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| géogr. Saba {f} [une île néerlandaise qui se situe dans le nord des Petites Antilles] | Saba [a Caribbean island which is the smallest special municipality of the Netherlands] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} d'Issos [333 av. J.-C.] | Battle of Issus [333 BC] [also: Battle of Issos] [Macedonian troops, under Alexander the Great, defeated the Persian forces] | |
| hist. pol. gibelins {m.pl} | Ghibellines [faction supporting the Holy Roman Emperor in 12C and 13C in the Italian city-states of Central and Northern Italy] | |
| myth. Parques {f.pl} | Parcae [also: the Fates] [female personifications of destiny who directed the lives (and deaths) of humans and gods in Roman mythology] | |
| géogr. hist. mil. bataille {f} de Lützen [1813] | Battle of Lützen [1813] [despite enormous losses in Russian Campaign, Napoleon halted the advance of the Sixth Coalition] | |
| hist. mil. pol. Le traité {m} de Tournai [1385] | The Peace of Tournai [1385, between the Burgundian Duke Philip II and the rebellious city of Ghent] | |
| hist. mil. pol. traité {m} de Paris [1783] | Treaty of Paris [1783] [between Great Britain and representatives of the United States, officially ended the American Revolutionary War] | |
| hist. mil. pol. traité {m} de Paris [1814] | Treaty of Paris [1814] [ended the war between France and the Sixth Coalition, following Napoleon's abdication as Emperor] | |
| géogr. Bonaire {f} [une île dans les Petites Antilles et une commune néerlandaise] | Bonaire <.an, .nl> [a "Caribbean public body" within the country of the Netherlands] | |
| dr. hist. Miroir {m} des Saxons | Sachsenspiegel [the most important law book of the Holy Roman Empire, originating around 1220 as a record of existing customary law] | |
| hist. mil. pol. guerre {f} de Crimée [1853-1856] | Crimean War [1853-1856] [ Russia lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia] | |
| hist. mil. bataille {f} de Talavera [1809] | Battle of Talavera [1809] [major battle in the Peninsular War where British & Spanish forces defeated the Napoleonic Army outside Madrid] | |
| hist. pol. relig. paix {f} d'Augsbourg [1555] | Peace of Augsburg [1555] [made the legal division of Christianity (Lutheranism or Roman Catholicism) permanent within the Holy Roman Empire] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} d'al-Qadisiyya [636] | Battle of al-Qadisiyyah [636] [decisive victory for the Rashidun Caliphate against the Sasanian Empire (Muslim conquest of Persia)] | |
| hist. pol. traité {m} de Finkenstein [1807] | Treaty of Finckenstein [1807] [concluded between France and Persia (modern-day Iran) in the Finckenstein Palace (now Kamieniec, Poland) formalising the Franco-Persian alliance] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Sempach [1386] | Battle of Sempach [1386] [decisive victory for the Old Swiss Confederacy against Austria - a turning point in the growth of Switzerland] | |
| hist. mil. pol. traité {m} de Lunéville [1801] | Treaty of Lunéville [signed in 1801 by the French Republic and Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, following the Battle of Marengo] | |
| arts hist. mil. monument {m} de la Bataille des Nations | Monument to the Battle of the Nations [commemorates the defeat of Napoleon's French army at Leipzig in 1813] | |
| géogr. hist. Valachie {f} | Wallachia [also: Walachia] [historical and geographical region of Romania, situated north of the Lower Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians] | |
| relig. évêque {m} de Winchester | Bishop of Winchester [diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Winchester, one of the oldest and most important in England] | |
| arch. hist. pol. château {m} de Fontainebleau | Palace of Fontainebleau [also: Château de Fontainebleau] [the medieval castle and subsequent palace served as a residence for the French monarchs from Louis VII to Napoleon III] | |
| Plus ça change, plus ça reste la même chose. [1849] [Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr] | The more it changes, the more it's the same thing. [often quoted in French] | |
| hist. relig. Séparation {f} des Églises d'Orient et d'Occident | East–West Schism [split of Christianity between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church, beginning in 1054] | |
| hist. pol. maison {f} de Croÿ | House of Croÿ [a family of European mediatised nobility, elevated to the rank of Princes of the Holy Roman Empire in 1594] | |
| hist. mil. relig. bataille {f} de Civetot [1096] | Battle of Civetot [1096] [Seljuk Turks of Anatolia defeated the forces of the People's Crusade] | |
