His slapstick comedy film The Misadventure of a French Gentleman Without Pants at the Zandvoort Beach is the oldest surviving Dutch film.

" Misadventure at Mauritius.

Misadventure has it that they only come together when he was at the brink of death.

Although common folklore cites pulmonary aspiration of vomit as the cause of his death, the official cause is listed as " Acute alcohol poisoning " and " Death by Misadventure ".

Claims arising from ear syringing mishaps account for about 25 % of the total claims received by New Zealand's Accident Compensation Corporation ENT Medical Misadventure Committee.

The inquest has taken place with a verdict of " Death by Misadventure " but no explanation has been reached for the rearrangement of the clocks.

*" The Misadventure of Mark Thorne " by Andy Frankham ( Short Trips: Snapshots )

* Mr. Gregory's Misadventure

# Mr. Incoul's Misadventure ( 1887 )

-An Audio Misadventure.

DVD chapter titles: Must Have a Bit of Fun ; African Misadventure ; Rather Unpleasant News ; Freda Darling ; The House Rules ; A Horror in Wales ; The Royal Brush Off.

It was followed by Turk and no Turk ( 1785 ), a musical comedy ; Inkle and Yarico ( 1787 ), an opera ; Ways and Means ( 1788 ); The Iron Chest ( 1796 ), taken from William Godwin's Adventures of Caleb Williams ; The Poor Gentleman ( 1802 ); John Bull, or an Englishman's Fireside ( 1803 ), his most successful piece ; The Heir at Law ( 1808 ), which enriched the stage with one immortal character, " Dr Pangloss " ( borrowed of course from Voltaire's Candide ), and numerous other pieces, many of them adapted from the French.

# ‘ Highways and Byways, or Tales of the Roadside picked up in the French Provinces by a Walking Gentleman ,’ 1823, 2 vols.

Without consulting Tallard, Clérambault ordered his reserve battalions into the village, upsetting the balance of the French position and nullifying the French numerical superiority.

Without their best general and his veterans, the French suffered a series of defeats and it was not until Bonaparte returned to become First Consul that France once again held a position of strength on mainland Europe.

Without informing the rest of the cabinet or Queen Victoria, Palmerston had sent a private note to the French ambassador endorsing Louis Bonaparte's coup and congratulating Louis Bonaparte, himself, on the coup.

Without the forts, the French Army would no longer be able to defend Paris.

Without Austrian aggression, the French could not intervene ; and without French support, Cavour was unwilling to risk war.

Without his prestige the Angevin dynasty might not have survived the disastrous reign of John ; where the French and the rebels would not trust the English king's word, they would trust William.

* Terence Rattigan: French Without Tears, The Winslow Boy, and The Browning Version

* Laurent Gerbier, " Un chien sans maître " ( A Dog Without His Master ), Lucien Febvre and the Athism of Rabelais ( French )

Without warning, in 2000 French urban climber Alain " Spiderman " Robert, using only his bare hands, climbing shoes and no safety devices, scaled the obelisk all the way to the top.

He won accolades in the same year for his part in Terence Rattigan's French Without Tears, which brought him to the attention of Alexander Korda and Darryl F. Zanuck.

Without their skirmishers in front of them, the French column blundered into the 945 men of the 50th Regiment.

In January and February 1940 he returned to the Grand Theatre in Blackpool, appearing in French Without Tears.

He produced and performed Army Concert Party work, and in 1945 toured bases and hospitals with two Terence Rattigan plays he directed, French Without Tears and While the Sun Shines.

* May 20: Hector Malot, French writer of Without family (+ 1907 )

Without the appetite of New England for land, and by relying solely on Aboriginals to supply them with fur at the trading posts, the French composed a complex series of military, commercial, and diplomatic connections.

Without prospect of further French assistance the capitulation at Limerick finally sealed victory for William III and his supporters in Ireland with the signing of the Treaty of Limerick on 3 October ( O. S ).

Without d ' Erlon's corps blocking the Prussians ' line of retreat, the French victory at Ligny was not complete, and the Prussians were not routed.

