They're building a French wine empire by taking cues from their New World counterparts, using simpler labels and emphasizing regions recently embraced by the U.S. consumer: Spain, Chile, Argentina and the once- neglected Languedoc region of France.
Empire French furniture is still being preserved and should still be available a couple of hundred years from now.
However, the rise of the celebrity press in France since the introduction in 2005 of magazines such as Closer, -- the French edition is published by Italian company Mondadori, part of the Berlusconi empire -- has proved that French readers have a taste for gossip too.
Frank Mulliez, 27, a member of the billionaire French family behind the Auchan retail empire, finds a frozen frog in the ice cooler.
In the 9th century, the western part of Charlemagne's empire was called France and its inhabitants French.
Both during the post-World War I breakup of the Ottoman Empire and with the breakup of the British and French empires after World War II, British and French imperial authorities colluded with Arab imperialists to guarantee the latter's nearly uninhibited control over the Middle East.
The campaigner, a heavily-moustached sheep farmer, has been compared to the French cartoon character Asterix, who fights against the legions of the Roman Empire.
Part of the Turkish Ottoman empire from the 16th century, Algeria was conquered by the French in 1830 and was given the status of a "departement".
Unlike the lush, elaborate, French-inspired, high Deco romanticism of the Chrysler Building, the Empire State's massing and design is a more simplified, commercial evocation of the Machine Age, a favorite theme of the time.
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The history prize went to Frederik Logevall for "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, " about Vietnam under the French.
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