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.

After the indecisive < ref name =" British historian Townsend Miller "> British historian Townsend Miller: “ But, if the outcome of < nowiki > battle of </ nowiki > Toro, militarily, is debatable, there is no doubt whatsoever as to its enormous psychological and political effects ” in The battle of Toro, 1476, in History Today, volume 14, 1964, p. 270 </ ref > Battle of Toro in 1476 against King Ferdinand II of Aragon, the husband of Isabella I of Castile, he went to France to obtain the assistance of Louis XI, but finding himself deceived by the French monarch, he returned to Portugal in 1477 in very low spirits.

A very small number of his instruments survive, dated between the years of 1560 and 1574 and most bearing the coat of arms of Charles IX of France.

Preferring the friendship of France, Abbas Mirza continued the war against Russia's General Kotlyarevsky, but his new ally could give him very little assistance.

Because it was extraordinarily expensive the Pascaline became little more than a toy, and status symbol, for the very rich both in France and throughout Europe.

Making very powerful enemies such as Austria, United Kingdom, Russia and Prussia, as well as royalist ( particularly Bourbon ) restorational movements in France, Spain, the Two Sicilies and Sardinia, the dynasty eventually collapsed under its own weight.

Couscous is also very popular in France, where it is now considered a traditional dish, and has also become popular in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece.

As these were the days when kidnapping an heiress was seen as a viable option for obtaining a title, William had dictated a will on the very day he died, bequeathing his domains to Eleanor and appointing King Louis VI of France as her guardian.

Research is also very active in France, where researchers focus on the automation of reasoning and logic engines.

The evidence is found in two early maps, one made by the Portuguese cartographer Pedro Reinel in about 1522, the very first map to show the Falklands, the other a French copy of a Portuguese map bought in Lisbon by André Thévet ( 1516-1590 ), a Franciscan friar and prolific writer on many subjects ; this copy is now in the manuscript of a large unpublished work by Thevet in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

By 1898 Georges Méliès was the largest producer of fiction films in France, and from this point onwards his output was almost entirely films featuring trick effects, which were very successful in all markets.

These remained very different until a counter-movement in the 17th to 18th centuries imposed similar styles once again, mostly originating from Ancien Régime France.

Because his leave was coming to an end very soon, they married quickly on 16 August at St Jude's Church, Kensington, and then honeymooned in Ryde on the Isle of Wight, before heading via France to Malaya.

One very significant economic obstacle in Haiti's early independence was its necessary payment of 150 million francs to France beginning in 1825 ; this did much to drain the country of its capital stock.

The timing of Henry's case was very unfortunate ; it was 1527 and the Pope had been taken prisoner by the emperor Charles V, Catherine's nephew and the most powerful man in Europe, for siding with his archenemy Francis I of France.

This was very different from the authoritarian control France and Spain held over their colonies.

France was a very decentralised state during the Middle Ages.

France was served by some very efficient commanders such as Louis II de Bourbon ( Condé ) and Henry de la Tour d ' Auvergne ( Turenne ).

The war now became a stalemate — the famous " Western Front " was fought largely in France and was characterized by very little movement despite extremely large and violent battles, often with new and more destructive military technology.

Within France proper, very few people organized themselves against the German Occupation in the summer of 1940.

In 1791 he arranged for his natural children Jean and Rose, who was very light-skinned, to be delivered to him in France.

His work reached Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, where it was very popular, enjoying particular acclaim in France.

Saionji felt very strongly that Japan ’ s foreign policy depended upon good relations with Britain, France, and the US.

The Abyssinian crisis showed how the League could be influenced by the self-interest of its members ; one of the reasons why the sanctions were not very harsh was that both Britain and France feared the prospect of driving Mussolini and German dictator Adolf Hitler into an alliance.

The status of Mayotte was changed in 2001 towards one very close to the status of the départements of mainland France, with the particular designation of collectivité départementale, although the island is still claimed by the Comoros.

Some legal texts that were adopted when the Republican Calendar was official are still in force in France and even Belgium ( which was at the time incorporated into France ), and have kept their original dates for citation purposes.

The Train had already begun shooting in France when star Lancaster had the original director fired and called in Frankenheimer to save the film.

