The Organisation internationale de la Francophonie is an international organization representing countries and regions where French is a lingua franca or customary language, where a significant proportion of the population are francophones, or where there is a notable affiliation with French culture.
Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire was a French philosopher, journalist, statesman, and possible illegitimate son of Napoleon I of France.
The coat of arms of France depicts a lictor's fasces upon branches of laurel and oak, as well as a ribbon bearing the national motto of Liberté, égalité, fraternité. The arms were created in 1905 by heraldic painter-engraver Maurice de Meyère, and adopted by the French government.
The Institut d'Etudes politiques de Lyon also known as Sciences Po Lyon, is a grande école located in Lyon, France. It is one of ten Institutes of Political Studies in France, and was established in 1948 by Charles de Gaulle's provisional government following the model of the École Libre des Sciences Politiques. It is located at the Centre Berthelot within the buildings of a former military health college and operates as an autonomous institution within the University of Lyon. It is the first Institute of Political Studies to have joined the prestigious Conférence des Grandes écoles.
Marie-George Buffet is a French politician. She was the head of the French Communist Party (PCF) from 2001 to 2010. She joined the Party in 1969, and she served in the government as Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports from 4 June 1997 to 5 May 2002. Buffet was re-elected on 16 June 2002 to another five-year term in the National Assembly as a representative of Seine-Saint-Denis.
Martine Louise Marie Aubry is a French politician. She was the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party from November 2008 to April 2012, and has been the Mayor of Lille (Nord) since March 2001; she is also the first female to hold this position. Her father, Jacques Delors, served as Minister of Finance under President François Mitterrand and was also President of the European Commission.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) rights in France have been among some of the most progressive in the world. Although same-sex sexual activity was a capital crime that often resulted in the death penalty during the Ancien Régime, all sodomy laws were repealed in 1791 during the French Revolution. However, a lesser-known indecent exposure law that often targeted LGBT people was introduced in 1960 before being repealed twenty years later.
Patrick Bloche is a French politician and a member of the National Assembly of France. He is a member of the Socialist Party and works with the SRC parliamentary group.
Laurent Timothée Marie Wauquiez is a French politician who presided over The Republicans (LR) from 2017 to 2019.
Farida Belghoul is a French author of Algerian descent who was raised in France. She was the main spokesperson for the second March for Equality and Against Racism which took place throughout France in 1984. Her novel Georgette! was published in 1986.
Martine Faure was a member of the National Assembly of France. She represented the Gironde department, as a member of the Socialist Party from 2007 to 2017, the 9th constituency from 2007 to 2012 and, after the 2010 redistricting, the 12th constituency from 2012 to 2017.
Martine Martinel was a member of the National Assembly of France from 2007 to 2017. She represented Haute-Garonne's 4th constituency, as a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche.
Cécile Duflot is a French former politician. She has been a government minister and political party leader.
Aimée Batier was a French politician. She represented the 11th district of the department of Paris in the French National Assembly from May 8, 1967, to May 30, 1968, as a member of the Union of Democrats for the Republic.
Martine Wonner is a French psychiatrist and politician who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since the 2017 elections, representing the 4th constituency of the department of Bas-Rhin. She was elected as a member of La République En Marche! (LREM), but was expelled from the party in May 2020 and was one of the original 17 members of the new Ecology Democracy Solidarity group.
Hugues Randolph Gall is a French opera manager, former head of the Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Paris Opera.
Jacqueline Berenstein-Wavre was a Swiss politician who spent her political career in Geneva. She fought for women's rights in the workplace.
The Cultural and Education Affairs Committee is one of the eight standing committees of the French National Assembly.
The Artistic Recovery Commission was a French public body of the Ministry of Education created on November 24, 1944 in order to process and return artworks and books plundered by the Nazis during the Occupation of France by Germany during World War II, discovered by the Allies after the defeat of Nazi Germany.
Martine Segalen was a French ethnologist. A specialist on family matters and European culture, she was a professor for multiple universities.
