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France – Fateh Moustapha Kamel leader of the Montreal cell of the Algerian Armed Islamic Group jailed in France. No date.

13^th century – Knitting was one of the main industries. The knitters Guild of Paris, which was for men. Master knitters in the rein of Edward IV. French hand knitted hosiery was exported from France to the UK. (Knitting. Joanna MacDonald ©1962 UK).

1323-1324 – French Bishop Bernard Gui and the Inquisition. The late 13^th and early 14^th century. For15 years the evil head inquisitor of Toulouse, he executed more than 900 people for heresy. Gui book written in 1323-24. Heretical depravity. Identify, interrogate and punish heretics. (BBC Anthony Zurcher 1 Nov 2013).

1453-1471 – In 1471 Edward IV of England was ready to revive his claim to the throne of France, dormant since 1453. (History Today. April 2013 UK).

1470s – In the 1470s Louis biggest problem was Charles Duke of Burgundy. This rich ruler had blocks of land from the Netherlands to Burgundy, encircling northern France. (History Today. April 2013 UK).

July 1475 – Edward invaded and in July 1475 the Treaty of Picquigny. (History Today. April 2013 UK).

August 1483 – The death of Louis XI in August 1483 was followed by an aristocratic reaction. The crown passed to a 13 years old, Charles VIII. (History Today. April 2013 UK).

August 1485 – Francis signed to the Peace of Bourges. (History Today. April 2013 UK).

Sept 1488 – Francis II died. (History Today. April 2013 UK).

August – October 1572 – Paris St Bartholomews day 24 August 1572 on the order of King Charles IX of France Huguenot inhabitants were murdered, homes attacked robbed, shops destroyed. On 25 August 1572 the government halted, but the killings went on. By the time the massacre had subsided in October 1572 an estimated 40,000 Huguenots were killed. Thousands fled France, many went to the UK. (Practical family history mag August 2003 UK).

9 Dec 1582 – France switched to the Gregorian calendar on 9 Dec 1582. (Ancestry March April 2007 p20).

1642 – Louis XIII died when Louis was four years old. (The great upheaval©2007 Jay Winik US)

1668-1682 – Louis began a palace in the village of Versailles. In 1682 the King officially moved into the palace. France’s Louis XIV went to war in 1673. He brutally repressed the Protestant Huguenots. (The great upheaval ©2007 Jay Winik).

30 July 1690 – Pierre Francois Creuze male, was born in France.

3 Oct 1691 - The wild geese, Irish Jacobite army who went to France, and the treaty of Limerick. (Family tree © 2009 p22).

16 July 1726 – Lewis Ogier was born in Moncoutant Poitou France.

1740 – Pierre Ogier died in France.

June 1774 – Coronation of King Louis XVI. Paris riots over bread prices. (The great upheaval ©2007 Jay Winik US)

1775-1783 – By the 1780s Britain had been at war with France for 90 years. The American revolution 1775-76 ended in 1783 with the Treaty of Paris. West African slavery and Caribbean colonies. (Convicts NZ M Wright ©2012).

1783 – The epicentre of Europe was France, the globes mightiest empire. (The great upheaval ©2007 Jay Winik).

1788 – The hardest French winter in 80 years, many people and animals froze to death. A hailstorm ripped through central France. Food and supplies were hard to get. There was hunger and bread riots. (The great upheaval ©2007 Jay Winik US).

1788-1789 – The French revolution. Louis XVI. Gain shortages, hunger, riots and looting. (The great upheaval ©2007 Jay Winik US)

1791 – In Paris ready made clothes were on sale to the public, at the end of Louis XV time, Paris had more than 1,500 tailors and 1,500 dressmakers. Clothes were an indication of social status. Rich or poor. (Knitting. Joanna MacDonald ©1962 UK).

1793 – Louis XVI was publicly executed. (History today. Feb 2014 p19).

1793 – France during the French revolution, Maximilien Robespierre cracked down on internal dissent. A 12 member committee was created to identify and arrest half a million people, who were targeted by ruthless surveillance. (BBC Anthony Zurcher. 1 Nov 2013).

1793 – By the time the Communard resistance ended, the uprising lost 20,000 lives, more than the terror in 1793. (History Today. May 2014 UK).

