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In legal practice, foray was sanctioned by starosta officials, and was the fourth step in the execution of a legal ruling. After the guilty party refused to abandon the disputed property, starosta would call his supporters as well as opponents of the guilty party (therefore creating a temporary force of militia ) and attempt to remove the ...
Le Parti pris des choses is a collection of 32 short to medium-length prose poems by the French poet and essayist Francis Ponge.It was first published in 1942.The title has been translated into English as Taking the Side of Things and as The Nature of Things.
The completed edition of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, the first official dictionary of the French language, was presented upon completion by the Académie to King Louis XIV. [3] on 24 August 1694. Preliminary editions: Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise (from A to Aversion), pre-edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1687
pour encourager les autres lit. "to encourage others"; said of an excessive punishment meted out as an example, to deter others. The original is from Voltaire's Candide and referred to the execution of Admiral John Byng. [46] pourboire lit. "for drink"; gratuity, tip; donner un pourboire: to tip. prairie
Toyota's first foray into automobile manufacturing in the United States was NUMMI, a joint venture with General Motors based on the latter's production facility in California, which started in 1984 and has been manufacturing Toyota models and their versions branded as Geo, Chevrolet and Pontiac until GM withdrew in August 2009 and Toyota shut ...
Foray is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Cyril Foray (1934–2003), Sierra Leonean educator, politician, diplomat and historian; Dominique Foray (21st century), French economist; June Foray (1917–2017), an American voice actress who had worked for most of the studios which produced animated films since the 1940s
Jacques Demy (French: [ʒak dəmi]; 5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) was a French director, screenwriter and lyricist.He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut.
Pierre Joseph Georges Pigneau (2 November 1741 [2] – 9 October 1799), commonly known as Pigneau de Béhaine (French: [piɲo də be.ɛn]), also Pierre Pigneaux, Bá Đa Lộc ("Pedro" [3] 百 多 祿), Bách Đa Lộc (伯 多 祿) and Bi Nhu ("Pigneau" [4] 悲 柔), was a French Roman Catholic bishop best known for his role in assisting Nguyễn Ánh (later Emperor Gia Long) to establish the ...