S: (n) Crecy, battle of Crecy (the first decisive battle of the Hundred Years' War; in 1346 the English under Edward III defeated the French under Philip of Valois)
S: (n) Dunkirk, Dunkerque (an amphibious evacuation in World War II (1940) when 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches in northern France in a desperate retreat under enemy fire)
S: (n) Rocroi, Battle of Rocroi (a battle in the Thirty Years' War (1643); the French defeated the Spanish invaders)
S: (n) Saint-Mihiel, St Mihiel, battle of St Mihiel (a battle in the Meuse-Argonne operation in World War I (1918); the battle in which American troops launched their first offensive in France)
S: (n) Bastille (a fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries; it was destroyed July 14, 1789 at the start of the French Revolution)
S: (n) haute cuisine ((French) an elaborate and skillful manner of preparing food)
S: (n) nouvelle cuisine (a school of French cooking that uses light sauces and tries to bring out the natural flavors of foods instead of making heavy use of butter and cream)
S: (n) National Liberation Front of Corsica, FLNC (a terrorist group formed in 1976 to work for Corsican independence; attacks on Corsica are aimed at sabotaging public infrastructure and symbols of colonialism)
S: (n) ancien regime (a political and social system that no longer governs (especially the system that existed in France before the French Revolution))
S: (n) estate of the realm, estate, the three estates (a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights)
S: (n) French, Daniel Chester French (United States sculptor who created the seated marble figure of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. (1850-1931))
Verb
S: (v) French (cut (e.g, beans) lengthwise in preparation for cooking) "French the potatoes"
Adjective
S: (adj) French, Gallic (of or pertaining to France or the people of France) "French cooking"; "a Gallic shrug"