Forces Nouvelles

Forces nouvelles (French for New Forces) can refer to:

  • Forces Nouvelles de Côte d'Ivoire: a political party coalition and one of the sides in the Ivorian Civil War. It can also refer more generally to the rebels in that war.
  • Parti des forces nouvelles: a French far right political party formed in November 1974 from the Comité faire front, a group of anti-Jean-Marie Le Pen dissidents who had split from the National Front (FN).
  • Coordination of New Forces or Coordination des forces nouvelles (CFN): A political party in Togo.

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    “The popularity of disaster movies ... expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.”
    —David Mamet (b. 1947)