* 1997 – Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist ( b. 1908 )

Illustration by French impressionist Édouard Manet for the Stéphane Mallarmé translation of " The Raven ", 1875.

* 1908 – Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist ( Quintette du Hot Club de France ) ( d. 1997 )

The second French school was Symbolism, which literary historians see beginning with the poet Charles Baudelaire ( 1861 – 67 ) ( Les fleurs du mal, 1857 ), and including the later poets, Arthur Rimbaud ( 1854 – 91 ), Paul Verlaine ( 1844 – 96 ), Stéphane Mallarmé ( 1842 – 98 ), and Paul Valéry ( 1871 – 1945 ).

* 1842 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet ( d. 1898 )

* 1975 – Stéphane Sarrazin, French rally driver

* 1932 – Stéphane Audran, French actress

* August 3 – Stéphane Javelle, French astronomer ( b. 1864 )

** Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist and composer ( d. 1997 )

** Stéphane Rideau, French actor

* September 9 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet ( b. 1842 )

* March 18 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet ( d. 1898 )

* Stéphane Dumont ( born 1982 ), French footballer

In 1891, with help from his close friend Stéphane Mallarmé, Whistler's Mother was purchased by the French government for 4, 000 francs.

His close friendships with Monet and poet Stéphane Mallarmé, who translated the ‘’ Ten O ’ Clock Lecture ’’ into French, helped strengthen respect for Whistler by the French public.

She redecorated the interior, first working with the French architect and designer Armand-Albert Rateau ( who also oversaw exterior alterations as well as adding interior features such as a 16th century-style carved-oak staircase ) and then, later, with the Paris decorator Stéphane Boudin.

The French symbolist Stéphane Mallarmé's famous masterpiece L ' après-midi d ' un faune ( published in 1876 ) describes the sensual experiences of a faun who has just woken up from his afternoon sleep and discusses his encounters with several nymphs during the morning in a dreamlike monologue.

Dieter Kaiser, a Belgian-German singer, who performs internationally in public concerts with a music quartet comprising the French-German professional guitarist, Stéphane Bazire, the guitar playing female singer Barbara and a keyboarder, as Stéphane – Didier & Cie, has translated 30 of Brel's songs and has gathered them in a booklet with over 100 other French chansons in German ( also available at www. deutsche-chanson-texte. de ).

Primary influences on the style of Russian Symbolism were the irrationalistic and mystical poetry and philosophy of Fyodor Tyutchev and Vladimir Solovyov, the novels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the operas of Richard Wagner, the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche, French symbolist and decadent poets ( such as Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine and Charles Baudelaire ), and the dramas of Henrik Ibsen.

She was the first interior designer brought in to decorate the Kennedy White House, a position soon usurped by French interior designer Stéphane Boudin.

Stéphane Grappelli ( ; 26 January 1908 – 1 December 1997 ) was a French jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934.

That the expression is in French probably comes from the fact that the fin de siècle is particularly associated with certain late 19th-century French-speaking circles in Paris and Brussels, exemplified by artists like Stéphane Mallarmé and Claude Debussy, movements like Symbolism, and in works like Oscar Wilde's Salomé ( originally written in French and premiered in Paris )— which connects the idea of the fin de siècle also to the Aesthetic movement.

The current legitimate, senior family member is Louis-Alphonse de Bourbon, known by his supporters as Duke of Anjou, who also holds the Legitimist ( Blancs d ' Espagne ) claim to the French throne.

Proponents of the French bow argue that it is more maneuverable, due to the angle at which the player holds the bow.

A French TGV holds the world speed record for the fastest wheeled train, having reached on 3 April 2007.

* 1811 – In the second day of fighting at the Peninsular War Battle of Fuentes de Onoro the French army, under Marshall Massena, drive in the Duke of Wellington's overextended right flank, but French frontal assaults fail to take the town of Fuentes de Onoro and the Anglo-Portuguese army holds the field at the end of the day.

* February 21 – 26 – Seven Years ' War – At the Battle of Carrickfergus in the north of Ireland, a force of French troops under the command of privateer François Thurot captures and holds the town and castle of Carrickfergus before retiring ; the force is defeated ( and Thurot killed ) in a naval action in the Irish Sea on February 28.

The Honda powered FW10 holds the race lap record for the original circuit when Mansell's team mate Keke Rosberg recorded a time of 1: 39. 914 during the 1985 French Grand Prix.

In 1792 French troops occupied the district and in 1793 the lands were annexed by France, which explains the linguistic switch of the Family of the House of Basel's name from " von Basel " to " de Bâle ", since Arlesheim holds their manor.

* tenet " it bores, it annoys " ( Classical " it holds ") > anoget, latinization of Proto-French * anoiet ( Old French anoie ), from anui, anoi " annoyance ", from the phrase mihī in odiō est " it is hateful to me " ( French ennui, Italian noia, Occitan anuèg, Catalan enutg, Spanish enojo, Portuguese nojo )

The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography.

* Tchéky Karyo as Major Jean Villeneuve: A French soldier who trains Martin's militia, he holds a grudge against Martin for his part in the French and Indian War, but they become close friends by the war's end.

Max von Sydow (; Swedish: ; born 10 April 1929 ) is a Swedish actor, born in Sweden and now holds dual Swedish and French citizenship.

He received French citizenship in 2002 and now holds dual Swedish / French citizenship.

All launches took place from Kourou in French Guyana, which thus became established as the sole French and European spaceport, a status that it still holds today ( 2012 ).

It holds a vast amount of art of French and other artists, e. g. the Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci, and classical Greek Venus de Milo and ancient works of culture and art from Egypt and the Middle East.

French government holds a veto right since foundation.

Cherbourg holds an arsenal of the French Navy.

Every year Francis Creek holds French Creek Days on the second weekend in July.

Alstom is a large French multinational conglomerate which holds interests in the power generation and transport markets.

Historically, the ace had the lowest value and this still holds in many popular European games ( in fact most European decks, including the French Tarot Nouveau, do not use the " A " index, instead keeping the numeral " 1 ").