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French Fried: The Culinary Capers of an American in Paris, by Harriet Welty Rochefort, 2001. Harriet continues her attempts to demystify the French with French Fried, the saucy-sometimes spicy - and often hilarious tale of one American woman's 30-year foray into the byzantine world of French cuisine. And when it comes to food, Rochefort's experiences are anything but dull or traditional. When she first arrives in France, she dines on onion soup with her concierge. When she finally gets a decent apartment with a kitchen it turns out that there's both a shower - and a cop - in it.
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Louis Philippe proclaimed French "Citizen King" (Philippe Egalité) for his support of the 1792 Revolution. - 7.8.1830
Côte d'Ivoire achieves independence from France - 7.8.1990
PLUTO (Pipe Line Under The Ocean), begins operations. - 12.8.1944
Operating beneath the English Channel, PLUTO supplied gasoline to Allied invasion forces in France.
The Battle of Blenheim - 13.8.1705
In southern Germany, Anglo-Austrian army inflects decisive defeat on the French armies.
Battle of Mons (Belgium) - 14.8.1678
The French repluse William of Orange
Society of Jesus founded. - 15.8.1543
Ignatius de Loyala establishes the Jesuit Order, in Paris.
Battle of the Spurs - 16.8.1513
King Henry VIII and English troops defeat the French at Guinigatte, NW France
Battle of Smolensk - 18.8.1812
Napoléon defeats Russian forces
Raid of Dieppe - 19.8.1942
British and Canadien forces raid this French port city.
Battle of Saragossa - 20.8.1710
French armies defeated by the Austrians
Battle of Vimiero - 21.8.1808
French forces under General Junot, defeated by English lead by Wellington
Cadillac Motor Company Formed - 21.8.1901
in Detroit, Michigan; named for French explorer Antoine Cadillac.
Mona Lisa Stolen - 21.8.1911
from the Louvre in Paris. It was recovered two years later.
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre - 24.8.1572
Charles IX orders the massacre of the Huguenots throughout France; thousands are killed in Paris.
Battle of Malaga - 24.8.1604
The French are defeated by English and Dutch fleets.
Liberation of Paris - 25.8.1944
Paris is liberated from German occupation during WWII.
Births:
Saint-Laurent, Yves - 1.8.1936 - Couturier
de Maupassant, Guy - 5.8.1850 - Author
Claudel, Paul - 6.8.1868 - Poet
Tissot, James - 8.8.1902 - Painter
Moreau, Jean Victor Marie - 11.8.1772 - Military general
Bonaparte, Napoléon - 15.8.1769 - Emperor
Chanel, Gabrielle (Coco) - 19.8.1883 - Couturier
Poincaré, Raymond - 20.8.1860 - Statesman
Cartier-Bresson, Henri - 22.8.1908 - Photographer
Debussy, Claude - 22.8.1862 - Impressionist composer
Romains, Jules - 26.8.1904 - Novelist, playwright, and poet.
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique - 29.8.1780 - Painter
David, Jacques Louis - 30.8.1748 - Painter
Killy, Jean Claude - 30.8.1943 - Ski Champion
Deaths:
Louis VI - 1.8.1137 - King of France
Manessier, Alfred - 1.8.1993 - Painter
Blériot, Louis - 2.8.1936 - Aviator
Colette - 3.8.1954 - Novelist
Henry I - 4.8.1060 - King of France
Delacroix, Eugéne - 13.8.1863 - Painter
Laënnec, René - 13.8.1826 - Physician
Signac, Paul - 15.8.1935 - Painter
Léger, Fernand - 17.8.1955 - Painter
de Balzac, Honoré - 17.8.1850 - Novelist
Garnerin, André Jacques - 18.8.1823 - Balloonist
Pascal, Blaise - 19.8.1662 - Philosopher and mathematician
Bouguerau, Adolphe William - 20.8.1905 - Painter
Fragonard, Jean Honoré - 22.8.1806 - Painter
Peroni, Didier - 23.8.1987 - Racing car driver
de Coulomb, Charles Auguste - 23.8.1906 - Physicist
Carnot, Nicolas Léonard Sadi - 24.8.1832 - Physicist
Boyer, Charles - 26.8.1978 - Actor
Louis Philippe - 26.8.1850 - "Citizen King" of France
Le Corbusier - 27.8.1965 - Architect (Swiss born)
Sorel, Georges - 30.8.1922 - Socialist philosopher (Réflexions sur la violence (1908)), born in Cherbourg.
French Fried: The Culinary Capers of an American in Paris
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