It was Giselle, the fille de chambre, come to clean the room, and while she stood before him with ears pricked up and regard all curiosity, explaining her errand, Alex could see from the corner of his eye the doctor doing all he could to calm the displeased bird.

It was evident that a second transfer had to be effected, and that it had to take place between the time the fille finished the doctor's room and the time she began Alex's.

In all these deeds, Louis IX tried to fulfill the duty of France, which was seen as " the eldest daughter of the Church " ( la fille aînée de l ' Église ), a tradition of protector of the Church going back to the Franks and Charlemagne, who had been crowned by the Pope in Rome in 800.

In 1838, he moved to Paris after the Italian censor objected to the production of Poliuto ( on the grounds that such a sacred subject was inappropriate for the stage ); there he wrote La fille du régiment, which became another success.

La fille du régiment was first performed on February 11, 1840, by the Paris Opéra-Comique at the Salle de la Bourse, then at La Scala, Milan, on October 30, 1840.

Neither of the two operas that reached the stage — Les pêcheurs de perles and La jolie fille de Perth — was immediately successful.

While La jolie fille was in rehearsal, Bizet worked with three other composers, each of whom contributed a single act to a four-act operetta Marlborough s ' en va-t-en guerre.

It was not until the appointment of Alexander Gorsky as Ballet Master in 1900 that the company began to develop its own unique identity, with acclaimed productions of new or restaged ballets including, Don Quixote ( 1900 ), Coppélia ( 1901 ), Swan Lake ( 1901 ), La fille mal gardée ( 1903 ), Giselle ( 1911 ), Le Corsaire ( 1912 ) and La Bayadère ( 1917 ).

His version of La fille mal gardée was particularly successful, and his broad travesti performances as one of two comic Ugly Stepsisters in Cinderella, the other being Robert Helpmann, were annual events for many years.

It was more likely inspired by a reference to Greuze's " La jeune fille à l ' agneau ," observed on Moriarty's wall during a police interview in The Valley of Fear.

In March 1999, La fille sur le Pont, by Patrice Leconte was released.

Reiser is said to have been seduced by the series when it was presented to him by Michel Rodrigue, president of Distraction Formats, the Montreal-based international distribution company for Un gars, une fille.

The concept of Un gars, une fille was also bought in Belgium, Cuba, Denmark, Germany, Indonesia, Israel, Latvia, Lebanon, Mexico, the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and many others, totalling more than thirty exportations.

Henri Joseph Du Laurens ( sometimes Dulaurens ) ( 1719 1793 or 97 ) was a French novelist, author of such works as Le compère Matthieu, Imirce, ou la fille de la nature and L ' Arrétin moderne.

She was raised as a fille de France by Madame de Segré, under the supervision of her fiancé's sister and regent, Anne of France.

As the daughter of the king, she was a fille de France, and as the eldest daughter of the king, she was styled Madame Royale from birth.

His third novel, La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes ( translated as The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches by Fischman ) caused a sensation in Quebec and was immediately translated into more than ten languages.

La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes was chosen for inclusion in the French version of Canada Reads, broadcast on Radio-Canada in 2004, where it was defended by actor, film director, screenwriter, and musician Micheline Lanctôt.

La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes was one of the novels chosen for inclusion in the French version of Canada Reads, broadcast on Radio-Canada in 2004, where it was championed by actor, film director, screenwriter, and musician Micheline Lanctôt.

La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes caused a sensation in Quebec and was immediately translated into more than ten languages.

The comically surrealist plot involves the elderly ( and very confused ) Baron Méduse ( his name means Medusa in French ), his daughter Frisette ( to whom the Baron actually refers as his " fille de lait ", which would imply that the Baron was Frisette's wet-nurse ), Frisette's young suitor Astolpho, and the Baron's recalcitrant valet Polycarpe.

That such deficiencies existed within Ptolemy's theory was not discovered de novo by Copernicus.

I replied in the affirmative, taking out my recently acquired titre d'identite et de voyage, on which was stamped a permission to leave France.

The distinction between domiciled ( de jure ) and present ( de facto ) population was not clearly defined.

The Istiqlal was still firmly united in 1957, but the P.D.I. ( Parti Democratique de l'Independance ), the most important minor party at the time, objected to the Istiqlal's predominance in the civil service and influence in Radio Maroc.

At the central level the scrutin uninominal voting system was selected over some form of the scrutin de liste system, even though the latter had been recommended by Duverger and favored by all political parties.

There was the Arc de Triomphe and the Tour d'Eiffel -- I was no yokel, but I was young, and this was Paris!!

During this time most of what is known as ethnologie was restricted to museums, such as the Musée de l ' Homme founded by Paul Rivet, and anthropology had a close relationship with studies of folklore.

The term android was used in a more modern sense by the French author Auguste Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam in his work Tomorrow's Eve ( 1886 ).

A resident alien owed allegiance even when the protection of the Crown was withdrawn owing to the occupation of an enemy, because the absence of the Crown's protection was temporary and involuntary ( de Jager v Attorney-Geneneral of Natal AC 326 ).

It was won by Georges Bouton of the De Dion-Bouton Company, in a car he had constructed with Albert, the Comte de Dion, but as he was the only competitor to show up it is rather difficult to call it a race.

