FLANDERS, FRENCH

region of N France, on the North Sea and along the Belgian border. It is coextensive with Nord dept. The area is studded with important industrial cities and historic towns and was once a rich coal-mining region. It was incorporated into France in 1678 by Louis XIV and was a province until the French Revolution. Lille was the provincial capital, Douai the seat of the parlement. The area has been a battleground in several major European conflicts.

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books on: Flanders French  - 3526 results

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A Plague of Insurrection: Popular Politics and Peasant Revolt in Flanders, 1323-1328
Book by William H. TeBrake; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993
Subjects: Flanders--History, Flanders--Politics And Government, Flanders--Rural Conditions, Flanders--Social Conditions, Peasant Uprisings--Flanders, Peasantry--Flanders--History, Social History--Medieval, 500-1500
...in the governance of Flanders of all anti-French partisans. The political situation in Flanders began to change considerably...commercial relations between Flanders and England at a time of increasing English-French tensions. Urban magistrates...
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About Catherine de Medici Christ in Flanders - Vol. 33
Book by Honore de Balzac; McKinlay, Stone and MacKenzie, 1915
Subjects: Balzac, Honore de--1799-1850--About Catharine De Medici. Christ in Flanders
...observed some surprise on the part of the French nobles; they said pretty loudly that...Montecuculi to present himself at the French Court, where he made an offer of his...household, which was composed entirely of French ladies and gentlemen; for, by a law...
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Lust for Liberty: The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200-1425 : Italy, France, and Flanders
Book by Samuel K. Cohn Jr.; Harvard University Press, 2006
Subjects: Civilization, Medieval, Revolutions--Europe--History, Social Change--Europe--History
...political aim of bringing Flanders under tighter French control. His aggressive...then anyone who spoke French. The second revolt of Flanders, 1323-1328, came...evolved into an anti-French movement to rid Flanders of foreign rule and...
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Journey into Fame: The Life of Daniel Chester French
Book by Margaret French Cresso; Harvard University Press, 1947
Subjects: French, Daniel Chester--1850-1931
...corner. Dan on the stairs Dan French at fifty in his pongee smock...been a beau of Pamelas" Mary French at fifty Dan, in the Chesterwood...with the bust of Poe, 1922 "Flanders Fields," War Memorial, Milton...William Merchant Richardson French, Director, Chicago Art Institute...
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In Flanders Fields: And Other Poems
Book by John McCrae, Andrew Macpbail; G.P. Putnams Sons, 1919
Subjects: English Poetry, Poetry
...front, for their position was behind the French to the left of the British line. As we sat on the road we began to see the French stragglers--men without arms, wounded...3.45 word came to go in and support a French counter.
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journal articles on: Flanders French  - 497 results

