Between November 15, 1999 and January 9, 2000, Halard-Decugis, Nathalie Tauziat, Amélie Mauresmo and Mary Pierce were all ranked inside the singles Top 10, the first time France had four players ranked among the singles Top 10.

In 2000, she reached the third round of the Australian Open and the quarterfinals of the Ericsson Open, beating Julie Halard-Decugis for her first top ten win before losing to Lindsay Davenport.

In her career, she won 6 singles titles and 37 doubles titles, including three Grand Slam women's doubles titles ( 1 with Frenchwoman Julie Halard-Decugis and 2 partnering Belgian Kim Clijsters ).

Halard-Decugis won her first WTA Tour singles title in Puerto Rico.

Halard-Decugis represented her country in the Federation Cup Fed Cup from 1990 to 2000 and in the Olympics Games in 1992 and 2000.

In 1999, she reached the final at the Japan Open, the semifinals in Gold Coast and Tokyo ( Princess Cup ) defeating number 8 Julie Halard-Decugis, the quarterfinals in Strasbourg and Moscow, defeating number 6 Mary Pierce, 3rd in Indian Wells, Montreal, defeating number 7 Jana Novotná and at the US Open.

On July 10 Sugiyama reached the final of the Women's Doubles at Wimbledon, partnered by Julie Halard-Decugis, but lost in straight sets to sisters Venus and Serena Williams 6 – 3 6 – 2 after a one-day rain delay.

Julie Halard-Decugis / Ai Sugiyama def.

Julie Halard-Decugis ( born September 10, 1970 in Versailles, Yvelines ) is a former professional female tennis player.

Halard-Decugis won nine other doubles titles in 2000, five of them with Sugiyama, and became the first Frenchwoman to attain the number one WTA Tour doubles ranking in the Open Era.

The opening sentence of the book created a classic Spanish cliché with the phrase (" whose name I do not wish to recall "): (" In a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to recall, there lived, not very long ago, one of those gentlemen with a lance in the lance-rack, an ancient shield, a skinny old horse, and a fast greyhound.

Until recently, the Preclassic was regarded as a formative period, consisting of small villages of farmers who lived in huts and few permanent buildings, but this notion has been challenged by recent discoveries of monumental architecture from that period, such as an altar in La Blanca, San Marcos, from 1000 BC ; ceremonial sites at Miraflores and El Naranjo from 801 BC ; the earliest monumental masks ; and the Mirador Basin cities of Nakbé, Xulnal, El Tintal, Wakná and El Mirador.

:::< span style =" font-family: Times New Roman ">" In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a galgo for coursing.

He lived in the apartment of Giuditta Bellerio Sidoli, a beautiful Modenese widow who would become his lover, and organized a new political society called La giovine Italia ( Young Italy ).

He is said to have had many affairs, but a permanent fixture in his life in Rome was " La Fornarina ", Margherita Luti, the daughter of a baker ( fornaro ) named Francesco Luti from Siena who lived at Via del Governo Vecchio.

* Pierre Deval ( 1897 – 1993 ), a French modernist and figurist painter, lived and worked at the Domaine d ' Orvès in La Valette-du-Var from 1925 until his death in 1993.

Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (; ; 18 January 168910 February 1755 ), generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French social commentator and political thinker who lived during the Enlightenment.

For a time, he and his friends lived at La Ruche, a residence for struggling artists in Montparnasse where he became friends with Amedeo Modigliani ( 1884 – 1920 ).

The Duc de La Feuillade's son sold the château to Louis XIV's mistress, Madame de Montespan who lived there for the rest of her life.

He lived in Buenos Aires in 1885, where he resumed publication of La Questione Sociale, and was involved in the founding of the first militant workers ' union in Argentina, the Bakers Union, and left an anarchist impression in the workers ' movements there for years to come.

They lived at La Balize with their families.

Agua Fria and Agua Frians have lived in the shadow of the capital city, La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asís for over three hundred years.

There were other Europeans, mainly French and Irish emigrants, already established at La Petite Chute, now also known by its semi-anglicized name of “ Little Chute .” A few Native Americans still lived in the area.

One of his earliest TV breaks was presenting La Triviatta, a comedy / chat show about trivia for the short lived British Satellite Broadcasting station.

He loved retirement and lived at his country residences, including La Bermondière ( Maine ), where he had a serious fall from a horse, which led to his death.

The festivities are known as La Simpélourd – from the contraction of two French words meaning simple and heavy – after a cuckold who lived in Soignies more than 200 years ago.

Dr. Patrick Hunout, the founder of The Social Capital Foundation, has long lived in La Hulpe.

