The first option ( although it is debatable to what extent the Duke was committed to such an enterprise ) was a plan to transfer his forces from the Spanish Netherlands to northern Italy ; once there, he intended linking up with Prince Eugene in order to defeat the French and safeguard Savoy from being overrun.

From the very beginning Mayotte refused to join the new republic and aligned itself even more firmly to the French Republic, but the other islands remained committed to independence.

Although killing oneself is forbidden under normal Jewish law as being a denial of God's goodness in the world, under extreme circumstances when there has seemed no choice but to either be killed or forced to betray their religion, Jews have committed suicide or mass suicide ( see Masada, First French persecution of the Jews, and York Castle for examples ).

In return for German and Austrian support, Italy committed itself to assisting Germany in the case of a French military attack.

** French police announce that Georges Figon has committed suicide, prior to his arrest for the kidnapping of Mehdi Ben Barka.

But Martin was far too deeply committed to Charles and French interests to heed them ; instead, he excommunicated the rebels, the Emperor Michael, and the Ghibellines in north Italy.

In international politics Kohl was committed to European integration, maintaining close relations with the French president Mitterrand.

The article 689 of the code de procédure pénale states the infractions that can be judged in France when they were committed outside French territory either by French citizens or foreigners.

On 3 March 1541, the French Ambassador, Charles de Marillac, reported in a letter that the King was now said to be lamenting that " under pretext of some slight offences which he had committed, they had brought several accusations against him, on the strength of which he had put to death the most faithful servant he ever had.

* Kapapamahchakwew ( Kā-papāmahcahkwêw, Kapapa Machatiwe, Papamahchakwayo, French: ‘ Esprit Errant ’, better known as Wandering Spirit, war chief of the Plains Cree under Mistahimaskwa, born 1845 near Jackfish Lake, Saskatchewan, committed on 2 April 1885, the so-called Frog Lake massacre, killed the Indian Agent Thomas Quinn and eight whites and one Métis, surrendered in July at Fort Pitt, was hanged on 27 November 1885 in Battleford, Saskatchewan )

" It is general knowledge that the French love lyrics, and it seems as though no other European national is as committed to the proliferation of its mother tongue.

Oradour-sur-Glane was not the only collective punishment reprisal action committed by the Waffen SS: other well-documented examples include the French towns of Tulle, Ascq, Maillé, Robert-Espagne, and Clermont-en-Argonne ; Polish villages Michniów, Wanaty and Krasowo-Częstki ; the Soviet village of Kortelisy ( in what is now Ukraine ); Lithuanian village of Pirčiupiai ; the Czechoslovakian villages of Ležáky and Lidice ( in what is now the Czech Republic ); the Greek towns of Kalavryta and Distomo ; the Dutch town of Putten ; Serbian towns of Kragujevac and Kraljevo ; Norwegian village of Telavåg ; and the Italian villages of Sant ' Anna di Stazzema and Marzabotto.

* On November 4, 1995, the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze committed suicide by throwing himself from his apartment window.

Gamelin committed the forces under his command, three mechanised armies, the French First and Seventh and the British Expeditionary Force ( BEF ) to the River Dyle.

Philip IV had agreed a joint plan for a new French led crusade at the Council of Vienne in 1312, with his son Philip, a " committed crusader ," taking the cross himself in 1313.

The Truman and Eisenhower administrations had committed the United States to support the French and native anti-Communist forces in Vietnam in resisting efforts by the Communists in the North to unify the country, though neither administration established actual combat forces in the war.

In the film, the fictional character Benjamin Martin ( Mel Gibson ) describes violence he committed in the French and Indian War.

During the Hundred Years ' War, French forces committed a notorious massacre of English archers stationed at the town's garrison, in which many of the French townsfolk were themselves raped and killed.

Maintaining the relative importance of the status of French is an imperative that requires solidarity and the pooling of means and resources among countries committed to the French language within their respective societies.

