* One of the radio announcements is " John has a long mustache ", which is the same message the French resistance gets before D-Day in The Longest Day ( 1962 ).

The same information is carried on all three frequencies simultaneously including announcements every minute, alternating between English and French.

* For the last 10 seconds of each minute ( seconds 50 to 59 ), the once-per-second tones are again cut to 10 milliseconds each, while CHU transmits a brief voice station identification, followed by voice announcements of the next minute in UTC, alternating between French and English.

The announcements alternated between English and French, and cycled through all six of Canada's time zones, as well as UTC.

Contrary to official announcements by both the Pakistani and French governments at the time, it is now thought unlikely that those responsible for the attack had links to al-Qaeda.

Unlike in Montreal and Ottawa ( the other NHL cities with large francophone fan bases ), all public address announcements were only given in French.

Another broad provision of the law is that it makes it mandatory for commercial advertisements and public announcements to be given in French.

The station announcements and all signs are bilingual in English and French ; a few features of the trains, such as the buttons touched to open the doors, are also marked in German as a result of their design heritage.

Its equivalent is naranja, although in advertisements and announcements, Orange is pronounced, closer to the English than the French pronunciation of the word.

Reports already issued on the sampling census, 1955 - 57, in various areas run as follows ( using only the French and omitting corresponding Flemish titles ).

The basic ordering of the Latin alphabet ( ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ) is well established, although languages using this alphabet have different conventions for their treatment of modified letters ( such as the French é, à, and ô ) and of certain combinations of letters ( multigraphs ).

Basque has no official standing in the Northern Basque Country of France and French citizens are barred from officially using Basque in a French court of law.

The French were unable to penetrate the protective hedge the English were using.

British, French, and American doctrines broadly favoured a more deliberate set-piece battle, using mechanised forces to maintain the impetus and momentum of an offensive.

Quebec was settled as a French colony, and originally operated under the French civil law system, using the coûtume de Paris.

At the end of the 17th century, English country dances were taken up by French dancers ; hybrid choreographies exist from this period using the steps from French court dance in English dances.

Those benefiting the most are long distance freight services with the French train Havana-Santiago being the only passenger train using one of the new Chinese locomotives regularly.

French troops using a catapult to throw hand grenade s and other explosives during World War I

* French group, under which they also included the countries that codified their law either in 19th or in the first half of the 20th century, using the Napoleonic code civil of year 1804 as a model ; this includes countries and jurisdictions such as Italy, Portugal, Spain, Louisiana, states of South America ( such as Brazil ), Quebec, Santa Lucia, Romania, the Ionian Islands, Egypt, and Lebanon

Following the departure of the British, the French colony of Mauritius began marooning lepers on Diego Garcia, and in 1793 the French established a coconut plantation using slave labour, which also exported cordage made from coconut fiber, and sea cucumbers, known as a delicacy in the orient.

As Dahomey's kings embarked on wars to expand their territory, they began using muskets and other firearms traded with French and Spanish slave traders for young men captured in battle, who fetched a very high price from the European slave merchants.

Later, when the French began settling in the area, they navigated the river using canoes made of birch or elm bark.

During the 19th and early 20th century, many smaller or less developed languages saw their first encyclopedias, using French, German, and English role models.

French composer and engineer Edgard Varèse created a variety of compositions using electronic horns, whistles, and tape.

During 1874, French telegraph operator Louis Victor Mimault patented a telegraph system using five separate lines to transmit.

A computer-based course in colloquial Estonian using English, German, French, Russian, Italian, Dutch, Romanian, Greek, or Hungarian as the source language.

* 1921: The French Academy of the Sciences recommends using Esperanto for international scientific communication.

In 1936, Romanian physicist Horia Hulubei and his French colleague Yvette Cauchois also analyzed pollucite, this time using their high-resolution X-ray apparatus.

Basic Books, 2001, pp. 187 – 207 ; see p. 191 for the description: A French doctor, Jacques Lantier, who attended an FGM procedure in Somalia in the 1970s described how the inner and outer labia were separated and attached to each thigh using large thorns.

The Art Nouveau movement in particular made great use of glass, with René Lalique, Émile Gallé, and Daum of Nancy important names in the first French wave of the movement, producing colored vases and similar pieces, often in cameo glass, and also using lustre techniques.

Ten delegates accepted the proposal with only one voice against, the French delegate, Gabriel Hanotaux.

