France's other great hope, that their armies could make a breakthrough in Germany and invade Hanover, was thwarted at the Battle of Minden.

Chardonnay long had a reputation as one of France's great white wines, but due to the dominance of geographical labeling, the fact that Chardonnay was the grape behind white Burgundy was not widely known by the wine-drinking public.

With Imperial forces threatening to totally dominate the Empire and with Spanish troops firmly settled on the western bank of the Rhine, great Habsburg armies had almost completely surrounded France's frontiers.

This was totally outside the scope of the kind of playing which Franck had learned from Benoist at the Conservatoire ; most French organs did not have the pedal board notes required for such work, and even France's own great classical organ tradition dating from the period of the Couperins was at that time neglected in favor of the art of improvisation.

He was a son of Nureyev, France's champion miler in 1980, who was in turn the son of the great Northern Dancer.

In the 19th century, thanks to coal, Valenciennes became a great industrial centre and the capital of Northern France's steel industry.

Forshufvud and Weider suggest that their theory that Napoleon was assassinated by a Frenchman who served on Napoleon's staff during his exile is repugnant to the French people who now honor Napoleon as one of France's great heroes.

Having been given the nickname " Pelé " in recognition of his superior ability that evoked comparisons to Brazilian great Pelé, he found fame in France's Ligue 1 with Lille OSC and Olympique Marseille.

A variety of competing and contradictory theses exist, including: that the Soviet leadership actively sought another great war in Europe to further weaken the capitalist nations ; that the USSR pursued a purely defensive policy ; or that the USSR tried to avoid becoming entangled in a war, both because Soviet leaders did not feel that they had the military capabilities to conduct strategic operations at that time, and to avoid, in paraphrasing Stalin's words to the 18th Party Congress on March 10, 1939, " pulling other nation's ( the UK and France's ) chestnuts out of the fire.

She is one of France's great movie stars and her eight-decade career is among the longest in film history.

Since World War II, France's efforts have been directed at maintaining its status as a great power and its influence on the UN Security Council.

He has written numerous biographies of France's great queens, all published by Editions Pygmalion.

The Jacobite revolution of 1715 threatened the stability of the banking system, John Law, the Comptroller of France's finances, owed a great deal of money to the bank when the Mississippi Company bubble burst in 1720 and the English stock market collapsed in the same year.

Garlanded with the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1957, Gimond, who was the son of a metal-worker is considered to be France's last great portraitist or sculptor of the bust.

In a similar way to the moderate parties, the French far right in general is naturally opposed to the EU, as they criticize France's loss of political and economic sovereignty to a supra-national entity.

Napoleon Bonaparte was France's most successful general in the Revolutionary wars, having conquered large parts of Italy and forced the Austrians to sue for peace.

Guiana in general has a high level of crime compared to the rest of France's départements ; Kourou has an average of two armed robberies a day.

As early as March, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, the commanding general responsible of the French forces in North America, and the Marquis de Vaudreuil, New France's governor, were aware that the British were planning to send large numbers of troops against them, and that they would have relatively little support from King Louis XV of France.

Crucially, despite Austrian attempts to trumpet their victory against Napoleon, its political consequences remained limited: there were no signs of a general uprising in Germany, Prussia was still unwilling to enter the war and Great Britain was not ready to launch its promised land expedition in northern Europe, while Russia, France's ally since 1807, was becoming increasingly aggressive against the Austrian forces in Galicia.

France's demographic profile is similar to its European neighbors and to developed countries in general, yet it seems to be staving off the population decline of Western countries.

Ever since the Seven Years ' War, France's foreign ministers, beginning with Choiseul, had followed the general idea that the independence of Britain's North American colonies would be good for France and bad for Britain, and furthermore that French attempts to recover parts of New France would be detrimental to that cause.

Islam in France is growing, and currently, there are around 5 million Muslims in France's 63 million general population.

She left the government in 2010, and was named France's inspector general for social affairs in January 2011.

On 30 January 2008, Rajoy received the support of Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Nicolas Sarkozy for the March 2008 general election.

Bonnet's reasons for arguing that Britain should take the lead in persuading Poland to come to Romania's aid were his fear that if France made such an effort, the price of Polish support would a tightening of the Franco-Polish alliance, which was counter to Bonnet's general policy of seeking to weaken France's eastern alliances.

