In 1821 he finished a painting commissioned by a childhood friend, Monsieur de Pastoret, the Entry of Charles V into Paris ; de Pastoret also ordered a portrait of himself and a religious work ( Virgin with the Blue Veil ).

* Monsieur l ' Artiste, a French artist who is apparently a caricature of Bell himself.

Chaplin then wrote, directed, and starred in Monsieur Verdoux himself.

Under an assumed name, he sells himself as a bond-servant to planter and ship-owner Monsieur Beaunoir and his family in New Orleans in 1792.

Les vacances de M. Hulot follows the generally harmless misadventures of a lovable, gauche Frenchman, Monsieur Hulot ( played by Tati himself ), as he joins the " newly-emerging holiday-taking classes " for an August vacation at a modest seaside resort.

Poirot introduces himself to Schwartz as Monsieur Poirier, a silk merchant from Lyon.

He moves to Montreuil-sur-Mer, a small seaside town in the North of France assumes the name of Monsieur Madeleine and reforms himself as a manufacturer and later Mayor of the town.

The Greek evidently fell for her, `` Monsieur X '' recounted, and to clinch what he thought was an affair in the making he gave her 100,000 francs ( about $300 ) and led her to the roulette tables.

He demonstrated a facility for working in the French language and Monsieur Klein ( 1976 ) gave Alain Delon as star and producer one of French cinema's earliest chances to highlight the background to the infamous Vel'd ' Hiv Roundup of French Jews in July 1942.

Of this he gave evidence in two delightful books, Monsieur et Madame Cardinal ( 1873 ) and Les Petites Cardinal, in which the lowest orders of the Parisian middle class are faithfully described.

Monsieur Lambert-Violet, a leading Perpignan businessman, gave the land for the memorial to Vernet.

Buckstone passed on the play, but instead gave him the chance to play Monsieur Mafoi, a small role in “ The Pilgrim of Love ” a play adapted by Lord Byron from Irving ’ s “ Legends of the Alhambra ” that opened at the Haymarket on, April 9, 1860.

I want you to find Monsieur Prieur at once and give him this money for the boy's purchase.

After I paid Monsieur Prieur for Dandy, I brought him home, but he was ill at ease and ran away the same night.

Monsieur de Monneron, captain among geniuses, who had followed me on my Hudson Bay Expedition, was embarked as chief engineer ; his friendship for me, as well as his taste for voyages, made him determined to seek this position: he was charged with making plans, examining positions.

Monsieur Bernizet, engineer-geographer, joined him in this party.

Constant wars with many of the major powers in Europe rendered a significant marriage with a foreign princess unlikely, or so Louis XIV told his brother, Monsieur, when persuading him to accept the king's legitimised daughter, Françoise Marie de Bourbon ( known as Mademoiselle de Blois ), as wife for Philippe.

By May 1576 the crown was forced to accept the terms of Alençon, and the Huguenots who supported him, in the Edict of Beaulieu, known as the Peace of Monsieur.

It has taken more than forty years to recognize qualities in Monsieur de Lafayette which one insisted on denying him.

However, the position of premier prince devolved upon the ducs d ' Orléans in 1710, so the seventh Prince, Louis III ( 1668 – 1710 ) declined to make use of the title, preferring instead to be known by his hereditary peerage of Duke of Bourbon, which still afforded him the right to be known as Monsieur le Duc.

De Funès accepts the character of Jérôme Chambon at the entrance of the cabaret and invites him to enter inside by " C ' est par ici Monsieur " (" This way please, Sir ").

:" Omichund, his confidential servant, as he thought, told his master of an agreement made between the English and Monsieur Duprée be a mistranscription of Joseph François Dupleix | Dupleix to attack him, and received for that advice a sum of not less than four lacks of rupees.

In the event, Julien Sorel becomes an acolyte of the abbé Chénal, the local Catholic prelate, who later secures him a post as the tutor for the children of Monsieur de Rênal, the mayor of Verrières.