| hist. pol. traité {m} de Paris [1806] [aussi : traité de la confédération du Rhin] | Treaty of Paris [1806] [creating the Confederation of the Rhine] | |
| hist. pol. rafle {f} de Marseille [1943] | Marseille roundup [1943] [systematic deportation of the Jews of Marseille in the Old Port] | |
| hist. mil. relig. siège {m} de Jérusalem [1099] | siege of Jerusalem [1099] [laying the foundation for the Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, which lasted almost two centuries] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Peterwardein [1716] [auusi : bataille de Petrovaradin] | Battle of Petrovaradin [1716] [also: Battle of Peterwardein] [major victory of Habsburgs over the Ottomans during the Austro-Turkish War] | |
| hist. mil. pol. opération {f} Corse [1958] | Opération Corse [1958] [military operation that precipitated the fall of the Fourth French Republic] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Vitoria [1813] | Battle of Vitoria [1813] [combined British, Portuguese and Spanish army broke the French army leading to victory in the Peninsular War] | |
| hist. pol. maison {f} de Valois-Bourgogne [seconde maison de Bourgogne] | House of Valois-Burgundy [cadet branch of the House of Valois, ruling the Duchy of Burgundy from 1363 to 1482] | |
| hist. mil. pol. convention {f} de Tauroggen [1812] | Convention of Tauroggen [1812] [armistice between Prussia and Russia, which triggered an ininsurgency against Napoleon in the Confederation of the Rhine] | |
| hist. mil. pol. siège {m} de Sagonte [219-218 av. J.-C.] | siege of Saguntum [219 - 218 BC] [victory of Carthaginians over the Saguntines, triggering the 2nd Punic War] | |
| hist. mil. pol. traité {m} de Saint-Pétersbourg [1812] | Treaty of Saint Petersburg [1812] [between Sweden and the Russian Empire, establishing an alliance against the French Empire of Napoleon] | |
| pol. Entente {f} cordiale [1904] | Entente Cordiale [1904] [signed between the United Kingdom and the French Republic] | |
| géogr. hist. pol. duché {m} de Carniole [1363-1918] | Duchy of Carniola [1363-1918] [an imperial estate of the Holy Roman Empire, later a hereditary land of the Habsburg Monarchy] | |
| hist. pol. Pragmatique Sanction {f} [1549] | Pragmatic Sanction [edict issued by Charles, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1549 reorganising the Seventeen Provinces of the present-day Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg into one indivisible territory] | |
| hist. droit {m} de cuissage | ius primae noctis [supposed legal right in medieval Europe, allowing feudal lords to have sexual relations with subordinate women, in particular, on the wedding nights of the women] | |
| journée {f} internationale dédiée à la mémoire des victimes de l'Holocauste [le 27 janvier] | International Holocaust Remembrance Day [short for: International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Solférino [1859] | Battle of Solferino [1859] [victory of the allied French Army and Piedmont-Sardinian Army against the Austrian Army] | |
| hist. béguine {f} | beguine [member of one of various ascetic and philanthropic communities of women not under vows founded chiefly in the Netherlands in the 13C] | |
| cuis. tomme {f} de Savoie | tomme de Savoie [probably the most famous of the tomme cheeses] | |
| dr. testament {m} | testament [will] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} d'Andrinople [378] [aussi : bataille d'Adrianople ; aujourd'hui Edirne en Turquie européenne] | Battle of Adrianople [378] [also: Battle of Hadrianopolis] [overwhelming victory of the Goths over the Eastern Roman Empire] | |
| géogr. hist. mil. bataille {f} de Morgarten [1315] | Battle of Morgarten [in 1315, the Confederates of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden defeated a Habsburg army, laying foundation for future independence of the Swiss Confederacy] | |
| hist. droit {m} de cuissage | droit du seigneur [supposed legal right in medieval Europe, allowing feudal lords to have sexual relations with subordinate women, in particular, on the wedding nights of the women] | |
| fin. hist. pol. Laurent {m} de Médicis [1449-1492] [aussi : Laurent le Magnifique] | Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici [1449-1492] [also: Lorenzo the Magnificent] [Italian statesman, banker, de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} d'Ayacucho [1824] | Battle of Ayacucho [1824] [secured the independence of Peru and ensured independence for the rest of South America] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Manzikert [1071] | Battle of Manzikert [1071] [also: Battle of Malazgirt] [decisive defeat of the Byzantine Empire by the Seljuk Empire] | |