The cessation of Franco-Spanish hostilities in the summer of 1795 gave Napoleon Bonaparte, a Corsican general in the French army, the opportunity to focus on France's Italian Campaign.

* The villain is usually an American or German mercenary ( sometimes even a Frenchman, given France's involvement in Mexico during the 1860s ), a fascist-like Mexican general, or a foreign trust or corporation ( Northamerican or European ) out to control some resource ( Oil, Silver ...)

The ensuing War of the Spanish Succession, which pitted France's candidate, Philippe, Duke of Anjou, Louis XIV of France's grandson, against Austria's Charles, lasted for almost 14 years.

Orleans was named in honor of Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, in recognition of France's support for the 13 colonies during the American Revolution, and because the town did not want an English name, as they had been captured twice by the British during the war.

Louis Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Bourbon, Prince de Condé ( Louis Henri Joseph ; 18 August 1692 – 27 January 1740 ) was head of the Bourbon-Condé cadet branch of the France's reigning House of Bourbon from 1710 to his death, and served as prime minister to his kinsman Louis XV from 1723 to 1726.

His father was the son and heir of King Louis XV of France's favourite, Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, 3rd Duke of Richelieu ( 1696 – 1788 ).

He rejected and humiliated the King of France's sister ; He deposed the well connected King of Cyprus, insulted and refused spoils of the crusade to nobles like Leopold V, Duke of Austria and was rumored to have arranged the assassination of Conrad of Montferrat.

However, it was not until 21: 00 that the Marquis de Blanzac, who had taken charge in Clérambault's absence, reluctantly accepted the inevitability of defeat, and some 10, 000 of France's best infantry had laid down their arms.

Under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor, a military column, commanded by Colonel Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, and including two battalions of Sara troops, moved north from N ' Djamena ( then Fort Lamy ) to engage Axis forces in Libya, where, in partnership with the British Army's Long Range Desert Group, they captured Kufra.

La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

It was not the world's first air force, because France's embryonic army air service, which eventually became the French Air Force ( Armée de l ’ Air ), was founded in 1909.

A native of the Rhône département's Urban Community of Lyon, France's second largest metropolitan area, Marcel-Auguste Ferréol was born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, one of the city's suburbs, and adopted his nom de plume at the start of his writing career in the early 1920s.

); France's, Jean Bodin, Colbert and other physiocrats precursors ; and the Spanish School of Salamanca writers Francisco de Vitoria ( 1480 or 1483 – 1546 ), Domingo de Soto ( 1494 – 1560 ), Martin de Azpilcueta ( 1491 – 1586 ), and Luis de Molina ( 1535 – 1600 ).

King Louis XV of France's ( 1715 – 74 ) minister, the duc de Choiseul, had former experience of Rome as French ambassador, and was Europe's most skilled diplomat.

Henri de France's personal charisma and ambition may have been a contributing factor.

The académie de Versailles, the largest of France's thirty académies by its number of pupils and students, is in charge of supervising all the elementary schools and high schools of the western suburbs of Paris.

The Marquis de Monti, France's ambassador in Warsaw, convinced the rival Potocki and Czartoryski families to unite behind Stanisław.

Air France | Air France's Airbus A380, which is operated on the Washington Dulles to Paris-Charles de Gaulle route, taxiing at Dulles Airport.

In Marie de France's poem Bisclavret ( c. 1200 ), the nobleman Bizuneh, for reasons not described in the lai, had to transform into a wolf every week.

Mardi Gras arrived in North America as a French Catholic tradition with the Le Moyne brothers, Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, in the late 17th century, when King Louis XIV sent the pair to defend France's claim on the territory of Louisiane, which included what are now the U. S. states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

Anatole France's short story Le Jongleur de Notre Dame

" He told Washington that France's claim to the region was superior to that of the British, since René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle had explored the Ohio Country nearly a century earlier.

Johnson's expedition was better organized than Shirley's, which was noticed by New France's governor, the Marquis de Vaudreuil.

In the aftermath of generally poor French results in most theaters of the Seven Years ' War in 1758, France's new foreign minister, the duc de Choiseul, decided to focus on an invasion of Britain, to draw British resources away from North America and the European mainland.

He was appointed by President Charles de Gaulle as Minister of Information ( 1945 – 1946 ) and subsequently as France's first Minister of Cultural Affairs during de Gaulle's presidency ( 1959 – 1969 ).