He enters a love affair with Monsieur de Rênal ’ s wife ; it ends badly when exposed to the village, by her chambermaid, Elisa, who had romantic designs upon him.

Consequently, Mathilde sincerely falls in love with Julien, eventually revealing to him that she carries his child ; yet, whilst he was on diplomatic mission in England, she became officially engaged to Monsieur de Croisenois, an amiable, rich young man, heir to a duchy.

Whetstone reported that the cause of death was " the wound of his leg which he received in battle with Monsieur Du Casse, it never being set to perfection, which malady being aggravated by the discontent of his mind, threw him into a sort of melancholy which ended his life as before.

It appears that by the summer of 1724, the marquise de Prie, and possibly also Monsieur le Duc, were considering breaking Louis XV's engagement with the infanta, despite the great offence this would cause Spain, and finding him a wife who might provide the country with an heir at an earlier date.

In his work The Count of Monte Cristo, after Benedetto reveals in court that the crown prosecutor Monsieur de Villefort was his illegitimate father, he ( de Villefort ) forfeits his job and he removes his robes because it was a burden and torment to him, using the shirt of Nessus as a metaphor.

Manufacturing rights were obtained by a dealer, a Monsieur Binet in 1920 and he had an updated version of the cars made for him by Mahieux of Levallois-Perret, Seine.

The man, Monsieur de Noirseuil, in the interest of revenge, pretended to be his friend, and made sure he became bankrupt and eventually poisoned him, leaving the girls orphans.

Georges takes Albin to the Promenade Café, owned by Monsieur and Madame Renaud, where he attempts to soften Albin's emotions before telling him of Jean-Michel's request (" Song on the Sand ").

As he began to focus on the human being rather than the natural world, his understanding of psychology and motivation was also influenced by the writings of Niccolò Machiavelli, whose analysis helped him to articulate a much darker view of human nature in his later years, and about whom he wrote the article Monsieur Machiavel, ou le coeur humain dévoilé ( 1951 ).

Corbu claimed that Marie Dénarnaud would confide a secret to him before she died, saying " Pray do not worry yourself, Monsieur Corbu.

Monsieur Dior's creativity also negotiated him a pleasant salary.

Monsieur Sinfray succeeded him.

In 1788 she was commissioned by the king's brother, the Count of Provence ( later Louis XVIII of France ), to paint him at the centre of a large historical work, Réception d ' un chevalier de Saint-Lazare par Monsieur, Grand maître de l ' ordre.

The Louvre has, besides twenty-two drawings, a portrait of Lieutenant General Hrault as well as an oil painting of an English merchant and a friend dressed in costumes and entitled Monsieur Levett and Mademoiselle Helene Glavany in Turkish Costumes.

" His influence on Elizabeth is suggested by the fact that, for the remainder of her life, she remained an occasional writer of poems such as On Monsieur ’ s Departure.

At first she meekly accepted Lane's strictures about what would be published by them but by the time of Poirot Investigates Christie insisted that their suggested title of The Grey Cells of Monsieur Poirot was not to her liking and that the book was to be included in the tally of six books within her contract-the Bodley Head opposed this because the stories had already been printed in The Sketch.

* A Brief Discourse of the Real Presence of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Celebration of the Holy Eucharist ; wherein the Witty Artifices of the Bishop of Meaux and of Monsieur Maimbourg are obviated, whereby they would draw in the Protestants to imbrace the doctrine of Transubstantiation, 1681.

His name was derived from two other fictional detectives of the time: Marie Belloc Lowndes ' Hercule Popeau and Frank Howel Evans ' Monsieur Poirot, a retired Belgian police officer living in London.

The following year, in November 1963, the Plaza Theater in New York started a year-long series of Chaplin's films, including Monsieur Verdoux and Limelight, which now gained excellent reviews from American critics.

* Voltaire's novel Candide purports to be assembled from the notes of a deceased " Monsieur le docteur Ralph ", likely because the novel pokes fun at most of the powers of Europe at the time.

