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    A Francophile is a person who has a strong affinity towards any or all of the French language, French history, French culture and/or French people. That...
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    Language portal Alliance Française AZERTY Français fondamental Francization Francophile Francophobia Francophonie French language in the United States French...
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    by the government) Headquarters Boulevard Baudin, Algiers, France Ideology Anti-independence French nationalism Francophile Colors Blue, white and red...
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    Afrancesado (Spanish: [afɾanθeˈsaðo], Portuguese: [ɐfɾɐ̃sɨˈzaðu]; "Francophile" or "turned-French", lit. "Frenchified" or "French-alike") refers to the...
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    (1922), as he himself was of Irish descent. The Kennedy family were Francophiles, and that the future president militated for the self-determination of...
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    down their Suez Canal base in 1954. Subsequently, the traditionally Francophile Adenauer drew closer to Paris. On 5–6 November 1956, he refused to cancel...
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    combination of exhaustion and frustration with one of the paper's co-owners. A Francophile, Dickens often holidayed in France and, in a speech delivered in Paris...
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  • simplicity, analogy or etymology." Other differences are due to the francophile tastes of the 19th century Victorian era Britain (for example they preferred...
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    obsessed with Googlewhacks when someone notified him that his site had one (Francophile Namesakes), and caused him to travel across the world finding people...
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  • the studio where Up Late with Miss Piggy is filmed. Besides being a Francophile, Big Mean Carl has a similar-looking sister named Big Mean Carla; she...
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    Pandemic". Billboard. Retrieved 31 July 2020. Marlowe, Lara (17 July 2013). "Francophile Bono receives honour from a grateful nation". The Irish Times. Retrieved...
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    intelligent young Egyptian who spoke and wrote fluent French. However, Kamil's Francophile rhetoric was calculated as he told Abbas Hilmis's secretary in a letter...
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    they wanted. Beyond that, Romania had traditionally been dominated by a Francophile elite, who preferred to speak French over Romanian in private and who...
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    late 18th-century writer, Jan Verlooy) which criticized the Southern Francophile elites. The efforts of this movement during the following 150 years,...
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    search of bodies to turn into slaves to meet the quotas. Otto Abetz, the Francophile German ambassador to Vichy, had warned that Sauckel was driving the maquis...
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    barbarian. In an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro, the Francophile Kipling called Germany a menace and called for an Anglo-French alliance...
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  • to Eurosceptics and Europhobes. Europe portal Eurocentrism Anglophile Francophile Germanophile Polonophile Afrocentrism Russophile "Europhile", English...
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    is usually pictured in France as a Francophobe, but he was really a Francophile. Having seen and admired the effective use of air power during the war...
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    Hammerstein's musical play Flower Drum Song. Early in 1960, Kelly, an ardent Francophile and fluent French speaker, was invited by A. M. Julien, the general administrator...
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    the Egyptian flag over the disputed fort at Fashoda. Kitchener was a Francophile who spoke fluent French, and despite his reputation for brusque rudeness...
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    conservatives and many clergymen. The Republicans, some of whom had been strong Francophiles, responded with support even through the Reign of Terror, when thousands...
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    old resting-places. In Madrid, the growing numbers of afrancesados (Francophiles) at court were opposed by the majos: shopkeepers, artisans, tavern keepers...
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    the French suggestion of Nguyen Ngoc Bich (a French-educated engineer, Francophile anticolonialist, a resistance hero in the First Indochina War, and medical...
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    most of his ministers led by Erhard supported Britain's application. A Francophile, Adenauer saw a Franco-German partnership as the key for European peace...
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    elite had been intensely Francophile ever since Romania had won its independence in the 19th century, indeed so Francophile that the defeat of France...
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    could return to Spain. The Spanish people, blaming the policies of the Francophiles (afrancesados) for causing the Napoleonic occupation and the Peninsular...
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  • Casavecchia created D'USSÉ. Pace, Gina. "What Is Bastille Day And How Can Francophiles Celebrate At Home?". Forbes. Limited, Bacardi. "D'Usse". {{cite web}}:...
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  • Rumours circulated that he was gay, but he always denied them. Hill was a Francophile and enjoyed visits to France, including to Marseille, where, until the...
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    Madagascar after the presumed imminent defeat of Britain. Ribbentrop, a Francophile, argued that Germany should allow Vichy France a limited degree of independence...
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    patriotic pride, Giorgi, the last Rector of the Republic and a loyal francophile, refused to do so "for the masses had hoisted it". Subsequent events...
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