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France 1910

- Major flooding in Paris threatens artwork in the Louvre and damages city infrastructure.

- French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot sets out on an expedition to the South Pole to try and beat Norwegian Roald Amundsen.

- French power in Indochina is consolidated. A program begins to build roads and make easier access to the northern regions of the colonies, while the French army continues anti-Vietminh operations.

- The French Airforce is established, though is comprised only of recon planes and highly rudimentary bombers.

- Construction on the first French dreadnoughts, the Marseille and the Bordeaux, begins. French prime minister Aristide Briand announces a program to bring the French navy on par with the British and Germans.

- President Fallieres contacts his U.K. and Russian counterparts clarifying whether the Entente is still good.