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Louisiana
journalist
Robert Angers
in 1977 established the International Relations Association of
Acadiana
to foster goodwill and
commerce
with
French
and
Spanish
-speaking nations?
Facts on topics related to French (language)
French
French
physician
Edme Castaing
is thought to have been the first person to commit
murder
using
morphine
, 18 years after it was discovered?
Arishima Ikuma
,
Japanese
novelist
, published his new-style
poems
and
short stories
as a vehicle to introduce the works of the
French
impressionist
painter
Paul Cézanne
to the
Japanese public
?
Ba Cut
(meaning
Short Third
), a military commander of the
Hoa Hao
religious sect in Vietnam, was so named because he cut off his third finger to remind him to fight
French
colonialism?
Brutus de Villeroi
was a
French
engineer
who created the
USS
Alligator
, the
U.S. Navy
's first
submarine
, in
1862
?
historical demography
, popularized by
French
historian
Louis Henry
, is the
study of historical records
leading to estimations of past
human population
?
Vera Kholodnaya
, the first
Russian
silent film
star, was rumoured to have been poisoned by the
French
Ambassador with whom she reportedly had an affair and who believed that she was a
spy
for the
Bolsheviks
?
in
1943
,
avant-garde
French filmmaker
Marcel L'Herbier
founded a film school that was attended by
Louis Malle
,
Jean-Jacques Annaud
and
Volker Schlöndorff
?
the
French
chemist
Louis Pasteur
owned a vineyard in the
Jura wine
region that is still producing wine today?
the
assassination of Bazin
, a
French
labor recruiter in
Vietnam
, was the first attack by the revolutionary
Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang
?
France
"
4 Mots sur un piano
", which deals with the theme of a
romantic
relationship between two men and one woman, was the fifth
best-selling
single
of
2007
in
France
?
11-year old
Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein
is regarded by
Jacobites
as third in line for the throne of
England
,
Scotland
,
France
, and
Ireland
?
18th century
Franco
-
Portuguese
industrialist
Jácome Ratton
(pictured)
left a vivid account of the
1755 Lisbon earthquake
in his
memoirs
and was exiled to the
Azores
during the
Napoleonic Wars
?
18th century
French
artilleries
were the most efficient at
cannon operation
(pictured)
, capable of firing 150 shots per
cannon
daily during
siege
?
18th century
French
salons
were often led by those who were creating the
Encyclopédie
?
footballer
Edward King
was honored for heroism in the
Philippines
and tactical skill in
France
and later became
Commandant of the Army Command and General Staff College
?
Cambodia
's
Mongkol Borei District
was part of
Thailand
until the
French
demanded it back in 1907?
Camille Le Mercier d'Erm
and his colleagues formed the
Breton Nationalist Party
in 1911 to advocate the independence of
Brittany
from
France
?
Catherine II
's
Instruction to the Legislative Assembly
was banned in pre-revolutionary 18th-century
France
as a "libertarian book"?
cinematographer
Lawrence Sher
first developed an interest in photography after his father convinced him to take a
35mm
camera on a
Teaneck High School
-sponsored trip to
France
?
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