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France Télévisions (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃s televizjɔ̃]; stylized since 2018 as france·tv) is the French national public television broadcaster.It is a state-owned company formed from the integration of the public television channels France 2 (formerly Antenne 2) and France 3 (formerly France Régions 3), later joined by the legally independent channels France 4 (formerly Festival ...
14. France 4 / Culturebox. State owned. Educationnal, children and cultural programming. Timeshared with Culturebox (broadcasts 20:10 to 05:00), and Okoo during the daytime. France Télévisions. 24 hours. 16:9 HDTV. SGR1.
The First French Empire, officially the French Republic, [b] then the French Empire ( French: Empire Français; Latin: Imperium Francicum) after 1809 and also known as Napoleonic France, was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.
France 24. France 24 ( France vingt -quatre in French) is a French publicly-funded international news television network based in Paris. [1] Its channels, broadcast in French, English, Arabic and Spanish, are aimed at the overseas market. Based in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux, the service started on 6 December 2006.
France Info ( pronounced [fʁɑ̃s ɛ̃.fo]; stylized as franceinfo:) is a French domestic rolling news channel which started broadcasting on 31 August 2016 at 6:00 p.m. on the Web. [1] TV broadcasting began on 1 September 2016 at 8:00 p.m. on most TV operators, and on the TNT ( digital terrestrial television ). As for TNT Sat [ fr] and Canal+ ...
De jure independent states. In international relations, Françafrique ( French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃safʁik]) is France's sphere of influence (or pré carré in French, meaning 'backyard') over former French and (also French-speaking) Belgian colonies in sub-Saharan Africa. [9] The term was derived from the expression France-Afrique, which ...
Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault ( French: [bɛʁnaʁ ʒɑ̃ etjɛn aʁno]; born 5 March 1949) is a French businessman, investor and art collector. [2] [3] He is the founder, chairman and CEO of LVMH, the world's largest luxury goods company. Arnault is the richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$ 213 billion as of May 2024 ...
Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which the electorate decides on policy initiatives without elected representatives as proxies. This differs from the majority of currently established democracies, which are representative democracies .