Félix Éboué in a contemporary World War II cartoonDuring World War II, Chad was the first French colony to rejoin the Allies ( August 26, 1940 ), after the defeat of France by Germany.

As time progressed, English country dances were spread and reinterpreted throughout the Western world, and eventually the French form of the name came to be associated with the American folk dances, especially in New England ( this Gallicized name change may have followed a contemporary misbelief that the form was originally French ).

The final Fall of Constantinople | siege of Constantinople, contemporary 15th century French miniature

The act renamed the northeasterly portion of the former French province of New France as Province of Quebec, roughly coextensive with the lower third of contemporary Quebec.

Her early and later allegorical and didactic treatises reflect both autobiographical information about her life and views and also her own individualized and humanist approach to the scholastic learned tradition of mythology, legend, and history she inherited from clerical scholars and to the genres and courtly or scholastic subjects of contemporary French and Italian poets she admired.

Some of the most influential contemporary classical double bass players are known as much for their contributions to pedagogy as for their performing skills, such as US bassist Oscar G. Zimmerman ( 1910 – 1987 ), known for his teaching at the Eastman School of Music and, for 44 summers at the Interlochen National Music Camp in Michigan and French bassist François Rabbath ( b. 1931 ) who developed a new bass method that divided the entire fingerboard into six positions.

Later, he also referred to himself as a " phonometrician " ( meaning " someone who measures sounds ") preferring this designation to that of a " musician ", after having been called " a clumsy but subtle technician " in a book on contemporary French composers published in 1911.

Surveying the entire range of French filmmaking today, Tim Palmer calls contemporary cinema in France a kind of eco-system, in which commercial cinema co-exists with artistic radicalism, first-time directors ( who make up about 40 % of all France's directors each year ) mingle with veterans, and there even occasionally emerges a fascinating pop-art hybridity, in which the features of intellectual and mass cinemas are interrelated ( as in filmmakers like Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Olivier Assayas, Maïwenn, Sophie Fillières, Serge Bozon, and others ).

From 1955 onwards, the works of directors of the so-called Polish Film School had a great influence on the contemporary trends such as French New Wave, Italian neorealism or even late Classical Hollywood cinema.

This correlation between the French revolutionary Terror and the " terrorist school " of writing represented by Radcliffe and Lewis was noted by contemporary critics of the genre Sade considered The Monk to be superior to the work of Ann Radcliffe.

This new position allowed him to study contemporary French music, which was particularly popular at the court: the works of Lully and Campra.

A dedicated contemporary hedonist philosopher and on the history of hedonistic thought is the French Michel Onfray.

Philosophical ideas in Hamlet are similar to those of the French writer Michel de Montaigne, a contemporary of Shakespeare's.

Hamlet reflects the contemporary scepticism promoted by the French Renaissance humanist, Montaigne.

The papacy was moved to Avignon and all the contemporary popes were French, such as Philip IV's puppet Bertrand de Goth, Pope Clement V.

In contemporary French usage, hôtel now has the same meaning as the English term, and hôtel particulier is used for the old meaning.

The term Islamism is considered to have first begun to acquire its contemporary connotations in French academia between the late 1970s and late 1980s.

A contemporary French critic wrote, " A magic power transported us into the forests which for so many years this man of genius has trod.

According to the contemporary chronicler John Strecche, who lived at the neighbouring Kenilworth Priory, the French openly mocked Henry in 1414 by sending him a gift of tennis balls at Kenilworth.

Combining Greek influences with contemporary French eroticism, she attempted to create an updated and idealized version of Lesbos in her salon.

One contemporary French account described the barrage at Agincourt against French knights wearing plate armour as a " terrifying hail of arrow shot ".

Achard's greatest successes and popularity were in the period between the two World Wars when contemporary critics favorably compared him to some of his renowned French predecessors such as Pierre de Marivaux and Alfred de Musset.

Like other contemporary French and Italian philosophers, Vattimo does not want, or only partially wants, to rely on Heidegger for understanding Nietzsche.

On the Eastern Front the USSR was lacking pilots and several French pilots joined the Soviet Union and fought the Luftwaffe in the Normandie-Niemen squadron.

