:* New York City has numerous Bastille Day celebrations each July, including Bastille Day on 60th Street hosted by the French Institute Alliance Française between Fifth and Lexington Avenues on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Bastille Day on Smith Street in Brooklyn, and Bastille Day in Tribeca.

was conferred upon Brewster by Marischal College, Aberdeen ; in 1815 he was made a member of the Royal Society of London, and received the Copley medal ; in 1818 he received the Rumford Medal of the society ; and in 1816 the French Institute awarded him one-half of the prize of three thousand francs for the two most important discoveries in physical science made in Europe during the two preceding years.

He held 42 patents and received numerous awards, including the first Institute of Radio Engineers now IEEE Medal of Honor, the French Legion of Honor, the 1941 Franklin Medal and the 1942 Edison Medal.

) ( English: Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies ) is a French institute supporting advanced research in mathematics and theoretical physics.

In 1893, a French physician, Jacques Bertillon, introduced the Bertillon Classification of Causes of Death at a congress of the International Statistical Institute in Chicago.

** French Medical Institute for Children

In 1832 Böttiger was elected a member of the French Institute.

In a much more detailed account, Edward Daniel Clarke stated that a French " officer and member of the Institute " had taken him, his student John Cripps, and Hamilton secretly into the back streets behind Menou's residence and revealed the stone hidden under protective carpets among Menou's baggage.

One survey held in 2003 by the Kellogg School of Management and Sasin Institute showed that Thai cuisine ranked 4th when people were asked to name an ethnic cuisine, after Italian, French and Chinese cuisine.

Y. pestis was discovered in 1894 by Alexandre Yersin, a Swiss / French physician and bacteriologist from the Pasteur Institute, during an epidemic of plague in Hong Kong.

The French Institute of International Relations ( IFRI ) was founded in 1979 and is the third oldest think tank of western Europe, after the Chatam House ( UK, 1920 ) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( Sweden, 1960 ).

Such standards are defined in the International System of Units ( abbreviated SI from French: Système international d ' unités ) and maintained by national standards organizations such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the United States.

The first, and so far only, planetary balloon mission was performed by the Space Research Institute of Soviet Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the French space agency CNES in 1985.

Grenoble is also a major scientific centre, especially in the fields of physics, computer science, and applied mathematics: Joseph Fourier University ( UJF ) is one of the leading French scientific universities while the Grenoble Institute of Technology trains more than 5, 000 engineers every year in key technology disciplines.

Many fundamental and applied scientific research laboratories are conjointly managed by Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble Institute of Technology, and the French National Centre for Scientific Research ( CNRS ).

Numerous other scientific laboratories are managed independently or in collaboration with the CNRS and the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control ( INRIA ).

Other members included theorist Raoul Vaneigem, the Dutch painter Constant Nieuwenhuys, the Italo-Scottish writer Alexander Trocchi, the English artist Ralph Rumney ( sole member of the London Psychogeographical Association, Rumney suffered expulsion relatively soon after the formation ), the Danish artist Asger Jorn ( who after parting with the SI also founded the Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism ), the architect and veteran of the Hungarian Uprising Attila Kotanyi, and the French writer Michele Bernstein.

The city houses many cultural institutes such as the Russian Cultural Institute, the Polish Cultural Institute, the Hungarian Institute, the Czech and the Slovak Cultural Institutes, the Italian Cultural Institute, the French Cultural Institute, Goethe Institut, British Council, Instituto Cervantes, and the Open Society Institute, which regularly organise temporary expositions of visual, sound and literary works by artists from their respective countries.

It is hosted by the Consulate General of France in Houston, The French Alliance, the French-American Chamber of Commerce, and the Texan-French Alliance for the Arts.

Following William and Mary's accession to the throne, England involved itself in the War of the Grand Alliance primarily to prevent a French invasion restoring Mary's father, James II.

In the same year, Ferdinand VII, with French help and the approval of the Quintuple Alliance, managed to abolish constitutional rule in Spain yet again and re-establish absolutism.

In 1512 the Auld Alliance was renewed and under its terms, when the French were attacked by the English under Henry VIII, James IV invaded England in support.

In 1560 Marie de Guise died, and soon after the Auld Alliance also died, with the signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh, which provided for the removal of French and English troops from Scotland.

* 1667 – The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance.

* of Phrenology Open Content Alliance eBook Collection, Manual of phrenology: being an analytical summary of the system of Doctor Gall, on the faculties of man and the functions of the brain: translated from the 4th French ed

The formation of the Grand Alliance and outbreak of war against France in 1689 meant that for several years ships from Asia avoided the island for fear of being attacked by French men-of-war.

* 1697 – War of the Grand Alliance: A French warship commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville defeated an English squadron at the Battle of Hudson's Bay.

Several battles are considered classics in history, notably the Grand Alliance victories at Blenheim ( 1704 ) and Ramillies ( 1706 ), which drove the French forces from Germany and the Netherlands, or the French victory at Almansa ( 1707 ).

