The admiral ordered Hood to establish the safest course into the harbour ; the British had no charts of the depth or shape of the bay except a rough sketch map Swiftsure had obtained from a merchant captain, an inaccurate British atlas on Zealous, and a 35-year old French map aboard Goliath.

So a map made in English may use the name Germany for that country, while a German map would use Deutschland and a French map Allemagne.

The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation was already weak when the French Revolution and the ensuing Napoleonic Wars altered the political map of Central Europe.

The evidence is found in two early maps, one made by the Portuguese cartographer Pedro Reinel in about 1522, the very first map to show the Falklands, the other a French copy of a Portuguese map bought in Lisbon by André Thévet ( 1516-1590 ), a Franciscan friar and prolific writer on many subjects ; this copy is now in the manuscript of a large unpublished work by Thevet in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

French map, c. 1710, illustrating the fragmentary knowledge about the islands of the South Atlantic at the time.

Animated map of French territorial losses and gains from 985 to 1947.

Animated map showing growth and decline of the French colonial empire | First and Second French colonial Empire

Geographic map of French Guiana

The " long nineteenth century ", from 1789 to 1914 sees the drastic social, political and economic changes initiated by the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, and following the reorganisation of the political map of Europe at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the rise of Nationalism, the rise of the Russian Empire and the peak of the British Empire, paralleled by the decline of the Ottoman Empire.

French map of Hispaniola by Nicolas de Fer

Xanadu ( here called Ciandu, as Marco Polo spelled it ) on the French map of Asia made by Sanson d ' Abbeville, geographer of King Louis XIV, dated 1650.

French cartographer Guillaume Delisle used the descriptions to make the first reasonably accurate map of the area.

A map of the caves themselves was produced by the French in 1821.

French map from 1791 depicting Mauritius ( then called " Isle de France ").

NTSC, named for the National Television System Committee, is the analog television system that is used in most of North America, parts of South America ( except Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and French Guiana ), Myanmar, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, and some Pacific island nations and territories ( see map ).

For the location with respect to French Polynesia, see the inset of: Image: French Polynesia map. jpg.

Hastily looking at his map, he realises that the French will seize the key crossroads of Quatre Bras, and that they will fight north of there, at Waterloo-later in the film he admits that he saw the battlefield a year earlier and kept it in his mind.

Washington's map of the Ohio River and surrounding region containing notes on French intentions, 1753 or 1754.

He was saved by the new sulphonamide drug, Sulphapyridine, known at the time under the research code M & B 693, discovered and produced by May & Baker Ltd, Dagenham, Essex – a subsidiary of the French group Rhône-Poulenc.

In 1922, Bamford & Martin produced cars to compete in the French Grand Prix and the cars set world speed and endurance records at Brooklands.

The oldest of these is the French Federation of Speleology ( originally Société de spéléologie ) founded by Édouard-Alfred Martel in 1895, which produced the first periodical journal in speleology, Spelunca.

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.

He revised this work several times, and produced a French vernacular translation.

* Cadillac AOC, the appellation d ' origine contrôlée Bordeaux wine produced in the French commune

Beginning with Sans Soleil, he developed a deep interest in digital technology, which led to his film Level 5 ( 1996 ) and Immemory ( 1998, 2008 ), an interactive multimedia CD-ROM, produced for the Centre Pompidou ( French language version ) and from Exact Change ( English version ).

Most Arthurian romances of this period produced in English or Welsh did not follow this trend ; Camelot was referred to infrequently, and usually in translations from French.

The French had long been keen on large destroyers, with their Chacal class of 1922 displacing over 2, 000 tons and carrying 130 mm guns ; a further three similar classes were produced around 1930.

The Nordisk company was set up there in 1906 by Ole Olsen, a fairground showman, and after a brief period imitating the successes of French and British film-makers, in 1907 he produced 67 films, most directed by Viggo Larsen, with sensational subjects like Den hvide Slavinde ( The White Slave ), Isbjørnenjagt ( Polar Bear Hunt ) and Løvejagten ( The Lion Hunt ).

France installed an import quota of 1: 7, meaning for every seven foreign films imported to France, one French film was to be produced and shown in French cinemas.

Gérard has not produced the manuscript supporting this claim which, even if true, is unrelated to the later history of the French fry, as the potato did not arrive in the region until around 1735 ; also, given the economic conditions of the 18th century: " it is absolutely unthinkable that a peasant could have consecrated large quantities of fat for cooking potatoes.

