However, he prevented Louis XIV from sending the usual embassy of obedience to Alexander VII, and, while he lived, he foiled the appointment of a French ambassador to Rome, diplomatic affairs being meantime conducted by cardinal protectors, generally personal enemies of the Pope.

In the meantime French ships had escaped the British blockade of the French coast, and a fleet outnumbering the British one awaited Loudoun at Louisbourg.

In the meantime, the French Republic had been proclaimed the 21 September 1792, bringing to an end more than a thousand years of continuous French monarchy.

The convoy was intercepted by Anson on 3 May, and in the first Battle of Cape Finisterre his fourteen ships of the line wiped out the French escort of six ships of the line and three armed Indiamen, although in the meantime the merchant ships escaped.

In the meantime, the French had started the State of Vietnam and Diệm refused Bảo Đại's offer to become the Prime Minister.

In the meantime, Garibaldi, a native of Nice, was deeply resentful of the French annexation of his home city.

This trend continued during the seventies, until the original Métal Hurlant folded in the early eighties, living on only in the American edition ( which had in the meantime become independent from its French language parent ), although some would argue that it is only a shadow of the original.

In the meantime, the French signalled their preparedness for future hostilities by beginning the construction of Fortress Louisbourg on Île Royale, now Cape Breton Island.

In the meantime the French continued to explore westwards and expand their trade alliances with indigenous peoples.

In the meantime he had travelled around the world: Russia and Central Asia ( 1888-9 ), a long tour of Persia ( September 1889-January 1890 ), Siam, French Indochina and Korea ( 1892 ), and a daring foray into Afghanistan and the Pamirs ( 1894 ), and published several books describing central and eastern Asia and related policy issues.

The storm of the French Revolution had in the meantime forced Barruel to seek refuge in England, where he became almoner to the refugee Prince of Conti.

In the meantime the first major naval engagement of the war was fought off Bantry Bay on 11 May ( O. S ) – before England's declaration of war — resulting in a minor French success for Châteaurenault, who managed to land supplies for James II's campaign.

In the meantime, Spanish, Portuguese, and French editions of Herald of Holiness appeared over the years.

In the meantime, the excesses of the French republicans had provoked reaction in England, and the Tory ministry adopted a policy of repression.

In the meantime, the Spanish, who had long maintained a claim over Florida, had made preparations to find and oust the French from Fort Caroline.

In 1804, Emperor Napoleon I spent some time in the town, which in the meantime had acquired a municipal administration run according to French law.

In the meantime, there was one more pointless bloodletting at the Battle of Bayonne, caused by the French commander Thouvenot's refusal to accept that the war was lost with the abdication of Napoleon.

In the meantime, though, in 1965 he began a second career, that of a singer ( at the age of 43 ), with the help of Simone Signoret and her husband Yves Montand and later with great assistance of the French diva Barbara.

Julius now realized that the Bolognese were openly hostile to the Papacy and would not offer any resistance to the French ; left with only a detachment of Venetian cavalry, he resorted to excommunicating d ' Amboise, who had in the meantime been convinced by the English ambassador to avoid attacking the person of the Pope and had thus withdrawn to Ferrara.

In the meantime the French persevered with trying to develop breechloaders which combined faster loading than muzzle-loaders, high power, safety and solved the problem of obturation: i. e. how to prevent escape of some propellant gas through the breech to the rear.

In the meantime, the Germans had overrun Paris, and as a Jew who had famously humiliated the German racing effort, Dreyfus was advised by the French government not to return to occupied France.

In the meantime, the French army could easily enter the city and was greeted by the population, rather with interest than with rejection.

I heard subsequently that my Uncle and Aunt had dinner in a nearby restaurant in the French Quarter after which he went home to get into his costume to keep the date.

French Egalitarianism had had only nominal influence in this country before the days of Popularism.

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.

These new pictures focussed on the familiar and commonplace objects that he had heard the men in his prison camp talking about as the things they missed most, hence associated with the sense of lost freedom: the cafe at the corner, the newspaper kiosk, the girls in doorways and windows along the street, the golden-crusted French bread they lacked, the cigarettes denied them.

The waspish man stopped me three paces from the bicycle barricade, and asked me in French if I had papers to leave France.

Sure enough, mail began trickling in, delivered by a talkative, highly amused French postman who informed me there had been quite a debate at the post office as to whether that address would be recognized.

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.

The Artists contended that the Philistines, gross of soul, were all for having Son et Lumiere, since the French were footing the bill and the attraction, wherever it had been done, had proven popular.

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.

The French were now occupying Gascony and Flanders on the technical grounds that their rulers had forfeited them by a breach of the feudal contract.

We had walked it many times and shivered, figuring what a fish barrel it had been for the French.

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

`` Oh, the French are a very curious people '', Pierre had laughed.

In the ballroom below, the dark had given way to moonlight coming in through the bank of French windows.

When Napoleon's ship had borne him to Elba, French wines had started to cross the Channel, the first shipments in a dozen war-ridden years, but the supplies had not yet reached rural hostelries where the sweet wines of the Spanish peninsula still ruled.

he rose at half-past six every morning, made himself some French coffee, had his corn flakes and more coffee, smoked four cigarettes while reading last Sunday's Herald Tribune and yesterday's Pittsburgh Gazette, then put on his high-topped farmer's shoes and walked under a vine bower to his workshop.

and, although he later explained that he was talking French, it seems rather more likely that he had succumbed to the joys of the evening.

There was even a cable in French from a bank in Switzerland that had somehow learned about the Dallas stock offering.

Everybody had heard of Van Gogh, the French impressionist.