For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.

* 1759 – Seven Years ' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French.

Johnson forced the French out of Mexico by sending an army to the border and issuing an ultimatum.

* 1813 – At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.

* 1809 – The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: the Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.

* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.

* 1677 – The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.

On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.

* 1522 – Combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeat a French and Venetian army at the Battle of Bicocca.

* 1544 – French forces defeat a Spanish army at the Battle of Ceresole.

* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.

The reputation of the French army also suffered badly.

Local German peasants, angry at French plundering, compounded Tallard's problems, leading Mérode-Westerloo to bemoan – " the enraged peasantry killed several thousand of our men before the army was clear of the Black Forest.

A French reconnaissance under the Marquis de Silly went forward to probe the enemy, but were driven off by Allied troops who had deployed to cover the pioneers of the advancing army, labouring to bridge the numerous streams in the area and improve the passage leading westwards to Höchstädt.

The rest of Marlborough's army, waiting in their ranks on the forward slope, were also forced to bear the cannonade from the French artillery, suffering 2, 000 casualties before the attack could even be begun.

Yet, after Rousseau had given the social contract a new twist with his notion of the General Will, the same philosophy, it may be said, became the idea source of the French Revolution also.

In secret he also acted as a member of the prisoners' Central Committee, which plotted sabotage, planned a few escapes, and maintained a hidden control over the wretched French slave-laborers.

It also makes a fine introduction to the international art form with good examples of Italian and English madrigals plus several French `` chansons ''.

Today Algeria contains, in its literary landscape, big names having not only marked the Algerian literature, but also the universal literary heritage in Arabic and French.

The Algerian pastry also contains Tunisian or French cakes and it is marketed.

Poirot also bears a striking resemblance to A. E. W. Mason's fictional detective — Inspector Hanaud of the French Sûreté — who, first appearing in the 1910 novel At the Villa Rose, predates the writing of the first Poirot novel by six years.

An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.

In French, étasunien, from États-Unis d ' Amérique, distinguishes U. S. things and persons from the adjective américain, which denotes persons and things from the United States but may also refer to ' the Americas '; likewise, the German usages U. S .- amerikanisch and U. S .- Amerikaner observe said cultural distinction, solely denoting U. S. things and people.

The French Revolution ( 1787 – 99 ) that began during his youth was also influential: Ampère ’ s father was called into public service by the new revolutionary government, becoming a justice of the peace in a small town near Lyon.

Ampère also applied this same principle to magnetism, showing the harmony between his law and French physicist Charles Augustin de Coulomb ’ s law of magnetic action.

The common name alder is derived from an old Germanic root, also found to be the translation of the Old French verne for alder or copse of alders.

In French, and sometimes ( especially earlier ) also in English, the city is known as Aix-la-Chapelle ().

In reply to this the French sovereign dispatched Andrew as his ambassador to Güyük Khan ; with Longjumeau went his brother William ( also a Dominican ) and several others — John Goderiche, John of Carcassonne, Herbert " Le Sommelier ," Gerbert of Sens, Robert ( a clerk ), a certain William, and an unnamed clerk of Poissy.

* French arpent — also used in Louisiana as length and area unit of measure

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier ( also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution ; 26 August 17438 May 1794 ; ), the " father of modern chemistry ," was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology.

It is also similar to the use of quotation marks in many other languages ( including Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan, Dutch and German ).

Asterix or The Adventures of Asterix (, ) is a series of French comic books written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo ( Uderzo also took over the job of writing the series after the death of Goscinny in 1977 ).

Louisiana Creole ( also called French Créole ) refers to native born people of the New Orleans area who are descended from the Colonial French and / or Spanish settlers of Colonial French Louisiana, before it became part of the United States in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase.

The Centauro Wheeled Tank Destroyer of the Italian and Spanish Armies, the Chinese anti-tank gun PTL-02 and the French AMX 10 RC heavy armored car are also good examples.

Modern weapons include the Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka and Tunguska-M1, South Korean K30 Biho and K263A1 radar-guided Vulcan, Chinese Type 95 SPAAA, Swedish CV9040 AAV, Polish PZA Loara, American M6 Bradley Linebacker and M1097 Humvee Avenger, Yugoslavian BOV-3, Canadian ADATS, aging German Gepard, Japanese Type 87 SPAAG and similar versions with the British Marksman turret ( which was also adapted for a number of other users ), Italian SIDAM 25 and Otomatic, and versions of the French AMX-13.

