According to M. Forrest, the French knights were so encumbered by their armour that they were exhausted even before the start of the battle.

According to a 16th century French poem, Dionysus, the god of intoxication, and of wine, was pursuing a maiden named Amethystos, who refused his affections.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.

According to Turkish folk tales, she was a French princess.

According to a 2004 French study conducted by INSERM, cognitive behavioral therapy was the most effective therapy when compared with psychoanalysis and family or couples therapy.

According to 2000 publishings by scholar Manuel Pedro Ferreira the models for the Cantigas might actually be something different than a traditional French rondeau.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the translation of the French term into " human creature " implies that the label " Christian " is a reminder of the humanity of the afflicted, in contrast to brute beasts.

( According to the NCBI, " q " refers to the French word " queue " meaning ' tail '.

According to Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, they initiated the French into a new way of laughing, and introduced people to the mystery and purport of colour by ideas.

According to Louis Diat, the creator of vichyssoise and the author of the classic Gourmet's Basic French Cookbook: " There is a story that explains why the most important basic brown sauce in French cuisine is called sauce espagnole, or Spanish sauce.

According to Farkas the mouthpiece should have 2 / 3 upper lip and 1 / 3 lower lip ( French horn ), 2 / 3 lower lip and 1 / 3 upper lip ( trumpet and cornet ), and more latitude for lower brass ( trombone, baritone, and tuba ).

According to some, due to a misunderstanding arising from differences in pronunciation between French and English, the commonly used brass embouchure in Europe was interpreted incorrectly.

According to French law, the Foreign Legion was not to be used within Metropolitan France except in the case of a national invasion, and was consequently not a part of Napoleon III ’ s Imperial Army that capitulated at Sedan.

* Category 1: Military firearms ; According to French law, a military firearm is a weapon which has a gauge used by the army since 1880.

* Category 4: Civil firearms ; According to French law, a civil firearm is a semi automatic long gun with more of 2 rounds in magazine which don't use a military gauge, or a handgun ( pistol or revolver, including all magazine capacities ) which doesn't have a gauge used by the army.

According to one theory about how Cocteau was inspired to write La Voix humaine, he was experimenting with an idea by fellow French playwright Henri Bernstein.

According to her, it was this desire to establish a single, unified will based on the stifling of opinion in favor of public passion that contributed to the excesses of the French Revolution.

According to Lind, scurvy caused more deaths in the British fleets than French and Spanish arms.

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.

According to Serge Klarsfeld, since the now complete and constant publicity which the artworks got in 1996, the majority of the French Jewish community is nevertheless in favour of the return to the normal French civil rule of prescription acquisitive of any unclaimed good after another long period of time and consequently to their ultimate integration into the common French heritage instead of their transfer to foreign institutions like during World War II.

According to the agreements reached at San Remo, France had its control over what was termed Syria recognised, the French having taken Damascus in 1920.

According to the anarchist historian Max Nettlau, the first use of the term libertarian communism was in November 1880, when a French anarchist congress employed it to more clearly identify its doctrines.

According to the FSM U. N. deputy ambassador, Micronesia has since sought close bilateral relations with Israel in areas such as agriculture, technical training and health care training.

According to Giovanni Michieli, the Venetian ambassador, Philip may have planned to marry Elizabeth in the event of Mary's death in childbirth, but in a letter to his brother-in-law, Maximilian of Austria, Philip expressed uncertainty as to whether his wife was pregnant.

According to the Mitrokhin Archives, the Italian Communist Party lodged several complaints with the Soviet ambassador in Rome regarding Czechoslovak support of the Red Brigades, but the Soviets were either unwilling or unable to stop the StB.

According to information seen on a viewscreen in a late episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, Jonathan Archer later became the Federation ambassador to Andoria, a Federation Councillor, and President of the United Federation of Planets from 2184 to 2192.

According to a letter sent by Gelli to César de la Vega, a P2 member and Argentine ambassador to the UNESCO, Gelli commissioned P2 member Federico Carlos Barttfeld to be transferred from the consulate of Hamburg to the Argentine embassy in Rome.

According to Micronesia's U. N. deputy ambassador, the country has since sought close bilateral relations with Israel in areas such as agriculture, technical training and health care training.

According to legend, Astraea will one day come back to Earth, bringing with her the return of the utopian Golden Age of which she was the ambassador.

According to various accounts-including the US ambassador to the UN-the Taliban used women and children from their own population as human shields against coalition forces in 2006, and 2007, and when the British attacked during August 2008.

According to the paper, after seven months Karzai and Zalmay Khalilzad, then the U. S. ambassador to Afghanistan, were ready to get rid of the company.

According to the memo, the offer was turned down by an " amazed and smiling " Russian ambassador who said Russia did not have any need for this.

According to Charles Duelfer, after the bombing the Iraqi ambassador to the UN told him, " If we had known that was all you would do, we would have ended the inspections long ago.

According to America's last ambassador to Yugoslavia, the Bosnian Government were ready to accept the VOPP, but unfortunately the Clinton Administration delayed in its support, thus missing a chance to get it launched.

According to a 1659 letter to Thomas Greaves from Edward Pococke ( who, on his book-hunting travels for archbishop William Laud, had met Lucaris ) many of the choicest manuscripts from Lucaris ' library were saved by the Dutch ambassador who sent them by ship to Holland.

According to De Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal, he was Hell's ambassador to France.

According to Veloso, the Soviet ambassador once asked the President for an audience to convey the USSR's concern about Mozambique's apparent " sliding away " towards the West, to which Machel supposedly replied " Vai à merda!

According to the ambassador Moties at the end of The Mote in God's Eye, " Watchmakers given time to adapt can destroy any ship.

According to the Habsburg ambassador, his public image was extremely poor.

According to a WikiLeaks diplomatic cable in which the U. S. ambassador there described Afewerki as " unhinged ," " cruel and defiant ," Aferwerki announced in May 2008 that elections would be postponed for " three or four decades " or longer because they " polarize society.

According to the Wu ambassador Xue Xu, who visited Shu in 261 at the order of Sun Xiu, the status that Shu was in at this point was:

According to the FBI, Cali is the official Gambino " ambassador to the Sicilian Mafia " and a rising star in the crime family.

According to the English ambassador Sir Dudley Carleton the version of events as he presented it, also caused much anger at the VOC in Dutch government circles.

According to Bahru Zewde, Lorenzo came into conflict with the powerful Tsehafi Taezaz (" Minister of the Pen ") Wolde Giyorgis Wolde Yohannes, who had him appointed to the ceremonial President of the Chamber of Deputies ( 1943 – 1944 ), then ambassador to the Soviet Union ( November 1944 ) -- effectively exiled from the center of power, then a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference ( May 1946 ); after being in Sweden for only a month, he died in a hospital in Stockholm.

According to a subpoena, Miller met with an unnamed government official, later revealed to be I. Lewis " Scooter " Libby, Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff, on July 8, 2003, two days after former ambassador Joseph Wilson ( the husband of Plame ) published an Op-Ed in the Times criticizing the Bush administration for " twisting " intelligence to justify war in Iraq.

According to the Israeli ambassador to Egypt at the time, Moshe Sasson, Begin feared that the Israeli settlers would return to their homes surreptitiously and a disastrous clash between them and the Egyptians might occur.