Both books were translated and released by French publisher Jeux Descartes in 1994 and 1995.

As of 2012, it is owned by Atari Interactive, a subsidiary of the French publisher Atari, SA ( ASA ).

* 1874 – François Coty, French perfume manufacturer and newspaper publisher, founder of the fascist league Solidarité Française ( d. 1934 )

* 1800 – Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher ( d. 1864 )

* 1910 – Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher ( d. 1980 )

* October 24 – Jacques Paul Migne, French priest, theologian, and publisher ( b. 1800 )

* June 20 – Jules de Goncourt, French writer and publisher ( b. 1830 )

* March 17 – Pierre-Jules Hetzel, French editor and publisher ( b. 1814 )

* May 5 – Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher ( d. 1864 )

** Claude Garamond, French publisher ( b. 1480 )

** Claude Garamond, French publisher ( d. 1561 )

Turning the wordy French play into a succinct Italian opera took four years, during which the composer repeatedly argued with his librettists and publisher.

In February 1955, Story of O won the French literature prize Prix des Deux Magots, although this did not prevent the French authorities from bringing obscenity charges against the publisher.

The second was to find a publisher, and as a result Folie et déraison would be published in French in May 1961 by the company Plon.

Although Hofstadter claims the idea of translating his book " never crossed mind " when he was writing it, when approached with the idea by his publisher he was " very excited about seeing book in other languages, especially … French ".

Essentially she writes in French and subsequently self-translates into English but Plainsong ( 1993 ) was written first in English and then self-translated to French as Cantique des plaines ( 1993 )-it was, however, the French version which first found a publisher.

While in Paris, Hans's animal drawings came to the attention of French publisher, who commissioned him to write a children's book.

The intense political and judicial scandal that ensued divided French society between those who supported Dreyfus ( the Dreyfusards ), such as Anatole France, Henri Poincaré and Georges Clemenceau, and those who condemned him ( the anti-Dreyfusards ), such as Hubert-Joseph Henry and Edouard Drumont, the director and publisher of the anti-semitic newspaper La Libre Parole.

* Olympia Press, a French publisher

* Focus Home Interactive, a French publisher of computer games

But the French courts ordered that all 8, 000 copies of the book be confiscated and destroyed after his publisher claimed that Bokassa said that he shared women with President Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing, who has been a frequent guest in the Central African Republic.

The community received its name, McLean, from John Roll McLean, the former publisher and owner of The Washington Post, who, with Stephen Benton Elkins and French aristocrat Jean-Pierre Guenard, built in 1906 the electrified Great Falls and Old Dominion Railway ( later the Washington and Old Dominion Railway ), which connected the area with Washington, D. C. McLean named a railroad station after himself where the rail line ( traveling on the present route of Old Dominion Drive ) crossed the old Chain Bridge Road.

* 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.

The Spanish Empire claimed the islands by discovery in the early 16th century, but never settled them, and subsequent years saw the English, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Danish all jostling for control of the region, which became a notorious haunt for pirates.

*" Exit Through The Gift Shop " ( 2010 ) is a documentary produced by the notorious artist Banksy tells the story of Thierry Guetta, a French immigrant in Los Angeles, and his obsession with street art.

* April 26 – A general amnesty signed by Napoleon Bonaparte allows all but about 1, 000 of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture to make peace with the various factions of the Ancien Regime that ultimately consolidates his own rule.

* Odette Swann from Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is a courtesan of the French Belle Epoque, she gains a notorious reputation from cavorting with Aristocrats, artists, Bourgeois, and both sexes.

In 1905, the notorious and tragic Dutch dancer Mata Hari, later shot as a spy by the French authorities during World War I, was an overnight success from the debut of her act at the Musée Guimet.

Her new husband was notorious for the patronage he lavished on his favourite, Piers Gaveston, but the queen supported Edward during these early years, forming a working relationship with Piers and using her relationship with the French monarchy to bolster her own authority and power.

At the north end of the bay is the village of Buena Ventura adjacent to Playa Larga ( Long Beach ), and 35 kilometers southeast of that is Playa Girón ( Giron beach ) at the village of Girón, named after the notorious French pirate Gilberto Giron ( c. 1604 ).

The OAS became notorious for stroungas, attacks using plastic explosives ( stroungas comes from the Italian stroncare, to rip down ; many pied-noirs were of southern Italian descent which influenced local French ).

During the Hundred Years ' War, French forces committed a notorious massacre of English archers stationed at the town's garrison, in which many of the French townsfolk were themselves raped and killed.

Kourou was formerly the home of the " Kourou Prison " which was one of the main prisons in French Guiana, and which was also a part of the notorious Devil's Island Prison System.

Willow roots grow widespread and are very aggressive in seeking out moisture ; for this reason, they can become problematic when planted in residential areas, where the roots are notorious for clogging French drains, drainage systems, weeping tiles, septic systems, storm drains, and sewer systems, particularly older, tile, concrete, or ceramic pipes.

" One particularly notorious incident was the burning of Hoosick, outside Brunswick, by the French in August 1754.

Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac ( 10 September 1755 – 13 January 1841 ) was a French politician and journalist, one of the most notorious members of the National Convention during the French Revolution.

Stunts such as withdrawing the Irish Army's band from playing at diplomatic functions which the Governor-General attended, or in one notorious case the sight of O ' Kelly and Defence Minister Frank Aiken storming out of a diplomatic function at the French Legation when McNeill, the guest of honour, had arrived, damaged O ' Kelly's reputation and image, particularly when the campaign backfired.

However McNeill's tact was not reciprocated by de Valera's government, some of whose ministers sought to humiliate McNeill as the King's representative, by withdrawing the Irish Army's band from playing at functions he attended, demanded he withdraw invitations to visitors to meet him and in one notorious incident, two ministers, Seán T. O ' Kelly and Frank Aiken publicly stormed out of a diplomatic function when McNeill, there as the guest of the French ambassador, arrived.

The island was a part of the notorious French penal colony of French Guiana for 101 years, from 1852 to 1953.

The company's last race win was a four-cylinder at the 1908 Tourist Trophy under an alias, Hutton, to preserve the reputation of the sixes, in the hands of Willy Watson, while at the French Grand Prix, officials showed the perverse reasoning for which they became notorious, claiming removable wire wheels were an unfair advantage.

Saint-Malo became notorious as the home of the corsairs, French privateers and sometimes pirates.

Lafargue's opposition to Anarchism became notorious when, after his return to France, he wrote several articles attacking the Bakuninist tendencies that were very influential in some French workers ' groups ; this series of articles marked the start of a long career as a political journalist.

* probable-Jacques Chausson, French writer involved in a notorious criminal case ( died 1661 )

According to Stanley Weintraub, " The color of The Yellow Book was an appropriate reflection of the ' Yellow Nineties ," a decade in which Victorianism was giving way among the fashionable to Regency attitudes and French influences ; For yellow was not only the decor of the notorious and dandified pre-Victorian Regency, but also of the allegedly wicked and decadent French novel.