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Hippolyte Bernheim Hippolyte Bernheim
Bernheim, Hippolyte (b. Mulhouse, France, 27 April 1840; d. Paris, France, 1919) psychology. Bernheim was an intern in Strasbourg hospitals, but left Alsace after the Franco-Prussian War and became a professor at the Facult Read more
Roubaix Roubaix
Roubaix , city (1990 pop. 98,179), Nord dept., N France, in French Flanders. Part of the Lille urban area, Roubaix, with adjacent Tourcoing, is one of the largest textile (chiefly wool) centers in France; a national textile school is there. It was occupied by the Germans during World Wars I and II.... Read more
Relations with France Relations with France
FRANCE, RELATIONS WITH FRANCE, RELATIONS WITH. In the seventeenth century the French explored and colonized much of the future United States. They claimed an area stretching from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Appalachians to the Rocky Mountains and named it Louisiana in honor of their... Read more
Liberation of France Liberation of France
France, Liberation of (1944–45).Following the invasion of Normandy, the breakout by Omar N. Bradley's U.S. First Army created conditions for mobile warfare that permitted the World War II Allied armies to liberate France by the late summer of 1944. In the aftermath of the American... Read more
Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis
Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis kätō´-käNbrāzē´ , 1559, concluded at Le Cateau, France, by representatives of Henry II of France, Philip II of Spain, and Elizabeth I of England. It put an end to the 60-year conflict between France and Spain, begun with... Read more
Napoleonic Wars Napoleonic Wars
Napoleonic Wars 1803-15, the wars waged by or against France under Napoleon I. For a discussion of them see under Napoleon I .... Read more
Henri Philippe Petain Henri Philippe Petain
Henri Philippe Pétain , 1856-1951, French army officer, head of state of the Vichy government (see under Vichy ). In World War I he halted the Germans at Verdun (1916), thus becoming the most beloved French military hero of that conflict. In 1917 he was appointed French commander in chief... Read more
Quasi-War with France Quasi-War with France
FRANCE, QUASI-WAR WITH FRANCE, QUASI-WAR WITH. The Quasi-War, or naval war, with France, included a series of battles and diplomatic tensions between the U.S. government and the French as a result of attacks against American merchants shipping off the Barbary Coast and in the Caribbean. The brief... Read more
Bernard Montgomery Bernard Montgomery
Bernard Law Montgomery The English field marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887-1976), was an outstanding commander and hero of the British people during World War II. Bernard Montgomery was born on Nov. 17, 1887. He went to St. Paul's School in London and... Read more
Bibracte Bibracte
Bibracte , former capital of the Aedui , site atop Mont Beuvray, central France. There Caesar defeated (58 BC) the Helvetii (see Gallic Wars ). Excavations on the site have revealed a Gallic town.... Read more

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