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- Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ...VII]]. She was guillotined at the height of the [[French Revolution]].
4: ... [[Maria Theresa of Austria|Maria Theresa]] and [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor]]. She was born at the...
13: ...as flighty, artistic and read almost nothing. Her French was imperfect and she preferred to speak Germ...
15: ... was decided that Maria-Antonia should be sent to France to marry the dauphin.
17: ...arewell, my dearest child. Do so much good to the French people that they can say that I have sent the... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...t and literature, who spent most of her life in [[France]].
7: ...r, she was educated in [[California]], graduating from [[Radcliffe College]] in 1897 followed by two y...
11: In 1902 she moved to [[France]] during the height of artistic creativity ga...
12: From 1903 to 1912 she lived in [[Paris]] with her br...
13: ... her whole life, Stein was supported by a stipend from her brother Michael's business. - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
1: ... [[1919]] in [[Savenay]], [[Loire-Atlantique]], [[France]], was a nurse and founder of the [[American ...
4: ...]] ([[1602]]-[[1681]]), whose offspring include [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]], Jane Delano attended Co...
10: Jane Delano died in [[France]] while on a Red Cross mission and was interr... - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
3: ...'Denise Madeleine Bloch''', born in [[1915]] in [[France]] - died [[February 5]], [[1945]] in [[Ravens...
5: ...ew]]ish family, by the middle of 1942 in occupied France they were being rounded up by the [[Gestapo]]...
7: ... wireless operator in preparation for a return to France.
9: ...[[Brandenburg]] where she suffered great hardship from exposure, cold, and malnutrition.
11: ... of [[Valen硹]], in the [[Indre]] depart魥nt of France. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
17: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
59: *[[Fra Angelico]] ([[1387]]-[[1445]]) - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
17: ...e. A German theorist of a slightly later period, Franco of Cologne, was the first to describe a syste...
19: ...as a stand-in for 4/4 time is actually a holdover from this practice, not an abbreviation for "common ...
21: ..., [[Petrus de Cruce]] (Pierre de la Croix), and [[Philippe de Vitry]].
27: ...hant]] was used and shows the influence of North African music. The Mozarabic liturgy even survived th...
32: ...lodies]] that make up the repertory probably come from several sources, some as far back as the pontif... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
1: ''This article refers to the former French president, Charles de Gaulle. For the [[Paris...
10: | [[President of France]]
13: | From [[January 8]], [[1959]]<br> to [[April 28]], [[...
40: ...|French military]] leader and statesman. ({{audio|fr-Charles_de_Gaulle.ogg|pronunciation of his name}}...
42: ...ism]], which left a major influence in subsequent French politics. - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
9: ...nci", which means "Leonardo, son of Mister Piero, from Vinci". Leonardo himself simply signed his work...
18: ...with his assistant, Salai, "Did you play the game from behind which the Florentines love so much?"
20: ...ntimately involved with any woman, nor in a close friendship with one. He also surrounded himself with...
22: In 1506, Leonardo met [[Count Francesco Melzi]], the 15 year old son of a [[Lombar...
23: ... [[Niccolchiavelli]], [[Cesare Borgia]] and [[Franchinus Gaffurius]]. - Causes of the French Revolution (11170 bytes)
1: {{French_Revolution}}
2: ...As the revolution proceeded and as power devolved from the monarchy to legislative bodies, the conflic...
5: France in 1789 was, at least in theory, an [[absolut...
7: ...mocratic]] nature of the government, pushed for [[freedom of speech]], and challenged the [[Catholic C...
9: ...sie, albeit in a non-bourgeois manner. The entire French terrorism was just a [[plebeian]] way of deal... - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
1: {{French_Revolution}}
2: ...is a [[partial list]] of people involved in the [[French Revolution]]. It includes both supporters and...
5: *[[Charles X of France|Charles, comte d'Artois]] - younger brother o...
6: ...ench Empire|Empire]], general, later [[Marshal of France]].
9: *[[François-Noël Babeuf]] - proto-[[socialism|sociali... - Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
3: ...ovince (or a group of provinces) within the Anglo-French unit" that was both battlefield and prize (Br...
8: ... the conflict can be found 400 years earlier when Frankish [[Carolingian]] ruler [[Charles the Simple]...
10: ...ns who still spoke a version of [[French language|French]], and could remember a time when their grand...