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Guardianship over Women in Medieval Flanders: A Reappraisal
Journal article by Ellen E. Kittell; Journal of Social History, Vol. 31, 1998
Subjects: Family--Social aspects, Flanders--History, Middle Ages--Social aspects, Women--Social aspects
...France known as "French Flanders"(24)) and the...little headway in Flanders until well into...of Burgundian (French) rule. Roman law...the phenomenon in Flanders to date. 24. This...confused with the French-speaking region...
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Flanders: A Cultural History
Journal article by Timothy Baycroft; The Historian, Vol. 71, 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Flanders: A Cultural History (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...history, culture, and landscape of Flanders. After an introduction explaining the complexity of the term Flanders and the Flemish, both of which...as a chapter each on Dutch and French Flanders. Each includes references to history...
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Nobles, Patricians and Officers: The Making of a Regional Political Elite in Late Medieval Flanders
Journal article by Jan Dumolyn; Journal of Social History, Vol. 40, 2006
Subjects: Flanders--History, Patricians (Rome)--Social aspects, Social mobility--Research
...scattered over both the French- and Dutch-speaking areas of the county of Flanders. In the fourteenth...of Veurne in western Flanders, had representatives...institutions of Walloon (French-speaking) Flanders, the Gouvernance and...
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In Flanders Flooded Fields: Before Ypres There Was Yser
Journal article by Holger H. Herwig; Canadian Journal of History, Vol. 42, 2007
Subjects: In Flanders Flooded Fields: Before Ypres There Was Yser (Book)
...states, pertained only to French Army flooding projects...as to why more of the Flanders countryside was not flooded...emancipation" from the French ruling minority in Brussels...first to toponyms in Flanders reverting to their Dutch...trilingual (Dutch, French, and German) federal...
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"Criers and Shouters". the Discourse on Radical Urban Rebels in Late Medieval Flanders
Journal article by Jan Dumolyn; Journal of Social History, Vol. 42, 2008
Subjects: Belgian history, Flanders--Political aspects, Medieval history, Metropolitan areas--Political aspects, Rebellion--Analysis
...reliable citations of criers in Flanders (and Brabant) and for discourses...in middle Dutch and middle French that treat the Southern Low...rebels in the revolt of Maritime Flanders (1323-1328). (126) During...130) The Chronicle of Flanders talked about shouters "who...
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Man, Culture, War: York Membery Visits the in Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres Where a New Exhibition Demonstrates How Many Countries and Cultures Were Bound Up in the First World War
Magazine article by York Membery; History Today, Vol. 58, May 2008
Subjects: Civilization--Exhibitions, Culture--Exhibitions, Exhibitions, World War II, 1939-1945--Portrayals
...York Membery Visits the in Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres Where...exhibition opening at the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres, Belgium...long tradition of British, French and American armies in North...War opens on May 1st at In Flanders Fields Museum, Cloth Hall...
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Triumph at Trafalgar: In His Victory over the French and the Spanish, Admiral Horatio Nelson's Biggest Guns Were the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Magazine article by Christopher Hitchens; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 296, October 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar (Book)--Book reviews
...Trafalgar: In His Victory over the French and the Spanish, Admiral Horatio...And not even the carnage in Flanders or at the Battle of Britain...earlier tunnel diggings on the French side of the Channel, begun...whale would trounce the lesser French whale every time, which meant...
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Belgium: Unlucky Little Country
Magazine article by David Charter; New Statesman, Vol. 136, September 17, 2007
Subjects: Flanders, Belgium--Political aspects, Leterme, Yves--Evaluation, Partition, Territorial--Analysis, Politicians--Evaluation, Territorial partition--Analysis, Wallonia, Belgium--Political aspects
...actually bans Francophone parties from standing in Flanders and vice versa. Leterme might sound French but he actually grew up in Flanders and is widely mistrusted as a closet separatist by French-speaking voters after calling Belgium "an accident...
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The Battle of the Golden Spurs: July 11th, 1302
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 52, July 2002
Subjects: Battles--Belgium, Edward I, King of England--Foreign relations, Flanders--History, France--History, Guy, Count of Flanders--Foreign relations, Massacres--Belgium, Philip, King of France--Military policy, Robert of Artois--Military policy
...prisoners and installing French officials to rule Flanders. The Flemings, their...rose in revolt and the French garrison at Bruges was...while the remaining French beat a prudent retreat...France would last until Flanders was acquired by the...
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Film: Best of 2007
Magazine article by John Waters, Amy Taubin, James Quandt, Chrissie Iles, T.J. Wilcox; Artforum International, Vol. 46, December 2007
Subjects: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Motion picture), Alexandra (Motion picture), An American Crime (Motion picture), At Sea (Motion picture), Away from Her (Motion picture), Before I Forget (Motion picture), Black Book (Motion picture), Blade Runner (Motion picture), Blades of Glory (Motion picture), Brand Upon the Brain! (Motion picture), Control (Motion picture), Dance Party USA (Motion picture), Eastern Promises (Motion picture), Fengming: A Chinese Memoir (Motion picture), Flanders (Motion picture), Frownland (Motion picture), Grindhouse (Motion picture), I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (Motion picture), I'm Not There (Motion picture), Killer of Sheep (Motion picture), La Morte rouge (Motion picture), La Vie en Rose (Motion picture), Les Amours d'Astree et de Celadon (Motion picture), Lust, Caution (Motion picture), Michael Clayton (Motion picture), Motion pictures--Movie reviews, Moviola with "3 Minutes of Painting on 6 Minutes of Film" (Motion picture), No End in Sight (Motion picture), Observando el Cielo (Motion picture), Paranoid Park (Motion picture), Persepolis (Motion picture), Planet Earth (Motion picture)--Movie reviews, Pour vos beaux yeux (Motion picture), Prater (Motion picture), Quartet (Motion picture), Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World (Motion picture), Sicko (Motion picture), Southland Tales (Motion picture), Superbad (Motion picture), Tarahi V (Motion picture), Terror's Advocate (Motion picture), The Darjeeling Limited (Motion picture), The Man from London (Motion picture), The Sarah Silverman Program (Motion picture), These Encounters of Theirs (Motion picture), Tigertail (Motion picture), Useless (Motion picture), Zodiac (Motion picture), Zoo (Motion picture)
...masterpiece of munching, melancholy, and the "magic of self-loathing." 9 Flanders (Bruno Dumont) A relentlessly punishing and depressing slow-paced French film about mud, barnyard animals, bad sex, and ugly war. The worst date movie...
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newspaper articles on: Flanders French  - 331 results

