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Fran Walsh
Fran Walsh (Frances Rosemary Walsh), New Zealand screenwriter, producer, and lyricist; Peter Jackson's partner and co-writer since Meet the Feebles; three 2004 Oscars for The Return of the King; Dame CNZM 2019.
Franc
The franc is a currency name from a 1360 French gold coin, now the official currency of 25 states, mostly in Africa and the Pacific.
Franc Meyer
Franc Meyer (born 1965 in Hamburg) is a German inorganic chemist, Full Professor at the University of Göttingen since 2001, who studies biomimetic coordination chemistry.
Franca
Franca is a municipality in northeastern São Paulo state, Brazil, founded in 1805 and named for governor Antônio José da Franca e Horta; it is Brazil's 'Capital Nacional do Calçado Masculino', a major footwear and leather hub with about 366,500 residents (2026 estimate).
Franca Sozzani
Franca Sozzani (1950–2016), Italian editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia from 1988, sister of Carla Sozzani of 10 Corso Como; known for controversial themed issues, the July 2008 Black Issue, and her Steven Meisel partnership.
Françafrique
Françafrique is a French term for France's political, economic, and military relationships with its former sub-Saharan African colonies, now used mostly as a critique of neo-colonialism.
France
France (République française), a semi-presidential republic under the 1958 Constitution, EU founding member and euro-area economy of 69.1 million people; nuclear-powered electricity grid, high public debt, and overseas territories spanning all oceans.
France 2
France 2 is the generalist national TV channel of France Télévisions, TNT channel 2; formerly the second channel (1964) and Antenne 2 (1975–1992). Known for its 20 heures news (3.8M viewers) and Tour de France coverage.
France 24
France 24 is France's state-owned 24/7 international news TV channel, launched 6 December 2006 under Jacques Chirac, broadcasting in French, English, Arabic, and Spanish via France Médias Monde, reaching 574 million households and leading audiences in French-speaking Africa.
France A. Córdova
France A. Córdova is an American astrophysicist known for discovering soft X-ray pulsations from cataclysmic variable stars, who led the National Science Foundation from 2014 to 2020.
France and England in North America
France and England in North America is a seven-volume history of the European colonization of North America by Francis Parkman, published in Boston between 1865 and 1892.
France and NATO
France and NATO: France, a 1949 founding member, left NATO's integrated military command in 1966 under de Gaulle and rejoined in 2009, keeping an independent nuclear deterrent outside the Nuclear Planning Group while contributing forces, funds, and commands.
France and the Rwandan genocide
France and the Rwandan genocide: France's military and political support for the Habyarimana regime (1975 Franco-Rwandan agreement, 1990-1994 arms transfers), Operations Amaryllis and Turquoise in 1994, and the Duclert Commission's finding of heavy responsibility.
France and weapons of mass destruction
France, sometimes called French nuclear weapons, is one of nine nuclear-weapon states with an estimated 290 warheads, built through 210 tests from 1960 to 1996.
France Antarctique
France Antarctique was a short-lived French colony founded by Nicolas Durand de Villegagnon in 1555 at Guanabara Bay, present-day Rio de Janeiro, and destroyed by the Portuguese by 1567.
France at the 2028 Summer Olympics
France at the 2028 Summer Olympics (LA28, 14–30 July 2028): planned French participation in Los Angeles, covering qualification systems, the 351-event program, new sports, and the Paris 2024 baseline of 64 medals.
France at the FIFA World Cup
France at the FIFA World Cup: Les Bleus' record in the men's tournament, two-time champions (1998, 2018), four-time finalists, 17th campaign at 2026, Deschamps' final tournament.
France at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships
France is the most successful nation in the history of the UCI Track Cycling World Championships, with 408 medals, including 145 gold, since the championships began in 1893.
France Gall
France Gall (Isabelle Gall, 1947-2018), French yé-yé pop singer who won Eurovision 1965 for Luxembourg with Gainsbourg's Poupée de cire, poupée de son, later the muse of Michel Berger; not the Eurovision venue or other Gall namesakes.
France in the American Revolutionary War
France in the American Revolutionary War: the 1778 Treaty of Alliance, Vergennes, Rochambeau, de Grasse, Yorktown, and the 1.6 billion livres of debt that helped trigger the French Revolution.
France in the long nineteenth century
France in the long nineteenth century (1815-1914): successive regimes from Bourbon Restoration to Third Republic, industrialization under the Second Empire, the 1870 defeat by Prussia, and republican consolidation.
France in the Middle Ages
France in the Middle Ages: Frankish, Carolingian and Capetian kingdoms from Clovis (d. 511) and Hugh Capet (987) to 1328; baillis and seneschals, Champagne fairs, seigneurial warfare, and rural society.
France men's national basketball team
France men's national basketball team (Les Bleus), FFBB-governed FIBA team. Four Olympic silvers (1948, 2000, 2020, 2024), EuroBasket 2013 champions, 40 EuroBasket appearances, World Cup bronze 2014 and 2019, coached by Frédéric Fauthoux with captain Victor Wembanyama.
France national football team
France national football team (Les Bleus), FFF-governed men's team; two-time World Cup winner (1998, 2018), Euro 1984/2000 champion; Deschamps era ended 2026 with fourth place, succeeded by Zidane.
France national rugby union team
France national rugby union team (Les Bleus, XV de France), men's team run by the FFR; first test 1906 vs New Zealand, Five Nations member since 1910, Grand Slams 2002, 2004, 2010, 2022, 2025 Six Nations champions.
France national under-21 football team
France national under-21 football team (Équipe de France Espoirs, Les Bleuets), FFF-run U21 side; won the 1988 UEFA U21 EURO, runners-up 2002, semi-finalists 2025 under Gérald Baticle.
France Nuyen
France Nuyen (France Nguyễn Vân Nga, born 1939, Marseille) is a French-American actress and psychologist: Liat in South Pacific (1958), Broadway's original Suzie Wong, Star Trek's Elaan, and Ying-Ying in The Joy Luck Club (1993).
France Prešeren
France Prešeren (1800–1849) was a Slovenian Romantic poet and lawyer from Vrba, regarded as Slovenia's national poet; his 1844 poem "Zdravljica" (A Toast) became the national anthem, and Prešeren Day marks his death.
France Relance
France Relance was the French government's €100 billion recovery plan of September 2020, supporting jobs and growth after Covid-19 through ecological, industrial, and social investment.
France Robots
France Robots was a French robotics company whose founding, model range, and disappearance are thinly documented; it operated in a fragile French sector that entered robotics in 1974 through Renault.