His chief prose works are the Observations upon Monsieur de Sorbier's Voyage into England ( London, 1665 ), a satirical reply to the strictures on Englishmen in Samuel de Sorbière's book Relation d ’ un voyage en Angleterre ( Paris, 1664 ), and a History of the Royal Society of London ( London, 1667 ), which Sprat had helped to found.

The 1991 feature film Tous les matins du monde ( All the Mornings of the World ) by Alain Corneau, based on the lives of Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe and Marin Marais, prominently featured these composers ' music for the viola da gamba and brought viol music to new audiences.

During the First World War, Monsieur Gaston Menier, owner of Chenonceau, installed at his own expense a hospital whose different services occupied all of the Château's rooms.

Monsieur Antonin Besse II is a Patron and Honorary Vice President of the United World Colleges.

The World Monuments Fund included the site in the 1998 World Monuments Watch to call attention to water infiltration and high humidity in the Galerie des Actions de Monsieur le Prince, and again in the 2002 World Monuments Watch due to the precarious condition of the entire estate.

During World War I, he contunued to produce hits, writing the lyrics for the musical adaptation of a French comedy, Theodore & Co ( 1916 ), the musical The Boy ( 1917 ), André Messager's adaptation of Booth Tarkington's Monsieur Beaucaire ( 1919, " Philomel ") and contributed to A Southern Maid ( 1920 ).

I want you to find Monsieur Prieur at once and give him this money for the boy's purchase.

After I paid Monsieur Prieur for Dandy, I brought him home, but he was ill at ease and ran away the same night.

`` I have told you before, and I tell you again '', Monsieur Favre said rudely.

`` Monsieur Favre indicated that if I would co-operate, after you and William are banished, following the debate, I will be given a place of influence ''.

Examples include Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ), The Ladykillers ( 1955 ), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ( 1964 ), The Loved One ( 1965 ), MASH ( 1970 ), Monty Python's The Meaning of Life ( 1983 ), Brazil ( 1985 ), The War of the Roses ( 1989 ), Heathers ( 1989 ), Your Friends & Neighbors ( 1998 ), Keeping Mum ( 2005 ), and Burn After Reading ( 2008 ).

In the account books of Johanna, Duchess of Brabant and Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxemburg, an entry dated May 14, 1379 reads: " Given to Monsieur and Madame four peters, two forms, value eight and a half moutons, wherewith to buy a pack of cards ".

The best-known figure on Cook's mission, Joseph Banks ,< ref > Extract from Lapérouse's journal: I here must witness my recognition of Sir Joseph Banks, who, having realised that Monsieur de Monneron could not find an inclining compass in London, wished to lend us those that had served the famous captain Cook.

De Staercke replied that Churchill was right: " The Prince, Monsieur Spaak and I read your text which is saying the precise truth, which seems perfect to us.

I have taken the liberty of sending your almanac to Monsieur de Condorcet, Secretary of the Academy of sciences at Paris, and member of the Philanthropic society because I considered it as a document to which your whole colour had a right for their justification against the doubts which have been entertained of them.

His father was Louis XIV's younger brother Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, known as Monsieur ; his mother was Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate.

Misconceptions about the countertenor voice were common at the time Deller was first gaining significant notice as a singer, which was only a matter of decades after the last castrati had died ; Michael Chance tells the story that once, a French woman, upon hearing Deller sing, exclaimed " Monsieur, vous êtes eunuque "— to which Deller replied, " I think you mean ' unique ,' madam.

Afterwards, Gassion noted: " Monsieur, I am most annoyed that you are wounded.

The first was the father of Maréchal de Camp Monsieur Raymond Dessalines, created 1st Baron de Louis Dessalines on 8 April 1811, aide-de-camp to King Henry I, Privy Councilor, Secretary-General of the Ministry of War between 1811 and 1820 and Member of the Royal Chamber of Public Instruction between 1818 and 1820, who received the degree of Knight of the Order of St. Henry on 1 May 1811 and was killed by the revolutionaries at Cap-Henri on 10 October 1820.

I of which contains a complete list of his works, and a " Notice Historique sur Monsieur B.

However, Raymond told me tactfully, ` Monsieur Colonel, vous aurez gros problemes ', meaning, I think, that we hadn't a hope in hell.

" Monsieur le Président ", Laval replied, " the insulting way in which you questioned me earlier and the demonstrations in which some members of the jury indulged show me that I may be the victim of a judicial crime.

He said of Berlioz, "... what Monsieur Berlioz composes is not part of that art which we distinguish as music, and I am completely certain that he lacks the most basic capability in this art.

In 2006 Cocker appeared on albums Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited ( song " I Just Came to Tell You That I'm Going ", co-performed with Kid Loco ) and Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys ( song " A Drop of Nelson's Blood ").

understand, Monsieur, with what great joy, and with what fatigue, I

* The More I Wonder ( 1957, probably a translation into English of Demain, Monsieur Silber )

* 1975 et 1981: 13, rue de l ' amour ( Monsieur Chasse ), by Georges Feydeau, director Basil Langton, US and Australie

* French — Alain Kan: " Au pays de Pierrot " (" In Pierrot Country " ); Chantal Goya: " Les pierrots de Paris " and " Pierrot tout blanc " (" Pure White Pierrot "), in Monsieur le Chat Botté ( 1982 ); Danielle Licari: " Les Chansons de Pierrot " ( 1981 ); Guy Béart: " Pierrot la tendresse " (" Pierrot the Tender "), from Béart à l ' université de Louvain ( 1974 ); Gérard Lenorman: " Pierrot chanteur ", from Le Soleil des Tropiques ( 1983 ); Jacques Dutronc: " Où est-il l ' ami Pierrot?

