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David d'Angers
David d'Angers or Pierre-Jean David , 1788-1856, French sculptor. His works are numerous and present national figures, often nude, in statues, busts, reliefs, and medallions. The pediment of the Panthéon in Paris shows a group of distinguished Frenchmen receiving wreaths from the hand of ... Read more
Dominique de Gourgues
Dominique de Gourgues , c.1530-1593, French soldier and adventurer. He served in the French army in Italy, was captured by the Spanish, then by the Turks, served as galley slave under both, and after his release led expeditions to Africa and South America. Stirred by the massacre (1565), by Pedro M... Read more
devaluation
devaluation decreasing the value of one nation's currency relative to gold or the currencies of other nations. It is usually undertaken as a means of correcting a deficit in the balance of payments . Although devaluation occurs in terms of all other currencies, it is best illustrated in the case o... Read more
Pierre Laval
Pierre Laval , 1883-1945, French politician. Elected (1914) to the chamber of deputies as a Socialist, he held various cabinet posts and in 1926 became a senator as an Independent, moving away from his leftist affiliations. In 1931-32 and 1935-36 he was premier and foreign minister. With Sir Samuel ... Read more
Port-Royal
Port-Royal , former abbey of women, c.17 mi (27 km) W of Paris, founded in 1204. It was at first Benedictine, later Cistercian. In 1608 the abbess, Angélique Arnauld (see Arnauld , family), undertook a reform with the counsel of St. Francis de Sales. The nuns became renowned for piety, and t... Read more
French Academy
French Academy ( L'Académie française ), learned society of France. It is one of the five societies of the Institut de France . Development The origins of the academy were in a coterie of literary men who met informally in Paris in the early 1630s to discuss rhetoric and cr... Read more
Jean Ribaut
Jean Ribaut , c.1520-65, French mariner and colonizer in Florida, b. Dieppe. When Gaspard de Coligny decided to plant a French colony as an asylum for Huguenots in the New World, he appointed Ribaut to lead the expedition. Ribaut sailed from France in Feb., 1562, with five vessels carrying 150 colon... Read more
airline industry
airline industry the business of transporting paying passengers and freight by air along regularly scheduled routes, typically by airplanes but also by helicopter. Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin set up the first commercial airline in 1912, using a form of the dirigible to transport more than 34... Read more
balloon
balloon lighter-than-air craft without a propulsion system, lifted by inflation of one or more containers with a gas lighter than air or with heated air. During flight, altitude may be gained by discarding ballast (e.g., bags of sand) and may be lost by releasing some of the lifting gas from its co... Read more
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle , 1890-1970, French general and statesman, first president (1959-69) of the Fifth Republic. The World Wars During World War I de Gaulle served with distinction until his capture in 1916. In The Army of the Future (1934, tr. 1941) he foresaw and futilely advocated for Fr... Read more

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Fifty Million Frenchmen
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929), a musical comedy by Herbert Fields (book), Cole Porter (music, lyrics). [Lyric Theatre, 257 perf.] In Paris...
Habib Bourguiba
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...armed terrorists organized urban guerrilla attacks against Frenchmen, while the Tunisian elite refused to form a rubber-stamp...s unilateral decision to nationalize lands belonging to Frenchmen in 1964. Normalization of relations between the two countries...
Abbé Prévost
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...England in France. At a time when England was regarded by Frenchmen as a bloody and barbarous nation, Prévost had learned to love that country. Unlike most previous Frenchmen who had attempted to write about England, Prévost...
Wisconsin
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...factories. Native American tribes in Wisconsin first encountered Frenchmen in the 1630s, and became dependent on them for trading in...territory on their way to the Mississippi in 1673. Many other Frenchmen came during that period to establish missions or to trade...
Gaulle, Brig-General Charles de and the Free French
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...aircraft to the UK. On 18 June he made his BBC radio appeal to Frenchmen to continue the fight, which was only permitted on the personal...de Gaulle on 28 June as ‘the leader of all free Frenchmen, wherever they may be, who rally to him in support of the...
Charles André Joseph Marie De Gaulle
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...On June 18, 1940, on BBC radio, he insisted that France had only lost a battle, not the war, and called upon patriotic Frenchmen to resist the Germans. This inspiring broadcast won him worldwide acclaim. Early Political Activity When the Germans were...
Frankfort: History
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the United States ...white man to set eyes on the beautiful valley in which Frankfort now lies, but he was forced to leave after learning that Frenchmen and their Indian allies occupied the area (then claimed by France). Frontiersman John Finlay built a log cabin in the area...
Georges Sorel
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...remainder of his life living in the suburbs of Paris studying, reflecting, and writing. Sorel belonged to the generations of Frenchmen who were greatly affected by the French defeat of 1870 and the civil war of the Paris Commune in the following year. He meditated...
Pius VII
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the promulgation of the Civil Constitution in 1790. The concordat stated that Roman Catholicism was the religion of most Frenchmen, implying thereby that other religions would be tolerated. It further provided that the French clergy would be paid by the...
map
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Improvements in the methods of surveying and increased emphasis on accuracy led to the noted work in the 18th cent. of the Frenchmen Guillaume Delisle and J. B. B. d' Anville , the founders of modern cartography. After 1750 many European governments...

