Today Algeria contains, in its literary landscape, big names having not only marked the Algerian literature, but also the universal literary heritage in Arabic and French.

The Arc de Triomphe ( in English: " Triumphal Arch ") honours those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, with the names of all French victories and generals inscribed on its inner and outer surfaces.

The inside walls of the monument list the names of 660 people, among which are 558 French generals of the First French Empire ; the names of those who died in battle are underlined.

* On the inner façades of the small arches are engraved the names of the military leaders of the French Revolution and Empire.

Still widely known by their French names, the islands officially have been called by their Swahili names by the Comorian government.

Non-English names include Treno suburbano in Italian, Cercanías in Spanish, Rodalies in Catalan, Nahverkehrszug in German ( and in most larger cities S-Bahns though these trains also often include city centre metro-like sections where lines have merged and services become more frequent, and stations are closer together to better distribute passengers into the city core ), Train de banlieue in French, Příměstský vlak in Czech and Elektrichka in Russian.

In Canada, English and French are official languages and places have names in both languages.

English maps rarely show the French names outside of Quebec, which itself is spelled Québec in French.

Bilingual road-signs, with French names crossed out

The following table shows the names that were formerly used in French and Dutch for major cities, during the colonial period.

People were ordered by law to drop their Western Christian names ; the titles Mr. and Mrs. were abandoned for the male and female versions of the French word for " citizen "; Men were forbidden to wear suits, and women to wear pants.

* The names of the broadcasting companies not in Roman script are either in English or French, the official languages of the EBU.

French fries are known as frites, patates frites or pommes frites in French, a name which is also used in many non-French-speaking areas, and have names that mean " fried potatoes " or " French potatoes " in others.

Over the years the styles of French cuisine have been given different names, and have been modified by various master-chefs.

The English translations stated above are approximate, as most of the month names were new words coined from French, Latin or Greek.

The Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle suggested somewhat more serious English names in his 1837 work The French Revolution: A History, namely Vintagearious, Fogarious, Frostarious, Snowous, Rainous, Windous, Buddal, Floweral, Meadowal, Reapidor, Heatidor, and Fruitidor.

Later, French soldiers carved their names on monuments during the Napoleonic campaign of Egypt in the 1790s.

French regional cuisines use locally grown vegetables, such as pomme de terre ( potato ), blé ( wheat ), haricots verts ( a type of French green bean ), carotte ( carrot ), poireau ( leek ), navet ( turnip ), aubergine ( eggplant ), courgette ( zucchini ), and échalotte ( shallot ).

French regional cuisines use locally grown fungi, such as truffe ( truffle ), champignon de Paris ( button mushroom ), chanterelle ou girolle ( chanterelle ), pleurote ( en huître ) ( oyster mushrooms ), and cèpes ( porcini ).

In the previous years the French navy had enormously grown in strength and the Dutch Republic would no longer be able to resist a combined Anglo-French attack.

By 1547, opposition to Calvin and other French refugee ministers had grown to constitute the majority of the syndics, the civil magistrates of Geneva.

The Druze had grown increasingly resentful of the favoring of the Maronites by Bashir II, and were backed by the Ottoman Empire and the wali of Damascus in an attempt to gain greater control over Lebanon ; the Maronites were backed by the French, out of both economic and political expediency.

Genetic studies discovered that much of what had been grown as Merlot was actually Carménère, an old French variety that had gone largely extinct in France due to its poor resistance to phylloxera.

But he continued to develop his style, composing perhaps the greatest French Grand Opera, Don Carlos, and ending his career with two Shakespeare-inspired works, Otello and Falstaff, which reveal how far Italian opera had grown in sophistication since the early 19th century.

There are also imported English and French language television programmes imported on Seycellois terrestrial television and the growth of international satellite television has grown rapidly in recent years.

Russian tarragon ( A. dracunculoides L .) can be grown from seed but is much weaker in flavor when compared to the French variety.

