I worked for my Uncle ( an Uncle by marriage so you will not think this has a mild undercurrent of incest ) who ran one of those antique shops in New Orleans' Vieux Carre, the old French Quarter.

On a military mission for his native Virginia the youthful George Washington touched off the French and Indian War, then guarded his colony's frontier as head of its militia.

The riotous onrush of industrialism after the War for Southern Independence and the general secular drift to the Religion of Humanity, however, prepared the way for a reception of the French Revolution's socialistic offspring of one sort of another.

As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

The Artists contended that the Philistines, gross of soul, were all for having Son et Lumiere, since the French were footing the bill and the attraction, wherever it had been done, had proven popular.

This lofty disregard for others was not shared by such men as Pierre Flotte and his associates, that `` brilliant group of mediocre men '', as Powicke calls them, who provided the brains for the French embassy that came to Rome under the nominal leadership of the archbishop of Narbonne, the duke of Burgundy, and the count of St.-Pol.

For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.

When they lost it, the French artillery moved in, and that was the end for Garibaldi that time, on 30 April 1849.

We had walked it many times and shivered, figuring what a fish barrel it had been for the French.

It was not a part of any one of the three ( later four ) zones for occupation by Soviet, American, British, and French troops respectively.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

It truly relives another age for the inhabitants use carriages rather than autos and old British and French forts are left intact for tourists to visit and record.

Oersted remodeled Ritter's notes into an essay in French which was submitted to the Institut De France for its annual prize of 3,000 francs.

Any reputable French interne can supply you with a dozen similar instances, and I'll presently recount a case out of my own personal experience, but, for the moment, let's resume our catalogue.

She wanted to go around the world, but she settled for a French holiday.

These are the wines the French themselves use for everyday drinking, for even in France virtually no one drinks the Grands Crus on a meal-to-meal basis.

In 1720 some Chickasaws massacred the French traders among them, and did not make peace for four years.

Venturesome traders, however, continued to come to them from Mobile, and to obtain a considerable number of pelts for the French markets.

The Chickasaws finally were the occasion for the most disastrous wars during the French control of Louisiana.

To hold them was an essential part of French policy, for they controlled the upper termini of the routes from the north to Mobile.

But by week's end the Laotian cry of invasion was read as an exaggeration ( see foreign news ), and the U.S. was agreeing with its cautious British and French allies that a neutralist -- rather than a pro-Western -- government might be best for Laos.

An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.

Known to the Iranians by the Pahlavi compound word kah-ruba ( from kah “ straw ” plus rubay “ attract, snatch ,” referring to its electrical properties ), which entered Arabic as kahraba ' or kahraba, it too was called amber in Europe ( Old French and Middle English ambre ).

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One of the cookbooks that proliferated in the colonies was The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy written by Hannah Glasse, wrote of disdain for the French style of cookery, stating “ the blind folly of this age that would rather be imposed on by a French booby, than give encouragement to a good English cook !” Of the French recipes, she does add to the text she speaks out flagrantly against the dishes as she “… think it an odd jumble of trash .” Reinforcing the anti-French sentiment was the French and Indian War from 1754-1764.

The French State refuses to change the second article of the Constitution ( added in 1994 ), which states that “ the language of the Republic is French ”.

Later on, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this French revolutionary principle – though not of course its specific way to identify the “ general will ” – percolated into first Socialist and then Fascist political thinking.

Another theory relates the word to the old French “ maillier ”, meaning “ to hammer ” ( a cognate of the modern English word “ malleable ”).

The first attestations of the word “ mail ” are in Old French and Anglo-Norman: “ maille ” “ maile ”, or “ male ” or other variants, which became “ mailye ” “ maille ” “ maile ”, “ male ”, or “ meile ” in Middle English.

He found the French countryside to be “ picturesque ,” and worthy of being painted.

The word “ clear ” is from the French clair, and “ sentience ” is derived from the Latin sentire, “ to feel ”.

The style of dance is commonly known to modern scholars as the French noble style or belle danse ( French, literally " beautiful dance "), however it is often referred to casually as baroque dance in spite of the existence of other theatrical and social dance styles during the baroque era.

