This brought them into conflict with Britain and the Dutch Republic, which wished to preserve the independence of the southern Netherlands from France.

The Feuillants wished to keep the constitutional monarchy as it was developed by the Assemblée, the latter two favored purging France of its royal past ( Ancien Régime ), each in their own way.

The Whigs, under Lord Shaftesbury's leadership, wished to exclude the Duke of York ( who later became King James II ) from the throne due to his personal character, his Catholicism, his favouring of monarchical absolutism, his connections to France and the effects of the Popish Plot.

She briefly wished to return to France, but Prince Edward persuaded her to gamble for victory.

The shipyard was greatly enlarged by Cardinal Richelieu, who wished to make France into a Mediterranean naval power.

Kohl agreed, although less than 20 % of West Germans supported remaining within NATO ; he also wished to avoid a neutral Germany, as he believed that would destroy NATO, cause the United States and Canada to leave Europe, and Britain and France would form an alliance.

He also wished the Duchy of Parma to be restored to the Parmese Bourbons, and not to Empress Marie Louise of France, as was being suggested by the Allies.

Bossuet's conclusions are only drawn from Holy Scripture because he wished to gain the highest possible sanction for the institutions of his country and to hallow the France of Louis XIV by proving its astonishing likeness to the Israel of Solomon.

" By the eighteenth century, " man " had come to refer primarily to males ; some writers who wished to use the term in the older sense deemed it necessary to spell out their meaning: Anthony Trollope, for example, writes of " the infinite simplicity and silliness of mankind and womankind " and when " Edmund Burke, writing of the French Revolution, used men in the old, inclusive way, he took pains to spell out his meaning: ' Such a deplorable havoc is made in the minds of men ( both sexes ) in France ....'"

Since Britain, France and the Soviet Union were also engaged in recruiting these scientists, the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency ( JIOA ) wished to deny their services to other powers, and therefore altered or concealed the records of their Nazi past and involvement in war crimes.

In 1908 when Sir Thomas Beecham wished to perform the work " Apollo and the Seaman " by the British composer Josef Holbrooke ( who had included parts for several sizes of sarrusophones ), the sarrusophone parts had to be played by performers brought over from France.

In a speech to the Commons on 23 July 1863, Palmerston said the British government, like those of France and Russia, wished that " the independence, the integrity, and the rights of Denmark may be maintained.

The public terms of Tilsit mentioned the warm feelings between Napoleon and Alexander I of Russia, but the secret terms addressed more substantial issues: France permitted Russia to do as it wished with the Ottoman Empire in return for France gaining the Dalmatian coast and the Ionian Islands ; Russia gained a free hand in Finland ; and Alexander also agreed to join the Continental System if the war with Britain did not end soon.

Cardinal Richelieu, adviser to Louis XIII, wished to make New France as significant as the English colonies.

Although Rundstedt wished to resume his retirement, he was persuaded by Hitler to stay in France and set up headquarters at Saint-Germain-en-Laye about outside Paris.

Accordingly, much of the British public sided with Russia or wished to remain neutral in this dispute between Russia and France over the future of the Ottoman Empire which was now being called the " Eastern Question.

Those who wished to restore Louis XVIII of France and the < span lang =" fr "> Ancien Régime </ span > and those who would have renewed the Reign of Terror were insignificant in number.

He only wished to temporarily cripple France by the billion franc reparation, but suddenly he was confronted by the demands of Marshals Albrecht von Roon and Helmut von Moltke ( backed by Emperor Wilhelm I ) to annex the two French provinces as further payment.

Judging from the title of her book Dix annees d ' exil (" Ten years of exile "), it should be put at 1804 ; judging from the time at which it became pretty clear that the first man in France and she who wished to be the first woman in France were not likely to get on together, it might be put several years earlier.

Sidney wished for an alliance of English and Dutch republicans against the Stuart-Orange alliance and told Barillon " that it is an old error to believe that it is against the interest of France to suffer England to become a republic ".

