Later, Beaux would discover that her French heritage would serve her well during her pilgrimage and training in France.

The word comes from the French language as dessert and this from Old French desservir, " to clear the table " and " to serve.

) is a military service wing of the French Army established in 1831, unique because it was exclusively created for foreign nationals willing to serve in the French Armed Forces.

The direct reason was that foreigners were forbidden to serve in the French Army after the 1830 July Revolution, so the Foreign Legion was created to allow the government a way around this restriction.

In 1754, Lieutenant Governor Dinwiddie had promised land bounties to the soldiers and officers who volunteered to serve during the French and Indian War.

President Diori signed legislation to end the employment of expatriate military officers in 1965, some continued to serve until the 1974 coup, when all French military presence was evacuated.

For example, German capitalizes all nouns, regardless of whether they refer to names, and French and Spanish do not capitalize names that serve as adjectives.

Dakar, as the former capital of French West Africa, is also home to banks and other institutions which serve all of Francophone West Africa, and is a hub for shipping and transport in the region.

During his studies, he dedicated himself to mastering English — adding this language to the Persian, Turkish, Arabic and French, languages in which he was already fluent-so that he could translate the letters of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá and serve as his secretary.

To serve the household, Jefferson brought some of his slaves, including James Hemings, who trained as a French chef for his master's service.

The British provided medical treatment for the sick and wounded French soldiers and French regular troops were returned to France aboard British ships with an agreement that they were not to serve again in the present war.

Initially the groupe comprised a group of French fighter pilots sent to aid Soviet forces on the Eastern Front at the suggestion of Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French Forces, who felt it important that French servicemen serve on all fronts in the war.

After Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815, the major victorious powers ( Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia ) agreed at Congress of Vienna on reuniting the former Austrian Netherlands and the former Dutch Republic, creating the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, which was to serve as a buffer state against any future French invasions.

In the 1840s, the French concluded a series of treaties with local West African rulers that enabled the French to build fortified posts along the Gulf of Guinea to serve as permanent trading centers.

At the beginning of the 16th century, Cardinal Richelieu began to build a naval arsenal and dockyard at Toulon to serve as a base for a new French Mediterreanean fleet.

A model ( from Middle French modèle // aew ), sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products ( notably fashion clothing ) or to serve as a subject of works of art.

In a deal brokered by the French king Louis XI, the earl agreed to serve Margaret and the Lancastrian cause.

Disagreements on the implementation of this treaty, serve as a pretext for the French invasion of 1895, which first met little resistance.

In 1973, French dance historian Francine Lancelot ( 1929 – 2003 ) began her formal studies in ethnomusicology which later lead her to researching French traditional dance forms and eventually Renaissance and Baroque dances.

In northwestern Europe, chalk deposits from the Upper Cretaceous are characteristic for the Chalk Group, which forms the white cliffs of Dover on the south coast of England and similar cliffs on the French Normandian coast.

The unease and self-deception that characterized that period of colonial history would be revisited in many forms at political and social moments of crisis ( such as the Salem witch trials, which coincided with frontier warfare and economic competition among Indians and French and other European settlers ) and during lengthy periods of cultural definition ( such as the American Renaissance of the late 18th-and early 19th-century literary, visual, and architectural movements, which sought to capitalize on unique American identities ).

Puccini succeeded in mastering the orchestra as no other Italian had done before him, creating new forms by manipulating structures inherited from the great Italian tradition, loading them with bold harmonic progressions which had little or nothing to do with what was happening then in Italy, though they were in step with the work of French, Austrian and German colleagues.

It semantically corresponds to the distinction between the morphological forms known respectively as the aorist and imperfect in Greek, the preterite and imperfect in Spanish, the simple past ( passé simple ) and imperfect in French, and the perfect and imperfect in Latin ( from the Latin " perfectus ", meaning " completed ").

Jacques-Yves Cousteau (; commonly known in English as Jacques Cousteau ; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997 ) was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water.

Aside from Latin, the standard written language of medieval Europe, the populace of crusader Jerusalem communicated in vernacular forms of French and Italian ; Greek, Armenian, and even Arabic were used by Frankish settlers.

In French, both forms are popular: Michel and Mickaël.

Under protest from the PLO, Iraq, and Libya, who claimed that because Abu Daoud was traveling to a PLO comrade's funeral he should receive diplomatic immunity, the French government refused a West German extradition request on grounds that forms had not been filled in properly, and put him on a plane to Algeria before Germany could submit another request.

Raï (), which is the Arabic word for " opinion ", is a form of folk music, originated in Oran, Algeria from Bedouin shepherds, mixed with Spanish, French, African and Arabic musical forms, which dates back to the 1930s and has been primarily evolved by women in the culture.

The palaeographer must know, first, the language of the text ( that is, a 21st-century English or French speaker must become expert in the relevant earlier forms of these languages ); and second, the historical usages of various styles of handwriting, common writing customs, and scribal / notarial abbreviations.

In the 1870s there was a revival of interest in French forms, led by Andrew Lang, Austin Dobson, Edmund Gosse, W. E. Henley, John Payne, and others.

Receiving their sabotage orders through messages over the BBC radio or by aircraft, the French used both passive and active forms of sabotage.

It comes originally from the Pantschatantra and later forms part of other tale collections in Sanskrit, Arabic, French, and Persian.

* Japan forms its own nationwide police force based on the French model.

In French furniture the style remained somewhat more reserved, since the ornaments were mostly of wood, or, after the fashion of wood-carving, less robust and naturalistic and less exuberant in the mixture of natural with artificial forms of all kinds ( e. g. plant motives, stalactitic representations, grotesques, masks, implements of various professions, badges, paintings, precious stones ).

For example, in French, the singular form of the definite article is le with masculine nouns and la with feminines ; adjectives and certain verb forms also change ( with the addition of-e with feminines ).

While there is a growing body of literature on sociolinguistic variation in French chat for example, other forms of computer mediated communication ( e. g. discussion fora, weblogs, etc.

The French forms are Ferrand, Fernand, and Fernandel, and it is Ferdinando and Fernando in Italian.

When Ingres, the director of the French Académie de peinture, painted a highly colored vision of a Turkish bath ( illustration, right ), he made his eroticized Orient publicly acceptable by his diffuse generalizing of the female forms ( who might all have been the same model.

However, while Rousseau's initial impact encouraged bloody revolutions against traditional politics, including both the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution, his own conclusions about the best forms of community seem to have been remarkably classical, in favor of city-states such as Geneva, and rural living.

In one of the forms in which probabilists now know this theorem, with its " dactylographic " typewriting monkeys (; the French word singe covers both the monkeys and the apes ), appeared in Émile Borel's 1913 article " Mécanique Statistique et Irréversibilité " ( Statistical mechanics and irreversibility ), and in his book " Le Hasard " in 1914.

French citizenship was granted to all African " subjects ," the right to organize politically was recognized, and various forms of forced labor were abolished.

Genre ( or ; from French, genre, " kind " or " sort ", from Latin: genus ( stem gener -), Greek: genos, γένος ) is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or entertainment, e. g. music, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria.