Medieval quince preserves, which went by the French name cotignac, produced in a clear version and a fruit pulp version, began to lose their medieval seasoning of spices in the 16th century.

Lime ( from Arabic and French lim ) is a term referring to a citrus fruit which is typically round, green to yellow in colour, 3 – 6 cm in diameter, and containing sour and acidic pulp.

Worms & Cie is a French pulp and paper company, the 17th largest in the world in.

Papier-mâché ( French for " chewed paper ",, ), alternatively, paper-mache, is a composite material consisting of paper pieces or pulp, sometimes reinforced with textiles, bound with an adhesive, such as glue, starch, or wallpaper paste.

Bertrand Méheust, a French sociologist, in his 1978 book Science-fiction et soucoupes volantes ( Science-Fiction and flying saucers ), claimed that almost every aspect of the UFO phenomena can be located in pulp magazines of the beginning of the 20th century, well before the beginning of the modern UFO phenomena around 1947.

Judex is the title of a 1916 silent French movie serial concerning the adventures of Judex who is a pulp hero, similar to The Shadow, created by Louis Feuillade and Arthur Bernède.

Its influence — McCoy's influence — on the French filmmakers who love pulp fiction and film noir can be seen, for example, in Jean-Luc Godard's film Made in U. S. A, in which one character is reading this novel in its French translation, Adieu la vie, adieu l ' amour.

The discovery that movies are a form of fiction was made in the early years of this century and it was made chiefly by two men, a French magician, Georges Melies, and an American employee of Edison, Edwin S. Porter.

Bulwer-Lytton's works of fiction and non-fiction were translated in his day and since then into many languages, including Serbian ( by Laza Kostic ), German, Russian, Norwegian, Swedish, French, Finnish, and Spanish.

French cinema also was the birthplace for many sub-genres of the crime film, most notably the modern caper film, starting with 1955's Rififi by American-born director Jules Dassin and followed by a large number of serious, noirish heist dramas as well as playful caper comedies throughout the sixties, and the " polar ," a typical French blend of film noir and detective fiction.

* Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger ( French award for best foreign work of fiction ) for The Painted Bird

The fiction book Giphantie, published in 1760, by French author Tiphaigne de la Roche, described what can be interpreted as photography.

* 26-Stefan Wul, 81, French science fiction writer.

This together with a cultural climate that places more interest in historical and fantastic speculative fiction then the futuristic made the mostly German and French science-fiction sparse and mostly aimed at children.

French series are Highlander: The Series French science-fiction / fantasy television series ( both co-produced with Canada ) and a number of smaller fiction / fantasy television series, including Tang in 1971, about a super secret organization that attempts to control the world with a new super weapon, " Les atomistes " and bizarre

The details were reported by the world press: an Imperial German penetration agent betraying to Germany the secrets of the General Staff of the French Army ; the French counter-intelligence riposte of sending a charwoman to rifle the trash in the German Embassy in Paris, were news that inspired successful spy fiction.

Stargate ( French: Stargate, la porte des étoiles ) is a 1994 American French epic adventure-military science fiction film released through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ) and Carolco Pictures.

The tempera medium was used by American artists such as the Regionalists Andrew Wyeth, Thomas Hart Benton and his student Roger Medearis ; expressionists Ben Shahn, Mitchell Siporin and John Langley Howard, magic realists George Tooker, Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Julia Thecla and Louise E. Marianetti ; Art Students League of New York instructors Kenneth Hayes Miller and William C. Palmer, Social Realists Isabel Bishop, Reginald Marsh, and Noel Rockmore, Edward Laning, Anton Refregier, Jacob Lawrence, Rudolph F. Zallinger, Robert Vickrey, Peter Hurd, and science fiction artist John Schoenherr, notable as the cover artist of Dune.

Others are connected only by theme: for example, each film of Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colors trilogy explores one of the political ideals of the French Republic ( liberty, equality, fraternity ) and each novel in Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy uses formats from detective fiction to explore existential questions.

Category: French science fiction films

* Julian Stockwin's nautical fiction series, the The Kydd Series, includes the book Command ( 2006 ) in which Thomas Kydd takes a ship to Van Diemen's Land, at the behest of then governor of New South Wales, Philip Gidley King, for the purpose of preventing French explorers from establishing a French settlement on the island.

