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France (name)
France is both a given name and a French, Czech or Slovene surname. In France, it may derive from an ethnic name for an inhabitant of the country; a variant is ''Lafrance''. In the Czech Republic, the surname may relate to the word ''Franc''. In Slovenia, ''France'' may derive from the personal name "France", a vernacular form of "Francišek", Latin ''Franciscus'' ("Francis"). It may also be an Americanized spelling of the German surname "Franz".. Male name In Slovenia, France is a male name, a variant of the name Franciscus. * France Adamič (1911–2014), Slovene agronomist * France Ahčin (1919–1989), Slovene sculptor * France Ačko (1904–1974), Slovene musician, organist and composer * France Balantič (1921–1943), Slovene poet * France Bevk (1890–1970), Slovene writer, poet and translator * France Bučar (1923–2015), Slovene politician, legal expert and author * France Cukjati (born 1943), Slovene politician, physician and theologist * France Dejak (1925–2003), Sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Given Name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. The idioms 'on a first-name basis' and 'being on first-name terms' refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or ''gentile name, gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France Bevk
France Bevk () (17 September 1890 – 17 September 1970) was a Slovene writer, poet and translator. He also wrote under the pseudonym Pavle Sedmak. Biography Bevk was born in the mountain village of Zakojca (Coizza during Italian rule, now part of the Municipality of Cerkno) in the County of Gorizia and Gradisca of what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now in Slovenia. He was the oldest of eight children born to the tenant farmer and shoemaker Ivan Bevk and his wife Katarina (née Čufer).Information display at the France Bevk home in Zakojca. Bevk attended school in Bukovo until 1904, and then in Kranj (1905), Koper (1908), and Gorizia (1909), and became a teacher in the Slovene Littoral. His first teaching position was in the village of Orehek. During the First World War he was a soldier on the Eastern Front and for a while at a military school in Hungary. After the war he worked for various newspapers in Ljubljana. In 1920 he moved to Gorizia dedicating himself to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France Gall
Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall (9 October 1947 – 7 January 2018), known professionally as France Gall, was a French ''yé-yé'' singer. In 1965, aged 17, she won the Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg. Between 1973 and 1992, she collaborated with singer-songwriter Michel Berger. Early years Gall was born in Paris on 9 October 1947, to a highly musical family. Her father, the lyricist Robert Gall, wrote songs for Édith Piaf and Charles Aznavour. Her mother, Cécile Berthier, was a singer as well and the daughter of Paul Berthier, the co-founder of Les Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois. The only daughter of her family, France had two brothers: Patrice and Philippe. In spring 1963, Robert Gall encouraged his daughter to record songs and send the demos to the music publisher Denis Bourgeois. That July, she auditioned for Bourgeois at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, after which Bourgeois wanted to sign her immediately. France was subsequently sig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France D'Amour
France D'Amour (born France Rochon on March 30, 1967, in Mont-Rolland, Sainte-Adèle, Quebec, Canada) is a French Canadian singer songwriter from Quebec. She studied music at Collège Lionel-Groulx in Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec specialising in jazz and playing guitar. Later, she was part of various musical formations, notably U-Bahn, The Answer and France. In 1992, she gained great fame with her debut album ''Animal'' that was certified gold in Quebec. In 2002, she had success in France as well through her collaboration with Jean-Jacques Goldman, who co-wrote the album with his team (Robert Goldman, Jacques Veneruso, Christophe Battaglia, Erick Benzi and Gildas Arzel). She has also appeared on stage and in film. In 1998, she played the role of Esmeralda in a French tour version of the musical comedy ''Notre-Dame-de-Paris''. She also appeared in a secondary role in the film ''Les Boys 3'' as well as in the film's soundtrack. France d'Amour has a son, François, born in 1988. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France A
France A, also known as France XV and France B in the past, was the former name of the second national rugby union team of France behind the French national side. In 2011 the French Rugby Federation designated the France U20 team as the second national side, and from the start of the 2017–18 season, the French Barbarians became the official second side, moving the role of the former France A team to the more prestigious invitational side with better name recognition. History France XV first played at the 1900 Summer Olympics, in Paris, when they defeated Germany by score of 27-17, in the first ever Olympic Rugby Union Tournament. They later would play often matches for the Mediterranean Games or would represent France at the FIRA Trophy. In 2009 they played in the IRB Nations Cup, against Italy A, Scotland A, Romania, Russia and Uruguay. The 2009 tournament was held in Romania. 2010 Churchill Cup Squad 26-man squad: * Florian Fritz was replaced by Romain Caba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Language
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French ( Francien) largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the ( Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French. French is an official language in 29 countries across multiple continents, most of which are members of the ''Organisation internationale de la Francophonie'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France Vodnik
