Example sentences of "returned to france " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the plague returned to France in 1361 , and the devastation it imposed , coupled with the laxity and incompetence of the English administration , weakened the English grip on its French territories . |
| 2 | When Edouard left Oxford , and returned to France to begin work on the administration of the de Chavigny companies and estates , he was appalled by what he found . |
| 3 | All the furniture , silver , paintings , and the private jewellery collection stored in Switzerland by his father were returned to France . |
| 4 | While the French police eventually traced the pieces to Osaka , lack of cooperation on the part of the Japanese authorities meant that they were not returned to France until June 1990 , and then only on the condition that they were returned to Japan by December of that year . |
| 5 | Now , by the chaos of war , and because the exiled Napoleon had returned to France and thrust a new period of battle on Europe , Sharpe was a lieutenant-colonel in the 5th Belgian Light Dragoons , a regiment he had never met , had no wish to meet , and would not have recognized if it had formed line and charged him . |
| 6 | Then , just as d'Alembord was about to sell his commission and retire to one of his prospective father-in-law 's farms , Napoleon had returned to France . |
| 7 | One of these , the king 's younger son Louis Duke of Anjou , broke his word and returned to France , at which King John , showing a misplaced sense of honour , returned voluntarily to captivity in England and died at the Savoy in April 1364 . |
| 8 | After Edward III 's death he resigned his allegiance and his title , and returned to France , leaving his wife in England . |
| 9 | Since the reign of Henry VII , the French King had paid a substantial sum to England , which was increased to 150,000 francs per annum when Tournai was returned to France in 1519 . |
| 10 | To add to Henry 's troubles he was constantly being pestered by King Philip 's claim that now that the Young King was dead , his widow 's marriage portion — Gisors and the other castles of the Norman Vexin — should be returned to France . |
| 11 | Unquestionably , if either Richard or John had married her , it would have added plausibility to Philip 's claim that this vital territory was his sister 's marriage portion and , as such , might one day be returned to France . |
| 12 | A week later the Duchess returned to France , and for the next fourteen years she lived alone in Paris . |
| 13 | The Bourequat brothers — three French citizens who had been imprisoned without charge for over 17 years — were pardoned by King Hassan II on Dec. 30 and returned to France on Jan. 3 . |
| 14 | Two days later the exiled leader of the extreme French settlers in Algeria , George Bidault , returned to France . |