I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

The myth of the Southern plantation has had only a tangential relation with actuality, as Francis Pendleton Gaines showed forty years ago, and I suspect it has had a far narrower acceptance as something real than has generally been supposed.

`` But brother I can't take a job right now '', she said with her eyes on her ice cream, `` I'm going to have a baby, Francis Xavier's baby, my own husband's baby ''.

Francis I of France recognizes Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, recognizes Francis's claim to Milan.

This use of the title is said to have originated in the right conceded to the king of France, by the concordat between Pope Leo X and Francis I ( 1516 ), to appoint abbés commendataires to most of the abbeys in France.

* 1777 – Francis I of the Two Sicilies ( d. 1830 )

The metre fell into disuse until the reign of Francis I, when it was revived by Jean-Antoine de Baïf, one of the seven poets known as La Pléiade.

In 1806 Francis II ( now Francis I of Austria ) named the Archduke Charles, already a field marshal, as Commander in Chief of the Austrian army and Head of the Council of War.

During Charles V's invasion of Provence in 1536, Francis I of France sent the Count of Fürstenberg's 6000 Landsknechte to ravage the area in a scorched earth policy.

* then to Francis, Duke of Valois, Count of Angoulème, who became Francis I of France, and his descendants, of the Orléans-Angoulème,

** Francis I ( 1515 – 1547 )

** Francis I ( 1825 – 1830 )

** Francis I ( 1442 – 1450 )

* Francis I ( 1515 – 1547 )

Charles V strongly favoured a council, but needed the support of King Francis I of France, who attacked him militarily.

Francis I generally opposed a general council due to partial support of the Protestant cause within France, and in 1533 he further complicated matters when suggesting a general council to include both Catholic and Protestant rulers of Europe that would devise a compromise between the two theological systems.

Pope Clement VII ( 1523 – 34 ) was vehemently against the idea of a council, agreeing with Francis I of France.

* 1708 – Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1765 )

In 1538, King Francis I of France threatened Edmund Bonner — Henry VIII's Ambassador to the French court and later Bishop — with a hundred strokes of the halberd as punishment for Bonner's " insolent behaviour ".

His grandfather, Thomas Francis, founder of the Carignano line of the House of Savoy, was the son of Catherine Michelle – a daughter of Philip II of Spain – and the great-grandson of the Emperor Charles V. But of more immediate consequence to Leopold I was the fact that Eugene was the second cousin of Victor Amadeus, the Duke of Savoy, a connection that the Emperor hoped might prove useful in any future confrontation with France.

With the size of his imperial realm significantly reduced, Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor became Francis I, Emperor of Austria.

Leaving Rome in 1540, Francis took with him a breviary, a catechism and a Latin book () written by the Croatian humanist Marko Marulić that had become popular in the counter-reformation.

Francis II () ( 12 February 1768 – 2 March 1835 ) was the last Holy Roman Emperor, ruling from 1792 until 6 August 1806, when he dissolved the Holy Roman Empire after the disastrous defeat of the Third Coalition by Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz.

St Francis of Assisi Church () was erected in 1598 but significantly rebuilt through the munificence of Grand Master Gregorio Carafa in 1681.

Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc () ( 7 January 189930 January 1963 ) was a French composer and a member of the French group Les Six.

The Poor Clares, officially the Order of Saint Clare, () -- originally referred to as the Order of Poor Ladies, and later the Clarisses, the Minoresses, the Franciscan Clarist Order, and the Second Order of St. Francis -- are members of a contemplative Order of nuns in the Catholic Church.

Bishop Asbury Cottage () is the boyhood home of Francis Asbury, the first American Methodist Bishop, in Great Barr, England.

Taylor & Francis 2003, ISBN 978-1-57958-376-7, p. 35 ()

The Bridgewater Monument () is a tower on the Ashridge estate, built in 1832 in memory of Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater ( 1736 – 1803 ), " the father of inland navigation ".

The Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts () is an extensive piece of reform legislation signed into law by Francis I of France on August 10, 1539 in the city of Villers-Cotterêts.

