France

plural Frances · alternative obsolete Fraunce

1. uncountableusuallyA country located primarily in Western Europe. Official name: French Republic. Capital and largest city: Paris.

   Hollande told cheering supporters in his rural fiefdom of Corrèze in south-west France that he was best-placed to lead France towards change, saying the vote marked a "rejection" of Sarkozy and a "sanction" against his five years in office.

   2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in The Guardian

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   For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France.

   1837, George Sand, translated by Stanley Young, Mauprat, Cassandra Editions, published 1977, →ISBN, page 237

   Although scholars have offered different chronologies and causalities for the move toward modernity, most have resolved the paradox of the two Frances by placing them in sequence: "diverse France gave way over time as modern centralized France gathered force."

   1998, Shanny Peer, France on Display: Peasants, Provincials, and Folklore, →ISBN, page 2

   1. uncountableusuallyIn particular, metropolitan France, the part of France which is in Europe.

      La1ere of June 6, 2018 published a report containing the official discourse […] on the use of mules and swallowers to smuggle cocaine from French Guiana to France.

      2020 October 3, Daurius Figueira, Transnational Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking in the Second Decade of the 21st Century […] , AHTLE FIGUEIRA, →ISBN, page 259

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      […] the film Mercenary / Mercenaire, a film made somewhat unique among French immigrant narratives for focusing on the experiences of Pacific Islanders making their way from French Polynesia to France.

      2022 June 8, Ruxandra Trandafoiu, Border Crossings and Mobilities on Screen, Routledge, →ISBN

2. uncountableusuallyA surname from French, famously held by—

   He had a 0.13 GPA and was still in ninth grade. With a class rank of 62 out of 120, he was being promoted through the course levels, which led France to believe everything was fine when it wasn’t.

   2022 March 29, Chris Papst, “From 0.13 GPA to future graduate, mom of Baltimore student says 'We did it'”, in WNWO-TV

   1. uncountableusuallyAnatole France, a French poet, journalist, and novelist.
3. alternativeuncountableusuallyAlternative form of Frances; A female given name; feminine of Francis.