Being the highest-ranking officers in the raiding party, both von Brandis and Haupt won the highest German military decoration, Pour le Mérite, for their success in this extraordinary action.

Erwin Rommel, who, as a junior officer, won the Pour le Mérite for his exploits in the battle, often bemoaned the demands placed upon his " poorly fed troops ".

Negri sued for libel a French magazine, Pour Vous, that had circulated the rumor and won the case.

Its first commander was Friedrich von Blumenthal, who died unexpectedly in 1745 ; his brother Hans von Blumenthal, who, with the other officers of the regiment had won the Pour le Mérite in its first action at the battle of Hohenfriedberg, assumed command in 1747.

Three of its members won the Pour le Mérite ( Blue Max ), one became a field-marshal and six became generals, besides numerous family members who were regimental colonels.

Hans won the Pour le Mérite at Hohenfriedberg.

* Georg ( IV ) ( b. at Quackenburg, Pomerania in 1722, d. 1784 ) won the Pour le Mérite at the Battle of Prague.

Tabor won the Derby again, with Pour Moi in 2011 and with Camelot in 2012, the year that horse also took the 2, 000 Guineas and the Irish Derby at the Curragh, though he missed out on the Triple Crown by finishing second in the St Leger.

In 2000, Encore une fois, si vous le permettez ( For The Pleasure of Seeing Her Again ) won a Chalmers Award and a Dora Mavor Moore Award.

* Quinze et le Va ( Fifteen and it goes )-When the punter having won a sept, & c., bends the third corner of the card, and ventures for 15 times his stake.

In 1888 she won the Prix Bordin of the French Academy of Science, for her work on the question: " Mémoire sur un cas particulier du problème de le rotation d ' un corps pesant autour d ' un point fixe, où l ' intégration s ' effectue à l ' aide des fonctions ultraelliptiques du temps ".

The latter cast also won a Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution, at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival ( Halle Berry won Best Actress at Berlin in 2002 ).. She won the Best Actress award at the Montréal World Film Festival ( in 2002 for Merci pour le chocolat ), at the Moscow International Film Festival ( in 1991 for Madame Bovary ), at the Deutscher Filmpreis ( in 1991 for Malina ) and twice at the David di Donatello ( in 1978 for La Dentellière and in 2001 for The Piano Teacher ).

In 1773, Necker won the prize of the Académie Française for a defense of state corporatism framed as a eulogy of Louis XIV's minister, Colbert ; in 1775, he published his Essai sur la législation et le commerce des grains, in which he attacked the free-trade policy of Turgot.

He directed Gérard Depardieu in three films, including Sous le soleil de Satan ( Under the Sun of Satan ), for which Pialat won the Palme d ' Or at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.

Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier of Denmark took the silver medal, and another Belgian who was not in the team event, Philippe le Hardy de Beaulieu, won the bronze medal.

The film was honored with le Prix très spécial à Cannes 1994, the very same year that Pulp Fiction won the Palme d ' Or.

Elected to the National Assembly of Quebec, Jean Lesage's Liberal Party won the 1960 Quebec general election, campaigning with the slogan of C ’ est le temps que ça change ( It ’ s time things changed ) and putting an end to the long reign of the Union nationale that had governed Quebec under Maurice Duplessis since 1935 ( except for the period from 1940 to 1944 ).

He visited an exhibition of works by Vincent van Gogh which resulted in a study Van Gogh le suicidé de la société Gogh, The Man Suicided by Society, published by K éditeur, Paris, 1947 which won a critics ' prize.

His gaiety and kindness won him, even more frequently, another name bestowed by his contemporaries, le bon chevalier.

But Romania won with a wonderful late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club mate Graeme le Saux and nutmegging goalkeeper David Seaman.

In 1790 and 91, the six volumes of a Devil on Two Sticks in England won for Combe the title of " the English le Sage ".

* Raimondo Todaro won his first championship in the Italian version of Dancing with the Stars called Ballando con le stelle with the former Miss Italy and television hostess, Cristina Chiabotto, during the second season of the show.

Raimondo Todaro won his first championship in the Italian version of Dancing with the Stars called Ballando con le stelle with the former Miss Italy and television hostess Cristina Chiabotto during the second season of the show.

Known as ' The Wall ', ' le Grinder ' or ' The Cat ', Ferrer has won many matches through consistent baseline play along with great fitness, footspeed and determination.

Zep joined Glénat in 1992, and first Titeuf book Dieu, le sexe et les bretelles ( God, Sex And Suspenders ) appeared in 1993 and sold only a few thousand copies, but the following books have gradually won over a huge readership, outselling traditional French favorites such as Astérix and Lucky Luke.

