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In French, étasunien, from États-Unis d ' Amérique, distinguishes U. S. things and persons from the adjective américain, which denotes persons and things from the United States but may also refer to ' the Americas '; likewise, the German usages U. S .- amerikanisch and U. S .- Amerikaner observe said cultural distinction, solely denoting U. S. things and people.
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The name presumably derives from the French royal house which never learned and never forgot ; ;
The Irish accent is, as one would expect, combined with slight inflections from the French.
While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.
The waspish man stopped me three paces from the bicycle barricade, and asked me in French if I had papers to leave France.
For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.
There is a fairly wide selection of models of English, German and French manufacture from which you can choose from the very small Austin 7, Citroen 2 CV, Volkswagens, Renaults to the 6-passenger Simca Beaulieu.
Eight or ten years ago, a couple of French hoods stole a priceless Khmer head from the Musee Guimet, in Paris, and a week later crawled into the Salpetriere with unmistakable symptoms of leprosy.
The Ifni crisis in the fall of 1957 postponed further consideration of elections, but French consultants were called in and notices of further investigation appeared from time to time.
Venturesome traders, however, continued to come to them from Mobile, and to obtain a considerable number of pelts for the French markets.
British traders from South Carolina incited the Indians against the French, and there developed French and British Factions in the tribe.
To hold them was an essential part of French policy, for they controlled the upper termini of the routes from the north to Mobile.
They threatened constantly to give the British a hold on this region, from whence they could move easily down the rivers to the French settlements near the Gulf.
This was a slow and difficult course, and French trade suffered from the many mistakes of the new group of traders.
There was even a cable in French from a bank in Switzerland that had somehow learned about the Dallas stock offering.
Ideally, the President would like the French to agree on a `` status quo ante '' on Bizerte, and accept a new timetable for withdrawing their forces from the Mediterranean base.
Do you say chantey, as if the word were derived from the French word chanter, to sing, or do you say shanty and think of a roughly built cabin, which derives its name from the French-Canadian use of the word chantier, with one of its meanings given as a boat-yard??
there had been lessons in French from a small Polish nobleman with a really profound distaste for his pupils ; ;
International Atomic Time ( TAI, from the French name Temps atomique international ) is a high-precision atomic coordinate time standard based on the notional passage of proper time on Earth's geoid.
( This contrasted with Malinowski's functionalism, and was quite different from the later French structuralism, which examined the conceptual structures in language and symbolism.
Levant is derived from the French verb lever meaning " to rise " indicating that part of the world where the sun rises.
The al-prefix was probably added through confusion with another legal term, allegeance, an " allegation " ( the French allegeance comes from the English ).
Allegiance is formed from " liege ," from Old French liege, " liege, free ", of Germanic origin.
French and États-Unis
The city has referred to itself as La ville la plus française aux États-Unis – the most French city in the United States.
On 4 July 1923, the President of the French Council of State, Raymond Poincaré, dedicated a monument in the Place des États-Unis, Paris, to the Americans who had volunteered to fight in World War I in the service of France.
It is unusual to watch a French movie without English language subtitles on TV5MONDE États-Unis.
On 4 July 1923, the President of the French Council of State, Raymond Poincaré, dedicated a monument in the Place des États-Unis to the Americans who had volunteered to fight in World War I in the service of France.
* Transparence et secret aux États-Unis ( in French )
French and d
The " Days of April " ( journées d ' avril ) is a name appropriated in French history to a series of insurrections at Lyons, Paris and elsewhere, against the government of Louis Philippe in 1834, which led to violent repressive measures, and to a famous trial known as the procès d ' avril.
* 1651 – André Dacier, French scholar ( d. 1722 )
* 1671 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet ( d. 1741 )
* 1672 – André Cardinal Destouches, French composer ( d. 1749 )
* 1706 – Louis de Cahusac, French playwright and librettist, and Freemason ( d. 1759 )
* 1741 – Nicolas Chamfort, French writer ( d. 1794 )
* 1820 – Nadar, French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist ( d. 1910 )
* 1826 – Gustave Moreau, French painter ( d. 1898 )
* 1851 – Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer ( d. 1932 )
* 1861 – Stanislas de Guaita, French occultist ( d. 1897 )
* 1898 – Jeanne Hébuterne, French artist, the wife of Amedeo Modigliani ( d. 1920 )
* 1902 – Julien Torma, French writer, playwright and poet ( d. 1933 )
* 1526 – Muretus, French humanist ( d. 1585 )
* 1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer ( d. 1796 )
* 1748 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist ( d. 1836 )
* 1869 – Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer ( d. 1922 )
* 1924 – Raymond Barre, French politician, Prime Minister of France ( d. 2007 )
* 1623 – Fran &# 231 ; ois de Laval, French bishop ( d. 1708 )
* 1651 – Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French educational reformer and Catholic saint ( d. 1719 )
* 1664 – Fran &# 231 ; ois Louis, Prince of Conti, French general ( d. 1709 )
* 1723 – Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist ( d. 1806 )
* 1864 – Jean, duc Decazes, French aristocrat and sportsman ( d. 1912 )
* 1877 – Léon Flameng, French cyclist ( d. 1917 )
* 1895 – Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat, and writer ( d. 1960 )
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