Though not an instant success, the album gained a steady following in France with hits such as " Bongo Bong " and " Clandestino ", and the album eventually earned the Best World Music Album award in 1999's Victoires de la Musique awards.

The brigade of the Maison du Roi, the Carabiniers, the Gendarmerie, the finest cavalry of France, charged and charged again, but each time were driven back by the steady discipline and fire of the British infantry.

There was also a steady build-up of German forces in France, despite the demands of the eastern front.

She maintained a steady but difficult career in France and touring throughout Europe.

It was a weight to counteract the thrust of the vaults, particularly where there were flying buttresses ; it stopped the tendency to slip of the stone copings of the gables, and counterpoised the thrust of spires ; it formed a pier to steady the elegant perforated parapets of later periods ; and in France especially served to counterbalance the weight of overhanging corbel tables, huge gargoyles, etc.

It was thanks to his particular talents that a new programme beyond the narrow politics of the day made steady progress in the difficult years that followed the conclusion of the war with France.

The beginning of the next year, Youth Of Today, whose line-up was steady at last, did a European tour-playing shows in: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Yugoslavia, Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and England.

To such schemes Sir William, with his steady hostility to France and active devotion to Protestantism, was doubtless a formidable opponent.

Maritime connections to Wales, Ireland, Iceland, western France, Spain and Portugal brought a steady increase in trade in wool, fish, wine and grain during the Middle Ages.

The great hardships of wartime, and of the immediate post-war period, were succeeded by a period of steady economic development, in France, now often fondly recalled there as The Thirty Glorious Years ( Les Trente Glorieuses ).

The Crimson Petal and the White was a bestseller in the USA, Italy, France, Holland and Belgium, and a steady seller in most other countries.

The great hardships of wartime, and of the immediate post-war period, were succeeded by a period of steady economic development, in France, now often fondly recalled there as The Thirty Glorious Years ( Les Trente Glorieuses ).

Facts show that the average income in France, after having been steady for a long time, has increased elevenfold between 1700 and 1975, impressive result, by which correspond to a 0. 9 % growth rate on a yearly basis, whereas the rate has almost been overstepped every year since 1975.

The Seine-Nord Europe Canal is being developed into a major transportation waterway, linking France with Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands.

The Channel Tunnel (; also referred to as the Chunnel ) is a undersea rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent, in the United Kingdom with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, near Calais in northern France beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.

* 1965 – The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.

The six Luxembourg motorways cover a total distance of 147 km, linking the capital with Trier ( Germany ), Thionville ( France ) and Arlon ( Belgium ) as well as with Esch-sur-Alzette and Ettelbruck in Luxembourg.

* Channel Tunnel, or the Chunnel, a rail tunnel underneath the English Channel linking the U. K. and France

It also has no train station, although there are bus shuttle services linking the capital to train station at L ' Hospitalet-près-l ' Andorre ( France ) and Lleida in Spain.

It is the biggest airport in northwestern France, linking with several French and European cities, as well as Montreal in Canada.

In an article in La France, 1915, the French critic, Remy de Gourmont described the Imagists as descendants of the French Symbolistes and in a 1928 letter to the French critic and translator René Taupin, Pound was keen to emphasise another ancestry for Imagism, pointing out that Hulme was indebted to a Symbolist tradition, linking back via William Butler Yeats, Arthur Symons and the Rhymers ' Club generation of British poets to Mallarmé.

The Mont Blanc Tunnel is a road tunnel in The Alps under the Mont Blanc mountain, linking Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, France (), and Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy ().

Rhône-Alpes is a major European transit hub, linking northern France and Europe to the Mediterranean area.

He considered the Church to be the mortar which held France together, and the chain linking all Frenchmen together.

West Berlin's special legal status during the Cold War era ( 1945 – 1990 ) meant that all air traffic through the Allied air corridors linking the exclave with West Germany was restricted to airlines headquartered in the United States, the United Kingdom or France – three of the four victorious powers of World War II.

* In France, groups opposing the DADVSI copyright bill, proposed by minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, mounted a Google bombing campaign linking ministre blanchisseur (" laundering minister ") to an article recalling Donnedieu de Vabres ' conviction for money laundering.

Bank was assigned to SO Branch, and on July 31, 1944 led the Jedburgh Team PACKARD, parachuting into Lozère Department of France and linking up with French Resistance.

The Eurocorps HQ, in Strasbourg, France, is nominally an EU force with a technical agreement linking it to NATO.

This construction scheme was devised by chairman Sir Edward Watkin, who had envisioning his railway one day running under a Channel Tunnel to France, linking Britain with the continent.

The monumental stairway of 138 steps was built with French diplomat Étienne Gueffier ’ s bequeathed funds of 20, 000 scudi, in 1723 – 1725, linking the Bourbon Spanish Embassy, and the Trinità dei Monti church that was under the patronage of the Bourbon kings of France, both located above — to the Holy See in Palazzo Monaldeschi located below.

* July 8 – Sabena begins the first international helicopter services, linking Brussels ( Belgium ) with destinations in the Netherlands and France

In early 1939, the British Embassy in Paris was bombarded with a series of reports that public opinion in France was highly dejected and demoralized, and that unless Britain made the " continental commitment " ( unequivocally linking British security to French security and committing to sending a large British Expeditionary Force to France like the one ultimately sent in World War I ), the French would resign themselves to becoming a German satellite state.

