Yet when, at war's end, the ex-Tory made the first move to resume correspondence, Jay wrote him from Paris, where he was negotiating the peace settlement:

The next morning a little cognac made me feel better -- but what can you do in Paris on Sunday morning??

* In 1927, Charles Lindbergh made the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight in an aircraft ( between New York City and Paris ).

The mother of Napoleon, his consort Maria Louise ( as Concord ), to model whom the author made a further journey to Paris in 1810, the princess Esterhazy and the muse Polymnia ( Elisa Bonaparte ) take their place in this class, as do the ideal heads, comprising Corinna, Sappho, Laura, Beatrice and Helen of Troy.

The distinction is most easily made when there are two systems such as New York's subway and the LIRR and Metro-North, Paris ' RER and Métro, London's Overground and the tube lines of the Underground, Barcelona's Metro and Rodalies, S-Bahn and U-Bahn systems in Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich or Vienna, the JR lines and the Metro in Tokyo.

Most imperial powers had not foreseen a need to prepare their colonies for independence ; for example, Britain had given limited self-rule to India and Sri Lanka, while treating British Somaliland as little more than a trading post, while all major decisions for French colonies were made in Paris and Belgium prohibited any self-government up until it suddenly granted independence to its colonies in 1960.

In June 1791, the King made an ill-fated attempt to flee the country ( flight to Varennes ), but was apprehended short of his goal on the Austrian Belgian border and was forced to return under guard to Paris.

He made this claim in a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, at the Paris Peace Conference and at the First Session of the United Nations.

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( 1516-1590 ), a Franciscan friar and prolific writer on many subjects ; this copy is now in the manuscript of a large unpublished work by Thevet in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

After the Treaty of Paris in 1763, which deprived France of almost all her possessions in the Americas other than Guiana and a few islands, Louis XV sent thousands of settlers to Guiana who were lured there with stories of plentiful gold and easy fortunes to be made.

In France, avant-garde director René Clair made surreal use of song and dance in comedies like Under the Roofs of Paris ( 1930 ) and Le Million ( 1931 ).

While little progress was made toward gender equality during the Revolution, the activism of French feminists was bold and particularly significant in Paris.

Paris soon divided into those who thought he was a charlatan who had been forced to flee from Vienna and those who thought he had made a great discovery.

Clovis made Paris his capital and established the Merovingian Dynasty but his kingdom would not survive his death in 511.

Philip Augustus founded the Sorbonne and made Paris a city for scholars.

The utopian ideals of the founding fathers – social justice and the right to decent work – were changed by diplomatic and political compromises made at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, showing the ILO's balance between idealism and pragmatism.

The architect made three secretive trips to Paris, to determine the feasibility of the project ; only one museum employee knew why he was there.

They ask Paris, a traveling salesman, to judge the cakes they have made for the church social.

His pastels and portraits of his parents and friends, made when he was 15, were later kept in the museum of the Pasteur Institute in Paris.

When various Bolshevik and Menshevik factions tried to re-unite at the January 1910 RSDLP Central Committee meeting in Paris over Lenin's objections, Trotsky's Pravda was made a party-financed ' central organ '.

Protests against the lettres de cachet were made continually by the parlement of Paris and by the provincial parlements, and often also by the Estates-General.

In Paris, in 1779, the Cour des Aides demanded their suppression, and in March 1788 the parlement of Paris made some exceedingly energetic remonstrances, which are important for the light they throw upon old French public law.

Nevertheless, she scored a real triumph in 1850, when she made her operatic debut at the Paris Opéra performing the role of " Fidès " in Meyerbeer's Le prophète, which had been created the year before by no less than Pauline Viardot.

Stitt's playing with the group is found on a recording made in Olympia, Paris ( where Davis and Coltrane had played a few months before ) and the Live in Stockholm album.

Louis also ordered, at the urging of Pope Gregory IX, the burning in Paris in 1243 of some 12, 000 manuscript copies of the Talmud and other Jewish books.

Meanwhile, two of the lithographic copies made in Egypt had reached the Institut de France in Paris, in 1801.

Henry Miller's 1934 novel, Tropic of Cancer, had explicit sexual passages and could not be published in the United States ; an edition was printed by the Obelisk Press in Paris and copies were smuggled into the United States.

The film was lost for many years because the original print of the film burned in a fire and all copies were reported lost, destroyed, or worn away, but a copy of the film with French subtitles was found in the permanent collection of the Cinémathèque Française in Paris.

He also began to visit the Paris Conservatoire library, seeking out scores of Gluck's operas and making personal copies of parts of them.

A few copies were distributed amongst his friends, but the bulk were, slightly morbidly, stored in his office at the Paris Conservatoire, to be sold upon his death.

The most famous, and earliest, of the many manuscript copies is kept in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris ( MS Fr 2695 ).

It gives a good indication of Bilal's popularity in France, that Rendez-vous à Paris was the fifth best selling new comic of 2006, with 280, 000 copies sold.

He was finally allowed to return to Paris in 1781 to settle his affairs and attempt to find copies of the disputed records, but his differences with various French officials, coupled with the publication in Rivington's Royal Gazette in New York of private letters to his brother in which he repudiated the Revolution as hopeless and suggested a rapprochement with Britain, led to his being barred from entry and branded a traitor at home.

In 1928 the Paris Herald Tribune became the first newspaper distributed by airplane, flying copies to London from Paris in time for breakfast.

The other two copies are in Paris.

The first edition was a run of 2, 500 copies that were begun in Paris in 1539.

His writing influenced generations of intellectuals: during the 1968 student uprisings in Paris and Berlin, students scrawled his name on walls and threw copies of The Mass Psychology of Fascism at the police.

Besides the twenty-two etchings " sur Paris ", Méryon did seventy-two etchings of one sort and another ninety-four in all being catalogued in Frederick Wedmore's Méryon and Méryon's Paris ; but these include the works of his apprenticeship and of his decline, adroit copies in which his best success was in the sinking of his own individuality, and more or less dull portraits.

New York has four copies, Paris and London have three each, and Mainz, the Vatican City and Moscow have two each.

* On 5 May 1996, during a fire at the headquarters of Crédit Lyonnais, a major bank in Paris, system administrators ran into the burning building to rescue backup tapes because they didn't have off-site copies.

However, she recorded another very successful album in 1996 — this sold over a million copies in just twelve hours — before respiratory problems took her life in Neuilly-sur-Seine ( a suburb of Paris ), on November 24, 1997.

Between 1761 and 1767, Carsten Niebuhr, a Danish mathematician, made copies of cuneiform inscriptions at Persepolis as well as sketches and drawing of Nineveh, and was shortly followed by André Michaux, a French botanist and explorer, who sold the French Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris an inscribed boundary stone found near Baghdad.

The most famous, and earliest, of the many manuscript copies is kept in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris ( MS Fr 2695 ).

In 1921, Ramgoolam set sail by the Messagerie Maritime for London with a transit of a couple of days in Paris when he rushed into the bookshop to purchase copies of the books of André Gide and André Malraux with both of whom he struck friendship.

Reduced size copies of the statue stand in the center of Place Denfert-Rochereau in Paris, and in Downtown Montreal — Lion of Belfort ( Montreal ).

Upon the book's publication in France in 1934, the United States Customs Service banned the book from being imported into the U. S. Frances Steloff sold copies of the novel smuggled from Paris during the 1930s at her Gotham Book Mart, which led to lawsuits.