France Vodnik (1903–1986) was a Slovenian literary critic, essayist, translator and poet from Ljubljana. He was mostly active in the interwar period, when Slovenia was part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He was the younger brother of the poet and critic Anton Vodnik. Vodnik completed philosophy studies at the University of Ljubljana. France Vodnik was one of the main exponent of Slovene Christian left intellectuals who gathered around the journal '' Križ na gori'' (Cross on the Mountain). Together with the poet and thinker Edvard Kocbek, Vodnik was one of the first Slovene Roman Catholic intellectuals to profess the Personalist philosophy. Vodnik emerged in the 1920s as a literary critic and columnist in the liberal conservative journal ''Dom in svet''. By the mid-1930s, he was considered one of the most influential Slovene critics, together with the left liberal Josip Vidmar and the Marxist Ivo Brnčić, with whom he frequently polemized. He was a strong supporter of Slovenian c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France Štiglic
France Štiglic ( 12 November 1919 – 4 May 1993) was a Slovenian film director and screenwriter. His 1948 film '' On Our Own Land'' was entered into the 1949 Cannes Film Festival. His film ''The Ninth Circle'' (1960) was Yugoslavia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 33rd Academy Awards, where it was shortlisted for the award. Selected filmography * '' On Our Own Land'' (''Na svoji zemlji'', 1948) * '' Valley of Peace'' (''Dolina miru'', 1956) * ''The Ninth Circle'' (''Deveti krug'', 1960) * ''Ballad About a Trumpet and a Cloud'' (''Balada o trobenti in oblaku'', 1961) * ''Don't Cry, Peter'' (''Ne joči, Peter'', 1964) * ''Amandus Amandus ( 584 – 679), commonly called Saint Amand, was a bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht and one of the great Christian missionaries of Flanders. He is venerated as a saint, particularly in France and Belgium. Life The chief source of details ...'' (1966) * ''Story of Good People'' (''Povest o dobr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France Staub
France Staub (September 29, 1920 – July 2, 2005) was a Mauritian ornithologist, herpetologist, botanist, and conservationist. Biography Staub was a descendant of French botanist Jacques Delisse (1773−1856). He obtained the diploma at the Mauritius College of Agriculture in 1944. In 1951 he attended the Guy's Hospital, Medical and Dental School in London where he was qualified as a dental surgeon. Back on Mauritius he devoted most of his free time to the observation of the birdlife and study of botany in the Mascarenes and the adjacent islands. He published the two books ''Birds of the Mascarenes and Saint Brandon'' (1976) and ''Fauna of Mauritius and Associated Flora'' (1993) about the avian fauna and several articles in the ''Proceedings of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius'' of which he was a member since 1955. He was seven times the president of this history society. By 1970 Staub was the chairman of the Mauritian Section of the International Council for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France Rode
France Rode (November 20, 1934 – June 7, 2017) was a Slovenian engineer and inventor best known for his work on the HP-35 pocket calculator.HP-35 He was one of the four lead engineers at Hewlett-Packard assigned to this project. Rode also invented and created the first workable RFID products: workplace entry cards, for which he held several patents. Early life France was born in Nožice, Slovenia on November 20, 1934 to farmers father Jože and mother Pepca, born Prešeren, as the oldest of four children. His younger sister Agata and brothers Marko and Aleš completed the family. France started elementary school education in nearby Homec soon after the German occupation of Slovenia during the Second World War. A few months into the first school year the local Partisans burned the school building and the children were prevented from attending formal schooling for the duration of the war. After the war, until the school in Homec was rebuilt, France’s class met in the local ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France Prešeren
France Prešeren () (2 or 3 December 1800 – 8 February 1849) was a 19th-century Romantic Slovene poet whose poems have been translated into many languages.Database of translations – Prešeren , Slovene Book Agency, 2013 He has been considered the greatest Slovene classical poet and has inspired later . He wrote the first Slovene and the first Slovene epic. After his death, he beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France Laux
J. Francis "France" Laux Jr. (December 3, 1897 – November 16, 1978) was an American sportscaster, notable as the first full-time radio voice of Major League Baseball in St. Louis. Biography Early life Laux was born in Guthrie, Oklahoma, the son of a local judge, J. Francis Laux Sr., and his wife. The nickname "France" came from schoolmates. Heavily involved in sports, Laux won 16 letters in baseball, basketball, and football in Oklahoma City and Bristow schools before entering Oklahoma City College. He served in the Army Air Service during World War I; after the war, his jobs included managing a semi-pro baseball team in Guthrie, Oklahoma. He also worked as an insurance and real estate broker in Bristow (a suburb of Tulsa), refereeing college football games part-time. On the eve of the 1927 World Series, KVOO station manager Fred Yates did not have anyone to recreate the games. Someone mentioned Laux' name. Yates found him and took him to the studio. Later in the year, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
