However, Paris ignored the powerful developments in quantitative studies underway in the U. S. and Britain, which reshaped economic, political and demographic research in those countries, while France fell behind.

After returning to Paris, he fell ill, probably due to an epidemic then sweeping the city.

Drawn from life by the historian Matthew Paris for his Chronica Majora, it can be seen in his bestiary at Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, with an accompanying text revealing that at the time, Europeans believed that elephants did not have knees and so were unable to get up if they fell over.

Although he is known today for his performances in Singin ' in the Rain and An American in Paris, he was a dominant force in Hollywood musical films from the mid 1940s until this art form fell out of fashion in the late 1950s.

Allied armies invaded France in early 1814, Paris fell, and in April Napoleon surrendered.

Moving to Paris he fell under the tutelage of Alexander von Humboldt and Georges Cuvier, who launched him on his careers of geology and zoology respectively.

After the deaths of many heroes, including the Achaeans Achilles and Ajax, and the Trojans Hector and Paris, the city fell to the ruse of the Trojan Horse.

Following a prolonged siege, Paris fell on 28 January 1871.

Several sources claim that in his carriage on the way back to Paris, Favre broke into tears, and collapsed into his daughter's arms as the guns around Paris fell silent at midnight.

A few weeks later though, as the severity of winter fell upon Vincennes, the young king was moved to the Tuileries Palace, in the center of Paris, near the Palais Royal.

Shortly after arriving in Paris, he met and fell in love with Kiki de Montparnasse ( Alice Prin ), an artists ' model and celebrated character in Paris bohemian circles.

Hans built two bicycles, and they fled Paris just a few hours before it fell.

Helen was already married to King Menelaus of Sparta ( a fact Aphrodite neglected to mention ), so Paris had to raid Menelaus's house to steal Helen from him ( according to some accounts, she fell in love with Paris and left willingly ).

While writing a second biography of Stalin in Moscow, Barbusse fell ill with pneumonia, and died on August 30, 1935 He is buried in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.

Philip fell ill in Poitiers during the summer of the 1321 leper scare, partially the result of his reform plans for the south of the kingdom ; after a respite, he died at Paris in August.

Paris, son of the king Priam and the queen Hecuba, fell in love with Oenone when he was a shepherd on the slopes of Mount Ida, having been exposed in infancy ( owing to a prophecy that he would be the means of the destruction of the city of Troy ) but rescued by the herdsman Agelaus.

After Paris abandoned Oenone, she sent the boy, now grown, to Troy, where he fell in love with Helen, and she received him warmly.

A relief from Dur-Sharrukin depicted the sack of Musasir as well ( which fell into the Tigris in 1846 when the archaeologist Paul-Émile Botta was transporting his artifacts to Paris ).

Gane met the French-born Lætitia Sadier at a McCarthy concert in Paris and the two quickly fell in love.

He then left Denmark for the last time and went back to his beloved Paris, where he lost his second wife and youngest child in 1822, and after the miseries of an imprisonment for debt, fell at last into a state of hopeless melancholy madness.

When early in 1889, Boulanger was finally driven into exile, it fell to Carnot to appear as head of the state on two occasions of special interest, the celebration of the centenary of the French Revolution in 1889 and the opening of the Paris Exhibition of the same year.

This caliber gun was used by the Germans against Paris and could hit targets more than away.

They began to muster new armies, and the Germans settled down to a grim siege of Paris.

When the Germans threatened to overrun Paris in 1940, where she was then living, he arranged her escape to England.

These troubles furnished him with a pretext, of which he was not unwilling to avail himself, for postponing the meeting, which was being urged by King Charles VI of France, theologians at the University of Paris, such as Pierre d ' Ailly and Jean Gerson, and Rupert III, King of the Germans, as the only means of healing the Schism which had prevailed so long.

On September 19 the Germans began to besiege Paris.

These new bodies of troops were to march towards Paris and attack the Germans there from various directions at the same time.

The Germans noticed this development and dispatched some of their troops to the French provinces in order to detect, attack, and disperse the new French armies before they could become a menace, for the blockade of Paris or elsewhere.

Shortly after the Peace of Ryswick ( 1697 ), the English and Germans abolished the pike and introduced ring bayonets ; and plates of them are given in Surirey de St. Remy's Mémoires d ' Artillerie, published in Paris in that year ; but owing to a military cabal they were not issued to the French infantry until 1703, using a spring-loaded locking system to prevent the bayonet from accidentally separating from the musket.

French officer Louis Rossel, who participated to the defense of Metz during the siege, joined up with the Paris Commune in opposition to the felony of General Bazaine negotiating with and surrendering Metz to the Germans.

In 1939, with Germany ’ s invasion of France looming, Miró relocated to Varengeville in Normandy, and on May 20 of the following year, as Germans invaded Paris, he narrowly fled to Spain ( now controlled by Francisco Franco ) for the duration of the Vichy Regime ’ s rule.

He was a prisoner of war for a short time when the Germans conquered France and willingly lived and worked in Paris during the German occupation of France during World War II.

As the Germans advanced on 24 March, the British Fifth army retreated and a gap was created in the British / French lines – giving them access to Paris.

Fearing the Germans would destroy Paris if attacked by a frontal assault, General Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered his forces to cease their advance and reconnoitre the situation.

Bisset's mother cycled from Paris and boarded a British troop transport to escape the Germans during World War II.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

With the fall of France in 1940, Denikin left Paris in order to avoid imprisonment by the Germans.

The Germans had reactivated the pre-war TV transmitter and instituted a Franco-German service for military hospitals and VIPs in the Paris region.

A few months later, using the Polish techniques, the British began reading Enigma ciphers in collaboration with Polish Cipher Bureau cryptologists who had escaped Poland, overrun by the Germans, to reach Paris.

In France, Sarnoff arranged for the restoration of the Radio France station in Paris that the Germans destroyed and oversaw the construction of a radio transmitter powerful enough to reach all of the allied forces in Europe, called Radio Free Europe.

Twenty-two Paris brothels had been commandeered by the Germans for their exclusive use ; some had made a great deal of money by catering for German soldiers and officials.

As the Wehrmacht defeated the French defence, on 13 June, Benjamin and his sister fled Paris to the town of Lourdes, a day before the Germans entered Paris ( 14 June 1940 ), with orders to arrest him at his flat.

Supposedly, he developed secret weapons that killed Germans without leaving forensic evidence, planted booby traps all over Paris, had high-level meetings with Allied commanders, and worked with a ( nonexistent ) group of Spanish anti-fascists.

In the treaty, the Germans renounced nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons and stated their intention to reduce the ( combined ) German armed forces to 370, 000 within 3 to 4 years after the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, signed in Paris on 19 November 1990, entered into force.