it was the clerks who caused the mischief and who made him say that the ruling passion of their race was covetousness and that in dealing with them he never knew whether he had to do with a Frenchman or with a devil.

Braille is named after its creator, Frenchman Louis Braille, who went blind following a childhood accident.

The first scientific expedition to Clipperton took place in 1725 under Frenchman M. Bocage, who lived on the island for several months.

The village was incorporated as a city in 1877 and renamed Cadillac, after Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, a Frenchman who made the first permanent settlement at Detroit in 1701.

Perhaps earlier known to Arab navigators, the Glorieuses were named and settled in 1880 by a Frenchman, Hippolyte Caltaux, who established a coconut plantation on Grande Glorieuse.

Three Italians, nine Portuguese nationals, a Frenchman and a European citizen who arrived from Cairo were repatriated.

In fact, when first proposed, it was a controversial statement and was opposed by other chemists, most notably Proust's fellow Frenchman Claude Louis Berthollet, who argued that the elements could combine in any proportion.

Less than three weeks later, on November 18, 1903, the Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty was signed between Frenchman Philippe Bunau-Varilla, who had promptly been appointed Panamanian ambassador to the United States, representing Panamanian interests, and the United States Secretary of State John Hay.

The first full preterist exposition was finally written in 1730 by the Protestant and Arian, Frenchman Firmin Abauzit (‘ Essai sur l ' Apocalypse ’), who worked in the those time independent Republic of Geneva as a librarian.

Arundel Disney was a descendant of Robert d ' Isigny, a Frenchman who had travelled to England with William the Conqueror in 1066.

* In the book A Great and Terrible Beauty, Pippa accuses Felicity of having a mother who is a courtesan and a consort, and who ran away to France not only to run a salon but to be with her lover, a Frenchman.

Frenchman Michel de Montaigne told a story of a Lutheran pastor who declared over dinner that he would rather hear a hundred masses than take part in one of Calvin's sacraments.

The screenplay focuses on an American woman who enters into a marriage of convenience with a Frenchman so he can obtain a green card and remain in the United States.

He is credited with designing the city and organizing its amenities and infrastructure, and is considered one of the founding fathers of Odessa, together with another Frenchman, Count Andrault de Langeron, who succeeded him in office.

At the end of the 19th century there was a remarkable neo-gothic stream or Gothic Revival both in church and in public architecture, notably by the Roman Catholic Pierre Cuypers, who was inspired by the Frenchman Viollet le Duc.

Stevenson, who had agreed to design a bronze monument similar to that of Bernard Partidge, representing two allied soldiers: the Frenchman Poilu and the Englishman Tommy.

Lucifers were however quickly replaced after the discovery in 1830 by Frenchman Charles Sauria who substituted the antimony sulfide with white phosphorus.

Clemenceau often joked about the " assassin's " bad marksmanship – “ We have just won the most terrible war in history, yet here is a Frenchman who misses his target 6 out of 7 times at point-blank range.

In 1987 the Duke and Duchess's private chef, a Frenchman named Jean-Pierre Béraud who was also a leading light in the success of the Chatsworth Farm Shop and Chatsworth Foods, took charge of the catering.

He tracks down the Frenchman Grinda, who has made a lot of money from the Russian-roulette-playing American.

It was named for the Marquis de Lafayette, a Frenchman who was an officer in the American Army in the Revolution, when established on March 1, 1810.

Jacques de Noyon, a Frenchman who came from Trois Rivières, ( Quebec ), explored this area in 1688 and became the first white man to view the lake.

It is named for Toussaint Dubois, a Frenchman who fought in the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Tippecanoe and the War of 1812.

* May 23 – Dutch boxer Bep van Klaveren claims the European title in the middleweight division by defeating Frenchman Edouard Tenet in a match held in the Feijenoord Stadium in his native Rotterdam.

On June 12, 1961, Blassie defeated the " Flying Frenchman " Édouard Carpentier in a best-of-three-falls match for his first WWA Championship title.

