The reporters were questioning the Interior man and the French officer, both of whom remained noncommittal as to what action, if any, would be taken in my regard.

Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;

The great spectacle was a source of rancor, and Son et Lumiere, which the French were trying to promote with the Athenians, was the reason.

The Artists contended that the Philistines, gross of soul, were all for having Son et Lumiere, since the French were footing the bill and the attraction, wherever it had been done, had proven popular.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

The French were now occupying Gascony and Flanders on the technical grounds that their rulers had forfeited them by a breach of the feudal contract.

The Indochina struggle was a war to stay out of in 1954, when Gen. Ridgway estimated it would take a minimum of 10 to 15 divisions at the outset to win a war the French were losing.

Wildcat and The Unsinkable Molly Brown were originals, but pretty bad, leaving top honors again to an import -- the jaunty and charmingly French Irma La Douce.

The Ifni crisis in the fall of 1957 postponed further consideration of elections, but French consultants were called in and notices of further investigation appeared from time to time.

Although we enjoyed our rounds of the government offices in Vientiane, with officials offering tea and pleasing conversation in French, we were getting nowhere.

The director of the post at Mobile kept an adequate amount of French goods, of a kind to which they were accustomed, to supply the Indian needs.

The Chickasaws finally were the occasion for the most disastrous wars during the French control of Louisiana.

Bienville realized that if the French were to hold the southeastern tribes against the enticements of British goods, French traders must be able to offer a supply as abundant as the Carolinians and at reasonable prices.

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

Do you say chantey, as if the word were derived from the French word chanter, to sing, or do you say shanty and think of a roughly built cabin, which derives its name from the French-Canadian use of the word chantier, with one of its meanings given as a boat-yard??

He taught French for a year at Eton, where Eric Blair ( later to become George Orwell ) and Stephen Runciman were among his pupils, but was remembered as an incompetent and hopeless teacher who couldn ’ t keep discipline.

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.

His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).

According to M. Forrest, the French knights were so encumbered by their armour that they were exhausted even before the start of the battle.

The citizens are slow to realize the magnitude of the danger because they do not believe in pestilence or that it could happen to them, just as the French were complacent at the beginning of the war.

But before that, many Britons were more scrupulous at maintaining the French form.

He was finally allowed to return to Paris in 1781 to settle his affairs and attempt to find copies of the disputed records, but his differences with various French officials, coupled with the publication in Rivington's Royal Gazette in New York of private letters to his brother in which he repudiated the Revolution as hopeless and suggested a rapprochement with Britain, led to his being barred from entry and branded a traitor at home.

With the advance of French forces on one side and 24, 000 Prussian soldiers on the other, the situation was hopeless.

He fought for the king until the French capture of Winchester in June 1216, when again the king's cause looked hopeless.

He is also shown to be hopeless at speaking any language other than English ( in an episode of What's New, Scooby Doo ?, Fred attempted to learn French, leading Daphne to suggest he sticks to saying " oui-oui " ( wee-wee ), to which he replies, " I already did that before we left the hotel ").

According to the French historian Jehan de Waurin, who was present, the disaster was due to Talbot's rashness, and Fastolf only fled when resistance was hopeless.

When the resistance seemed hopeless Robert allowed himself to be taken prisoner, together with his father and his brother William of Crèvecoeur, and taken to the French King ( May 1300 ).

After trouble with an incompetent Swiss French nursery helper Marcelle for toddler Rosalind, she decides " Scottish preferred .. good with the young.

The majority of the population is French, but there are sizable groups of Italians, Spaniards ( Up to 20 % of the Bordeaux population claim some degree of Spanish heritage ), Portuguese, Turks, Germans and North Africans ..

Yehonatan Shimʻon Frenḳel writes that '.. the .. Air Wing was formed after the 1987 coup, when the French provided two helicopters as part of its military aid package.

In the 1930s, Cocteau had an affair with Princess Natalie Paley, the daughter of a Romanov grand duke and herself a sometime actress, model, and former wife of couturier Lucien Lelong .. Cocteau's longest-lasting relationships were with the French actors Jean Marais and Édouard Dermit, whom Cocteau formally adopted.

Jean Renoir did the French narration for the film and Hemingway did the English version only after Orson Welles's sounded too theatrical ..