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Over the Top One Last Time ; Bitter Memories ... Harry Patch at Passchendaele Today - and How It Looked in 1917. the Massive Allied Bombardment Had Turned the Fields around Passchendaele into a Quagmire That Seriously Hampered the Flanders Offensive. Left: Battleweary Soldiers on the March
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), July 29, 2007
Subjects: Soldiers--Military aspects
...That Seriously Hampered the Flanders Offensive. Left: Battleweary...Douglas Haig, had launchedhis Flanders Offensive to relieve exhausted French troops in the south andstop...107. For his trip back to Flanders, Harry was accompanied by...
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LAND OF THE GIANTS; Flanders High Points
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), April 22, 2007
LAND OF THE GIANTS; Flanders High Points. Byline: By ADELE...Theres also a wooden windmill. French Flanders is famous for its windmills, its...there are spectacula rviews across French Flanders and Belgium. A short drive brought...
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How the Flanders Poppy Became a Symbol of Remembrance; YOUR Nostalgia IT Is 90 Years since the First Poppy Appeal in England. as This Year's Appeal Gets under Way, Local Historian CHRIS HOLLAND Looks Back at How the Tradition of Selling Poppies to Raise Funds for Ex-Sevicemen and Women Developed and How Communities in Coventry and Warwickshire Responded to the Appeal in the Early 1920s
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), October 17, 2011
Subjects: Veterans Day
...though poppies grow / In Flanders fields." An American YMCA...Legion agreed to adopt the Flanders Poppy as its emblem. Inspired...of her country. In 1921, French women began selling artificial...Earl Douglas Haig to adopt the Flanders Poppy as an emblem for the...
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It's All FLANDERS; Discover a Region of Belgium with a Wealth of History and Architecture to Enjoy as Well as Some Fine Seaside Spots
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), March 25, 1998
Subjects: Belgium
...atmosphere. Contrasting with that is the Flanders countryside - littered with war cemeteries...race of the cities but the Dutch, French and Germans are now in on the secret...close down in winter. Of course, Flanders is not easily accessible from Scotland...
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THE UNION SPY; Famous as Author of Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe Also Led a Dangerous Double Life as a Secret Agent in Scotland, Playing a Vital Role in Shaping Her Political Destiny
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 28, 2007
Subjects: International cooperation, Spies
...Famous as Author of Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe...Robinson Crusoe or Moll Flanders. When Defoe arrived...the Jacobite threat and French plans to dominate Europe...constantly drawn into French-backed Jacobite plots...including the feisty Moll Flanders, in which Defoe made...
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encyclopedia articles on: Flanders French  - 80 results

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Flanders, French
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FLANDERS, FRENCH region of N France, on the North Sea and along the Belgian border...incorporated into France in 1678 by Louis XIV and was a province until the French Revolution. Lille was the provincial capital, Douai the seat of the...
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Flanders
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...to France by Louis XIV and became known as French Flanders (see Flanders, French ). Austria ceded the remainder of Flanders...World War I, there was continuous fighting in French Flanders and in West Flanders. In World War II, the...
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Belgium
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...official language in Flanders, while French is official in...into two regions (Flanders and Wallonia...communities (Dutch, French, and German...autonomous regions (Flanders, Wallonia, and...ethnic communities (French, Flemish Dutch...
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Flemish Art and Architecture
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...also flourished. Flanders followed the French in their adaptation...realistic forms into French sculpture, along...of the count of Flanders to the duke of Burgundy...the 18th cent. French rococo taste predominated in Flanders, but in the 19th...
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Battle of the Spurs
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Philip IV of France, who had annexed Flanders in 1301. The French were totally defeated. The spurs taken from the fallen French knights formed so huge a trophy that...English under Henry VIII over the French, at Guinegate, N France. This...
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