13: ...ng three male heirs. The eldest son, [[Louis X of France|Louis X]], died in [[1316]], leaving only a d...
15: ...ide in favor of the last brother, [[Charles IV of France|Charles IV]], without question. - Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
3: ...in [[Norway]], or [[Philippe P鴡in|P鴡in]] in [[France]].
9: ...etts]] eager for action, and requested permission from the Massachusetts [[Committee of Safety (Americ...
10: ...ck on [[May 10]], [[1775]], Ticonderoga was taken from the 22 British troops that held it and who were...
12: ...ston]] of the Massachusetts militia and a boyhood friend of Allen, delivered the letter announcing the...
15: ...until all American forces were forced to withdraw from Canada in June of 1776. - Alberto Santos-Dumont (14938 bytes)
1: ...<br>Santos-Dumont in his trademark Panama hat.<BR>From the archives of the [[Smithsonian Institution]]...
13: ==Move to France==
14: ...reto]], Minas Gerais, for the city [[Paris]] in [[France]]. The first thing he did there was to buy an...
23: ... [[francs]] for flying his dirigible ''Number 6'' from the [[Parc Saint Cloud]] to the [[Eiffel Tower]...
25: ...he world. He won several more prizes and became a friend to millionaires and royalty. In [[1901]] he w... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
34: *[[Eugene M. Antoniadi]] ([[Greece]], [[France]], [[1870]] – [[1944]])
36: *[[Francois Arago]] ([[France]], [[1786]] – [[1853]])
38: *[[Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander]] ([[Germany]], ...
47: *[[Adrien Auzout]] ([[France]], [[1622]] – [[1691]])
56: *[[Benjamin Baillaud]] ([[France]], [[1848]] – [[1934]]) - Thomas Aquinas (12692 bytes)
3: ...omas University]] in [[Fredericton, New Brunswick|Fredericton]], [[New Brunswick]], the [[University o...
9: ...d the [[Dominican order]], which along with the [[Franciscan]] order represented a revolutionary chall...
21: ... died at the monastery of [[Fossanova]], one mile from [[Sonnino]], on [[March 7]], [[1274]].
36: ...spel|Gospels]], constructed on numerous citations from the [[Church Fathers]]
76: *''De Mixtione Elementorum ad Magistrum Philippe'', 1273 - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
62: *[[Henri-Fr餩ric Amiel]], (1821-1881)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
122: *[[Alfred Ayer|Alfred Jules Ayer]], (1910-1989){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...aid to have come to an end following its ejection from Malta by [[Napoleon]]. The '''Sovereign Militar...
5: ...im's mother was Christian. In [[1023]], merchants from [[Amalfi]] and [[Salerno]] in [[Italy]] were gi...
9: ... by the Papacy, for example, the order was exempt from all authority save that of the Pope, and it pai...
11: [[Image:knights_hospitaller.JPG|framed|right]]
17: ...uired the estates allocated to the English tongue from [[1330]] to [[1358]]. On Rhodes, now known as t... - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
3: [[Image:Voltaire.jpg|frame|Voltaire]]
4: ...y the [[pen name]] '''Voltaire''', was a [[France|French]] [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] ...
8: ...his life, Voltaire sometimes implied that he came from a [[noble]] background.
10: ...nism|Jansenist]] and had a poor relationship with François.
12: ...Abbé de [[Châteauneuf]], a friend of François' mother, instructed him in ''les bel... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: ...rly every musician in the [[Europe]]an tradition, from [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] to [[Arnold ...
7: ... more distant relatives, while his sons [[Wilhelm Friedemann Bach]], [[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach]] and...
11: ...cles were also all professional musicians ranging from church organists and court chamber musicians to...
13: ...g Sebastian playing some of the distinctive tunes from his private library, at which point the elder b...
22: ...ression made possible by their slight differences from each other — available to keyboard musici... - Culture of Jersey (13844 bytes)
1: ...luences, to which have been added cultural trends from immigrant communities such as the [[Brittany|Br...
7: ...ce names are in J�rriais, and [[French language|French]] and [[English language| English]] place nam...
11: ...me purposes, is a [[minority language]]. The last French language newspaper closed in [[1959]].
17:
21: ...Jersey, but little indigenous literature survives from before the [[18th century]].
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