Yet, rhetoric vanished substantially from the French scene, educational or intellectual, for some 60 years ..

French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss was arguably the first such scholar, sparking a widespread interest in Structuralism ..

* April 1 – The Spanish and the British end their alliance with France in the French intervention in Mexico ..

For example, the fact described by the true statement " Paris is the capital city of France " implies that there is such a place as Paris, there is such a place as France, there are such things as capital cities, as well as that France has a government, that the government of France has the power to define its capital city, and that the French government has chosen Paris to be the capital, that there is such a thing as a " place " or a " government ", etc ..

Duchamp added an inscription, which when read out loud in French sounds like " Elle a chaud au cul " literally translated: " she has a hot ass ", implying the woman in the painting is in a state of sexual excitement and intended as a Freudian joke ..

The general consensus among scholars is that Giovanni da Verrazzano was born in the Val di Greve, south of Florence, Italy, the son of Piero Andrea di Bernardo da Verrazzano and Fiametta Capelli ; some alternative theories have been elaborated: e. g., a certain French scholarship assumed that Verrazzano was born in Lyon, France, the son of Alessandro di Bartolommeo da Verrazano and Giovanna Guadagni .. Whatever the case, Verrazzano always considered himself to be Florentine and was considered a Florentine by his contemporaries as well.

For many years it was thought that she had some involvement in the creation of the Bayeux Tapestry ( commonly called La Tapisserie de la Reine Mathilde in French ), but historians no longer believe that ; it seems to have been commissioned by William's half-brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, and made by English artists in Kent ..

In 1963, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a shell-shocked soldier in Captain Newman, M. D .. At the Cannes Film Festival he won the French Film Critics Award for best actor.

Eight large paintings were placed in gilded frames above the stone pediments and busts, including three of the Stuart and French Royal family, one executed by Sir Godfrey Kneller of Lord Burlington and his sisters, and popular mythological scenes such as " Daphne and Apollo " and " The Judgment of Paris " Twelve antique busts of Roman and Greek figures, such as Emperors, poets, politicians and generals were also positioned on gilded brackets designed by Lord Burlington ..

* Victory and Conquest of French .. 1792 at 1815

It would therefore have meant " one with a tail " — perhaps from the habit of animals displaying their tails in flight (" turning tail "), or from a dog's habit of putting its tail between its legs when it is afraid .. Like many other English words of French origin, this word was introduced in the English language by the French-speaking Normans, after the Norman conquest of England in 1066.

Before that she played herself in Jean-Luc Godard's film Made in U. S. A .. Faithfull has also appeared in the 1967 film I'll Never Forget What's ' isname alongside Orson Welles ( where she notedly became the first person to say " fuck " in a mainstream studio picture ), in the French television film Anna, starring Anna Karina ( in which Faithfull sang Serge Gainsbourg's " Hier ou Demain "), as a leather-clad motorcyclist in the 1968 French film La Motocyclette ( English titles: Girl on a Motorcycle and Naked Under Leather ) opposite Alain Delon, and in Kenneth Anger's 1969 film Lucifer Rising, in which she played Lilith.

By introducing the miniskirt into the haute couture of the fashion industry, Courrèges gave it a greater degree of respectability than might otherwise have been expected of a street fashion .. An even more prominent French fashion designer, Yves St. Laurent, began to show shorter skirts in his fall / winter 1965 collection, including his famous " Mondrian " dress ( inspired by the work of painter Piet Mondrian ), a trend that he continued with throughout the 1960s, although he became more famous during this period for introducing the concept of the formal trouser suit for women into haute couture.

Driver was brought up in Barbados and was educated at Bedales and the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art .. Driver has Italian, Irish, Scottish and French ancestry.

* French, John D .. " Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico: The Emergence of a New Feminist Political History ," Latin American Politics and Society, Summer 2008, Vol.

The assault troops were formed of three American divisions of the VI Corps, reinforced by the French 1st Armoured Division, all under the command of Lieutenant General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr ..

By " equal rights ", McCarthy meant fairer representation in the province, instead of privileges for the diminishing French population .. McCarthy was supported by Joseph Martin, Attorney General of Manitoba.

The " secrétaire à abattant " is a nearly identical form, but usually in a French style such as Louis XV, Art Deco, etc ..