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Sentence Examples In addition, many tribal leaders, chosen for loyalty to the French rather than influence in their tribe, immediately sold communal land for cash. The French directed a cannonade at the British for three hours. She wants to learn other languages besides English and French. The restaurant serves a bastardized version of the classic French dish. In many places, Acadian has been supplanted by English and by Standard French. At the end of May, Henry was joined by his queen and together with the French court, they went to rest at Senlis. Inspired by Joan, the French took several English strongholds on the Loire. An attempted French siege of Paris was defeated on 8 September 1429, and Charles VII withdrew to the Loire Valley. Talbot had been persuaded to engage the French army at Castillon near Bordeaux. The doctor and myself slept in a long, deep, French dugout, with a heavy timbered roof, quite warm, and scarcely less insectiferous. The Black Death may also have promoted the use of vernacular English, as the number of teachers proficient in French dwindled. This gave York political influence but he was removed from English and French politics through his appointment as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He was convinced of the need for an alliance with France and had been negotiating a match between Edward and a French bride. He was welcomed by the French, who readily supplied him with troops and equipment for a second invasion. Henry decided to keep Brittany out of French hands, signed an alliance with Spain to that end, and sent 7,000 troops to France. However, as France was becoming more concerned with the Italian Wars, the French were happy to agree to the Treaty of Etaples. Many of these French mercenaries were from the garrison of Phillipe de Crevecoeur, Lord of Esquerdes. A French nationalist, Michelet also sought to claim the Renaissance as a French movement. Early in the war French naval squadrons had done considerable damage to English and Dutch commercial convoys. Naval operations also enabled the conquest of the French colonies in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Show More Sentences Once again the British fleet effectively eliminated the French Navy from the war, leading France to abandon major operations. In the winter of 1532, Henry met with Francis I at Calais and enlisted the support of the French king for his new marriage. Philip could not speak English, and so they spoke in a mixture of Spanish, French, and Latin. Susan Clarencieux revealed her doubts to the French ambassador, Antoine de Noailles. In January 1558, French forces took Calais, England's sole remaining possession on the European mainland. Under Grindal, a talented and skilful tutor, she also progressed in French and Greek. Elizabeth's first policy toward Scotland was to oppose the French presence there. When the Protestant Henry IV inherited the French throne in 1589, Elizabeth sent him military support. Mr. Fechter has been in the main more accustomed to speak French than to speak English. The Schmalkaldic League had allied itself to the French, and efforts in Germany to undermine the League had been rebuffed. Don Balthasar believed that the key to restraining the resurgent French and eliminating the Dutch was a closer alliance with Habsburg Austria. The war ended with most of the Spanish Netherlands under French occupation, including the important cities of Ghent and Luxembourg. In 1923, Tangier was declared an international city under French, Spanish, British, and later Italian joint administration. During the Second World War the Vichy French presence in Tangier was overcome by that of Francoist Spain. In 1569, Raleigh left for France to serve with the Huguenots in the French religious civil wars. The British Parliament's efforts to levy new taxes following the French and Indian War were deeply unpopular in the colonies. The war took place on Indian soil, between the company troops and the French forces. His novels mocked and maligned the French middle class, ironizing it into oblivion. In South America, the Dutch seized Cayenne from the French in 1658 and drove off a French attempt to retake it a year later. In 1795, the French revolutionary army invaded the Dutch Republic and turned the nation into a satellite of France, named the Batavian Republic. Show More Sentences In World War II, Charles de Gaulle and the Free French used the overseas colonies as bases from which they fought to liberate France. Newer remnants of the colonial empire were integrated into France as overseas departments and territories within the French Republic. Due to this emphasis, the French relied heavily on creating friendly contacts with the local First Nations community. These became the most enduring alliances between the French and the First Nation community. Through alliances with various Native American tribes, the French were able to exert a loose control over much of the North American continent. As the French empire in North America grew, the French also began to build a smaller but more profitable empire in the West Indies. In 1664, the French East India Company was established to compete for trade in the east. With the decay of the Ottoman Empire, in 1830 the French seized Algiers, thus beginning the colonization of French North Africa. Picot proceeded with negotiations with neither the oversight of the French president nor the cabinet. Picot emphasized the demands of the French colonists over the French cabinet. This policy of French colonial leaders determining France's African war aims can be seen throughout much of France's empire. It may even be seen further