The French were hopeless disciplinarians .. Germans good and methodical, but it was not German that I really wanted Rosalind to learn.

Some French collaborated with the Germans.

Famous victory marches around or under the Arc have included the Germans in 1871, the French in 1919, the Germans in 1940, and the French and Allies in 1944 and 1945.

The majority of the population is French, but there are sizable groups of Italians, Spaniards ( Up to 20 % of the Bordeaux population claim some degree of Spanish heritage ), Portuguese, Turks, Germans and North Africans ..

The Germans quickly advanced through the forest, knocking down the trees the French thought would impede this tactic.

It was not until the 19th century that other European languages began to use the word " Czechs " ( in English – Tschechen in German, Tchèques in French ) in a deliberate ( and successful ) attempt to distinguish between Bohemian Slavs and other inhabitants of Bohemia ( mostly Germans ).

The Germans were reluctant to relinquish naming rights to the French, often calling it cassiopeium.

Eisenhower's first struggles however were with Allied leaders and officers on matters vital to the success of the Normandy invasion ; he argued with Roosevelt over an essential agreement with de Gaulle to use French resistance forces in covert and sabotage operations against the Germans in advance of Overlord.

The French, with what remained of the Germans, then began to march in increasingly disorganized fashion, towards Antioch.

The first use of poison gas on the Western Front was on 22 April 1915, by the Germans at Ypres, against Canadian and French colonial troops.

The Germans were upset at having not been informed about French intentions, and declared their support for Moroccan independence.

A French woman returns when the Germans retreat from her district and finds her home in ruins.

Paris fell to the Germans on 14 June 1940, and the French leaders surrendered on 24 June 1940 after the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk.

Performers include French harmonicist Nikki Gadout, Germans Steve Baker and the late Johnny Müller ( who played the title melody of the Winnetou-movies ) and German-Italian Willi Burger.

In November 1937, Ribbentrop was placed in a highly embarrassing situation when his forceful advocacy of the return of the former German colonies led to the British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and the French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos offering to open talks on returning the former German colonies, in return for which the Germans would make binding commitments to respect their borders in Central and Eastern Europe.

As part of the fierce diplomatic competition in Ankara in the spring and summer of 1939 between von Papen on the one hand, and on the other the French Ambassador, René Massigli, and the British Ambassador, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, to win the allegiance of Turkey to either the Axis or the Allies, Ribbentrop suffered a major reversal in July 1939 when Massigli was able to arrange for major French arms shipments to Turkey on credit, to replace the weapons the Germans refused to deliver to the Turks.

Though the French and the Italians were serious about Mussolini's peace plan, which called for an immediate ceasefire and a four-power conference à la Munich to consider Poland's borders, the British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax stated that unless the Germans withdrew from Poland immediately, then Britain would not attend the proposed conference.

By 1840, to protect the interests of the various nationals doing business in Zanzibar, consul offices had been opened by the British, French, Germans and Americans.

It is unlikely that the Germans named the lake so for being shallow since the adjective is a Greek loanword that was borrowed via French and entered the general German vocabulary in the 17th century.

It was strategically ineffective, as the Germans indeed invaded Belgium, defeated the French army, flanked the Maginot Line, through the Ardennes forest and via the Low countries, completely sweeping by the line and conquering France in about 6 weeks.

The tripartite military talks, started in mid-August, hit a sticking point regarding passage of Soviet troops through Poland if Germans attacked, and the parties waited as British and French officials overseas pressured Polish officials to agree to such terms.

A distinct Creole culture called the Ilois, which means " Islanders " in French Creole, evolved from these workers.

French cuisine has evolved extensively over centuries.

Hercules thus evolved from a symbol of the sovereignty of the monarch into a symbol of the new sovereign authority in France: the French people.

The name Meuse is derived from the French name of the river, which evolved from the Latin name Mosa.

Raï (), which is the Arabic word for " opinion ", is a form of folk music, originated in Oran, Algeria from Bedouin shepherds, mixed with Spanish, French, African and Arabic musical forms, which dates back to the 1930s and has been primarily evolved by women in the culture.

Pencil, from Old French pincel, a small paintbrush, from Latin a " little tail " ( see penis — pincellus is Latin from the post-classical period ) is an artist's fine brush of camel hair, also used for writing before modern lead or chalk pencils ; the meaning of " graphite writing implement " apparently evolved late in the 16th century.

There also evolved the right of parole, French for " discourse ", in which a captured officer surrendered his sword and gave his word as a gentleman in exchange for privileges.

This eventually evolved into the American style roulette game as different from the traditional French game.

The American game developed in the gambling dens across the new territories where makeshift games had been set up, whereas the French game evolved with style and leisure in Monte Carlo.

The Senegalese gendarmerie evolved out of a French colonial Spahi detachment sent to Senegal in 1845.

The French martial art la canne developed to fight with canes and swordsticks and has now evolved into a sport.

( The French word " Acadien " evolved to " Cadien ", then to " Cajun ".

H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler, in The King's English state that the term nom de plume " evolved " in Britain, where people wanting a " literary " phrase, failed to understand the term nom de guerre, which already existed in French.

This change occurred because in the Romance languages, the cognates of luxuria ( the Latin name of the sin ) evolved to have an exclusively sexual meaning ; the Old French cognate was adopted into English as luxury, but this lost its sexual meaning by the 14th century.

The original German guillotines resembled the French Berger 1872 model, but they eventually evolved into more specialised machines largely built of metal with a much heavier blade enabling shorter uprights to be used.

According to another theory, it is believed that the pointed arch evolved naturally in Western Europe as a structural solution to a purely technical problem, concurrent with its introduction and early use as a stylistic feature in French and English churches.

The type of tracery that evolved to fill these spaces is known in England as Geometric Decorated Gothic and can be seen to splendid effect at many English and French Cathedrals, notably Lincoln and Notre Dame in Paris.

Monarchical governance thenceforth evolved under a continuous succession of French and British sovereigns, and eventually the legally distinct Canadian monarchy, which is sometimes colloquially referred to as the Maple Crown.

Quebec French either evolved from this language base and was shaped by the following influences ( arranged according to historical period ) or was imported as a koine from Paris and other urban centres of France.

According to Jean Fouchard, mereng evolved from the fusion of slave music genres ( such as the chica and calenda ) with ballroom forms related to the French contredanse.

It was more " evolved ", and French interests were stronger than in other parts of Indochina, notably in the form of French-owned rubber plantations.

Born in Paris, he studied under Jacques-François Blondel, Germain Boffrand and Jean-Laurent Le Geay, from whom he learned the mainstream French Classical architecture in the 17th and 18th century and the Neoclassicism that evolved after the mid century.

Improved version T13 introduced as T26 with more powerful 4-cylinder flat air-cooled engine and in six-wheeler chassis created capable offroad light utility truck which later evolved in to T72 model which was heavily used by Czechoslovakian army at the time and was also manufactured under license by the French company Lorraine-Dietrich.

A planned rising of his supporters in Normandy in May 1362 was an abject failure, but in 1363 he evolved an ambitious plan to form two armies in 1364, one of which would go by sea to Normandy and the other, under his brother Louis, would join forces with the Gascons operating with the Great Company in Central France and invade Burgundy, thus threatening the French King from both sides of his realm.

Unlike the original variety native to Northern France, Louisiana andouille has evolved to be made mainly of pork butt, not tripe, and tends to be spicy with a flavor far too strong for the mustard sauce that traditionally accompanies French andouille: prior to casing, the meat is heavily spiced with cayenne and black pepper.