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France Télévisions
France Télévisions, also known as France TV, is the French national public television company, wholly state-owned, operating France 2, France 3, France 4, and France 5.
France v Gibraltar (UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying)
France v Gibraltar, 18 November 2023, Allianz Riviera, Nice: Euro 2024 qualifying Group B match won 14-0 by France, its biggest ever win, a men's Euro qualifying record, with a Mbappé hat-trick and a debut goal from Zaïre-Emery.
France women's national football team
France women's national football team, Les Bleues, France's FFF-run women's international side; first official match 1971 (4-0 vs Netherlands), World Cup semifinalists 2011, Euro semifinalists 2022, no major title.
France-Albert René
France-Albert René (1935-2019), Seychellois statesman; founded SPUP 1964, took power in the 1977 coup ousting Mancham, ruled one-party Marxist SPPF state, won 1993 multiparty election, retired 2004.
France-Soir
France-Soir (FranceSoir.fr), French popular daily founded 7 November 1944 from the Resistance paper Défense de la France by Robert Salmon and Pierre Lazareff; peaked at over a million copies in the 1950s, last print issue 2011, liquidated 2012, now an online outlet that lost CPPAP press status in 2022.
France–Germany relations
France–Germany relations: bilateral ties based on the 1963 Élysée Treaty and 2019 Aachen Treaty; reconciliation after three wars, deep trade and investment ties, joint institutions, and recurring defense-industry disputes including the abandoned FCAS fighter program.
France–Soviet Union relations
France–Soviet Union relations: bilateral diplomatic, economic, cultural, and intelligence ties from the 1920s to 1991, including the 1935 Treaty of Mutual Assistance, de Gaulle's détente, and the 1975 friendship declaration.
France–United Kingdom relations
France–United Kingdom relations: the bilateral ties of two nuclear-armed UN Security Council permanent members, anchored in the 1904 Entente Cordiale and the 2010 Lancaster House defence treaties, modernised by Lancaster House 2.0 in 2025.
France–United States relations
France–United States relations: diplomatic, economic, and security ties dating to the 1778 Treaty of Alliance; record $182 billion trade in 2025, NATO allies with recurring disputes over tariffs, Iraq, and defense burden-sharing.
Frances A. Shepherd
Frances A. Shepherd is a Canadian medical oncologist and lung cancer clinical-trials researcher at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, known for the 2005 BR.21 erlotinib and JBR.10 trials.
Frances Allen
Frances Allen was an American computer scientist at IBM who pioneered optimizing compilers, becoming in 2006 the first woman to win the ACM A.M. Turing Award.
Frances Arnold
Frances H. Arnold, Caltech chemical engineer, pioneered directed evolution of enzymes (iterative mutation and screening), winning the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; first American woman chemistry laureate and first woman Draper Prize winner.
Frances Barber
Frances Barber (born 1958, Wolverhampton) is an English actress of stage and screen: Olivier-winning RSC debut in Camille, Billie Trix in Pet Shop Boys' Closer to Heaven, Silk, Doctor Who, and the 2026 premiere of The Psychic.
Frances Bavier
Frances Bavier (1902–1989), American stage and screen actress, played Aunt Bee Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show (188 episodes, 1960–1968) and Mayberry R.F.D., winning the 1967 Emmy for supporting comedy actress; she retired to Siler City, North Carolina, in 1972.
Frances Bay
Frances Bay (Frances Evelyn Goffman, 1919–2011), Canadian character actress and sister of sociologist Erving Goffman, began screen acting near 60; known for Happy Gilmore's grandmother, Seinfeld's marble rye lady, and David Lynch films.
Frances Bean Cobain
Frances Bean Cobain, only child of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, born 1992 in Los Angeles; visual artist and executive producer of Montage of Heck; married Isaiah Silva, then Riley Hawk.
Frances Benjamin Johnston
Frances Benjamin Johnston was an American photographer, one of the first prominent women in the field, known for Washington portraits, the Hampton Album, and Southern architecture surveys.
Frances Bergen
Frances Bergen (née Westerman, 1922–2006), American actress and fashion model, wife of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and mother of actress Candice Bergen; Powers model, Madame Francine on Yancy Derringer, and star of Eating (1990).
Frances Blogg
Frances Blogg (Frances Alice Blogg Chesterton, 1869-1938), English poet, playwright, and lyricist; wife of G. K. Chesterton; author of "How Far Is It to Bethlehem?" (1917) and children's religious plays.
Frances Brooke
Frances Brooke (1724–1789) was an English novelist and playwright whose epistolary novel The History of Emily Montague, written in Quebec, is often called the first Canadian novel.
Frances Burney
Frances Burney, known as Fanny and later Madame d'Arblay, was an English novelist and diarist whose 1778 novel Evelina paved the way for Jane Austen.
Frances Cleveland
Frances Cleveland (Frances Clara Folsom Cleveland Preston, 1864–1947), wife of President Grover Cleveland, was the youngest and only White House-married first lady, serving 1886–1889 and 1893–1897.
Frances Conroy
Frances Conroy, also known as Frances Hardman Conroy, is an American actress born in 1953, known for playing Ruth Fisher on HBO's Six Feet Under.
Frances Cress Welsing
Frances Cress Welsing (1935–2016), also Frances Luella Welsing, American psychiatrist and Howard University M.D. (1962) who wrote the 1970 Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and The Isis Papers (1991), explaining racism as a global white-supremacy system.
Frances de la Tour
Frances de la Tour (born 1944) is an English stage, television and film actress known for Miss Ruth Jones in Rising Damp, Madame Olympe Maxime in the Harry Potter films, and Mrs Lintott in The History Boys; she has won three Olivier Awards and a Tony Award.
Frances Dee
Frances Dee, full name Frances Marion Dee, was an American film actress who appeared in more than 50 pictures from the late 1920s to the early 1950s.
Frances E. Lockwood
Frances E. Lockwood is an American chemical engineer and lubricant scientist who retired as Valvoline's chief technology officer and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.
Frances E. Lund
Frances E. Lund is an American immunologist who directs the Immunology Institute of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she studies B cell differentiation, memory, and cytokine production.
Frances Eileen Carr
Frances Eileen Carr is an American molecular endocrinologist and Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Vermont, known for research on thyroid hormone receptors in cancer.
Frances Elizabeth Jensen
Frances Elizabeth Jensen is an American neurologist and Chair of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania, known for research on epilepsy, the developing brain, and authoring The Teenage Brain.