Philip quickly revived Spanish ambition ; taking advantage of the power vacuum caused by Louis XIV's death in 1715, Philip announced he would claim the French crown if the infant Louis XV died and attempted to reclaim Spanish territory in Italy, precipitating the War of the Quadruple Alliance in 1717.

Its founding members were the United Kingdom, Austrian Empire, Russian Empire and Kingdom of Prussia, the members of the Quadruple Alliance responsible for the downfall of the First French Empire ; in time France became established as a fifth member of the concert.

* February 6 – American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France, signaling official French recognition of the new republic.

* June 27 – War of the Grand Alliance: The French fleet defeats the joint Dutch and English fleet at the Battle of Lagos.

* July 29 – War of the Grand Alliance: The Dutch-English army led by King William III of England is defeated by the French at the Battle of Landen.

* John Balliol, King of Scotland, decides to refuse King Edward I of England's demands for support in a planned invasion of France, and instead informs the French of Edward's plans and negotiates the Auld Alliance with France and Norway.

" Washington's Farewell, the French Alliance, and the Election of 1796 ," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol.

The prospect of Bourbons on both the French and Spanish thrones was resisted as creating an imbalance of power in Europe by its dominant regimes and, upon Charles II's death on 1 November 1700, a Grand Alliance of European nations united against Philip.

The Italian Federation of the Greens, the French Greens, the German Alliance ' 90 / The Greens and both Belgian Green parties, the French-speaking Ecolo and the Dutch-speaking Agalev were part of government during the late 1990s.

* Alliance of the Presidential Majority ( French: Alliance pour la majorité présidentielle ), political platform in the Democratic Republic of Congo

The rules of French tarot are governed by the Fédération Française de Tarot.

Visiting the Museum in Nicosia, he studied the Bronze Age swords of the island, successfully hafting one of them, on the basis of which he wrote a paper entitled " The Problem of the Cypriot Bronze Dagger Hilt ", which would subsequently be translated into both French and Danish, being published in the journals of the Société Préhistorique Française and the Vaabenhistorisk Selskab respectively.

* 1874 – François Coty, French perfume manufacturer and newspaper publisher, founder of the fascist league Solidarité Française ( d. 1934 )

On 15 January 1910 the colony again was renamed to French Equatorial Africa ( Afrique Equatoriale Française or AEF ), this time it also included Chad and Oubangui-Chari, nowadays the Central African Republic.

Because of this and his earlier support for De Gaulle he became Governor General of the Afrique Equatoriale Française ( AEF ) in 1940, the first not white to achieve this position in French colonial history.

The ITF's national associations, Tennis Australia ( Australian Open ), the Fédération Française de Tennis ( French Open ), the Lawn Tennis Association ( Wimbledon ) and the United States Tennis Association ( US Open ) are delegated the responsibility to organize these events.

* UDF = Union for French Democracy ( Union pour la Démocratie Française ) succeeded by Democratic Movement

The film was lost for many years because the original print of the film burned in a fire and all copies were reported lost, destroyed, or worn away, but a copy of the film with French subtitles was found in the permanent collection of the Cinémathèque Française in Paris.

Other targets of satire, as would become typical in Offenbach's burlesques, are the stilted performances of classical drama at the Comédie Française and the scandals in society and politics of the Second French Empire.

During the war, the Ligue Nationale pour la Defense de la Musique Française ( National League for the Defense of French Music ) was formed but Ravel, despite his strong antipathy for the German aggression, declined to join stating:

All designs share the 12 stars of the EU and the year of imprint as well as the letters " RF " for République Française ( French Republic ).

This " war of pamphlets " eventually influenced Richelieu to call upon the French Academy ( l ' Académie Française ) to analyze the play.

The bay was also named Baie Française ( French Bay ) by explorer / cartographer Samuel de Champlain during a 1604 expedition led by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts which resulted in a failed settlement attempt on St. Croix Island.

One of the primary progenitors of the party was the Action Française, founded at the end of the nineteenth century, and its descendants in the Restauration Nationale, a pro-monarchy group that supports the claim of the Count of Paris to the French throne.

Of the cultural organisations the French Institute of Pondicherry, the Pondicherry Centre of the École française d ' Extrême-Orient and a branch of the Alliance Française are noteworthy.

* Les Cahiers Français, La part de la Résistance Française dans les évènements d ' Afrique du Nord ( Official reports of French Resistance Group leaders who seized Algiers on 8 November 1942, to allow allied landing ), Commissariat à l ' Information of Free French Comité National, London, Aug. 1943.

In the 1920s and 1930s, members of the extreme-right Action Française movement expressed strong animus against Protestants, as well as against Jews, and freemasons-all three being regarded as groups supporting the French Republic, which Action Française sought to overthrow.

Meanwhile, the French were divided on the issues of " French Algeria " ( l ' Algérie Française ), specifically, concerning whether to keep the status-quo, negotiate a status intermediate between independence and complete integration in the French Republic, or allow complete independence.

Richelieu was also famous for his patronage of the arts ; most notably, he founded the Académie Française, the learned society responsible for matters pertaining to the French language.