Category: Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George

Category: Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order

He was the 996th Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Spain, the 104th Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword in 1861 and the 775th Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1881.

* 315th Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword in 1900

Category: Honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order

Category: Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav

Category: Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary

* Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star of Sweden-1890

* Grand Cross of the Order of Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary-1891

* Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George ( Honorary GCMG )-1891

* Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath ( Honorary GCB )-1892

* Grand Cross of the Legion d ' Honneur of France-1892

* Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog of Denmark-1892

* Grand Cross of the Order of the Netherlands Lion-1892

* Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold of Austria-1897

* Grand Cross of the Order of Chula Chom Klao, special class of Siam-1897

* Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order ( Honorary GCVO )-1900

* Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III of Spain-1905

* Grand Cross of the Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig of Oldenburg-1905

* Grand Cross of the Ducal Saxe-Ernestine House Order-1905

* Grand Cross of the Order of Albert of Saxony-1905

* Grand Cross of the Order of the Redeemer of Greece-1905

* Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Danilo I of Montenegro-1905

* Grand Cross of the Order of Carol I of Romania-1905

* Grand Cross of the Order of Pius IX of the Vatican-1905

Many people, however, became members of the French Resistance, and they are the allegorical equivalents of the voluntary sanitary teams in the novel, such as Tarrou, Rambert, and Grand, who fight back against the unspeakable evil ( the Nazi occupiers ).

* 1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.

* 1810 – Battle of Grand Port – the French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet.

* 1789 – Stéphanie de Beauharnais, French wife of Charles, Grand Duke of Baden ( d. 1860 )

: Die Nabis: Propheten der Moderne, Kunsthaus Zürich & Grand Palais, Paris & Prestel, Munich 1993 ISBN 3-7913-1969-8 ( German ), ( French )

In 1922, Bamford & Martin produced cars to compete in the French Grand Prix and the cars set world speed and endurance records at Brooklands.

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.

At the French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux, Jack Brabham became the first man to win a Formula One world championship race in a car bearing his own name.

* The film Carlo Goldoni – Venice, Grand Theatre of the World, directed by Alessandro Bettero, was released in 2007 and is available in English, Italian, French, and Japanese.

* French translation by Edouard Chavannes of Sima Qian's biography of Confucius ( see pp. 283-435 ) in the Records of the Grand Historian

* Lynn, John Albert, Giant of the Grand Siècle: The French Army, 1610 – 1715, Cambridge University Press, 1997

In 1727 the first French commander, M. Le Grand, took charge of the island and established a rudimentary government thus making Dominica formally a colony of France.

On 26 February 1815, Napoleon abandoned Elba for France, reviving the French Empire for a Hundred Days ; the Allies declared an end to Napoleon's sovereignty over Elba on 25 March 1815, and on 31 March 1815 Elba was ceded to the restored Grand Duchy of Tuscany by the Congress of Vienna.

French cinema continued its upward trend of earning awards at the Cannes Festival, including the prestigious Grand Prix for Of Gods and Men ( 2010 ) and the Jury Prize for Poliss ( 2011 ); the Best Director Award for Mathieu Amalric ( On Tour, 2010 ); the Best Actress Award for Juliette Binoche ( Certified Copy, 2010 ); and the Best Actor Award for Jean Dujardin ( The Artist, 2011 ).

Between March and April 2009, 150 artists exhibited 300 pieces of graffiti at the Grand Palais in Paris — a clear acceptance of the art form into the French art world.

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, following the French Revolution of 1789, a hugely influential grimoire was published under the title of the Grand Grimoire, which was considered particularly powerful because it involved conjuring and making a pact with the Devil's chief minister, Lucifugé Rofocale, in order to gain wealth from him.

One of Barrett's pupils, John Parkin, created his own handwritten grimoire, The Grand Oracle of Heaven, or, The Art of Divine Magic, although it was never actually published, largely because Britain at the time was at war with France, and grimoires were commonly associated with the French.

Also based in London, Le Nouveau Guignol form the UK's only permanent reparatory Grand Guignol company ; plays within their current repertoire include French Guignol classics such as " The Final Kiss ", " Tics ... Or Doing the Deed ", " The Lighthouse Keepers ", " Private Room Number Six " and " The Kiss of Blood ".

* The French Marquise de Créquy wrote in her book " Souvenirs ", that the tune Grand Dieu Sauve Le Roi, was written by Jean-Baptiste Lully in gratitude for the survival by Louis XIV of an anal fistula operation.

In 2007, the urban area, or agglomération franco-valdo-genevoise ( Great Geneva or Grand Genève in French ) had 1, 240, 000 inhabitants in 189 municipalities in both Switzerland and France.

Due to a number of Parisian conventions that had to be honored ( including extensive ballets ), it became Verdi's first work in the French Grand opera style.

* 1938 – Paul Andreu, French architect, designed the Osaka Maritime Museum and the National Grand Theater of China

At the French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux, Jack Brabham took his first Formula One world championship win since 1960 and became the first man to win such a race in a car of his own construction.

From there, Clark went on to Paris, France, where in 1863, a group of racing enthusiasts had formed the French Jockey Club and had organized the Grand Prix de Paris, which at the time was the greatest race in France.

In 1983, French President François Mitterrand proposed, as one of the Grands Projets of François Mitterrand the Grand Louvre plan to renovate the building and relocate the Finance Ministry, allowing displays throughout the building.