Two notable Western composers for the kora are Brother Dominique Catta and Jacques Burtin ( France ), who wrote most of these scores, though composers like Carole Ouellet ( Canada ), Brother Grégoire Philippe ( Monastère de Keur Moussa ) and Sister Claire Marie Ledoux ( France ) contributed with original works.

In the English-speaking world, the Douay-Rheims Bible — translated from the Latin Vulgate by expatriate recusants in Rheims, France in 1582 ( New Testament ) and in Douai, France in 1609 ( Old Testament )— which was revised by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749 – 1752 ( the 1750 revision is that which is printed today ), was, until the prompting for " new translations from the original languages " given by Pope Pius XII in the 1942 encyclical letter Divino afflante spiritu and the Second Vatican Council, the translation used by most Catholics ( after Divino afflante spiritu, translations multiplied in the Catholic world, just as they multiplied in the Protestant world around the same time beginning with the Revised Standard Version, with various other translations being used around the world for English-language liturgies, ranging from the New American Bible, the Jerusalem Bible, the Revised Standard Version Second Catholic Edition, and the upcoming English Standard Version Catholic lectionary ).

The prefix myria -, ten thousand, denoting a factor of, originated from the Greek μύριοι ( mýrioi ), that is, myriad, for ten thousand, and the prefixes demi-and double -, denoting a factor of and 2, respectively, were parts of the original metric system adopted by France in 1795.

Generally speaking, the Norwegians expanded to the north and west to places such as Ireland, Scotland, Iceland and Greenland ; the Danes to England and France, settling in the Danelaw ( northern / eastern England ) and Normandy ; and the Swedes to the east, founding the Kievan Rus, the original Russia.

In Europe, Art Cinema gains wider distribution and sees movements like la Nouvelle Vague ( The French New Wave ) featuring French filmmakers such as Roger Vadim, François Truffaut, Alain Resnais, and Jean-Luc Godard ; Cinéma Vérité documentary movement in Canada, France and the United States ; Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, Chilean filmmaker Alexandro Jodorowsky and Polish filmmakers Roman Polanski and Wojciech Jerzy Has produced original and offbeat masterpieces and the high-point of Italian filmmaking with Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini making some of their most known films during this period.

Following Napoleon's defeats in 1814-1815, the Congress of Vienna returned France to its pre-war size ; the number of departments was reduced to 86, as three of the original departments had been split.

So-called Limburg pottery and La Hoguette pottery are styles which stretch into northwestern France and the Netherlands, but it has sometimes been argued that these technologies are the result of pottery technology spreading beyond the original LBK farming population of eastern Belgium and northeastern France, and being made by hunter gatherers.

However, there are only ten known manuscripts that contain the Latin chronicle, all of which come from France and England, so William's work may not have been very widely read in its original form.

During his reign, huge cultural changes took place in France and he has been called France's original Renaissance monarch.

* Common wild boar Sus scrofa scrofa: The most common and most widespread subspecies, its original distribution ranges from France to European Russia.

Jansenism was a Christian theological movement, primarily in France, that emphasized original sin, human depravity, the necessity of divine grace, and predestination.

The dialect of choice for many hip hop artists in France is verlan which is based on the inverse of original French words.

* Grand Prix ( horse race ), the original name of the Prix Gladiateur, a horse race in France

The original French right-wing was called " the party of order " and held that France needed a strong political leader to keep order.

Draped in a blue-velvet cloth inscribed with the Musketeers ' motto: " Un pour tous, tous pour un " (" One for all, all for one ,") the remains had been transported from their original interment site in the Cimetière de Villers-Cotterêts in Aisne, France.

Villèle's government argued that rentiers had seen their returns grow disproportionately, compared to their original investment, and that the redistribution was just and would reconcile émigrés to post-Revolutionary France ; whereas, the opposition accused the ultras of taking money from small investors for disloyal nobles.

Les Invalides (), officially known as L ' Hôtel national des Invalides ( The National Residence of the Invalids ), is a complex of buildings in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as well as a hospital and a retirement home for war veterans, the building's original purpose.

* Paul Meyer, L ' Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal ( Paris: Société de l ' histoire de France, 1891 – 1901 ), with partial translation of the original sources into Modern French.