Sentence examples for French imperial from inspiring English sources

But another one was Manet's own earlier work, which, Mr. Elderfield contends, was subtly shaped by his awareness of French imperial predations.

They set Dingley up as an exemplar of British imperialism, but also allow into his mouth subtler criticisms of France, and the failings of the French imperial project.

Gourgaud rose through the ranks of the French imperial army, was wounded a number of times, and apparently saved Napoleon from a pistol wound at the Battle of Brienne (January 1814).

Decisions of the assembly that involved questions of Jewish law were subsequently submitted to a Grand Sanhedrin called by Napoleon to provide Halakhic justification for acts that the French imperial government had required of the Jewish communities.

Only when the French imperial guard's attack finally faltered, then retreated before a British general advance, came the rightly famous moment that marked the end of the first empire and the revolutionary era.

Only Maurice Chevalier seemed to be missing on Bastille Day in this last speck of a French imperial holding that once stretched from this tiny archipelago just south of Newfoundland to New Orleans.

For example, in the fighting that engulfed Syria in the mid-19th century, pitting the Druze against the French-oriented Maronite Christians, some see the hand of Anglo-French imperial rivalry, with the British opportunistically backing the Maronites' rivals.

This is no doubt partly because most of the nation-states that make up the modern Middle East are relatively new creations, left over from the era of Anglo-French imperial domination that followed the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, and they preserve the state-building and frontier demarcations of their former imperial masters.

In particular, it examines landscape drawings and prints made by officers travelling on a sequence of voyages through Polynesia, and argues that these need to be understood within the specific context of Anglo-French imperial rivalry in the region focused on the French annexation of Tahiti in the early 1840s.

Mr Mansel is an authority on this Indian summer of French royal and imperial court society, and shows to the full here his knowledge of its people, places, books and archives.

March 16, 1856 Paris, France June 1, 1879 Ulundi, South Africa Louis Bonaparte, (born March 16, 1856, Paris died June 1 , 1879 near Ulundi, Zululand), French prince imperial, the only son of Napoleon III by Empress Eugénie.