The house is renowned for its gardens — Isaac de Caus began a project to landscape them in 1632, laying out one of the first French parterres seen in England.

The design was richly patterned on the ground, with parterres en broderie in the French baroque taste, contrasts of sun and shade, and many slight changes of level to enliven the essentially flat site.

A French garden or Garden à la française, is a specific kind of formal garden, laid out in the manner of André Le Nôtre ; it is centered on the façade of a building, with radiating avenues and paths of gravel, lawns, parterres and pools ( bassins ) of reflective water enclosed in geometric shapes by stone coping, with fountains and sculpture.

A nineteenth century French art style and movement that originated as a reaction to the Baroque.

Physiocracy was a French agrarianist philosophy that originated in the 18th century.

The great innovations in dance in the 17th century originated at the French court under Louis XIV, and it is here that we see the first clear stylistic ancestor of classical ballet.

The word " Emerald " is derived ( via Old French: Esmeraude and Middle English: Emeraude ), from Vulgar Latin: Esmaralda / Esmaraldus, a variant of Latin Smaragdus, which originated in Greek: σμάραγδος ( smaragdos ; " green gem "); its original source being either the Sanskrit word मरकत marakata meaning " emerald " or the Semitic word baraq ( ב ָּ ר ָ ק ; الب ُ راق ; " lightning " or " shine ") ( cf.

Modern fencing originated in the 18th century, in the Italian school of fencing of the Renaissance, and, under their influence, was improved by the French school of fencing.

The English term fugue originated in the 16th century and is derived from the French word fugue or the Italian fuga.

They were of mostly English descent ; Roosevelt's great-grandfather, James Roosevelt, was of Dutch ancestry, and his mother's maiden name, Delano, originated with a French Huguenot immigrant of the 17th century .< ref >

The term " frigate " ( Italian: fregata ; Spanish / Catalan / Portuguese / Sicilian: fragata ; Dutch: fregat ; French: fregate ) originated in the Mediterranean in the late 15th century, referring to a lighter galleass type ship with oars, sails and a light armament, built for speed and maneuverability.

It is most commonly believed that the term grimoire originated from the Old French word grammaire, which had initially been used to refer to all books written in Latin.

This system, known as the corvée, originated in the unpaid labor that French peasants provided to their feudal lords.

Another historic part filled by Amyraut was in the negotiations originated by Pierre le Gouz de la Berchère ( 1600 – 1653 ), first president of the parlement of Grenoble, when exiled to Saumur, for a reconciliation and reunion of the Catholics of France with the French Protestants.

Raï (), which is the Arabic word for " opinion ", is a form of folk music, originated in Oran, Algeria from Bedouin shepherds, mixed with Spanish, French, African and Arabic musical forms, which dates back to the 1930s and has been primarily evolved by women in the culture.

The terms Right and Left refer to political affiliations which originated early in the French Revolutionary era of 1789 – 1796, and referred originally to the seating arrangements in the various legislative bodies of France.

The word scorpion is thought to have originated in Middle English between 1175 and 1225 AD from Old French, or from Italian, both derived from the Latin word, which in turn has its roots in the Greek word –.

Triage originated in World War I by French doctors treating the battlefield wounded at the aid stations behind the front.

Customs originated in the onetime French colonial capitals of Mobile ( now in Alabama ), New Orleans ( Louisiana ) and Biloxi ( Mississippi ), all of which have been celebrated for many years with street parades and masked balls.

So, while the name or spelling Shiraz may be an effect of the English language on a French name, there is no evidence that it actually originated in Australia, although it was definitely the Australian usage and the Australian wines that made the use of this name popular.

In a letter to Haig, Robertson called Lloyd George " an awful liar " who lacked the " honesty and truth " to be Prime Minister, claiming he had misled the Cabinet in his claim that the French had originated the proposal.

The French word was derived from the Spanish embarazar, whose first recorded usage was in 1460 in Cancionero de Stúñiga ( Songbook of Stúñiga ) by Álvaro de Luna .< sup > 7 </ sup > The Spanish word likely comes from the Portuguese embaraçar, which probably is a combination of the prefix em-( from Latin in-for " in -") with baraça " a noose ", or " rope ", which makes sense with the synonym encinta (" on noose, on rope " because of the old usage of women to wear a strap of cloth on their dresses when pregnant ).< sup > 8 </ sup > Baraça originated before the Romans began their conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in 218 BCE .< sup > 9 </ sup > Thus, baraça could be related to the Celtic word barr, " tuft ".

World's fairs originated in the French tradition of national exhibitions, a tradition that culminated with the French Industrial Exposition of 1844 held in Paris.

Several accounts, based on remarks written by the gem's first known owner, French gem merchant Jean Baptiste Tavernier, suggest the gemstone originated in India, in the Kollur mine in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh ( which at the time had been part of the Golconda kingdom ), in the seventeenth century.

The cloture procedure originated in the French National Assembly, from which the name is taken.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word pilcrow " apparently " originated in English as an unattested version of the French pelagraphe, a corruption of paragraph ; the earliest reference is c. 1440.

The text, which probably originated in the 18th century, became extremely popular as an expression of the anti-monarchist sentiment of the French Revolution.

From a 15th-century illustrated French translation of Boccacio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium.

Supported and encouraged by important royal French and English patrons, she influenced 15th-century English poetry.

From a 15th-century French manuscript.

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The furniture consists of three 15th-century French credence tables and a 16th-century Italian cabinet, exceptional with its mother-of-pearl and fountain-pen engraved ivory incrustations, a wedding present offered to Francis II and Mary, Queen of Scots.

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There are 15th-century English recipes for " pain perdu " ( French for " lost wasted bread ", suggesting that the dish is a use for bread which has gone stale ).

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The band also frequently uses songs from the Carmina Burana, a medieval collection of songs, as well as lyrics written as poetry by the 15th-century French poet François Villon ( Rotes Haar, engl.

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Broadway star Dennis King reprised his role as 15th-century French poet François Villon and MacDonald was Princess Katherine.

Cuirassiers (, from French cuirassier, ) were mounted cavalry soldiers equipped with armour and firearms, first appearing in late 15th-century Europe.

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Little is known of his life, but it is certain that he was in Italy before 1447, where he executed a portrait of Pope Eugene IV who died in that year ( now surviving only in much later copies ), and that upon his return to France, while retaining his purely French sentiment, he grafted the elements of the Tuscan style, which he had acquired during his period in Italy, upon the style of the Van Eycks, which was the basis of early 15th-century French art, and thus became the founder of an important new school.

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Sir Galahad sits at the Siege Perilous, 15th-century French manuscript.

This tomb, in Carrara marble, made by Girolamo da Fiesole, in the Italian style, and whose recumbent statues are reminiscent of 15th-century French medieval tradition ( school of Michel Colombe ), was kept since 1506 in Saint-Martin de Tours before being moved in 1834 to Saint-Gatien.