PARIS, Dec. 16 -- As a great maritime and colonial power in centuries past, France relished its role in taking its culture to the far corners of the globe -- French schools, language, trade, modern medicine and various other trappings of its civilization. -
Law on Teaching Rosy View of Past Is Dividing France
PARIS, Dec. 16 -- As a great maritime and colonial power in centuries past, France relished its role in taking its culture to the far corners of the globe -- French schools, language, trade, modern medicine and various other trappings of its civilization.-
By John Ward Anderson