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.

There was only one hitch: the small town of Kehl, on the other side of the Rhine, was still under French jurisdiction.

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.

Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;

He dabbled in verse, could get along well among most of the European languages, and was fluent in French and German.

Greek phone service is worse than French, so that it was to be some little time before contact of any sort was established.

The great spectacle was a source of rancor, and Son et Lumiere, which the French were trying to promote with the Athenians, was the reason.

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.

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 was unable to send any more help to his allies on the Continent, and during the next few years many of them, left to resist French pressure unaided, surrendered to the inevitable and made their peace with Philip.

In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.

The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;

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.

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

The Indochina struggle was a war to stay out of in 1954, when Gen. Ridgway estimated it would take a minimum of 10 to 15 divisions at the outset to win a war the French were losing.

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

Socialist leaders in Milwaukee recognized her worth, not only because of her dedication but because of her fluency in German, French, and Luxemburg.

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

In an anonymous interview with a French newspaper the financier told of spending several months with her.

She closed her eyes, remembering the small French cemetery, enclosed by stone walls.

Renan's head was turned away from the building, while Athena, beside him, was depicted raising her arm, which was interpreted as indicating a challenge to the church during an anti-clerical phase in French official culture.

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.

Her father, Joaquín Nin, was a Cuban pianist and composer, when he met her mother Rosa Culmell, who was a classically trained singer in Cuba of French and Danish descent.

After being in America for several years, Nin had forgotten how to speak Spanish, but retained her French and became fluent in English.

The reality is that Micheline Musseli Pozzo di Borgo, a French aristocrat who at 20 was France's youngest lawyer ever, brought considerable wealth to her marriage to Lerner and lost most of it through him, including nearly $ 600, 000 from the sale of her Parisian apartment, which Lerner placed in investments that either failed or were looted by him during periods of financial desperation.

( Musseli told friends she had not wanted to sell her home, but that Lerner urged her to cut her ties with her native city and that she entrusted Lerner with the proceeds of the sale, for investment in the U. S .) The daughter of a World War One French war hero and herself an unsung heroine of the Resistance, whose Corsican forebears were intimates of Napoleon Bonaparte, she later made Lerner the gift of a chateau in France after he declared to her that he wanted a French rural retreat where he could write.

For this comment, a French court fined her 30, 000 francs in June 2000.

In her own defence, Bardot wrote in a letter to a French gay magazine: " Apart from my husband — who maybe will cross over one day as well — I am entirely surrounded by homos.

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.

* 2007 – Conventional-Train World Speed Record: a French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.

* AZ ( label ), a French record label

In France, Claude François who re-invented himself as the king of French disco, released " La plus belle chose du monde ", a French version of the Bee Gees hit record, " Massachusetts ", which became a big hit in Canada and Europe and " Alexandrie Alexandra " was posthumously released on the day of his burial and became a worldwide hit.

Several French colonial towns of the Illinois Country, such as Kaskaskia, Cahokia and St. Philippe, Illinois were flooded and abandoned in the late 19th century, with a loss to the cultural record of their archeology.

* 1863 – Charles Pathé, French pioneer of film and record industries ( d. 1957 )

In 185 battles that France had fought over the past 800 years, their armies had won 132 times, lost 43 times and drawn only 10, giving the French military the best record of any country in Europe ".

The middle series ( plates 48 to 64 ) record the effects of the famine that hit Madrid in 1811 – 12, before the city was liberated from the French.

French Stéphane Mifsud holds the record for Static Apnea at 11 minutes and 35 seconds ( June 2009 ).

A French TGV holds the world speed record for the fastest wheeled train, having reached on 3 April 2007.

The Seawind, Perry, Lightwave production catamarans from Australia, The largest manufacturer of large multihulls is Fontaine-Pajot in France ( the much larger French trimarans of the ORMA racing circuit and round the world record attempts are included in this total ).

Swiss importers added a little artisanal circuit, with specific IC, for France L norm, tuner became multistandard, but VCR record French broadcasts, on air, in MESECAM, the tapes are played in black and white on SECAM players, and SECAM tapes played B / W in these modified tuner VCR.

Versailles was again the political center of France, full of buzz and rumors, with its population briefly peaking at 61, 686 in 1872, matching the record level of population reached on the eve of the French Revolution 83 years earlier.

Upon repair, rigid airship technology proved its potential in subsequent flights ( the second and third flights were on 17 October 1900 and 24 October 1900 ) beating the 6 m / s velocity record of the French airship La France by 3 m / s.

** Alain Mosconi, French swimmer, Olympic medalist and previous world record holder

** Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, French musician and record producer ( Daft Punk )

Marin followed the route that Céloron had mapped out four years earlier, but where Céloron had limited the record of French claims to the burial of lead plates, Marin constructed and garrisoned forts.

* Labels, a French record label created by Virgin Group, now a division of EMI Music France

In 1981, Marceau made her singing debut with French singer François Valéry on record " Dream in Blue ", written by Delanoë.

The task, originally given to Vasco da Gama's father, was finally offered to Vasco by Manuel I on the strength of his record of protecting Portuguese trading stations along the African Gold Coast from depredations by the French.

The Honda powered FW10 holds the race lap record for the original circuit when Mansell's team mate Keke Rosberg recorded a time of 1: 39. 914 during the 1985 French Grand Prix.

A record in worldwide shipping of Champagne ( including domestic French consumption ) of 327 million bottles was set in 1999 in anticipation of end of millennium celebrations, and a new record was set in 2007 at 338. 7 million bottles.

These French newspaper articles were read into the record of the Reichstag and were followed by a vote to increase military spending, all of which worked to the advantage of Zaharoff.