French political cartoon from the late 1890s.

Other cartoon hippos have included Hanna-Barbera's Peter Potamus, the book and TV series George and Martha, Flavio and Marita on the Animaniacs, Pat of the French duo Pat et Stanley, The Backyardigan's Tasha, and Gloria and Moto-Moto from the Madagascar franchise.

In 1898 the French tire manufacturer Michelin introduced the Michelin Man, a cartoon figure presented in many different contexts, such as eating, drinking and playing sports.

In the mid-1990s there was a humorous French cartoon called Robinson Sucroe.

A French political cartoon depicting Qing dynasty | China as a king cake is about to be carved up by Queen Victoria ( British Empire | Britain ), Wilhelm II ( German Empire | Germany ), Nicholas II of Russia | Nicolas II ( Russian Empire | Russia ), Marianne ( Third French Republic | France ), and a samurai ( Empire of Japan | Japan ) while a Mandarin ( bureaucrat ) | Mandarin official helplessly looks on.

In 1983 a French cartoon version was made, called Le Secret des sélénites.

Takahata was originally intrigued by animation after having seen the French animated cartoon feature Le Roi et l ' oiseau ( The King and the Mockingbird ) based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

The only theatrical short subject cartoon series produced by Hanna Barbera after they left MGM and formed their own studio, Loopy de Loop is cast as a tuque-topped, kind-hearted wolf who speaks with a bad French Canadian accent, and whose kind-hearted attempts to assist almost always ended up by being rejected by those he sought to help-or something slightly worse.

The cartoon image of stolid, stocky, conservative and well-meaning John Bull, dressed like an English country squire, sometimes explicitly contrasted with the conventionalised scrawny, French revolutionary sans-culottes Jacobin, was developed from about 1790 by British satirical artists James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson and George Cruikshank.

Image: GillrayBritannia. jpg | In this 1793 British cartoon by James Gillray, who was deeply hostile to the French Revolution, a Phrygian cap substitutes for Scylla on the dangerous rocky shore, as Britannia's boat navigates between Scylla and Charybdis.

Charles-Émile Reynaud ( 8 December 1844 – 9 January 1918 ) was a French science teacher, responsible for the first projected animated cartoon films.

The cartoon image is a parody of: Image: Fryne przed areopagiem. jpg | Phryne before the Areopagus, an 1861 painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.

DuckTales was also known as La Bande à Picsou in the French NES version, after the popular TV program of the same name ( the French version of the DuckTales cartoon ).

Perhaps even more illustrative of glocalization: For promotions in France, the restaurant chain recently chose to replace its familiar Ronald McDonald mascot with Asterix the Gaul, a popular French cartoon character.

Pat Harrington, Jr., provided the voice ( and voiceover narration ) for the Inspector and, with the exception of one cartoon, his assistant, a Spanish gendarme named Deux-Deux ( common nickname in French for Eduard or Eduardo ).

* The Magic Roundabout A dub parody of a French children's cartoon that gained a cult following ( 1964-1971 ).

*-one ,-ona, found also in several English loanwords from Italian: minestrone (< minestra ' soup '); provolone cheese (< provola ' ewe '); cartone (< carta ' paper ') appears in English carton and cartoon ; ballone (< possibly from balla ' ball ', but perhaps a French formation being the proper Italian word " palla ");

* The Tex Avery cartoon The Flea Circus ( MGM, 1954 ) featured a French flea circus that broke up when they saw a dog and attacked it, and one flea, Francois ( voiced by Bill Thompson ), who played a sad clown, hitches with the star flea, Fifi, and has enough fleas together to bring the flea circus back to life.

In the cartoon, Cheburashka and Gena have their adventures made more difficult by a character named " Старуха Шапокляк " ( Old Lady Shapoklyak, from French chapeau claque, a kind of top hat ).

French postcard from the First World War era showing a caricature of Kaiser William II, German Emperor | Wilhelm II attempting to devour the world ; this French version was based on an Italian cartoon

* 2003 – Voice of animated characters for " Devil Costume " cartoon by French Boxing Productions

Zeroman was a Canadian animated television series that aired on the Canadian cartoon network Teletoon ( in English ) and on Télétoon ( in French ).

The style of this A section is written in the typical French style of composers Claude Debussy and Les Six.

