* 1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.

* 1667 – The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance.

* September 23 – French aviator Roland Garros crosses the Mediterranean in an airplane flying from Fréjus, France to Bizerte, Tunisia.

* June 24 – Napoleon's Grande Armée crosses the Niemen River and invades Russia ( see French invasion of Russia ).

US-70 continues east to Del Rio, Tennessee and Hot Springs, North Carolina, while US-321 turns north and crosses the Pigeon and French Broad en route to Greeneville and northeastern Tennessee.

At its eastern border one crosses into the French town of Beausoleil ( sometimes referred to as Monte-Carlo-Supérieur ), and just 5 miles ( 8 km ) further east is the western border of Italy.

Saarbrücken's " Saarbahn " ( modelled on the Karlsruhe model light rail ) crosses the French – German border, connecting to the French city of Sarreguemines.

The name of the municipality changed to the current one, derived from “ Braine ”, former name of the stream that crosses its territory ( now called the “ Hain ”), and “ alleu ”, a medieval French word designating exempt land.

In 1188 the French King, Philip II of France accepted the claim of the English to the red cross on white, and the English and French officially exchanged their respective crosses.

Albert Seibel ( 1844 – 1936 ) was a French physician and viticulturist who made hybrid crosses of European wine grapes ( Vitis vinifera ) with native North American grapes.

A footbridge crosses the top of French Weir at Taunton

But the correct expression to define the continental crosses is " cross with nimbus " ( croix nimbée in French ).

The Regordane Way crosses The Cévennes ( in English and French )

Such a case in French (" old ", i. e., royal era ) heraldry, where coronets of rank did not come into use before the 16th century, is the vidame, whose coronet ( illustrated ) is a metal circle mounted with three visible crosses ( there is no documentary or archeological evidence that such a coronet was ever made ).

L 55 sets an altitude record for airships of 24, 000 feet ( 7, 315 meters ) during her homebound flight before being damaged beyond repair in a hard landing in Germany ; L 44 is shot down in flames by French artillery over the Western Front with the loss of all hands ; L 49 lands in France and is captured along with her entire crew ; L 45 lands in France and is destroyed by her crew, who are captured ; and L 50 makes a hard landing in France, after which 15 of her crew manage to get off the airship and are captured and she drifts away and crosses France before disappearing over the Mediterranean Sea with four men still aboard.

The French claim that the Spinone has descended from crosses of several French pointing breeds, whilst the Italians believe the Spinone is the ancestor of the Wirehaired Pointing Griffon, the German Wirehaired Pointer, and the Pudelpointer.

The British Commonwealth graves are rectangular and made of white stone, while the French graves have grey stone crosses.

The route crosses the Connecticut River via the historic French King Bridge at a height of 140 feet.

Unlike the simplest form of three-strand braid, in which all the hair is initially divided into three sections which are simultaneously gathered together near the scalp ( also known as an " English braid "), a French braid starts with three small sections of hair near the crown of the head ; these initial sections are braided together toward the nape of the neck, gradually adding more hair to each section as it crosses in from the side into the center of the braid structure.

* May-A fleet of French buccaneers, including Pierre le Picard, crosses the Isthmus of Panama on their way to the South Sea and loot Guayaquil.

The Tancarville Bridge ( Pont de Tancarville in French ) is a suspension bridge that crosses the Seine River and connects Tancarville ( Seine-Maritime ) and Marais-Vernier ( Eure ), near Le Havre.

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.

The French royal Order of Saint Louis ( 1693 – 1790 and 1814 – 1830 ), the Île Saint-Louis as well as a hospital in the 10th arrondissement of Paris also bear his name.

The English metaphor derives from the 16th c. Old French métaphore, from the Latin metaphora “ carrying over ” from the Greek ( μεταφορά ) metaphorá “ transfer ”, from ( μεταφέρω ) metaphero “ to carry over ”, “ to transfer ” and from ( μετά ) meta “ between ” + ( φέρω ) phero, “ to bear ”, “ to carry ”.

In French, the polar bear is referred to as ours blanc (" white bear ") or ours polaire (" polar bear ").

Links between the two strands – literary and philosophical – of the French school of rhetoric are strong and collaborative, and bear witness to the revival of rhetoric in France.

One British observer wrote, " To the astonishment of the whole fleet, the French center were permitted without molestation to bear down to support their van.

The angle of approach of the British line also played a role in the damage they sustained ; ships in their van were exposed to raking fire when only their bow guns could be brought to bear on the French.

" When he did finally begin pulling away, British leaders interpreted it as a retreat: " the French van suffered most, because it was obliged to bear away.

The word baribal is used as a name for the black bear in Spanish, French, and Italian.

