Sultan Ahmed III receives French ambassador Vicomte d ' Andrezel at Topkapı Palace.

In reply to this the French sovereign dispatched Andrew as his ambassador to Güyük Khan ; with Longjumeau went his brother William ( also a Dominican ) and several others — John Goderiche, John of Carcassonne, Herbert " Le Sommelier ," Gerbert of Sens, Robert ( a clerk ), a certain William, and an unnamed clerk of Poissy.

Striking southwards in the hope of collecting information about French movements, Nelson's ships stopped at Elba and Naples, where the British ambassador Sir William Hamilton reported that the French fleet had passed Sicily in the direction of Malta.

This tiara was made for 115, 000 ducats and offered to Suleiman by the French ambassador Antonio Rincon in 1532.

The Spanish ambassador, Mendoza, was also of the view that Leicester was behind Oxford's informing on his fellow Catholics in an attempt to prevent the French marriage.

Without informing the rest of the cabinet or Queen Victoria, Palmerston had sent a private note to the French ambassador endorsing Louis Bonaparte's coup and congratulating Louis Bonaparte, himself, on the coup.

Because of the controversy surrounding Palmerston's removal as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs because of his letter to the French ambassador endorsing Louis Bonaparte's 2 December 1851 coup, Palmerston could not now be appointed Foreign Minister again so soon after his removal from the same position.

From 1743 to 1744, Rousseau had an honorable but ill-paying post as a secretary to the Comte de Montaigue, the French ambassador to Venice.

* 1834 – Edmond-Charles Genêt, French ambassador ( b. 1763 )

In 1580 Dowland went to Paris, where he was in service to Sir Henry Cobham, the ambassador to the French court, and his successor, Sir Edward Stafford.

Susan Clarencieux revealed her doubts to the French ambassador, Antoine de Noailles.

In November 1497, the French ambassador in the Holy See commissioned one of his most famous works, the Pietà, and the contract was agreed upon in August of the following year.

To provoke France into declaring war with Prussia, Bismarck published the Ems Dispatch, a carefully edited version of a conversation between King Wilhelm and the French ambassador to Prussia, Count Benedetti.

However, he prevented Louis XIV from sending the usual embassy of obedience to Alexander VII, and, while he lived, he foiled the appointment of a French ambassador to Rome, diplomatic affairs being meantime conducted by cardinal protectors, generally personal enemies of the Pope.

The ambassador of Louis XIV of France ( 1643 – 1715 ) succeeded in procuring his election on 6 October 1689, as successor to Pope Innocent XI ( 1676 – 89 ); nevertheless, after months of negotiation Alexander VIII finally condemned the declaration made in 1682 by the French clergy concerning the liberties of the Gallican church.

King Louis XV of France's ( 1715 – 74 ) minister, the duc de Choiseul, had former experience of Rome as French ambassador, and was Europe's most skilled diplomat.

He notified the new French ambassador, Marquis de Lavardin, that he would not be recognised as ambassador in Rome unless he renounced this right, but Louis XIV would not give it up.

Descartes stayed at the French ambassador Pierre Chanut.

In an open letter to writer and French ambassador to Japan, Paul Claudel, the Paris group announced:

The word nicotiana ( as well as nicotine ) is in honor of Jean Nicot, French ambassador to Portugal, who in 1559 sent it as a medicine to the court of Catherine de Medici.

The French foreign ministry issued a statement saying, " Our ambassador decided on January 3 not to authorise any public access to the diplomatic mission until further notice.

* March 8 – Antoine Escalin des Eymars, the French ambassador, returns from Constantinople with promises of Ottoman aid in a war against Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.

Joan was the only surviving child and heiress of Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse, Duke of Narbonne, and Marquis of Provence, so under Provençal and French law, the lands should have gone to her nearest male relative.

A French reconnaissance under the Marquis de Silly went forward to probe the enemy, but were driven off by Allied troops who had deployed to cover the pioneers of the advancing army, labouring to bridge the numerous streams in the area and improve the passage leading westwards to Höchstädt.

In the woods to the left of Lutzingen, seven French battalions under the Marquis de Rozel moved into place.

The French commander in the village, the Marquis de Blainville, numbered amongst the heavy casualties.

The 20 French and Bavarian battalions in Ramillies, supported by Irish dragoons and a small brigade of Cologne and Bavarian Guards under the Marquis de Maffei, put up a determined defence, initially driving back the attackers with severe losses.

* 1814 – Marquis de Sade, French writer ( b. 1740 )

The Bastiat estate in Mugron had been acquired during the French Revolution and had previously belonged to the Marquis of Poyanne.

* 1704 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d ' Argens, French writer ( d. 1771 )

In the eulogy written for the French Academy by the French mathematician and philosopher Marquis de Condorcet, he commented,

The law, originally conceived by French Finance Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert prior to his death in 1683, was finalized by his son the Marquis de Seignelay and presented to the King for his signature in 1685.

* 1766 – Emmanuel, Marquis de Grouchy, French marshal ( d. 1847 )

Morse was honored to paint the Marquis de Lafayette, the leading French supporter of the American Revolution.

* Marquis de Condorcet ( 1743 – 1794 ) French.

* Marquis de Sade, French writer and philosopher

* September 12 – Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, French conspirator ( b. 1620 )

* May 10 – In New France, Governor Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville ends his final term ( multiple times over 43 years ) as Governor of colonial French Louisiana, which he helped colonize ; he is succeeded by the Marquis de Vaudreuil ( for the next 10 years ) and returns to France.

* September 17 – Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist ( d. 1794 )

* April 9 – Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway, French soldier and diplomat ( d. 1720 )

* April 13 – Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal ( d. 1830 )

* July 16 – François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister ( b. 1641 )

* January 26 – Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat ( b. 1552 )

* September 3 – Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway, French soldier and diplomat ( b. 1648 )