Count Jules-Albert de Dion was first into Rouen after 6 hours and 48 minutes at an average speed of 19 km / h.

de Pompadour, Louis XV's mistress, who was considered the most powerful woman in France at the time.

de Pompadour's favorite artist and was commissioned by her for numerous paintings and decorations.

With de Broglie's suggestion of the existence of electron matter waves in 1924, and for a short time before the full 1926 Schrödinger equation treatment of hydrogen like atom, a Bohr electron " wavelength " could be seen to be a function of its momentum, and thus a Bohr orbiting electron was seen to orbit in a circle at a multiple of its half-wavelength ( this historically incorrect Bohr model is still occasionally taught to students ).

Bloch was highly interdisciplinary, influenced by the geography of Paul Vidal de la Blache ( 1845 – 1918 ) and the sociology of Émile Durkheim ( 1858 – 1917 ).

An eminent member of this school, Georges Duby, wrote in the foreword of his book Le dimanche de Bouvines that the history he taught relegated the sensational to the sidelines and was reluctant to give a simple accounting of events, but strived on the contrary to pose and solve problems and, neglecting surface disturbances, to observe the long and medium-term evolution of economy, society and civilisation.

Braudel's first book, La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen à l ' Epoque de Philippe II ( 1949 ) ( The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II ) was his most influential.

From 1389 to his death he was Court Sculptor himself, with the rank of valet de chambre.

His grandfather, Everard van Wesel, was the Royal Physician of Emperor Maximilian, while his father, Anders van Wesel, went on to serve as apothecary to Maximillian, and later a valet de chambre to his successor Charles V. Anders encouraged his son to continue in the family tradition, and enrolled him in the Brethren of the Common Life in Brussels to learn Greek and Latin according to standards of the era.

About the same time he published Passavantius,, a satire directed against Pierre Lizet, the former president of the Parliament of Paris, and principal originator of the " fiery chamber " ( chambre ardente ), who, at the time ( 1551 ) was abbot of St. Victor near Paris and publishing a number of polemical writings.

The first extant record of his life comes from the court of John of Bavaria at The Hague, where payments were made to Meyster Jan den malre ( Master Jan the painter ) between 1422 and 1424 who was then a court painter with the rank of valet de chambre, with at first one and then two assistants.

As court painter and " valet de chambre " to the Duke, van Eyck was exceptionally well paid.

He was delighted with the ultra-royalists, or Ultras, whom the election returned, declaring that he had found a chambre introuvable, literally, an " unfindable house ".

In 1553, on the recommendation of the Cardinal of Lorraine ( Charles de Guise, brother of Mary of Guise, regent of Scotland ), he was named master of the requests, and afterwards president of the chambre des comptes ( treasury ).

Behind the great hall was the tower used by the constable for detaining prisoners ; this included a special room for holding prisoners, called the " dettors chambre " (" debtors ' chamber ") in the 16th century, and an underground dungeon.

The first librarian of record was Claude Mallet, the king's valet de chambre, who made a sort of catalogue, Inventoire des Livres du Roy nostre Seigneur estans au Chastel du Louvre.

, Madame Geoffrin was the first child of a bourgeois named Pierre Rodet, a valet de chambre for the Duchess of Burgundy, and Angelique Thérèse Chemineau, the daughter of a Parisian Banker. Marie Thérèse's mother died a year later in giving birth to her son Louis.

As social divisions became more rigid, a divide, barely present in Antiquity or the Middle Ages, opened between menial servants and other classes at court, although Alexandre Bontemps, the head valet de chambre of Louis XIV was a late example of a " menial " who managed to establish his family in the nobility.

The complete name of this department was argenterie, menus plaisirs et affaires de la chambre du roi (" silver, small entertainments and affairs of the king's chamber ").

In courts, valet de chambre was a position of some status, often given to artists, musicians, poets and others, who generally spent most of their time on their specialized work.

His father, a colonel of the Auvergne regiment, was appointed a premier gentilhomme de la chambre to King Louis XVI of France's younger brother, the Comte de Provence, in 1780.

Paul especially was on good terms with the duke, and received a court position as valet de chambre or personal attendant ( his uncle had had the same position with the Duke of Burgundy ).

On 7 May 1451 Waynflete, from le peynted chambre in his manor house at Southwark, asserting that his bishopric was canonically obtained and that he labored under no disqualification, but feared some grievous attempt against himself and his see, appealed to the protection of the pope.

He was loosely but neatly dressed in a large ample robe de chambre.

He did quite well as court musician, and in 1679 was appointed ordinaire de la chambre du roy pour la viole, a title he kept until 1725.

In addition, he was named along with Adrien Basin and Antoine Busnois as " chantre et valet de chambre " to Charles, indicating the special regard in which he was held.

Also in 1467 Busnois was listed along with Hayne van Ghizeghem and Adrien Basin as a " chantre et valet de chambre " to Charles.

German Kammerjunker ) was a courtier title defined in the Table of Ranks, generally equating to valet de chambre or Groom of the Chamber.

The concert was hosted by French actor Ticky Holgado and featured performances by Chevaliers du fil, Pauline Ester, Bernardo Sandoval, and the l ’ Orchestre de chambre national de Toulouse.