Since then, it has steadily grown ; many interest groups routinely seek to influence the French institutions as the Government and the French Parliament (“ National Assembly ” and “ Senate ”).

While the popularity of nationally grown rap in France grew with the presence of MC Solaar, his involvement in the overall French hip hop subculture is non-existent as many consider his work to be in the traditional vein of French pop and not of the politically-minded, mostly African-influenced hip hop aesthetic of France.

Quebec's culture has only recently gained exposure in Europe, especially since the Quiet Revolution ( Révolution tranquille ), and the difference in dialects and culture is large enough that Quebec French speakers overwhelmingly prefer their own " home grown " television dramas or sitcoms to shows from Europe.

He began looking for a new band to play with, having " grown tired of Sacramento's coffeehouse circuit ", and quickly attracted trumpet player Vince DiFiore, guitarist Greg Brown, bassist Shon Meckfessel and drummer Frank French.

The main cultivar grown in the U. S. is the Improved French prune.

Widely grown as an ornamental, the species has become naturalised in the Southern United States, Christmas Island, the Cook Islands, Galapagos Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Hawaii, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, Sri Lanka and Tonga amongst many other locales.

The population has grown from 471, 019 inhabitants in 1990 to 515, 207 in 1999 and 565, 000 in 2006 ( estimates of the French statistics office INSEE ).

Sint-Pieters-Leeuw is the only municipality without French language facilities where the francophone electoral success has grown over the last decades, specifically from 10 % in 1976 to 20 % in 2006.

The dry summers of the French and German plains are less suited to it, though it is grown in some hilly districts with tolerable success.

In 2006, Riesling was the most grown variety in Germany with 20. 8 % and, and in the French region of Alsace with 21. 9 % and.

More recently, DNA fingerprinting by Ferdinand Regner indicated that one parent of Riesling is Gouais Blanc, known to the Germans as Weißer Heunisch, a variety that, while rare today, was widely grown by the French and German peasantry of the Middle Ages.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

The mayor of the town taught them English and French.

There is a fairly wide selection of models of English, German and French manufacture from which you can choose from the very small Austin 7, Citroen 2 CV, Volkswagens, Renaults to the 6-passenger Simca Beaulieu.

These agents were to ascertain the difference between English and French goods, and the prices charged the Indians.

a collection of English, French and German coins, valued at $500 ; ;

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

The Creston is purely a potboiler, with Spanish, English, French and American dances mixed into the stew.

Now prosperous, his parents were able to send Nobel to private tutors and the boy excelled in his studies, particularly in chemistry and languages, achieving fluency in English, French, German, and Russian.

Despite the lack of formal secondary and tertiary level education, Nobel gained proficiency in six languages: Swedish, French, Russian, English, German and Italian.

The al-prefix was probably added through confusion with another legal term, allegeance, an " allegation " ( the French allegeance comes from the English ).

The English word Alps derives from the French and Latin Alpes, which at one time was thought to be derived from the Latin albus (" white ").

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 ".

The term " absolute value " has been used in this sense since at least 1806 in French and 1857 in English.

* 1450 – Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years ' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.

He envisaged instruments in which the French late-romantic full-organ sound should work integrally with the English and German romantic reed pipes, and with the classical Alsace Silbermann organ resources and baroque flue pipes, all in registers regulated ( by stops ) to access distinct voices in fugue or counterpoint capable of combination without loss of distinctness: different voices singing together in the same music.

He and Widor collaborated on a new edition of Bach's organ works, with detailed analysis of each work in three languages ( English, French, German ).

* 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim – English and Imperial forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops.

* 1959 – Bruce French, English cricketer

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.

" Artiste " ( the French for artist ) is a variant used in English only in this context.

The French word artiste ( which in French, simply means " artist ") has been imported into the English language where it means a performer ( frequently in Music Hall or Vaudeville ).

The English word ' artiste ' has thus, a narrower range of meaning than the word ' artiste ' in French.

English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, Portuguese, and Russian speakers may use the term American to refer to either inhabitants of the Americas or to U. S. nationals.