Alexios is a character in the historical novel Agnes of France ( 1980 ) by Greek writer Kostas Kyriazis.

He is among the main characters of the historical novel Agnes of France ( 1980 ) by Greek writer Kostas Kyriazis ( b. 1920 ).

* Penguin Island, a 1908 French satirical novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Anatole France, narrates the fictional history of a Great Auk population that is mistakenly baptized by a nearsighted missionary.

Contemporaneously to English Gothic, parallel Romantic literary movements developed in continental Europe: the roman noir (" black novel ") in France, by such writers as François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil, Gaston Leroux, Baculard d ' Arnaud, and Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Albin, Madame de Genlis and the Schauerroman (" shudder novel ") in Germany by such writers as Friedrich Schiller, author of The Ghost-Seer ( 1789 ) and Christian Heinrich Spiess, author of Das Petermännchen ( 1791 / 92 ).

Aspects of this trip to France were incorporated into Sterne ’ s second novel, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, which was published at the beginning of 1768.

The mid 17th century in France saw the development of a refined short novel, the " nouvelle ", by such authors as Madame de Lafayette.

Stevenson completes the novel at the end of summer in France.

Emile Zola likewise wrote a novel, Nana ( 1880 ), about a courtesan in nineteenth-century France.

La Débâcle, the military novel is set for the most part in country districts of eastern France ; its dénouement takes place in the capital during the civil war leading to the suppression of the Paris Commune.

* Bryan Talbot's graphic novel Grandville is set in an alternate history in which France won the Napoleonic War, invaded Britain and guillotined the British Royal Family.

Premiere of Forman's newest historical drama in France based on the novel by Georges-Marc Benamou and written by Forman and Georges-Marc Benamou is expected in 2012.

* Paris France ( novel ), by Gertrude Stein

In the novel, a con man claims to be the " Lost Dolphin " of France in order to gain sympathy and charity from the novel's eponymous character.

In 1994 her novel Point de côté was published in France by Broché Publishers to good reviews.

The Enormous Room is E. E. Cummings ' 1922 autobiographical novel about his imprisonment in France during World War I on unfounded charges of " espionage ", and it includes many picaresque depictions of his adventures as " an American in a French prison ".

Eunuchs feature prominently in Montesquieu's 1722 novel Lettres Persanes, supposedly about Persian visitors to 18th-century France.

* The Stanley Weyman novel, A Gentleman of France ( 1893 ) involves the events of Henry's reconciliation with the Huguenots and struggle against the Catholic League, leading to his assassination.

Giscard wrote his second romantic novel, published on 1 October 2009 in France, entitled The Princess and The President.

The Gnomon of Saint-Sulpice inside the church of Saint Sulpice in Paris, France, built to assist in determining the date of Easter, was fictionalized as a " Rose Line " in the novel The Da Vinci Code.

The play was performed to great acclaim in France, Italy, Germany and Spain, while the novel was translated into 16 languages.

A variety of names have since been given to the Wandering Jew, including Matathias, Buttadeus, Paul Marrane, and Isaac Laquedem ( a name for him in France and the Low Countries, in popular legend as well as in a novel by Dumas ).

Literary taste in France remains centered on the novel ( 26. 4 % of book sales in 1997 ), although the French read more non-fiction essays and books on current affairs than the British or Americans.

In general, heavily unionised nations such as France and Germany have adopted and encouraged such approaches.

In a 1960 letter Tolkien said that " the Dead Marshes and the approaches to the Morannon owe something to Northern France after the Battle of the Somme.

Britain's North American ( American ) colonies were expanding into areas claimed by France by the 1750s, and the efforts of French forces and their Indian allies to seal off the westward passes and approaches through which American colonists could move west soon led to the skirmishes that developed into the French and Indian War in 1754.

He oversaw the Navy for much of the Seven Years War, and established a permanent squadron at Devonport which could patrol the western approaches to both Britain and France.

Escoffier's recipes, techniques and approaches to kitchen management remain highly influential today, and have been adopted by chefs and restaurants not only in France, but also throughout the world.

In On Toleration, he describes various examples of, and approaches to, toleration, in multinational empires such as Rome, among nations in past and current-day international society, " consociations " such as Switzerland, nation-states such as France, and immigrant societies such as the United States.

It was, however superseded first by Portsmouth, then Plymouth, when the main naval enemy became France, and the Western approaches the chief theatre of operations.

On the point in the late 1860s Lavernock Fort gun battery was built by the Royal Commission and completed in 1870, with three 7 " muzzle loading cannons to protect the channel approaches to Cardiff and Bristol shipyards during the short lived war between Britain and France that followed the French Revolution.

On 20 November 1917 at Marcoing, France, the leading company was checked by heavy fire from a gun mounted on a position which covered the approaches.

And by the time that Foucault used the phrase in his famous lectures at the Collège de France between January and April 1979, according to Somit, there were several different approaches to the concept of biopolitics.

