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French and Derby
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This plot
, launched
with the full knowledge of Nivelle
and the French Prime Minister Aristide Briand
, was announced
in guarded terms at
a War Cabinet meeting on 24 February
, to which neither Robertson nor Lord
Derby ( Secretary of State for War
) had been invited
, then landed on Robertson
and Haig without warning at an Anglo-French conference at Calais
( 26-7 Feb
).
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European variations include
the Derby Italiano
, the Deutsches
Derby, the Irish
Derby and the Prix du Jockey Club
( popularly known
in the British Isles as
the " French Derby ").
* Derby ( automobile ),
a defunct
French automobile marque
The other two
French Classic Races are Prix du Jockey Club
( the French Derby ) and the Prix de Diane both held
in June at Chantilly Racecourse.
The French responded
in the spring of 1346
with a massive counter-attack against Aquitaine
, where an army under John
, Duke of Normandy
, besieged
Derby at Aiguillon.
The incorporators were John B. Smith
, Henderson Gaylord
, Peter Shupp
, Draper Smith
, Josiah M. Eno
, Daniel Gardiner
, A. R. Matthews
, William Jenkins
, George P. Richards
, S. M. Davenport
, Edward Griffith
, Lewis Boughton
, A. F. Shupp
, John J. Shonk
, James McAlarney
, J. P. Davenport
, Eli Bittenbender
, David McDonald
, C. A. Kuschke
, Andrew F. Levi
, Querin Krothe
, David Madden
, John Dodson
, Darius Gardiner
, John Cobley
, William L. Lance
, Jr., J. E. Smith
, R. N. Smith
, John Dennis
, David Levi
, W. W. Lance
, William W. Dietrick
, James Hutchison
, George Brown
, Oliver Davenport
, Samuel
French, A. Gabriel
, Theodore Renshaw
, Edward G. Jones
, J. L. Nesbitt
, J. W. Weston
, J. H. Waters
, John E. Halleck
, E. R. Wolfe
, F. E. Spry
, C. F.
Derby, Anthony Duffy
, D. Brown
, A. G. Rickard
, Thomas P. Macfarlane
, William L. Lance
, Lewis Gorham
, John Jessop
, A. S. Davenport
, A. Hutchison
, Brice S. Blair
, John S. Geddis
and C. H. Wilson
, M. D.
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He was also Ambassador to France
, and during
this time followed his father's lead by donating
the Lord
Derby Cup
, given each year to
the winners of
the French rugby league knockout competition.
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Troy weight probably takes its name from
the French market town of Troyes
in France where English merchants traded at least as early as
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The name
" troy
" is first attested
in 1390
, describing
the weight of
a platter
, in an account of
the travels
in Europe of
the Earl of
Derby.
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Nearco was also
the damsire of
the French multiple Group One winner Charlottesville
, and damsire of
the Epsom
Derby winners Artic Prince
( 1948
) and Tulyar
( 1952
).
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WON-cantered to victory by an official 6 lengths
, never off
the bit at any time from Talgo
( horse
) in second
, beating
a field consisting of
the English Oaks winner
, French Oaks winner
, two Irish
Derby winners
, Grand Prix de
Paris winnner
, French St Leger winner
, Laurel Invitational winner
and the runner up
in the Belmont Stakes.
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Plesch lost two of her six husbands to
the same woman
, Louise de Vilmorin
, a French literary figure
, and owned two winners of
the Epsom
Derby, in Psidium
in 1961
and Henbit in1980.
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In January 1917
French refused an invitation from
Derby to dine
with Haig
, but on 22 June
, after pressure from
the King
, a meeting was arranged for
French and Haig to bury
the hatchet
, at which
, by Haig ’ s account
, French confessed that
in his bitterness at being removed from command he had “ said things then which he was ashamed of now ”.
French was pleased at
the removal of Robertson
and Derby early
in 1918
, and during
the German Spring Offensive urged that Haig be sacked
and replaced by Plumer.
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Wilson delivered copies of
the two papers to Hankey on 20 October ; on 24 October Wilson breakfasted
with Derby, who warned him that he had
not yet submitted
the papers as
French ’ s was “ too personal ”
and Wilson ’ s “ too unanswerable ”.
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Newcastle feared both an attack from
the north by Bonnie Prince Charlie who had gathered 5
, 000 men
in Derby and a French invasion of southern England.
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He notably bred Santa Anita
Derby winner
, Jim
French as well as two-year-old European susperstar Arazi
, winner of
the 1991 Breeders ' Cup Juvenile
and European Horse of
the Year.
