Notably, Alexis de Tocqueville, the early 19th French thinker, discussed at length the role religion played American society in his famous book, Democracy America... ..…

In the Central African Republic, French troops sexually abused 13 minors, which included sodomy against boys between the ages of nine and 13. ..…

Formulated by the eighteenth century Enlightenment, implemented by the French Revolution, the complex association of modernity, democracy, and secularism, its advances and retreats, has been shaping the contemporary world ever since. ... The Enlightenment and the French Revolution..…

In late 2013, the African Union, authorized more robust peacekeeping mission, International Support Mission to Central African Republic, known as MISCA. Violence continued despite AU and French troops, and April 2014 United Nations Security Council authorized new peacekeeping mission..…

Central African Republic has been in crisis since late 2012, seizing the capital, Bangui, March 2013. In 2014, African Union and French forces pushed Seleka out of Bangui and, by the end of the year, Seleka had split into several factions, each controlling its own area.. ..…

Jacques from the town of Wadja-Wadja said that fighters from Seleka faction, Union for Peace in Central African Republic killed his friend. In 2014, African Union and French forces pushed Seleka out of Bangui and, by the end of the year, Seleka had split into several factions, each..…

Omaha Beach on D-Day . y Jean-David Morvan and Séverine Tréfouël, with drawings by Dominique Bertail, photographs by Robert Capa, and text by Bernard Lebrun, translated from the French by Edward Gauvin . ... France 1940: Defending the Republic . by Philip Nord . Yale University Press,..…

His independence from conventional categories is what frees him up to ask what is in the French situation a very unconventional question: Practically speaking, what entente might be imagined between Islam and the French republic today, taking Islam as it is, and France as it is? ..…

Consequently, the breakdown for most of the movement of migrants is drawn from Pew Research Center's Global Religion and Migration Database source estimating the breakdown of migrant populations based on global census and survey information. ..…

Troops fought officially for their sovereigns (except in the French case where they fought for the republic) and were animated in good part (including the French case) by concerns of prestige, honor, and martiality that lay in the monarchical tradition. ..…

The Socialist Party’s chief concern, as it has been from the war’s outbreak, is the defense of French imperialist interests. ... The cynical invocation of “democracy” and “socialism” reflects their fear that revolution could rapidly spread to France. ..…