Brown was born in Calais and studied art in Antwerp under Egide Charles Gustave Wappers.

Calais, the last English outpost on the Continent, was then taken by France.

The Battle of Castillon ( 1453 ) was regarded as the last engagement of this " war ", yet Calais and the Channel Islands remained ruled by the Plantagenets.

Offshore powerboat racing was first ' recognized ' as a sport when, in 1904, a race took place from the south-eastern coast England to Calais, France.

After undertaking a diplomatic mission to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, accompanying Thomas Wolsey to Calais and Bruges, More was knighted and made under-treasurer of the Exchequer in 1521.

Mary's dream of a resurrected Catholic Tudor dynasty was finished, and her popularity further declined when she lost the last English area on French soil, Calais, to Francis, Duke of Guise, on 7 January 1558.

The deception was so effective that the Germans kept 15 reserve divisions near Calais even after the invasion had begun at Normandy, lest it prove to be a diversion from the main invasion at Calais.

During planning for the Normandy beach invasion, it was decided that it was vitally important that the German High Command be misled that the landing would happen at the Pas de Calais.

The conference at Calais was something of a political triumph, but even though the French government gave implicit support for Henry's re-marriage and Francis I himself held private conference with Anne, the French King maintained alliances with the Pope which he could not explicitly defy.

In the months before the June 1944 Normandy invasion, Patton gave public talks as commander of the fictional First U. S. Army Group ( FUSAG ), which was supposedly intending to invade France by way of Calais.

However it never received a proper seagoing test as, when the ship demolished part of the Calais pier on her maiden voyage, investor confidence was lost and the ship was scrapped.

This plot, launched with the full knowledge of Nivelle and the French Prime Minister Aristide Briand, was announced in guarded terms at a War Cabinet meeting on 24 February, to which neither Robertson nor Lord Derby ( Secretary of State for War ) had been invited, then landed on Robertson and Haig without warning at an Anglo-French conference at Calais ( 26-7 Feb ).

It may have taken place when Anne was with the King in Calais in November 1532, but it seems more likely that it took place at a secret ceremony on 25 January 1533.

By the beginning of June, Caroline had travelled north from Italy, and was at St Omer near Calais.

Calais, from 1347 to 1558, when it was recovered by the French throne, was an English possession.

Unlike the other principal Lancastrian commanders, Wenlock had deserted the Lancastrian cause after the First Battle of Saint Albans, only to revert to the Lancastrians when he was deprived of the Lieutenancy of Calais.

The courtier was rewarded for his faithfulness, gaining the lieutenancy of Calais in 1471, and becoming Edward's lord chamberlain and primary confidant.

Lincoln was joined by a number of rebel English Lords at Mechelen, in particular Richard III's loyal supporter, Lord Lovell, Sir Richard Harleston, the former governor of Jersey and Thomas David, a captain of the English garrison at Calais.

York went via Wales to Ireland where he had support from the Irish Parliament, while Salisbury, Warwick and York's eldest son Edward, Earl of March made their way via the West Country to Calais, where Warwick was Constable.

In January 1557 Robert and Amy Dudley were allowed to repossess some of their former lands, and in March of the same year Dudley was at Calais where he was chosen to deliver personally to Queen Mary the happy news of her husband's return to England.

Hôtel Meurice de Calais is a hotel, established in 1771 as Le Chariot Royal by the French postmaster, Charles-Augustin Meurice, who would later establish the five-star Hôtel Meurice, one of Paris's most famous luxury hotels.

Amendments in the remaining models were confined to new wheels, trims and decals, however, the Calais has taken on a sports-luxury persona as opposed to the discrete luxury character seen in previous models.

The once second-tier model now became the sole luxury model, only overshadowed by the more expensive Calais.

* Golden Arrow, Folkestone, Kent is named after a luxury boat train of the Southern Railway and later British Railways, which linked London with Dover, where passengers took the ferry to Calais and boarded its French counterpart () to Paris.

Free car parking facilities are available in front of the Calais ferry terminal and the maximum stay is of three days.

Unable to find targets through cloiud cover, Z XII drops no bombs, but over Calais, France, on the way home makes the first use of a manned observation car lowered by winch below the Zeppelin through clouds to allow observation while the airship remains safely above cloud cover.

" In this review the car was viewed as being superior to a BMW 5-series: " Early in the trip the car was uncannily smooth over the bumpy back roads between Calais and Dunkirk.

