Meanwhile, the 22 Floréal-coup in France undermined Delacroix, because it inspired more sympathy by French foreign minister Talleyrand for the Dutch opposition members who demanded the ambassador's recall.

The French translation by the agency Havas altered the ambassador's demand to a question ( il a exigé ) and did not translate " Adjutant ", which in German refers to a high-ranked aide de camp, but in French describes only a non-commissioned officer ( adjudant ).

But when the Tories came into power in 1710 Prior's diplomatic abilities were again called into action, and until the death of Anne he held a prominent place in all negotiations with the French court, sometimes as secret agent, sometimes in an equivocal position as ambassador's companion, sometimes as fully accredited but very unpunctually paid ambassador.

* In the musical Rent, one of the leads, Harvard-educated lesbian lawyer Joanne, attended and learned to tango with the French ambassador's daughter in her dorm room at Miss Porter's.

" Beside misrepresenting the timeline of the mass killings in the Zone Turquoise, the implication of the testimony as conveyed to the foreign press was that Bihozagara had a sitting ambassador's insight into French policy at the time of the genocide.

French ambassador's residence in Washington, D. C. | French ambassador's residence located at 2221 Kalorama Road, NW

It was later the French ambassador's residence, but it was demolished in 1773.

French ambassador's residence in Washington, D. C. | French ambassador's residence

The French ambassador's residence is located in the Sheridan-Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D. C.

It was later the French ambassador's residence, but it was demolished in 1773.

In June 2001 EasyEverything received the ‘ Investment in France 2001 ’ award at the French ambassador's residence in London.

* 1969 – Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations.

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.

Politics of French Polynesia takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic French overseas collectivity, whereby the President of French Polynesia is the head of government, and of a multi-party system.

Demand in English and demande in French or domanda in Italian are representative of a particularly treacherous sort of false friend, in which – despite a common origin – the words have differently shaded meanings.

Politics of Mayotte takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic French overseas collectivity, whereby the President of the General Council is the head of government, and of a multi-party system.

New Caledonia is a French overseas country with a system of government based on parliamentarism and representative democracy.

The representative of the French central state in New Caledonia is the High Commissioner of the Republic ( Haut-Commissaire de la République, locally known as " haussaire "), who is the head of civil services, and who sits in the government of the territory.

* 1803 – In New Orleans, Louisiana, Spanish representatives officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to a French representative.

The following year, the lands forming the sites of Napoleon ’ s burial and of his home at Longwood House were vested in Napoleon III and his heirs and a French representative or consul has lived on the island ever since, the French flag now flying over these areas.

Politics of Saint Pierre and Miquelon takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic French overseas collectivity, whereby the President of the Territorial Council is the head of government, and of a multi-party system.

Philippe Allonneau the French representative even succeeded in being recognized as King of Espiritu Santo by the island's tribal chiefs.

* August 4 – Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, U. S. representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations.

* August 28 – Mathieu Luis becomes the first black member to join the French Parliament as a representative of Guadaloupe.

* November 30 – At the Cabildo building in New Orleans, Spanish representatives Governor Manuel de Salcedo and the Marqués de Casa Calvo, officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to French representative Prefect Pierre Clément de Laussat ( just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase ).

The Governor General of Canada ( French: Gouverneur général du Canada, or: Gouverneure générale du Canada ) is the federal viceregal representative of the Canadian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.

In the 1370s the last representative in the male line of the ruling house of Gwynedd, Owain Lawgoch, twice planned an invasion of Wales with French support.

The French representative to the Security Council, in the debate immediately after the vote, asserted:

Aged 16, he was turned down ( because of his age ) by Colonel Henri de La Vaissière ( then representative of the Communist Youth ) when he attempted, in November 1944, to join the French Forces of the Interior ( FFI ).

The Coupe des Alpes struggled on until 1973 until it too succumbed, its demise no doubt hastened by the decision of the French motor sporting authorities to select the Tour de Corse as its representative event in international rally championships.

Sultan Ahmed III receives French ambassador Vicomte d ' Andrezel at Topkapı Palace.

Despite this preference for Anglophone works, he also read a number of French novels, such as General Dourakine, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later.

* 1611 – Henri de la Tour d ' Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, French field marshal ( d. 1675 )

* July 23 – Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais, French politician and general ( executed ) ( b. 1760 )

* October 22 – Jean, Vicomte d ' Aguisy Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile ( b. 1479 )

* May 28 – Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais, French politician and general ( d. 1794 )

* August 15 – Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader ( b. 1485 )

** Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader ( d. 1528 )

The Vicomte de Blossac, intendant from 1750 to 1784, had a French garden landscaped.

Edmée ( Desirée for the French ), Joséphine's paternal aunt, had been the mistress of François, Vicomte de Beauharnais, a French aristocrat.

Eugène Rose de Beauharnais, Prince Français, Prince of Venice, Viceroy of the Kingdom of Italy, Hereditary Grand Duke of Frankfurt, 1st Duke of Leuchtenberg and 1st Prince of Eichstätt ad personam ( 3 September 1781 – 21 February 1824 ) was the first child and only son of Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais and Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie, future wife of French Emperor Napoléon I.

For the rest of 1642 and part of the 1643 campaigns, Thomas Francis ommanded Piedmontese forces fighting alongside the French under Henri II d ' Orléans, duc de Longueville against the Spanish, generally along the Piedmont / Milan border ; when Longueville was recalled home, he succeeded him as allied commander-in-chief, with Henri de la Tour d ' Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne as his second-in-command.

Wimbledon House, a separate residence close to the village at the south end of Parkside ( near present day Peek Crescent ), was home in the 1790s to the exiled French statesman Vicomte de Calonne, and later to the mother of writer Frederick Marryat.

The French deported Toussaint Louverture to France, and brought in more than 20, 000 new troops under the Vicomte de Rochambeau in an effort to regain control of the colony and re-establish slavery.

Audience of the French diplomat le Vicomte d ' Andrezel with the Sultan Selim III on 10 October 1724 in the Topkapı Palace.

Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec ( 1485 – 15 August 1528 ) was a French military leader.

Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte de Lesseps ( 19 November 1805 – 7 December 1894 ) was the French developer of the Suez Canal, which joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas in 1869, and substantially reduced sailing distances and times between the West and the East.

Delphine de Girardin ( January 24, 1804, Aachen – June 29, 1855, Paris ), pen name Vicomte Delaunay, was a French author.

She was the daughter of Vicomte Jacques J. de Sibour, a French nobleman and pilot, and his wife, Violette B. Selfridge ( later Mrs. Frederick T. Bedford ), daughter of British department-store magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge.

The island is the setting for a portion of The Man in the Iron Mask as well as " The Vicomte of Bragelonne ", the adventure novels by 19th century French writer Alexandre Dumas, père.

The entrenched Bavarians led by Franz von Mercy retreated after three separate days of being assaulted by the French army under Louis II de Bourbon, Duc d ' Enghien and marshal Henri de la Tour d ' Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, and the French then went on to capture the city of Freiburg.

Étienne Jules Adolphe Desmier de Saint-Simon, Vicomte d ' Archiac ( 24 September 1802 – 24 December 1868 ) was a French geologist and paleontologist.