Sedan was the scene of a French military disaster in 1870 during the Franco-German War.
Mauresmo More Confident Amélie Mauresmo has begun the delicate process of reconstructing a fragile psyche that was left in shards after her French Open disaster was played out in front of her countrymen.
Against the background of a dispiriting presidential campaign, an anemic economy and a deepening social divide -- not to mention this year's 200th anniversary of Berezina, a word long synonymous in French with "disaster" -- now seems like an odd time to announce the empire's return.
At the same time, he encouraged the Girondin faction in the Legislative Assembly (which had succeeded the National Assembly in September 1791) in their policy of war with Austria, in the expectation that French military disaster would pave the way for the restoration of his authority.
In the case of France, the capacity to recover is partly related to compensation through the French natural disaster compensation scheme settled at the national level (Larrue et al. 2016; Guillier 2016a).
I knew about French military disasters from what I'd read in history books, but my closest notion of defeat was limited to a laughable rage after the loss of a soccer game.
Toussaint's victories in the north, together with mulatto successes in the south and British occupation of the coasts, brought the French close to disaster.
The French team sensed disaster when striker Thierry Henry was sent off with a red card for lunging cleats up at Uruguayan midfielder Marcelo Romero in the 26th minute.
The father of one of the Britons killed in the French Alps plane disaster has spoken of his shock over the medical state of the co-pilot believed to have caused the crash.
