Jean-Robert Argand introduced the term " module " ' unit of measure ' in French in 1806 specifically for the complex absolute value and it was borrowed into English in 1866 as the Latin equivalent " modulus ".

For instance, the English declarative sentence " snow is white " refers to the same proposition as the equivalent French declarative sentence " la neige est blanche "; two sentences, one proposition.

The French verb attendre means " to wait ", yet an English speaker learning French might expect the English equivalent to be " attend ", which means " to participate in " or " to go to ".

However, the verb " attend " in English is translated as assister in French and asistir in Spanish, both of which could be further misinterpreted as equivalent to the English " assist ", which means " to help " ( which is also another meaning of the Spanish's asistir ).

Lettres de cachet were abolished after the French Revolution by the Constituent Assembly, but Napoleon reestablished their penal equivalent by a political measure in the decree of 8 March 1801 on the state prisons.

For those used to the British / Commonwealth / American system of ranks, it is important to realise that " Major " is the senior non-commissioned rank in the French / Monegasque system, equivalent to " Sergeant-Major ".

The préfecture is located in the palace built by the intendant of Montauban ( the equivalent of a préfet before the French Revolution ), and is a large elegant 18th century mansion, built of pink bricks and white stone, with a steep roof of blue gray slates, in a style combining northern and southern French styles of architecture.

Jesuit missionary Jacques Gravier's pioneering Kaskaskia-French dictionary explicitly describes and names the passenger pigeon as mimi8a in the Kaskaskia Illinois language, said to be equivalent to tourtre in French.

FISA, the “ Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d ’ Aviron ” in French ( or the English equivalent International Federation of Rowing Associations ) was founded by representatives from France, Switzerland, Belgium, Adriatica ( now a part of Italy ) and Italy in Turin on 25 June 1892.

Knights rode in both the Muslim style, a la jineta ( i. e. the equivalent of a modern jockey's seat ), a short stirrup strap and bended knees allowed for better control and speed, or in the French style, a la brida, a long stirrup strap allowed for more security in the saddle ( i. e. the equivalent of the modern cavalry seat, which is more secure ) when acting as heavy cavalary.

There was a widespread recognition that something must be done, and " in 1858 Morse was awarded the sum of 400, 000 French francs ( equivalent to about $ 80, 000 at the time ) by the governments of France, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Piedmont, Russia, Sweden, Tuscany and Turkey, each of which contributed a share according to the number of Morse instruments in use in each country.

Although the Senegalese air force is geared towards supporting it, the army may have previously maintained its own very small aviation branch, called the " Aviation Légère de l ' Armée de Terre " ( like the French army's equivalent ), which may have counted up to five light helicopters and two SA330 Puma transport helicopters.

It was rendered as L ' Opéra de quat ' sous ; ( quatre sous, or four pennies being the idiomatically equivalent French expression for Threepenny and, by implication, cut-price, cheap ).

Its Latin name ( comitatus ) is the equivalent of the French comté.

Its name is the French equivalent of the Strait of Dover, which it borders.

In return the French Republic agreed to " employ all its credit at the congress of Rastadt to procure a principality for the Grand Master, equivalent to the one he gives up ".

Meanwhile, French suffered equivalent losses of 16, 000 soldiers, but still enjoyed huge numerical superiority.

is used, to stand for the equivalent French language phrase presque partout.

Aquitaine consists of 3, 150, 890 inhabitants equivalent to 6 % of the total French population.

In French, the equivalent of the English existential clause " there is " is expressed with il y a, literally " it there has.

The equivalent French word ondelette meaning " small wave " was used by Morlet and Grossmann in the early 1980s.

* Bourbon Restoration, the return to the French throne of the Bourbon Dynasty

On February 15, 1912, several KMT members, including Chiang, murdered Tao Chengzhang, the leader of the Restoration Society, in a Shanghai French Concession hospital.

The Bourbon monarchy was destroyed by the French people in 1792 — it would be restored after Napoleon, then destroyed again with the Restoration of the House of Bonaparte.

Some of the best known paintings of the museum have been digitized by the French Center for Research and Restoration of the Museums of France.

Overall they warily accepted the changes of régime ( First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic ).

With the English Restoration, foreign ( especially French ) musicians were welcomed back.

* April 6 – Bourbon Restoration: Louis XVIII is invited to occupy the restored French throne.

The standard of the French royal family under the Early Modern France | Ancien Régime and the Bourbon Restoration | restoration period.

