An accomplished diplomat, he was widely admired among the French as American minister to Paris and was a major figure in the development of positive Franco-American relations.

The Allied bombing of a rail yard was accomplished with real dynamite, as the French rail authority needed to enlarge the track gauge.

Mazarin himself, bearing the French veto of Cardinal Pamphilj, arrived too late, and the election was accomplished.

Notable among their contemporaries were the cultured and technically adroit French baritones Jean Lassalle ( hailed as the most accomplished baritone of his generation ), Victor Maurel ( the creator of Verdi's Iago, Falstaff and Tonio in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci ), Paul Lhérie ( the first Posa in the revised, Italian-language version of Don Carlos ), and Maurice Renaud ( a singing actor of the first magnitude ).

The liberation of Corsica in September 1943, a clear demonstration of the strength of a communist insurgency, was accomplished by the FTP, an effective force not yet integrated into the Secret Army and not involved with General Henri Giraud, the Free French, or the political unification of the Résistance.

* Fait accompli (" accomplished deed ", from the verb " faire ", to do ), a term of French origin denoting an irreversible deed, a done deal.

Charles VII was a key ally of the French in the ongoing war against Austria, and they were charged with keeping him in the war by assauging his concerns which they accomplished successfully.

It is an accomplished specimen of the French imbroglio-style play, in which someone is in search of something, but does not find it till five minutes before the curtain falls.

The chansons de geste, Old French for " songs of heroic deeds " ( from gesta: Latin: " deeds, actions accomplished "), are the epic poems that appear at the dawn of French literature.

The roof design was first popularised by François Mansart ( 1598 – 1666 ), an accomplished architect of the French Baroque period.

König was also an accomplished linguist, fluently speaking seven languages: German, English, Italian, French, Spanish, Russian and Latin.

It is often stated this law confiscated the Church's French land holdings or banned monastic vows: that had already been accomplished by earlier legislation.

Italian terms that do convey an accomplished female ballet dancer are prima ballerina and prima ballerina assoluta ( the French word étoile is used in this sense at the Scala ballet company in Milan but has a different meaning at the Paris Opera Ballet.

The French members would have preferred to continue the Council until a thorough reform of the church had been accomplished, both " in capite et in membris " (" in its head and its members "), but whether in order to avoid a new schism, or whether on account of fear of the Pope ( since Siena in southern Tuscany was near the Papal States ), they departed.

He was a polyglot and, before entering the acting profession full-time, was an accomplished translator-fluent in French, German, Latin, Italian, Norwegian and Afrikaans.

** To protest against pilots having had to parade on foot at the July 14 Bastille Day World War I victory parade on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, French pilot Charles Godefroy flies his Nieuport fighter under the arches of the Arc de Triomphe, the first time this has been accomplished.

Beautiful, accomplished, and with a love of literature, she possessed at the same time a temperament which protected her from scandal, and from the early days of the French Consulate to almost the end of the July Monarchy, her salon in Paris was one of the chief resorts of literary and political society that followed what was fashionable.

That accomplished, the Poles were henceforth able to read Enigma traffic for nearly seven years to the outbreak of World War II as well as for a time into the War, while operating in conjunction with French intelligence in France.

The French 1346 campaign in the south ended having accomplished nothing.

It quickly made its way to France, where it became opéra bouffon, and eventually, in the following century, French operetta, with Jacques Offenbach as its most accomplished practitioner.

And so the French 1346 campaign in the south ended having accomplished nothing.

Despite repeated orders from Adolf Hitler that the French capital " must not fall into the enemy's hand except lying in complete debris " to be accomplished by bombing it and blowing up its bridges, von Choltitz, as commander of the German garrison and military governor of Paris, surrendered on 25 August at the Hôtel Meurice, the newly established headquarters of General Leclerc.

The work he accomplished in French West Africa constitutes his most enduring legacy.

Janeway also grants convicted criminal, former Starfleet officer, and accomplished pilot Tom Paris a field commission, and makes him Voyagers helmsman.

Promulgation in the sense of publishing and proclaiming the law is accomplished by the President, or the relevant presiding officer in the case of an overridden veto, delivering the act to the Archivist of the United States.