The Stooges during their prime years with Curly Howard on board, as seen in this promotional photo from Wee Wee Monsieur

* French — Alain Kan: " Au pays de Pierrot " (" In Pierrot Country " ); Chantal Goya: " Les pierrots de Paris " and " Pierrot tout blanc " (" Pure White Pierrot "), in Monsieur le Chat Botté ( 1982 ); Danielle Licari: " Les Chansons de Pierrot " ( 1981 ); Guy Béart: " Pierrot la tendresse " (" Pierrot the Tender "), from Béart à l ' université de Louvain ( 1974 ); Gérard Lenorman: " Pierrot chanteur ", from Le Soleil des Tropiques ( 1983 ); Jacques Dutronc: " Où est-il l ' ami Pierrot?

It was during this period while at a party that he met the daughter of a Parisian watchmaker, Monsieur Jacques François Houdin, who had also come from Jean Robert's native Blois.

The best-known figure on Cook's mission, Joseph Banks ,< ref > Extract from Lapérouse's journal: I here must witness my recognition of Sir Joseph Banks, who, having realised that Monsieur de Monneron could not find an inclining compass in London, wished to lend us those that had served the famous captain Cook.

" In the following years, similar awards were given to seven other films: one from Italy ( The Bicycle Thief ), two from France ( Monsieur Vincent and Forbidden Games ), three from Japan ( Rashomon, Gate of Hell and Samurai, The Legend of Musashi ), as well as a Franco-Italian co-production ( The Walls of Malapaga ).

The French term Mon Seigneur (" My Lord "), shortened to the modern French Monsieur derives directly from the Latin seniorem, meaning " elder, senior ".

The school, owned by a Monsieur Jost, was in Reichenau, a village on the upper Rhine, across from Switzerland.

Crockett was of Irish, English, Scottish, and French-Huguenot ancestry, the family name being derived from Monsieur de la Croquetagne, a captain in the Royal Guard of French King Louis XIV.

A few dozen meters from the chateau is another impressive house, built in 1900 by Monsieur Lambert ( the sculptor of the statue of Voltaire ; his family owned the chateau before it was purchased by the French government ).

The small sword was the immediate predecessor of the French duelling sword ( from which the épée developed ) and its method of use — as typified in the works of such authors as Sieur de Liancour, Domenico Angelo, Monsieur J. Olivier, and Monsieur L ' Abbat — developed into the techniques of the French classical school of fencing.

' During her childhood, one of her mother's acquaintances ( possibly brief lover ), Monsieur Billard-Dumonceaux, and possibly father of Jeanne's half-brother Claude ( who died in infancy when only ten months old ) took both Anne and three-year-old Jeanne into his care when they traveled from Vaucouleurs to Paris and installed Anne as a cook in his Italian mistress ' household.

He also now became premier prince du sang, addressed by everyone, from the king down, simply as Monsieur le prince.

Although Henry's own descendants thereafter held the senior positions within the royal family of dauphin, Fils de France, and petits-fils de France, from 1589 to 1709 the Princes of Condé coincidentally held the rank at court of premier prince du sang royal ( First Prince of the Blood Royal ), to which was attached income, precedence, and ceremonial privilege ( such as the exclusive right to be addressed as Monsieur le prince at court ).

Despite the fact that he was in his forty-ninth year, and Marie Thérèse had barley passed her fourteenth birthday, Monsieur Geoffrin had inherited a substantial fortune from his first wife, and the chance for " an excellent settlement " was thought to be quite suitable by Madame Chemineau.

* James Miller-The Mother-in-Law ( adapted from Molières Le Malade imaginaire and Monsieur de Pourceaugnac )

To differentiate the older Monsieur from the younger, Gaston, the uncle, was called Le Grand Monsieur and Philippe, his nephew and brother of the new king Louis XIV, was called Le Petit Monsieur.