The 442 model moved to the notchback Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais to return to its roots as a performance car as it had a larger 350 V8 engine not available on other Cutlass models.

The Firenza was positioned as Oldsmobile's entry-level compact car, priced below the sightly larger Omega and later Calais / Cutlass Calais.

Due to this, the Firenza was not replaced in Oldsmobile's lineup, leaving the Cutlass Calais as the division's smallest car.

Another car, now called simply the Hurst / Olds, appeared in 1979, based on the Cutlass Calais coupe.

The Oldsmobile Calais, renamed the Cutlass Calais for 1988, and briefly available in 1987 as the limited edition GMO Quad-4, was a compact car produced by General Motors from 1985 through 1991.

The 1985 Calais, named for the city in Northern France, was chosen to be the Indianapolis 500 Pace car that year.

The Achieva was first seen as a concept car at the 1991 Chicago Auto Show and was said to replace Oldsmobile's compact Calais models.

It replaced the previous Cutlass Calais 442 W41 as the best handling, highest power output compact car in the Oldsmobile's lineup as well as being the last performance " W-Machine " Oldsmobile would offer.

* 1881 – The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.

York made himself Constable of England, and appointed Warwick Captain of Calais.

It is the principal ferry crossing point between England and France, with the vast majority of Channel crossings being made between Dover and Calais.

The craft entered commercial service in August 1968, with the Princess Margaret ( of British Rail's Seaspeed ) initially operated between Dover and Boulogne but later craft also made the Ramsgate ( Pegwell Bay ) to Calais route.

He continued to serve as chamberlain and was also appointed to be lieutenant of Calais, which made him an important player in foreign affairs, and he was given authority over an increasingly large section of the English Midlands.

Evidence has been produced to suggest that the arrest was actually made in Calais and that not even the local governor was informed of the event – Vauroy's absence being explained away by his hunting for Spanish soldiers who had strayed into France via the Spanish Netherlands.

The following year he made a speech in Calais that was considered by the authorities to be so revolutionary that he was arrested and expelled from France.

Semi-trailing arm independent rear suspension became standard on the Calais and SS, but was made an option on lower-end models in lieu of the live rear axle, improving ride and handling.

The method of propaganda used by Soldatensender Calais was described by Sefton Delmer its creator in his book, Black Boomerang, as " cover, cover, dirt, cover, dirt "; that is, using good music and providing coverage of sports and other events of interest to a German serviceman, the station made that listener receptive to propaganda items aimed at decreasing morale.

In 1488 he was on a commission to inspect the ordnance at Calais, and in 1491 was made a knight of the Garter.

The hill of Cassel was occupied during the late Iron Age by the Menapii, a Belgic tribe, who made it the capital of a large territory extending from modern Calais to as far as the Rhine.

Only minor changes were made for 1976, including an eggcrate grille similar to that of the 1976 Cadillac Calais / DeVille / Fleetwood flanked by new rectangular headlights, along with revised exterior and interior trimmings.

One of these rare historical examples, recorded by Sir George Mackenzie, tells of Aymery of Pavia, a Lombard who was made governor of Calais in 1349 ( and who bore Azure four mullets Or.

He made a geological survey of the English and French coasts along the Dover and Calais areas, however the project was abandoned due to lack of money.

Margaret was one of Anne's chief ladies-in-waiting, and accompanied her to Calais, France in 1532, where it is presumed Anne and Henry VIII made secret plans to marry in the immediate future.

From 1384 he was summoned frequently to Parliament, and in 1377 he was appointed to the continual council of Richard II during his minority, in 1378 he was made Constable of Leeds Castle for life, and from 1380 the Captain of Calais.

On 21 June, Drobinski badly damaged the Bf 109F-2 of Oberst Adolf Galland, CO of JG 26, who made a forced landing at Calais, while W / C Kent downed Fw.

This made it appear that the corps would move east to the English Channel for a landing near Calais, France.

He was made Lord Deputy of Calais in 1511.

In 1360 he took the fortress of Chaven in Brittany, as well as the castle of Ferte-sous-Jouarre, and was present at Calais when peace was made between England and France in October 1360.

He filled several other public positions, including that of lieutenant of Calais, before January 1541, when he was suddenly arrested on a charge of treason ; his offence, however, was not serious, and in the same year he was made captain of Guînes.

His brother, Sir Edward Wotton ( 1489 – 1551 ), was made Treasurer of Calais in 1540, and was one of those who took part in the overthrow of the protector Somerset.