In France, the system of pairies ( peerage ) existed in two different versions: the exclusive ' old ' in the French kingdom, in many respects an inspiration for the English / British practice, and the very prolific chambre des pairs of the Bourbon Restoration ( 1814 – 1848 ).

The ensuing period, called the Restoration, was characterized by a sharp conservative reaction and the re-establishment of the Roman Catholic Church, supported by the ultramontanism movement, as a power in French politics.

The Bourbon Restoration is the name given to the period following the successive events of the French Revolution ( 1789 – 1799 ), the end of the First Republic ( 1792 – 1804 ), and then the forcible end of the First French Empire under Napoleon ( 1804 – 1814 / 1815 ) – when a coalition of European powers restored by arms the monarchy to the heirs of the House of Bourbon, who once again became possessors of the Kingdom of France.

The feasibility of the Restoration was in doubt, but the allure of peace to a war-weary French public, and demonstrations of support for the Bourbons in Paris, Bordeaux, Marseille, and Lyons, helped assure the Allies.

The French Historical film Jacquou le Croquant directed by Laurent Boutonnat, starring Gaspard Ulliel and Marie-Josée Croze is based on the background of Bourbon Restoration.

Louis Philippe was the eldest of three sons and a daughter, a family that was to have erratic fortunes from the beginning of the French Revolution to the Bourbon Restoration.

Carcassonne was struck off the roster of official fortifications under Napoleon and the Restoration, and the fortified cité of Carcassonne fell into such disrepair that the French government decided that it should be demolished.

The denomination ( known as the Franc Germinal French franc # French Empire and Restoration ) continued in use through the 19th century and later French gold coins in the same denomination were generally referred to as " Napoleons ".

The French Revolution abolished mercenary troops in its citizen army, but Napoleon I and the Restoration Monarchy both made use of Swiss troops.

Most commentators consider Marcel Mauss ( 1872 – 1950 ), nephew of the influential sociologist Émile Durkheim, to be the founder of the French anthropological tradition.

* Animal ( 1977 film ), French film ( L ' Animal ) by Claude Zidi with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Raquel Welch

It is named after André-Marie Ampère ( 1775 – 1836 ), French mathematician and physicist, considered the father of electrodynamics.

** Altenberg, the German name for Vieille Montagne (" old mountain " in French ), the former zinc mine in Kelmis, Moresnet

His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).

* A. M. ( automobile ), a 1906 French car

It has no etymological connection in French with Agincourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle ( attested as Egincourt 875 ), which is derived from another Germanic male name * Ingin -.

In 1893 he played for the French organist Charles-Marie Widor ( at Saint-Sulpice, Paris ), for whom Johann Sebastian Bach's organ-music contained a mystic sense of the eternal.

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.

They generally have other terms specific to U. S. nationals, such as German US-Amerikaner, French étatsunien, Japanese 米国人 beikokujin, Arabic أمريكاني amriikaanii ( as opposed to the more-common أمريكي amriikii ), and Italian statunitense, but these may be less common than the term American.

Adjectives derived from " United States " ( such as United Statesian ) are awkward in English, but similar constructions exist in Spanish ( estadounidense ), Portuguese ( estado-unidense, estadunidense ), Finnish ( yhdysvaltalainen: from Yhdysvallat, United States ), as well as in French ( états-unien ), and Italian ( statunitense ).

The school deals primarily with the premodern world ( before the French Revolution ), with little interest in later topics.

The French Historical Revolution: The Annales School 1929 – 89, ( 1990 ), the major study in English excerpt and text search

Known to the Iranians by the Pahlavi compound word kah-ruba ( from kah “ straw ” plus rubay “ attract, snatch ,” referring to its electrical properties ), which entered Arabic as kahraba ' or kahraba, it too was called amber in Europe ( Old French and Middle English ambre ).

* Adrian Mannarino ( born 1988 ), French tennis player

Alain de Lille ( or Alanus ab Insulis ) ( c. 1116 / 1117 – 1202 / 1203 ), French theologian and poet, was born in Lille, some years before 1128.

Aimoin ( c. 960-c. 1010 ), French chronicler, was born at Villefranche-de-Longchat about 960, and in early life entered the monastery of Fleury, where he became a monk and passed the greater part of his life.

* Ajax ( horse ) ( b. 1901 ), a French Champion racehorse

* 1792 – France invades the Austrian Netherlands ( present day Belgium ), beginning the French Revolutionary War.