20 March 1813 – Archives, monthly sales records sent to the ministry of finance. Were burned during the Paris commune of 1871. Department archives Q series, land seized, the 1813 land sales. A law passed, 20 March 1813 by the French government to seize and sell land. Land seized and sold at auction, the rich got poor peasants land. (History Today. March 2013 UK).

1831-32 – Cholera struck and by 1831 it had reached Paris, within a year it had  killed 12,733 people in Paris. (History Today. March 2013 UK).

1835 – First recorded photograph of a person was made by Frenchman Louis Daguerre. (The people detective. ©2001 T McGregor UK).

30 Dec 1848 – Socialist and Communist in Paris. The Leeds intelligencer Yorkshire UK.

24 April 1849 – Trial and conviction of M Proudhon the Socialist in France court of assizes of the Seine. New York Herald.

2 May 1849 – anti Socialists in France. North American and US Gazette Philadelphia and Pensylvania.

19 June 1849 – Attempted Socialist insurrection at Paris. The Belfast newsletter Ireland.

26 Oct 1849 – M Cabet the Socialist, founder of the Icaria settlement was sentenced by police of Paris to 2 years jail, false statements and fraud. The Boston Daily Atlas Massachusetts.

19 Feb 1850 – Socialism, the schools and the French government. Vermont Chronicle Bellows falls US.

15 March 1850 – Success of the Socialist candidates in Paris. Freemans journal and daily commercial observer. Dublin Ireland.

16 March 1850 – The French Press and the Socialist for Paris. The Times London UK.

16 March 1850 – The Socialist in Paris. North Wales UK.

14 May 1850 – A French Socialist. Daily intelligencer. Washington Columbus.

19 Dec 1850 – Socialism in France. Emancipator and Republican. Boston Massachusetts US.

11 Oct 1851 - Socialist proceedings in France. The National Star and Times journal Leeds UK.

19 Nov 1851 – The revolutionists of Paris. The Cork Examiner Ireland.

27 Dec 1851 – Socialist doings in France. The Newcastle journal upon Tyne UK.

20 March 1852 – Soon after the French revolution of 1848 the French govt installed the Socialist to tranquilize the people. Whig courier Maine US.

4 June 1852 – Proudhon the French Socialist. North American US Gazette Philadelphia Pensylvania.

5 June 1852 – M Proudhon French Socialist will leave for the US. Weekly Raleigh register North Carolina US.

21 Aug 1856 – Socialism and secret societies in France. The Bradford Observer UK.

30 July 1867 – Attempt to shoot the Czar of Russia in Paris. Wanganui Herald NZ.

1871 – Revolutionary workers and the Paris commune, left wing labour. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).

27 Jan 1871 – France, Paris civil war. They had recently lost a war with Germany, the surrender of Paris. (History Today. May 2014 UK).

26 Feb 1889 – Parisian Socialists. Ashburton Guardian. Papers Past NZ.

30 July 1896 – Socialist riots in France. Colonist. Papers Past NZ.

11 Dec 1899 – French Socialists. Auckland Star. Papers Past NZ.

26 Dec 1905 – Arrest of German spies in France. The Times London UK.

1910 – The German spy system in France. Paul Lanoir. London Mills and Boon. Worldcat database.

26 July 1910 – Angelo Anthony Buia was born 26 July 1910 in Nice France to Sicilian parents. He died 3 May 2003 in Montgomery Maryland USA. (Manhattan mafia guide. Eric Ferarra ©2011 US).

1911 – Ho Chi Minh left for France where he became a founding member of the French Communist party, he agitated for Vietnamese independence. Government attic USA.

24 April 1913 – Opium smoking in France. Northern Advocate NZ. Papers Past.

24 April 1913 – Opium in the French navy. Nelson Evening Mail NZ. Papers Past.

25 April 1913 – Opium in the French navy. Hawera Star NZ. Papers Past.

25 April 1913 – Opium habit in the French navy. Colonist NZ. Papers Past.

25 April 1913 – French opium dens. Marlborough Express NZ. Papers Past.

2 May 1913 – Opium curse in France. Wanganui Chronicle NZ. Papers Past.

2 May 1913 – Opium curse in France. Poverty Bay Herald NZ. Papers Past.

3 May 1913 – Opium curse in France. Hawera Star NZ. Papers Past.

7 May 1913 – Opium curse in France. Grey River Argus NZ. Papers Past.

15 June 1914 – Grave political crisis in France. Bay of Plenty Times. Papers Past NZ.

August 1914 – Germany bombed civilians from the air. Attack on the Paris railway station killed one women. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).