There are many beautiful seasides near city like Seaview, Manora Island, Sandspit Beach, Hawke's Bay Beach, Paradise Point, French Beach, Cape Monze, and Nathiagali Beach

The name comes from the Occitan word " merlot ", which means " young blackbird " (" merle " is the French word for several kinds of thrushes, including blackbirds ); the name was thought to have been given either because of the grape's beautiful dark-blue color, or the blackbirds ' fondness for grapes.

Matilda could speak " the Teuton tongue " ( German ) and " the beautiful language of the Franks " ( French ) according to her biographer, Domnizo.

He chooses to marry the beautiful Rose Bradwardine, rather than cast his lot with the sublime Flora MacIvor, who, after the failure of the ' 45 rising, retires to a French convent.

As Rick Loomis, head of Flying Buffalo Inc., put it, " The French edition came out so beautiful that now that I have run out of 5. 5, I am not satisfied to just reprint 5. 5.

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

The Qabr-er-Rumia -- best known by its French name, Tombeau de la Chrétienne, tradition making it the burial-place of Florinda, la Cava Rumía, the beautiful and unfortunate daughter of Count Julian -- is near Kolea, and is known to be the tomb of the Mauretanian king Juba II and of his wife Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, queen of Egypt.

Later, on an ocean liner to England, Flo runs into Billings again and discovers that he is on his way to sign a beautiful French star, Anna Held ( Luise Rainer ), to a contract.

Published in French by Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Story of O is a tale of female submission about a beautiful Parisian fashion photographer, O, who is blindfolded, chained, whipped, branded, pierced, made to wear a mask, and taught to be constantly available for oral, vaginal, and anal intercourse.

Igor Stravinsky called Daphnis et Chloé " one of the most beautiful products of all French music " and author Burnett James claims that it is " Ravel's most impressive single achievement, as it is his most opulent and confident orchestral score ".

Kate's plans for the future are interrupted by a drunken phone call from Charlie who informs her that he has fallen in love with a beautiful French " goddess " named Juliette ( Susan Anbeh ) and that he will not be returning.

The Sirens of Greek mythology are often confused with the GorgonsGorgonsportrayed in later folklore as half women-half birds, ( birds sing beautiful, enchanting songs, like the sirens are portrayed to do ); the fact that in Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Portuguese the word for mermaid is respectively Sirena, Sirène, Sirena, Syrena, Sirenă and Sereia, and that in biology the Sirenia comprise an order of fully aquatic mammals that includes the dugong and manatee, add to the visual confusion, so that Sirens are even represented as mermaids.

" So that both bride and groom could understand, Leith minister David Lindsay conducted the ceremony in French, describing Anne as " a Princess both godly and beautiful ... she giveth great contentment to his Majesty.

Belleville ( French, literally " beautiful town ") may refer to:

Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano was killed and said to have been eaten by Carib natives on what is now Guadeloupe ( French West Indies ) in 1528 ( before called " Karukera " by the Amerindian people which means: the island of beautiful waters ), during his third voyage to North America, after exploring Florida, the Bahamas and the Lesser Antilles.

In 1787, French botanist Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville, sent to Mexico to steal the cochineal insect valued for its scarlet dye, reported the strangely beautiful flowers he had seen growing in a garden in Oaxaca.

Together with a young and beautiful French couple, Étienne and Françoise, the trio sets out to find what they believe must be paradise on earth.

: You have gathered around you the rarest plants growing on French soil .... as we inspect them in the beautiful gardens of Malmaison, an impressive reminder of the conquests of your illustrious husband ...

During the Napoleonic Wars, the French conquest of Egypt brought these beautiful and functional swords to the attention of the Europeans.

The French chronicler Jean Froissart called her " the most beautiful woman in all the realm of England, and the most loving.

Made in 1515, it is one of the most beautiful examples of decorative sculpting from the French Renaissance period.

Marguerite St. Just, a beautiful French actress, is the wife of wealthy English fop Sir Percy Blakeney, a baronet.

With its world famous cityscape, deeply-rooted intellectual tradition, prestigious history, beautiful architecture and central situation, the arrondissement has long been home to French intelligentsia.