The name presumably derives from the French royal house which never learned and never forgot ; ;

The Irish accent is, as one would expect, combined with slight inflections from the French.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

The waspish man stopped me three paces from the bicycle barricade, and asked me in French if I had papers to leave France.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

There is a fairly wide selection of models of English, German and French manufacture from which you can choose from the very small Austin 7, Citroen 2 CV, Volkswagens, Renaults to the 6-passenger Simca Beaulieu.

Eight or ten years ago, a couple of French hoods stole a priceless Khmer head from the Musee Guimet, in Paris, and a week later crawled into the Salpetriere with unmistakable symptoms of leprosy.

The Ifni crisis in the fall of 1957 postponed further consideration of elections, but French consultants were called in and notices of further investigation appeared from time to time.

Venturesome traders, however, continued to come to them from Mobile, and to obtain a considerable number of pelts for the French markets.

British traders from South Carolina incited the Indians against the French, and there developed French and British Factions in the tribe.

To hold them was an essential part of French policy, for they controlled the upper termini of the routes from the north to Mobile.

They threatened constantly to give the British a hold on this region, from whence they could move easily down the rivers to the French settlements near the Gulf.

This was a slow and difficult course, and French trade suffered from the many mistakes of the new group of traders.

There was even a cable in French from a bank in Switzerland that had somehow learned about the Dallas stock offering.

Ideally, the President would like the French to agree on a `` status quo ante '' on Bizerte, and accept a new timetable for withdrawing their forces from the Mediterranean base.

Do you say chantey, as if the word were derived from the French word chanter, to sing, or do you say shanty and think of a roughly built cabin, which derives its name from the French-Canadian use of the word chantier, with one of its meanings given as a boat-yard??

there had been lessons in French from a small Polish nobleman with a really profound distaste for his pupils ; ;

International Atomic Time ( TAI, from the French name Temps atomique international ) is a high-precision atomic coordinate time standard based on the notional passage of proper time on Earth's geoid.

( This contrasted with Malinowski's functionalism, and was quite different from the later French structuralism, which examined the conceptual structures in language and symbolism.

Levant is derived from the French verb lever meaning " to rise " indicating that part of the world where the sun rises.

The al-prefix was probably added through confusion with another legal term, allegeance, an " allegation " ( the French allegeance comes from the English ).

Allegiance is formed from " liege ," from Old French liege, " liege, free ", of Germanic origin.

In its origins and its first golden age, no art owes quite as much to state power as French painting does.

Ironically, the rise of infantry in the early 16th century coincided with the " golden age " of heavy cavalry ; a French or Spanish army at the beginning of the century could have up to half its numbers made up of various kinds of light and heavy cavalry, whereas in earlier medieval and later 17th century armies the proportion of cavalry was seldom more than a quarter.

Walleyes are largely olive and gold in colour ( hence the French common name: doré — golden ).

The decisive attacks on the Allied center by Louis-Vincent-Joseph Le Blond de Saint-Hilaire | St. Hilaire and Dominique Vandamme | Vandamme split the Allied army in two and left the French in a golden strategic position to win the battle.

Fellow pianist Rafael Joseffy compared it to " a golden French horn.

The decisive attacks on the Allied centre by Louis Vincent Le Blond de Saint-Hilaire | St. Hilaire and Dominique Vandamme | Vandamme split the Allied army in two and left the French in a golden strategic position to win the battle.

The golden fleur-de-lis painted on the Virgin's blue veil parallel the azure, semee de lis, or of the French royal coat of arms and the most likely explanation for their presence is that icon had been present in Hungary during the reign of either Charles I of Hungary and / or Louis the Great, the Hungarian kings of the Anjou dynasty, who probably had the fleur-de-lis of their family's coat of arms painted on the icon.

The physical symbol of the award was a blue-enameled Maltese Cross with golden eagles, based on the symbol of the Johanniter Order, between the arms and the Prussian royal cypher and the words Pour le Mérite (" For Merit " in the French language ) written in gold letters on the body of the cross.

The French jeweler Tavernier, who saw Delhi in 1665, described the throne as of the shape of a bed ( a " takhteh " or platform ), 6 ft. by 4 ft., supported by four golden feet, 20 to 25 in.

Research by the French ethnologist Michel Peissel claimed the story of " gold-digging ants " reported by the Ancient Greek historian Herodotus, who lived in the 5th century BC, was founded on the golden Himalayan marmot of the Deosai Plateau and the habit of local tribes such as the Minaro to collect the gold dust excavated from their burrows.

The four golden arches of the Crown are ornamented with gold and red enamelled oak leaves, apparently of French workmanship.

The word " blond " is first attested in English in 1481 and derives from Old French blund, blont meaning " a colour midway between golden and light chestnut ".

The incident predictably stunned the French and gave the Germans a golden propaganda tool to discredit the British as France ’ s real enemies.

In 1894 French mathematicians awarded him a golden medal dedicated to the seventieth birthday of Charles Hermite.

After the battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302 where the French chivalry suffered a humbling defeat, the victors hung up bushels of knights ' gilt spurs in the churches of Kortrijk as trophies of what is still remembered by the Flemings as the Guldensporenslag ( the battle of the golden spurs ).

French executives receive roughly the double of their salary and bonus in their golden parachute.

This was a golden age for the French, who led by the incomparable Puig Aubert, travelled to Australia and defeated their host in a three test series in 1951.

This wonderful place is the apex of the French Riviera's " golden triangle ", of Cap Ferrat, Beaulieu and Villefranche.

In 1989 Prince Aris-Tagues ( born in Aleppo but raised in Byblos ) got married to Marlen Antoury who stems from a very prestigious Lebanese family ( she is the granddaughter of Milad Bassil, a wealthy Lebanese man, well known for being the director of Beirut port during its golden days and the French mandate ; and Youssef Al Antoury the famous Lebanese business man and entrepreneur ).

These three, while their works were not specifically Swiss, lead the golden age of French literature in Switzerland.

Icon of Mary of Egypt, covered in golden hair, being handed a cloak by Zosimas of Palestine | Zosimas, French, 15th century ( British Library )

Sparked after France 98, when the French national team added a golden star to their shirt as soon as they won the FIFA World Cup, the Soccer AM team successfully campaigned to get a golden star on England's shirt to commemorate winning the World Cup in 1966.

He whetted the French appetite for New World exploration with tales of a golden kingdom called " Saguenay ".