The German Army chief, General Erich Ludendorff, tried to capture the French capital without waiting to strengthen his forces.

VOA: special.2010.10.21

One well known work by the French painter Jean Antoine Watteau shows a man in a garden playing a musical instrument.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

In the 1700s, the Champlain Valley became a battleground in the French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years' War.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

And the third reason was the publishing of rumors about the moral behavior of the French royal family.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

In eighteen sixty-five, he suggested that the French and the Americans build a monument together to celebrate freedom.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

In the nineteen forties the French artist Jean Dubuffet discovered Mister Wolfli's works and other artists like him.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

The French chemist Nicolas Leblanc discovered how to make soda ash from salt in the late eighteenth century.

VOA: special.2011.03.09

Because she was a woman, she could not study at the French Academy of Fine Arts in Paris.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

He said Van Buren slept in the same kind of bed as the one used by the French King, Louis the 15th.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

A large fireworks show always takes place on Bastille day which celebrates the beginning of the French Revolution.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

If they did, they often were not taught much except the French language, how to sew clothing,and music.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

For example, the French artists Honore Daumier and later Henri Toulouse Lautrec were masters of this process.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

Lake Champlain is named for the French explorer Samuel de Champlain who first saw it in 1609.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

Lake Champlain is named for the French explorer Samuel de Champlain who first saw it in sixteen-oh-nine.

VOA: special.2010.08.30