3 Aug 1914 – Jean Jaures. French Socialist assassinated in Paris. Evening Post. Papers Past NZ.

22 August 1914 – 27,000 French soldiers met their end. By the end of the year the French had suffered nearly a million casualties. The Germans 800,000 and 86,000 of the 120,000 first sent to France were killed or wounded. (The Economist. March April 2014).

Sept 1914 – During the battel of the Marne, German airmen bombed Paris on several occasions. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).

10 May 1916 – German spies in France by George Prade. The Times London UK.

15 Oct 1917 – Mata Hari a Dutch girl who spied for Germany during World War One was shot by a French firing squad. (The spys handbook. Herbie Brennan ©2003 UK).

12 Jan 1918 – French Socialists view. Ashburton Guardian. Papers Past NZ.

18 Dec 1918 – US Wilson in Europe at the Paris peace conference. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).

12 Jan 1919 – 27 nations met in Paris France, starvation was rampant, disease was spreading and people were displaced. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).

1929-33 – There were eight changes of government in France. (The momentous years. ©1961 Priestley and Betts).

1933-Nov 1940 – Maundy Gregory was sent to France in 1933 and told not to return to the UK. Called then Sir Arthur Gregory. He was interned by the Germans in November 1940 and died several months later. (Family skeletons. ©2005 UK R Paley & S Fowler).

13 June 1936 – M Leon Blum Socialist PM of France. Meeting National Council of the Socialist party. NZ Herald. Papers Past NZ.

1938 – By 1938 secrets were being shared with the British through Biffy Dunderdale, the SIS station chief in Paris. Enigma and German air force communications secrets. (GCHQ. Richard J Aldrich ©2010 UK).

1938-40 – In Sept 1938 Donald Maclean was posted to the British embassy in Paris, also being assigned as a KGB operative then. British foreign office. On 10 June 1940 Maclean married in Paris, Melinda Marling an American. (Too secret too long. Chapman Pincher ©1984 US).

1940-41 – In 1940 the French declared allegiance to the Nazi controlled Vichy government, with France soon by Germany, the Vichy in 1941. (The secret history of the American empire. John Perkins. ©2007 US).

14 May 1941 – 3,600 Jews were arrested in Paris. (History place. Holocaust timeline).

26-28 August 1942 – 7,000 Jews were arrested in unoccupied France. (History place. Holocaust timeline).

6 April 1944 – Nazis raid a French home for Jewish children. (History place. Holocaust timeline).

6 June 1944 – More than 100,000 Allied troops and 30,000 vehicles landed on the beach at Normandy France. 9,000 troops died during the landing. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone (c)2012 US).

26 August 1944 – Paris France had just been liberated after four years of German occupation. (History Today. April 2013 UK).

13 Nov 1944 – German spies shot in France. The Times London UK.

1945-1954 – In France by 1954 industrial production was 50% more than in the last year before World War II. The number of tractors on French farms rose from 25,000 in 1945 to more than 100,000 by 1949, the year when France stopped issuing food ration coupons. (Cold war. ©1993 M Walker).

November 1945 – With 907,000 members in France by the end of 1945, the Communists were the largest party in the country. (Cold war. ©1993 M Walker).

3 May 1946 – Colonel Dodderidge commander of the SSU station in Paris, Intel. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

May 1947 – The French Communist party voted no confidence in the government of PM Paul Ramadier, so he expelled their reps from his cabinet. In Sept 1947 the French Communist leader was Jacques Duclos. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

1950 – Two Americans Morris and Lona Cohen disappeared from New York in 1950. They were watched by the FBI for Communist Socialist association with the Rosenbergs. They used false passports supplied in Paris France by a New Zealand diplomat to enter the UK as the Krogers. The New Zealander was a Soviet agent named Paddy Costello, who moved to the UK to become professor of Russian at Manchester university. (Too secret too long. Chapman Pincher ©1984 US).

1950 – The US Desert Inn, Meyer Lansky used millions skimmed from Nevada casinos to get traffick in Turkish through Marseilles France, setting up drug labs, and bribes for officials. (Money and power. (c)2001 US).

