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Numerous French authors helped cement French policy around mercantilism in the 17th century.
The height of French mercantilism is closely associated with Jean-Baptiste Colbert, finance minister for 22 years in the 17th century, to the extent that French mercantilism is sometimes called Colbertism.
In France, economic control remained in the hands of the royal family and mercantilism continued until the French Revolution.
However, trade opportunities were restricted by the mercantilism of the British and French empires.
Quite surprisingly, the idea of mercantilism was first described by the French finance minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert.
A painting of a French seaport from 1638, at the height of mercantilism.

French and was
While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.
There was only one hitch: the small town of Kehl, on the other side of the Rhine, was still under French jurisdiction.
As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.
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 ; ;
He dabbled in verse, could get along well among most of the European languages, and was fluent in French and German.
Greek phone service is worse than French, so that it was to be some little time before contact of any sort was established.
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.
For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.
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.
This lofty disregard for others was not shared by such men as Pierre Flotte and his associates, that `` brilliant group of mediocre men '', as Powicke calls them, who provided the brains for the French embassy that came to Rome under the nominal leadership of the archbishop of Narbonne, the duke of Burgundy, and the count of St.-Pol.
He was unable to send any more help to his allies on the Continent, and during the next few years many of them, left to resist French pressure unaided, surrendered to the inevitable and made their peace with Philip.
In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.
The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;
For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.
When they lost it, the French artillery moved in, and that was the end for Garibaldi that time, on 30 April 1849.
It was not a part of any one of the three ( later four ) zones for occupation by Soviet, American, British, and French troops respectively.
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.
`` Remember the French railroad baron who was going to take me floating down the Nile ''??

French and best
But by week's end the Laotian cry of invasion was read as an exaggeration ( see foreign news ), and the U.S. was agreeing with its cautious British and French allies that a neutralist -- rather than a pro-Western -- government might be best for Laos.
Marlborough later told Bishop Burnet that, ‘ the French army looked the best of any he had ever seen ’.
But these French horsemen were amongst the best in Louis XIV ’ s army the Maison du Roi, supported by four elite squadrons of Bavarian Cuirassiers.
Without their best general and his veterans, the French suffered a series of defeats and it was not until Bonaparte returned to become First Consul that France once again held a position of strength on mainland Europe.
The infantry of the Low Countries, who were at this time almost the best in existence, drove back the French.
Geoffroy's name is best known in connection with these tables of " affinities " ( tables des rapports ), which were first presented to the French Academy in 1718 and 1720, as shown below:
In several early French works such as Chrétien de Troyes ' Perceval, the Story of the Grail and the Vulgate Lancelot Proper section, Excalibur is used by Gawain, Arthur's nephew and one of his best knights.
The best known: Guru ( USA ) inspired by Mycin, Personal Consultant Plus ( USA ), Nexpert Object ( developed by Neuron Data, company founded in California by three French ), Genesia ( developed by French public company Electricité de France and marketed by Steria ), VP Expert ( USA ).
In 185 battles that France had fought over the past 800 years, their armies had won 132 times, lost 43 times and drawn only 10, giving the French military the best record of any country in Europe ".
However, two French traders, Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers, learned from the Cree that the best fur country was north and west of Lake Superior and that there was a " frozen sea " still further north.
Mishra also wrote an original score for French Director Eric Heumann for his film Port Djema ( 1996 ) which won best score at Hamptons film festival and The Golden Bear at Berlin.
Bernard d ' Espagnat a French theoretical physicist best known for his work on the nature of reality wrote a paper titled The Quantum Theory and Reality according to the paper: " The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum mechanics and with facts established by experiment.
* Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger ( French award for best foreign work of fiction ) for The Painted Bird
Abbadie is best known by his religious treatises, several of which were translated from the original French into other languages and had a wide circulation throughout Europe.
Federalists responded in kind, some seeing Monroe as at best a French dupe and at worst a traitor.
Ribbentrop persuaded the British Legion ( the leading veterans ' group in Britain ) and many French veterans ' groups to send delegations to Germany to meet German veterans as the best way to promote peace.
Some of the best known paintings of the museum have been digitized by the French Center for Research and Restoration of the Museums of France.
He is best known for his pioneering studies French Rural History and Feudal Society and his posthumously-published unfinished meditation on the writing of history, The Historian's Craft.
Bloch's own ideas on rural history were best expressed in his masterworks, French Rural History ( Les caractères originaux de l ' histoire rurale française, 1931 ) and Feudal Society ( 1939 ).
However, a report from the French AFP news agency stated that " The Turkish judicial authorities still haven't explained exactly which legal resources he had access to ", and former minister of Justice Hikmet Sami Türk, in government at the time of Ağca's extradition, claimed that, from a legal viewpoint, his liberation was a " serious mistake " at best, and that he should have not been freed before 2012.
Valéry is best known as a poet, and he is sometimes considered to be the last of the French symbolists.
In French, the best introduction may be André Gounelle, Le Dynamisme Créateur de Dieu: Essai sur la Théologie du Process, édition revue, modifiée et augmentee ( Paris: Van Dieren, 2000, ISBN 2-911087-26-7 ).
The best known historical approach involved the Stanford-Binet IQ test, developed originally by the French psychologist Alfred Binet.

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