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French Toast: An American in Paris Celebrates the Maddening Mysteries of the French, by Harriet Welty Rochefort - writes from the wise perspective of one who has spent more than twenty years living among the French. She makes sense of their ever-so-French thoughts on food, money, sex, love, marriage, manners, schools, style, and much more. Her first-person account offers both a helpful reality check and a lot of very funny moments.
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First air battle - 5.10.1914
French and German aircraft exchanged fire during WWI in history's first air battle.
Acadian French forced from Nova Scotia, Canada - 6.10.1754
Britain forces the French Acadians to leave Nova Scotia.
Assassination of the French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou - 9.10.1934
Together with Alexander, king of Yugoslavia, Louis Barthou was assassinated by Croatian terrorists in Marseilles.
The Battle of Tours - 10.10.732
The Franks lead by Charles Martel, defeated the Saracens at the Battle of Tours
Templars charged with heresy - 13.10.1307
Philip IV of France orders the arrest of the Templars on charges of heresy; in Paris.
First major ballet staged - 15.10.1581
Catherine de Medici in Paris requests the staging of the first major ballet.
Mata Hari executed in Paris - 15.10.1917
Convicted of spying for the Germans, the Dutch citizen Mata Hari was executed by firing squad in Paris
Napoléon exiled to St. Helena - 16.10.1815
Napoléon is exiled to the Atlantic island of St. Helena
First parachute jump. - 22.10.1797
André-Jacques Garnerin makes history's first parachute jump from a balloon above Parc Monceau in Paris
Elise Deroche makes the first solo flight by a woman. - 22.10.1909
Battle of Agincourt - 25.10.1415
King Henry V, leading the English army defeats the French at the Battle of Agincourt
Getaway Car used for first time in robbery - 27.10.1901
Thieves in Paris robbed a shop and then sped away using an automobile
US troops begin fighting on the Western Front in France during WWI - 27.10.1917
Births:
Louis Aragon - 3.10.1897 - Poet
Pierre Bonnard - 3.10.1867 - Painter
Jean François Millet - 4.10.1814 - Painter
Denis Diderot - 5.10.1713 - philosopher
Camille Saint-Saëns - 9.10.1835 - Composer
Jacque Tati - 9.10.1908 - Comic actor and film director
Jean Antoine Watteau - 10.10.1684 - Painter
Yves Montand - 13.10.1921 - Singer and actor
Georges Bizet - 15.10.1838 - Composer
Pablo Picasso - 15.10.1881 - Artist
Henri Bergson - 18.10.1859 - Philosopher
Alfred Dreyfus - 19.10.1859 - French army officer
Auguste Marie Lumière - 19.10.1862 - Photographic pioneer
Catherine Deneuve - 22.10.1943 - Film actress
Sarah Bernhardt - 22.10.1844 - Actress
Pierre Larousse - 23.10.1817 - Lexicographer
Théophile Gautier - 23.10.1872 - Poet
Jacques Lafitte - 24.10.1767 - Banker and politician
François Mitterand - 26.10.1916 - Statesman
Georges Danton - 26.10.1759 - Revolutionary leader
Jean Giraudoux - 29.10.1882 - Author
Alfred Sisley - 30.10.1840 - Painter
Louis Malle - 30.10.1932 - Film director
Deaths:
Pierre Corneille - 1.10.1684 - French dramatist
Marcel Duchamp - 2.10.1968 - Painter
Jean Anouilh - 3.10.1987 - Dramatist
Jacques Offenback - 5.10.1880 - German-born, French composer
Jean Vigo - 5.10.1934 - Film director
Philip III (The Bold) - 5.10.1285 - King of France
André Maurois - 9.10.1967 - Writer
Edith Piaf - 10.10.1963 - Singer
Jean Cocteau - 11.10.1963 - Poet, dramatist, and film director
Anatole France - 12.10.1924 - Writer
Nicholas de Malebranche - 13.10.1715 - Philosopher
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac - 15.10.1730 - Explorer
French Toast: An American in Paris Celebrates the Maddening Mysteries of the French
French History This Month - October