Without the French army to suppress them, Uri and other rural populations successfully rebelled against the government in the Stecklikrieg.

More recently, the NED has provided funding to the French NGO Reporters Without Borders ( RSF ), which promotes freedom of press, particularly in Cuba.

Without intervening personally in French politics, he took a keen interest in the questions of administration and social reorganization arising from the fall of the imperialist régime and the disasters of the war.

La Belle Dame sans Merci ( French: " The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy " ) is a ballad written by the English poet John Keats.

Without the French Emperor's protection, the Papal States and Rome fell to invading Piedmontese troops.

These new pictures focussed on the familiar and commonplace objects that he had heard the men in his prison camp talking about as the things they missed most, hence associated with the sense of lost freedom: the cafe at the corner, the newspaper kiosk, the girls in doorways and windows along the street, the golden-crusted French bread they lacked, the cigarettes denied them.

The Interior man looked uneasily at his French compatriot.

Sure enough, mail began trickling in, delivered by a talkative, highly amused French postman who informed me there had been quite a debate at the post office as to whether that address would be recognized.

Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;

Across the road is the kitchen, and waiters bearing great trays of dishes dodge traffic as nimbly as their French colleagues at the restaurant in the Place Du Tertre in Paris.

The Indochina struggle was a war to stay out of in 1954, when Gen. Ridgway estimated it would take a minimum of 10 to 15 divisions at the outset to win a war the French were losing.

Let us, like the French, have outdoor cafes where we may relax, converse at leisure and enjoy the passing crowd.

he rose at half-past six every morning, made himself some French coffee, had his corn flakes and more coffee, smoked four cigarettes while reading last Sunday's Herald Tribune and yesterday's Pittsburgh Gazette, then put on his high-topped farmer's shoes and walked under a vine bower to his workshop.

The director of the post at Mobile kept an adequate amount of French goods, of a kind to which they were accustomed, to supply the Indian needs.

Bienville realized that if the French were to hold the southeastern tribes against the enticements of British goods, French traders must be able to offer a supply as abundant as the Carolinians and at reasonable prices.

But they brought back few pelts to pay their debts, and soon French trade in the region was at an end.

a collection of English, French and German coins, valued at $500 ; ;

Sunday New Orleans brunches continue at the Trade Winds but the daily French buffets have been called off.

Chabrier's little one-act operetta, presented yesterday afternoon at Town Hall, is a fragile, precious little piece, very French, not without wit and charm.

Nostalgia week at Lewisohn Stadium, which had begun with the appearance of the 70-year-old Mischa Elman on Tuesday night, continued last night as Lily Pons led the list of celebrities in an evening of French operatic excerpts.

This French film, set in Italy, is a summertime splurge in shock and terror all shot in lovely sunny scenery -- so breath-taking that at times you almost forget the horrors the movie is dealing with.

Alain Connes (; born 1 April 1947 ) is a French mathematician, currently Professor at the Collège de France, IHÉS, The Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University.

Meanwhile Algerian painters, like Mohamed Racim or Baya, attempted to revive the prestigious Algerian past prior to French colonization, at the same time that they have contributed to the preservation of the authentic values of Algeria.

The most important French social theorist since Foucault and Lévi-Strauss is Pierre Bourdieu, who trained formally in philosophy and sociology and eventually held the Chair of Sociology at the Collège de France.

He taught French for a year at Eton, where Eric Blair ( later to become George Orwell ) and Stephen Runciman were among his pupils, but was remembered as an incompetent and hopeless teacher who couldn ’ t keep discipline.

He learned the Polish language at home and the Russian language in schools ; and having a French governess and a German governess, he became fluent in these four languages as a child.

The French critics thought it was characteristic of American films of the 1930s or 1940s ; however, it was mostly characteristic of cheaper American movies, such as Charlie Chan mysteries where people collected in front of a fireplace or at the foot of the stairs in order to explain what happened a few minutes ago.

Mont Blanc spans the French – Italian border, and at is the highest mountain in the Alps.

The English word Alps derives from the French and Latin Alpes, which at one time was thought to be derived from the Latin albus (" white ").