back in time to the first of the French and Indian Wars. In the meanwhile, the newly resumed war with Britain by the French, resulted in the British capture of practically all remaining French colonies. Reaching into the Niger valley, Senegal became the primary French base in West Africa and a model colony. Dakar became one of the most important cities of the French Empire and of Africa. In January 1866, King Gojong and his father, the regent, ordered the execution of most of the French priests, and ten thousand converts. A squadron of French ships, carrying eight hundred naval infantry, attempted retaliation but made little headway. The shipyard, which became the naval base of Yokosuka, was designed by the French engineer Leonce Verny. French missionaries had been active in Vietnam since the 17th century, when the Jesuit priest Alexandre de Rhodes opened a mission there. In 1858 the Vietnamese emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty felt threatened by the French influence and tried to expel the missionaries. Show More Sentences Algeria had been formally under French rule since 1830, but only in 1852 was the country entirely conquered. There were about a hundred thousand European settlers in the country, at that time, about half of them French. I am just as much the Emperor of the Arabs of Algeria as I am of the French. This process was corrupted by French officials sympathetic to the French in Algeria who took much of the land they surveyed into public domain. Nonetheless, he did not give up his idea of making Algeria a model where French colonists and Arabs could live and work together as equals. When the British and Spanish realized the French goals, they withdrew from the expedition, but the French marched on Mexico City. Not willing to have a war with the United States, Napoleon III decided at the beginning of 1866 to withdraw French troops from Mexico. During the Agadir Crisis in 1911 Britain supported France against Germany, and Morocco became a French protectorate. From 1830 to 1946, only between 3,000 and 6,000 native Algerians were granted French citizenship. French conservatives had been denouncing the assimilationist policies as products of a dangerous liberal fantasy. By 1943, all of the colonies, except for Indochina under Japanese control, had joined the Free French cause. The overseas empire helped liberate France as 300,000 North African Arabs fought in the ranks of the Free French. In late May, a general strike in Syria was met by a French warship shelling Damascus for three days. Algeria was particularly problematic, due to the large number of Europeans who had settled there in the 125 years of French rule. The French Union was replaced in the new 1958 Constitution of 1958 by the French Community. The current French Canadian population, which numbers in the millions, is descended almost entirely from New France's small settler population. On 31 December 1687 a community of French Huguenots settled in South Africa. French and Italian chefs appeared in the country houses and palaces bringing new standards of food preparation and taste. In 1573, he joined Guillaume Le Testu, a French buccaneer, in an attack on a richly laden mule train. By getting the French diplomat involved in the knighting, Elizabeth was gaining the implicit political support of the French for Drake's actions. Show More Sentences In the past, through the means of the Auld Alliance with France, they had adapted their surname to the French form, Stuart. There, he rented rooms from a French Huguenot named Christopher Mountjoy, a maker of ladies' wigs and other headgear. Charles, meanwhile, decided to send an expeditionary force to relieve the French Huguenots whom French royal troops held besieged in La Rochelle. In Scotland, the Scottish arms were placed in the first and fourth quarters with the English and French arms in the second quarter. Portugal had been helped by France, but in the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659 Portugal was abandoned by its French ally. For this it was essential that Austria continued opposing the French demands regarding Cologne and the Palatinate. Also, he personally feared that the French might attack the Republic through Flanders when its army was tied up in England. By early September, William was on the brink of cancelling the entire expedition when French policy played into his hand. Enraged, the French king decided to execute a lightning campaign into Germany before the emperor could shift his troops to the West. In the second they were advised not to interfere with the French policy in Germany. The French fleet remained at the time concentrated in the Mediterranean, to assist a possible attack on the Papal State. James refused a French offer to send an expeditionary force, fearing that it would cost him domestic support. I will not say, that Mr Oldenburg did rather inspire the French to follow the English, or, at least, did help them, and hinder us. Fears were as high as ever among the traumatised fire victims, fear of foreign arsonists and of a French and Dutch invasion. In February, Charles had made a deal with the French King Louis XIV, who promised to support him against the Whigs. In 1678 the Whigs passed the Prohibition of 1678 that banned certain French goods from being imported into England. The opposition Whigs were split, however, by the onset of the French Revolution. Jennifer. Jenny with the light brown hair. Jenny-fair, their high school French teacher had called her, and fair she had been. Charles took no action on the proposal, and continued his war plans with his French ally. The presence of a large French army in the heart of the Republic caused a general