60 résultats pour "faction"

• Définition: FACTION, substantif féminin.

  sans idée péjorative. Il ne risquait sa jambe gauche, et tout ce qui en dépendait, qu'après avoir assuré la droite et tout son système. Il appartenait à la faction des binaires (HONORÉ DE BALZAC, Théorie de la démarche, 1833, page 632). B.— [Désigne une action] 1. Dans le langage militaire. Surveillance exercée par un homme en armes aux abords d'un poste, dans un lieu déterminé. Être de, en faction; mettre, placer un soldat, une sentinelle en faction; monter, prendre la faction; relever de facti...

• 1794 : Discours de Robespierre contre les factions.

• Bourguignons (faction des).

• Armagnacs (faction des) Parti opposé aux Bourguignons pendant la guerre de Cent* Ans.

• Bourguignons (faction des) Parti rival de celui des Armagnacs pendant la guerre de Cent* Ans.

• Martin Van Buren.

  political ambitions. The Clintonians cited as one example of Van Buren's unscrupulous methods his support of a convention in 1821 to revise the state's constitution. Van Buren and hisBucktails said they wanted to make the constitution more democratic. The Clintonians retorted that the real aim was to oust them from office. Both sides were right. Therevised constitution introduced a needed extension of voting rights and improved the operation of the state government. However, it also removed many...

• Martin Van Buren

  political ambitions. The Clintonians cited as one example of Van Buren's unscrupulous methods his support of a convention in 1821 to revise the state's constitution. Van Buren and hisBucktails said they wanted to make the constitution more democratic. The Clintonians retorted that the real aim was to oust them from office. Both sides were right. Therevised constitution introduced a needed extension of voting rights and improved the operation of the state government. However, it also removed many...

• James Monroe.

  In October 1786, Monroe resigned from Congress and settled with his bride in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he began a law practice. His retirement from politics wasbrief. He was soon elected to the town council, and then once again to the Virginia legislature. However, Monroe never lost touch with national politics. He corresponded regularly with both Jefferson and Madison. In 1786 Monroe attended the AnnapolisConvention, which had been called to consider interstate commerce and other matters...

• James Monroe - USA History.

  In October 1786, Monroe resigned from Congress and settled with his bride in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he began a law practice. His retirement from politics wasbrief. He was soon elected to the town council, and then once again to the Virginia legislature. However, Monroe never lost touch with national politics. He corresponded regularly with both Jefferson and Madison. In 1786 Monroe attended the AnnapolisConvention, which had been called to consider interstate commerce and other matters...

• James A.

  Treasury John Sherman, another Ohioan. He went to the Republican national convention as head of his state's delegation and manager of the Sherman campaign. The Republican Party at that time was split into two factions, the Stalwarts, led by Roscoe Conkling, senator from New York, and the Half-Breeds, led by Blaine. The twogroups had few political differences, but disagreed over the division of appointments to federal positions, known as patronage. The Stalwarts wanted control of all federal ap...

• Russian Revolutions of 1917 (Histoire) .

  as Marxists. They believed that the working class—with its struggles to organize trade unions and to bring about political reforms of benefit to the majority ofpeople—would become the primary force for revolutionary change. The Russian Marxists formed the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) in 1898. By 1903,however, the RSDLP had split into two factions. The faction called the Bolsheviks (from the Russian word for “majority”), led by Vladimir Ilich Lenin, favored a more centralized a...

• Otons ces mots diaboliques, noms de partis, factions et séditions, luthériens, huguenots, papistes; ne changeons pas le nom de chrétien.

• Libéria (1994-1995) Depuis décembre 1989, le pays était ravagé par un sanglant conflit, des factions rebelles ayant engagé une lutte...

  Libéria (1994-1995) Depuis décembre 1989, le pays était ravagé par un sanglant conflit, des factions rebelles ayant engagé une lutte farouche contre la dictature de Samuel K. Doe pour ensuite se disputer le pouvoir. L'enlisement du processus de désarmement prévu par les accords de paix de Cotonou, signés le 25 juillet 1993, a tourné à la catastrophe. En juin 1994, à peine 3 000 des 60 000 combattants officiellement recensés avaient déposé les armes. Les élections générales prévues pour septembr...

• Histoire de la Revolution francaise, IV et sublime, des ennemis lents, routiniers, decousus, et etouffer des factions qui voulaient de l'ancien regime a tous les degres, de la revolution a tous les degres, et qui n'avaient ni accord ni but determine.

