Before he entered parliament, Disraeli was involved with several women, most notably Henrietta, Lady Sykes ( the wife of Sir Francis Sykes, 3rd Bt ), who served as the model for Henrietta Temple.

It was only in the 19th century, with the increasing interest in occultism amongst the British following the publication of Francis Barrett's The Magus ( 1801 ), that the term entered the English language in reference to books of magic.

On November 14, 1730, he entered the Alcantarine Franciscans, a reform movement in the Order, and took the name " Junipero " in honor of Saint Juniper, who had also been a Franciscan and a companion of Saint Francis.

During his absence, Regent Christine had gained control of the fortresses granted to Thomas Francis as part of the settlement of the Piedmontese Civil War ( legally, these reverted to ducal control when the Duke came of age, which under Piedmontese law Charles Emmanuel did in 1648, though his mother remained in control of the government ; Christine, accompanied by her son and part of the ducal army, entered Ivrea and dismissed Thomas ' personal garrison ; she appointed Thomas Francis instead as governor or Asti and Alba, positions which sweetened the blow but were entirely under ducal control, not guaranteed by treaty.

Christened Pierre at his birth, after spending his youth in study, he entered, in his twenty-fourth year, the friary of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis, founded in Picpus -— now part of Paris —- by his uncle, Jérôme Hélyot, a canon regular of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher.

The House of Guise was founded as a cadet branch of the House of Lorraine by Claude of Lorraine, first Duke of Guise ( 1496 – 1550 ), who entered French service and was made a duke by King Francis I.

In 1876 at age thirteen, Francis entered Clifton College, Bristol.

However, in 1950, when the United States entered the Korean War, Secretary of Defense George Marshall and Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews requested that the USO be reactivated " to provide support for the men and women of the armed forces with help of the American people " According to war historian Paul Edwards, Between 1952 and 1953, not a day went by without the USO providing services somewhere in Korea.

In 1535 he entered into a correspondence with Francis I as to the possibility of a reconciliation between the Catholic and Protestant creeds ; and in 1568 Maximilian II sent for him to Vienna to consult him on the same subject.

When his elder brother Francis Stephen, Duke of Lorraine, married the Archduchess Maria Theresa, daughter of Emperor Charles VI, Charles Alexander entered the Imperial service in 1737.

In February 1793 he entered the service of Emperor Francis II as an imperial aulic councillor.

Francis was entered at Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1608, and subsequently at Lincoln's Inn.

Another child of Spoleto was Francis Possenti who was educated in the Jesuit school and whose father was the Papal assesor, Francis later entered the Passionists and became Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows.

Having entered Milan and installed Louis II de la Trémoille as the governor, Francis ( at the urging of Bonnivet and against the advice of his other senior commanders, who favored a more vigorous pursuit of the retreating Lannoy ) advanced on Pavia, where Antonio de Leyva remained with a sizable Imperial garrison of about 9000.

After attending Marquette Academy for two years, he entered St. Francis Seminary.

But Doria joined the French or popular faction and entered the service of King Francis I of France, who made him captain-general ; in 1524 he relieved Marseille, which was besieged by the Imperialists, and later helped to place his native city once more under French domination.

The only son of Sir Thomas Windebank of Hougham, Lincolnshire, who owed his advancement to the Cecil family, Francis entered St John's College, Oxford, in 1599, coming there under the influence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud.

In March 1987, the Pixies ( Black Francis, guitar / lead vocals ; Kim Deal, bass / vocals ; Joey Santiago, guitar ; David Lovering, drums ), entered Boston's Fort Apache Studios with Fort Apache owner / record producer Gary Smith to record a demo tape.

After being at school at Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall, and Worcester he was entered as a ' gentleman commoner ' at Trinity College, Oxford, and afterwards studied law under Sir Francis Winnington, who became solicitor-general, and joined the Middle Temple.

His eldest son, Francis Napier, also entered diplomatic service and was promoted by Palmerston for the rest of his life.