7-9 Sept 1950 – The French arrested and expelled 288 foreign Communists, para military of the French Communist party. Its journal the Mundo Obrere. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

1953 – In 1953 Rosario Ario Farulla was convicted of conspiracy for his role in the international drug ring that smuggled vast amounts of heroin into the US from France. (Manhattan mafia guide. Eric Ferrara ©2011 US).

April 1956 – Paris April 1956, the Soviets bugged the EUCOM HQ in Paris. Listening devices were found in the EUCOM conference room, bugging. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

22 Oct 1956 – Pierre Boursicot head of SDECE Paris and Operation Musketeer, to get rid of Nasser in Egypt. UK and Israeli delegations flew to France. 28 Oct 1956 Israeli forces were mobilised. The next day Israeli forces crossed the border into Egypt. (Secret wars ©2009 G Thomas US).

1958-63 – Vietnam’s Nhu imported opium into Vietnam from Laos. Nhu and the Corsican mafia in France. 1958 Laos drugs into South Vietnam. The JFK assassination and the Asian drug trade. (Who really killed Kennedy. Jerome C Corsi ©2013 US).

Nov 1958 – Concern about atmospheric effects, Americans, Russians and British at a meeting on testing in Nov 1958. Only the French, since then, had exploded a nuclear bomb. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

1959-63 – In 1959, photocopies of top secret papers which were passed by a KGB agent with access to NATO files. Arrest of Greorges Paques, the deputy press officer working for NATO passing NATO documents to a Soviet embassy official in Paris, tried and jailed. Paques entered NATO in 1962, after Golitsyn fled to the West.

1960-63 – Jack Ruby and New Orleans mafia boss Carlos Marcello, the French Marseilles heroin trade through New Orleans and Texas in the 1960s. The French connection. (Who really killed Kennedy. Jerome C Corsi (c)2013 US).

Oct 1961 – A Soviet delegation went to Paris to attend the Conference of the International Oceanographic Commission. Among its members were two officers, Rear Admiral Chekurov and Captain Ryzhkov. (Penkovsky papers ©1965 P Penkonsky).

1962-63 – Golitsyn’s story about “Sapphire” a spy ring of about 12 agents in France. KGB in the French intel services. NATO in Paris. SDECE and a KGB spy ring, KGB agents in the French ministry of Defence, Foreign affairs, interiors. General de Gaule. Al Ulmer was CIA station chief in Paris.

Aug 1962 – De Gaulle of France, one assassination attempt in Aug 1962 when his car was  riddled with bullets, the general was unhurt. De Gaulle was the subject of six assassination attempts. (Gods assassins ©2009 G Baddeley P Woods UK).

June 1963 – Jailed and exiled to France after the 1963 riots, Khomeini continued to fuel Iranian dissent with sermons smuggled into Iran on audio cassette tapes. (Americas wars ©2003 Huchthausen).

Nov 1963 – A 1967 CIA report said, at the very moment President Kennedy was shot, a CIA officer was meeting with a Cuban agent in Paris France, giving him an assassination device for use against Castro. (Bay of pigs. Howard Jones ©2008 US).

Nov 1963 – The US mafia. Carlos Marcello and Giancana and Santo Trafficante. Heroin distribution network in the US from Antoine Guerini and his French Marseille based heroin ring. US mafia and the French Marseille mafia and south Vietnam govt heroin trade. (Who really killed Kennedy. Jerome C Corsi ©2013 US).

23 Nov 1963 – JFK assassination. Jean Souetre aka Michel Roux aka Michel Mertz, a Corsican assassin with ties to the French connection heroin drug trade. See CIA docs 1977. (Who really killed Kennedy. Jerome C Corsi ©2013 US).

1964 – SDECE ties to the CIA just stopped in 1964. Normal relations just came to a halt, because of the de Vosjoli affair and the way Angleton dealt with the French about Golitsyn leads. The Sapphire allegations gathered dust, and no SDECE member was ever found officially to be working for the KGB.

1968 – France sold supersonic Mirage 5 fighters to the new military government in Peru. (Arms bazaar ©1977 Sampson).

