Inspired by the time Gershwin had spent in Paris, it evokes the sights and energy of the French capital in the 1920s.

* Invasion of Cayenne ( 1809 ) ( 1809 ): Was a combined military operation by an Anglo-Portuguese-Brazilian expeditionary force against Cayenne, capital of the French South American colony of French Guiana in 1809, during the Napoleonic Wars.

Further good news for the Allies arrived from northern Italy where, on 7 September, Prince Eugene had routed a French army before the Piedmontese capital, Turin, driving the Franco-Spanish forces from northern Italy.

The French capital was soon moved again to Vichy.

By the mid-19th century, Bayonne had declined somewhat with the centralisation of power to Paris and to the new département capital, non-Basque Pau, after the 1789 French Revolution, and with Wellington's bombardment.

When the capital was burned in 1893, the sultan sought and received protectorate status from the French.

In 1905, administrative responsibility for Chad was placed under a governor-general stationed at Brazzaville, capital of French Equatorial Africa ( AEF ).

The French government believes that the opposition has regrouped east of the capital.

The original Arabic name of Crete was Iqrīṭiš ( < ( της ) Κρήτης ), but after the Emirate of Crete's establishment of its new capital at ربض الخندق Rabḍ al-ḫandaq ( modern Iraklion ), both the city and the island became known as Χάνδαξ ( Khandhax ) or Χάνδακας ( Khandhakas ), which gave Latin and Venetian Candia, from which French Candie and English Candy or Candia.

Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century French romances and eventually came to be described as the fantastic capital of Arthur's realm and a symbol of the Arthurian world.

As the French colony of Middle Congo ( Moyen Congo ) also chose the name Republic of Congo upon receiving its independence, the two countries were more commonly known as Congo-Léopoldville and Congo-Brazzaville, after their capital cities.

In 2002, Djibouti agreed to host a U. S. military presence at Camp Lemonnier, a former French Foreign Legion base outside the capital that now houses approximately 3, 500 American personnel.

Indeed the Republic of Independent Guyana, in French La République de la Guyane indépendante and commonly referred to by the name of the capital " Counani ", was created in the area which was disputed by France ( as part of French Guyana ) and Brazil in the late nineteenth century.

After World War I, the French film industry suffered because of a lack of capital, and film production decreased as it did in most other European countries.

In 1405, the French conqueror Jean de Béthencourt completed their conquest of the island and gave his name to the former capital, Betancuria, on the west coast ( Puerto Rosario took over the mantle as island capital in 1835 ).

The country's second capital city was superseded by Rome six years later, after the withdrawal of the French troops made its addition to the kingdom possible.

De Gaulle withdrew the French administration, with much of the French population following, which took much of the country ’ s infrastructure and large amounts of capital.

The Alsace capital of Strasbourg was liberated by Leclerc's French troops on 23 November 1944.

Moreover, because the industrialization was financed mostly with foreign capital, Imperial Russia ( 1721 – 1917 ) did not possess a revolutionary bourgeoisie with political and economic influence upon the workers and the peasants ( as occurred in the French Revolution, 1789 ).

After Napoleon's Hundred Days following his escape from Elba, Landau, which had remained French, was granted to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 and became the capital of one of the thirteen Bezirksämter ( counties ) of the Bavarian Rheinpfalz. In 1840 famous political cartoonist Thomas Nast was born in Landau.

In 1896 the French colonizers of Madagascar adopted the Merina capital as their center of colonial administration.

The combination of exodus, quarantine, and outside traders ' fears disrupted business in the capital of the Bay Colony for weeks.

The early British capital of the Colony of Nova Scotia ( sometimes referred to as the 14th Colony ) was established at Annapolis Royal, where Fort Anne was constructed.

The British established a military outpost at King George Sound, near present-day Albany, in 1826, was followed by the establishment of the Swan River Colony in 1829, including the site of the present-day capital, Perth.

After Natal and the Cape Colony were secure, the British were able to invade the Transvaal, and the republic's capital, Pretoria, was ultimately captured in June 1900.

Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, was abandoned in 1699 when Williamsburg became the new capital of the colony ; the Zwaanendael Colony became a ghost town in 1632, when every one of the colonists were massacred by Indians ; and in 1590, mapmaker John White arrived at the Roanoke Colony in North Carolina to find it deserted, its inhabitants having vanished without a trace.

From 1902 – 1910 it served as the capital of the Orange River Colony and since that time as the provincial capital of the Free State.

It encompassed the old Cape Colony, and had Cape Town as its capital.

In 1682, William Penn founded the city to serve as capital of Pennsylvania Colony.

It became the capital of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia in 1780.

Her messages were passed to the government of Natal and from there to Cape Town, the capital of the Cape Colony.

Upon its completion in 1741, the Old Colony House at the head of what is now known as Washington Square served as a seat of Rhode Island's government, until the current Rhode Island State House in Providence was completed in 1904 and Providence became the state's sole capital city.

The following year, John Mottrom served as the first burgess for the territory in the House of Burgesses, which met at the capital of the Virginia Colony at Jamestown.

This colony – the National Colony – was to be a village of temperance with a capital “ T ”, a place where evangelical Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists and Baptists could live free of the sins of alcohol.

Burlington was founded on part of that land by English settlers ( primarily Quakers ) in 1677, and served as the capital of the province until 1702, when West Jersey and East Jersey were combined into a singe Crown Colony.

Later, the Red River Colony to its south took the lake's name for Winnipeg, the capital of Manitoba.

For this reason, historians often say that " the capital was the Colony ", because the center of British control was here.

Charlestown was originally a separate town and the first capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony ; it became a city in 1848 and was annexed by Boston on January 5, 1874.

It served as capital of the New Sweden Colony, under the rule of Royal Governor Johan Björnsson Printz.

At the time of McCreight's arrival in Victoria in 1860, it was the capital of the Colony of Vancouver Island, which at the time was governed by the powerful and autocratic Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company, Sir James Douglas.

The capital of the Virginia Colony was relocated to Middle Plantation.

This was followed by the establishment of the Swan River Colony in 1829, with townsites at Fremantle and Perth-later to become the state's capital.

It was funded by General Electric and the investment arm of Old Colony Trust, with $ 4. 25 million in capital.