In 2003, some 19, 580 people lived on La Gomera.

They were sometimes called the Tenerife Goldcrest, no matter which of the islands they lived on ; however, a 2006 study of the vocalisations of these birds indicate that they actually comprise two subspecies of the Goldcrest that are separable on voice ; R. r. teneriffae occurring on Tenerife and the newly described subspecies, R. r. ellenthalerae, occurring on the smaller islands of La Palma and El Hierro.

Hamilton lived there in America ( in La Jolla to be exact ) for ten years under the new identity, keeping his body in shape and getting psychologial help.

* Belle Case La Follette lived with her family near Baraboo.

* In 2012, the Documentary Life does not lose its value ( Original title, Italian language, La vita non perde valore, Bluindaco Productions © 2012 ), focuses on the reintegration, lead by Father Giuseppe Berton, of former child soldiers, after they lived for years in the forest, together with the rebels of the RUF, Revolutionary United Front.

Popular musician Stephen Jerzak also lived and previously attended both public high schools ( Central and Logan ) in La Crosse, although he has since moved out to California.

It is also known as “ La Econdida ” ( The Hidden One ), where Mexican actress Dolores del Río lived.

At first, Trotsky and his wife lived in the La Casa Azul with Frida, but after a falling out with Diego Rivera, the couple moved to this house on Viena Street in 1938.

He lived mostly in France, where he married Matilda, the heiress of Boulogne, in 1238, thereby becoming Count of Boulogne.

In 1939 Grothendieck went to France and lived in various camps for displaced persons with his mother, first at the Camp de Rieucros, and subsequently lived for the remainder of the war in the village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, where he was sheltered and hidden in local boarding-houses or pensions.

Expelled from France Marie joined her mother in Brussels before eloping with a renegade priest to Geneva, with whom she lived unhappily until her premature death in 1705.

Galois lived during a time of political turmoil in France.

Parsons moved to France, where he lived for a short period at Villa Nellcôte with his friend Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones.

From 1968 to 1986 Henri Chopin lived in Ingatestone, Essex, but with the death of his wife Jean in 1985, he moved back to France.

In 1990 France, led by François Mitterrand, joined the short lived Gulf War against Iraq, the French participation to this war would be called the Opération Daguet.

José Victoriano ( Carmelo Carlos ) González-Pérez ( March 23, 1887 – May 11, 1927 ), better known as Juan Gris (), was a Spanish painter and sculptor who lived and worked in France most of his life.

They lived in an isolated patch of eastern France that remained loyal to the French crown despite being surrounded by Burgundian lands.

Fluent in both French and English, young Ribbentrop lived at various times in Grenoble, France, and London, before travelling to Canada in 1910.

She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists.

Messier lived and did his astronomical work at the Hotel de Cluny, in France in the Earth's northern hemisphere.

A second attempt at flight, on 23 December, was successful ; William deliberately allowed James to escape to France where he lived in exile until his death.

As such, between 1309 and 1378, the popes lived in Avignon, France ( see Avignon Papacy ), a period often called the Babylonian Captivity in allusion to the Biblical exile of Israel.

Speaking only langue d ' oïl and langue d ' oc and spending very little time in England ( he lived in his Duchy of Aquitaine in the southwest of France, preferring to use his kingdom as a source of revenue to support his armies ), he was seen as a pious hero by his subjects.

alt = Memorial plaque on the Champs-Élysées, Paris, France, marking where Jefferson lived while U. S. Minister to France.

Saint Veronica was mentioned in the reported visions of Jesus by Sister Marie of St Peter, a Carmelite nun who lived in Tours, France, and started the devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus.

Victor of Aveyron ( also The Wild Boy of Aveyron ) was a feral child who apparently lived his entire childhood naked and alone in the woods before being found wandering the woods near Saint-Sernin-sur-Rance, France, in 1797.

He then moved to France where he lived the rest of his life, became a French citizen in 1939, and produced some of his most prominent art.

* Hugh Capet ( lived 938 – 996 ), first Capetian King of France

* July 8 – Louis XVIII returns to Paris, and is ' restored ' as King of France ( he had declared himself king on 8 June 1795, at the death of his nephew, 10-year-old Louis XVII, and had lived in Westphalia, Verona, Russia, and England ).

While Catholic tradition says she later traveled to France and lived out her days there in penance.

His " Anatolian Hypothesis " posited that this group lived 2, 000 years before the Kurgans, in Anatolia, later diffusing to Greece, then Italy, Sicily, Corsica, the Mediterranean coast of France, Spain, and Portugal.