The name presumably derives from the French royal house which never learned and never forgot ; ;

The Irish accent is, as one would expect, combined with slight inflections from the French.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

The waspish man stopped me three paces from the bicycle barricade, and asked me in French if I had papers to leave France.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

There is a fairly wide selection of models of English, German and French manufacture from which you can choose from the very small Austin 7, Citroen 2 CV, Volkswagens, Renaults to the 6-passenger Simca Beaulieu.

Eight or ten years ago, a couple of French hoods stole a priceless Khmer head from the Musee Guimet, in Paris, and a week later crawled into the Salpetriere with unmistakable symptoms of leprosy.

The Ifni crisis in the fall of 1957 postponed further consideration of elections, but French consultants were called in and notices of further investigation appeared from time to time.

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

British traders from South Carolina incited the Indians against the French, and there developed French and British Factions in the tribe.

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

They threatened constantly to give the British a hold on this region, from whence they could move easily down the rivers to the French settlements near the Gulf.

This was a slow and difficult course, and French trade suffered from the many mistakes of the new group of traders.

There was even a cable in French from a bank in Switzerland that had somehow learned about the Dallas stock offering.

Ideally, the President would like the French to agree on a `` status quo ante '' on Bizerte, and accept a new timetable for withdrawing their forces from the Mediterranean base.

Do you say chantey, as if the word were derived from the French word chanter, to sing, or do you say shanty and think of a roughly built cabin, which derives its name from the French-Canadian use of the word chantier, with one of its meanings given as a boat-yard??

there had been lessons in French from a small Polish nobleman with a really profound distaste for his pupils ; ;

International Atomic Time ( TAI, from the French name Temps atomique international ) is a high-precision atomic coordinate time standard based on the notional passage of proper time on Earth's geoid.

( This contrasted with Malinowski's functionalism, and was quite different from the later French structuralism, which examined the conceptual structures in language and symbolism.

Levant is derived from the French verb lever meaning " to rise " indicating that part of the world where the sun rises.

The al-prefix was probably added through confusion with another legal term, allegeance, an " allegation " ( the French allegeance comes from the English ).

Allegiance is formed from " liege ," from Old French liege, " liege, free ", of Germanic origin.

Some of the French dialects spoken in the French and Swiss Alps derive from Old Provençal ; the German dialects derive from Germanic tribal languages.

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.

The word clarinet may have entered the English language via the French clarinette ( the feminine diminutive of Old French clarin or clarion ), or from Provençal clarin, " oboe ".

The word flute first entered the English language during the Middle English period, as floute ,, or else flowte, flo ( y ) te, possibly from Old French flaute and from Old Provençal flaüt, or else from Old French fleüte, flaüte, flahute via Middle High German floite or Danish fluit.

The word graal, as it is earliest spelled, comes from Old French graal or greal, cognate with Old Provençal grazal and Old Catalan gresal, meaning " a cup or bowl of earth, wood, or metal " ( or other various types of vessels in Southern French dialects ).

Fiammetta's tale most likely originates from a French fabliau or a possibly Provençal romance, both of which were recorded not too long before the Decameron was written.

Grasse (; Provençal Occitan: Grassa in classical norm ( and Italian ) or Grasso in Mistralian norm ) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department ( of which it is a sub-prefecture ), on the French Riviera.

Provençal was widely spoken in Provence until the beginning of the 20th century, when the French government launched an intensive and largely successful effort to replace regional languages with French.

Like most of France's regional languages ( such as Breton, Provençal and Alsatian ) Lorraine Franconian was largely replaced by French with the advent of mandatory public schooling in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Toulon (; Provençal Occitan: Tolon in classical norm or Touloun in Mistralian norm ) is a town in southern France and a large military harbor on the Mediterranean coast, with a major French naval base.

Diez, in his flagship work on the topic, Grammatik der romanischen Sprachen, first published in 1836 – 1843 and multiple times thereafter, after enumerating six Romance languages that he compared: Italian and Wallachian ( i. e. Romanian ) ( east ); Spanish and Portuguese ( southwest ); and Provençal and French ( northwest ), asserts that they had their origin in Latin, but nicht aus dem classischen Latein, " not from classical Latin ," rather aus der römischen Volkssprache oder Volksmundart, " from the Roman popular language or popular dialect ".

Some claim that the word " cash " comes from the modern French word caisse, which means ( money ) box, from the Provençal word caissa, from the Italian cassa, from the Latin capsa all meaning box.

In northern European languages that have been less influenced by French, the plants ' name usually derives from esparceto, the Provençal term for the similar-looking and closely related sweetvetches ( Hedysarum ).

Even though the term " courtly love " does appear only in just one extant Provençal poem ( as cortez amors in a late 12th century lyric by Peire d ' Alvernhe ), it is closely related to the term fin ' amor (" fine love ") which does appear frequently in Provençal and French, as well as German translated as hohe Minne.

Courtly love was born in the lyric, first appearing with Provençal poets in the 11th century, including itinerant and courtly minstrels such as the French troubadours and trouvères.

The English and French name pétanque comes from petanca in the Provençal dialect of the Occitan language, deriving from the expression pès tancats, meaning " feet together " or more exactly " feet anchored ".

The pieces are mostly bawdy, irreverent, and satirical ; they were written principally in Medieval Latin ; a few in Middle High German, and some with traces of Old French or Provençal.

* Throop, Palmer A., " Criticism of Papal Crusade Policy in Old French and Provençal.

The French word was derived from marche (" frontier "), itself descended from the Middle Latin marca (" frontier "), from which the modern English words " march " and " mark " also descend.