 1872, the Hôpital Beaujon in 1873 and in St-Antoine with Dr Duplay in 1874. The French at that ...
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1923 In France
Events from the year 1923 in France. Incumbents *President: Alexandre Millerand *President of the Council of Ministers: Raymond Poincare Events *11 January – Occupation of the Ruhr begins by French and Belgian troops to force Germany to pay its reparation payments. *September – Resultant strikes called off by German government and followed by a state of emergency. *October – Rhenish Republic is proclaimed at Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle). Arts and literature *March – ''Antigone'' by Jean Cocteau appears on a Paris stage. Settings by Pablo Picasso, music by Arthur Honegger, and costumes by Gabrielle Chanel. Antonin Artaud played the part of Tiresias. Sport *26 May – The inaugural 24 hours of Le Mans race is won by André Lagache and René Léonard. *24 June – Tour de France begins. *22 July – Tour de France ends, won by Henri Pélissier. Births January to June *7 January – Jean Lucienbonnet, motor racing driver (died 1962) *13 February – Philippe de Chéri ...
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Eugène Boullet
Eug̬ne Anatole Auguste Victor Boullet (1 July 1847, in Acheux Р1923) was a French naturalist, entomologist and collector. With Jules Paul Mabille he described many new species of Neotropical Hesperiidae. He also wrote ''Catalogue de la collection de L̩pidopt̬res du Mus̩um national d'histoire naturelle de Paris''. I, Famille Papilionidae (1921) in collaboration with Ferdinand Le Cerf. He was a wealthy banker in Corbie. The collaboration with Le Cerf an entomologist at Mus̩um national d'histoire naturelle began in 1905 "Around 1905, a man who did much for the Museum and was one of its first "associates", M. E. Boullet, banker at Corbie, decided to give to our institution his collection of Lepidoptera, offering in addition to helping with its inclusion in ours. Which one to choose? There was no competition. The Hesperidae, family for which there was, in Paris, a specialist in that order Mabille. With the approval of M. Bouvier, we sat down to agree on a work plan. ...
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1932 In France
Events from the year 1932 in France. Incumbents *President: Paul Doumer (until 7 May), Albert Lebrun (starting 10 May) *President of the Council of Ministers: ** until 20 February: Pierre Laval ** 20 February-3 June: Édouard Daladier ** 3 June-26 November: Édouard Herriot ** starting 26 November: Joseph Paul-Boncour Events * 1 May - Legislative Election held. * 6 May - Paul Gorguloff assassinates President Paul Doumer in Paris. Doumer dies the next day. * 8 May - Legislative Election held. * 10 May - Albert Lebrun becomes the new President of France. * 7 July - French submarine ''Prométhée'' sinks off Cherbourg - 66 dead. * Aperitif Ricard first produced by Paul Ricard in Marseille. Arts and literature * 14 January - Maurice Ravel's '' Concerto in G'' debuts with piano soloist Marguerite Long and Ravel conducting the Lamoureux Orchestra. Sport * 6 July - Tour de France begins. * 31 July - Tour de France ends, won by André Leducq. Births January to June * 31 January â ...
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History Of Economic Thought
History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of these events. Historians seek knowledge of the past using historical sources such as written documents, oral accounts, art and material artifacts, and ecological markers. History is not complete and still has debatable mysteries. History is also an Discipline (academia), academic discipline which uses narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect. Historians often debate which narrative best explains an event, as well as the significance of different causes and effects. Historians also debate the historiography, nature of history as an end in ...
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Economics
Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of Agent (economics), economic agents and how economy, economies work. Microeconomics analyzes what's viewed as basic elements in the economy, including individual agents and market (economics), markets, their interactions, and the outcomes of interactions. Individual agents may include, for example, households, firms, buyers, and sellers. Macroeconomics analyzes the economy as a system where production, consumption, saving, and investment interact, and factors affecting it: employment of the resources of labour, capital, and land, currency inflation, economic growth, and public policies that have impact on glossary of economics, these elements. Other broad distinctions within economics include those between positive economics, desc ...
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