Feb 1970 – Frances Pompidou, under criticism from Israel, sold Mirages to Libya, where colonels had seized power. Libya loaned some of the Mirages to Egypt. (Arms bazaar ©1977 Sampson).

23 June 1971 – Attack on a Jordanian target in Paris. One person was arrested.

8 Dec 1972 – Mohmoud Hamshan was killed by an exploding telephone in Paris.

1973 – Malcolm Gordon Field was jailed in Paris, companies and bank accounts in 11 countries. Australian. (Smack express. Clive Small ©2010 Australia).

1973 – Banque Arabe et Internationale d’investissment BAII. BAII was founded in Paris in 1973 as a consortium bank, that is, an institution owned by several other banks. Like BCCI, BAII was owned by a Luxembourg holding company but had its HQ elsewhere. In BAII’s case it was in Paris. Place Vendonna. Bank of America was the only major US bank to hold stock in BAII. Yves Lamarche was BAII’s longtime chief executive. Lamarche had been a senior official of Bank of America and had encouraged it to invest in Abedi’s bank BCCI. He then joined the BCCI board of directors, remaining on the board after moving to BAII. BAAI acted as a front for BCCI.

March 1973 – Pakistan and Frances Saint Gobain Nucleaire signed a contract for the basic design for a large reprocessing plant. (Spying on the bomb ©2006 Richelson).

15 March 1973 – Planned attack on Jordanian Israeli embassies in Paris. Four people were arrested all released and expelled.

6 April 1973 – Basil al-Kubaisi was shot in Paris.

28 June 1973 – Mohammed Boudia was killed in a car bomb in Paris.

5 Sept 1973 – The Saudi Arabian embassy was attacked. Five attackers were allowed to fly to Kuwait with six hostages. The attackers were handed over to PLO on 11 Sept 1973.

Sept 1974 – French embassy Hague takeover.

13 Jan 1975 – Paris bazooka attack wounded three people.

19 Jan 1975 – Arab terrorists attacked Orly airport in Paris. Ten hostages were taken. The French gave the terrorists a plane to fly them to safety in Baghdad Iraq.

19 Jan 1975 – Paris pistol grenade attack wounded 21 people.

27 June 1976 – Air Force airbus Entebbe hijack in which four people were killed.

Aug 1977 – A month after Pakistan’s Bhutto was ousted by his military, the French suspended deliveries for the SGN reprocessing plant. Due to US disclosure to French officials of Pakistan’s nuclear plans. (Spying on the bomb ©2006 Richelson).

20 May 1978 – Machine gun attack in Paris. Two people were killed and five injured.

June 1978 – Production of weapons grade plutonium. The SGN contract was terminated, but 95% of the blueprints for the reprocessing plant were already provided to Pakistan. By the time France backed out of the Chashma contract Pakistan was also pursuing the uranium enrichment path to the bomb. (Spying on the bomb ©2006 Richelson).

1979 – The Marseilles mafia, the truth behind the world of drug trafficking. Pierre Galante Louis Sapin WH Allen publisher.

1979 – New Zealander Yvonne Crossley was shot dead in France in 1979 with her six year old daughter. Mr Asia linked. (Law breakers mischief .©2009 Bronwyn Sell)

Feb 1979 – Khomeini returned to Iran from exile in France. (Americas wars ©2003 Huchthausen).

June 1979 – The French ambassador and embassy first secretary visited Kahuta area Pakistan. The road was blocked by two vehicles. Six Pakistanis pulled the diplomats from their car and beat them up. Pakistan ordered the attack to frighten people away from the nuclear facility. (Spying on the bomb ©2006 Richelson).

1980 – Attempted assassination of former Iranian PM Shahpour Bakhtiar in Paris. The would be assassin Anis Naccache was a leftist and recent convert to Islam.

12 June 1980 – Paris locker explosion.

1982 – Paris, machine gun attack, two people were killed.

April 1982 – SDECE was changed to DGSE by Mitterand.

1983 – France had ceased arms sales to Libya and assisted Chad in repelling a Libyan invasion. (Americas wars ©2003 P Huchthausen).

15 July 1983 – Paris, suitcase explosion, seven people were killed and 56 injured.

1984 – Records of the BCCI Paris branch for 1984 show substantial deposits from the central banks of Mauritania, Togo and Tunisia.

