A biting, pithy parable of the all-pervading hollowness of modern life, the piece has been set by Mlle Lagoon to a sumptuous score ( a single motif played over and over by four thousand French horns ) by existentialist hot-shot Jean-Paul Sartre.

The term android was used in a more modern sense by the French author Auguste Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam in his work Tomorrow's Eve ( 1886 ).

The reciprocal influence between the French school and Polish historiography was particularly evident in studies on the Middle Ages and the early modern era studied by Braudel.

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier ( also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution ; 26 August 17438 May 1794 ; ), the " father of modern chemistry ," was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology.

Long settled by the Mi ' kmaq Nation, the valley experienced French settlement at the Habitation at Port-Royal, near modern day Annapolis Royal in the western part of the valley, beginning in 1605.

Alexandrines are common in the German literature of the Baroque period and in French poetry of the early modern and modern periods.

Public education was organized on the French model and Istanbul University was reorganized as a modern institution in 1861.

The word autumn comes from the Old French word autompne ( automne in modern French ), and was later normalised to the original Latin word autumnus.

( In modern French, "" usually means referee or umpire.

Originally published in modern Hebrew, with a running commentary to facilitate learning, his Steinzaltz edition of the Talmud has also been translated into English, French, Russian and Spanish.

" Bardot's book was also against miscegenation ; made attacks on modern art, which Bardot equated with " shit "; drew similarities between French politicians and weather vanes ; and compared her own beliefs with previous generations who had " given their lives to push out invaders ".

It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 ; the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern nation, and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic, during the French Revolution.

While two-piece bathing suits had been worn on the beach before, the modern bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Réard in 1946.

The style of dance is commonly known to modern scholars as the French noble style or belle danse ( French, literally " beautiful dance "), however it is often referred to casually as baroque dance in spite of the existence of other theatrical and social dance styles during the baroque era.

The death of James Wolfe | General Wolfe during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham ; the campaigns of the French and Indian War resulted in British control of modern Canada.

The Basel region, culturally extending into German Baden-Württemberg and French Alsace, reflects the heritage of its three states in the modern Latin name: " Regio TriRhena ".

This family includes all of the modern brass instruments except the trombone: the trumpet, horn ( also called the French horn ), euphonium, and tuba, as well as the cornet, flügelhorn, tenor horn ( alto horn ), baritone horn, sousaphone, mellophone, and the old saxhorn.

His forecast of the form of government suitable to the modern world may be seen as prophetic: the largely ceremonial offices of president in some modern parliamentary democracies in Europe and e. g. Israel can be perceived as elected or appointed versions of Hegel's constitutional monarch ; the Russian and French presidents, with their stronger powers, may also be regarded in Hegelian terms as wielding powers suitable to the embodiment of the national will.

The title was also used in other city states and also revived in modern states, notably in the First French Republic.

The possibility of recall into the Army is part of the price that a modern American has to pay for the enviable heritage of liberty which he enjoys.

Today a battle cry may seem an anachronism, for in the modern Army, esprit de corps has been sacrificed to organizational charts and tables.

Though rarely used by modern conventional military units, abatises are still officially maintained in United States Army and Marine Corps training.

Its first modern incidence in biological warfare were when Scandinavian " freedom fighters " supplied by the German General Staff used anthrax with unknown results against the Imperial Russian Army in Finland in 1916.

The vastly increasing demands of imperial expansion, and the inadequacies and inefficiencies of the underfunded, post-Napoleonic Wars British Army, and of the Militia, Yeomanry, and Volunteer Force, led to the Cardwell and Childers Reforms of the late 19th century, which gave the British Army its modern shape, and redefined its regimental system.

Several armored units of the modern United States Army retain the designation of " Armoured cavalry ".

This marked the official end of dragoons in the U. S. Army, although certain modern units trace their origins back to the historic dragoon regiments.

Another modern United States Army unit informally known as the 2nd Dragoons, is the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment.

In more modern times the British Army used kites to haul human lookouts high into the air for observation purposes, using the kites developed by Samuel Franklin Cody.

The Ghanaian Army relies on a mix of modern military technology and older varieties.

) King Matthias Corvinus maintained very modern mercenary-based royal troops, called the Black Army.

However the term Irish Republican Army in its modern sense was first used in the second decade of the 20th century for the rebel forces of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army during the Easter Rising.

Military necessity admits of all direct destruction of life or limb of armed enemies, and of other persons whose destruction is incidentally unavoidable in the armed contests of the war ; it allows of the capturing of every armed enemy, and every enemy of importance to the hostile government, or of peculiar danger to the captor ; it allows of all destruction of property, and obstruction of the ways and channels of traffic, travel, or communication, and of all withholding of sustenance or means of life from the enemy ; of the appropriation of whatever an enemy's country affords necessary for the subsistence and safety of the Army, and of such deception as does not involve the breaking of good faith either positively pledged, regarding agreements entered into during the war, or supposed by the modern law of war to exist.

* 1807 – Emperor Napoleon's French Grande Armée defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland ( modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast ) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.

Traditional pocket knives and Swiss Army Knives commonly employ the nail nick, while modern folding knives more often use a stud, hole, disk, or flipper located on the blade, all which have the benefit of allowing the user to open the knife with one hand.

The modern Italian Army defeated the poorly armed Abyssinians and captured Addis Ababa in May 1936, forcing Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie to flee.

* 1868 – Decoration Day ( the predecessor of the modern " Memorial Day ") is observed in the United States for the first time ( By " Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic " John A. Logan's proclamation on May 5 ).

In the early 1930s, a very modern operational doctrine for the Red Army was developed and promulgated in the 1936 field regulations.

Ceremonial nickel-plated Pickelhaube of the modern Swedish Life Guards ( Swedish Army ) | Royal Life Guard Regiments.

The six gun has many modern incarnations, such as the Ruger Vaquero and Beretta Stampede, as well as the currently produced Colt Single Action Army.

This became the nucleus of the modern Sudanese Army.

Between 1920 and 1924, while Pershing was Army Chief of Staff, Marshall worked in a number of positions in the US Army, focusing on training and teaching modern, mechanized warfare.