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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...
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...
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...
La Battaglia di Algeri
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...imperialist statement. If isolated moments in the film, such as its central character's harassment by a group of arrogant young Frenchmen, are the products of the authors' imaginations, they are nevertheless representative of events which occurred countless...
Bacon, Lloyd
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...She Couldn't Say No ; A Notorious Affair ; Moby Dick ; The Office Wife 1931 Sit Tight ; Kept Husbands ; Fifty Million Frenchmen ; Gold Dust Gertie ; Honor of the Family 1932 Manhattan Parade ; Fireman Save My Child ; Alias the Doctor ; The Famous Ferguson...
Lugosi, Bela
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Fleming) (as the Marabout) 1931 Oh, For a Man (MacFadden); Dracula (Browning) (as Count Dracula); Fifty Million Frenchmen (Bacon); Women of All Nations (Walsh) (as Prince Hassan); The Black Camel (MacFadden) (as Tarneverro); Broad...
The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...what had become of our hunters, and as we apprehend a failure of provisions we have recourse to our pork this evening. Two Frenchmen who had been below returned with twenty beaver which they had caught in traps. Thursday 15. The morning again cloudy, and...
Duquesne, Fort
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...French to cease encroaching on the Ohio Valley. The French refused to back down. In February 1754, an expedition of 800 Frenchmen left Montreal, and, on 17 April, took possession of the fort being built by the Ohio Company at the confluence of the Ohio...
Hudson's Bay Company
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...might be reached via Hudson Bay. This idea, linked with one of a probable northwest passage through Hudson Bay, led the Frenchmen to England in the middle 1660s. There they assembled a sort of syndicate of wealthy and influential men that grew into the...
David, Pierre-Jean
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...pedimental sculpture of the Pantheon in Paris, which shows an allegorical figure of France distributing wreaths to great Frenchmen (1830–7), but his best works are to be found among his busts and medallions of famous men. He left a large...

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Frenchmen desired
Magazine article from: New Orleans Magazine; 8/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...for night owls. Back in the 1930s. Frenchmen Street buzzed with commerce as many New...rooms. Even for those who've watched Frenchmen development over the past two decades...weekend still comes as a surprise. Now Frenchmen pulses with folks arriving in the neighborhood...
Six Frenchmen and a boat The most colourful character in this book about the adventurers who explored the Mekong is the river itself, says Justin Marozzi
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 2/20/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...that the expedition, led by six doughty Frenchmen, travelled more than the length of Africa...mean feat in other words. The cast of Frenchmen tasked with penetrating the Mekong and...litres) and brandy (302 litres), the Frenchmen and their guides headed north from Saigon...
Poll Reflects How Frenchmen Judge Leaders' Character
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 3/31/2000; 337 words ; A poll published on Friday said that Frenchmen prefer to discuss a film or a book with...000 people, said that 48 percent of Frenchmen and Frenchwomen consider Jospin as a...choose Chirac. Meanwhile, 54 percent of Frenchmen and Frenchwomen will choose Chirac to...
Frenchmen released from Guantanamo to appear before anti-terrorism judges
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 7/30/2004; ; 490 words ; ...07-30-2004 Dateline: PARIS Four Frenchmen released from the U.S. detention center...Brahim Yadel _ on Tuesday became the first Frenchmen to return home after more than two years...officials for the transfer of three other Frenchmen at Guantanamo. The International Committee...
Most Frenchmen Take Seriously Victory of FN in Vitrolles
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 2/10/1997; 349 words ; Fifty-seven percent of Frenchmen take seriously the victory scored on Sunday by...conducted by the CSA polling group on 1,008 Frenchmen and Frenchwomen above 18, 78 percent of Frenchmen think that FN is an extreme right group, 70...
2 Frenchmen kidnapped by soldiers in Somalia
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 7/15/2009; ; 514 words ; ...International Herald Tribune 07-15-2009 2 Frenchmen kidnapped by soldiers in Somalia Byline...and Western officials said. The two Frenchmen were helping train Somalia's new presidential...said the soldiers went straight to the Frenchmen's rooms and marched them out at gunpoint...
2 FRENCHMEN REPORTEDLY FREED SYRIAN SANCTIONS APPROVED.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 11/11/1986; 700+ words ; ...reportedly were freed. "The two freed Frenchmen are already in Damascus," the officer...the better" for the lives of the eight Frenchmen held hostage in Lebanon. The group has...claimed responsibility for the abduction of Frenchmen Marcel Carton, 62, Marcel Fontaine...
`Jumping Frenchmen of Maine' are not forgotten.(INSIGHT)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA); 7/1/2007; 700+ words ; ...classified in medical circles as Jumping Frenchmen of Maine Syndrome. Here's how one...the title, "The Enigma of the Jumping Frenchmen of Maine." They conclude, "The strange...world. For over a century the Jumping Frenchmen of Maine have posed a riddle that still...
Ten: Frenchmen advance to ATP Master Cup doubles final
Newspaper article from: AAP Sports News (Australia); 11/14/2003; 409 words ; ...News (Australia) 11-14-2003 Ten: Frenchmen advance to ATP Master Cup doubles final...of ther Bahamas. The sixth-ranked Frenchmen will play in Saturday's final against...s good to be in the finals." The Frenchmen have never played the South American...
Fifty Million Frenchmen.(musical in two acts)(Theater review)
Magazine article from: Daily Variety; 9/19/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...filled breakthrough hit "Fifty Million Frenchmen." The series' credo is to present...quick flop in 1916, "Fifty Million Frenchmen" was his first full-fledged musical...most prominent chair. "Fifty Million Frenchmen," playing at the Alliance Francaise...