Educated at Rothesay Grammar School, Matthew Stewart entered the University of Glasgow in 1734 where he studied with the philosopher Francis Hutcheson and the mathematician Robert Simson, the latter with whom he studied ancient geometry.

To survive dropping enrollment, St. Francis College entered into an agreement with the New England Foundation for Osteopathic Medicine to establish the New England College of Osteopathic Medicine on the same campus, and in 1978 the two merged under the new name of the " University of New England ".

She is one of the two patron saints of Italy, together with St. Francis of Assisi.

On May 5, 1940 Pope Pius XII named her a joint Patron Saint of Italy along with Saint Francis of Assisi.

* June 19 – Battle of Landriano: A French army in Italy under Marshal Francis de Bourbon, Count of St. Pol is decisively defeated.

When the Habsburg Charles V defeated Francis I at the Battle of Pavia in 1525, northern Italy, including Milan, passed to the House of Habsburg.

The king of Spain wrote to his ambassador at Rome " that His Holiness had hitherto played a double game and that all his zeal to drive the French from Italy had been only a mask "; this reproach seemed to receive some confirmation when Leo held a secret conference with Francis at Bologna in December 1515.

Francis I had already begun war with Charles V in Navarre, and in Italy, too, the French made the first hostile movement on 23 June 1521.

Francis abandons his claims in Italy, but is allowed to retain Burgundy.

* October 28 – A French army invading Italy under King Francis besieges Pavia.

* Francis of Paola founds the Order of the Minims in Italy.

Francis also commissioned a number of agents in Italy to procure notable works of art and ship them to France.

Francis employed agents in Italy looking for rare books and manuscripts, just as he had agents looking for art works.

In 1814, when French rule in Italy ended ( but after the death of Duke Ercole ), Modena was returned to his daughter Mary Beatrice and her son, Archduke Francis of Austria-Este.

In 1859 the duchy lost its independence to the new united Italy, and Francis V, Duke of Modena, was deposed.

The Duke of Modena, Francis IV, was an ambitious noble, and he hoped to become king of Northern Italy by increasing his territory.

In 1826, Francis made it clear that he would not act against those who subverted opposition toward the unification of Italy.

In the 1647 campaign, Thomas Francis is mentioned as commanding alongside the French general in the forces sent across north Italy to work with the Duke of Modena Francesco I d ' Este who had just allied with France and opened up a ' second front ' against the Spaniards in Milan, though Mazarin confessed that he had appointed Thomas only because he feared that, if left behind in Piedmont, the Prince's restless spirit would make more trouble.

The Franco-Spanish war had been continuing in north Italy, and late in 1654, increasing Piedmontese hostility to the current French commander Grancey led to a search for a new allied commander-in-chief ; the French would have preferred to send the Duke of York ( later King James II ), but he too was unacceptable to Turin, so Thomas Francis was appointed as joint commander-though his wife was held in France almost as a hostage for his good behaviour.

Thomas Francis of Savoy ( Italian Tommaso Francesco di Savoia, Principe di Carignano, French Thomas François de Savoie, Prince de Carignan ; 21 December 1596 – 22 January 1656 ) was an Italian military commander, the founder of the Savoy-Carignano branch of the House of Savoy which reigned as kings of Sardinia from 1831 to 1861, and as kings of Italy from 1861 until the dynasty's deposition in 1946.

* Italy – Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Catherine of Siena

In the Treaty of Cambrai ( 1529 ), called the " Ladies ' Peace " because it was negotiated between Charles's aunt and Francis ' mother, Francis renounced his claims in Italy but retained control of Burgundy.

The Salvatorian Priests & Brothers came to St. Nazianz in 1896, 15 years after the Society of the Divine Savior was founded by Father Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan in Italy.

In the thirteenth century, in France, Germany, and particularly, Italy, under the influence of Francis of Assisi a strong tradition of popular Christmas songs in the native language developed.

To placate him, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI arrested Maria Clementina while on her way to Italy to marry James Francis Edward.