The Belgian policeman who came to his car said ," Vous avez gagné le Tour des Flandres en nonante-deux "-You won the Ronde van Vlaanderen in ' 92-and let him drive on.

He is a Chevalier of the Légion d ' honneur, Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite and has twice won the César Award for Best Actor.

The other five players were from West Germany's squad of 1966 – 1974, and this record is closely followed by a select group of players who have won two of the awards ( either Gold and Silver or Gold and Bronze, or Silver and Bronze ).

In 2005, the PDS, renamed The Left Party. PDS ( Die Linkspartei. PDS ), entered an electoral alliance with the western Germany-based Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative ( WASG ) and won 8. 7 % of the vote in Germany's September 2005 federal elections ( more than double the 4 % share achieved by the PDS alone in the 2002 election ).

In the first all-German elections in 1990, the PDS won only 2. 4 % of the nationwide vote, but under a one-time exception to Germany's electoral law entered the Bundestag with 17 deputies led by Gysi, one of Germany's most charismatic and articulate politicians.

Besides Lafontaine, a number of other prominent SPD defectors won election to the Bundestag on the Left Party list, including a prominent leader of Germany's Turkish minority, Hakkı Keskin, German Federal Constitutional Court justice Wolfgang Neskovic, and the former SPD leader in Baden-Württemberg, Ulrich Maurer.

Columbushaus was a ten-storey ultra-modern office building, years ahead of its time, containing Germany's first artificial ventilation system, and whose elegance and clean lines won it much praise.

In Poland's Sejm and Germany's Bundestag ( elected through the Additional member system ), this threshold is 5 % ( or 3 constituency seats in the Bundestag, but directly won constituencies are kept, regardless ).

As Slovenia's most popular music band, the group has won countless awards including eight consecutive television competitions, twelve from German network television, eighteen as Germany's most popular band, the recording industry's " European Oscar " in 1975, the Golden Rose Award ( most requested on Austrian radio ) in 1979, the Linhart plaque ( Slovenia ), and the " Hermann Löns " award from the German Minister of Culture.

Rocky IV also won Germany's Golden Screen Award.

He began boxing in amateur competitions and, by 1924, won Germany's national amateur title in the light heavyweight division.

They are also Germany's most successful team in international competitions, having won six trophies.

The Nazi blacklist was the list in The Black Book that was drawn up of 2, 820 prominent British citizens such as Winston Churchill and Bertrand Russell that would have been sent to concentration camps if the United Kingdom had not won the Battle of Britain and Nazi Germany's Operation Sea Lion had succeeded in conquering Great Britain.

Their discography for EMI includes Fauré ’ s La Bonne Chanson with Ian Bostridge ; Schubert ’ s Trout Quintet with Thomas Adès and Corin Long ; a double disc of Britten ’ s string quartets, which won a MIDEM Cannes Award ; Mozart ’ s “ Dissonance ” and “ Hoffmeister ” quartets ; and the complete Bartók quartets, for which the Quartet was awarded the title Chamber Music Ensemble of the Year by Germany's prestigious Echo Klassik Awards and nominated for a 2008 Gramophone Award.

For three consecutive years ( 1958 – 1960 ) he won the gruelling race at Germany's Nürburgring, the first two years in an Aston Martin ( where he won almost single-handedly ) and the third in the memorable Tipo 61 " birdcage " Maserati, co-driving with young American prospect Dan Gurney.

Germany's first championship title was even won in Switzerland.

The first race at AVUS, in heavy rain, was won by Germany's native son, Rudolf Caracciola in a Mercedes-Benz.

The film also won Germany's Golden Screen Award and the 1985 Young Artist Award for Best Family Motion Picture ( Adventure ).

Gustav also won the lucrative contract for Germany's U-boats, which were built at the family's shipyard in Kiel.

*€ 45. 4 million ( US $ 67 million ) was the largest jackpot in Germany's Lotto 6 aus 49, won in December 2007 by three tickets.

The first WPA-sanctioned World Straight Pool Championship was held in 2006 ( the winner was Germany's Thorsten Hohmann, a player who also won the world nine-ball title three years earlier ).

There were nearly 2 million sheep in Australia by 1830, and by 1836, Australia had won the wool trade war with Germany, mainly because of Germany's preoccupation with fineness.

Though the role was only for one season, Hatch won Germany's Bravo Youth Magazine Award for the role.

Germany's Dieter Glemser won the Drivers ' title in the 1971 European Touring Car Championship at the wheel of a Ford Köln entered RS2600 and fellow German Jochen Mass did likewise in 1972.