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unusual facts about Frenchman



1986 British Grand Prix

A qualified GP before taking up motor racing in 1978, Palmer stopped his Zakspeed just past Laffite's crashed Ligier-Renault, jumped out and raced to assist the injured Frenchman.

2011 ATP World Tour Finals

On 10 November Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Czech Tomáš Berdych and American Mardy Fish all qualified after Berdych defeated Janko Tipsarević, the last remaining contender, in the third round of the BNP Paribas Masters.

2011 Melbourne Cup

The winning jockey, Frenchman Christophe Lemaire, had arrived in Australia less than a day previously as a late replacement for Craig Williams.

Adel Sellimi

But the Frenchman's replacement with Ammar Souayah coupled with the national team's goal drought brought about his recall.

AGS JH22

Frenchman Pascal Fabre, who had driven for the team in Formula Two in 1982, was signed to drive.

Anselm Franz von Ritter zu Groenesteyn

As stucco plasterer he chose Georg Hennicke from Mainz, a disciple of the Frenchman Jean Bérain, who had also worked on the pilgrimage church Zum heiligen Blut in Walldürn.

Armand Mahan

He moved to Belgium in 2003, when he signed a contract with SK Beveren who worked together with the Ivorian team via the Frenchman Jean-Marc Guillou.

Bertrand Goldschmidt

He later joined the Anglo-Canadian nuclear program (group of Montreal) in Canada where he joined other Frenchman such as Hans von Halban, Jules Gueron, Pierre Auger, and Lew Kowarski who would join the project in 1944.

Biceratops

Biceratops nevadensis is known only from the lower part of the Pioche Shale (Upper Olenellus-zone) at the base of the Frenchman Mountain, Clark County, Nevada.

Celier Kiss

The Celier Kiss is a series of Polish autogyros that was designed by Frenchman Raphael Celier and produced by his company, Celier Aviation of Jaktorów-Kolonia, Poland.

Charley Burley

Among the fighters who "ducked" Burley were Hall of Famers Billy Conn (who fought Joe Louis for the heavyweight title), Frenchman Marcel Cerdan (who was supposed to face Burley in his American debut), Jake LaMotta (who had fought the likes of powerpuncher Bob Satterfield, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Holman Williams, who was Burley's greatest rival), and even Sugar Ray Robinson, considered by many boxing historians as the best pound-for-pound fighter of all time.

Clint Hallam

A surgery team led by Australian Earl Owen and Frenchman Jean-Michel Dubernard transplanted a new hand on 23 September 1998 in a 13-hour long operation in Lyon, France.

Damnak Chang'aeur District

In June 1994, Phnom Voar in Damnak Chang'aeur hit the international headlines as the site of the kidnapping of three westerners, Australian David Wilson, 29, Briton Mark Slater, 28, and Frenchman Jean-Michel Braquet, 27 from a train by Khmer Rouge forces led by Commander Chouk Rin.

DIC Entertainment

It was founded in 1971 as DIC Audiovisuel by Frenchman Jean Chalopin in Paris, as a subsidiary of RTL Group (RTL), Europe's leading entertainment company, which today, is majority-owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.

Dida

Dida Diafat, a Frenchman who became a world champion in Thai kickboxing

Domo-Farm Frites

In addition, they enrolled Road Cycling World Champion Romāns Vainšteins, sprinter Robbie McEwen, classics specialist Servais Knaven, and Frenchman Richard Virenque who just returned from doping suspension.

Dubner

Johann Friedrich Dübner (1802–1867), German classical scholar (naturalized a Frenchman), was born in Horselgau, near Gotha

Elizabeth Billington

At Milan she was received with much favour by the Joséphine de Beauharnais, and here she met a young Frenchman, M. Felissent, to whom she was married in 1799.

Frenchman Creek

In 1888, Champion Mill was built on the Frenchman in the community of Champion by Thomas Scott; it operated commercially, grinding flour and feed grain, from 1888 to 1968.

Frenchmans Cap

The origin of the name is a mystery but is attributed to its appearance from some angles as looking like a Frenchman's cap, notably the Liberty cap worn during the French Revolution (1789–1799).

Georgiy Daneliya

Georgiy Daneliya is the author or co-author of scripts to most of his films; he also wrote scripts for films by other directors, among which are Gentlemen of Fortune (Джентльмены Удачи) (1972) (collaboration with Viktoriya Tokareva), Frenchman (Француз) (1988) with Sergei Bodrov and Hello from Charlie the Trumpet player (Привет от Чарли Трубача) (1998) with Sergei Dernov.

Giorgio Gaslini

He collaborated with leading American soloists, such as Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy, Don Cherry, Roswell Rudd, Eddie Gomez, Max Roach, Nacci Alberto, but also with the Argentinian Gato Barbieri and Frenchman Jean-Luc Ponty.

Globalization of wine

Some of the most influential flying winemakers now are: Frenchman Michel Rolland from Pomerol who advises over 100 wineries in 13 countries but has probably had most influence on the chateaux around his home, and Italian Alberto Antonini who has been involved with the Antinori and Frescobaldi families in Italy and similarly advises close to 100 wineries in 14 countries.

