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The French king, seeking a focus for those opposed to William's power, then proposed that Edgar be given the castle of Montreuil-sur-Mer on the English Channel, which would have given Edgar a strategic advantage against William, but he was forced to submit to William shortly thereafter, and returned to William's court.
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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 newspaper Le Figaro described the young king as " the happiest and best-loved of all the rulers of the earth ".
Andrew's first mission to the East was when he was asked by the French king Louis IX to go and fetch the Crown of Thorns which had been sold to him by the Latin Emperor of Constantinople Baldwin II in 1238, who was anxious to obtain support for his tottering empire.
In 1796 the Duke of Zweibrücken, Maximilian Joseph, the future Bavarian king Max I. Joseph, was exiled to Ansbach after Zweibrücken had been taken by the French.
It happened so well for him, that he was next to the king when they were about to take him: he stept forth into the press, and by strength of his body and arms he came to the French king and said in good F ' rench, ' Sir, yield you.
Longshanks, worried by the threat of the rebellion, sends the wife of his son Edward, the French princess Isabella, to try to negotiate with Wallace in hopes that Wallace kills her in order to draw the French king to declare war on Wallace in revenge.
Its importance waned somewhat when the French king, Charles VII, took the city at the end of the Hundred Years ' War and the Adour changed course shortly afterwards, leaving Bayonne without its access to the sea.
The bridge of Bouvines, the only means of retreat through the marshes, was guarded by 150 sergeants at arms of the king who form only to the French troops.
The English king did not find support among the French lords, who made Philip of Valois their king.
An Augustinian, he had studied theology in Paris under St. Thomas of Aquinas to become one of the most authoritative thinkers of his time, and tutor to French king Philip IV the Fair, ( 1268-29 November 1314 ).
In France, Claude François who re-invented himself as the king of French disco, released " La plus belle chose du monde ", a French version of the Bee Gees hit record, " Massachusetts ", which became a big hit in Canada and Europe and " Alexandrie Alexandra " was posthumously released on the day of his burial and became a worldwide hit.
The French Huguenot nobles and clergy, having rejected the pope and the Catholic Church, were left only with the supreme power of the king who, they taught, could not be gainsaid or judged by anyone.
These ties, together with his ascetic manner and appearance ( a positive advantage to him at the sombre court of Leopold I ), ensured the refugee from the hated French king a warm welcome at Passau, and a position in Imperial service.
Via the French Alberon, the same name has entered English as Oberon – king of elves and fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream ( see below ).
During the Siege of Paris in 1871, the North German Confederation, supported by its allies from southern Germany, formed the German Empire with the proclamation of the Prussian king Wilhelm I as German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, to the humiliation of the French, who ceased to resist only days later.
Goya's involvement with the court of the " Intruder king ", Joseph I, the brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, is not known ; he did paint works for French patrons and sympathisers, but kept neutral during the fighting.
After the restoration of the Spanish king, Ferdinand VII, in 1814, Goya denied any involvement with the French.
His conduct of affairs having displeased the French king, he was recalled from his post by Oldenbarneveldt in 1616.
When the French king Charles VIII invaded northern Italy, Piero II chose to resist his army.
But when he realized the size of the French army at the gates of Pisa, he had to accept the humiliating conditions of the French king.
French and seeking
The French and English were each seeking to control lucrative Indian Ocean trade routes.
Colonial Cuba was a frequent target of buccaneers, pirates and French corsairs seeking Spain's New World riches.
However she had been corresponding with her uncle Raymond, King and holder of family properties in Antioch where he was seeking further protection from the French crown.
In August Sartre and de Beauvoir went to the French Riviera seeking the support of André Gide and André Malraux.
Among other intercessors, the French author and Nobel laureate Romain Rolland wrote to Stalin seeking clemency, arguing that " an intellect like that of Bukharin is a treasure for his country.
These patrolled the southern coast of the United States and throughout the Caribbean, seeking French privateers.
The word research is derived from the Middle French " recherche ", which means " to go about seeking ", the term itself being derived from the Old French term " recerchier " a compound word from " re -" + " cerchier ", or " sercher ", meaning ' search '.
Henry the Young King abandoned his father and left for the French court seeking the protection of Louis VII ; he was soon followed by his younger brothers, Richard and Geoffrey, while the 5-year-old John remained with Henry II.
French troops seeking cover in trenches, Dien Bien Phu, 1954
Following his arrival back on the continent he married his daughter Constance to Alan Fergant, the Count of Brittany, in furtherance of his policy of seeking allies against the French kings.
** In Paris, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, in response to rumours ( which are true ) that he is seeking to end the French alliance system in Eastern Europe, gives a speech highlighting his government's commitment to the cordon sanitaire.
One of Washington's men reported that the French force was accompanied by Shawnee, Delaware, and Mingo native warriors — just those whom Tanaghrisson was seeking to influence.