  On se souvient du jeune Varlet, perorant sur les places publiques, du jeune Lyonnais Leclerc, si violent dans ses discours aux Jacobins, et suspect meme a Marat par ses emportements; de ce Jacques Roux, si dur envers l'infortune Louis XVI qui voulait lui remettre son testament; tous ces hommes s'etaient signales dans la derniere insurrection, et avaient une grande influence au comite de l'Eveche et aux Cordeliers. Ils trouverent mauvais que la constitution ne renfermat rien contre les accapareur...

• Discours sur la première décade de Tite-Live VII COMBIEN LES ACCUSATIONS SONT NÉCESSAIRES DANS

  Machiavel mant. Cette proposition, parvenue à la connaissance du peuple, excita une indignation si générale, qu'au sortir du sénat Corio­ lan eût été mis en pièces si les tribuns ne l'avaient cité devant eux pour présenter sa défense. C'est à l'occasion de cet événement que nous observons combien il est utile, important, dans une république, d'avoir des institutions qui fournissent à la masse des citoyeps des moyens d'exhaler leur aversion co...

• Djibouti (country) - country.

  l’Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD; Front for the Renewal of Unity and Democracy) represents the Afar minority. The Parti National Démocratique (PND; Democratic National Party) and the Parti du Renouveau Démocratique (PRD; Democratic Renewal Party) are both small opposition parties favoring democratic reforms. VI HISTORY Djibouti lies at a major global crossroads where, some 100,000 years ago, early humans migrated from Africa to the Middle East. Livestock herding, which remainsimportant...

• Vladimir Lenin I INTRODUCTION Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), Russian revolutionary leader and theorist, who presided over the first government of Soviet Russia and then that of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

  with Japan ( see Russo-Japanese War). A string of military defeats and the strains placed on society by the war made for a tense atmosphere in Saint Petersburg, and by the beginning of 1905 various segments of Russian society, including students and liberal members of the nobility, were calling for political reform. When an unarmedcrowd of workers marched to the city’s Winter Palace on January 9 (or January 22, in the Western, or New Style, calendar) to submit a petition to Emperor Nicholas II,s...

• Vladimir Lenin.

  with Japan ( see Russo-Japanese War). A string of military defeats and the strains placed on society by the war made for a tense atmosphere in Saint Petersburg, and by the beginning of 1905 various segments of Russian society, including students and liberal members of the nobility, were calling for political reform. When an unarmedcrowd of workers marched to the city’s Winter Palace on January 9 (or January 22, in the Western, or New Style, calendar) to submit a petition to Emperor Nicholas II,s...

• Vladimir Lenin .

  with Japan ( see Russo-Japanese War). A string of military defeats and the strains placed on society by the war made for a tense atmosphere in Saint Petersburg, and by the beginning of 1905 various segments of Russian society, including students and liberal members of the nobility, were calling for political reform. When an unarmedcrowd of workers marched to the city’s Winter Palace on January 9 (or January 22, in the Western, or New Style, calendar) to submit a petition to Emperor Nicholas II,s...

• La révolution des œillets : Comment, un jour d'avril 1974, le Portugal sort de près de cinquante ans de dictature

  GIIANDOLA. VILA MORENA LA LUTTE DES FACTIONS Voici le texte de la chanson de José Alfonso qui donne le signal du coup d'État, le 25 avri1 1974. • À l'euphorie de la libération succède une période instable où les factions militaires, les partis politiques naissants et les syndicats tentent tous Grândola, vila morena Terra da fraternidade 0 povo é quem mais ordena Oentro de ti, 6 cidade Dentro de ti, 6 cidade 0 povo é quem mais ordena Terra da fr...

• Political Parties in the United States.

  quickly enabled the Republican Party to overpower the Know-Nothings. Although the Republicans lost their first campaign for the presidency in 1856, they triumphed in1860 with former congressman Abraham Lincoln. The Republican victory resulted in part from the division of the Democratic Party into Northern and Southern factions,each of which ran its own presidential candidate, and in part from their success at attracting Whigs and Know-Nothings who had opposed the Republicans in 1856.During the C...

• Reformation .

  Saxony, he made war against the Schmalkaldic League, a defensive association of Protestant princes. The Roman Catholic forces were successful at first. Later,however, Duke Maurice went over to the Protestant side, and Charles V was obliged to make peace. The religious civil war ended with the religious Peace of Augsburg in1555. Its terms provided that each of the rulers of the German states, which numbered about 300, choose between Roman Catholicism and Lutheranism and enforcethe chosen faith up...