Idealism

Charles Bernard Renouvier was the first Frenchman after Nicolas Malebranche to formulate a complete idealistic system, and had a vast influence on the development of French thought.

Imaging Blackness

The invention of the movie poster itself is attributed to a Frenchman named Jules Chéret.

Jean Baptiste Douville

Douville may well have explored part of the province of Angola, and Sir Richard Burton maintained that the Frenchman's descriptions of the country of the Congo were lifelike; that his observations on the anthropology, ceremonies, customs and maladies of the people were remarkably accurate; and that even the native words used in his narrative were "for the most part given with unusual correctness."

Jonas Dupont

Jonas Dupont was a Frenchman who became famous for the publishing of the book De Incendiis Corporis Humani Spontaneis.

Keroman Submarine Base

Rechristened by the French as Base Ingénieur Général Stosskopf in July 1946, the new name commemorated Jacques Stosskopf, a German-speaking Alsatian Frenchman who had been the deputy director of naval construction for the Germans at the base while secretly in the French Resistance, and had given valuable information on submarine movements to the Allies during the war until betrayed and killed.

Leontine Cooper

Leontine was born in Battersea, Surrey to Frenchman Jean François (aka 'John Francis') Buisson and his English wife Dorothy.

Linda Evangelista

In late June 2011, Evangelista filed court papers that revealed her son was fathered by billionaire Frenchman François-Henri Pinault, by then the husband of actress Salma Hayek.

Lympne light aircraft trials

The best flight by an Englishman was that made by Fred Raynham in a Handasyde aircraft, lasting 113 minutes, but the Frenchman Alexis Maneyrol did better in his Peyret tandem monoplane, staying up for a world record 201 minutes to win the prize.

Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad

Coincidentally, the last non-Kenyan to do so was a Frenchman - Joseph Mahmoud - who won the silver medal at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.

Mignet Pou-du-Ciel

The Flying Flea family of aircraft was designed by Frenchman Henri Mignet.

Mir EO-4

The French president at the time, François Mitterrand, insisted on attending the launch of the Soyuz TM-7, of which Frenchman Chrétien was a crew member.

Nubar Pasha

A plaintiff could only sue a Frenchman in the French court, with appeal to Aix-en-Provence; an Italian in the Italian court, with appeal to Ancona; a Russian in the Russian court, with appeal to Moscow.

Pino Cerami

Cerami was 3rd in the 1960 World Championship Road Race behind Rik Van Looy of Belgium and Frenchman André Darrigade.

Ralph Bates

Because of his French ancestry and dark looks, he was often chosen to play a Frenchman on television, as for instance in a second series episode of ITV comedy drama Turtle's Progress.

Raúl Fabiani

After the departure of the Frenchman, Brazilian Gílson Paulo arrived at Malabo as his replacement and the player was included in the preliminary list for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations.

Rhum Barbancourt

Dupré Barbancourt, a Frenchman from the cognac-producing region of Charente emigrated to Haiti, and founded his company at the end of 1862.

Roubaix, South Dakota

Roubaix was chosen in honor of the hometown of local Frenchman Pierre Wibaux, who was one of the Uncle Sam Mine's main investors.

Rustproof

Pierre Berthier, a Frenchman, was the first to notice the rust-resistant properties of mixing chromium with alloys in 1821, which led to new metal treating and metallurgy processes and eventually the creation of usable stainless steel.

Sorel cement

Sorel cement (also known as magnesia cement) is a non-hydraulic cement first produced by Frenchman Stanislas Sorel in 1867.

Spyker D8

The name Peking-to-Paris refers to the Peking to Paris endurance rally held in 1907 from Peking (now called Beijing) in China to Paris in France, in which an almost standard Spyker car participated, driven by Frenchman Ch.

The Envy of Gods

One day to visit them coming Frenchman Bernard (Gérard Depardieu), with whom he met Sergey while working on a book about the French Resistance, accompanied by a French translator of Russian descent named André (Anatoly Lobotsky).

The Long Day Wanes

He was no doubt thinking of himself as much as of Fauconnier when he wrote: "Perhaps the best of all Malayan fiction is, strangely, by a Frenchman – Malaisie, by Henri Fauconnier, a Prix Goncourt winner of the twenties. Its strength lies in its author's knowledge of the Malays, which naturally entails a knowledge of the Malay language."

Treason Act 1702

In the movie Johnny English, the "jumped-up frenchman" Pascal Sauvage (John Malkovich), is tried for treason when he tries to seize the throne, and the audience is told the penalty is still death by hanging.

Veterinary medicine

This was finally achieved in 1790, through the campaigning of Granville Penn, who persuaded the Frenchman, Benoit Vial de St. Bel to accept the professorship of the newly established Veterinary College in London.

Vladimir Pravdin

Anatoli Golitsyn, another Soviet defector in the 1960s, also claimed that Pravdin was active in Austria after World War II, often passing as a Frenchman.


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