Others show the battle up close, often in a moment of conspicuous heroism the capturing of a standard, say, or a cavalry charge.This genre dates from the period between the French revolution and the end of the Victorian era, but after that time it suddenly disappears, killed off by new, more scientific ways of writing history and by fundamental changes in how warfare was imagined.
The term dates from the 1790s, when in the French revolutionary parliament the socialist representatives sat to the presiding officer's left.
The recorded history of the Missouri region dates from the settlement of some French lead miners and hunters at Sainte Genevieve, on the western bank of the Mississippi River, about 1735.
For every cattle farm, information about the location (département), animals (identification number, birth date, sex and breed), and animal movements (herd identification number, date, reason for entry and exit) were extracted from the French National Cattle Register.
French domination of the area dates from the 17th century, when control of the duchy became vital in the struggles between the French kings and the Habsburgs, who ruled the Holy Roman Empire.
In Haiti, there is a long history of restaveks dating back to colonial times -- the term comes from the French "reste avec", or "stay with".
Ho Chi Minh City retains the faded look of a European city, its many Western-style buildings dating from the period of French colonial rule.
In the city center, posters of a Sunni militia commander killed several years ago hang alongside black Islamist flags on the facades of once beautiful buildings dating from the days of French rule.
Grapes apparently were cultivated and wines made in the Ribera del Duero by the Romans, but modern plantings date from the Middle Ages when French monks brought vine cuttings to the Cistercian monastery at Valbuena de Duero about 20 miles west of Pedrosa.
His epic, Tristrant und Isalde, a laboured version of an Old French source now lost, dates from the last quarter of the 12th century.