Around this time Major – who in an unfortunate phrase denounced the Labour Leader John Smith as " Monsieur Oui, the poodle of Brussels " – tried to demand an increase in the Qualified Majority needed for voting in the newly-enlarged European Union ( i. e. making it easier for Britain, in alliance with other countries, to block federalist measures ).

Several filmmakers have paid homage to the comedies of the silent era, including Jacques Tati with his Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot ( 1953 ) and Mel Brooks with Silent Movie ( 1976 ).

* Monsieur Bonacieux, husband of Madame Bonacieux ( Raquel Welch ) in Richard Lester's The Three Musketeers ( 1973 ).

In 1821 he finished a painting commissioned by a childhood friend, Monsieur de Pastoret, the Entry of Charles V into Paris ; de Pastoret also ordered a portrait of himself and a religious work ( Virgin with the Blue Veil ).

Par Monsieur Boyer de l ’ Academie françoise ( 1678 ).

Pinthereau was also the author of a critical history of Jansenism titled La Naissance du Jansénisme découverte à Monsieur le Chancelier ( The Birth of Jansenism Revealed to the Chancellor, Leuven, 1654 ).

Valjean's assumed name, Father Madeleine, is not used in the musical version, where he is only called Monsieur le maire ( Mr. Mayor ).

" In the following years, similar awards were given to seven other films: one from Italy ( The Bicycle Thief ), two from France ( Monsieur Vincent and Forbidden Games ), three from Japan ( Rashomon, Gate of Hell and Samurai, The Legend of Musashi ), as well as a Franco-Italian co-production ( The Walls of Malapaga ).

Tucked deep into Montmartre was the garden of Monsieur Pere Foret, where Toulouse-Lautrec executed a series of pleasant plein-air paintings of Carmen Gaudin, the same red-head model who appears in The Laundress ( 1888 ).

Seventy-five novels and twenty-eight short stories about Maigret were published between 1931 and 1972, starting with Pietr-le-Leton ( Latvian Pete ) and concluding with Maigret et Monsieur Charles ( Maigret and Monsieur Charles ).

* Monsieur Noirtier de Villefort: The father of Gérard de Villefort and grandfather of Valentine, Édouard ( and, without knowing it, Benedetto ).

Among a dozen major scores for the theater are operatic settings of Shakespeare ( Der Sturm, in August Wilhelm Schlegel's German version-1955 ) and Molière ( Monsieur de Pourceaugnac-1962 ), and the satirical fairy tale La Nique à Satan ( Thumbing Your Nose at Satan-1931 ).

He was also assistant director to Charlie Chaplin on Chaplin's film Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ).

Louis Pauwels wrote Monsieur Gurdjieff ( first edition published in Paris, France in 1954 by Editions du Seuil ).

In addition to La Tosca, six of his other plays were set against the events of those times: Monsieur Garat ( 1860 ), Les Merveilleuses ( 1873 ), Thermidor ( 1891 ), Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1893 ), Robespierre ( 1899 ), and Pamela ( 1898 ).

A few dozen meters from the chateau is another impressive house, built in 1900 by Monsieur Lambert ( the sculptor of the statue of Voltaire ; his family owned the chateau before it was purchased by the French government ).

Landru was the inspiration for Charlie Chaplin's film Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ).

Although Henry's own descendants thereafter held the senior positions within the royal family of dauphin, Fils de France, and petits-fils de France, from 1589 to 1709 the Princes of Condé coincidentally held the rank at court of premier prince du sang royal ( First Prince of the Blood Royal ), to which was attached income, precedence, and ceremonial privilege ( such as the exclusive right to be addressed as Monsieur le prince at court ).

After entering Paris and speaking with Monsieur de Treville, he suffers misadventure and is challenged to a duel by each of three musketeers ( Athos, Aramis and Porthos ).

Other libels published against Arnauld's Moral Theology of Jesuits included the one written by the Jesuit polemist François Pinthereau ( 1605 – 1664 ), under the pseudonym of the abbé de Boisic, titled Les Impostures et les ignorances du libelle intitulé: La Théologie Morale des Jésuites ( 1644 ), who was also the author of a critical history of Jansenism titled La Naissance du Jansénisme découverte à Monsieur le Chancelier ( The Birth of Jansenism Revealed to Sir the Chancellor, Leuven, 1654 ).

Cassel has also done a number of English-language films, such as Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen, Derailed, Birthday Girl, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, Elizabeth, Eastern Promises, and Shrek ( as the voice of Monsieur Hood ), and in the Portuguese-language, Brazilian film Adrift ( À Deriva ).

Some of his other memorable film roles were as the baseball manager in Joe E. Brown's Elmer, the Great ( 1933 ), and as the wedding host in Charlie Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ).