The Protestant Reformation began late in France because the monarchy had little to gain from sponsoring reforms. The French monarchy had long been independent of the church in Rome, and early in the rule of Francis I (r. 1515â47), he gained the power to appoint French bishops in return for supporting the pope against the invading
The juice of the plant is used to make pharmaceuticals like hecogenin, inulin and others. Production and trade. Sisal is cultivated for fibre in Angola, Brazil, China, Cuba, Haiti, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Mexico, South Africa. Tanzania and Thailand. Production patterns differ between counties. In Tanzania and Kenya sisal is predominantly a plantation crop, while production in Brazil is largely small-scale.
The principal port, Progreso, is an open roadstead where no shelter is obtained, the old abandoned port of sisal being superior. He is in charge of the raw materialsâthe coal and iron and lumber and sisal and flax. And Yucatan is the only spot in the world where sisal can be grown in commercial quantities.