For most of his career Denard had the quiet backing of France and the French secret service which wished to maintain French influence over its ex-colonies.

He wished the institutions of the present to approximate more closely to those of the past, and devised for the new French constitution a body of reforms which reflected the opinions he had formed upon the democracy at Rome and in ancient France.

In June 1145, Bernard traveled in southern France and his preaching there helped strengthen support against heresy.

France generally has worked to strengthen the global economic and political influence of the EU and its role in common European defense and collective security.

In the congress of Vienna, the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont was restored, and furthermore received the Republic of Genoa to strengthen it as a barrier against France.

He proposed that his consent should be necessary before any soldiers for foreign service were recruited in the empire ; but the estates were unwilling to strengthen the imperial authority, the Protestant princes regarded the suggestion as an attempt to prevent them from assisting their co-religionists in France and the Netherlands, and nothing was done in this direction, although some assistance was voted for the defense of Austria.

To strengthen the new Franco-Tuscan alliance, he married his niece, Marie, to Henry IV of France.

King Philip II ordered the building of a star fort and the modernization of all the walls in the southern side of the city, mainly to keep locals in check and strengthen the outpost Pamplona had become on the border with France.

It is said that Cola di Rienzo was supposed to manufacture false evidence that Giannino Baglioni was John I the Posthumous, and who tried to place on the throne of France to strengthen his power in Rome.

In 1995, Imetal Group of Paris, France acquired the Georgia Marble Company, allowing this international company to strengthen its U. S. presence in the white pigments industry.

To strengthen the colony and make it the centre of France's colonial empire, Louis XIV decided to dispatch more than 700 single women, aged between 15 and 30 ( known as les filles du roi ) to New France.

It would soon become the new staple good that would strengthen and drive New France ’ s economy, in particular that of Montreal, for the next century.

Eager to strengthen his kingdom against France and its potential support of pretenders to his throne, Henry VII sought the support of Queen Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon.

One of his changes was that he weakened the right wing of the German army, which was invading France by way of Belgium, in order to strengthen the left-wing, which was defending Alsace-Lorraine against the French invasion.

Hitler refused to make such a public announcement, saying that it would strengthen the Gaullists against the Vichy France, but asked al-Husseini to ' to lock ... deep in his heart ' the following points, which Christopher Browning summarizes as follows, that ‘ Germany has resolved, step by step, to ask one European nation after the other to solve its Jewish problem, and at the proper time, direct a similar appeal to non-European nations as well '.

Emperor Leopold I, desperate for a continuation of the war so as to strengthen his own claims to the Spanish succession initially resisted the treaty, but because he was still at war with the Turks, and could not face fighting France alone, Leopold I also sought terms and signed on 30 October.

Despite the fact the federal government worked to strengthen its foreign affairs responsibilities as relinquished by Britain, the provinces have always had pretensions in this area, dating from Quebec's first representative to France in the 1886, Hector Fabre.

In the governing Christian Democratic party some wanted to strengthen the ties with the United States, the Atlantiker ( Atlanticians ), others wanted to build up a European counterweight, with the help of France, the Gaullists.

Representatives from Australia, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, France, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland and the United States came together in Boston ( USA ) to strengthen evangelism, discipleship and world mission among students all over the world.

War with France began again in 1778, and once more it was necessary to strengthen the defences.

Cesare wished to strengthen his relations with France and completely break off those with the Kingdom of Naples.

A succession of dukes followed, one of whom, William IV., fought against Hugh Capet, king of France, and another of whom, William V., called the Great, was able considerably to strengthen and extend his authority, although he failed in his attempt to secure the Lombard crown.

This was an opportunity for Charles IV of France to strengthen the Lorrainer ties to France and he quickly procured the duke's release on the promise that Lorraine would not interfere in imperial affairs.

To strengthen the new Tuscan alliance, he married the deceased Francesco's younger daughter, Marie, to Henry IV of France.

Much of the building material was removed by military engineers and transported by sea to France, where it was used to strengthen the fortifications of the towns in the Pale of Calais, which at the time was England's continental bridgehead.