As such, they are the distant relations of the Belgian, Danish, Greek, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish Royal Families, and bear lineage from, amongst others, Arab, Armenian, Cuman, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Serbian, and Swedish ethnicities, as well as, according to Moroccan and Chinese officials, respectively, being directly descended from the Prophet Muhammad and Tang Dynasty Chinese Emperors.

Guignol is the main character in a French puppet show which has come to bear his name.

However, they harbored suspicions that the Vichy French navy would bear a grudge over the British action at Mers-el-Kebir in 1940.

Many of the farms in the Western Cape province in South Africa still bear French names.

To counter English accusations that this had been done on purpose to let the English bear the brunt of the fighting, the French now formed the centre squadron.

Quite a few counties bear names of French or Spanish origin.

Quite a few counties bear names of French or Spanish origin, such as Marquette County being named after French missionary Father Jacques Marquette.

The coins also bear the mark ( a symbol, letter, or monogram ) denoting the particular French ( or French controlled ) mint which struck the coin.

Most British and French titles ( particularly newer creations ) of nobility descend to the senior male by primogeniture, to the exclusion of females, and agnatic cadets may bear courtesy titles.

* " L ' homme qui a vu l ' homme qui a vu l ' ours " ( French proverb ) — similar French language proverb literally meaning The man who saw the man who saw the bear, in which the bear is never seen, only heard of.

A biting, pithy parable of the all-pervading hollowness of modern life, the piece has been set by Mlle Lagoon to a sumptuous score ( a single motif played over and over by four thousand French horns ) by existentialist hot-shot Jean-Paul Sartre.

In a careful study of the historiography of a single event, Duby examines how the Battle of Bouvines has been used and abused in French history.

: Officially, the single is called a rouge ( French for " red ") but is often referred to as a single.

They influenced French physicist André-Marie Ampère's developments of a single mathematical form to represent the magnetic forces between current-carrying conductors.

Ragout, a stew still central to French cookery, makes its first appearance as a single dish in this edition as well ; prior to that, it was listed as a garnish.

In 1865 Kekulé published a paper in French ( for he was then still in Francophone Belgium ) suggesting that the structure contained a six-membered ring of carbon atoms with alternating single and double bonds.

Among these losses, 1, 918 of the deaths were from a single regiment of the French Foreign Legion, a fact that testifies to the importance of the Foreign Legion's role in the campaign.

Calvin had only intended to stay a single night, but William Farel, a fellow French reformer residing in the city, implored a most reluctant Calvin to stay and assist him in work of reforming the church there – it was his duty before God, Farel insisted.

According to her, it was this desire to establish a single, unified will based on the stifling of opinion in favor of public passion that contributed to the excesses of the French Revolution.

French individualist anarchist Emile Armand shows clearly opposition to capitalism and centralized economies when he said that the individualist anarchist " inwardly he remains refractory – fatally refractory – morally, intellectually, economically ( The capitalist economy and the directed economy, the speculators and the fabricators of single are equally repugnant to him.

The band appeared on French television with Salvador Dalí, who splashed black paint on them during a performance of their second single " Rainbow Chaser.

A tourist in the cities in southern France is unlikely to hear a single Occitan word spoken on the street ( or, for that matter, in a home ), and is likely to only find the occasional vestige, such as street signs ( and, of those, most will have French equivalents more prominently displayed ), to remind them of the traditional language of the area.

During the first part of the 20th century, the only casino towns of note were Monte Carlo with the traditional single zero French wheel, and Las Vegas with the American double zero wheel.

Adolphe Sax created an instrument with a single reed mouthpiece like a clarinet, conical brass body like an ophicleide, and the acoustic properties of both the French horn and the clarinet.

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French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog " the most important film director alive " and American film critic Roger Ebert stated that Herzog " has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons or uninteresting.

Charles Theodore's heir, Maximilian Joseph, Duke of Zweibrücken ( on the French border ), brought all the Wittelsbach territories under a single rule in 1799.

The territories of modern southern Ontario and southern Quebec were initially maintained as the single Province of Quebec, as it had been under the French.

Auerstädt involved a single French corps defeating the bulk of the Prussian army.

The first commercial introduction of 70 mm single projector 3D was the 1967 release of Con la muerte a la espalda, a Spanish / French / Italian co-production which used a process called Hi-Fi Stereo 70.

In the French and Hungarian versions of the tale, the travellers are soldiers: three returning home from the Napoleonic Wars play the role in the former, and a single, starving one, who encounters several hardships on his journey back to his homeland, is depicted in the latter.

Igor Stravinsky called Daphnis et Chloé " one of the most beautiful products of all French music " and author Burnett James claims that it is " Ravel's most impressive single achievement, as it is his most opulent and confident orchestral score ".

A sloop ( from Dutch sloep, in turn from French chaloupe ) is a sail boat with a single mast and a fore-and-aft rig comprising a mainsail and a single foresail ( or headsail ).