The French aim was to imply a lack of martial prowess ; according to Strecche, the gift spurred Henry's decision to fight the Agincourt campaign.

Savate (), also known as boxe française, French boxing, French kickboxing or French footfighting, is a French martial art which uses the hands and feet as weapons combining elements of western boxing with graceful kicking techniques.

* Savate was also the martial arts style of the French antagonists and police officers in the 2001 Jet Li film Kiss of the Dragon.

Antony Beevor, for example, writes, " Malraux stands out, not just because he was a mythomaniac in his claims of martial heroism – in Spain and later in the French Resistance – but because he cynically exploited the opportunity for intellectual heroism in the legend of the Spanish Republic.

On 5 January 1895, Dreyfus was summarily convicted in a secret court martial, publicly stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment in a penal colony on Devil's Island in French Guiana.

On 5 January 1895, Dreyfus was summarily convicted in a secret court martial, publicly stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island in French Guiana.

The phrase is one of the few cases in the English language where the adjective is a postmodifier — some other phrases, such as the legal terms attorney general and court martial, also follow that pattern, largely due to the influence of Norman French.

Other assorted statuary in the guise of martial trophies decorate the roofs, most notably Britannia standing atop the entrance pediment in front of two reclining chained French captives sculpted in the style of Michelangelo, and the English lion devouring the French cock, on the lower roofs.

* Jess Liaudin ( born 1974 ), French mixed martial artist

On 30 March the government proclamation of martial law authorising the military to act as they saw fit to crush the United Irishmen, led to a campaign of vicious brutality in many parts of the country, and forced the United Irish executive to bring forward plans for the rising, with or without French aid.

But when the Hats became the armourbearers of France in the north, a protector strong enough to counteract French influence became the cardinal exigency of their opponents, the younger Caps, who now flung themselves into the arms of Russia, overlooking the fact that even a pacific union with Russia was more to be feared than a martial alliance with France.

The arrest was based on flimsy evidence that Rogers might have been engaging in a treasonous relationship with the French ; he was acquitted in a 1768 court martial.

He is extensively trained in martial arts, particularly French kick-boxing or Savate and the staff style art Bojutsu.

The duke then issued a proclamation called the Brunswick Manifesto, written by the French king's cousin, Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, the leader of an émigré corps within the allied army, which declared the Allies ' intent to restore the king to his full powers and to treat any person or town who opposed them as rebels to be condemned to death by martial law.

By October 1919 French was urging the imposition of martial law.

French again urged the introduction of martial law in Ireland and the use of Ulster Volunteers as peacekeepers in Southern Ireland.

One party seeing that in spite of the changes in the last sixty years of all political institutions the position of the people had not been improved, demanded a reform of society itself, the abolition of the privileged position of property, the only obstacle to equality, and as an emblem hoisted the red flag ( the 1791 red flag was, however, the symbol not merely of the French Revolution, but rather of martial law and of order < ref name = Ozouf > Mona Ozouf, < span lang =" fr ">" Liberté, égalité, fraternité "</ span >, in < span lang =" fr "> Lieux de Mémoire </ span > ( dir.

The then Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, himself a French Canadian, invoked the War Measures Act, declared martial law in Quebec, and arrested the kidnappers by the end of the year.

Ironically, for a soldier-prince who fought France most of his martial career, seventeen years after the margrave's death the only one of his daughters to survive childhood, Princess Auguste, married Louis d ' Orléans, son of the infamous French Regent and, at the time of the wedding, first in the line of succession to the throne of France.

* Antony Rea, French mixed martial arts fighter

For a while his work was influenced deeply by the French impressionists, and by the patterned, mosaic-like paintings of Gustav Klimt, then the dean of Austrian art.

Cubism, in its 1911-1912 phase ( which the French, with justice, call `` hermetic '' ) was on the verge of abstract art.

It also makes a fine introduction to the international art form with good examples of Italian and English madrigals plus several French `` chansons ''.

In its origins and its first golden age, no art owes quite as much to state power as French painting does.

For example, when the careful, even tedious, art techniques of French neo-classicism became oppressive to artists living in more exuberant times, a stylistic revolution known as " Impressionism " vitalized brush strokes and color.

A nineteenth century French art style and movement that originated as a reaction to the Baroque.

The New Wave of French and Italian art directors and their stars were riding high internationally, and he felt Bardot was being undersold.

" Bardot's book was also against miscegenation ; made attacks on modern art, which Bardot equated with " shit "; drew similarities between French politicians and weather vanes ; and compared her own beliefs with previous generations who had " given their lives to push out invaders ".

In France he was considered as the restorer of the art, which had declined after the time of Louis XIV, and during the last twenty years of his life the French government commissiond him to undertake several works.

Cuisine ( from French cuisine, " cooking ; culinary art ; kitchen "; ultimately from Latin coquere, " to cook ") is a characteristic style of cooking practices and traditions, often associated with a specific culture.

Like he had with montages of landscapes and indigenous art, Marker created a film essay that contrasts and juxtaposes a variety of lives with his signature commentary ( spoken by Marker's friends, singer-actor Yves Montand in the French version and Simone Signoret in the English version ).

Chardin's work had little in common with the Rococo painting that dominated French art in the 18th century.

While a young student, he developed an early appreciation of the French art masters.

In other legal cases, Pissarro's " Le Quai Malaquais, Printemps ," is said to have been similarly stolen, along with the estimated 650, 000 lost works of art, including those by other French Impressionists.

In June 2006 publishers Skira / Wildenstein released Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of Paintings, compiled by Joachim Pissarro ( descendant of the painter ) and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts ( descendant of the French art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel ).

Denis Diderot ( ; October 5, 1713 – July 31, 1784 ) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer.

Category: French art critics

David had a huge number of pupils, making him the strongest influence in French art of the early 19th century, especially academic Salon painting.

David attempted to win the Prix de Rome, an art scholarship to the French Academy in Rome, five times.

David, however, made his career precisely by challenging what he saw as the earlier rigidity and conformity of the French Royal Academy's approach to art.

Following World War II, Jacques-Louis David was increasingly regarded as a symbol of French national pride and identity, as well as a vital force in the development of European and French art in the modern era.

His illustrations were strongly influenced by French and German black and white art.

The other French majors followed suit, and this wave gave rise to the English-language description of films with artistic pretensions aimed at a sophisticated audience as " art films ".

The Cinema of France comprises the art of film and creative movies made within the nation of France or by French filmmakers abroad.