Any of several units of currency, some of which are multi-national (West African CFA Franc (XOF), Central African CFA Franc (XAF), the Swiss Franc (CHF)) while others are national currencies.
“Some specific topics include Francomania in Dickens's journalism, Household Words and the campaign for sanitation reform, and Dickens's search for a national identity.”
“In the francisation group the children are always encouraged to express themselves in French.”
“Major firms must obtain certificats de francisation, which attest to the ability of their employees to work in French.”
“In the context of Africa and other French overseas colonies, francisation has been a tool to propagate French hegemony to the detriment of indigenous culture.”
“Arsenal supporters can see no greater loyalty than that of Thierry Henry, but it's nothing to do with Frenchness or Englishness.”
“Coded onto female faces and bodies were the Frenchness of fashionability, the Englishness of hygiene, and the sensuousness of Orientals and Mediterraneans.”
“Arguably the Frenchness of France depends in large measure not on isolation, but on an insistent personal identity in the greater culture of a continent.”