French
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the French · a Frenchman · citizen of any Continental State · الفرنساويين
in the texts
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
The French nation, referenced for its term for the public-order magistracy.
are all means to prevent the dangerous effects of the misguided passions of the people These should be the principal objects of the vigilance of a magistrate, and which the French call Police;
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The French people, whose modern law of marriage settlement is presented as a direct continuation of Roman dotal law.
This assertion, I may observe, is less incredible to a Frenchman, or indeed to a citizen of any Continental State, than it is possibly to an Englishman.
This simple, but most admirable, contrivance of having, so to speak, model settlements set forth ready made in the law, which may be adopted or not at pleasure, characterises the French Code Napoléon, and it was inherited by the French from the Romans.
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
The French, cited as having forcibly resisted Portuguese exclusion from navigation and trade.
Even the French and English made their way to those newly discovered places not secretly, but by force of arms.
Therefore in order to establish a prescriptive right to the trade with the East Indies the Portuguese would be compelled to prove coercion.
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
One of the European nations whose scholars wrote on mother-right and whose kinship terminology would, on Smith's reasoning, equally imply a matrilineal past.
More than one of the scholars of society among the Germans, the French, the English, the Russians and others have written upon mother-right and the ordering of the family — such as Bagehot, Dargun, Amira, Wilken, Starcke, Bride, Giraud, Smith, Westermarck and others, whose enumeration would be long for us;
if reliance upon it were sound, our judgements upon the genealogies of the English and the French and others would be thrown into confusion, for you see among them this very extension, or sharing.