His own ideas, especially those expressed in his masterworks, French Rural History ( Les caractères originaux de l ' histoire rurale française, 1931 ) and Feudal Society, were incorporated by the second-generation Annalistes, led by Fernand Braudel.

But at the time of the premiere of Figaro, Salieri was busy with his new French opera Les Horaces.

Baudelaire's Les Bijoux ( The Jewels ) is a typical example of the use of the alexandrine in 19th-century French poetry:

* 1945 – Dick Rivers, French singer and actor ( Les Chats Sauvages )

Bauxite was named after the village Les Baux in southern France, where it was first recognised as containing aluminium and named by the French geologist Pierre Berthier in 1821.

In 1982 / 83 as part of the French national celebration of Jean Philippe Rameau's 300th birthday, Turocy choreographed the first production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's Les Boréades-it was never performed during the composer's lifetime.

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.

* 1947 – Isaac Bitton, French rock band drummer ( Les Variations )

* " Les structures européennes: Principales caractéristiques et Intérêts pour les entreprises " ( the european corporate entities: main characteristics and interests for enterprises ) by Catherine Cathiard and Arnaud Lecourt, DROIT DES SOCIÉTÉS-REVUE MENSUELLE LEXISNEXIS JURISCLASSEUR-AOÛT-SEPTEMBRE 2011 ( French )

Another French effort, Jacques Demy's homage to the MGM musical: Les Demoiselles de Rochefort ( 1967 ) in which Kelly appeared, was popular in France and nominated for Academy Awards for Best Music and Score of a Musical Picture ( Original or Adaptation ) but performed poorly, elsewhere.

The adjacent French islands of La Désirade, Les Saintes and Marie-Galante come under jurisdiction of Guadeloupe.

The department of Guadeloupe comprises five islands: Guadeloupe island composed of Basse-Terre Island and Grande-Terre ( separated from Basse-Terre by a narrow sea channel called salt river ) and the dependencies composed by the adjacent French islands of La Désirade, Les Saintes and Marie-Galante.

A French language edition was published by Oriflam under license from Chaosium under the name Les Dieux Nomades in 1994.

Other somewhat less often performed include Les vêpres siciliennes ( 1855 ) and Don Carlos ( 1867 ), both commissioned by the Paris Opera and initially given in French.

At the same time, many in the growing black professional classes departed from the traditional veneration of Haiti's French cultural heritage and emphasized the nation's African roots, most notably ethnologist Jean Price-Mars and the journal Les Griots, edited by Dr. François Duvalier.

Opposition to the absolute monarchy was immediately expressed in the streets of Paris as suppressed deputies, gagged journalists, students from the University and many working men of Paris poured into the streets and erected barricades during the " three glorious days " ( French Les Trois Glorieuses ) of 26 – 29 July 1830.

* 1942 – Eddy Mitchell, French singer-songwriter and actor ( Les Chaussettes noires )

Jean-Jacques Audubon was born in Les Cayes in the French colony of Saint-Domingue ( now Haiti ) on his father's sugar plantation.

The second French school was Symbolism, which literary historians see beginning with the poet Charles Baudelaire ( 1861 – 67 ) ( Les fleurs du mal, 1857 ), and including the later poets, Arthur Rimbaud ( 1854 – 91 ), Paul Verlaine ( 1844 – 96 ), Stéphane Mallarmé ( 1842 – 98 ), and Paul Valéry ( 1871 – 1945 ).

Bloch's own ideas on rural history were best expressed in his masterworks, French Rural History ( Les caractères originaux de l ' histoire rurale française, 1931 ) and Feudal Society ( 1939 ).

* Jarrige J. F., Lechevallier M., Les fouilles de Mehrgarh, Pakistan: problèmes chronologiques at Mehrgarh, Pakistan: chronological problems ( French ).

Ploughing on a French ducal manor in March Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry | Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, c. 1410

French spoof news site Les graves infos ( Serious News ) was launched in mid-2009 with a stripping weather girl.

Columbushaus was the result of a plan by the French retail company Les Galeries Lafayette, whose flagship store was the legendary Galeries Lafayette in Paris, to open a counterpart in Berlin, on the Grand Hotel Belle Vue's former site, but financial worries made them pull out.