Another pathfinding entrepreneur in Hackney Wick was the Frenchman, Eugene Serre.

When the withdrawal had been completed, Meyer ordered a Frenchman to guide the Division across the Dives River.

The Meyer was the brainchild of Frenchman Jean-Jacques Meyer ( 1804-1877 ), who took out a patent on the design in 1861.

Braille is named after its creator, Frenchman Louis Braille, who went blind following a childhood accident.

However, the method of Rebecca's execution is presented as proposed by Lucas de Beaumanoir, Grand Master of the Knights Templar – a Frenchman and a fanatic, determined to root out " corruption " from the Templars.

Along the same lines, Ribbentrop told the Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano on 5 May 1939 " It is certain that within a few months not one Frenchman nor a single Englishman will go to war for Poland ".

In 1669, the Frenchman Louis Jolliet was the first documented European to sight Lake Erie, although there is speculation that Étienne Brûlé may have come across it in 1615.

* February 18 – Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay, thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.

* In the book A Great and Terrible Beauty, Pippa accuses Felicity of having a mother who is a courtesan and a consort, and who ran away to France not only to run a salon but to be with her lover, a Frenchman.

Chief Inspector Clouseau is a patriotic Frenchman ; his country is professedly his highest priority.

Determined to win him back, Kate boards a flight to Paris, despite her fear of flying, and is seated next to a crude Frenchman, Luc Teyssier ( Kevin Kline ), whose every word during the seven-hour flight seems to annoy her.

" Although he acknowledged that the film was not without its charms — Paris and Cannes being " two of the most photogenic cities on earth "— Ebert wrote, " Kline's Frenchman is somehow not worldly enough, and Ryan's heroine never convinces us she ever loved her fiance in the first place.

He is credited with designing the city and organizing its amenities and infrastructure, and is considered one of the founding fathers of Odessa, together with another Frenchman, Count Andrault de Langeron, who succeeded him in office.

* 1772: the first diving dress using a compressed-air reservoir is successfully designed and built in 1772 by Sieur ( old French for " sir " or " Mister ") Fréminet, a Frenchman from Paris.

Clemenceau often joked about the " assassin's " bad marksmanship – “ We have just won the most terrible war in history, yet here is a Frenchman who misses his target 6 out of 7 times at point-blank range.

Frenchman Butte is a National Historic Site of Canada, which locates the theatre of the 1885 battle staged between Cree and Canadian troops.

Seedlings from this Afo tree were stolen by a Frenchman named Poivre in 1770, transferred to France, and then later to Zanzibar which is today the world's largest producer of cloves.

For instance, the Frenchman Jean-Pierre Beltoise is driving a BRM in the game, although in fact he drove a Formula 2 Matra ( at that time it was not unknown to see an F2 machine entered in an F1 Grand Prix ) on three occasions in 1967, and never drove a BRM before 1972.

The physical appearance of Superdupont is a superhero version of a caricatural Frenchman ( specially, as seen by the Anglophone world ): he wears a beret, a striped jersey, charentaises, a baguette of bread under the arm, a tricolour belt held by a safety pin, a long blue cape.

It is named for Toussaint Dubois, a Frenchman who fought in the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Tippecanoe and the War of 1812.

Frenchman Lake, Plumas County, California is a nearby recreation area known for its fishing, camping and water sports and is the largest contributor to the economies of Vinton and Chilcoot.

Drained by the Kilkenny Stream and Egypt Stream, Hancock is situated on Skillings River, Taunton Bay and Frenchman Bay, part of the Atlantic Ocean.

Sunrise Manor is an unincorporated town in Clark County, Nevada, United States, located on the western base of Frenchman Mountain, east of Las Vegas.

It is named after Frenchman Andre Rembert.

The rock climbing in the area is one of the areas more popular forms of outdoor recreation and takes place, predominantly, in " Echo Basin " ( often mistaken for " Frenchman Coulee " which is the basin just north of Echo, on the other side of the Old Vantage Hwy ) on the basalt columns typical to the desert rimrock in the area.

In 1979, a young Frenchman, Thierry Sabine, founded an institution when he organised the first " rallye-raid " from Paris to Dakar, in Senegal, the event now called the Dakar Rally.

Forshufvud and Weider suggest that their theory that Napoleon was assassinated by a Frenchman who served on Napoleon's staff during his exile is repugnant to the French people who now honor Napoleon as one of France's great heroes.

Thomas Voeckler finished 3 ' 59 " behind but stayed in yellow ( he has now spent longer in yellow than any Frenchman since 1992 ), Armstrong rose to second in the classement général.

This was tragic for the Frenchman, who was looking certain to take his first victory, but fantastic for the Canadian fans, whose hero Villeneuve now looked set to take his.

In his home race, Prost took pole and won convincingly, while fellow Frenchman Jean Alesi made his debut for the Tyrrell team, replacing Alboreto due to the team now having Camel sponsorship which conflicted with his personal Marlboro sponsorship.

Until 1815, de Boigne was now considered a Frenchman like any other.

Although respectful of Gounod, Verdi was careful not to learn anything from the Frenchman whom many of Verdi's contemporaries regarded as the greatest living composer.

It has been written that, " Frenchman took pride in their habit of singing and regarded it as one source of their success.

When his father returned to Assisi, he took to calling him Francesco (" the Frenchman "), possibly in honour of his commercial success and enthusiasm for all things French .< ref name =" Chesterton ">

My father thought of himself first and foremost as a Frenchman, and spent a few weeks every year with the elder children at Chambord, his main property on the Loire.

He fell from favour when the Frenchman Esmé Stewart, Sieur d ' Aubigny, first cousin of James's father Lord Darnley, and future Earl of Lennox, arrived in Scotland and quickly established himself as the first of James's powerful male favourites.

His father ( a Frenchman ) was a well known amateur violinist of that city, and took a great interest in musical affairs.

According to Guizot, her father had not wished her to marry a Frenchman, being more friendly to England ; he was persuaded to agree to the marriage by his mother, Margaret of France.

On his way to Irkutsk, Strogoff meets Nadia Fedor, daughter of an exiled political prisoner, Basil Fedor, who has been granted permission to join her father at his exile in Irkutsk, the English war correspondent Harry Blount of the Daily Telegraph and Alcide Jolivet, a Frenchman reporting for his ' cousin Madeleine '.

She meets Darnay, the young Frenchman, on the voyage home with her father.

* Las Vegas High School and Eldorado play for the unofficial Battle of Frenchman Mountain game since 1993, when the new campus for Las Vegas High was built.