It was not a part of any one of the three ( later four ) zones for occupation by Soviet, American, British, and French troops respectively.

The discovery that movies are a form of fiction was made in the early years of this century and it was made chiefly by two men, a French magician, Georges Melies, and an American employee of Edison, Edwin S. Porter.

Some, like the British and the French, maintain an elaborate system of personal contacts and have experts constantly studying special areas of the American scene.

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

Gershwin collaborated on the original program notes with the critic and composer Deems Taylor, noting that: " My purpose here is to portray the impression of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city and listens to various street noises and absorbs the French atmosphere.

" The American visitor " once again is an alert spectator of Parisian life " and " the street noises and French atmosphere are triumphant.

Gershwin explained in Musical America, " My purpose here is to portray the impressions of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city, listens to the various street noises, and absorbs the French atmosphere.

Later in the 1960s and 1970s, Edmund Leach and his students Mary Douglas and Nur Yalman, among others, introduced French structuralism in the style of Lévi-Strauss ; while British anthropology has continued to emphasize social organization and economics over purely symbolic or literary topics, differences among British, French, and American sociocultural anthropologies have diminished with increasing dialogue and borrowing of both theory and methods.

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.

" American shot " is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, " plan américain " and refers to a medium-long (" knee ") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera.

One of the other main reasons why French critics called it ' American Shot ' was its frequent use in westerns.

The French critics thought it was characteristic of American films of the 1930s or 1940s ; however, it was mostly characteristic of cheaper American movies, such as Charlie Chan mysteries where people collected in front of a fireplace or at the foot of the stairs in order to explain what happened a few minutes ago.

* 1947 – André Weinfeld, French and American Film Director / Producer

* 1871 – John French Sloan, American artist ( d. 1951 )

A similar French influence is seen in classroom ASL in francophone West Africa, where ASL was introduced along with formal education for the deaf by the deaf American missionary Andrew Foster.

The French, Portuguese, German, and Italian languages use cognates of the word " American ", in denoting " U. S. citizen ".

English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, Portuguese, and Russian speakers may use the term American to refer to either inhabitants of the Americas or to U. S. nationals.

They generally have other terms specific to U. S. nationals, such as German US-Amerikaner, French étatsunien, Japanese 米国人 beikokujin, Arabic أمريكاني amriikaanii ( as opposed to the more-common أمريكي amriikii ), and Italian statunitense, but these may be less common than the term American.

With the 1994 passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the following words were used to label the United States Section of that organization: in French, étatsunien ; in Spanish, estadounidense.

Both the American and the Annales historians picked up important family reconstitution techniques from French demographer Louis Henry.

The French chaise longue (" long chair ") became the American " chaise lounge " by metathesis ( transposition of letters and / or sounds ).

* 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.

* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost at Pondicherry.

The concept of representative democracy arose largely from ideas and institutions that developed during the European Middle Ages, the Age of Enlightenment, and the American and French Revolutions.

Deistic ideas influenced several leaders of the American and French Revolutions.

In much the same way, American historian of science Thomas Kuhn addressed the structural formations of science in his seminal work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

Literature and Politics in the Central American Revolutions.

* Atlantic Revolutions ( American Revolution, French Revolution, Latin American Revolutions, etc.

" The Keynesian Revolutions and the Monetarist Counter-Revolution ," American Economic Review, 61 ( 2 ), p p. 1-14.

The Spanish American Revolutions, 1808 – 1826 ( Second edition ).

Seized by the spirit of revolution following the American and French Revolutions, as well as bridling as a result of the forced separation from Denmark and subordination to Sweden subsequent to the Napoleonic wars, Norwegians signed their first constitution in 1814.

Smith argued that Confederation was motivated by new political ideologies as much as the American and French Revolutions.

This movement also provided a framework for the American and French Revolutions, the Latin American independence movement, and the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth Constitution of May 3, and also led to the rise of liberalism and the birth of socialism and communism.

* Stephanie Creed, Kelcie McLaughlin, Christina Miller, Vince Struble, Mexican Revolution 1910 – 1920, Latin American Revolutions, course material for History 328, Truman State University ( Missouri )

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* John Lynch, The Spanish American Revolutions 1808-1826 ( New York: W. W. Norton, 1986, 2nd ed.

Domestic Revolutions: A Social History Of American Family Life ( 1989 ) excerpt and text search

* Marquis de Lafayette ( hero of the American and French Revolutions ),

Domestic Revolutions: a Social History of American Family Life.

Many of the anti-colonial revolutions in Mexico and South America were heavily inspired by the imagery and slogans of the revolution of the United States of America, called American revolution, and French Revolutions.

Coining the word was " almost entirely the work of British and American Protestants and was prompted by their belief that the French and American Revolutions ( the French, especially ) realized prophecies made in the books of Daniel and Revelation.

" Modeling the Transition to a New Economy: Lessons from Two Technological Revolutions ," American Economic Review, March 2007, Vol.