Poirot also bears a striking resemblance to A. E. W. Mason's fictional detective — Inspector Hanaud of the French Sûreté — who, first appearing in the 1910 novel At the Villa Rose, predates the writing of the first Poirot novel by six years.

An argot (; French, Spanish, and Catalan for " slang ") is a secret language used by various groups — including, but not limited to, thieves and other criminals — to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations.

In reply to this the French sovereign dispatched Andrew as his ambassador to Güyük Khan ; with Longjumeau went his brother William ( also a Dominican ) and several others — John Goderiche, John of Carcassonne, Herbert " Le Sommelier ," Gerbert of Sens, Robert ( a clerk ), a certain William, and an unnamed clerk of Poissy.

* French arpent — also used in Louisiana as length and area unit of measure

From the unexpected realism of his first major figure — inspired by his 1875 trip to Italy — to the unconventional memorials whose commissions he later sought, Rodin's reputation grew, such that he became the preeminent French sculptor of his time.

* 1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins — The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.

In her own defence, Bardot wrote in a letter to a French gay magazine: " Apart from my husband — who maybe will cross over one day as well — I am entirely surrounded by homos.

During Operation Dynamo — the evacuation of 330, 000 BEF and French troops to Britain — Montgomery assumed command of the II Corps.

In France before the French Revolution, representatives of the clergy — in practice, bishops and abbots of the largest monasteries — comprised the First Estate of the Estates-General, until their role was abolished during the French Revolution.

These reformed French Breviaries — e. g. the Paris Breviary of 1680 by Archbishop François de Harlay ( 1625 – 1695 ) and that of 1736 by Archbishop Charles Gaspard Guillaume de Vintimille ( 1655 – 1746 )— show a deep knowledge of Holy Scripture, and much careful adaptation of different texts.

Three railway stations — those of the German, French and Swiss networks — lie within the city ( although the Swiss ( Basel SBB ) and French ( Bâle SNCF ) stations are actually in the same complex, separated by Customs and Immigration facilities ).

The name comes from the medieval-Latin term balneum ( or balineum ) Mariae — literally, Mary's bath — from which the French bain de Marie, or bain-marie, is derived.

Motoring journalist Jabby Crombac pointed out that " way a Frenchman pronounces those initials — written phonetically, ' em air day '— sounded perilously like the French word ...

Alain Connes (; born 1 April 1947 ) is a French mathematician, currently Professor at the Collège de France, IHÉS, The Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University.

* 1943 – Alain Corneau, French director

Alain de Lille ( or Alanus ab Insulis ) ( c. 1116 / 1117 – 1202 / 1203 ), French theologian and poet, was born in Lille, some years before 1128.

* 1909 – Alain Poher, French politician ( d. 1996 )

* 1926 – Marie-Claire Alain, French organist

He is the successor of Alain Chesnais ( 2010 – 2012 ), a French citizen living in Toronto where he runs his company named Visual Transitions and Wendy Hall of the University of Southampton.

In 1970, sculptor Alain Gourdon used Bardot as the model for a bust of Marianne, the French national emblem.

* 1947 – Alain Bashung, French singer ( d. 2009 )

* 1955 – Alain Prost, French race car driver

He decided to create a comic strip of his own, which would adopt the recent American innovation of using speech balloons to depict the characters ' spoken words and inspired by established French comics author Alain St. Ogan.

The film is also considered to be an homage to Le Samourai, a 1967 French New Wave film by auteur Jean-Pierre Melville, which starred renowned French actor Alain Delon in a strikingly similar role and narrative.

* 1922 – Alain Resnais, French director

* 1937 – Alain Badiou, French philosopher

* 1949 – Alain Chamfort, French singer

* 1958 – Alain Chabat, French actor and director

* 1935 – Alain Delon, French actor

This was the pioneering work of Marc Fumaroli who, building on the work of classicist and Neo-Latinist Alain Michel and French scholars such as Roger Zuber, published his famed Age de l ' Eloquence ( 1980 ), was one of the founders of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric and was eventually elevated to a chair in rhetoric at the prestigious College de France.