18 Jan 1984 – Air France explosion.

8 Feb 1984 – The ambassador of UAE was shot dead in Paris.

1986 – Mugniyeh was leaving Charles de Gaulle airport after several days of secret talks with the French government. The CIA gave a copy of the passport he was using, but the French declined to stop him. The US had seen Mughniyeh on an international flight and sought to have him arrested.

1986 – France refused to detain Mugniyah.

3 Feb 1986 – Paris Champs Elysees bomb in which eight people were wounded.

3 Feb 1986 – Paris Eiffel tower bomb was diffused.

4 Feb 1986 – Paris bookstore bomb.

5 Feb 1986 – Paris Forum des Halles bomb.

6 Feb 1986 – 80 bomb scares.

20 March 1986 – Paris Champs Elysee bomb two people were killed and 28 wounded.

1989 – For a detailed account of the Peregrini see Yann le Bohec L’Armee Romaine sous le Haut Empire (Editors Picard Paris 1989).

1990 – John W Young. France the cold war and the western alliance 1944-49. French foreign policy and post war Europe. Leister uni press.

1990 – Banque Arabe el Internationale d’Investissement BAII, the consortium bank in Paris, had long had close ties to BCCI, Yves Lamarche. BAII played a role in some of BCCI’s schemes, lending $50 million to finance the takeover of First American and providing funds for Pharaon to buy Independence bank in Los Angeles, in both transactions BAII fronted for BCCI. In summer 1990 BAII was taken over by Banque Nationale de Paris at a cost of 600 million francs, more than $100 million.

Nov 1990 – The Pan European Summit in Paris formally ended the cold war. (Cold war ©1993 M Waller).

1993 – Arlette Farge. Fragile lives. Violence, power and solidarity in eighteenth century Paris. Cabndie.

Dec 1994 – Bombings of the Paris metro later in 1994 were traced to Algerian’s trained in Afghan camps. In Dec 1994 four Algerian terrorists from the Armed Islamic group hijacked an Air France jet. They planned to fly to Paris and slam the plane into the Eiffel tower. French authorities diverted them to Marseilles where all four were shot dead by French commandos. (Ghost wars ©2004 Steve Coll).

24 Dec 1994 – Air France hijacking. Members of the Armed Islamic Group seized an Air France flight to Algeria. The four terrorists were killed during a rescue effort.

1995 – Directorate Generale de la Securite Exterieure DGSE successor agency to Serviuce de Documentation exterieure et de Contre espionage SDECE. Groupement de Communications Radioelectriques GCR communicatons intelligence. Direction du Renseignements militaries DRM successor agency to the Deuxieme Bureau of the French General staff military intelligence. Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire DST counter intelligence. (Espionage ©1995 E Volkman.

27 July 1995 – Paris bomb killed seven people.

May 1996 – Meeting of the Saudi billionaires at the hotel Monceau in Paris to decide who would pay for bin Laden’s operations and how much. Saudi financing of bin Ladens network. (Modern Jihad ©2003 Napoleoni).

1 Aug 1996 – Bombing of archbishop of Oran. A bomb exploded at the home of the French archbishop of Oran killing him and his chauffeur. The attack happened after the archbishop’s meeting with the French foreign minister. The Algerian Armed Islamic Group GIA was suspected.

3 Dec 1996 – Paris subway explosion. A bomb exploded aboard a Paris subway train as it arrived at the Port Royal station, killing two French nationals, a Moroccan and a Canadian. Injured 86 people. Among those injured were one US citizen and a Canadian. No one claimed responsibility for the attack but Algerian extremists were suspected.

13 March 1997 – 200 French paedophiles held. Alex Duval Smith. The Guardian London UK.

1998 – Hugh Gough. The newspaper press in the French revolution. Routledge. (History today. Feb 2014 p17).

1998 – Through Arab banking corp bin Laden speculated on the French stock market in shares, including stock from BNP and Societe Generale netting $20 million profit.

16 March 1998 – France Socialist led coalition. AFX news London UK. France Socialists.

27 May 1999 – European Socialist leaders met in Paris before EU elections. AFX news London UK.

9 Nov 1999 – Socialist international leaders Blair and Jospin synthesis. BBC London UK. Elections and Socialist international speakers Blair and Jospin at the Socialist international in Paris France.

2000 – The history of France. W Scott Haire. Google books.