The French physicist Pierre Victor Auger also discovered it in 1923 upon analysis of a Wilson cloud chamber experiment and it became the central part of his PhD work.

During the same period a movement with similar aims had also developed in France under the direction of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc a French architect and theorist, famous for his " restorations " of medieval buildings.

In France before the French Revolution, representatives of the clergy — in practice, bishops and abbots of the largest monasteries — comprised the First Estate of the Estates-General, until their role was abolished during the French Revolution.

Accounts of the Ethiopian artillery deployed at Adwa differ ; Russian advisor Leonid Artamonov wrote that it comprised 42 Russian mountain guns supported by a team of fifteen advisers, but British historians suggest that the Ethiopian guns were Hotchiss and Maxim pieces captured from the Egyptians or purchased from French and other European suppliers.

French written lute music began, as far as we know, with Pierre Attaingnant's ( c. 1494 – c. 1551 ) prints, which comprised preludes, dances and intabulations.

Lazio comprised the short-lived Roman Republic, in which it became a puppet state of the First French Republic under the forces of Napoleon Bonaparte.

* The French delegation was headed by Henri II d ' Orléans, duc de Longueville and further comprised the diplomats Claude d ' Avaux and Abel Servien.

Initially the groupe comprised a group of French fighter pilots sent to aid Soviet forces on the Eastern Front at the suggestion of Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French Forces, who felt it important that French servicemen serve on all fronts in the war.

The French Army comprised approximately 400, 000 regular soldiers, some of them veterans of previous French campaigns in the Crimean War, Algeria, the Franco-Austrian War in Italy, and in the Franco-Mexican War.

Geopolitically the Duchy of Warsaw comprised the areas of the 2nd and 3rd Prussian partitions ( 1795 ), with the exception of Danzig ( Gdańsk ), which was made into the Free City of Danzig under joint French and Saxon " protection ", and the district around Białystok, which was given to Russia.

The Indian slaves comprised close to half of the known slaves in French Canada ( also called Lower Canada ).

Studies show that although Jews in France only amounted to one percent of the French population, they comprised about fifteen to twenty percent of the Résistance.

Classical forms of theatre, including Greek and Roman drama, classic English drama ( Shakespeare and Marlowe comprised ), and French theater ( Molière included ), is still performed today.

Terra Mar, now part of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, accounted for speakers of English as a first language at 80. 88 %, while both French and Spanish were tied at 5. 83 %, Italian consisted of 3. 42 %, German made up 3. 21 %, and Arabic comprised 0. 80 % of residents.

As of 2000, before being annexed to Palmetto Bay, English was a first language for 65. 56 % of all residents, while Spanish comprised 28. 78 %, Portuguese accounted for 1. 53 %, Italian made up 0. 66 %, French was at 0. 62 %, and both Chinese and Tagalog were the mother tongue for 0. 47 % of the population.

As of 2000, before being annexed to Palmetto Bay, English as a first language accounted for 66. 62 % of all residents, while Spanish comprised 30. 22 %, French Creole was at 1. 64 %, and French as a mother tongue made up 1. 49 % of the population.

As of 2000, English was the first language for 84. 48 % of all residents, while Yiddish comprised 6. 04 %, Spanish made up 5. 25 %, Polish accounted for 1. 31 %, German was totaled at 0. 98 %, French totaled 0. 65 %, Hebrew was at 0. 51 %, Arabic at 0. 42 %, and Portuguese was the mother tongue for 0. 32 % of the population.

As of 2000, English as a first language accounted for 86. 65 % of all residents, while the mother tongues of French comprised 5. 38 %, Finnish consisted of 4. 52 %, Spanish was at 2. 42 %, and Italian made up 1. 02 % of the population.

As of 2000, speakers of English as a first language accounted for 80. 47 % of all residents, while Spanish comprised 11. 04 %, French Creole consisted of 7. 61 %, and the mother tongue of French made up 0. 85 % of the population.

During the French Revolutionary Wars Fox supported the French Republic against the monarchies that comprised the Second Coalition.