His writing was remarkable in its time for its directness ( he frequently uses a strange second-person voice, telling you — the reader — what you are seeing and smelling as you follow a recipe ) and for his general disdain for upper-class elaborate French cuisine.

Ten delegates accepted the proposal with only one voice against, the French delegate, Gabriel Hanotaux.

Two French voice types, premiere dugazon and deuxieme dugazon, were named after successive stages in the career of Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre ( Mme.

The author of this article called the device a " phonographe ", but Cros himself favored the word " paleophone ", sometimes rendered in French as " voix du passé " ( voice of the past ) but more literally meaning " ancient sound ", which accorded well with his vision of his invention's potential for creating an archive of sound recordings that would be available to listeners in the distant future.

French Baroque composer Michel Pignolet de Montéclair composed " Pan et Syrinx ", a cantata for voice & ensemble ( No 4 of Second livre de cantates ).

In other media, Reno was involved in the production of the third installment in the popular PlayStation 2 series Onimusha ( Onimusha 3: Demon Siege ), lending his likeness to the protagonist Jacques Blanc as well as providing the voice for the character's French dialog.

The role was played in French as Arlequin in the 1660s by, who combined the zanni types, " making his Arlecchino witty, neat, and fluent in a croaking voice, which became as traditional as the squawk of Punch.

The American historian Retha M. Warnicke writes that Anne was " the perfect woman courtier ... her carriage was graceful and her French clothes were pleasing and stylish ; she danced with ease, had a pleasant singing voice, played the lute and several other musical instruments well, and spoke French fluently ... A remarkable, intelligent, quick-witted young noblewoman ... that first drew people into conversation with her and then amused and entertained them.

Fluent in both French and English, Becky has a beautiful singing voice, plays the piano, and shows great talent as an actress.

Much of that humour was of course lost in the French dubbing: in order to keep some of Seller's characterization, the French post-synchronization gave Clouseau an odd-sounding, nasal voice.

* French — Lannoy, Robert: " Pierrot the Street-Waif " ( 1938 ; choir with mixed voices and piano ; text by Paul Verlaine ); Poulenc, Francis: " Pierrot " ( 1933 ; voice and piano ; text by Théodore de Banville ); Privas, Xavier: Many works, in both Chansons vécues ( 1903 ; " Unfaithful Pierrot ", " Pierrot Sings ", etc.

sing nucem ) and vōx ( voice ) become Italian noce, voce, Portuguese noz, voz, and French noix, voix ( in some cases the quality of the vowel later changed again, because of regularising tendencies, or other extraneous influences ).

The writer Julia Kristeva was an influential voice in the turn of the century, contributing to Cultural Studies from the field of art and psychoanalytical French feminism.

Because French was a language acquired at school and university, Huston found that the combination of her eventual command of the language and her distance from it as a non-native speaker helped her to find her literary voice.

Jouvet had risen to fame in the early 1930s through his collaborations with the playwright Giraudoux, and together the two worked to shift focus from the authorial voice of the director, ( which had dominated the French stage since the early twentieth century ) back to the playwright and his text.

The critic Ernest Newman suggests that Bizet may at this time thought that his future lay in the field of instrumental music, before an " inner voice " ( and the realities of the French musical world ) turned him towards the stage.

Two types of soprano especially dear to the French are the Dugazon and the Falcon, which are intermediate voice types between the soprano and the mezzo-soprano: a Dugazon is a darker-colored soubrette, a Falcon a darker-colored soprano drammatico.

In addition to dance, August was a voracious reader, learned French at home, played the violin, sang in a boy soprano voice, and studied declamation with the actors Michael Rosing, Lindgreen, and Frydensdahl.

In French opéra comique, supporting roles requiring a thin voice but good acting are sometimes described as ' trial ', after the singer Antoine Trial ( 1737 – 1795 ), examples being in the operas of Ravel and in The Tales of Hoffmann.

* Antoine Trial a French tenor whose name is used to describe a certain type of tenor voice (' trial ', 1737 – 1795 )

It was made using modern computer animation, and adopted the French approach of each character having its own voice rather than using a narrator.

Misconceptions about the countertenor voice were common at the time Deller was first gaining significant notice as a singer, which was only a matter of decades after the last castrati had died ; Michael Chance tells the story that once, a French woman, upon hearing Deller sing, exclaimed " Monsieur, vous êtes eunuque "— to which Deller replied, " I think you mean ' unique ,' madam.