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• Bayeux speech: General de Gaulle’s first address to the people of France (1946) - It is true that public powers are only valid, in fact and in law, if they are in accordance with the best interests of the country, if they are based on the confident support of citizens. When it comes to institutions, building on anything else would be building on sand. It would be to risk seeing the edifice collapse once again during one of those crises to which, by the nature of things, our country is so often exposed.
• CAPITULARY(Decree) OF CHARLEMAGNE : Carolingian law 802 CE - The most serene and most Christian emperor Charles did choose from among his nobles the most prudent and the wisest men — archbishops as well as other bishops, and venerable abbots, and pious laymen — and did send them over his whole kingdom; and did grant through them, by means of all the following provisions, that men should live according to law and right.
• CHANDERNAGORE AGREEMENT BETWEEN INDIA AND FRANCE: 1951 - The Government of the French Republic transfers to the Government of the Republic of India all the properties owned by the State and the public bodies lying within the territory of the Free Town of Chandernagore.
• Charter for the environment-2004 (Republic of France) - Public policies shall promote sustainable development. To this end they shall reconcile the protection and enhancement of the environment with economic development and social progress.
• Code on commercial exploitation of  image of children under sixteen on Internet-France - For several years, videos featuring children at different times in their lives have been published on video-sharing platforms such as YouTube. The children are thus brought to be filmed within the framework of leisure activities, challenges and tutorials or in the process of testing, tasting or unpacking various products.
• Code on security measures against perpetrators of terrorist offenses at end of their sentence-France - Code for establishing security measures against perpetrators of terrorist offenses at the end of their sentence-FRANCE Instaurant des mesures de sûreté à l’encontre des auteurs d’infractions terroristes à l’issue de leur peine.   Scheme of the Law Since 2017, the
• Constitution of France -1958 - The French People solemnly proclaim their attachment to Human Rights and to the principles of national sovereignty as defined by the Declaration of 1789, confirmed and supplemented by the preamble to the 1946 Constitution, as well as to the rights and duties defined in the 2004 Environmental Charter. By virtue of these principles and that of the self-determination of the peoples, the Republic offers to the overseas territories which manifest the will to join it new institutions based on the common ideal of freedom, equality and fraternity and designed for their democratic development.
• Education for the Peasantry in France by Léon Gambetta-1800 - Speech by Léon Gambetta The peasantry is intellectually several centuries behind the enlightened and educated classes in this country. The distance between them and us is immense. We have received a classical or scientific education—even the imperfect one of our
• French Civil Code - Statutes and administrative acts, when the latter are published in the Journal officiel de la République française, take effect on the date they specify or, if none is specified, on the day following the date of their publication. Nevertheless, if the enforcement of some provisions of such acts requires an additional enactment, the effective date of the enforcement of these provisions is deferred to the effective date of the additional enactment. In case of an emergency, statutes whose decree of promulgation so declares and administrative acts for which the Government so orders by special provision, shall enter into force immediately upon their publication. The provisions of this Article do not apply to acts applicable to individuals.
• Interview with Agnès Pannier-Runacher, Minister for Energy Transition on energy sobriety, nuclear energy and wind turbines (France-27/09/2022) - Because in this case, you see that it is not based on a scientific argument, and moreover, in a very simple way, sobriety is an object that is worked on by many of economists and which is one of the fundamental paths to achieve decarbonization, to fight against global warming, there are three basic issues, we must save the energy that we waste, it is sobriety, it is the energy efficiency too, that is to say, for example, change your lighting for lighting that is more efficient
• Interview with Bruno Le Maire, Minister of Economy & Finance on economic growth, inflation, bank rates, food prices, tariff shield, energy issues and pension (France-14/09/2022) - We are doing it in two stages, because I want us to find the right balance between recovery, the competitiveness of our companies, and we must lower production taxes, because that is what will lead to reindustrialization from the country. We have already lowered them by 10 billion, no one but us has done it, I tell entrepreneurs who are worried, but look at what we have done.
• La Déclaration des Droits de l’Homme et du Citoyen de-1789 - Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789-Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can only be based on common utility.
• Last will of the French king Louis XVI (25/12/1792) - Copy of the last will of Louis XVI.   In the name of the Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Amen. I, Louis the XVI. king of France, having been for better than four months detained with my family
• Law of France - France is an indivisible, secular, democratic and social Republic. It ensures equality before the law for all citizens without distinction of origin, race or religion. She respects all beliefs. Its organization is decentralized.
• Law of Succession under the French Civil Code - A succession is opened by civil death from the moment at which that death is incurred, conformably to the regulations of chap. 2, section 2, of the title, "Of the Enjoyment and Privation of Civil Rights."
• Napoleon Bonaparte’s view on Islam - A wise conqueror supports his triumphs by protecting and even elevating the religion of the conquered people. Bonaparte's principle was, as he himself has often told me, to look upon religions as the work of men, but to respect them everywhere as a powerful engine of government. He never set foot in a mosque; and only on one occasion, which I shall hereafter mention, dressed himself in the Mahometan costume. He attended the festivals to which the green turbans invited him. His religious tolerance was the natural consequence of his philosophic spirit.
• Napoleon I’s speech to the French people-1797 - Napoleon Bonaparte-Speech to the Directory Delivered on December 10, 1797 CITIZENS, the French people, in order to be free, had kings to combat. To obtain a Constitution founded on reason, it had the prejudices of eighteen centuries to overcome, The
• Rules of procedure of National Assembly of France-2010 - Rules of procedure February 2010   WARNING 1 ° The provisions in italics of the third sentence in article 16, paragraph 2 and of article 149, paragraph 4, as well as the versión in italics of article 28, shall come
• Speech by President Macron of Republic of France At 77th Session of UN General Assembly (20/09/2022) - As early as March 16, the International Court of Justice declared Russian aggression illegal and demanded Russia's withdrawal. Russia has decided in doing so to pave the way for more wars of annexation today in Europe, but perhaps tomorrow in Asia, Africa or Latin America.
• The Civil Code of Napoleon 1803 - he promulgation made by the first consul shall be taken to be known in the department which shall be the seat of government, one day after the promulgation; and in each of the other departments, after the expiration of the same interval augmented by one day for every ten myriameters (about twenty ancient leagues) between the town in which the promulgation shall have been made, and the chief place of each department.
• The French Constitution - The French people solemnly proclaim their commitment to human rights and the principles of national sovereignty as defined by the Declaration of 1789 , confirmed and supplemented by the preamble to the 1946 Constitution , as well as the rights of the people. and duties defined in the 2004 Environmental Charter .
• The French Constitution of 1791 - The National Assembly, wishing to establish the French Constitution upon the principles it has just recognized and declared, abolishes irrevocably the institutions which were injurious to liberty and equality of rights.

• The French White Paper on defence and national security -2008 - Court of cassation - The Cour de cassation (Court of cassation) is the highest court in the French judiciary. The Cour-de-cassation plays an essential role in the functioning of democracy. It ensures that the interpretation of law is the same for everyone.
• The Salic Law enacted by Clovis I- 500 CE - If any one shall set fire to a house in which men were sleeping, as many freemen as were in it can make complaint before the "Thing;" and if any one shall have been burned in it, the incendiary shall be sentenced to 2500 denars, which make 63 shillings.
• Trial of French King Louis XVI by the National Convention (1754-1793) - The sitting of the Convention commenced by reading the act of accusation against Louis XVI, which was presented by Barbaroux in the name of the commission of twenty-one. It contained an enumeration of the principal charges made against the unfortunate monarch, and each charge was followed by a list of the pieces on which the proofs are to be founded.