Gershwin collaborated on the original program notes with the critic and composer Deems Taylor, noting that: " My purpose here is to portray the impression of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city and listens to various street noises and absorbs the French atmosphere.

* 1672 – André Cardinal Destouches, French composer ( d. 1749 )

* 1693 – Laurent Belissen, French composer ( d. 1762 )

* 1857 – Cécile Chaminade, French pianist and composer ( d. 1944 )

* 1905 – André Jolivet, French composer ( d. 1974 )

* 1683 – Jean-Joseph Mouret, French composer ( d. 1738 )

* 1910 – Pierre Schaeffer, French composer ( d. 1995 )

* 1890 – Jacques Ibert, French composer ( d. 1962 )

* 1927 – Martial Solal, French pianist and composer

* 1961 – Alexandre Desplat, French composer

* 1666 – Jean-Féry Rebel, French composer and violinist ( d. 1747 )

* 1785 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer ( d. 1858 )

* 1892 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer ( d. 1983 )

As the political situation threatened and eventually overwhelmed Austria, which was repeatedly crushed by French political forces, Salieri's first and most important biographer Mosel described the emotional effect that this political, social, and cultural upheaval had on the composer.

* 1992 – Olivier Messiaen, French composer ( b. 1908 )

* 1954 – François Valéry, French singer-songwriter and composer

* 1874 – Vincent Scotto, French composer ( d. 1952 )

Her father, Joaquín Nin, was a Cuban pianist and composer, when he met her mother Rosa Culmell, who was a classically trained singer in Cuba of French and Danish descent.

From 1907 he also began to be influenced by the French composer Claude Debussy, whose compositions Kodály had brought back from Paris.

* 1657 – Michel Richard Delalande, French Baroque composer and organist ( d. 1726 )

* 1724 – Claude Balbastre, French composer, organist and harpsichordist ( d. 1799 )

* 1775 – François-Adrien Boïeldieu, French composer ( d. 1834 )

* 1931 – Vincent d ' Indy, French composer ( b. 1851 )

* 1803 – Hector Berlioz, French composer ( d. 1869 )

* 1837 – Émile Waldteufel, French composer ( d. 1915 )

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

There was only one hitch: the small town of Kehl, on the other side of the Rhine, was still under French jurisdiction.

As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;

He dabbled in verse, could get along well among most of the European languages, and was fluent in French and German.

Greek phone service is worse than French, so that it was to be some little time before contact of any sort was established.

The great spectacle was a source of rancor, and Son et Lumiere, which the French were trying to promote with the Athenians, was the reason.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

This lofty disregard for others was not shared by such men as Pierre Flotte and his associates, that `` brilliant group of mediocre men '', as Powicke calls them, who provided the brains for the French embassy that came to Rome under the nominal leadership of the archbishop of Narbonne, the duke of Burgundy, and the count of St.-Pol.

He was unable to send any more help to his allies on the Continent, and during the next few years many of them, left to resist French pressure unaided, surrendered to the inevitable and made their peace with Philip.

In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.

The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;

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.

When they lost it, the French artillery moved in, and that was the end for Garibaldi that time, on 30 April 1849.

It was not a part of any one of the three ( later four ) zones for occupation by Soviet, American, British, and French troops respectively.

The Indochina struggle was a war to stay out of in 1954, when Gen. Ridgway estimated it would take a minimum of 10 to 15 divisions at the outset to win a war the French were losing.

`` Remember the French railroad baron who was going to take me floating down the Nile ''??