Le Classique (,
The Classic ), also known as
Derby de France
or Le Classico
, is a football match contested
between French top-flight clubs
Paris Saint-Germain
and Olympique de Marseille.
French and Le
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``
Le petit dejeuner ''
, Harold said
, in an accent that did credit to Miss Sloan
, his high-school
French teacher.
The exposition of these ideas
, encouraged by Widor
and Munch
, became Schweitzer's next task
, and appeared
in the masterly study J. S. Bach:
Le Musicien-Poète
, written
in French and published
in 1905.
* 1755
– Louise Élisabeth Vigée
Le Brun
, French painter
( d. 1842
)
The French newspaper
Le Figaro described
the young king as
" the happiest
and best-loved of all
the rulers of
the earth ".
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In reply to
this the French sovereign dispatched Andrew as his ambassador to Güyük Khan ;
with Longjumeau went his brother William
( also
a Dominican
) and several others — John Goderiche
, John of Carcassonne
, Herbert
" Le Sommelier ," Gerbert of Sens
, Robert
( a clerk ),
a certain William
, and an unnamed clerk of Poissy.
* 1952
– Thierry
Le Luron
, French humorist
( d. 1986
)
* 1990
– Damien
Le Tallec
, French footballer
* 1744
– Alexandrine
Le Normant d ' Étiolles
, French daughter of Madame de Pompadour
( d. 1754
)
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Brigitte Bardot
is supporting Front National candidate Marine
Le Pen
in the 2012
French Presidential Election.
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A
French translation
, Le Recueil
des Prières de la Communauté Chrétienne
, was published
in 1967.
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Among
the plays which he wrote
in French, the most successful was
Le bourru bienfaisant
, produced on
the occasion of
the marriage of Louis XVI
and Marie Antoinette
in 1771.
The film's original
French title
is Le fond de l ' air est rouge
, which means
" the air
is essentially red ",
or " revolution
is in the air ", implying that
the socialist movement existed only
in the air.
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For seventy-four years
( 1689-1763
) there were six colonial wars
, which involved continuous warfare
between New England
and Acadia
( see
the French and Indian Wars as well as Father Rale's War
and Father
Le Loutre's War
).
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In other legal cases
, Pissarro's
" Le Quai Malaquais
, Printemps ,"
is said to have been similarly stolen
, along
with the estimated 650
, 000 lost works of art
, including those by other
French Impressionists.
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However
, in the late 15th century
, Thomas Malory created
the image of Camelot most familiar to English speakers today
in his
Le Morte d ' Arthur
, a work based mostly on
the French romances.
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Piron
is the author of
a book
in French, Le bonheur clés en main
( The Keys to Happiness ), which distinguishes among pleasure
, happiness
and joy.
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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.
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André
Le Breton
, a bookseller
and printer
, approached Diderot
with a project for
the publication of
a translation of Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia
, or Universal Dictionary of Arts
and Sciences into
French, first undertaken by
the Englishman John Mills
, and followed by
the German Gottfried Sellius.
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He wrote sentimental plays
, Le Fils naturel
( 1757
) and Le Père de famille
( 1758 ), accompanying them
with essays on theatrical theory
and practice
, including
" Les Entretiens sur
Le Fils Naturel
" ( Conversations on
The Natural Son ),
in which he announced
the principles of
a new drama:
the ' serious genre ',
a realistic midpoint
between comedy
and tragedy that stood
in opposition to
the stilted conventions of
the classical
French stage.
Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of
the Music of Language
is a long book devoted to language
and translation
, especially poetry translation
, and one of its leitmotifs
is a set of some 88 translations of
" Ma Mignonne ",
a highly constrained poem by 16th-century
French poet Clément Marot.
* 1908
– Augustus
Le Plongeon
, French antiquitarian
( b. 1825
)
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For short film enthusiasts
and cinema professionals
, Sagunenay International Short film Festival
( REGARD sur le court métrage au Saguenay
, in French ) is now
a " must-go event
" ( Francois Levesque
, Le Devoir
).
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But
the first public screening of film ever
is due to Jean Aimé
" Acme
" Le Roy
, a French photographer.
French and derby
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Alarmed by
this display of weapons
, I looked toward
the bridge
and there saw
, stretched across
the near side
, a cordon of policemen
, their bicycles forming
a roadblock before which stood several
French officers
in uniform
and a small waspish man
in a brown
derby.
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