" She attended the Misses Lyman School and was just an average student, though she did well in French and Natural History.

While a young student, he developed an early appreciation of the French art masters.

The details of Gerbert's armillary sphere are revealed in letters from Gerbert to his former student and monk Remi of Trèves, his colleague Constantine, the abbot of Micy, as well as the accounts of his former student and French nobleman Richer, who served as a monk in Rheims.

In a much more detailed account, Edward Daniel Clarke stated that a French " officer and member of the Institute " had taken him, his student John Cripps, and Hamilton secretly into the back streets behind Menou's residence and revealed the stone hidden under protective carpets among Menou's baggage.

Telescopium is a minor southern constellation created in the 18th century by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, a French astronomer and student of the southern skies.

The tempera medium was used by American artists such as the Regionalists Andrew Wyeth, Thomas Hart Benton and his student Roger Medearis ; expressionists Ben Shahn, Mitchell Siporin and John Langley Howard, magic realists George Tooker, Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Julia Thecla and Louise E. Marianetti ; Art Students League of New York instructors Kenneth Hayes Miller and William C. Palmer, Social Realists Isabel Bishop, Reginald Marsh, and Noel Rockmore, Edward Laning, Anton Refregier, Jacob Lawrence, Rudolph F. Zallinger, Robert Vickrey, Peter Hurd, and science fiction artist John Schoenherr, notable as the cover artist of Dune.

She was an excellent student, well-schooled in Latin, French, Italian, and somewhat in Greek.

* Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, French sculptor, student of his father

Because French universities are technically institutions for training secondary school teachers, this position gave Durkheim considerable influence — his lectures were the only ones that were mandatory for the entire student body.

She had been a French exchange student at Mount Holyoke College, whom he met in Cambridge.

Sarah's birth records were lost in a fire in 1871, but in order to prove French citizenship, necessary for Légion d ' honneur eligibility, she created false birth records, on which she was the daughter of " Judith van Hard " and " Edouard Bernardt " from Le Havre, in later stories either a law student, accountant, naval cadet or naval officer.

* René Cassin – French jurist, law professor and judge, former student of Nice's Lycée Massena, he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968

So uncustomary was the French Aesthetic viewpoint that, when Pierrot made an appearance in an eponymous pantomime ( 1893 ) by Alfred Thompson, set to music by the American composer Laura Sedgwick Collins, The New York Times covered it as an event, even though it was only a student production.

As a theology student in his hometown Sinigaglia, in 1814 he met Pope Pius VII, who had returned from French captivity.

When a dark-skinned French student was attacked in Tartu, the head of an association of foreign students claimed that the attack was characteristic of a wave of neo-Nazi violence.

* May 17, 1984: Des Moines, Iowa While students in a French class at Southeast Polk High School were taking a test in the hallway, a 17 year old boy shot and killed a 16 year old female student before firing a single shot into his own head, killing himself.

For example, if a student is introduced to the word deux ( French for two ), then deux is tested every few seconds, then every few minutes, then every few hours, and then every few days.

The diorama was invented in 1822 by Louis Daguerre and Charles-Marie Bouton, the latter a former student of the renowned French painter Jacques-Louis David.

In this case the student takes French immersion until grade nine but may continue throughout their high school education.

1898, he passed the entrance exam and became a student of Qiushi Academy ( currently Zhejiang University ) in Hangzhou, where he studied French, English, and naval architecture.

* Uniform fetish – one participant dresses in uniform ( for instance as a student, cheerleader, French maid, etc.

Having finally decided on a direction in life, Dave later enrolls at the university himself, where he meets a pretty, newly arrived French student.

Foreign student training began at Tyndall in 1943 with French Air Force gunnery students being the first and Chinese students following later that year.

He was interested in botany, especially after his visits to the Jardin du Roi, and he became a student under Bernard de Jussieu, a notable French naturalist.

French author of many whipping / spanking novels: Clotilde et Quelques Autres ( 1935 ), Humiliations chéries ( 1936 ), Pantalons sans défense ( 1938 ), et al.

Clotilde, Princess of Venice and Piedmont ( née Clotilde Marie Pascale Courau 3 April 1969 ) is a French actress, and the wife of Emanuele Filiberto, a member of the House of Savoy and the grandson of the last King of Italy.

Lustiger's search for dialogue with politicians led to the establishment in 1992 of the Centre Pastoral d ' Etudes politiques at St. Clotilde church in the 7th arrondissement, close to the hub of the French establishment.

Past interviews have included German Director Wim Wenders, Spanish actress Paz Vega, and French star Clotilde Hesme.

This happened only two days after Tehran freed Clotilde Reiss, a French student accused of spying by the Islamic regime.