17 Feb 2000 – A French Socialist delegation visits Vietnam Socialist party. BBC London UK. French Socialist party FSP led by Regis Passerieux.

20 March 2001 – Paris elections Socialist mayor. Paul Holmes. The Daily Telegraph Surry Hills NSW Australia. Socialist party in France. Bertrand Delanoe Socialists, Greens, Communists and leftists.

18 Sept 2001 – La Grande discretion des banques islamiques Le Monde. Marc Roche.

July 2003 – There are 11,285 names engraved on the monument in France, they are Canadian ‘missing’, the soldiers who died in France and have no known graves. First world war. (Practical family history. July 2003 p40-41).

20 Feb 2004 – FBIS According to the French counter intel al-Qaeda recruited in France between 35,000 and 45,000 men and was organising them in military units. They met regularly for training in the use of weapons and explosives, combat tactics and indoctrination and were controlled from local and district command centres. Under the organisation national French command.

19 Oct 2004 – Police found ETA arms in France. Officers seized 25 kilograms (55 pounds) of dynamite 188 guns, 30 homemade mortars and 90,000 rounds of ammunition.

3 June 2006 – France Socialist crime. Weekend Australian ACT. Socialist candidate.

15 Nov 2006 – Paris skyscraper evacuated after bomb alert.

19 Nov 2006 – Socialist, Royal. Kersten Gehmlich. Sunday Telegraph Surry Hills NSW Australia. Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin.

7 Jan 2007 – Chinese party office vows to enhance ties with the French Socialist party. BBC London UK. Socialist party of France. Segolene Royal is leader of the French Socialist party.

9 Jan 2007 – Chinese parliament vice head visits French Socialist party head for ties. BBC London UK. Segolene Royal head of French Socialist party, presidential candidate.

18 April 2007 – Socialist, Sarkozy’s close rival. James Button. Guardian. The Age Melbourne Vic Australia. Socialist party candidate Segolene Royal. Socialist party Francois Hollande.

2008 – The hunt for Nazi spies, fighting espionage in Vichy France. Simon Kitson. Chicago uni press. Worldcat Database.

18 Oct 2011 – Paris French Socialist MP Francois Hollande. The Courier Ballarat Vic Australia. Socialist leader Martine Aubry.

28 Jan 2012 – Hollande Socialist party. Adam Sage, Australia. Canberra ACT. Francois Hollande Socialists.

8 May 2012 – Socialist Francois Hollande presidency, Sarkozy. “Mr Normal”? Socialist France. Julian Swallow. The Advertiser. Adelaide Australia. Socialist party candidate.

12 May 2012 – France’s first Socialist leader in 12 years. Francois Hollande. Ann Scott Young. The Examiner Launcester Tas Australia.

8 June 2012 – France’s Socialist government. The Standard Warrnambool Vic Australia. Lowers retirement age in France.

11 Sept 2012 – Paris France Socialist Francois Hollande. The Bendigo Advertiser Vic Australia. Pledged 30 billion.

Oct 2012 – Mahdi Amidi Ahangh. Missing. Interpol.

12 Oct 2012 – The Telegraph. Marseille police, crime, corruption and cover up of the highest level by Henry Samuel.

2013 – Many parts of Europe also suffered severe flooding in 2013. Hailstorms in Germany and France. (The Economist. March April 2014).

22 Sept 2013 – Newstalk ZB NZ. French police seized 1.3 tonnes of cocaine. AAP. Air France flight originated in Caracus, the Venezualan capital.

1 July 2014 – TVNZ One news AP. A French bank was fined $9 billion for violations BNP Paribas. Clients in Sudan, violated US trade sanctions Sudan, Cuba and Iran. US Justice dept.

5 Aug 2014 – Paris officer held in police HQ drug theft. 3 news NZ AFP. 52kg of cocaine from Paris HQ, a drug squads officer suspect, worth 2 million.

10 Aug 2014 – Decan chronicle. Surplus supermarket food may go to the poor, unsold good food may go to charity. French MPs in Paris.

5 Sept 2014 – Frontpage. Socialist President of France is a leftist who hates the poor. Daniel Greenfield.

17 Oct 2014 – Anti poor prejudice. 8 million people live in poverty in France. RFI. Prejudice about the poor. Economic racism.