panic, and the people turned against De Witt and his allies. Show More Sentences In November 1672, he took his army to Maastricht to threaten the French supply lines. Thus deprived of French dynastic backing after 1697, Jacobites posed no further serious threats during William's reign. The French conveniently ignored the Second Partition Treaty and claimed the entire Spanish inheritance. Voltaire, who had been imprisoned and maltreated by the French government, was eager to accept Frederick's invitation to live at his palace. The Americans closely followed English and Scottish political ideas, as well as some French thinkers such as Montesquieu. By 1794, they pointed to the Terror during the French Revolution as confirmation of their predictions. Indeed, many publishing companies were conveniently located outside France so as to avoid overzealous French censors. French and Latin were the dominant languages of publication, but there was also a steady demand for material in German and Dutch. There was generally low demand for English publications on the Continent, which was echoed by England's similar lack of desire for French works. French slowly took over Latin's status as the lingua franca of learned circles. This in turn gave precedence to the publishing industry in Holland, where the vast majority of these French language periodicals were produced. It was closely tied to the French state, acting as an extension of a government seriously lacking in scientists. At the concluding Treaty of Utrecht, Philip renounced his and his descendants' right to the French throne and Spain lost its empire in Europe. Even when I gave her a jog with my elbow, she kept staring at her French book. Even when I gave her a nudge with my knee, she kept ignoring me. The causes of the French Revolution are complex and are still debated among historians. The values and institutions of the Revolution dominate French politics to this day. The French Revolution differed from other revolutions in being not merely national, for it aimed at benefiting all humanity. Messages of support for the Assembly poured in from Paris and other French cities. By this time, Necker had earned the enmity of many members of the French court for his overt manipulation of public opinion. The mobs soon had the support of some of the French Guard, who were armed and trained soldiers. Show More Sentences The French people expressed no respect for the dictates of foreign monarchs, and the threat of force merely hastened their militarisation. The many French successes led to the spread of the French revolutionary ideals into neighbouring countries, and indeed across much of Europe. The French armies defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Jemappes on 6 November, and had soon taken over most of the Austrian Netherlands. The stalemate was broken in the summer of 1794 with dramatic French victories. The House of Orange was expelled and replaced by the Batavian Republic, a French satellite state. Although the French Revolution had a dramatic impact in numerous areas of Europe, the French colonies felt a particular influence. Immediately on 21 September the Convention abolished the monarchy, making France the French First Republic. A French plebiscite ratified the document, with about 1,057,000 votes for the constitution and 49,000 against. That coup some historians consider the closing of the specifically republican phase of the French Revolution. The French Republic continued this Roman symbol to represent state power, justice, and unity. The March to Versailles is but one example of feminist militant activism during the French Revolution. A major aspect of the French Revolution was the dechristianisation movement, a movement strongly rejected by many devout people. The French Revolution abolished many of the constraints on the economy that had slowed growth during the ancien regime. During the Revolutionary Wars, the French invaded and occupied the region between 1794 and 1814, a time known as the French period. Resistance was strong in every sector, as Belgian nationalism emerged to oppose French rule. The French legal system, however, was adopted, with its equal legal rights, and abolition of class distinctions. The Kingdom of Denmark adopted liberalising reforms in line with those of the French Revolution, with no direct contact. The French Revolution has received enormous amounts of historical attention, both from the general public and from scholars and academics. By the year 2000 many historians were saying that the field of the French Revolution was in intellectual disarray. The reformers, however, were quickly labelled as radicals and as associates of the French revolutionaries. Show More Sentences A Second Coalition, consisting of Great Britain, Austria, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire, was formed, but it, too, failed to overcome the French. The French Revolution revived religious and political problems in Ireland, a realm under the rule of the King of Great Britain. In 1798, Irish nationalists attempted a rebellion, believing that the French would help them overthrow the monarchy. By 1803, however, war had broken out again between Britain and the new First French Empire under Napoleon. The system of smuggling finished products into the continent undermined French efforts to ruin the British economy by cutting off markets. By contrast the French financial system was inadequate and Napoleon's forces had to rely in part on requisitions from conquered lands. The French Revolution of 1789, in which the French monarchy had been overthrown, worried many British landowners. Only Great Britain was left fighting Napoleon Bonaparte, the First Consul of the French Republic. In October 1801, he made peace with the French, and in 1802 signed the Treaty of Amiens. An invasion of England by Napoleon seemed imminent, and a massive volunteer movement arose to defend England against the French. Following the Acts of Union 1800, the royal arms were amended, dropping the French quartering. Ben Bella was aggravated by having to express himself in French because the Egyptians were unable to understand his Arabic. The French armies were not far off, and there were alarums and excursions all along the border. In Greek the main stress falls on the antepaenultimate syllable, in French on the last syllable. In 1939, the French anticrop program was directed primarily at the Germans, using potato beetles to destroy a food staple. Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdles, hangers, and so. The envoy found the French king playing the part of horse while his young son rode atop. Bjorn Borg, 18, wins French, and the three of them change the game, guiding the world to two-fisted backhandedness. Just say no to exposed bra straps unless you are in your boudoir in French knickers and a matching balconette-bra ensemble. Fraser was looking at the flat, wet countryside and thinking about the French policeman who had banjaxed him with the truncheon. Show More Sentences For its French readers, Paris' Le Jazz Hot review was trying to explain the artistry of U.S. bebopper Charlie Parker. The guillotine was meant to humanize beheadings, but allowed the French Revolution to execute people at an industrial rate. During the French occupation, Bilbaoans were likely to have been exposed to some French culture and influence. From this time there ensues a long blank in the history of French legislation. Cathy served breakfast on the long glassed porch and offered us a choice among pancakes, plain or blueberried, French toast, and eggs. Inside the building was a dead French soldier who, as we figured it out, had accounted for the eight boches before they got him. After a few false starts I finally meet the Swiss French snowboarder at Europe's winter sports brodown Babylon. The German ubu, as well as the French bibou, is also used for bug-a-boo, hobgoblin, or any other fantastical, terrific nocturnal object. Restaurant August... serves contemporary French cuisine prepared with Louisiana ingredients like buster crabs, shrimp and oysters. English and French have different rules for the capitalisation of the names of the days of the week. There was no similar carrot and stick for use against the French land armaments. Maybe it's their French blood. If it is, we sure don't need cheese-eating surrender monkeys in the Kaw River Valley! The escapement used in French Drum Clocks is a continual source of trouble to English clock jobbers. We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club. I remark that everyone understands the Captain's English, while they don't seem to get on very well with my French. I took a moment to collect my thoughts, and likewise to frame in French the sentence by which I proposed to open business. The world's largest surveyor of deepwater oil fields won a contract to conduct a survey of the French Gulf of Lion to map sand reserves. In conjectural statements, the French often use the Future or the Conditional, instead of the Perfect or the Pluperfect used in English. The French commander consigned it to the use for which it was intended by the donor. French cuisine is considered to be one of the world's most refined and elegant styles of cooking. Show More Sentences My memories of high school and college French are mostly negative because I usually felt dimwitted anytime I tried to speak. That even a French doctorandus, however, should in this day of specialization attack such a theme as the Carolingian Empire is a notable thing. Fwhere's he come from, I dun'no'. French or English, I dun'no'. But a gintleman born, I know. O yes, for he called out to his men in Dutchified French, and looked at me zowerswopped enough. They were thrown into ecstasies of suspicion by finding that we possessed a French translation of Hitler's Mein Kampf. However, the first style of this century was known as Empire furniture. It was a derivative of the French Empire furniture, popular at that time. Said in French, 'This is a fine fermentation your brother has engifted us with. If hypocrisy was the English vice, as the French critic Taine declared, then it had soon become naturalized in the United States. There was Charles Brown of Locus, the French fan and writer Georges Gallet, eofan Clifton Amsbury, and, of course, me and my wife Wendayne. As has often been remarked, French prose fiction of the Enlightenment is more often feminocentric than its English counterpart. More to the liking of students, the new menu includes hamburgers, cheeseburgers, fishwiches, pizza, donuts, French fries, malts and coffee. One of the most unusual things about the house is the flagstoned courtyard in the back, reachable by a set of French doors. We thus arrive at a most unexpected imbroglio. The French have become a Germanic folk and the Germanic folk have become Gaulish! Grammars of Old French are without exception based on the Francien dialect. Almost three quarters of the population 65 and older reported speaking French. On the way, scouts reported that some French were heading toward them across the ice. The door was French grey outside with raised metal lettering, as clean and sharp as a new knife. That's how she pictured him, her French lover, like the deepest kiss that she had ever felt. She who had never French kissed. He stole away an Irishman's bride, and took a French leave of me and his master. The Front National won the