The waspish man stopped me three paces from the bicycle barricade, and asked me in French if I had papers to leave France.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

Oersted remodeled Ritter's notes into an essay in French which was submitted to the Institut De France for its annual prize of 3,000 francs.

These are the wines the French themselves use for everyday drinking, for even in France virtually no one drinks the Grands Crus on a meal-to-meal basis.

In France, novel approaches to the classic French plays are frequently attempted.

Alain Connes (; born 1 April 1947 ) is a French mathematician, currently Professor at the Collège de France, IHÉS, The Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University.

Anthropology in France has a less clear genealogy than the British and American traditions, in part because many French writers influential in anthropology have been trained or held faculty positions in sociology, philosophy, or other fields rather than in anthropology.

The most important French social theorist since Foucault and Lévi-Strauss is Pierre Bourdieu, who trained formally in philosophy and sociology and eventually held the Chair of Sociology at the Collège de France.

* 1924 – Raymond Barre, French politician, Prime Minister of France ( d. 2007 )

* 1450 – Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years ' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.

* 1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.

* 1644 – Louise de La Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV of France ( d. 1710 )

He was a regent for the French Foundation for the Study of Human Problems during the Nazi occupation of Vichy France which implemented the eugenics policies there ; his association with the Foundation led to allegations of collaborating with the Nazis.

* 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.

Bloch was shot by the Gestapo during the German occupation of France in World War II for his active membership of the French Resistance, and Febvre carried on the Annales approach in the 1940s and 1950s.

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* 1844 – Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1924 )

) Ampère ’ s maturation corresponded with the transition to the Napoleonic regime in France, and the young father and teacher found new opportunities for success within the technocratic structures favoured by the new French emperor.

The annual French Festival takes place throughout Acapulco city and offers a multitude of events that cement cultural links between Mexico and France.

* 1944 – Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.

* 1954 – François Hollande, French politician, 24th President of France

* 1743 – Madame du Barry, French mistress of Louis XV of France ( d. 1793 )

* 1930 – Michel Rocard, French politician, Prime Minister of France

* 1792 – France invades the Austrian Netherlands ( present day Belgium ), beginning the French Revolutionary War.

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The German form is cognate ( Muschi ( used for the female cat as well )), and the ( vulgar ) French term " chatte " ( literally a female cat ) is analogous.

He became Chair of the French Socialist Students ( linked to the main French Socialist party at the time, the French Section of the Workers ' International ( SFIO )), and studied at the École nationale d ' administration ( ENA ), after which he chose to enter the prestigious Inspection des finances.

Lupasco was one of the founding members of the International Center for Transdisciplinary Research ( Centre International de Recherches et Etudes Transdisciplinaires ( CIRET )), founded in Paris in 1987 by Basarab Nicolescu, Edgar Morin, René Berger, Michel Random and other key figures of the French intelligentsia.

The word for " coffeeshop " in Modern Standard Arabic is ( maqha, literally meaning " place of coffee ", plural, maqahi ( n )), but the more common term in colloquial Arabic is simply ( qahwa ), meaning " coffee " in much the same way as French and Portuguese use café for both.

When Britain went to war with China in the same year ( commencing the Second Opium War ( 1856 – 1860 )), France initially declared its neutrality but de Courcy made it known that French sympathy was with the English due to the Chapdelaine incident.

The Royal Canadian Air Force ( RCAF ) ( French: Aviation royale canadienne ( ARC )), formerly Canadian Forces Air Command, is one of three environmental commands of the Canadian Forces.

The spacecraft, built in the Cannes Mandelieu Space Center, under Thales Alenia Space Contractorship, was successfully launched from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana at 13: 12: 02 UTC on 14 May 2009, aboard an Ariane 5 rocket, along with the Planck spacecraft, and placed on a very elliptical orbit ( perigee: 270. 0 km ( intended 270. 0 ± 4. 5 ), apogee: 1, 197, 080 km ( intended 1, 193, 622 ± 151, 800 ), inclination 5. 99 deg ( intended 6. 00 ± 0. 06 )), on its way towards the second Lagrangian point.

