Baron Haussmann, a long-time prefect of Bordeaux, used Bordeaux's 18th century big-scale rebuilding as a model when he was asked by Emperor Napoleon III to transform a then still quasi-medieval Paris into a " modern " capital that would make France proud.

Near the end of his life, DeMille began pre-production work on a film biography of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement and had asked David Niven to star in the film, which was never made.

Yet at one point during trial, a U. S. Army interpreter asked Baron Ernst von Weizsäcker how Hitler could have made him a high official.

Also in February, Breton asked Surrealists to assess their " degree of moral competence ", and theoretical refinements included in the second manifeste du surréalisme excluded anyone reluctant to commit to collective action, a list which included Leiris, Georges Limbour, Max Morise, Baron, Queneau, Prévert, Desnos, Masson and Boiffard.

He then meets a friend of Lime's, Baron Kurtz, who tells Martins that he and another friend, Popescu, carried Lime to the side of the street after the accident and, before he died, Lime asked them to take care of Martins and Lime's actress girlfriend, Anna.

He was ill in Jamaica and he had come from Jamaica in a state of great illness .” During the doctor ’ s examination, the Baron asked “ Is this the beginning of the end ?” The doctor advised him of the likelihood.

Baron Pender wrote a single word manifesto when asked to explain why he should remain in the house of lords, “ duty ”.

Anticipating a vote of censure by the Commons, King asked the Governor General, Baron Byng of Vimy, to call an election.

Ives Nesle, Count of Soissons ( House of Nesle ), Walter of Falkenberg ( Saint-Omer ) and Ralph Merle, Baron from Tripoli were proposed as candidates however, but no decision was made, so they asked Emperor Manuel I to determine her a spouse.

In 1660, he asked for another term as governor but the legal conflict between Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore and the Kirke family over ownership of Newfoundland complicated matters and it is unlikely Treworgie ever returned to the island.

Baron Guglielmo Tramontano asked the musician brothers Giambattista and Ernesto De Curtis to compose and write a song in honour of Zanardelli-and the result became the famous neapolitan song " Torna a Surriento " ( Come Back to Sorrento ).

It appears Baron Atkinson was asked to retire from the House of Lords but refused.

The head of the Shroud Commission, Baron Manno, petitioned the king for a public display and also asked for the right to photograph the shroud – with the help of Secondo Pia – to promote the exhibition.

In 1848, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin asked ( and immediately answered ) the question:

In testimony to a UK parliamentary inquiry board in May 2011, David Triesman, Baron Triesman alleged that Trinidad and Tobago's Jack Warner demanded $ 4 million for an education center in his country and Paraguay's Nicolás Léoz asked for an honorary knighthood in exchange for their votes.

In court, Miles has a concierge named Heinz, the Baron Krauss von Espy ( Jonathan Hadary ) testify that Marylin asked him several years ago to find her a rich, easily-manipulated husband.

Following the takeover by the Quandt Group in 1929 the manager of DWM, Baron Paul von Gontard, was asked to step down.

Public entrance, before the 2012 redesign, Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive | Clive Steps with the HM Treasury | Treasury building on the right and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on the left. In 1974 the Imperial War Museum was approached by the government and asked to consider taking over the administration of the site.

Bishop Fallize of Norway asked that it be placed in this chapel, and was unveiled by Baron Wedel Jarlsberg.

As the title Baron Lamington itself derives from the village, however, the question of this connection is merely whether it is direct or indirect.

The question of whether John Caius was the inspiration for the character of Dr Caius in Shakespeare's play the Merry Wives of Windsor has been discussed at length by Arnold McNair, 1st Baron McNair.

* In Terry Gilliam's film The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, the Baron and the Sultan make a wager over whether the Baron can obtain, from " the imperial cellars at Vienna ," a bottle of Tokaji superior to that proffered by the Sultan.

Nothing is known about how Baron Bliss acquired his wealth, whether through his profession, business, or inheritance, or all three.

The title Baron Strabolgi in the Peerage of England was drawn out of abeyance in 1916 ; whether it ever existed before then is open to serious dispute.

There was a sharpness to the boy that the Baron enjoyed ... a ferocity ... A year or two more — say, by the time he's seventeen, I'll know for certain whether he's the tool that House Harkonnen requires to gain the throne.

This was his last broadcast television appearance at that time, though he had filmed a reality series for ITV entitled The Baron before his death ; the network was undecided as to whether it would be aired but the programme started airing on 24 April 2008 on ITV1.

There was a question at the time of whether the letters patent, which granted him a peerage " for the term of his natural life ", allowed him to sit in the House of Lords ; it was eventually decided that they did not, and a second set was issued with the usual form for Baron Wensleydale of Walton.

The concept of allotropy was originally proposed in 1841 by the Swedish scientist Baron Jöns Jakob Berzelius ( 1779 – 1848 ).

), Moritz Count von Dietrichstein, Heinrich Eduard Josef Baron von Lannoy, Ignaz Franz Baron von Mosel, Carl Czerny, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Ignaz Moscheles, and the eight-year-old Franz Liszt ( although it seems Liszt was not invited personally, but his teacher Czerny arranged for him to be involved ).

The first Baron was Hamelin de Balun, from Ballon, a small town and castle in Maine-Anjou called " Gateway to Maine ", near Le Mans, today in the Sarthe département of France.

The title of Baron Abergavenny, in the Nevill family, dates from Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron Bergavenny ( d. 1476 ), who was the youngest son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland by his second wife Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, first Duke of Lancaster.

His direct male descendants ended in 1387 in Henry Nevill, 6th Baron Bergavenny, but a cousin, Edward Nevill, 8th Baron Bergavenny ( d. 1622 ), was confirmed in the Barony in 1604.

In 1604, the Baron le Despencer case was the first peerage abeyance ever settled ; the second was at the Restoration in 1660.

The dandy horse, also called Draisienne or laufmaschine, was the first human means of transport to use only two wheels in tandem and was invented by the German Baron Karl von Drais.

Nelson, who had been wounded in the battle, was proclaimed a hero across Europe and was subsequently made Baron Nelson.

Within four days Nelson had been elevated to Baron Nelson of the Nile and Burnham Thorpe, a title with which he was privately dissatisfied, believing his actions deserved better reward.

* Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan, earlier ennobled by the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson's notorious Lavender List ( 1976 ), was convicted of fraud ( 1980 )

His grandson, the third Baron, was a soldier, cricketer and tennis player and a member of the International Olympic Committee.

His son, the fourth Baron, held office in the Conservative administration of Edward Heath and was later a Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords.

Lord Aberdare was one of the ninety-two elected hereditary peers that were allowed to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. the title is held by his son, the fifth Baron, who succeeded in 2005 and was elected to the House of Lords in 2009.

Baron Ferdinand's will was most specific, and failure to observe the terms would make it void, the collection should be

The Balfour Declaration ( dated 2 November 1917 ) was a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild ( Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild ), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.