Traces de France
Pour l’amour du pays, par les yeux du monde
Étiquette : English
illustration : Palais de Noordeinde à la Haye, Pays-Bas, avec la devise « Je maintiendrai » en français
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American Legal Language and the Influence of the French | Michigan Bar Journal
‘‘Oyez” is the opening cry of the Marshal of the United States Supreme Court
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How Languages Influence Each Other (in « An introduction to the study of speech », Edward Sapir 1921) | Bartleby
Chinese has flooded the vocabularies of Corean, Japanese, and Annamite for centuries, but has received nothing in return. In the western Europe of medieval and modern times French has exercised a similar, though probably a less overwhelming, influence
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French Language and Literature in Medieval Ireland | Persée
The French language was widely spoken, written, read and even used in literary compositions for several centuries in medieval Ireland.
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The Road from Paris-French Influence on English Poetry 1900–1920 (Cyrena N. Pondrom, collectif 1974)
‘For the best part of a thousand years English poets have gone to school to the French,’ declared Ezra Pound in 1913
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dans 4.3.1 Vie littéraireFrench literature (Babbitt, Irving 1928)
PROBABLY no other modern literature, not even English, has been so richly and continuously productive from the medieval period to the present day, and has exercised so wide an influence as that of France
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FRENCH LITERATURE IN PERSIA | Encyclopædia Iranica
In the last two centuries, French literature has had a significant impact on modern Persian literature
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From Gautier to Eliot: The Influence of France on English Literature, 1851-1939
I am only investigating the prevalence and extent of the influence of France on English literature, between the Second Empire and the Second World War.
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dans 4.3.1 Vie littéraireThe influence of french literature on Europe (Emeline Maria Jansen, 1919)
The mission of this little work is to bring before the reader the influence that the life and thought of the French people, as shown in their literature, have had upon the world.
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Germanys Literary Debt to France (JESSIE L. WESTON 1915)
There can be no doubt of the immense debt which civilization in general owes to France ; Germany’s share of that debt is no small one.
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Our Debt to France (J.H. Penniman, 1921)
The treaty with France was the first the United States made with any nation
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FRANCE Her Influence and Aid in our Revolutionary Struggle (MAX B. MAY, 1902)
The history of the French intervention in the American Revolution is one of the most interesting chapters in all history.
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Badge of the Cincinnati Medal | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Designed by Pierre Charles L’Enfant (1754–1825)
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Comte de Rochambeau | National Parks Service
Rochambeau, a veteran of 14 sieges in Europe, provided valuable expertise in the conducting of the siege at Yorktown. The success at Yorktown was very much a result of this expertise and his leadership skills
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The Ascendancy Of France 1598 1715 (Wakeman Henry Offley, 1923)
Following out this line of thought I have naturally found in the development of France the central fact of the period which gives unity to the whole
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Benin | Encyclopeadia Britannica
As a political unit, Benin was created by the French colonial conquest at the end of the 19th century
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How French colonization shaped Algeria’s future | Daily Sabah
Fanon shows us how the family, individuals and tradition were transformed by colonialism.
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The Influence of French Naval Thought on the U.S. Navy
The strong legacy of navy doctrine in France has proved to be one of the most important sources of lessons learned for the U.S. Navy today.
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Henri Mathias Berthelot Soldier of France, Defender of Romania 1861-1931 (Glenn E. Torrey, 2000)
his service in Romania as head of two French military missions (October 1916-March 1918) and (October 1918-May 1919) made him a national hero in that country.
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Louis XIV and the zenith of the French monarchy (Arthur Hassall, 1923)
The history of the world presents few epochs on which civilisation and literature have thrown greater éclat than that of Louis XIV.
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The Plantagenets The Kings Who Made England (Dan Jones, 2013)
Their remarkable reign saw England emerge from the Dark Ages to become a highly organised kingdom
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Robert Esnault-Pelterie | New Mexico Museum of Space history
French aviation pioneer who made important contributions to the beginnings of heavier-than-air flight in Europe
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Louis-Sebastien Lenormand French aeronaut | Britannica.com
French aeronaut, generally recognized as the first person to make a parachute descent
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The Story of Australia’s first Airmail-part 1 | Maas Museum
This Blériot, together its French pilot, Maurice Guillaux, also holds an important place in Australian aviation history, pioneering civil aviation in this country by carrying the first airmail from Melbourne to Sydney in July 1914.
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Henri Farman French pioneer aviator and airplane manufacturer | Encyclopeadia Britannica
The Farman company remained an important manufacturer of aircraft following World War I
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The First Hot-Air Balloon | The Greatest Moments in Flight
The modern era of flight lifted off in 1783 when two brothers demonstrated their invention, the hot-air balloon, before a crowd of dignitaries in Annonay, France.
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André-Jacques Garnerin French parachutist | Britannica.com
The first person to use a parachute regularly and successfully
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Fédération Aéronautique Internationale
The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale was founded on 14 October 1905.
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The First Powered Airship | The Greatest Moments in Flight
Jules Henri Giffard, inventor of the steam-powered airship
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The Father of Modern Refrideration | Jstor
At the Paris Congress the name of Edmond Carre was spoken with due reverence as the inventor of the first ice—making machine that was a commercial success
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Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital (Spencer E. Ante, 2008)
In « Creative Capital », Spencer Ante tells the compelling story of the enigmatic and quirky man – Georges Doriot – who created the venture capital industry
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JEAN MARIUS | THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE MODERN UMBRELLA
To meet a master craftsman who was to change to history of the umbrella forever
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EGYPTIAN COTTON.; Its Modern Origin and the Importance of the Supply | The New York Times Archives
The cultivation of cotton in Egypt is entirely of modern origin. It dates back no further than the reign of MEHEMET ALI, when a certain Monsieur JUMEL, an active and enterprising Frenchman, discovered in a fine garden at Cairo belonging to a Bey named MAKO, some neglected cotton plants which had been placed there merely…
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The influence of French immigration on the political history of the United States
The Huguenot who seems to have disappeared and left no trace behind him, proves on careful investigation to have made a mighty impress upon our national history
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The Birth of the Federal Bureau of Investigation | FBI
Attorney General Bonaparte created a small force of detectives for the Department of Justice (DOJ); this was the predecessor of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Gardens | Belvedere
The Baroque gardens of the Belvedere rank among the most beautiful in the world.