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* French — Duhamel, Antoine: Pierrot le fou: Four Pieces for Orchestra ( 1965 / 66 ); Françaix, Jean: Pierrot, or The Secrets of the Night ( 1980 ; ballet, libretto by Michel Tournier ; see above under Fiction ); Lancen, Serge: Masquerade: For Brass Quintet and Wind Orchestra ( 1986 ; # 3: " Pierrot "); Naulais, Jérôme: The Moods of Pierrot ( n. d .; flute and piano ).
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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 ...
French and Duhamel
In 1965 he received a joint Erasmus Prize with film director Ingmar Bergman and in 1971 he was made a Commander of the national order of the Legion of Honor by the French Minister of Culture Jacques Duhamel at the Cannes Film Festival.
** Georges Duhamel, French author ( b. 1884 )
Critics of consumerism include Pope Benedict XVI, German historian Oswald Spengler ( who said, " Life in America is exclusively economic in structure and lacks depth "), and French writer Georges Duhamel, who held " American materialism up as a beacon of mediocrity that threatened to eclipse French civilization ".
Georges Duhamel ( June 30, 1884-April 13, 1966 ), was a French author, born in Paris.
Duhamel trained as a doctor, and during World War I was attached to the French Army.
After the war, Duhamel was named president of the Alliance française and returned to public speaking on French culture.
A disgruntled French agent, Duhamel, also makes contact once again with Maturin in London and asks him for assistance in escaping to Quebec.
Antoine Duhamel in 2008. Antoine Duhamel ( born 30 July 1925 ), is a French composer, orchestra conductor and music teacher.
* Alfred Duhamel French language wikipedia article
Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau ( 20 July 1700, Paris-13 August 1782, Paris ), was a French physician, naval engineer and botanist.
At its first meeting Maurice Duhamel was charged with maintaining links with wider french speaking political movements in France, in particular the French left wing, and became chief-editor of Breiz Atao.
French and Antoine
In 1789, French nobleman and scientific researcher Antoine Lavoisier discovered the law of conservation of mass and defined an element as a basic substance that could not be further broken down by the methods of chemistry.
* 1748 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist ( d. 1836 )
* 1767 – Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, French military leader and politician ( d. 1794 )
* 1801 – Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician ( d. 1877 )
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier ( also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution ; 26 August 17438 May 1794 ; ), the " father of modern chemistry ," was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology.
With the French chemists Claude-Louis Berthollet, Antoine Fourcroy and Guyton de Morveau, Lavoisier devised a systematic chemical nomenclature.
* 1720 – Antoine Hamilton, French writer ( b. 1646 )
In 1835 the French Academy sent Antoine on a scientific mission to Brazil, the results being published at a later date ( 1873 ) under the title of Observations relatives à la physique du globe faites au Bresil et en Ethiopie.
However in French it is usually referred to as Chateau d ' Abbadie or Domaine d ' Abbadia, and locally it is not unusual for it to be called le Chateau d ' Antoine d ' Abbadie.
The first of these scientific concepts of acids and bases was provided by the French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, circa 1776.
* Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer, founder of Detroit
French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac sailed up the Detroit River on July 23, 1701.
* 1612 – Antoine Arnauld, French theologian, philosopher and mathematician ( d. 1694 )
* 1672 – Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian ( d. 1757 )
* 1683 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist ( d. 1757 )
French frigate Boudeuse ( 1766 ) | Boudeuse, of Louis Antoine de Bougainville
French scientists such as Antoine Lavoisier worked to replace the archaic units of weights and measures by a coherent scientific system.
* 1648 – Antoine Daniel, French missionary ( b. 1601 )
* 1686 – Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist ( d. 1758 )
* 1781 – François Antoine Habeneck, French violinist ( d. 1849 )
* 1794 – Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just are executed by guillotine in Paris, France during the French Revolution.
A few years previously, the French chemist Joseph Proust had proposed the law of definite proportions, which expressed that the elements combined to form compounds in certain well-defined proportions, rather than mixing in just any proportion ; and Antoine Lavoisier proved the law of conservation of mass, which helped out Dalton.
* 1794 – Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Générale, is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris.
* 1768 – Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty, French commander ( d. 1815 )
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