Up until the eighteenth century, the lovely English name for trombone was sackbut, a word of Old French or possibly Spanish derivation.
By making it, he is just confirming that he is still a good alumni of the old school of the administrative French elite (his 1980 class below had Villepin, Royal and Hollande in its ranks).
It is even more unusual that the leader should be Sarkozy, especially as he came to power on a platform of rupture with the French comforts of old: the 35-hour working week, toasty public-sector employment benefits and a generally negative attitude towards workaholism.
This week, French President Nicolas Sarkozy demanded the release of 23-year old Clotilde Reiss, a French academic reportedly arrested last week on charges of spying.
That new store will be filled with finely wrought homewares and elegant clothes, including sculptural dresses made from hand-felted cashmere in a centuries-old process typical of the French house's attention to detail.
All this history wells up in Shanghai, where a determined researcher can still find Stars of David decorating old tenements in the French quarter.
The 31-year-old has previous experience of the French mountains and, ater his double Tour misery, he looks a strong bet for a high finish.
The thieves are a band of Norman mercenaries, including a mysterious warrior who calls himself Harlequin, from the old French word hellequin, meaning a troop of the devil's horsemen.
Politicians from both sides have backed an international effort to publicise and preserve the old city of Famagusta, whose French, Venetian and Ottoman overlords all left their mark on its architecture.
The subject of the portrait is of two-year-old Raoul Levert, the son of a carpenter in the French village of Auvers, 25 miles north of Paris, where the artist spent some time before he died.
Everton confirmed the acquisition of the 30-year--old French international on the club's Web site.
They then filled the new building with engravings and portraits of Ottoman sultans, French cavalry officers and Druze tribesmen, as well as faded photos of old Beirut and the villages of Mount Lebanon.
The relationship with Beauvoir propelled this twenty-six-year-old tyro into the highest reaches of French culture.
Expect to see everything from old medical books and medicine to a replica of an old pharmacy store, as well an exhibitions on the history of aspirin, discovered by French chemist Charles Frederic Gerhardt in 1853, and apothecary, the art of pharmacy and medical treatment that dates back to 2600 BC.
The 31-year-old, who is out of contract with the French club in the summer, has agreed a two-year contract at Ibrox.
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Pittsburgh-based architect Lewko Korzeniwsky recently finished turning the traditional, Colonial-style floor plan of an old 4, 600-square-foot French Normandy mansion into an open, contemporary interior, reducing the number of bedrooms to four from six and introducing floor-to-ceiling glass windows and recessed lighting.
Known to the Warriors fans as "Dave", the 36-year-old Taumoepeau joined Worcester in the summer of 2005 from French club Bourgoin.
The 53-year-old French cosmetics firm has been the subject of takeover speculation ever since its founder, Jacques Courtin-Clarins, died in March.
At the same time, Segolene Royal has been identified by many people as a very modern version of socialism, you know, it's much more social democrats, you know, breaking with French traditions of state-run economy and old dogmas like that.
Peterson, a 34-year-old from French Lick, Indiana, was out of a job as of the end of last week, and there's no extra money to buy presents.
The early influence of French Art Deco aesthetics can be seen in the stained-glass ceiling of the ballroom in the otherwise largely Beaux Arts-style old French Sports Club -- now the Okura Garden Hotel -- as well as in some other interior flourishes.
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Peterson, a 31-year-old from French Lick, Indiana, will be out of a job by the end of the week, and there's no extra money to buy presents.
The unnamed female bartender told police Gooding stopped by the Old Absinthe House in the French Quarter in the early hours of Tuesday with a group of people.
The agency opted not to take any action against the 37-year-old American in connection with an incident in the French Riviera town of Beaulieu-sur-Mer on March 17.
The French 21-year-old was going to be out of contract in the summer, meaning he could have left the club, although the Bulls would have been due a fee.
Parisians can be buried alongside Berlioz, Degas and Nijinsky in the cemetery at Montmartre, which was dug out of an old chalk quarry that had been used as a communal grave during the French Revolution.
The other notable is the course at French Lick, a grand old casino resort in the style of the Greenbrier or Homestead. opened within the last two years and an entirely new style for Dye, a course intentionally designed to thwart the technological advances of golf and the long hitters of the PGA Tour.
Last year, Senegal's voters ousted President Abdoulaye Wade, a French-educated democrat, married to a French woman, in favor of Macky Sall, a 51-year old oil geologist who owns a house in Houston and speaks English with a Texas drawl.
Last week the 63-year-old actor announced he was moving to the small Belgian town of Nechin just over the French border.
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