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 ).

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.

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.

Troy weight probably takes its name from the French market town of Troyes in France where English merchants traded at least as early as the early 9th century .< ref name =" OED3troy2 "> 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.

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 ).

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.

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.

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.

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 ”.

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.

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.

`` 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 ".

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 )

Brigitte Bardot is supporting Front National candidate Marine Le Pen in the 2012 French Presidential Election.

A French translation, Le Recueil des Prières de la Communauté Chrétienne, was published in 1967.

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.

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 ).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 )

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 ).

But the first public screening of film ever is due to Jean Aimé " Acme " Le Roy, a French photographer.

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.