French elections with calls for an immediate restoration of the franc and a referendum on Frexit. Show More Sentences Here was a sober young Harlemite in a gamely tilted bowler with a little French mustache. Received a DUC for developing and using a special bombing technique against enemy bridges in French Indochina. Looks like product of a hatefuck between Dawn French, a peacock, and a snickers bar. With the East India Company, England also competed with the Dutch and French in the East. State schools teach students a second language, usually French, German or Spanish. French and German are the two most commonly taught second languages in England and Scotland. In 1294, Balliol and other Scottish lords refused Edward's demands to serve in his army against the French. Three years later, at the Battle of Verneuil, the French and Scots lost around 7000 men. Later medieval literature included works in Latin, Gaelic, Old English and French. Throughout the centuries until the 18th, the English Channel did not have any fixed name in English and in French. In 1259, Henry III of England recognised the legality of French possession of mainland Normandy under the Treaty of Paris. The scheme mandates that vessels travelling north must use the French side, travelling south the English side. The two dominant cultures are English on the north shore of the Channel, French on the south. During 1759, with a planned French invasion imminent, a large force of soldiers was stationed there. Likewise, the Franks of Western Francia form part of the ancestry of the French people. The pattern of territorial aggression was repeated by other European empires, most notably the Dutch, Russian, French and British. For example, the Napoleonic code expressly forbade French judges to pronounce general principles of law. The most taught languages in schools across the North West are English, French and German. Impetus for this incorporating union came almost entirely from King William, who feared leaving Scotland open to a French invasion. It was derived largely from Old English, with the addition of elements from Gaelic and French. Show More Sentences It began to be adopted by the ruling elite as they gradually abandoned French. Wishart's supporters seized St Andrews Castle, which they held for a year before they were defeated with the help of French forces. At their best, the curriculum included catechism, Latin, French, Classical literature and sports. In the late 14th century, naval warfare with England was conducted largely by hired Scots, Flemish and French merchantmen and privateers. At the concluding Treaty of Utrecht, Philip renounced his and his descendants' right to the French throne. With the regicide of King Louis XVI in 1793, the French Revolution represented a contest of ideologies between the two nations. The French Revolution revived religious and political grievances in Ireland. In 1798, Irish nationalists launched the Irish Rebellion of 1798, believing that the French would help them to overthrow the British. The British government's fear of an independent Ireland siding against them with the French resulted in the decision to unite the two countries. Historian Asa Briggs finds that the religious efforts by evangelicals, led to a genuine improvement in morals and manners during the French wars. On other fronts, the British, French, Australians, and Japanese occupied Germany's colonies. Speculation that the world would end in the year 1000 was confined to a few uneasy French monks. During the Crimean War, a joint British and French fleet attacked the Russian fortresses in the Baltic. Vulgar Latin developed into the Romance languages, such as Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Romanian. Latin, Italian and French have contributed many words to the English language. Many of the most common polysyllabic English words are of Latin origin through the medium of Old French. Afterwards, most diplomatic documents were written in French and later just native or other languages. Norman French became dominant among the new feudal aristocracy, especially in southern Scotland, and completely displaced Gaelic at court. It remained the dominant language of Ireland for most of those periods, having influences from Latin, Old Norse, French and English. His approach is also personal, reflecting his hyperactivism, his passions and his determination to promote French business around the world. Show More Sentences In the course of the 19th century, many European states either adopted the French model or drafted their own codes. The Thirty Years' War, the English Civil War and the French Wars of Religion are prominent examples. During his short captivity within France, Saint Patrick learned about French monasticism. Another interesting Illinois word is the name of the celebrated chief, which the French made Chachagouache. His career as editor had been long enough, however, for him to impress upon the minds of the French public the imminency of the Prussian Peril. Against the which he has imponed, as I take it, six French rapiers and poniards. The new ordo was influenced by West Frankish liturgy and in turn became one of the sources of the medieval French ordo. German, French and Spanish are also commonly taught as second or, more often, third languages. Traditionally, English, German and French were considered the main foreign languages in Norway. The Vexin was a buffer state between Normandy and the lands of the French king, and Simon had been a supporter of William. More difficulties struck in 1083, when William's eldest son Robert rebelled once more with support from the French king. This tomb was again destroyed during the French Revolution, but was