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Franco Nero
Franco Nero (Francesco Sparanero, born 1941) is an Italian actor famous as the coffin-dragging gunslinger of Sergio Corbucci's Django (1966); over 200 films, Camelot, Buñuel's Tristana, Vanessa Redgrave, 2026 Hollywood Walk of Fame star.
Franco Nones
Franco Nones (Francesco Nones, born 1941), Italian cross-country skier; won 30 km gold at Grenoble 1968, first Italian Olympic cross-country champion and first winner from outside Scandinavia or the USSR.
Franco Nori
Franco Nori is a theoretical physicist known for work on superconducting qubits and circuit QED, who led a lab at Japan's RIKEN while teaching at the University of Michigan.
Franco Riccardi
Franco Riccardi (13 June 1905 – May 1968) was an Italian épée fencer who won four Olympic medals: team gold 1928, team silver 1932, and individual and team gold at Berlin 1936, where Italy swept the individual épée podium.
Franco Sacchetti
Franco Sacchetti (1332–1400) was an Italian poet and novella writer, born at Ragusa to a Florentine merchant family, best known for his short-story collection the Trecentonovelle.
Franco Testa
Franco Testa (7 February 1938 – 22 June 2025), Italian track cyclist from Cadoneghe; Olympic team pursuit gold at Rome 1960 (4:30.90) and silver at Tokyo 1964; world silver Paris 1964; later a butcher in Mogliano Veneto.
Franco Tognini
Franco Tognini (Gaudenzio Franco Tognini), Italian artistic gymnast from Monza; Olympic team gold at Los Angeles 1932, fifth with the team at Berlin 1936, later Italian national coach and FIG judge.
Franco Trincavelli
Franco Trincavelli (Abele Francesco Trincavelli, 1935–1983), Italian rower of Canottieri Moto Guzzi; Olympic gold in coxed fours at Melbourne 1956 and bronze at Rome 1960, plus European eights medals.
Franco Vázquez
Franco Damián Vázquez, "El Mudo" (born 1989, Tanti, Argentina), Argentine attacking midfielder of Palermo, Sevilla, Cremonese, and Belgrano; won 2 caps for Italy and 3 for Argentina.
Franco Zeffirelli
Franco Zeffirelli (Gian Franco Corsi, 1923–2019), Italian opera, theatre and film director; over 120 operas, La bohème at La Scala, Romeo and Juliet, Jesus of Nazareth, La Traviata; Italian senator and honorary KBE.
Franco-Austrian Alliance
Franco-Austrian Alliance: the 1756 Diplomatic Revolution (renversement des alliances) ending two centuries of Franco-Habsburg rivalry, via the Treaties of Versailles, prompted by the Anglo-Prussian Westminster Convention and Kaunitz's diplomacy.
Franco-British Union
The Franco-British Union was a proposed 1940 merger of France and the United Kingdom, drafted by Jean Monnet and offered by Churchill on 16 June 1940, with common citizenship and a single war cabinet; France rejected it and sought an armistice.
Franco-Dutch War
Franco-Dutch War (Guerre de Hollande, Hollandse Oorlog), 1672-1678: Louis XIV's invasion of the Dutch Republic with England, Münster and Cologne; Dutch Water Line flooding, William III's recovery, Peace of Nijmegen.
Franco-Ethiopian Treaty of 1897
The Franco-Ethiopian Treaty of 1897 is a set of conventions signed by Emperor Menelik II and France at Addis Ababa on 20 March 1897, fixing Ethiopia's frontier with the French Somali Coast.
Franco-Khmer Treaty of 1863
The Franco-Khmer Treaty of 1863, signed at Oudong on 11 August 1863 by King Norodom and Admiral de La Grandiere, made Cambodia a French protectorate.
Franco-Mauritian
Franco-Mauritians are the French-speaking descendants of French settlers who colonized Mauritius from 1715, a white minority of roughly 2% of the population that has historically dominated the island's sugar industry and economic life.
Franco-Mongol alliance
Franco-Mongol alliance: repeated 13th-14th century attempts by Frankish Crusaders and the Mongol Il-khanate to ally against the Mamluks; missions by André de Longjumeau, Hülegü's 1262 letter to Louis IX, and Ghazan's overtures never produced a lasting treaty.
Franco-Moroccan treaty of 1682
The Franco-Moroccan treaty of 1682 (معاهدة الصلح الفرنسية المغربية 1682) was a peace treaty between France under Louis XIV and Morocco under Sultan Moulay Ismail.
Franco-Moroccan War
The Franco-Moroccan War of 1844 was a brief conflict in which France attacked Morocco to end its support for Abd al-Qadir, winning the Battle of Isly.
Franco-Nevada Corporation
Franco-Nevada Corporation is a Toronto-based gold-focused royalty and streaming company, founded in 1982 and relaunched in 2007 with the largest mining IPO in North America.
Franco-Ottoman alliance
Franco-Ottoman alliance: the long partnership between France and the Ottoman Empire, begun 1525-1536 by Francis I and Suleiman the Magnificent against the Habsburgs, marked by the 1543 siege of Nice, the Toulon wintering, and capitulations trade privileges.
Franco-Prussian War
The Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) was fought between France and the German states led by Prussia, ending in Prussian victory, the fall of Napoleon III's Second Empire, and German unification.
Franco-Russian Alliance
The Franco-Russian Alliance, also called the Dual Entente, was a defensive military and financial partnership between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire, concluded in 1891 and 1893.
Franco-Siamese crisis of 1893
The Franco-Siamese crisis of 1893 (วิกฤตการณ์ ร.ศ. 112) was a confrontation between France and Siam over Laos, climaxing when French gunboats forced the Paknam forts in July 1893.
Franco-Siamese Treaty of 1687
The Franco-Siamese Treaty of 1687 (สนธิสัญญาไทย–ฝรั่งเศส พ.ศ. 2230) was a trade and stationing agreement between Siam's King Narai and Louis XIV, letting French troops occupy Bangkok and Mergui.
Franco-Siamese Treaty of 1867
The Franco-Siamese Treaty of 1867, signed in Paris on 15 July 1867 between France and Siam, recognized the French protectorate over Cambodia and left Battambang and Angkor to Siam.
Franco-Siamese Treaty of 1907
The Franco-Siamese Treaty of 1907 was an agreement signed at Bangkok on 23 March 1907, under which Siam ceded Battambang and Siem Reap to France.
Franco-Siamese Treaty of 3 October 1893
The Franco-Siamese Treaty of 3 October 1893, signed in Bangkok, ended the 1893 Franco-Siamese crisis: Siam renounced claims to the left bank of the Mekong and paid France an indemnity.
Franco-Siamese War of 1893
The Franco-Siamese War of 1893 was a short conflict between France and Siam over the Lao territories of the Mekong River, ending with Siam ceding Laos to France.
Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance
Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance: bilateral pact signed in Paris 2 May 1935 by France and the USSR, successor to the Eastern Pact project of Barthou and Litvinov; ratified March 1936, never backed by a military accord, ended by the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of 1939.