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.

Soon after arriving from France in 1915, Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia met American artist Man Ray.

* Francis II of France ( 1544 – 1560 )

* Franz, Duke of Bavaria ( born 1933 ), called " Francis II " by supporters of the Jacobite claim to the thrones of England, Scotland, Ireland and France.

For the following years with his family, till he left for studies in Paris in 1525, Francis ' life in the Kingdom of Navarre, then partially occupied by Spain, was surrounded by a war that lasted over 18 years, ending with the Kingdom of Navarre being partitioned into two territories, and the King of Navarre and some loyalists abandoning the south and moving to the northern part of the Kingdom of Navarre ( currently France ).

Drake's father apprenticed Francis to his neighbour, the master of a barque used for coastal trade transporting merchandise to France.

Francis I continued his leading role as an opponent of Napoleonic France in the Napoleonic Wars, and suffered several more defeats after Austerlitz.

Francis had a fraught relationship with France.

In 1809, Francis attacked France again, hoping to take advantage of the Peninsular War embroiling Napoleon in Spain.

Austria played a major role in the final defeat of France — in recognition of this, Francis, represented by Clemens von Metternich, presided over the Congress of Vienna, helping to form the Concert of Europe and the Holy Alliance, ushering in an era of conservatism in Europe.

Francis of Assisi was one of seven children born to Pietro di Bernardone, a rich cloth merchant, and his wife Pica, about whom little is known except that she was originally from France.

Pietro was in France on business when Francis was born, and Pica had him baptised as Giovanni di Bernardone.

The pope then sent him as nuncio to the court of King Francis I of France.

From September 1520 to August 25 he was the Republic's ambassador to Charles V, with whom Venice was soon at war, instructed to defend the Republic's alliance with Francis I of France.

The timing of Henry's case was very unfortunate ; it was 1527 and the Pope had been taken prisoner by the emperor Charles V, Catherine's nephew and the most powerful man in Europe, for siding with his archenemy Francis I of France.

As Francis was receiving his education, ideas emerging from the Italian renaissance were influential in France.

Francis I receiving the last breath of Leonardo da Vinci in 1519, by Ingres, painted in 1818.

He was kindly received by the Queen and her husband, King Francis II, and, as he himself put it: " The Queen recompensed me more liberally and jobbies honourably than I had deserved " — receiving 600 Crowns and the post and salary of gentleman of the French King's Chamber.

He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II ( 1974 ).

Stoke Bruerne Park in Northamptonshire was built by Sir Francis Crane, “ receiving the assistance of Inigo Jones ”, between 1629 and 1635.

Charles Francis Adams, Jr. ( 1835 – 1915 ) fought with the Union in the Civil War, receiving in 1865 the brevet of brigadier-general in the regular army.

Another screen in the church is simpler, with panels of various saints, including an unusual one of St Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata.

Upon receiving the mandamus John Pechell, the master of Magdalene College, who was vice-chancellor, sent a messenger to the Duke of Albemarle, the chancellor, to request him to get the mandamus recalled ; and the registrary and the bedell waited upon Francis to offer him instant admission to the degree if only he would take the necessary oaths.

He had also executed the carvings on the building, the most notable being a round bas-relief depicting St. Francis receiving the stigmata.

In 1860, they founded the institution as St. Francis Solanus College, receiving a formal charter from the state in 1873.

* St Francis receiving the Stigmata, in the monastery of S. Anna of Foligno

* St Francis receiving the Stigmata, in the church of S. Girolamo of Spello

* It was used by the English philosopher Francis Bacon, who referred to it as the necessity of " keeping the eye steadily fixed upon the facts of nature and so receiving the images simply as they are.

Jealous of the attention Francis is receiving from William, Mlle.

Francis had a deep devotion to the Eucharist and Saint Bonaventure commented that Francis would be swept in ecstasy after receiving Communion.

Thomas Francis Meagher, MacManus, and Patrick O ' Donoghue ( Young Irelander ) | Patrick O ' Donoghue receiving their sentences of death.

Ludovico II of Gonzaga | Ludwig II receiving the news of his son Francis being elected cardinal, fresco by Andrea Mantegna in the Stanza degli Sposi of the Palazzo Ducale di Mantova | Palazzo Ducale

On May 15, 2010 ( Prince Be's 40th birthday ), Doc. g performed at the Mall of Asia concert series in Manila, receiving a standing ovation from 50, 000 fans and dedicating the performance to the memories of Guru from Gangstarr and Francis M.