He resigned from the civil service, and went in search of adventure in French Guiana, where he spent a year in the Amazon ( the setting for his first novel L ' Orpailleur ( The Gold Washer )), with his copy of Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine, then Brazil, and after that Africa.

It is accessible on French DTT ( Télévision Numérique Terrestre ( TNT )), on cable, on satellite and on IPTV.

Dynastically, he established two notable Capetian Houses: the House of Anjou ( which he created by bestowing the County of Anjou upon his brother, Charles ( 1227 – 1285 )), and the House of Bourbon ( which he established by bestowing Clermont on his son Robert ( 1256 – 1317 ) in 1268, before marrying the young man to the heiress of Bourbon, Beatrix ( 1257 – 1310 )); the first House would go on to rule Sicily, Naples, and Hungary, suffering many tragedies and disasters on the way ; the second would eventually succeed to the French thone, collecting Navarre along the way.

Originally, the name Karl der Große ( Charlemagne ) was used for some time in 1943, but French volunteers in the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS used Charlemagne ( 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne ( 1st French )), so the honor title Frundsberg was chosen, which refers to 16th Century German landsknecht commander Georg von Frundsberg.

A master of the subtleties of the French language and French slang ( he even rewrote some of Jean de La Fontaine's fables ), his songs are often cheeky ( for example Le zizi ( The willy )), asking questions in a seemingly naive child's tone, but has written more serious political songs, such as La bête est revenue, La petite kurde, Vert de Colère ou Lily.

Albery was the author of a large number of other plays and adaptations, including Coquettes ( 1870 ); Pickwick, a four-act drama ( based on Dickens's The Pickwick Papers ( 1871 ); Pink Dominos ( 1877 ), a farce that ran for an extremely successful 555 performances and was one of a series of adaptations from the French which he made for the Criterion Theatre, where his wife, the actress Mary Moore ( who after his death became Lady Charles Wyndham ( 1861 — 1931 )), played the leading parts ; Jingle ( a farcical version of Pickwick ), produced at the Lyceum in 1878 ; and Oriana ( with music by Frederic Clay ).

The Irish accent is, as one would expect, combined with slight inflections from the French.

However, it is important to trace the philosophy of the French Revolution to its sources to understand the common democratic origin of individualism and socialism and the influence of the latter on the former.

Trevelyan accepts Italian nationalism with little analysis, he is unduly critical of papal and French policy, and he is more than generous in assessing British policy.

`` Ah, then please tell me where the frontier is because this gentleman here '' -- I indicated the French occupation officer -- `` informs me that Germany is just on the other side of him ''.

Greek phone service is worse than French, so that it was to be some little time before contact of any sort was established.

Across the road is the kitchen, and waiters bearing great trays of dishes dodge traffic as nimbly as their French colleagues at the restaurant in the Place Du Tertre in Paris.

In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.

The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;

Much more important is to grasp the feelings of the narrator ( whose full name is never given ) as he becomes aware of the disorganized and bewildered mass of French prisoners clustered together in a temporary prison camp in and around the cathedral of Chartres.

The fact is that the Italians, French and British know that they have no defense against nuclear bombs.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

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.

This is important because, despite all the efforts of the French government, an appreciable segment of France's export trade in wines is still tainted with a misrepresentation approaching downright dishonesty, and there are many too many negociants who would rather turn a sou than amass a creditable reputation overseas.

Today it is occupied by the French Embassy.

Claude Jannequin's vocal description of a battle ( the French equivalents of tarantara, rum-tum-tum, and boom-boom-boom are very picturesque ) is lots of fun, and the singers get a sense of grace and shape into other chansons by Jannequin and Lassus.

BAM is the unlikely name of a French recording company whose full label is Editions De La boite A Musique.

What is interesting about these chamber works here is how they all reveal the aspect of French music that was moving toward the rococo.

Chabrier's little one-act operetta, presented yesterday afternoon at Town Hall, is a fragile, precious little piece, very French, not without wit and charm.

The Creston is purely a potboiler, with Spanish, English, French and American dances mixed into the stew.