" Insipidus " comes from the French word insipide ; from Latin language inspidus ( tasteless ), from Latin: in-" not " + sapidus " tasty " from sapere " have a taste "-meaning “ lacking flavor or zest ; not tasty ”.

Caroline could understand English and French, but her father admitted that she was lacking in education.

On 17 December 2006, Barthez announced his return to football by signing a contract with French Ligue 1 side FC Nantes Atlantique, who were lacking an experienced goalkeeper following Mickaël Landreau's move to Paris Saint-Germain the previous summer.

Throughout Bao Dai's life in both Vietnam and in France, he remained unpopular amongst the Vietnamese populace as he was considered a political puppet for the French colonialist regime, for lacking any form of political power, for his cooperation with the French and for his pro-French ideals.

However, the French had taken heavy casualties and, lacking artillery and armor, Barré was forced to withdraw.

In one episode, FLN guerrillas, who refused to surrender and withdraw from a cave complex, were dealt with by French Foreign Legion Pioneer troops, who, lacking flamethrowers or explosives, simply bricked up each cave, leaving the residents to die of suffocation.

Delius admired the French composer's orchestration, but thought his works lacking in melody — the latter a comment frequently directed against Delius's own music.

Although British leadership was found lacking, British infantry's superior discipline showed that however much French infantry had improved under Saxe's tutelage, France could not match the best that Britain could put in the field.

The presence of sportier models in the Renault line-up would give the French automaker a better opportunity to capitalize on its Formula One prowess, having won two back-to-back world championships with Fernando Alonso, translating these efforts to its production cars is a moot point because Renault ’ s lineup is lacking in the sports car department.

However, Renouvin and his followers still followed the concept of with Renouvin arguing that French society under the Third Republic was “ sorely lacking in initiative and dynamism ” and Baumont arguing that French politicians had allowed " personal interests " to override " any sense of the general interest ".

Rather they were " French Subjects ", lacking rights before the law, property ownership rights, rights to travel, dissent, or vote.

There are four main types of Liceo: Liceo Classico ( focusing on classical subjects, such as Italian, Latin and Ancient Greek studies ), Liceo Scientifico ( lacking Greek to devote approximately equal time to the remaining classical subjects and scientific subjects ), Liceo Artistico ( focusing on artistic subjects as Art History and Drawing and Liceo Linguistico ( focusing on foreign languages such as French, German, Spanish, Chinese: two of these are added to the study of the mandatory language, English ).

And the doctrines of the brilliant series of war school commandants, Maillard, Langlois, Bonnal, Foch, had been challenged, not only by the German school, but also since about 1911 by a new school of thought within the French army itself, which, under the inspiration of General Loiseau de Grandmaison, criticized them as lacking in vigour and offensive spirit, and conducing to needless dispersion of force.

A third is 15th Century French, having an unusually short handle, a chain nearly as long as the handle, and an iron head lacking spikes but having several angular points.

The was lacking in the old pronunciation: compare French faucon and the older English spellings faucon and fawcon.

" It was also in a special number of Cahiers du Cinéma reviewing the current state of the French cinema in 1957 that Clair received one of his most positive appreciations: " A complete film author who, since the silent era, has brought to the French cinema intelligence, refinement, humour, an intellectual quality that is slightly dry but smiling and in good taste .... Whatever may follow in his rich career, he has created a cinematic world that is his own, full of rigour and not lacking in imagination, thanks to which he remains one of our greatest film-makers.

He was asked by the French Directoire to try to set up a Franco-Persian alliance, but was unsuccessful, lacking the training of a diplomat.

More tellingly, the figures presented by Parker to sustain his idea about the growth of armies have been severely criticised by David Eltis as lacking consistency and David Parrott has proved that the period of the trace italienne did not show any significant growth in the size of French armies and that the late period of the Thirty Years War showed an increase in the proportion of cavalry in the armies, contrary to Parker's Thesis that the prevalence of siege warfare marked a decrease of its importance.

These were issued to a limited extent by French merchants, who, lacking in any other form of currency, were forced to create their own, and who consequently became the first Canadian bankers.

The intent of German policy was to drive a wedge between the British and French, but in both cases produced the opposite effect and Germany was isolated diplomatically, most notably lacking the support of Italy despite Italian membership in the Triple Alliance.