The French are profoundly committed to the public healthcare system ( called " sécurité sociale ") and to their " pay-as-you-go " social welfare system.

While French youth culture has gravitated toward fast food and American eating habits ( with an attendant rise in obesity ), the French in general have remained committed to preserving certain elements of their food culture through such activities as including programs of taste acquisition in their public schools, by the use of the appellation d ' origine contrôlée laws, and by state and European subsides to the French agricultural industry.

These are the wines the French themselves use for everyday drinking, for even in France virtually no one drinks the Grands Crus on a meal-to-meal basis.

The French cavalry exerted themselves once more against the first line – Lumley's English and Scots on the Allied left, and Hompesch's Dutch and German squadrons on the Allied right.

Both ships were soon fighting enemies much more powerful than themselves and began to take severe damage: Captain Henry Darby on Bellerophon missed his intended anchor near Franklin and instead found his ship underneath the main battery of the French flagship, while Captain George Blagdon Westcott on Majestic also missed his station and almost collided with Heureux, coming under heavy fire from Tonnant.

Subsequently the French Celestines, with the consent of the Italian superiors of the order, and of Pope Martin V in 1427, obtained the privilege of making new constitutions for themselves, which they did in the 17th century in a series of regulations accepted by the provincial chapter in 1667.

Kidd and his men attacked the French island of Mariegalante, destroyed the only town, and looted the area, gathering for themselves something around 2, 000 pounds Sterling.

On 11 December 1695, Bellomont, who was now governing New York, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, asked the " trusty and well beloved Captain Kidd " to attack Thomas Tew, John Ireland, Thomas Wake, William Maze, and all others who associated themselves with pirates, along with any enemy French ships.

Champlain's success in the region, which came to be called Acadie, led to the fertile tidal marshes surrounding the southeastern and northeastern reaches of the Bay of Fundy being populated by French immigrants who called themselves Acadien.

Pierre A. Riffard ( Ph. D., University of the French West Indies ) studies the method used by esotericists themselves ( alchemists, magicians, Rosicrucians, Anthroposophists ...).

Additionally, Cahiers critics such as Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette and Eric Rohmer went on to make films themselves, creating what was to become known as the French New Wave.

The French national and regional governments involve themselves in film production.

Léon requested permission be granted to women to arm themselves with pikes, pistols, sabers and rifles, as well as the privilege of drilling under the French Guards.

The violent events of the French Revolution impressed themselves deeply into the mind of Francis ( as well as all other European monarchs ), and he came to distrust radicalism in any form.

Further, Menelik had spent much of the previous four years building up a supply of modern weapons and ammunition, acquired from the French, British, and the Italians themselves, as the European colonial powers sought to keep each other's North African aspirations in check.

In light of the French show of force, the Turks, again, reversed themselves and recognized the French right to protest the Christian sites.

However, it was the Spanish people, themselves, who really led the fight in guerrilla war against the French.

The settlement of Yacanagua was burnt to the ground three times in its just over a century long existence as a Spanish settlement, first by French pirates in 1543, again on 27 May 1592 by a 110 strong landing party from a 4 ship English naval squadron led by Christopher Newport in his flagship Golden Dragon, who destroyed all 150 houses in the settlement, and finally by the Spanish themselves in 1605, for reasons set out below.

The Montagnards considered themselves the true patriots of the French Revolution.

But Jerusalem came to be known as Outremer, the French word for " overseas ", and as new generations grew up in the kingdom, they began to think of themselves as natives, rather than immigrants.

Ronnie Ellenblum claims this view was influenced by French imperialism and colonialism ; if medieval French crusaders could integrate themselves into local society, then certainly modern French colonies in the Levant could thrive.

Hoare and Laval were forced to resign, and the British and French governments dissociated themselves from the two men.

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

Under the protectorate, French civil servants allied themselves with the French settlers ( colons ) and with their supporters in France to prevent any moves in the direction of Moroccan autonomy.