* Princes Square-Designer Shopping Mall includes Scotland's only Belstaff, Vivienne Westwood, Lacoste and Ted Baker, as well as other upmarket brands including L ' Occitane en Provence, Space. NK, Karen Millen, French Connection, Reiss and many more.

Beginning with a yearlong investigation for The New Yorker, Reiss ’ s quest for the truth buffets him from one weird character to the next: from the last heir of the Ottoman throne to a highly educated baroness living in an Austrian castle who was translating the lyrics of a rock opera from German to French, to an aging starlet in a Hollywood bungalow full of cats and turtles.

Reiss is writing a biography of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, the mixed-race son of a Norman marquis and an Haitian slave, who became a swashbuckling swordsman in Paris and then a military hero of the French Revolutionary Wars, remaining the highest-ranking black military figure in a Western army until Gen. Colin Powell 200 years later.

It was at this time that Soviet agents assassinated the former chief of the Soviet intelligence service in Western Europe, Ignace Reiss ; It was later revealed that the Soviet NKVD under Nikolai Yezhov spent 300, 000 French francs to accomplish the wet business.

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.

Sure enough, mail began trickling in, delivered by a talkative, highly amused French postman who informed me there had been quite a debate at the post office as to whether that address would be recognized.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

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.

He cites the French Revolution as typifying this rigidity but makes no mention of the Italians, who have been able to adapt to all types of circumstances.

`` Remember the French railroad baron who was going to take me floating down the Nile ''??

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

`` Do you remember the woman in the French Alps who was all alone with her sheep one day when the sun darkened ominously??

Aging but still precocious, French feline enfant terrible Francoisette Lagoon has succeeded in shocking jaded old Paris again, this time with a sexy ballet scenario called The Lascivious Interlude, the story of a nymphomaniac trip-hammer operator who falls hopelessly in love with a middle-aged steam shovel.

One who needed no such threats was a French financier.

This is important because, despite all the efforts of the French government, an appreciable segment of France's export trade in wines is still tainted with a misrepresentation approaching downright dishonesty, and there are many too many negociants who would rather turn a sou than amass a creditable reputation overseas.

Marcel Griaule and Michel Leiris are examples of people who combined anthropology with the French avant-garde.

The most important French social theorist since Foucault and Lévi-Strauss is Pierre Bourdieu, who trained formally in philosophy and sociology and eventually held the Chair of Sociology at the Collège de France.

He taught French for a year at Eton, where Eric Blair ( later to become George Orwell ) and Stephen Runciman were among his pupils, but was remembered as an incompetent and hopeless teacher who couldn ’ t keep discipline.

In the past, a defendant who refused to plead ( or " stood mute ") was subject to peine forte et dure ( Law French for " strong and hard punishment ").

" American shot " is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, " plan américain " and refers to a medium-long (" knee ") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera.

Many people, however, became members of the French Resistance, and they are the allegorical equivalents of the voluntary sanitary teams in the novel, such as Tarrou, Rambert, and Grand, who fight back against the unspeakable evil ( the Nazi occupiers ).

Poirot also bears a striking resemblance to A. E. W. Mason's fictional detective — Inspector Hanaud of the French Sûreté — who, first appearing in the 1910 novel At the Villa Rose, predates the writing of the first Poirot novel by six years.

Alexis Carrel ( June 28, 1873 – November 5, 1944 ) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques.

André-Marie Ampère ( 20 January 1775 – 10 June 1836 ) was a French physicist and mathematician who is generally regarded as one of the main founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as " electrodynamics ".

According to a 16th century French poem, Dionysus, the god of intoxication, and of wine, was pursuing a maiden named Amethystos, who refused his affections.

* 1513 – Battle of Guinegate ( Battle of the Spurs ) – King Henry VIII of England and his Imperial allies defeat French Forces who are then forced to retreat.

From the ages of 6 to 9, Alexei was educated by his tutor Vyazemsky, but after the removal of his mother by Peter the Great to the Suzdal Intercession Convent, Alexei was confined to the care of educated foreigners, who taught him history, geography, mathematics and French.

* Infante Jaime Luitpold Isabelino Enrique Alberto Alfonso Victor Acacio Pedro Maria of Spain ( 1908 – 1975 ), a deaf-mute as the result of a childhood operation, he renounced his rights to the throne in 1933 and became Duke of Segovia, and later Duke of Madrid, and who, as a legitimist pretender to the French throne from 1941 to 1975, was known as the Duke of Anjou.

Andrew's first mission to the East was when he was asked by the French king Louis IX to go and fetch the Crown of Thorns which had been sold to him by the Latin Emperor of Constantinople Baldwin II in 1238, who was anxious to obtain support for his tottering empire.