The Chorus appears again, seeking support for the English navy: " Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy " he says, and notes that " the ambassador from the French comes back / Tells Harry that the king doth offer him / Katherine his daughter.
Instead of seeking a peaceful resolution to the conflict by paying homage to the French king, the way his father had done, Edward responded by laying claim to the French crown as the grandson of Philip IV.
They became estranged when Edward spurned the French diplomatic marriage that Warwick was seeking for him and instead married Elizabeth Woodville, widow of an obscure Lancastrian gentleman, in secret in 1464.
Angry at the cancellation of the Lambert Charter and seeking to restore property stolen from French citizens, France invaded Madagascar in 1883 in what became known as the first Franco-Hova War ( Hova as a name referring to the Merina aristocrats ).
This had led to a strategy amongst the French leadership of seeking to rebuild the French military in order to fight a war of revenge against Britain, in which it was hoped the lost colonies could be recovered.
The French first came to the New World as explorers, seeking a route to the Pacific ocean and wealth.
was established by André Matsoua, seeking French citizenship for the territory's inhabitants.
The Army accused Dreyfus of additional charges based on false documents fabricated by a French counter-intelligence officer, Hubert-Joseph Henry, who was seeking to re-confirm Dreyfus's conviction.
French and focus
After the nuclear tests at Amchitka were over, Greenpeace moved its focus to the French atmospheric nuclear weapons testing at the Moruroa Atoll in French Polynesia.
The focus is put on the classical modernist art with the collection of Kurt Schwitters, works of German expressionism, and French cubism, the cabinet of abstracts, the graphics and the department of photography and media.
In these French stories, the narrative focus often shifts from King Arthur himself to other characters, such as various Knights of the Round Table.
However, a rudimentary network begun under French colonial rule and continued from the 1950s has provided an important means of increased intervillage communication, movement of market goods, and a focus for new settlements.
The French Navy won some important victories near the end of the 17th century but a focus upon land forces led to the French Navy's relative neglect, which allowed the Royal Navy to emerge with an ever-growing advantage in size and quality, especially in tactics and experience, from 1695.
The Père Lachaise Cemetery, where the defenders of the Paris Commune made their last stand and many of them were afterwards summarily executed, is the focus of annual pilgrimages by parties and organizations of the French Left.
Only Horst Söhnlein complied with the order ; the rest went underground and made their way to France, where they stayed for a time in a house owned by prominent French journalist and revolutionary, Régis Debray, famous for his friendship with Che Guevara and the focus theory of guerrilla warfare.
Ever since its rediscovery, the stone has been the focus of nationalist rivalries, including its transfer from French to British possession during the Napoleonic Wars, a long-running dispute over the relative value of Young's and Champollion's contributions to the decipherment, and since 2003, demands for the stone's return to Egypt.
Despite its initial focus on the elites, the Union was successful in raising funds from across French society.
In the aftermath of generally poor French results in most theaters of the Seven Years ' War in 1758, France's new foreign minister, the duc de Choiseul, decided to focus on an invasion of Britain, to draw British resources away from North America and the European mainland.
From an initial aerial victory over a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 on 5 April their tally rose dramatically and the squadron became the focus of Soviet propaganda, so much so that Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel decreed that any French pilot captured would be executed.
Trading was a major focus of activity especially in the case of the French, the British, the Hudson's Bay Company and the Dutch West India Company.
Supporters of the " Palestinian viewpoint " focus on the phrase in the resolution's preamble emphasizing the " inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war ", and note that the French version called for withdrawal from " des territoires occupés "-" the territories occupied ".
Raeder favoured a strategic focus on the Mediterranean theatre, including a strong German presence in North Africa, plus an invasion of Malta and the Middle East by German, Italian, Spanish and, if necessary, Vichy French forces.
The Germans turned their focus to Le Mort Homme to the north from which the French were successfully shelling them.
In the French colonial regions, the focus of economy was the fur trade with the natives.
The original French title, Notre-Dame de Paris ( the formal title of the Cathedral ) indicates that the Cathedral itself is the most significant aspect of the novel, both the main setting and the focus of the story's themes.
Though their music and the issues they cover focus more on their home country, the Republic of the Congo, all member of Bisso Na Bisso live in France and rap in French.
It was the chief port of French Equatorial Africa from 1934 to 1946 and was the central focus of the Battle of Gabon in 1940.
Jouvet had risen to fame in the early 1930s through his collaborations with the playwright Giraudoux, and together the two worked to shift focus from the authorial voice of the director, ( which had dominated the French stage since the early twentieth century ) back to the playwright and his text.
Later in 1537, Mary became the focus of marriage negotiations with James V of Scotland, who had lost his first wife, Madeleine of Valois, due to tuberculosis, and wanted a second French bride to further the interests of the Franco-Scottish alliance against England.
After Charles's abdication in 1556 split the Habsburg empire between Philip II of Spain and Ferdinand I, the focus of the war shifted to Flanders, where Phillip, in conjunction with Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy, defeated the French at St. Quentin.
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