* 1275 – Jean de Meun completes the French allegorical work of fiction, Roman de la Rose, with a second section ; the first section was written by Guillaume de Lorris in 1230.

* Jean de Meun completes the French allegorical work of fiction, Roman de la Rose, with a second section ; the first section was written by Guillaume de Lorris in 1230.

His initial pseudonym was " Valerian ", probably in reference to the hero in French science fiction comic series Valérian and Laureline.

* Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, annual literary award for French and international crime fiction

The " Days of April " ( journées d ' avril ) is a name appropriated in French history to a series of insurrections at Lyons, Paris and elsewhere, against the government of Louis Philippe in 1834, which led to violent repressive measures, and to a famous trial known as the procès d ' avril.

Asterix or The Adventures of Asterix (, ) is a series of French comic books written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo ( Uderzo also took over the job of writing the series after the death of Goscinny in 1977 ).

The series first appeared in French in the magazine Pilote on 29 October 1959.

His health gradually recovered and in 1796 he went back to sea, holding a series of commands and responsible posts in the wars against the French.

The series features rotten boroughs ( or " robber buttons "), Dr. Samuel Johnson ( played by Robbie Coltrane ), William Pitt the Younger ( Simon Osborne ), the French Revolution ( featuring Chris Barrie, Nigel Planer and Tim McInnerny as the Scarlet Pimpernel ), over-the-top theatrical actors, a squirrel-hating transvestite highwayman, and a duel with the Duke of Wellington ( played by Stephen Fry ).

This led to a series of campaigns that slowly sapped the strength from the French army trapped in Egypt.

Without their best general and his veterans, the French suffered a series of defeats and it was not until Bonaparte returned to become First Consul that France once again held a position of strength on mainland Europe.

He starred in the television series Jack of All Trades, set on a fictional island, occupied by the French in 1801.

Doherty was the subject of a series of photographs, taken before and after he died by French journalist Gilles Peress.

After World War II, the French Constitution of 1946 inaugurated the first of a series of reforms that led eventually to complete independence for all French territories in western and equatorial Africa.

The Claudine books are a series of four early novels by the French author Colette published from 1900-1904.

Subsequently the French Celestines, with the consent of the Italian superiors of the order, and of Pope Martin V in 1427, obtained the privilege of making new constitutions for themselves, which they did in the 17th century in a series of regulations accepted by the provincial chapter in 1667.

During World War I, in which his younger son Michel served and his friend and admirer Clemenceau led the French nation, Monet painted a series of weeping willow trees as homage to the French fallen soldiers.

He was hired by the French publishing company Éditions du Seuil as editor of the series Petite Planète ( Small World ).

This field-deployable apparatus, known as EFA ( mobile bridge ) | EFA, used by the engineers of the French Army, may either be used as a bridge ( deployed in a series ), or as a ferry

The French surgeon Eugène-Louis Doyen started a series of surgical films sometime before July 1898.

Oddly, the official titles of two of the series ' episodes employed the word pregnant: " Lucy Is Enceinte ", employing the French word for pregnant, and " Pregnant Women Are Unpredictable ", although the episode titles never appeared on the show itself.

Following the decisive Ethiopian victory at Adwa, Menelik II rapidly negotiated a series of treaties fixing Ethiopia's boundaries — with French Somaliland in March 1897, British Somaliland a few months later in June 1897, with Italian Eritrea in 1900, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1902, British East Africa in 1907, and Italian Somaliland in 1908 — which simplified this problem on one level.

* During 1949, the French Post Office issued a series of stamps with his portrait.

The F1 season consists of a series of races, known as Grands Prix ( from French, originally meaning grand prizes ), held on purpose-built circuits and public roads.

The middle series ( plates 48 to 64 ) record the effects of the famine that hit Madrid in 1811 – 12, before the city was liberated from the French.

In his Addresses to the German Nation ( 1808 ), a series of speeches delivered in Berlin under French occupation, he urged the German peoples to " have character and be German "-- entailed in his idea of Germanness was antisemitism, since he argued that " making Jews free German citizens would hurt the German nation.