While in government work, he helped develop the metric system to secure uniformity of weights and measures throughout France.

While in Italy the tendency was to give scale by increasing the number of panels, in France the contrary seems to have been the rule ; and one of the great doors at Fontainebleau, which is in two leaves, is entirely carried out as if consisting of one great panel only.

While filming The Madwoman of Chaillot in France, he phoned home to ask his family if they would like to eat at " Ying's Thing " that evening ; Kaye then flew home for dinner.

While nationalization committees were set up in France and the United Kingdom, Finland avoided nationalizations.

While Henry was dallying in France, Catherine, who was serving as regent in his absence, and his advisers were left to deal with this threat.

While at sea the French had some success at Boulogne but Nelson's Royal Navy destroyed an anchored Danish and Norwegian fleet at the Battle of Copenhagen ( 1801 ) because the Scandinavian kingdoms were against the British blockade of France.

While France continues to revere its rich history and independence, French leaders increasingly tie the future of France to the continued development of the European Union.

While nationalization committees were set up in France and UK, Finland avoided nationalizations.

While Albéniz's crowning achievement, Iberia, was written in the last years of his life in France, many of its preceding works are well-known and of great interest.

While still at war with France, the British could not afford to antagonise the Americans.

" While he allowed for the possibility of peaceful transition in some countries with strong democratic institutional structures ( such as Britain, the US and the Netherlands ), he suggested that in other countries with strong centralised state-oriented traditions, like France and Germany, the " lever of our revolution must be force.

While the sale of the territory by Spain back to France in 1800 went largely unnoticed, fear of an eventual French invasion spread nationwide when, in 1801, Napoleon sent a military force to secure New Orleans.

While fully supporting the ideas and actions of the Mars Society, it considers that those must be adapted to the specific cultural and political context of France and Europe.

While Britain and France refused to allow Soviet Union to impinge on the sovereignty of its neighbors, Germany possessed no such reservations.

While some examples of earlier prose strike modern readers as poetic, prose poetry is commonly regarded as having originated in 19th-century France, where its practitioners included Aloysius Bertrand, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé.

While the idea of postmodernity had been around since the 1940s, postmodern philosophy originated primarily in France during the mid-20th century.

While still not a fringe movement, there was not popular widespread support of phrenology in France.

While Hitler conquered Poland, France and other countries acting on single front at the start of World War II, the USSR was able to build up its military and regain some of the former territories of the Russian Empire during the Soviet invasion of Poland and the Winter War.

While leftists had mostly fled to France, many neofascist activists involved in the strategy of tension, such as Vincenzo Vinciguerra or Stefano Delle Chiaie, fled to Spain ; Delfo Zorzi, condemned for the Piazza Fontana bombing, was granted asylum and citizenship in Japan, while others fled to Argentina ( in particular Augusto Canchi, wanted by Italian justice for his role in the 1980 Bologna massacre ).

While his father visited his lands from Scotland to France, Richard probably stayed in England.

While the German Blitzkrieg doctrine called for combined-arms action, which required fire support for armoured units, during the invasion of Poland and France this was provided by the Luftwaffe using Stuka dive-bombers effectively acting as artillery.

While Minister to France during 1784 – 1789, Jefferson had opportunity to see some of the classical buildings with which he had become acquainted from his reading, as well as to discover the " modern " trends in French architecture then fashionable in Paris.

While Spain was fighting in France, Portugal — which had been under personal union with Spain for 60 years — acclaimed John IV of Braganza as king in 1640, and the House of Braganza became the new dynasty of Portugal ( see Portuguese Restoration War, for further information ).

While still in France, Paine formed the Church of Theophilanthropy with five other families ; this civil religion held as its central dogma that man should worship God's wisdom and benevolence and imitate those divine attributes as much as possible.

While in Germany, he befriended Carl Ludwig Siegel.

While performing on the road she met and was befriended by Clara Louise Kellogg.

While working in Borneo in 1911, Gardner eschewed the racist attitudes of his colleagues by befriended members of the Dayak indigenous community, fascinated by their magico-religious beliefs, tattoos and displays of weaponry.

While living at Arrowhead, he befriended the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, who lived in nearby Lenox.

While held by Epps, in 1852 Northup secretly befriended Samuel Bass, an itinerant Canadian carpenter working for Epps.

While there, he befriended other up-and-coming musicians such as Stephen Stills.

While at school, Gautier befriended Gérard de Nerval and the two became lifelong friends.

While in London he met and befriended Oscar Wilde, and when Wilde faced imprisonment in Britain, Henri was a very vocal supporter.

While in the KGB's Lubyanka Prison, Solzhenitsyn had befriended Arnold Susi, a lawyer and former Estonian Minister of Education.

While at Cambridge, he befriended the young William Wilberforce, who became a lifelong friend and political ally in Parliament.

While teaching philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, he befriended Raymond Aron amongst many other philosophers.

While in Japan, Sun also met and befriended Mariano Ponce, then a diplomat of the First Philippine Republic.

While working at Second City, Farley befriended his Saturday Night Live colleague Lorne Michaels.

While there Small befriended an aboriginal Andamanese, Tonga, who helped Small escape and then accompanied Small when he returned to England.

While still a student, he befriended A. J. Ayer ( with whom he was to share a lifelong amicable rivalry ), Stuart Hampshire, Richard Wollheim, Maurice Bowra, Stephen Spender, J. L. Austin and Nicolas Nabokov.

While in France Burgoyne met and befriended the Duc de Choiseul who would later become the Foreign Minister and directed French policy during the Seven Years War.

While in the US Army, he was befriended by a group of Finnish-American officers who came to be known as " Marttinen's Men.

While the film is fictionalized, it is drawn directly from the memoir / biography Dance of the Infidels written by Francis Paudras, who had befriended Powell during his Paris expatriate days and on whom the character " Francis " is based.

While in Europe, Mauldin befriended a fellow soldier-cartoonist, Gregor Duncan, and was assigned to escort him for a time.

While studying at the Slobodka Yeshiva, he befriended Rabbi Yitzchak Ruderman and Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner, both of whom would become leaders of great Rabbinical seminaries in America.

While holding the position of Research Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research ( NCAR ) in Boulder, Colorado, Lindzen was noticed and befriended by Professor Sydney Chapman, who had contributed to the theory of atmospheric tides in a number of papers from the 1920s through to the 1940s.

While in Britain, Adams was befriended by many noted men including Charles Lyell, Francis T. Palgrave, Richard Monckton Milnes, James Milnes Gaskell, and Charles Milnes Gaskell.

While in Rome, he befriended the likes of Père Lacordaire and Cardinals Thomas Weld and Joseph Fesch.

While Walker occasionally used the services of his wife, Barbara Walker, he began seeking further assistance in 1969 when, stationed to teach radio operators in San Diego, California, he befriended student Jerry Whitworth.

While in Rome, he also befriended Eugenio Pacelli, who later became Pope Pius XII.