Aging but still precocious, French feline enfant terrible Francoisette Lagoon has succeeded in shocking jaded old Paris again, this time with a sexy ballet scenario called The Lascivious Interlude, the story of a nymphomaniac trip-hammer operator who falls hopelessly in love with a middle-aged steam shovel.

He nevertheless succeeded in introducing an acerbic ideological strain into French Catholic mentality.

With support from Colonel Blood's batteries, the Hessian, Hanoverian and Dutch infantry – now commanded by Count Berensdorf – succeeded in pushing the French and Irish infantry back into Oberglauheim so that they could not again threaten Churchill's flank as he moved against Tallard.

But the charge succeeded and with their cavalry in headlong flight, the remaining nine French infantry battalions fought with desperate valour, trying to form square.

In 1699 he succeeded Samuel Pufendorf as historiographer to the elector, and the same year replaced his uncle Joseph Ancillon as judge of all the French refugees in the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

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.

Charles II, having no direct heir, was succeeded by his great-nephew Philip V, a French prince, in 1700.

Richard's younger brother John, who succeeded him, was not so fortunate ; he suffered the loss of Normandy and numerous other French territories following the disastrous Battle of Bouvines.

The reign of Henry V, who succeeded to the throne in 1413, was mostly notable for the great victory over the French at Agincourt.

This was succeeded in 1958 by the French Fifth Republic, the country's current government.

Henry II succeeded to the throne at the end of the Anarchy but during the revolt of 1173 – 74 he faced a significant uprising led by his son, Henry, backed by the French crown.

French workshops succeeded in large scale industrialization of the process, eventually making mirrors affordable to the masses, although mercury's toxicity remained a problem.

The ambassador of Louis XIV of France ( 1643 – 1715 ) succeeded in procuring his election on 6 October 1689, as successor to Pope Innocent XI ( 1676 – 89 ); nevertheless, after months of negotiation Alexander VIII finally condemned the declaration made in 1682 by the French clergy concerning the liberties of the Gallican church.

He and the French popes who succeeded him were completely under the influence of the kings of France.

France succeeded in finally claiming Trier in 1794 during the French Revolutionary Wars, and the electoral archbishopric was dissolved.

Though the French designed the Continental System to achieve this, it never succeeded in its objective.

Philippe Allonneau the French representative even succeeded in being recognized as King of Espiritu Santo by the island's tribal chiefs.

The French retaliated in 1706 with a raid on St. Kitts ; one attempt to do the same on Nevis failed, but a later one succeeded, led by Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville.

* May 10 – In New France, Governor Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville ends his final term ( multiple times over 43 years ) as Governor of colonial French Louisiana, which he helped colonize ; he is succeeded by the Marquis de Vaudreuil ( for the next 10 years ) and returns to France.

On July 24 French prime minister Raymond Poincaré resigned for medical reasons ; he was succeeded by Aristide Briand.

** French prime minister Raymond Poincaré resigns ; he is succeeded by Aristide Briand.

Gibbs succeeded in interesting his European correspondents in that work, which was translated into German ( then the leading language for chemistry ) by Wilhelm Ostwald in 1892 and into French by Henri Louis Le Châtelier in 1899.

* UDF = Union for French Democracy ( Union pour la Démocratie Française ) succeeded by Democratic Movement

Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre, who succeeded Marin as commander of the French forces after the latter died on October 29, invited Washington to dine with him at his arrival.

During the next decade ` Abdu ' l-Bahá would be in constant communication with Bahá ' ís around the world, helping them to teach the religion ; the group included May Ellis Bolles in Paris, Englishman Thomas Breakwell, American Herbert Hopper, French Hippolyte Dreyfus, Susan Moody, Lua Getsinger, and American Laura Clifford Barney.

Following Napoleon Bonaparte's victories over the Austrian Empire in Northern Italy – helping to secure France victory in the War of the First Coalition in 1797 – Great Britain remained the only major European power still at war with the French Republic.

It is also in 1402 that mention of the French and Bretons helping Owain was first heard.

Since the law did not distinguish, for marital purposes, between ruler and subjects, historically marriages between royalty and the noble heiresses to great fiefs became the norm, helping to aggrandize the House of Capet while gradually diminishing the number of large domains held in theoretical vassalage by nobles who were, in practice, virtually independent of the French crown.

French also combines the simple forms of helping verbs with the past participles of main verbs ; it sometimes uses the verb " être " ( to be ) and sometimes uses the verb " avoir " ( to have ) as the auxiliary in the compound past.

The principal reasons why French settlement didn't grow in a manner similar to that in French North Africa ( which had a population of over 1 million French civilians ) were because French Indochina was seen as a colonie d ' exploitation économique ( economic colony ) rather than a colonie de peuplement ( settlement colony helping Metropolitan France from being overpopulated ), and because Indochina was distant from France itself.

Multiple French Resistance cells were active during this period in the region of Metz, such as the Mario and the Derhan groups, whose activities included collecting arms for the Liberation, distributing flyers, helping to prisoners and resisters, and sabotage.

The resulting effect, other historical factors helping, is a negative perception of Quebec French traits by some of the Quebecers themselves, coupled with a desire to improve their language by conforming it to the Metropolitan French norm.

After helping to unify Vietnam under the Nguyen Dynasty, the French Navy began its heavy presence in the Mekong Delta and later colonized the southern third of Vietnam including Saigon in 1867.

In 1638, Thomas served in Spanish Flanders, helping to defend the fortress-city of Saint-Omer against a French siege ; in mid-June, he managed to get reinforcements into the place, then with the rest of his small army entrenched about 15 km.

In 1638, Thomas served in Spanish Flanders, helping to defend the fortress-city of Saint-Omer against a French siege ; in mid-June, he managed to get reinforcements into the place, then with the rest of his small army entrenched about 15 km.

During the French Revolution he served as the Minister of the Marine, he and was involved in the reform of the French educational system, helping to found the École Polytechnique.

One exception was helping the Mexican Juarez against French troops of Emperor Maximilian, as occurred in radio episodes such as " Supplies for Juarez " ( 18 September 1939 ), " Hunted by Legionnaires " ( 20 September 1939 ) and " Lafitte's Reinforcements " ( 22 September 1939 ).

He fought for years with Toussaint Louverture in the North, helping to defeat the French colonists, the Spanish, British, and finally French national troops.

He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his role in helping to capture, off the coast of French West Africa in June 1944.

Joyce championed Confessions of Zeno, helping to have it translated into French and then published in Paris, where critics praised it extravagantly.

Come to the Stable is a 1949 American film which tells the story of two French nuns who come to a small New England town and involve the townsfolk in helping them to build a children's hospital.

However, the Marseille chairman Bernard Tapie was not satisfied with the results, and replaced Beckenbauer with Raymond Goethals ; Cantona was continually at odds with Goethals and Tapie and, despite helping the team win the French Division 1 title, he was transferred to Nîmes the following season.