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Frenchman
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
French·man / ˈfren ch mən / • n. ( pl. -men ) a person, esp. a man, who is French by birth or descent.
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Porter, Cole
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...participation) include Fifty Million Frenchmen, 1931, The Gay Divorcee, 1934, Anything...1929 with his score for Fifty Million Frenchmen. The 1930s followed with an indefatigable...Warners' screen version of Fifty Million Frenchmen did not use Porter's lyrics, and his...
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Bougainville, Louis Antoine De
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...best-selling Voyage autour du monde . It has been said by Frenchmen that, in spite of his mathematical abilities, Bougainvillea was no great navigator. But he was the first Frenchman to sail around the world. His voyage took three years and...
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Levaillant (Le Vaillant), François
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...scientific terminology, they were among the first to reveal to Frenchmen (and later Germans and Englishmen) the wonders of Africa and of the tropics. Levaillant was the first Frenchman to bring a giraffe to the Jardin des Plantes. Through his...
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Morichau-Beauchant, Pierre Ernest René (1873-1952)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
...1, 1873, and died in Poitiers in 1952. He was the first Frenchman to join the Freudian movement, in 1910. His father, Joseph...noted his importance, seeing "Mr Beauchant, the intelligent Frenchman" as "a good sign" and "solid support" for acceptance...
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Hennepin, Louis, Narratives of
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...reached the mouth of the Illinois River, Hennepin and two Frenchmen left de La Salle to explore the Upper Mississippi in 1680...daily lives and customs. The trio was eventually rescued by a Frenchman, Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Luth. Description of Louisiana...
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Ethnicity and Race: Africa
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...policies of assimilation and acculturation that produced black Frenchmen and -women as "photographic negatives of the colonizers...a racial line prevented blacks from becoming fully fledged Frenchmen and -women. Thus, Senghor and a host of others reacted...
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Gabriel's Insurrection
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...plantation workers, including his own brother and two white Frenchmen, planning to march an army on Richmond, Virginia, under...and any opponents (other than Quakers, Methodists, and Frenchmen, since they were "friendly to liberty")would be killed...
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Demy, Jacques
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Film Comment (New York), Spring 1965. Interview with Marsha Kinder, in Film Heritage (Dayton, Ohio), Spring 1967. "Frenchman in Hollywood," an interview with Philip Scheuer, in Action (Los Angeles), November/December 1968. "Lola in Los Angeles...
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De Havilland, Olivia
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Woman He Loved (Jarrott—for TV) (as Bessie Merryman) Publications By DE HAVILLAND: book— Every Frenchman Has One, New York, 1962. By DE HAVILLAND: articles— "Dream That Never Died," in Look (New York), 12 December...
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