The match was controversial in the English public: English Protestants warned the Queen that the " hearts the English people will be galled when they shall see you take to husband a Frenchman, and a Papist ... the very common people well know this: that he is the son of the Jezebel of our age "., referring to the Duke's mother, Catherine de ' Medici.

He played his last professional match on 21 March 2012 at the Miami tournament, losing in three sets to Frenchman Nicolas Mahut in the first round.

After a long tour of duty in India, he returned to the UK and beat everyone except Howard Staunton, whom he then helped to prepare for his victorious match against the Frenchman Saint-Amant, which established Staunton as the world's leading player.

Only once in his ATP career has he failed to hit an ace during a match, which was in the 2008 Monte Carlo Masters against Frenchman Gaël Monfils.

Fast and ambitious, the Frenchman quickly established his dominance over his teammate, especially in qualifying, though Lauda's race driving saw him often a match for his younger team mate.

In the final match against Italy, Frenchman Zinedine Zidane famously headbutted the Italian Marco Materazzi in the chest, for which he received a red card and a subsequent three match ban.

In the Davis Cup first-round tie against France, he won the opening match, defeating top-ranked Frenchman Gilles Simon and joined Radek Štěpánek to beat French duo Richard Gasquet and Michaël Llodra.

At Forest Hills, he also lost his first match in straight sets, in the first round to Frenchman player Pierre Barthes.

In addition, Santoro won what was, at the time, the longest singles match in the open era: at the 2004 French Open, he beat fellow Frenchman Arnaud Clément in a 6h 33m first-round match ( 6 – 4, 6 – 3, 6 – 7 ( 5 ), 3 – 6, 16 – 14 ).

He then faced fellow Frenchman Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, who had gone undefeated in the other preliminary group, in a final match.

In his Third Round match, he beat Frenchman Benoît Paire in four sets, 6 – 4, 4 – 6, 6 – 1, 6 – 3.

Niels Henrik Abel ( 1802 – 1829 ), a Norwegian, and Évariste Galois, ( 1811 – 1832 ) a Frenchman, investigated into the solutions of various polynomial equations, and proved that there is no general algebraic solution to equations of degree greater than four ( Abel – Ruffini theorem ).

The Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ( 1744 — 1829 ) published his theory of evolution in Philosophie Zoologique in 1809.

Mobile was elevated to a diocese in 1829, and Frenchman, Michael Portier, was named its first bishop.

" Although he acknowledged that the film was not without its charms — Paris and Cannes being " two of the most photogenic cities on earth "— Ebert wrote, " Kline's Frenchman is somehow not worldly enough, and Ryan's heroine never convinces us she ever loved her fiance in the first place.

Frenchman Alexander wrote that while he had seen excellent cane heads, snuff boxes and other metal objects in Milan, " the same can be had cheaper and better in Birmingham ".

The first recorded European explorer to travel the Trace in its entirety was an unnamed Frenchman in 1742, who wrote of the trail and its " miserable conditions ".

The 16th century Frenchman Rabelais wrote comedic and absurd satires illustrating his countrymen's drinking habits.

Surviving remnants scattered back to meet the belated de Monchervaux on the return trail ; Bienville wrote that, without the firm resistance given by the Iroquois and Arkansas, not a single Frenchman would have survived.

A Frenchman, who was held captive in Morocco from 1670 to 1681, wrote: " In Fez and in Morocco is, Marrakesh, the Jews are separated from the inhabitants, having their own quarters set apart, surrounded by walls of which the gates are guarded by men appointed by the King ...

The coinage of the phrase in its current form, however, is conventionally attributed to Augustin, Marquis of Ximenez a Frenchman who wrote in a 1793 poem:

According to René Martin Pillet, a Frenchman who wrote an account of his ten years in England, the sentiment of the very large crowd that gathered at Bellingham's execution was:

" He also stated that " When a Frenchman wrote a Ph. D. dissertation, in which he proved that the chambers were a Jewish ... an Israeli lie, they revoked his doctorate.