* 1956 – Alain Ducasse, French chef

In Europe, Art Cinema gains wider distribution and sees movements like la Nouvelle Vague ( The French New Wave ) featuring French filmmakers such as Roger Vadim, François Truffaut, Alain Resnais, and Jean-Luc Godard ; Cinéma Vérité documentary movement in Canada, France and the United States ; Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, Chilean filmmaker Alexandro Jodorowsky and Polish filmmakers Roman Polanski and Wojciech Jerzy Has produced original and offbeat masterpieces and the high-point of Italian filmmaking with Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini making some of their most known films during this period.

** Alain Mosconi, French swimmer, Olympic medalist and previous world record holder

** Alain Prost, French race car driver

* November 8 – Alain Delon, French actor

* Alain de Lille, French theologian and poet ( b. c. 1128 )

Translated in French by Thierry Le Breton, Au coeur de l ' action clandestine des commandos au MI6, L ’ Esprit du Livre Editions, France, 2008 ( ISBN 978-2-915960-27-3 ).

* April 9 – French typesetter Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville sings the French folk song " Au Clair de la Lune " to his phonautograph ; producing the world's earliest known sound recording ( however, it is not rediscovered until 2008 ).

A contemporary setting was used for Louis Feuillade's 1911 French adaptation Le Roi Lear Au Village, and in 1914 in America, Ernest Warde expanded the story to an hour, including spectacles such as a final battle scene.

It has an official French adaptation, entitled " Au champ d ' honneur ", written by Jean Pariseau and used by the Canadian government in French and bilingual ceremonies.

Translated in French by Thierry Le Breton, Au cœur de l ’ action clandestine.

* Podivné lásky ( 1988 ) ( published in French as Au seuil de la nuit in 1991 )

In 1890 he published Au Maroc, the record of a journey to Fez in company with a French embassy, and Le Roman d ' un enfant ( The Story of a Child ), a somewhat fictionalized recollection of Loti's childhood that would greatly influence Marcel Proust.

ISBN 0-07-028895-X ( French version: Au nom de la race.

His later films include Pretty Baby ( 1978 ), Atlantic City ( 1981 ), My Dinner with Andre ( 1981 ), Crackers ( 1984 ), Alamo Bay ( 1985 ), Damage ( 1992 ) and Vanya on 42nd Street ( 1994, an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya ) in English ; Au revoir, les enfants ( 1987 ) and Milou en Mai ( May Fools in the U. S., 1990 ) in French.

Eateries within the garden include Au Jardin Les Amis, a French fine-dining restaurant in a colonial bungalow ; Café Les Amis, a café at the Visitor Centre ; and Halia Restaurant, a restaurant at the Ginger Garden.

* Au Ceux ( French translations ) ( Editions Creathis l ' ecole des filles, 2000 )

* Na kraju zemli ( Au bout du monde in French, At the Ends of the Earth, 1999 ), directed by Konstantin Bronzit.

Omitted from the English translation is section b of the French original: Au centre, sur un carré d ' étoffe blanche, sont disposées les Armes de la République (" In the center, on a square of white cloth, are placed the Coat of Arms of the Republic.

In 1933 she appeared in the French film Chourinette but did not play on the screen again until 1951's Au fil des ondes.

* About Revlon Inc. in French / Au sujet de la Cie Revlon

The club's motto Droit Au But ( French for " Straight to the Goal ") appears under the badge and a star representing the victory in the Champions League is featured on the top.

Others translations have appeared in French ( Au temps de Botchan ), Italian ( Ai tempi di Bocchan ) and Spanish ( La epoca de Botchan ), all published by Coconino Press.

In the French folk song Au Clair de la Lune, the likable Lubin visits his brunette neighbor at Pierrot's suggestion.

One phonautogram, created on April 9, 1860, was revealed to be a 20-second recording of the French folk song " Au clair de la lune ".

*" Au Clair de la Lune ", a French folk song

Translated in French by Thierry Le Breton, Au coeur de l ' action clandestine des commandos au MI6, L ’ Esprit du Livre Editions, France, 2008 ( ISBN 978-2915960273 ).

* Mise Au Point ( http :// www. miseaupoint. ch French )