The term android was used in a more modern sense by the French author Auguste Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam in his work Tomorrow's Eve ( 1886 ).

Émile Zola was a prominent French author of the 19th century.

* 1977 – Damien Saez, French singer-songwriter and author

* 1926 – René Goscinny, French comic-strip author ( d. 1977 )

* 1925 – Laurent de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator

Ambroise ( flourished c. 1190 ) was a Norman poet and chronicler of the Third Crusade, author of a work called L ' Estoire de la guerre sainte, which describes in rhyming Old French verse the adventures of Richard Coeur de Lion as a crusader.

French author Louis Charpentier claimed that the Ark was taken to Chartres Cathedral by the Knights Templar.

* 1961 – David Servan-Schreiber, French physician, neuroscientist, and author ( d. 2011 )

* 1951 – Christian Bobin, French author and poet

* 1947 – Michèle Torr, French singer and author

* 2003 – Cecile de Brunhoff, French author ( b. 1903 )

* French author Jacques Lusseyran, who was visually impaired at the age of 7 when he injured his eyes on the sharp corner of a teacher's desk, became part of the French resistance during World War II.

** based on the novel of the same name by French author Victor Hugo.

The Claudine books are a series of four early novels by the French author Colette published from 1900-1904.

Caligula, by French author Albert Camus, is a play in which Caligula returns after deserting the palace for three days and three nights following the death of his beloved sister, Drusilla.

Piron is the author of a book in French, Le bonheur clés en main ( The Keys to Happiness ), which distinguishes among pleasure, happiness and joy.

* 1899 – Jean de Brunhoff, French author ( d. 1937 )

* 1956 – Jean-Pierre Thiollet, French author

This statement was likely picked up by the author of the Estoire Merlin, or Vulgate Merlin, where the author ( who was fond of fanciful folk etymologies ) asserts that Escalibor " is a Hebrew name which means in French ' cuts iron, steel, and wood '" (" c ' est non Ebrieu qui dist en franchois trenche fer & achier et fust "; note that the word for " steel " here, achier, also means " blade " or " sword " and comes from medieval Latin aciarium, a derivative of acies " sharp ", so there is no direct connection with Latin chalybs in this etymology ).

According to Louis Diat, the creator of vichyssoise and the author of the classic Gourmet's Basic French Cookbook: " There is a story that explains why the most important basic brown sauce in French cuisine is called sauce espagnole, or Spanish sauce.

As author of works such as Cvisinier françois, he is credited with publishing the first true French cookbook.

* 1864 – Jules Renard, French author ( d. 1910 )

The French Wars of Religion began with a massacre at Wassy on 1 March 1562, when dozens ( some sources say hundreds ) of Huguenots were killed, and about 200 were wounded.

He introduced dozens of Greek, Latin, and Italian loan-words and direct translations of Greek and Latin compound words and idioms into French.

They came into their final form over the course of many hundreds of years, as many dozens of semi-independent fiefs and former independent countries came to be incorporated into the French royal domain.

While they were successful in baptizing dozens of converts, they were forced to abandon the mission in 1763 during the French and Indian War ( part of the Seven Years ' War ).

In 1908 on a high hill on the east side of town, Barber began construction of an experimental farm and estate, comprising a French Renaissance Revival mansion, completed in 1909, and lush gardens, dozens of barns and other structures in the same style, and greenhouses, which he called Anna Dean Farm.

While the Regulators at various times consisted of dozens of American and Mexican cowboys, the main dozen or so members were known as the " iron clad ", including McCarty, Richard " Dick " Brewer, Frank McNab, Doc Scurlock, Jim French, John Middleton, George Coe, Frank Coe, Jose Chavez y Chavez, Charlie Bowdre, Tom O ' Folliard, Fred Waite ( a Chickasaw ), and Henry Newton Brown.

The Austrian army had suffered greatly during the Battle of Wagram and had to leave behind their wounded, but did make off with thousands of French prisoners, a couple of dozens of guns and a few eagles.

English dozen, French douzaine, German Dutzend, Dutch dozijn and Spanish docena, are also used as indefinite quantifiers to mean " about twelve " or " many " ( as in " a dozen times ", " dozens of people ").

After the war, the French and Spanish sold dozens of Panzer IVs to Syria, where they saw combat in the 1967 Six-Day War.

She has been featured in fashion spreads in most major fashion magazines including UK, US, and French Vogue magazines ( as well as other international versions of Vogue ), Another Man, Vanity Fair, the Face, and W. Moss has appeared on the cover of British Vogue 30 times, in addition to dozens of other international Vogue covers, and has been featured on the cover of 17 issues of W, including one issue with nine different covers that featured the model.

The job of typesetting the text anew and proofreading it was then distributed among dozens of volunteers ( most of them junior French mathematicians, because of the required fluency in French and knowledge of algebraic geometry ), starting with SGA1 in late 2001.

French director Jean-Jacques Annaud shot his 1997 film, Seven Years In Tibet, in Mendoza and built dozens of sets ranging from a long recreation of the Tibetan capital city of Lhasa ( built in the foothills of the Andes ), to a recreation of the Hall of Good Deeds in the Potala, the ancient palace of the Dalai Lama ( built in an abandoned garlic warehouse outside the city ).

Many consider it, or a part of it, to be a terrorist group responsible for blowing up the American embassy and later its annex, as well as the barracks of American and French peacekeeping troops and a dozens of kidnappings of foreigners in Beirut.

The coved ceiling has dozens of murals reminiscent of Boucher and Watteau, depicting 18th-century French aristocracy.

* In 1853 and 1854, the famous and very eccentric French conductor and composer of light music Louis-Antoine Jullien ( 1812-1860 ) gave dozens of very successful concerts mixing classical and light music.

He wrote dozens, in Castilian Spanish, Catalan, and French, for editions of famous writers and for young authors needing a boost.

A player of jazz French horn, he also plays piano, numerous flutes and whistles, percussion, and dozens of folkloric instruments from 25 countries, as well as being an improvisational lyricist.

He deplores polygamy, family regrouping policy ( adopted by his own initiative ) in 1976, exaggerated social assistance ( assistanat ) and also the situation of working-class French who have trouble making ends meet and see next door large immigrant families living in Europe the African way of life, with one man, three or four spouses, and dozens of children, all living off welfare, not working, not contributing to social taxes, and making noise and smell in the council house.

The film is peppered with dozens of brief flashbacks to Her life ; in her youth in the French town Nevers, she was shamed and had her head shaved as punishment for having a love affair with a German soldier, which she juxtaposes with the loss of the hair " which the women of Hiroshima will find has fallen out in the morning.

His play Bright Ideas opened off-Broadway at the Manhattan Class Company, directed by John Rando, and has since been published by Dramatists Play Service, with dozens of productions across the U. S. Other scripts include Natural Selection ( 2006 Humana Festival ), For Better ( published by Samuel French ), The Dead Guy ( published by DPS ), Virtual Devotion, Cinderella Confidential, and Pecos Bill and the Ghost Stampede ( all published by Dramatic Publishing ).

Attracted by the offer of free land as one of the concessions stipulated in the revised Spanish Royal Decree of 1815, dozens of French familles, among them the Mouraille's, Martineau's and Le Brun's, immigrated to Vieques and with the use of slave manpower established sugar plantations.

More recently, the Pavane appears in dozens of popular albums under both French and English forms of its title.

As a trouvère ( the Northern French langue d ' oïl version of troubadour ), Guiot probably wrote dozens of songs, though only six survive, all from around 1180.