Much more important is to grasp the feelings of the narrator ( whose full name is never given ) as he becomes aware of the disorganized and bewildered mass of French prisoners clustered together in a temporary prison camp in and around the cathedral of Chartres.

The attack on the Bastille in the French Revolution-though afterwards remembered mainly for the release of the handful of prisoners incarcerated there-was to considerable degree motivated by the structure being a Royal citadel in the midst of revolutionary Paris.

French dragoons escorting German prisoners, after the First Battle of the Marne ( 1914 ).

At first, only those freed prisoners who could raise the fare for their return passage to France were able to go home, so French Guiana was haunted after the official closing of the prisons by numerous freed convicts leading an aimless existence in the colony.

' In his desperation, he turned to increasingly wanton acts of brutality ; the French burned alive, hanged, drowned, and tortured black prisoners, reviving such practices as burying blacks in piles of insects and boiling them in cauldrons of molasses.

After one battle, Rochambeau buried 500 prisoners alive ; Dessalines responded by hanging 500 French prisoners.

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Other points of interest in the town include the prison museum and the town churchyard which houses the graves of French and American prisoners of war who were originally housed at the prison.

Many French prisoners of war were killed during the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.

This was done in retaliation for the French killing of the boys and other noncombatants handling the baggage and equipment of the army, and because the French were attacking again and Henry was afraid that they would break through and free the prisoners to fight again.

The French troop began pursuing them but with night approaching, and with the prisoners they already had being too many and, more importantly, too valuable to risk in a risky pursuit, Philip ordered a recall before his troops had moved little more than a mile from the battlefield.

A 20th century illustration depicting United States Marine escorting French prisoners.

* 1792 – During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.

In 1870 French prisoners of war taken during the Franco-Prussian War were directed to build a chain of forts surrounding the town.

* March 20 – The French newspaper L ' Express reveals that the French army tortures Algerian prisoners.

* July 14 – The French Revolution ( 1789 – 1799 ) begins: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners.

* May 24 – Dartmoor Prison opens in England to house French prisoners of war.

For instance, French anarchist groups typically call the former members of Action Directe held in France political prisoners.

Category: French prisoners of war

Among the prisoners is the French viceroy of Naples, the Comte de Montpensier.

The French losses were 7, 855 killed and wounded along with 4, 420 prisoners of war ( half of them were wounded ) for a total of 12, 275.

The French ' Second Offensive Battle of Verdun ' finally began on 20 August and by 9 September had taken 10, 000 prisoners.

BAM is the unlikely name of a French recording company whose full label is Editions De La boite A Musique.

Francois Boucher was the 18th century painter and engraver whose works are regarded as the perfect expression of French taste in the Rococo period.

From the unexpected realism of his first major figure — inspired by his 1875 trip to Italy — to the unconventional memorials whose commissions he later sought, Rodin's reputation grew, such that he became the preeminent French sculptor of his time.

( Musseli told friends she had not wanted to sell her home, but that Lerner urged her to cut her ties with her native city and that she entrusted Lerner with the proceeds of the sale, for investment in the U. S .) The daughter of a World War One French war hero and herself an unsung heroine of the Resistance, whose Corsican forebears were intimates of Napoleon Bonaparte, she later made Lerner the gift of a chateau in France after he declared to her that he wanted a French rural retreat where he could write.

General Melchett ( Stephen Fry ) rallies his troops from a French château thirty-five miles from the front, where he is aided and abetted by his assistant, Captain Darling ( Tim McInnerny ), pencil-pusher supreme and Blackadder's nemesis, whose name is played on for maximum comedic value.

From 1907 he also began to be influenced by the French composer Claude Debussy, whose compositions Kodály had brought back from Paris.

Bonaparte had sought to invade Egypt, as the first step in a campaign against British India whose ultimate aim was to drive Britain out of the French Revolutionary Wars.

From the film industry, Chaplin drew upon the work of French comedian Max Linder, whose films he greatly admired.

He beat out retired French air force officer Mohamed Djaanfari and long-time politician Ibrahim Halidi, whose candidacy was backed by Azali Assoumani, the outgoing president.

He soon took up with a woman, Juliette, whose maiden name, given variously as Froissy and Pourtalai and nationality ( she spoke French ) remain uncertain, but his divorce from Zina became final only in 1883, whereupon he married Juliette.

Jean Baptiste Say was a French economist who introduced Adam Smith's economic theories into France and whose commentaries on Smith were read in both France and Britain.

Such tactics were successfully used by the French, for example, at the Battle of Friedland, when sixty-six guns fired a total of 3, 000 roundshot and 500 rounds of grapeshot, inflicting severe casualties to the Russian forces, whose losses numbered over 20, 000 killed and wounded, in total.

This not only angered the lords of the south but also the French King, who was at least nominally the suzerain of the lords whose lands were now open to despoliation and seizure.

The French avant-garde kept abreast of Dada activities in Zurich with regular communications from Tristan Tzara ( whose pseudonym means " sad in country ," a name chosen to protest the treatment of Jews in his native Romania ), who exchanged letters, poems, and magazines with Guillaume Apollinaire, André Breton, Max Jacob, Clément Pansaers, and other French writers, critics and artists.

Such was the case with Maximillien Robespierre, whose supporters knew him as " The Incorruptible ", while his opponents called him " dictateur sanguinaire ", French for " bloodthirsty dictator ".

The European powers then determined to intervene, and authorized the landing in Beirut of a body of French troops under General Beaufort d ' Hautpoul, whose inscription can still be seen on the historic rock at the mouth of Nahr al-Kalb.

Although opinions differ as to his character there is no dispute over his great achievements: he helped to save the Habsburg Empire from French conquest ; he broke the westward thrust of the Ottomans, liberating central Europe after a century and a half of Turkish occupation ; and he was one of the great patrons of the arts whose building legacy can still be seen in Vienna today.

Yet the coup was less successful than hoped: Cremona remained in French hands, and the Duke of Vendôme, whose talents far exceeded Villeroi's, became the theatre's new commander.

1828 – January 9, 1901 ) was a Black Canadian painter whose tonalism and predominantly pastoral subject matter owed much to his admiration for Millet and the French Barbizon School.

The French ambassadors, whose private galleries overlooked the tennis court, were witness to the display.

These included An Elopement à la Mode and The Pickpocket: A Chase Through London, made by Alf Collins for the British branch of the French Gaumont company, Daring Daylight Burglary, made by Frank Mottershaw at the Sheffield Photographic Company, and Desperate Poaching Affray, made by the Haggar family, whose main business was exhibiting films made by others in their traveling tent theatre.

The term specifically refers to people whose cultural background is primarily associated with French language, regardless of ethnic and geographical differences.