In June 1939, Bonnet's reputation was badly damaged when the French agent of the Dienststelle Ribbentrop, Otto Abetz, was expelled from France for engaging in espionage, French newspaper editors were charged with receiving bribes from Abetz, and the name of Bonnet's wife was prominently mentioned in connection with the Abetz case as a close friend of the two editors, but despite much lucid speculation in the French press at the time, that no evidence has ever emerged linking Bonnet or his wife to German espionage or bribery.

The Channel Tunnel linking England and France was constructed by tunnelling through the West Melbury Marly Chalk ( formerly the ' Chalk Marl ' - a prominent sub-unit of the Grey Chalk Subgroup ).

Conway changed his name back to Rob Conway and stopped linking himself to France or Canada.

Around 1990, a street in Caen ( France ) was named after Commodore Hughes-Hallett, linking avenue Amiral Mountbatten to avenue Maréchal Montgomery and rue Colonel Rémy, in a district close to the Mémorial pour la Paix museum, where a majority of streets commemorate personalities linked with the Second World War, the Résistance, and the subsequent making of the European Community.

Very much the political man, Helion felt himself deeply affected by the increasingly pessimistic atmosphere of France and all Europe, whose foundations seemed to him more and more shaky.

Underneath all the high-sounding phrases of royal and papal letters and behind the more down-to-earth instructions to the envoys was the inescapable fact that Edward would have to desert his Flemish allies and leave them to the vengeance of their indignant suzerain, the king of France, in return for being given an equally free hand with the insubordinate Scots.

Our companion was a huge, plain-spoken American sculptor who had been a sixteen-year-old rifleman all across France in 1944.

`` Well, this is France, after all ''.

In the spring and early summer of that year she met a wealthy foreign tycoon who took her to France, where she later met a very wealthy man and toured all Europe with him.

The concessionaires also had to pay a tax of one-tenth on the goods they traded, and all pelts were to be taken to company stores and shipped to France in company ships.

The King should expect no profit, and an advance of only 20 per cent above the cost in France, which would cover the expense of transportation and handling, was all he charged the traders.

England, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy had all been rendered for her time and again, and between the prescribed hours of pills and tonics, she had conceived a dreamy passion by lamplight, to see all these places with her own eyes.

Above all, Claude Lévi-Strauss helped institutionalize anthropology in France.

Popes and sovereigns gradually encroached on the rights of the monks, until in Italy the pope had usurped the nomination of all abbots, and the king in France, with the exception of Cluny, Premontré and other houses, chiefs of their order.

* 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.

The Arc de Triomphe ( in English: " Triumphal Arch ") honours those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, with the names of all French victories and generals inscribed on its inner and outer surfaces.

Classicizing architectonic structure and decor all ' antica, in the " ancient mode ", became a fashionable way to frame a painted or bas-relief portrait, or protect an expensive and precious mirror during the High Renaissance ; Italian precedents were imitated in France, then in Spain, England and Germany during the later 16th century.

About the thirteenth or fourteenth century, the popes, then residing at Avignon in France, began to reserve the collation of a great many benefices, so that all the benefices, especially the greater ones, were to be conferred through the Roman Curia ( Lega, Praelectiones Jur.

Nin left Paris in the late summer of 1939, when residents from overseas were urged to leave France due to the upcoming war and returned to New York City with Guiler ( who was, on his own wish, all but edited out of her diaries published in her lifetime and whose role in her life is therefore difficult to gauge ).

Berlin is situated in northeastern Germany, approximately west of the Polish border, in an area of low-lying marshy woodlands with a mainly flat topography, part of the vast Northern European Plain which stretches all the way from northern France to western Russia.

But Bulgaria now had no claims against the Ottomans, whereas Serbia, Greece and Romania ( allies of Britain and France ) were all in possession of lands perceived in Bulgaria as its own.

Festivities and official ceremonies are held all over France.

All in all though, the situation had changed considerably and Louis XIV began to look for ways to end what was fast becoming a ruinous war for France.

Like so many others, Étienne was eventually forced to flee Paris because of his opposition to the fiscal policies of Cardinal Richelieu, leaving his three children in the care of his neighbor Madame Sainctot, a great beauty with an infamous past who kept one of the most glittering and intellectual salons in all France.

' Sir ,' quoth he, ' I am Denis of Morbeke, a knight of Artois ; but I serve the king of England because I am banished from the realm of France and I have forfeited all that I had there.

The Secret Treaty of 1892 required both Russia and France to mobilize immediately followed by a commencement of action against the Triple Alliance if any member of the Triplice mobilized, and so, soon all the Great Powers of Europe were at war except Italy.

During the drafting of the Indian Constitution, laws from Ireland, the United States, Britain, and France were all synthesized to get a refined set of Indian laws, as it currently stands.

The Royal Cambodian Government ( RGC ) has established diplomatic relations with most countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, as well as all of its Asian neighbors, to include the People's Republic of China, India, Vietnam, Laos, South Korea, North Korea, and Thailand.