• Beyrouth.

  Proche-Orient. Le développement économique concerne en premier lieu les activités tertiaires, la finance et le négoce, qui s’accordent le mieux avec la vocationinternationale de Beyrouth et la présence de la main-d’œuvre la mieux formée du Proche-Orient. En 1920, Beyrouth devient la capitale du Grand Liban, placé sous mandat français jusqu’en 1943. Au cours de ces vingt-trois années, l’architecture européenne s’impose, demême que la tenue vestimentaire occidentale et la pratique de la langue fra...

• avril 1996 dans le monde (histoire chronologique)

  Les relations entre 14 France et la Chine : le Premier ministre chinois Li Peng en visite sur le site d'Airbus Industrie. Des contrats pour l'achat d'appareils A 320 ci A 340 sont signés. ment ,, renforçant 1 'accord de 1993 qui prévoyait que ni Je Hezbollah ni Israël ne s'en prendraient aux popula­ tions civiles, un cessez-Je-feu entre en vigueur. Un groupe de surveil!ance composé de représentants des Etats­ Unis, de la France, d'Israël, de la...

• United Provinces of Central America.

  IV REUNION EFFORTS Efforts to reunite the Central American federation in the 1840s all failed. But unity was still seen as a desirable goal—to give the states more power when dealing withforeign nations and to tie together people with a common heritage. But as conservatives came to power in each of the states, they rejected a restored federation,associating the idea too closely with the hated Morazán and his liberal policies. Carrera’s Guatemala was the first formally to declare itself an inde...

• Republic of the Congo - country.

  rate of 50 CFA francs equal to 1 French franc was in force from 1948 to 1994, when the CFA franc was devalued by 50 percent. The leading commercial banks are theBanque Internationale du Congo and the Union Congolaise de Banques. E Foreign Trade In 2000 imports cost $930 million and exports earned $2.09 billion. The Congo engages in considerable trade with the nearby countries of Cameroon, the CentralAfrican Republic, and Gabon, with which it is joined in the Customs and Economic Union of Centra...

• Woman Suffrage - U.

  form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. For many years thereafter the association worked to advance women’s rights on both the state and federallevels. Besides Stone, Anthony, and Stanton, leaders and supporters of the association included the noted American feminists Harriet Beecher Stowe, Julia Ward Howe,Clara Barton, Jane Addams, and Carrie Chapman Catt. Largely as a result of agitation by the association, suffrage was granted in the states of Colorado (1893), Utahand Idaho (18...

• Millard Fillmore.

  B Vice President of the United States During the first half of 1850, Fillmore as vice president presided over the United States Senate (the upper chamber of Congress) as angry debates raged betweenNorthern and Southern sectionalists over the status of slavery in the recently acquired lands. His fairness and sense of humor in the chair were not enough to restorepeace among the contending senators. The antislavery faction, led by Senator Seward (the former governor of New York) and Senator Salmon...

• Millard Fillmore

  B Vice President of the United States During the first half of 1850, Fillmore as vice president presided over the United States Senate (the upper chamber of Congress) as angry debates raged betweenNorthern and Southern sectionalists over the status of slavery in the recently acquired lands. His fairness and sense of humor in the chair were not enough to restorepeace among the contending senators. The antislavery faction, led by Senator Seward (the former governor of New York) and Senator Salmon...

• Franklin Pierce.

  At the end of the war, Pierce returned home to his wife and six-year-old son. His law partnership had been dissolved, and he took a new partner. The new firm, like theold one, was highly successful. D Elder Statesman Pierce was by nature a politician. Although still in his early forties, as a retired U.S. senator he became New Hampshire's elder statesman and head of a group of lawyer-politicians called the Concord Clique, or the Regency. The group controlled the state's Democratic Party. Pierce...

• Franklin Pierce

  At the end of the war, Pierce returned home to his wife and six-year-old son. His law partnership had been dissolved, and he took a new partner. The new firm, like theold one, was highly successful. D Elder Statesman Pierce was by nature a politician. Although still in his early forties, as a retired U.S. senator he became New Hampshire's elder statesman and head of a group of lawyer-politicians called the Concord Clique, or the Regency. The group controlled the state's Democratic Party. Pierce...

