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Hood also fired several 15-inch shells at Rigault de Genouilly and the French ship replied with nineteen 5.5 in (14 cm) shells before being hit by Enterprise and withdrawing. [28] A British aircraft had sighted Danaé and Eurydice shortly before 8:00 p.m. and dropped illuminated floats to guide a British destroyer to them.
In The Plague (1947), French philosopher Albert Camus declared that times came in history when those who dared to say that 2 + 2 = 4 rather than 2 + 2 = 5 were put to death. Russia Soviet propaganda: The "Arithmetic of an Alternative Plan: 2 + 2 plus the Enthusiasm of the Workers = 5" exhorts the workers of the Soviet Union to realise five ...
The 100 Books of the Century (French: Les cent livres du siècle) is a list of the hundred most memorable books of the 20th century, regardless of language, according to a poll performed during the spring of 1999 by the French retailer Fnac and the Paris newspaper Le Monde.
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:19th-century French male writers and Category:19th-century French women writers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
A villanelle, also known as villanesque, [1] is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain. There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third lines of the first tercet repeated alternately at the end of each subsequent stanza until the last stanza, which includes both repeated lines.
Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (French: le Bien-Aimé), [1] was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five.
Jean-Philippe Baratier was born on 19 January 1721 in the town of Schwabach, near Nuremberg to Francois Baratier (1682–1751), [1] a Huguenot minister at the local French Church. [2] His father carefully conducted his early education, usually eschewing direct instruction for more subtle methods of teaching.
The most commonly believed hypothesis is that it is derived from English speakers mis-hearing the French l'œuf ("the egg"), which was the name for a score of zero used in French because the symbol for a zero used on the scoreboard was an elliptical zero symbol, which visually resembled an egg. [34] [35]