List of notable or famous playwrights from France, with bios and photos, including the top playwrights born in France and even some popular playwrights who ...
Please excuse the strong language. Exactly whyFrenchshould mean “bad language” is not known, but this usage dates from the late 1800s. Eric Partridge speculated that the phrase was picked up by British soldiers in France during World War I and was first recorded during this period. However...
The 1797 Fructidor Coup led Austria to sign the Treaty of Campo Formio, concluding the War of the First Coalition, with Britain as the sole remaining adversary. During the Congress of Rastatt in 1798, aggressive French diplomacy coerced German states to cede the left bank of the Rhine. ...
The English won the Battle of Agincourt. The French king agreed to peace a few years later, and the Treaty of Troyes ended this phase of the war in 1420. Anglo-French War-(1423-1453) -The Lancastrian War. This phase of the war was named after the English House of Lancaster, and ...
[Old English Frencisc French, Frankish; see Frank] ˈFrenchness n French (frɛntʃ) n (Biography) Sir John Denton Pinkstone, 1st Earl of Ypres. 1852–1925, British field marshal in World War I: commanded the British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium (1914–15); Lord Lieute...
The French Revolution lasted from 1789 to 1799. This war had many causes that began the revolution. Its causes ranged from the American Revolution, the economic crisis in France, social injustices to the immediate causes like the fall of Bastille, the Convening of the Estate-General, and the ...
How did the Quiet Revolution affect French and English relations? How were the Revolutions of 1848 different? How did Louis XIV control the nobility? How did the French alliance affect the American cause during the Revolutionary War? How did the three estates contribute to the revolutionary mo...
This suspension was initially created by engineer Adolphe Kégresse, who was French but had worked in Imperial Russia prior to and during World War… Continue reading Citroën P28 Saurer CAT and White Saurer France (1929-1936) Armored Cars – At Least 9 Saurer-CAT and 5 White-Saurer Built...
To justify their imperialism, the French developed their own principle called themission civilisatrice(or ‘civilising mission’). It was, in effect, a French form of the English ‘white man’s burden’. French imperialists claimed it was their responsibility to colonise undeveloped regions in ...
en English My friend came in. He was happy. - - Three singular (natural genders) and one plural class. Peter and Mary - de German Mein Freund kam rein. Er war glücklich. - Ich benutzte das Auto und hatte damit einige Probleme. Three singular (grammatical genders) and one plural clas...