• Hundred Years' War.

  knowledge of English tactics. Du Guesclin became Constable of France (head of the army) in 1370, and when he died in 1380, Clisson succeeded him. Charles also reorganized the French military, developing a full-time, professional army for the first time, and established a regular system of taxation to pay for it. Inaddition, France gained an important ally on the throne of the Spanish kingdom of Castile, Henry II, who had pledged support for Charles V. When the Caroline war began in 1369, the Eng...

• Hundred Years' War .

  knowledge of English tactics. Du Guesclin became Constable of France (head of the army) in 1370, and when he died in 1380, Clisson succeeded him. Charles also reorganized the French military, developing a full-time, professional army for the first time, and established a regular system of taxation to pay for it. Inaddition, France gained an important ally on the throne of the Spanish kingdom of Castile, Henry II, who had pledged support for Charles V. When the Caroline war began in 1369, the Eng...

• Andrew Johnson.

  As senator, Johnson continued to work for a homestead law, and he was disappointed when President James Buchanan vetoed the homestead act of 1860. On theslavery issue, Johnson still followed the orthodox Southern line, but with no great enthusiasm. He voted for the resolutions proposed in 1860 by Senator Jefferson Davisof Mississippi to implement the Dred Scott Decision of 1857, which stated that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories of the United States. C1 Presidential Electio...

• Andrew Johnson

  As senator, Johnson continued to work for a homestead law, and he was disappointed when President James Buchanan vetoed the homestead act of 1860. On theslavery issue, Johnson still followed the orthodox Southern line, but with no great enthusiasm. He voted for the resolutions proposed in 1860 by Senator Jefferson Davisof Mississippi to implement the Dred Scott Decision of 1857, which stated that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories of the United States. C1 Presidential Electio...

• Somalia - country.

  A Agriculture Livestock raising is the principal occupation in Somalia. The size of livestock herds began to recover in the mid-1990s after falling during the country’s civil war. Sheepand goats are the most numerous livestock, with smaller numbers of cattle. The principal crops grown are corn, sorghum, sugarcane, cassava, and bananas. B Forestry and Fishing While most wood is cut for fuel, Somalia’s major forestry export products before the 1990s were frankincense and myrrh. Fish is an import...

• Brian Mulroney.

  At the party convention Mulroney was one of the candidates who ran against Clark. This time Mulroney did not have to contend with a rival candidate from Québec. Healso had the support of the remnants of the Diefenbaker faction—who disliked Clark even more than they disliked Mulroney. Mulroney was also endorsed by asubstantial group of members of Parliament; this endorsement helped allay concerns about whether he could provide effective leadership in Parliament. Mulroney waselected leader of the...

• Brian Mulroney - Canadian History.

  At the party convention Mulroney was one of the candidates who ran against Clark. This time Mulroney did not have to contend with a rival candidate from Québec. Healso had the support of the remnants of the Diefenbaker faction—who disliked Clark even more than they disliked Mulroney. Mulroney was also endorsed by asubstantial group of members of Parliament; this endorsement helped allay concerns about whether he could provide effective leadership in Parliament. Mulroney waselected leader of the...

• Latin American Independence.

  be inferior and were not permitted a university education. In the lowest caste were the African slaves. As the Spanish monarchy tried to increase its authority, it was hampered by the power of the Catholic Church. The church, including various religious orders, hadacquired great wealth, including large holdings of land, in the colonies. The Jesuit order especially had gained extraordinary wealth and political influence, and it alsocontrolled much of the university and high school education in th...

• Les conflits à l'intérieur du Parti colorado (au pouvoir), divisé en factions irréconciliables depuis la chute du gouvernement du président...

  Les conflits à l'intérieur du Parti colorado (au pouvoir), divisé en factions irréconciliables depuis la chute du gouvernement du président Alfredo Stroessner en 1989, n'ont fait que s'accentuer. La situation est devenue critique à la mi-avril 1996. Les incursions politico-partisanes du chef de l'armée, le général Lino Oviedo, visant à promouvoir sa candidature aux élections présidentielles de 1998, ont exacerbé l'opposition. Le 22 avril, accusé de violer la loi qui interdit aux militaires de me...

• Libéria (1993-1994) Le conflit qui a ravagé le pays à partir de décembre 1989, date à laquelle des factions rebelles...

