The department began as a subset of the sculpture department, based on royal property and the transfer of work from the Basilique Saint-Denis, the burial ground of French monarchs that held the Coronation Sword of the Kings of France.

The Continental campaign was carried on by Cumberland, defeated at Hastenbeck and forced to surrender at Convention of Klosterzeven ( 1757 ) and thereafter by Ferdinand of Brunswick, later victor at Minden ; Britain's Continental campaign had two major strands, firstly subsidising allies, particularly Frederick the Great, and second, financing an army to divert French resources from the colonial war and to also defend Hanover ( which was the territory of the Kings of England at this time )

Christian burial of the royal remains took place three days later, on 21 January, in the necropolis of French Kings at the Basilica of St Denis.

The series of which the book was part, The Accursed Kings, has been adapted for French television in 1972 and 2005.

In the four protectorates, the French formally left the local rulers in power, who were the Emperors of Vietnam, Kings of Cambodia, and Kings of Luang Prabang, but in fact gathered all powers in their hands, the local rulers acting only as figureheads.

Abbot Suger, friend and confidante of the French Kings, Louis VI and Louis VII, decided in about 1137, to rebuild the great Church of Saint-Denis, attached to an abbey which was also a royal residence.

They were built between the 10th and 20th centuries, firstly by the French kings followed soon thereafter by the nobility ; hence, the Valley is termed " The Valley of the Kings ".

The marriage was an attempt to finally settle the struggle between the Counts of Anjou and the French Kings over possession of the frontier district of the Norman Vexin, which Louis VII acquired from Henry's grandfather, Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, around 1144.

* A specific tortell is in fact a special coca that Catalan only eat the day of the Three Kings ( 6 January ) which is called " tortell de reis ", or galeta de reis in French Catalonia, a typical ring-shaped pastry stuffed with marzipan or Catalan cream ( crema catalana ) and topped with glazed fruit and nuts.

( At these years the French Kingdom was literally surrounded by the Habsburg realms as they were the Kings of Spain as well as Holy Roman Emperors.

Earlier French gold coins are referred to as Louis ( the name of eighteen French Kings ) or écu ( an old French word for shield ).

French Lick is also the hometown of former Sacramento Kings head coach Jerry Reynolds, who currently works as the team's color commentator on its television broadcasts and is the Kings ' director of player personnel.

On a trip to London to visit Queen Anne in 1710, arranged by the Albany mayor Peter Schuyler, the Four Mohawk Kings asked for help in defense against the French, and for Anglican missionaries to offset French Catholic influence.

Some blame the complete esteem with which the sovereign's office was held, justified by prominent French Roman Catholic theologians ( e. g. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet ), and that the special powers of French Kings " were accompanied by explicit responsibilities, the foremost of which was combating heresy ".

See also: Kings of France family tree, List of French monarchs, Carolingians, Capetian dynasty, House of Capet, House of Valois, House of Bourbon, House of Orléans

Although a small château, when compared to the great châteaux of the Kings and some of those built by other wealthy nobles, it is a magnificent Renaissance construction fronted by traditional French gardens.

" Henry V is also cited as an example of Protestant purity: " He was a king blest of the King of Kings ./ Unto the French the dreadful judgement day / So dreadful will not be as was his sight ./ The battles of the Lords of Hosts he fought " ( 1. 1. 28 – 31 ).

This series of events forms the basis of Les Rois Maudits ( The Accursed Kings ), a series of historical novels written by Maurice Druon between 1955 and 1977, which was also turned into two French television miniseries in 1972 and 2005.

Writing many years later, Bonaparte commented that if the French Navy had adopted the same tactical principles as the British:

It was the language of the upper classes until the 12th century, after which it became the language of commoners in West Brittany ( Breizh Izel ), while the nobility, followed by the bourgeoisie, adopted French.

The general picture seems to be that during most of the 17th century, a style of hip hop was of late Renaissance dance was widespread, but as time progressed, French ballroom dances such as the minuet were widely adopted at fashionable courts.

Eventually in 1555 the civil authorities expelled Knox and his supporters to Geneva, where they adopted a new Prayer Book The Form of Prayers, that derived chiefly from Calvin's French La Forme des Prières.

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During the Napoleonic wars the Kingdom of the Netherlands adopted the French code civil in 1809, however the Dutch colonies in the Cape of Good Hope and Sri Lanka, at the time called Ceylon, were seized by the British to prevent them being used as bases by the French Navy.

After Napoleon Bonaparte in November 1799 staged a coup against the Directory government, the French Republic adopted a constitution, which conferred executive powers upon three Consuls, elected for a period of ten years.

However, Joan's paternity was suspect due to her mother's adultery ; the French magnates adopted Salic Law to avoid the succession of a possible bastard.

The original Berber name, Anfa ( meaning: " hill " in English ), was used by the locals, and Berber-speaking, city dwellers until the French occupation army entered the city in 1907 and adopted the Spanish name, Casablanca.

The last article of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was adopted on 26 August 1789, by the National Constituent Assembly ( Assemblée nationale constituante ), during the period of the French Revolution, as the first step toward writing a constitution for France.

Although no country has adopted Esperanto officially, Esperanto was recommended by the French Academy of Sciences in 1921 and recognized in 1954 by UNESCO ( which later, in 1985, also recommended it to its member states ).

Using synchronized clockwork-powered switches at the transmitting and receiving ends, he was able to transmit five messages simultaneously ; the system was officially adopted by the French Post & Telegraph Administration five years later.

Charles Maurras of the French far-right reactionary monarchist Action française admired fascism and praised Mussolini as a Bonapartist " in spirit ", and the Action française adopted fascist policies.

The following day – 22 September 1792, the first morning of the new Republic – was later retroactively adopted as the beginning of Year One of the French Republican Calendar.

Meanwhile, on 24 June, the Convention adopted the first republican constitution of France, variously referred to as the French Constitution of 1793 or Constitution of the Year I.

Today, only two European regions continue to associate with the Franks: the French province of Île-de-France, originally the Western Franks ' seat of power ; and the Ripuarian Frankish dynasty's adopted homeland, modern Franconia.

After he was ennobled by the Kaiser in 1895, he adopted the name August Kekule von Stradonitz, without the French acute accent over the second " e ".

The English word guitar, the German, and the French were adopted from the Spanish, which comes from the Andalusian Arabic, itself derived from the Latin, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek, and is thought to ultimately trace back to the Old Persian language Tar, which means string in Persian.

The French navy adopted a fine, 3. 1 millimeter, not prismatic grained product called Slow Burning Cocoa ( SBC ) or " cocoa powder ".

Under the Constitution of 1791, the solution of a constitutional monarchy was adopted, and the king supported a war against Austria in order to increase his popularity, starting the long French Revolutionary Wars.

Initially producing illustrations for Belgian Scouting magazines, in 1927 he began working for the conservative newspaper Le XXe Siècle, where he adopted the pen name " Hergé ", based upon the French pronunciation of " RG ", his initials reversed.

In the 1930s, Cocteau had an affair with Princess Natalie Paley, the daughter of a Romanov grand duke and herself a sometime actress, model, and former wife of couturier Lucien Lelong .. Cocteau's longest-lasting relationships were with the French actors Jean Marais and Édouard Dermit, whom Cocteau formally adopted.

The cult that grew up around Rousseau after his death, and particularly the radicalized versions of Rousseau's ideas that were adopted by Robespierre and Saint-Just during the Reign of Terror, caused him to become identified with the most extreme aspects of the French Revolution.

The term " Khmer Rouge ", French for " Red Khmer ," was coined by Cambodian head of state Norodom Sihanouk and was later adopted by English speakers.