The Anson development is named for Boone County native Anson Mills, an accomplished surveyor, builder, civil engineer, Union Army officer, inventor, diplomat, and author.

* Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth ( 1747 – 1817 ), accomplished Royal Naval officer who served under Nelson.

Webb house is the youngest of the houses at Adams ', founded in 1994 it has since adopted emerald green as its distinguishing colour ; the house is named after Dawley-born merchant naval officer and accomplished swimmer Captain Matthew Webb.

A highly decorated and accomplished military officer, he became a Bir Uttom, the highest gallantry award for a living officer for his wartime services, and retired from the Bangladesh Army as a Lieutenant General.

She states that she knew and admired that fact that he had been an accomplished OSS officer ( precursor to the CIA ) and that the protagonist of the novel that Kennedy wrote ( during their three year relationship ), " The Chairman " was a CIA agent tasked with ' traveling to China to kill Chairman Mao Tse Tung, the then Chinese Communist leader.

*" An accomplished man and gallant officer.

The episodes exaggerate his role in events while minimizing the contributions of his crew — most conspicuously presenting strong and scientifically accomplished first officer Scarlette as a bimbo and damsel in distress.

He was an excellent army officer, a refined diplomat, an accomplished speaker, combining Hellenic culture with Roman.

An accomplished horeswoman, she was sworn in as a mounted officer of the Weston Police Department in 1913 during the town's bicentennial celebration.

At an African American Fourth of July celebration at Louisville ’ s camp — one that followed a parade through the city streets, including some fifteen hundred armed black and white soldiers and band — Palmer, arriving in a gilded circus chariot, told an estimated twenty thousand attendees, most of whom he had already been assured believed the general was there to declare them free ( and who he claimed later he set out to inform otherwise ), “ My countrymen, you are free, and while I command in this department the military forces of the United States will defend your right to freedom .” That one of its circuit courts was soon to strike down Congress ’ s act of March 3, 1865, liberating black soldiers ’ dependants — some 72, 045 individuals, or by one USCT officer ’ s estimate, “ wo and one half persons freed, for each Colored Soldier enlisted in the State of Kentucky ” and two-thirds of the state ’ s slaves — only fueled the general ’ s intent to cure the state ’ s white residents of “ Negrophobia in its worst form .” “ Slavery is dead in Kentucky ,” he crowed to his wife in October 1865, “ and my Mission is accomplished .” He was soon met with an indictment by Louisville ’ s grand jury for aiding fugitive slaves and a wave of lawsuits from dispossessed Kentucky slaveholders.

His death also affected Lee who remarked, " The army has lost a brave soldier and the Confederacy an accomplished officer.

Under Hayes ' leadership, the Coast Guard accomplished a number of firsts for women in the military, including the assignment of Lieutenant ( junior grade ) Beverly Kelley as the first female commanding officer of a U. S. military vessel, and Lieutenant Kay Hartzell as the first female to command an isolated U. S. military unit.

At the start of the Second World War much of the Red Army, including its armoured forces, were in transition and recovering following the 1937 repression of the officer corps, as well as ignoring their lessons from Nomonhan which had been successfully accomplished by General Zhukov, and relying instead on lessons from their politically selected Spanish Civil War veteran high ranking officers, which resulted in their poor showing during the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939.

The Captain Winifred Quick Collins Award " is awarded to a woman officer and an enlisted woman whose exceptional leadership and performance in their military duties have been accomplished by outstanding contributions that have brought them recognition and reflected credit on women in the naval service.

Ole Imerslun Reistad ( 26 June 1898 – 22 December 1949 ) was a Norwegian military officer and accomplished sports person.

:: The unnamed chief commanding officer of the Delmo is a beautiful green-haired woman highly accomplished in military and reconnaissance work.

Gannibal's oldest son, Ivan, became an accomplished naval officer who helped found the city of Kherson in 1779 and attained the rank of General-in-Chief, the second highest military rank in imperial Russia.

Karl Wendell Richter ( October 4, 1942 – July 28, 1967 ) was an officer in the United States Air Force and an accomplished fighter pilot during the Vietnam War.