When Napoleon's ship had borne him to Elba, French wines had started to cross the Channel, the first shipments in a dozen war-ridden years, but the supplies had not yet reached rural hostelries where the sweet wines of the Spanish peninsula still ruled.

In 1752, the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille subdivided it into Carina ( the keel, or the hull, of the ship ), Puppis ( the poop deck, or stern ), and Vela ( the sails ).

Bark " small ship " is attested from 1420, from Old French barque, from Vulgar Latin barca ( 400 ).

The more precise meaning " three-masted ship " arose in the 17th century, and often takes the French spelling for disambiguation.

The ship was La Concorde of Saint-Malo, a large French guineaman carrying a cargo of slaves.

The incident was chronicled in the Boston News Letter, which called Teach the commander of a " French ship of 32 Guns, a Briganteen of 10 guns and a Sloop of 12 guns.

However, he had made a serious misjudgement: there was enough room between Guerrier and the shoal for an enemy ship to cut across the head of the French line, allowing the unsupported vanguard to be caught in a crossfire by two divisions of enemy ships.

Brueys ' dispositions had a second significant flaw: the 160 yard gaps between ships were large enough for a British ship to push through and break the French line.

It also created areas within the French line that were not covered by the broadside of any ship.

At the same time, French lookouts on Heureux, the ninth ship in the French line, sighted the British fleet approximately off the mouth of Aboukir Bay.

Nelson's plan, shaped through discussion with his senior captains during the return voyage to Alexandria, was to advance on the French and pass down the seaward side of the van and centre of the French line, so that each French ship would face two British ships and the massive Orient would be fighting against three.

To ensure that in the smoke and confusion of a night battle his ships would not accidentally open fire on one another, Nelson ordered that each ship prepare four horizontal lights at the head of their mizenmast and also to hoist an illuminated White Ensign, which was different enough from the French tricolour that it would not be mistaken in poor visibility, reducing the risk that British ships might fire on one another in the darkness.

Ten minutes after the French opened fire Goliath, ignoring fire from the fort to starboard and from Guerrier to port, most of which was too high to trouble the ship, crossed the head of the French line.

Foley had intended to anchor alongside the French ship and engage it closely, but his anchor took too long to descend and his ship passed Guerrier entirely.

The third British ship into action was HMS Orion under Captain Sir James Saumarez, which rounded the engagement at the head of the battle line and passed between the French main line and the frigates that lay closer inshore.

Miller steered his ship through the middle of the melee between the anchored British and French ships until he encountered the third French ship Spartiate.

Orion then rejoined the action further south than intended, firing on the fifth French ship Peuple Souverain and Admiral Blanquet's flagship Franklin.

She made two more Hollywood films, French Postcards ( 1979 ) with Debra Winger and Chanel Solitaire ( 1981 ) with Timothy Dalton.

First mentioned during the 17th century, the Rodrigues Solitaire was described in detail by François Leguat ( leader of a group of French Huguenot refugees who were marooned on Rodrigues in 1691 – 1693 ).

By this time, the dramatic European synth-pop sound was on the rise, and Branigan's vocals propelled her English-language version of the French song " Solitaire " to the upper reaches of the U. S. charts.

The original " Solitaire " was written and recorded in 1981 by French singer-songwriter Martine Clemenceau.

The Academic Charles-Marie de Féletz wrote that " Le Solitaire has so far been translated into every single known language, except of course French.

* 1774 – Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist ( d. 1862 )

However, in 1774, the British Parliament passed the Quebec Act, which restored the French civil law for matters of private law ( e. g., contracts, property, successions ), while keeping the English common law as the basis for public law in the colony, notably the criminal law.

* 1722 – Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer ( d. 1774 )

* 1774 – Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer ( b. 1701 )

* 1774 – François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo, French general ( d. 1838 )

The earliest use of the phrase is a quote from the Westminster Magazine of 1774: " He had no inclination for a Broomstick-marriage ", the person in question simply stating that he did not want to go through a ceremony that had no legal validity, it having been suggested to him that he would pretend to be marrying by having a French sexton read the marriage service to him and his young bride.

* 1715 – Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary ( d. 1774 )

Between 1774 – 1781, French astronomer Charles Messier published a catalogue of celestial objects that had a nebulous appearance similar to comets.

* François Quesnay ( 1694 – 1774 ) French economist of the Physiocratic school.

* July 22 – Auguste Marmont, French marshal ( b. 1774 )

* February 19 – Tiphaigne de la Roche, French author ( d. 1774 )

King Louis XV, dissatisfied with Clement XIII's action in regard to the Duke of Parma, occupied the Papal States from 1768 to 1774 and substituted French institutions for those in force with the approval of the people of Avignon ; a French party grew up which, after the sanguinary massacres of La Glacière between the adherents of the Papacy and the Republicans ( 16 – 17 October 1791 ), carried all before it, and induced the Constituent Assembly to decree the union of Avignon and the Comtat ( comital district ) Venaissin with France on 14 September 1791.

* October 8 – Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist ( d. 1774 )

* January 28 – Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer ( d. 1774 )

* June 4 – François Quesnay, French economist ( d. 1774 )

The French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace reproduced and extended Bayes ' results in 1774, apparently quite unaware of Bayes ' work.

French Politics, 1774 – 1789: From the Accession of Louis XVI to the Fall of the Bastille.

The new British rulers retained and protected most of the property, religious, political, and social culture of the French-speaking habitants, guaranteeing the right of the Canadiens to practice the Catholic faith and to the use of French civil law ( now Quebec law ) through the Quebec Act of 1774.

In the 18th century, before the French Revolution ( 1789 – 99 ), in the French feudal order, the masculine and feminine terms bourgeois and bourgeoise identified the rich men and women who were members of the urban and rural Third Estate — the common people of the French realm, who violently deposed the absolute monarchy of the Bourbon King Louis XVI ( r. 1774 – 91 ), his clergy, and his aristocrats.

In 1774, the Quebec Act guaranteed French settlers as British subjects rights to French law, the Roman Catholic faith, and the French language, to appease them at a moment when the English-speaking colonies to the south were on the verge of revolting in the American Revolutionary War.