" I heard that Bud Fisher ( creator of Mutt and Jeff ) got $ 3, 000 a week and was constantly marrying French countesses ," Capp said.

" We had not got forty yards on our retreat ," remembered Captain Peter Drake, the Irish mercenary serving with the French – " when the words sauve qui peut went through the great part, if not the whole army, and put all to confusion "

García Moreno, putting aside both his project to place Ecuador under a French protectorate and his differences with General Flores, got together with the former dictator to put down the various local rebellions and force out the Peruvians.

He demanded and got the following: his name was made part of the title, " John Frankenheimer's The Train "; the French co-director, demanded by French tax laws, was not allowed to ever set foot on set ; he was given total final cut ; and a Ferrari.

According to Serge Klarsfeld, since the now complete and constant publicity which the artworks got in 1996, the majority of the French Jewish community is nevertheless in favour of the return to the normal French civil rule of prescription acquisitive of any unclaimed good after another long period of time and consequently to their ultimate integration into the common French heritage instead of their transfer to foreign institutions like during World War II.

The town is not very large but the streets are broader than the French towns and clean ands the houses are good .... got the cheapest of hot baths here at the principal house I ever had in my life: one franc.

During this time, an American Marine got lost in the former French quarter of Panama City, ran a roadblock, and was killed by Panamanian Police ( who were then a part of the Panamanian Military ).

For this he got support from some sections of French society as the French Communist Party and elements within the Free Masonry movement.

The Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary says that English got it from French and that its first known appearance in English writing was in 1670.

Among them were many students from the Royal College of Mauritius, who participated in the War on the French front and never got to return to their motherland.

The French were effectively down to ten men from the 30th minute onwards when their most experienced defender and captain Robert Jonquet got incapacitated after a clash with Vavá.

Lavaud sailed on the corvette Aube on 19 February 1840 ; the Comte-de-Paris, commanded by Langlois, and with the French immigrants on board, made a false start on 6 March and after going aground, finally got away on 20 March.

In French Polynesia, toward the end of his life, sick and suffering from an unhealed injury, he got into legal trouble for taking the natives ' side against French colonialists.

Following an appeal from his supporters who got 40, 000 signatures, in January 2007, Bové announced he would run in the 2007 French presidential election.

Like Thomas, she spoke French and Latin and they got along well enough for her to accept his daughter Anne as a maid of honour.

The Nazis had attempted to loot Citroën's press tools ; this was frustrated, after Boulanger got the French Resistance to re-label the rail cars containing them in the Paris marshalling yard.

The French got news of the plan and sent an army to take over the fort, which they then resumed building with increased fortification, renaming it Fort Duquesne.

Philidor, both in England and France, was largely recognized in each of his fields and got a lot of admirers, protectors and also friends, like were the French philosophers Voltaire, Rousseau and the famous English actor David Garrick ( 1717 – 1779 ).

After the French conquered Waalo, governor Louis Faidherbe annexed Cayor in 1868, but Cayor got its independence restored in 1871.

The coal and iron resources of the region were developed: In 1852, Saarbrücken got a railway connecting the Palatine Ludwig Railway with the French Eastern Railway, the Burbach ironworks started production in 1856, the Saar up to Ensdorf was channeled since 1860, and Saarbrücken was connected to the French canal network.

But by week's end the Laotian cry of invasion was read as an exaggeration ( see foreign news ), and the U.S. was agreeing with its cautious British and French allies that a neutralist -- rather than a pro-Western -- government might be best for Laos.

Around the same time, in France, Charles-Louis Havas extended the services of his news agency, Havas to include advertisement brokerage, making it the first French group to organize.

As news spread of the Allies ’ triumph, the Prussians, Hessians and Hanoverian contingents, long delayed by their respective rulers, eagerly joined the pursuit of the broken French and Bavarian forces.

Further good news for the Allies arrived from northern Italy where, on 7 September, Prince Eugene had routed a French army before the Piedmontese capital, Turin, driving the Franco-Spanish forces from northern Italy.

In July, the Great Fear of aristocratic reprisal against the ongoing French Revolution struck France, arriving in the Barcelonnette area on 31 July 1789 ( when the news of the storming of the Bastille first reached the town ) before spreading towards Digne.

Although Nelson had previously been castigated in the press for failing to intercept the French fleet, rumours of the battle had begun to arrive in Britain from the continent in late September and the news Capel brought was greeted with celebrations right across the country.

When the news became certain, the French press insisted that the defeat was the result both of an overwhelmingly large British force and unspecified " traitors.

Of the two main channels, Channel I uses mainly Arabic, while Channel II is dedicated to foreigners and more cultured viewers, broadcasting news in English and French as well as Arabic.

However, whilst camping near Nicea, the remnants of the German army, including a dazed and sick King Conrad, straggled past the French camp, bringing news of their disaster.

* Islamopedia Online A growing resource of fatwās issued in English, French, Arabic, Urdu and Persian as well as news articles, editorials & analysis, exhibits and other original content for people interested in learning about Islam.

The betrayal of Toussaint and news of French actions in Martinique undermined the collaboration of leaders such as Dessalines, Christophe, and Pétion.

Two days later, as the band checked in at a French Quarter hotel for their 30 July performance at the Louisiana Superdome, Plant received news that his five-year-old son, Karac, had died from a stomach virus.

However, a report from the French AFP news agency stated that " The Turkish judicial authorities still haven't explained exactly which legal resources he had access to ", and former minister of Justice Hikmet Sami Türk, in government at the time of Ağca's extradition, claimed that, from a legal viewpoint, his liberation was a " serious mistake " at best, and that he should have not been freed before 2012.

The news was met with utter shock and surprise by government leaders and media worldwide, most of whom were aware only of the British – French – Soviet negotiations that had taken place for months.

French spoof news site Les graves infos ( Serious News ) was launched in mid-2009 with a stripping weather girl.

With news arriving of the Battle of Hattin, he took the cross at Tours in the company of other French nobles.

The details were reported by the world press: an Imperial German penetration agent betraying to Germany the secrets of the General Staff of the French Army ; the French counter-intelligence riposte of sending a charwoman to rifle the trash in the German Embassy in Paris, were news that inspired successful spy fiction.

The pope lived to hear the joyful news of the capture of Milan from the French and of the occupation by papal troops of the long-coveted provinces ( November 1521 ).

* April 19 – In Louisiana ( New France ), Bienville's brother Serigny arrives on a French man-of-war, bringing news that war was declared between France and Spain ( from December 1718 ).

While the French hailed the invasion as the first step towards the Rhineland and later Berlin, General Le Bœuf and Napoleon III were receiving alarming reports from foreign news sources of Prussian and Bavarian armies massing to the southeast in addition to the forces to the north and northeast.

When news hit Paris of Emperor Napoleon's III capture, the French Second Empire was overthrown in a bloodless and successful coup d ' état which was launched by General Trochu, Jules Favre, and Léon Gambetta at Paris on 4 September.

* Le Point, a French weekly news magazine

Later in the year, Caroline received further bad news as Brunswick was overrun by the French, and her father was killed in the battle of Jena-Auerstadt.

As with English, most uncountable nouns are grammatically treated as singular, though some are plural, such as les mathématiques (" mathematics "), and some nouns that are uncountable in English are countable in French, such as une information (" a piece of information "), or une nouvelle (" a piece of news, a news item ").