  Libéria (1993-1994) Le conflit qui a ravagé le pays à partir de décembre 1989, date à laquelle des factions rebelles ont engagé une lutte farouche contre la dictature de Samuel Kaneyon Doe pour ensuite se disputer le pouvoir, est entré dans une phase apparemment décisive le 17 juillet 1993. En effet, à cette date, un accord de paix entre les trois principaux belligérants a été conclu à Genève: le gouvernement intérimaire de Amos Sawyer, le Front national patriotique du Libéria (NPFL) de Charles...

• Tadjikistan (2000-2001): La crainte du grand voisin ouzbek Malgré sa fragilité structurelle, la coalition gouvernementale réunissant la faction "koulabi" du...

  Tadjikistan (2000-2001): La crainte du grand voisin ouzbek Malgré sa fragilité structurelle, la coalition gouvernementale réunissant la faction "koulabi" du président Imamali Rahmanov et l'opposition unie (qui s'étaient affrontées dans le cadre d'une guerre civile de 1992 à 1997) a bien tenu. En mars 2000, la commission de réconciliation nationale, devenue inutile, a été dissoute, ainsi que l'Unmot (Mission des Nations unies au Tadjikistan). Mais les Koulabis conservaient la part du lion (la Pr...

• Afghanistan 1993-1994 La guerre civile s'est intensifiée entre les différentes factions, après la prise de la capitale Kaboul en avril...

  Afghanistan 1993-1994 La guerre civile s'est intensifiée entre les différentes factions, après la prise de la capitale Kaboul en avril 1992. La capitale a été pratiquement détruite par les combats et les bombardements, incessants à partir du mois d'août 1992, mais particulièrement violents tout au long de l'année 1993. Le paysage politique et militaire est cependant demeuré très statique. Les quatre mêmes groupes ont continué de se disputer le pouvoir: Ahmed Shah Massoud, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, le...

• Cambodge de 1990 à 1994 : Histoire

  rapatriement des réfugiés, d'entamer la reconstruction économique et, enfin, qe préparer des élections générales. A la suite de cel accord, le prince Sihanouk rentre à Phnom Penh en novembre 1991. Non sans difficulté, I'APRONUC est mise en place en février 1992, sous la responsabilité d'un Japonais, Yasushi Akashi, représentant le secrétaire général de l'ONU. Une force internationale d'environ vingt­ deux mille hommes, comportant notamment des troupes v...

• guelfes et gibelins

• Sihanouk Norodom

  Norodom Sihanouk Peu d'hommes, au cours de l'histoire, se sont à ce point identifiés à leur pays. Pendant quinze ans, de 1955 jusqu'aujour de sa chute le 13 mars 1970, on peut affirmer que le Cambodge, dans une large mesure, c'était Sihanouk. Etparaphrasant Louis XIV, c'est sans exagération qu'il aurait lui aussi pu affirmer : "L'État c'est moi." Depuis 1993, il aretrouvé son trône, après vingt ans de lutte. Ayant ainsi façonné son pays en grande partie à son image, il n'y a pas lieu de s'étonne...

• Japon de 1990 à 1994 : Histoire

  À la su ile de la défaiœ élecrorale du PLD, Moriiliro Hosokawa (au centre, avec ses a//iis de la coalirion) forme le nouveau gouvemement, qui ne sera, cependant, que de courre durée. © Sa1oru Oilmori- Gamma La crise du système politique Cette crise est bien celle de la droite japonaise, voire celle du système politique tout entier. Durant la période préélectorale, diverses factions quittent en effet le PLD pour fonder le Nouveau Parti du Japon, le Pa...

• Liberia

• Liberia.

  l'arrivée régulière d'immigrants consolida son implantation. Le pays, refusant d'être une colonie des États-Unis, proclama son indépendance en 1847. Sa Constitution s'inspira de la Constitution américaine et la minorité afro-américaine (4 % de la population) s'arrogea le monopole du pouvoir et de la richesse. Les heurts avec les natives (autochtones) se multiplièrent : en 1915 et en 1931, l'armée, dirigée par des officiers américains, réprima dans le sang la révolte des Krus. La firme améric...

• Afghanistan - country.

  D Climate Most of Afghanistan has a subarctic mountain climate with dry and cold winters, except for the lowlands, which have arid and semiarid climates. In the mountains and afew of the valleys bordering Pakistan, a fringe effect of the Indian monsoon, coming usually from the southeast, brings moist maritime tropical air in summer.Afghanistan has clearly defined seasons: Summers are hot and winters can be bitterly cold. Summer temperatures as high as 49°C (120°F) have been recorded in thenorth...