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 ...

* 1976 – Ludovic Giuly, French footballer

** Ludovic Giuly, French footballer

Another source is a French vaudeville play,, by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.

The French writers ' duo Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy wrote a large number of opera and operetta libretti for the likes of Jacques Offenbach, Jules Massenet and Georges Bizet.

The French text was written by Ludovic Halévy and later revised by Hector-Jonathan Crémieux.

A jury of French composers and playwrights including Daniel Auber, Fromental Halévy, Ambroise Thomas, Charles Gounod and Eugène Scribe considered 78 entries ; the five short-listed entrants were all asked to set a libretto, Le docteur miracle, written by Ludovic Halévy and Léon Battu.

* The " Couplets du facteur rural " ( verses of the country postman ) in Act 3 of Le château à Toto, French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy ( music by Jacques Offenbach, 1869 ) touch on the merits of the " vélocipède ".

The team, coached by former French national team captain Didier Deschamps and featuring stalwarts such as Fernando Morientes, Ludovic Giuly, Jérôme Rothen, and Dado Pršo, finished third in Ligue 1 and enjoyed a remarkable run to the final of the UEFA Champions League, beating Real Madrid and Chelsea along the way.

From his second marriage to Maria-Charlotte, Jules de Polignac had fathered seven children, including the noted mathematician Prince Alphonse de Polignac, inventor of the theory of twin primes ; Prince Ludovic de Polignac, a lieutenant-colonel in the French Army who participated in the colonization of Algeria ; Prince Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac, a major-general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War and Prince Edmond de Polignac, a composer, musical theorist and proponent of the octatonic scale.

* St. Germain ( musician ), stage name of Ludovic Navarre, a French electronica and nu jazz musician

* February 3-4 – In a Breguet 19 G. R., the French aviators Lemaître and Ludovic Arrachart set a world distance record, flying 3, 166 km ( 1, 967 miles ) from Étampes, Paris, France, to Villa Cisneros, Spanish Sahara.

Ludovic Halévy ( 1 January 1834-7 May 1908 ) was a French author and playwright.

At any rate, it opened for M. Ludovic Halévy the doors of the French Academy, to which he was elected in 1884.

Ludovic Vitet ( October 18, 1802-1873 ) was a French dramatist and politician.

St. Germain is the stage name of Ludovic Navarre, a French musician.

French vigneron Ludovic Marie settled in Murchison in 1850 and established vineyards.

In 1875 Carmen, a French opera by Georges Bizet, with text by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, reached the stage.

He is the cousin of the deceased former footballer Ludovic Quistin and of Mathieu Bastareaud, a French rugby union centre playing for RC Toulonnais.

Ba-ta-clan is a " chinoiserie musicale ", or operetta, in one act by Jacques Offenbach to an original French libretto by Ludovic Halévy.

He won the French Championship in 2000, with players, such as Ludovic Giuly and Marcelo Gallardo.

* Several US Navy ships have been named the or the, the latter being a French translation of his penname " Poor Richard ".

The French Revolution and the Poor ( 1981 )

Poor communications meant that only then did the French High Command realise the seriousness of the attack.

On August 24, 1792, the Black Poor or Old Settlers of the second Granville Town were incorporated into the new Sierra Leone Colony but remained at Granville Town. Post of the Month: FreetownThe colony of Freetown in 1856 It survived being pillaged by the French in 1794, and was rebuilt by the Nova Scotian settlers.

It was followed by Turk and no Turk ( 1785 ), a musical comedy ; Inkle and Yarico ( 1787 ), an opera ; Ways and Means ( 1788 ); The Iron Chest ( 1796 ), taken from William Godwin's Adventures of Caleb Williams ; The Poor Gentleman ( 1802 ); John Bull, or an Englishman's Fireside ( 1803 ), his most successful piece ; The Heir at Law ( 1808 ), which enriched the stage with one immortal character, " Dr Pangloss " ( borrowed of course from Voltaire's Candide ), and numerous other pieces, many of them adapted from the French.

In 1755 young Poor enlisted as a private in one of the Massachusetts units raised to accompany Jeffrey Amherst's expedition to retake it during the French and Indian War.

Poor and sometimes unstable administration in the early years of French rule in Cambodia meant infrastructure and urbanization grew at a much lesser rate than in Vietnam and traditional social structures in villages still remained.

She made her profession as a Franciscan nun of the Poor Ladies at sixteen or earlier, without any real vocation, and lived a routine life in that somewhat relaxed house until her twenty-fifth year, when she purportedly met the young French nobleman Noël Bouton.

The love affair of Mariana Alcoforado, a 17th c. nun from the convent of the Poor Ladies, with the French officer Noël Bouton, Marquis de Chamilly and later Marshall of France, has made Beja famous in ( mainly Portuguese and French ) literary circles.

In the same periodical Karamzin also published translations from French and some original stories, including Poor Liza and Natalia the Boyar's Daughter ( both 1792 ).

The rapper Dendemann ( then a member of the Arme Ritter, meaning " Poor Knights " but also " French toast ") had his first introduction to the mainstream in his collaboration track, Wildwechsel, also with Max Herre, Blumentopf, Spax ( German ) and Der Tobi & das Bo ( German ) which became representative of these artists.

* Les Maximes du Bonhomme Richard, the French title of Poor Richard's Almanack, for which the ships were named.

They wrote the popular " La goualante du pauvre Jean " (" Poor John's Song / Complaint "), which, translated as " The Poor People of Paris " because of a confusion between " pauvre Jean " and " pauvre gens ", became the first French song to hit number one on the American and British record charts.

The song has been recorded by Shirley Collins & Davy Graham ( also by herself and with The Young Tradition ), Marty Haugen, Anonymous 4, Joan Baez, Martyn Bates ( of Eyeless in Gaza ) and Max Eastley, Joan Osborne, Baltimore Consort, Angelo Branduardi ( Italian version titled " Il ciliegio ", French version " Le cerisier ", Spanish version " El cerezo "), the Clancy Brothers ( as " When Joseph Was an Old Man "), Judy Collins, José Feliciano, Emmylou Harris, Mary Hopkin ( as B-side of the single " Mary had a Baby / Cherry Tree Carol "), the King's College Choir, Cindy Kallet, Magpie Lane, Colin Meloy, the Chad Mitchell Trio, Nowell Sing We Clear, Pentangle, Peter Paul and Mary, Jean Ritchie, Casey Stratton, Bob Rowe, John Rutter with the Cambridge Singers, the Poor Clares from New Orleans titled " Cherry Tree Carol " on their album Songs for Midwinter, by the English musician Sting on his 2009 album If on a Winter's Night, by Annie Lennox on her 2010 album A Christmas Cornucopia and by Kerfuffle as " Cherry Tree Carol " on their Midwinter album Lighten the Dark.

Poor coordination or rough terrain led to bungled French assaults.

The value of Jesuit's bark, and the controversy surrounding it, were both recognized by Benjamin Franklin, who wittily commented upon it in his Poor Richard's Almanac for October, 1749, telling the story of Robert Talbot's use of it to cure the French Dauphin.

Another French song for which Lawrence wrote an English lyric was " La Goualante de Pauvre Jean ", becoming " The Poor People of Paris ".

It was adapted by Jack Lawrence in 1954 from the French language song " La goualante du pauvre Jean " (" The Ballad of Poor John ") ( words by René Rouzaud, music by Marguerite Monnot ).

:" Poor Knights of Windsor " is also a name for eggy bread or French toast.