Dining with Wilson and French the night before, Lloyd George criticised Robertson and called Haig ’ s recent paper ( 8 October ), which predicted that “ decisive success is expected next year ” provided Russia continued to pin down as many German divisions as currently, “ preposterous ”.

The French Dining Room is so called because the eighteenth-century Rococo panelling ( or boiseries ) came from the Chateau d ' Asnieres near Paris, a chateau which was leased to Louis XV and his mistress Madame de Pompadour as a hunting lodge.

The National Trust tour only includes the Great Hall and French Dining Room.

Dining with Wilson and French the night before, Lloyd George claimed that Robertson was “ afraid of Haig, & that both of them are pigheaded, stupid & narrow visioned ”.

Ms. Duffy wrote two award-winning essays, Taipei Tales and Dining in French for the literary journal Literal Latte.

* " Dining in French "

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.

She did so in French and-whilst being dragged out of the room by two ushers-repeated her words in German saying " Kiesinger!

Different periods of the early republic and world history were selected as a theme for each room: the Federal style for the Green Room, French Empire for the Blue Room, American Empire for the Red Room, Louis XVI for the Yellow Oval Room, and Victorian for the president's study, renamed the Treaty Room.

During the confusion of the French Revolution the mortal remains were salvaged by the Boch industrialist family ( founders of Villeroy & Boch, ennobled in 1892 ) and hidden in an attic room in Mettlach on the Saar River.

The idea of mystic societies was exported to New Orleans in 1856 when six businessmen, three who were formerly of Mobile, gathered at a club room in New Orlean's French Quarter to organize a secret society, inspired by the Cowbellion de Rakin Society, that would observe Mardi Gras with a formal parade.

It may have been designed from wallpaper Durant once saw in a French hotel room.

As portrayed by Sellers, Clouseau ’ s French accent became steadily more exaggerated in successive films ( for example, pronouncing " room " as " reum "; " Pope " as " Peup "; " bomb " as " beumb "; and " bumps " as " beumps "), and a frequent running gag in the movies was that even French characters would have difficulty understanding what he was saying.

A closet, through French from Latin clausum, " closed " began life in the 17th century as a small private room, often behind a bedroom, to which a man or woman could retire, for privacy, reading, or enjoyment of personal works of art: for this usage, see Cabinet ( room ).

The continued existence of a legitimate Norwegian government gave the exiles considerably more room for action than the French.

Napoleon learned of her death via a French journal while in exile on Elba, and stayed locked in his room for two days, refusing to see anyone.

Jean Richard had an earlier long-running series playing the character on French television — however, Simenon himself is said to have disliked Richard's Maigret because he would not take his hat off when entering a room.

The room used by Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henry II, has a fireplace by Jean Goujon, a French sculptor of the Fontainebleau School, which bears the initials of Henry II and Catherine de ' Medici: interlaced Hs and Cs that could be considered as forming the D of " Diane ".

The living room also offers a series of 18th-century French paintings:

The displays mainly show the prison during the French colonial period, including the guillotine room, still with original equipment, and the quarters for men and women Vietnamese political prisoners.

" French Ambassador Jean-Baptiste Mattei said: " As soon as he started to address the question of the Jewish people and Israel, we had no reason to stay in the room.

Various paintings representing the life of Jesus Christ are present in this room, as well as a portrait of the French King Henry III ( perhaps by Tintoretto ) due to his visit to the city in 1574 on his way from Poland to take up the French throne left vacant with the death of his brother Charles IX.

It has marble fireplaces, crystal-glass French windows, a billiards room and parquet floors.

In a decorated room within a grand residence, a draped ' cadaver ' rested on a plinth which was then ritually stabbed by an ' executioner ' while a ' service ' was read consisting of extracts from the French décadent writer Joris-Karl Huysmans and le Marquis de Sade.

The French writer Paul Halter, whose output of over 30 novels is almost exclusively of the locked room genre, has been described as the natural successor to John Dickson Carr.

At the actual moment of Henri's birth, no member of the French court was present in the room ; this enabled the supporters of Louis Philippe, duc d ' Orléans, to later claim that Henri was not in fact a French prince.

* Living ( Flemish, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish ) — living room or set of living room furniture

In 1633, the year the larger set was published, Lorraine had been invaded by the French in the Thirty Years War and Callot's vision still stands with Francisco Goya's Los Desastres de la Guerra ( The Disasters of War ), which was influenced by Callot, as among the most powerful artistic statements of the inhumanity of war.

It has been suggested that the " p " in " pH " stands for " power ", others refer to the German Potenz ( meaning " power "), others refer to French puissance ( also meaning " power ", based on the fact that the Carlsberg Laboratory was French-speaking ); others refer to " potential ".

The French Legation was built in 1841, and still stands in Austin as the oldest frame structure in the city.

In 1999, Casta was ranked first in a national survey ordered by the French Mayors Association to decide who should be the new model for the bust of Marianne, an allegorical symbol of the French Republic, which stands inside every French town hall.

Later, Balzac became the subject of a monumental statue by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin, which stands near the intersection of Boulevard Raspail and Boulevard Montparnasse.

Antony Beevor, for example, writes, " Malraux stands out, not just because he was a mythomaniac in his claims of martial heroism – in Spain and later in the French Resistance – but because he cynically exploited the opportunity for intellectual heroism in the legend of the Spanish Republic.

I replied, " O stands for Olivier, the French for Oliver.

French hip hop stands out for its " flowing, expressive tones of the language give it a clear identity within the rap world.

In November 2004, EDF ( which stands for Electricité de France ), the world's largest utility company and France's largest electricity provider, was floated with huge success on the French stock market.

In England, French cuisine stands somewhat apart from other generally less expensive cuisine, although there are some inexpensive French bistros.

He stands at the convergence of three intellectual schools: the traditional learning of French schools, the Greek culture of Southern Italy, and the Arabic science of the East.

Now, the interracial blending of some native French and newcomers stands as a vibrant and boasted feature of French culture, from popular music to movies and literature.

In an area known to the Indians for hundreds of years, the French explorer La Salle left his mark by building a small fort in 1670, less than a mile north of where the village now stands.

It stands out as one of the first French cities, after Nancy, to have entered an era of urbanism and metropolitan big scale projects, with the team Gabriel father and son, architects for King Louis XV, under the supervision of two intendants ( Governors ), first Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur then the Marquis ( Marquess ) de Tourny.

They had expected the German Wehrmacht to make stands on the natural defensive lines provided by the French rivers, and had not prepared the logistics for the much deeper advance of the Allied armies, so fuel ran short.

In front of the church of Saint Castor stands a fountain, erected by the French in 1812, with an inscription to commemorate Napoleon's invasion of Russia.

* Near the church stands the Cloth Market ( in French Halle aux Draps ), dating from the 16th century.

ASF stands for both French ( Association Suisse de Football ) and Italian ( Associazione Svizzera di Football ), while SFV is the German ( Schweizerischer Fussballverbund ).

French crêpes have become very popular in many East Asian countries, including Japan, South Korea, The Philippines, Thailand and China, where they are sold in numerous crêpe stands and kiosks.

This stands true for the years after the Phanariote-Ottoman period, at the beginning of the 19th century, when Romanians had a favourable historical context and chose the Western way of life, mainly French which they pursued steadily and at a very fast pace.

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, stands for a nasal open front unrounded vowel, found for example in Quebec French maman and Jean.