The president of France,officially the President of the French Republic,is the head of state of France,head of the executive,as well as the commander-in-chief of the French Armed Forces. As the presidency is the supreme magistracy of the country,the officeholder is the holder of the highest office in France. The powers,functions and duties of prior presidential offices,in addition to their relation with the prime minister and Government of France,have over time differed with the various constitutional documents since the Second Republic. The president of the French Republic is the ex officio co-prince of Andorra,grand master of the Legion of Honour and of the National Order of Merit. The officeholder is also honorary proto-canon of the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome,although some have rejected the title in the past. The current president of the French Republic is Emmanuel Macron,who succeeded François Hollande on 14 May 2017.
Lot-et-Garonne is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of Southwestern France. Named after the rivers Lot and Garonne,it had a population of 332,833 in 2016. Its prefecture and largest city is Agen.
Jean Sylvain Bailly was a French astronomer,mathematician,freemason,and political leader of the early part of the French Revolution. He presided over the Tennis Court Oath,served as the mayor of Paris from 1789 to 1791,and was ultimately guillotined during the Reign of Terror.
The National Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral French Parliament under the Fifth Republic,the upper house being the Senate. The National Assembly's legislators are known as députés.
Henri Jean-Baptiste Grégoire,often referred to as the AbbéGrégoire,was a French Catholic priest,Constitutional bishop of Blois and a revolutionary leader. He was an ardent slavery abolitionist and supporter of universal suffrage. He was a founding member of the Bureau des longitudes,the Institut de France,and the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers.
The Legislative Assembly was the legislature of France from 1 October 1791 to 20 September 1792 during the years of the French Revolution. It provided the focus of political debate and revolutionary law-making between the periods of the National Constituent Assembly and of the National Convention.
The Assembly of French Polynesia is the unicameral legislature of French Polynesia,an overseas country of the French Republic. It is located at Place Tarahoi in Papeete,Tahiti. It was established in its current form in 1996 although a Tahitian Assembly was first created in 1824. It consists of 57 members who are elected by popular vote for five years;the electoral system is based upon proportional representation in six multi-seat constituencies. Every constituency is represented by at least three representatives. Since 2001,the parity bill binds that the number of women matches the number of men elected to the Assembly.
The Society of the Friends of the Blacks was a French abolitionist society founded during the late 18th century. The society's aim was to abolish both the institution of slavery in the France's overseas colonies and French involvement in the Atlantic slave trade. The society was founded in Paris in 1788,and remained active until 1793,during the midst of the French Revolution. It was led by Jacques Pierre Brissot,who frequently received advice from British abolitionist Thomas Clarkson,who led the abolitionist movement in Great Britain. At the beginning of 1789,the Society had 141 members.
The Union Académique Internationale (UAI)—in English,International Union of Academies—is a federation of many national academies and international academies from more than 60 countries all over the world which works in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Marie Josephine Marguerite Blais is a Canadian politician,journalist,radio host and television host from Quebec. She is currently a Coalition Avenir Québec Member of the National Assembly of Québec and is the current Minister Responsible for Seniors and Informal Caregivers and Member of the Comitéministériel des services aux citoyens since October 2018. She was a Liberal Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the electoral division of Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne in Montreal from 2007 to 2015,and served as the Minister responsible for Seniors,vice-chair of the Comitéministériel du développement social,éducatif et culturel and member of the Conseil du trésor.
Alain Néri is a French politician. He was the deputy for Puy-de-Dôme's 2nd constituency from 1997 to 2011 in the National Assembly of France. He was then senator for Puy-de-Dôme from 2011 to 2017. He is a member of the Socialiste,radical,citoyen et divers gauche.
Christophe Sirugue is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Saône-et-Loire department,and is a member of the Socialiste,radical,citoyen et divers gauche. He is vice-president of the French National Assembly since 2012.
The Socialists and affiliated group is a parliamentary group in the National Assembly including representatives of the Socialist Party (PS).
Philippe Vigier is a French politician who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly of France since the 2007 elections,representing the Eure-et-Loir department. He is a member of the Union of Democrats and Independents. He was formerly a member of the New Centre and UDF. He is the mayor of Cloyes-sur-le-Loir,Eure-et-Loir.
Stéphane Demilly is a French politician of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) who served as a member of the National Assembly of France from 2002 until 2020,representing the Somme department.
Napoléon,comte Daru,was a French soldier and politician.
Overseas France consists of thirteen French-administered territories outside Europe,mostly the remains of the French colonial empire that chose to remain a part of the French state under various statuses after decolonization. This collective name is used in everyday life in France but is not an administrative designation in its own right. Indeed,the five overseas regions have exactly the same administrative status as the metropolitan regions while the five overseas collectivities are semi-autonomous and New Caledonia is an autonomous territory. Overseas France includes island territories in the Atlantic,Pacific and Indian Oceans,French Guiana on the South American continent,and several peri-Antarctic islands as well as a claim in Antarctica. Excluding the district of Adélie Land,where French sovereignty is effective de jure by French law,but where the French exclusive claim on this part of Antarctica is frozen by the Antarctic Treaty,overseas France covers a land area of 119,396 km2 (46,099 sq mi) and accounts for 18.0% of the French Republic's land territory. Its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of 9,825,538 km2 (3,793,661 sq mi) accounts for 96.7% of the EEZ of the French Republic.
The Assembly of French Citizens Abroad is the political body that represents French citizens living outside France. The assembly advises the government on issues involving French nationals living outside France,as well as the role of France in overseas developments. Membership consists of 90 representatives elected among and by an electorate composed of all 442 elected consular representatives,across 15 worldwide electoral districts.
Paris's 19th constituency was one of the 21 French National Assembly constituencies in the Paris department in the period 1988 to 2012. It was abolished in the 2010 redistricting of French legislative constituencies,which reduced the number of constituencies in Paris to 18. The territory of the 19th constituency,in the north of Paris,corresponds almost exactly with the post-2012 17th constituency.
Paris's 20th constituency was one of the 21 French National Assembly constituencies in the Paris department in the period 1988 to 2012. The constituency covered three districts of the 19th arrondissement:Pont-de-Flandres,Amérique and Combat.