The reaction to Napoleon's conquests of German countries during the era of the French Revolution ( 1790s to 1815 ), produced important institutional reforms, including the abolition of feudal restrictions on the sale of large landed estates, the reduction of the power of the guilds in the cities, and the introduction of a new, more efficient commercial law.

*" Exit Through The Gift Shop " ( 2010 ) is a documentary produced by the notorious artist Banksy tells the story of Thierry Guetta, a French immigrant in Los Angeles, and his obsession with street art.

Works produced in this period include Filostrato and Teseida ( the sources for Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Tale, respectively ), Filocolo, a prose version of an existing French romance, and La caccia di Diana, a poem in terza rima listing Neapolitan women.

Domination by France during the era of the French Revolution ( 1790s to 1815 ), however, produced important institutional reforms.

The rabies vaccine was initially created by Emile Roux, a French doctor and a colleague of Pasteur who had been working with a killed vaccine produced by desiccating the spinal cords of infected rabbits.

These films, influenced by one of Anderson ' heroes, the French filmmaker Jean Vigo, and made in the tradition of the British documentaries of Humphrey Jennings, foreshadowed much of the social realism of British cinema that emerged in the next decade, with Reisz's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ( 1960 ), Richardson's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner ( 1962 ) and Anderson's own This Sporting Life ( 1963 ), produced by Reisz.

The first permanent photoetching was an image produced in 1822 by the French inventor Nicéphore Niépce, but it was destroyed by a later attempt to duplicate it.

Almost immediately dispatched elsewhere on Napoleon's orders, he left his unfinished work in the hands of a colleague, Hubert-Pascal Ameilhon, who in 1803 produced the first published translations of the Greek text, in both Latin and French to ensure that they would circulate widely.

In 1898, after moving to their newly-built factory, the pair bought a Werner " motorcyclist ", which was produced by French manufacturer Werner Brothers.

A more successful and safer regulator was mass produced in France from 1865 to 1965 ( although production was twice interrupted during that period ): invented by Benoît Rouquayrol in 1860 for survival in flooded mines it was adapted to diving in 1864 with the help of French Navy officer Auguste Denayrouze.

* 1712 – Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander ( d. 1759 )

Led by Villars, French forces recovered much of the lost ground in battles such as Denain ( 1712 ).

The French king's great-grandson Louis ( 1710 – 74 ) was, from 1712, the first heir-general of Albert VII.

* 1638 – Richard Simon, French critic ( d. 1712 )

* 1712 – Charles-Michel de l ' Épée, French philanthropist ( d. 1789 )

Continued skirmishing, sieges, and battles, such as the decisive victory of Denain ( 1712 ), allowed the French to re-capture considerable ground, especially during 1712.

The Duke of Ormonde refused to commit British troops to battle, so the French under Villars were able to recover much lost ground in 1712, such as at the Battle of Denain.

In 1712, French Admiral Jacques Cassard embarked on an expedition that raided British-held Montserrat and a series of Dutch colonial outposts, including St. Eustatius, Curaçao, and Suriname.

* April 17 – Angélique du Coudray, French pioneer of modern midwifery ( b. 1712 )

* December 23 – Charles-Michel de l ' Épée, French philanthropist and developer of signed French ( b. 1712 )

* July 2 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher ( b. 1712 )

* January 13 – Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral ( b. 1712 )

* May 13 – Richard Simon, French Biblical critic ( d. 1712 )

* January 3 – Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon ( b. 1712 )

* September 14 – Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French general ( b. 1712 )

* August 22 – Denis Papin, French inventor ( d. 1712 )

After a French attack in 1712, the city declined in importance relative to Praia, which became the capital in 1770.

Didot ’ s system was based on Pierre Simon Fournier's ( 1712 – 1768 ), but Didot modified Fournier ’ s by adjusting the base unit precisely to a French Royal inch ( pouce ), as Fournier ’ s unit was based on a less common foot.

The birth of a long-awaited heir, which ensured the survival of the dynasty for the first time since 1712, was welcomed with tremendous joy and celebration in all spheres of French society.

In 1712 Luxembourg and Namur were ceded to Maximilian Emaunel by his French allies.

Denis Papin ( 22 August 1647-c. 1712 ) was a French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forerunner of the steam engine and of the pressure cooker.

* Catherine Bernard ( 1662 – 1712 ), French novelist