eventually replaced with the current marker. Sir James Holt suggests this was the inevitable result of superior French resources. In 1303 the French king restored Gascony to Edward by signing the Treaty of Paris. The French monarchy asserted its rights to encroach on Edward's legal rights in Gascony. In response, Edward proclaimed himself king of France to encourage the Flemish to rise in open rebellion against the French king. French indirect transitive verbs, i.e. verbs which take an indirect object, cannot be passive. Henry was said to have understood a wide range of languages, including English, but spoke only Latin and French. Similarly, the French would have Scotland's support if their own kingdom was attacked. On his return to the continent from England, Henry sought to secure his French lands and quash any potential rebellion. Show More Sentences Three years later the new Count of Flanders, Philip, concerned about Henry's growing power, openly allied himself with the French king. Elsewhere in France, Henry attempted to seize the Auvergne, much to the anger of the French king. Louis allied himself with the Welsh, Scots and Bretons, and the French king attacked Normandy. This expansion of Henry's empire once again threatened French security and promptly put the new peace at risk. The bickering and simmering tensions between Henry and Richard were cleverly exploited by the new French king, Philip Augustus. The counts were recurrent enemies of the dukes of Normandy and of Brittany and often the French king. If Louis VII died without a male heir, Henry would have been a strong candidate for the French throne. Henry bought the County of Marche, then he asserted that the French Vexin and Bourges should be given at once. To English historians the lands in France were an encumbrance, while French historians considered the union to be an English empire. Despite this alliance between the Plantagenets and the Capetians, the dynasty on the French throne, the two houses were sometimes in conflict. With news arriving of the Battle of Hattin, he took the cross at Tours in the company of other French nobles. Leopold's banner had been raised alongside the English and French standards. The leader of the French contingent, the Duke of Burgundy, however, was adamant that a direct attack on Jerusalem should be made. He wrote the song, in French and Occitan versions, to express his feelings of abandonment by his people and his sister. The perennial problem, however, was the status of Gascony within the kingdom of France, and Edward's role as the French king's vassal. When the war with France broke out, the French king confiscated the Riccardi's assets, and the bank went bankrupt. After a successful campaign in Scotland he declared himself rightful heir to the French throne in 1337 but his claim was denied. Yet, the French never invaded England and France's King John II died in captivity in England. The greatly outnumbered English forces not only routed the French, but captured the French king, John II and his youngest son, Philip. In 1369, the French war started anew, and Edward's younger son John of Gaunt was given the responsibility of a military campaign. Show More Sentences During the wars with France, opposition emerged in England against perceived injustices by a papacy largely controlled by the French crown. Edward's claim on the French throne was based on his descent from King Philip IV of France, through his mother Isabella. Henry had intended to crusade for the order after uniting the English and French thrones, but he died before fulfilling his plans. Afterwards, Henry decided to march with his army across the French countryside towards Calais, despite the warnings of his council. On 25 October 1415, on the plains near the village of Agincourt, a French army intercepted his route. Because diplomacy and negotiation had failed, Edward III would have to back his claims with force to obtain the French throne. Agincourt also held out the promise that Henry's pretensions to the French throne might be realised. Command of the sea was secured by driving the Genoese allies of the French out of the English Channel. This siege cast an even darker shadow on the reputation of the king than his order to slay the French prisoners at Agincourt. The French were paralysed by the disputes between Burgundians and Armagnacs. Philip the Good, the new Duke, and the French court threw themselves into Henry's arms. When Charles IV died in 1328, the French succession became more problematic. Thus the French magnates chose Philip of Valois, who became Philip VI of France. The Republic was proclaimed in September 1792 after the French victory at Valmy. Instead of paying homage to the French king, as his ancestors had done, Edward claimed that he was the rightful King of France. Edward III's aggression against Scotland, a French ally, prompted Philip VI to confiscate Guyenne. But Edward, having descended from the French kings, claimed the throne for himself. While on a truce the French and English kings intervened in the War of the Breton Succession. Charles' character eventually alienated both the French and English monarchs, because he readily switched sides whenever it suited his interest. John pursued the Black Prince, who tried to avoid battling the French king's superior force. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of French? What is the past tense of French? What is the adverb for French? What is the adjective for French? What is the noun for French? Translations for French Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words french Fremont Fremantle frein freights freighting french and indian war Frenchay frenches french fries Frenchie Frenchies