According to Nostradamus, the " King of Terror " and Russia would wage World War III against the West ( United States, United Kingdom and France ), starting with a nuclear strike on New York City (" the sky will burn at 45 degrees, fire approaches the great new city ").

A reported study from France is also compromised by lack of treatment integrity, using TEACCH approaches in a broader package of intervention.

In the end these approaches came to nothing and France decided to " go it alone ".

With the fall of France in 1940, the British Admiralty ordered convoys to be re-routed through the north-western approaches which would take them around the north coast and through the North Channel to the Irish Sea.

The classic French historiography often refers to Coalition troops three times more numerous than those of the King of France ( Philip Contamine is not of this opinion: " In front, his opponents did not have a clear numerical superiority ").

In Le Sage's Gil Blas ( 1715 ) is a classic example of the genre, which in France had declined into an aristocratic adventure.

A classic example is the " Transi de René de Chalons " by Ligier Richier, in the church of Saint Etienne in Bar-le-Duc, France.

* Amiens Cathedral ( a World Heritage Site ) is the tallest of the large ' classic ' Gothic churches of the 13th century and is the largest in France of its kind.

The classic example of a sparkling wine is Champagne, but this wine is exclusively produced in the Champagne region of France and many sparkling wines are produced in other countries and regions, such as Espumante in Portugal, Cava in Spain, Franciacorta, Trento, Oltrepò Pavese Metodo Classico and Asti in Italy ( the generic Italian term for sparkling wine being spumante ) and Cap Classique in South Africa.

Brazil met France in the quarter-finals and the match is considered an absolute classic of " total football ".

* André Andrejew ( 16 March 1967 ), French-Russian classic film production designer, built decors for movies produced in Germany, France, England and the US.

The building is the one church in the Netherlands that closely resembles the classic Gothic style as developed in France.

In France it became a classic of the romantic school.

He reached the zenith of his career with a succession of classic films such as, Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ) which is about two train passengers: tennis pro Guy ( Farley Granger ) and Bruno ( Robert Walker ) who staged a battle of wits and traded murders with each other, Dial M For Murder ( 1954 ) with Ray Milland as a villainous husband who attempts to murder his wealthy wife ( Grace Kelly ), Rear Window ( 1954 ) which is about man ( James Stewart ) being convinced that his neighbour is a killer, To Catch a Thief ( 1955 ), a lightweight thriller set in South of France, Vertigo ( 1958 ), with James Stewart as a retired police detective who becomes obsessed with the disturbed enigmatic ' wife ' ( Kim Novak ) of an old friend, and North by Northwest in which an advertising executive ( Cary Grant ) is mistaken for a non-existent spy and chased across the country while aided by a mysterious woman ( Eva Marie Saint ).

The Fashoda incident was the last serious colonial dispute between Britain and France, and its classic diplomatic solution is considered by most historians to be the precursor of the Entente Cordiale.

While living in France, Berkman continued his work in support of the anarchist movement, producing the classic exposition of anarchist principles, Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism.

Throughout the first half of 2010, Fabian embarked on a European tour of concerts specially throughout France, Switzerland and Belgium incorporating the main repertoire of her last album " Toutes Les Femmes En Moi " alongside some classic and fan favourites.

The film relocated the classic French farce, La Cage aux Folles, from France to South Beach, Miami.

Prior to writing the script to Alien, O ' Bannon had been working in France for Chilean cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky's planned adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic science-fiction novel Dune.

While living in France he mixed with Jean Cocteau, Jean Hugo and other members of the French artistic scene and in 1928 he made his first classic film, The Passion of Joan of Arc.

The song " Come to Me " has been described as " the definitive Fire Island dance classic " because of the legendary beach concert performance by the 16-year-old France Joli before an oceanfront Fire Island audience of 5000 on July 7, 1979.

The Legitimists, another of the main right-wing families identified in René Rémond's classic opus Les Droites en France, were disparagingly classified with the Ultras after the 1830 July Revolution by the victors, the Orleanists, who deposed the Bourbon dynasty for the more liberal king Louis-Philippe.

Arausio, the theatre in modern-day Orange, France, is a good example of a classic Roman theatre, with an indented scaenae frons, reminiscent of Western Roman theatre designs, however missing the more ornamental structure.

The progeny of Kincsem's three daughters won 41 classic races in Austria, France, Germany, Hungary and Italy.

Almost all the Petit Verdot in France is planted in Bordeaux, mostly in the Médoc where it is used in small amounts to give structure to the classic Bordeaux blend.

His most famous work, L ' Empire de l ' Air, in which he proposed fixed-wing gliders, was published in France in 1881 and soon became a widely recognized classic.

In 2005 he won Le Tour Direct, ( 7d 19h 40m ) a race on a course derived from classic Tour de France routes.

In 1833 James Busby returned from France and Spain with a serious selection of grape varieties including most classic French grapes and a good selection of grapes for fortified wine production.