Lawmakers from France's main far right and far left parties threatened on Monday to vote no-confidence in Prime Minister Francois Bayrou's government after the finance minister said next year's budget ...

But critics on the left ... house national Assembly backed it on Tuesday. Lawmaker Philippe Gosselin, from the right-wing Republican party, proposed the bill. "The prospect of obtaining French ...

the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be dismantled. Fearing powerlessness, the nobility and landowners joined the National Assembly.