Francesco Ferdinando Geminiano von Habsburg-Lothringen, known as Francis V of Modena () ( 1 June 1819 – 20 November 1875 ), Archduke of Austria-Este, Royal Prince of Hungary and Bohemia, was Duke of Modena, Reggio, and Mirandola, Duke of Guastalla ( from 1847 ), Duke of Massa and Prince of Carrara from 1846 to 1859.

Francis Ng Chun-Yu () is a Hong Kong actor.

* Shirin Akiner: Islamic Peoples of the Soviet Union, Taylor & Francis 1983, ISBN 0-7103-0025-5, pp. 338 – 345 ()

Exiled () is a 2006 Hong Kong action crime drama film produced and directed by Johnnie To, and starring Anthony Wong, Roy Cheung, Francis Ng, and Simon Yam.

Saint Francis Solanus, O. F. M., () ( 10 March 1549 – 14 July 1610 ) was a Spanish friar and missionary in South America, belonging to the Order of Friars Minor ( the Franciscans ), who is honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.

The Closet () is a 2001 French comedy film written and directed by Francis Veber.

Francis Albert " Frank " Sinatra,, ( December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998 ) was an American singer and film actor.

* Children: Michael Francis Compton ( b. 25 November 1940 ) Doreen Crick ; Gabrielle Anne ( b. 15 July 1951 ) and Jacqueline Marie-Therese Nichols ( b. 12 March 1954, d. 28 February 2011 ) Odile Crick ;

* His Royal Highness Archduke Francis of Austria ( 12 February 1768 – 1 March 1792 )

Michael George Francis Ventris, OBE ( 12 July 1922 – 6 September 1956 ) was an English architect who, along with John Chadwick and Alice Kober, deciphered Linear B, a previously unknown ancient script discovered at Knossos by Arthur Evans.

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On October 12, 1998 twenty-five soldiers in the Sierra Leone army, including Corporal Tamba Gborie, Brigadier Hassan Karim Conteh, Colonel Samuel Francis Koroma, Major Kula Samba and Colonel Abdul Karim Sesay, were executed by firing squad after they were convicted at a court martial in Freetown for orchestrating the 1997 coup that ousted president Kabbah from power.

* September 12 – Francis Howell High School ( Howell Institute ) in St. Charles, Missouri, and Stephen F. Austin High School in Austin, Texas open on the same day, putting them in a tie for the title of the oldest public high school west of the Mississippi River.

* July 12 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor declares war on King Francis I of France.

** The Austro-Hungarian agreement ( called Ausgleich in German or kiegyezés in Hungarian (" the Compromise ")) is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire ; on June 8 Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria is crowned King of Hungary.

* August 12 – Battle of Renty: French forces led by Francis, Duke of Guise turn back an invasion of Picardy by Charles V.

* March 12 – Ignatius of Loyola, Francis Xavier, Teresa of Avila, Isidore the Farmer and Philip Neri are canonized as saints by Pope Gregory XV.

* February 12 – Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1835 )

* September 12 – Francis I is elected Holy Roman Emperor with the support of his wife, Maria Theresia of Austria.

* February 12 – Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor marries Maria Theresa of Austria, ruler of the Habsburg Empire.

* June 12 – Francis I, Duke of Lorraine ( b. 1517 )

* January 12 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor ( and Charles I of Spain ) and Francis I of France sign the Treaty of Toledo, agreeing to make no further alliances with England.

* September 12 – King Francis I of France ( d. 1547 )

At the age of 12 ( 1527 ), Anne was betrothed to Francis, son and heir of the Duke of Lorraine while he was only 10.

Pierre Francis de Marigny Berton, ( July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004 ) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history, and was a well-known television personality and journalist.

Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria ( who was given the Latin baptismal name of Maria Ludovica Leopoldina Francisca Theresa Josepha Lucia ) was born at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna on 12 December 1791 to Archduke Francis of Austria and his second wife, Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily.

Francis Crossen ( 34 ), a Catholic man and father of two, was walking towards the city centre at approximately 12. 40 a. m. when four of the Butchers, in Moore's taxi, spotted him.

When he was returned to France at the age of 12, she was ordered by Francis I to act as a mentor to him and teach him courtly manners and more.