The Czar of the French

Children of Frenchmen

Peter gained control of Sicily from the French, who, however, retained control of the Kingdom of Naples.

French electors did not vote for a dream.

Likewise, a culture (French Canadian) may be of a higher context than one (English Canadian) but lower context than another (Spanish or French).

But now the French seal of approval seemingly has been bestowed.

Financial markets in fact owe French Socialists a great debt.

The French have seldom been enamored of democracy.

And all French parents dream of sending their child to an American university.

Germany's plan was to quickly defeat the French.

The French evacuated the base after subsequent negotiations with the Tunisian Government.

By 1788 there were 8 villages populated by French colonists.

The Korean army lost heavily, but the French abandoned the island.

The British have nearly the opposite perspective.

This enabled the French to take over the area in 1892.

They hoped (but failed) to found a model community of French exiles.

The French brought Christianity again when they arrived in 1715.

Trichet is a tough guy with a long history of standing up to the French politicians.

Despots in Arab countries, China, and Russia do not shock the French.

More than 80 of French citizens voted in the presidential election.

U.S. embassies would see angry diplomats coming through their doors, starting with the French ones.

The previous record of six hours was set by two Frenchmen.

The colony was transferred from French to Spanish control in 1762.

Most French people could only dream of an exotic wedding in India.

Yes, the French are incorrigible lovers of the welfare state (they are not the only ones).

But, successive presidents since Jacques Chirac have failed to reconcile the French with politics.

This was followed by the deployment of 2,000 peacekeepers, 80 of which were French.

If he really is as head over heels in love with Bruni as he claims, and plans to marry her imminently, why not take advantage of his upcoming trip to India and make this a wedding to remember? He could meet his bride seated majestically on the caparison of an elaborately decorated elephant, and she would look ravishing swathed and bejeweled in Indian finery.

The French, he alleged, being from a Latin culture, have a more liberal understanding of sexual behavior.

A few days later, Bob Denard was evacuated to South Africa by French paratroopers.

After the fall of Louisbourg, the resident French population of Ile Royal were deported to France.

Some 153 French residents are listed at a virtual polynational memorial website on the Internet.

Seven people were killed in the attack all except two were white French colonists.

Dutch and British forces came upon the islands in the 17th and 18th centuries, but it was the French who were the first Europeans to settle in the territory, with the arrival of French missionaries in 1837, who converted the population to Roman Catholicism.

Seeing the behavior of friends, all French, listening with me to Hollande, I was reminded of another moment.

A similar suicide bombing two days later claimed the lives of 58 French soldiers.

I asked French and German leaders, but never received any credible answer.

On May 6, the date of the second ballot, French citizens will choose between two risks.

A foreign takeover would raise French protectionist hackles.

Many French wish that such self discipline could rub off on Sarkozy.

Many are French, Lebanese, Vietnamese and Spanish citizens, as well as Protestant missionaries from the United States and Canada.

In October 1801, he made peace with the French, and in 1802 signed the Treaty of Amiens.

Our judicial system was inherited from the Napoleonic Code, and I will be in Paris tomorrow to meet with French officials.

Otherwise, Tocqueville would surely say of Americans today what he said of the French then.

The French are thus more ready to believe in the cultural diversity of nations than in the universality of democracy.