French is the adjective form of France and usually refers to:
- Something of or related to the nation of France
- French cuisine
- French language, a Romance language originating in what is now northern France
- French people, inhabitants of France or people having family origins in France
- French catheter scale, a gauge system commonly used to measure the size of a catheter
- French (surname)
- French Open, one of the four major tennis tournaments
- French defence, a chess opening (1 e4 e6)
- French River, Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada
- French River, Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada
- French River (Ontario), Canada
- French River (Massachusetts), Massachusetts
- French's, an American manufacturer of mustard condiment
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... It has long been known as French high society's favorite place of residence, comparable to New York's Upper East Side, LA's Beverly Hills or London's Mayfair and Belgravia, to ... of the area has played a prominent role throughout French history and is still highly vivid in nowadays' French elite ... a geographic area but also a social attitude symbolized by French high society's habits and way of life ...
... regularly scheduled patrols of the French Navy, and by Mexican tuna and shark fishermen ... In 1962, the independence of Algeria threatened French nuclear testing sites within that nation ... The French Ministry of Defence considered Clipperton as a possible replacement location however, due to the island's hostile climate and remote location ...
... main reasons for such incoherence has been the fear felt by the French State in front of such a huge agglomeration and the desire to tap its wealth ... between the State and the City reached a climax with the Revolution of 1871 (La Commune) the French Assembly in Bordeaux decided Paris would no longer be the capital city, while the Paris Commune ... one of the foundations of the centralized French State has been to widely distribute Paris wealth while depriving the agglomeration and keeping it divided into 8 departments and 200 ... communes ...
... French materialism is the name given to a handful of French 18th century philosophers during the Age of Enlightenment, many of them clustered around the salon of Baron d'Holbach ... Prominent French materialists of the 18th century include Julien Offray de La Mettrie Denis Diderot Baron d'Holbach Claude Adrien Helvétius Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis Jacques-A ...
Famous quotes containing the word french:
“The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them.”
—Robert Morley (b. 1908)
“Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would make money by it in this life, in the thirteenth they trusted their money to the Queen of Heaven because of their belief in her power to repay it with interest in the life to come.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)
“I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood.... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)