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Frise (department)

Frise was a department of the First French Empire in the present-day Netherlands. It was formed in 1811, after the Kingdom of Holland was annexed by France. It was named after Friesland: "Frise" in French. It was the successor of the Friesland Department, which was formed in 1802.

Its capital was Leeuwarden. The department was subdivided into the following arrondissements and cantons (situation in 1812):

  • Leeuwarden, cantons: Bergum, Buitenpost, Dokkum, Dronrijp, Franeker, Hallum, Harlingen, Holwerd and Leeuwarden (2 cantons).
  • Heerenveen, cantons: Akkrum, Beetsterzwaag, Heerenveen and Oldeberkoop.
  • Sneek, cantons: Bolsward, Hindeloopen, Lemmer, Rauwerd and Sneek.

Its population in 1812 was 175,400, and its area was 279,835 hectares.

After Napoleon was defeated in 1813, the department became part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Frise

Frise may refer to:

  • Frise (department), the French name of Friesland as a of the First French Empire
  • Frise, Somme, a commune of the Somme department in France

Usage examples of "frise".

Once a man even reached the Chesaux de Frise, he swept at the sabre blades with a musket, bellowing defiance, and then he was hit by an unseen French infantryman and he fell, twisting like a rag doll, down the slope and the French jeered him and poured fire down.

The powerful succor of Flanders, Frise, and Denmark, filled near a hundred vessels: and the Northern warriors were distinguished in the field by a lofty stature and a ponderous battle-axe.

We walked down the Shaghab valley-bed, whose sides, like those of the Damah, are chevaux de frise of dead wood.

SPIRIT OF RUMOUR It so befalls that as their chargers near The inimical wall of flesh with its iron frise, A treacherous chasm uptrips them: zealous men And docile horses roll to dismal death And horrid mutilation.

Put that on, my dear, and then you can come right on backstage here and see for yourself exactly who and what a bichon frise is, and anything else that might strike your fancy.

Our little Bichon Frise looked up at me through her soulful black eyes and wagged her tail.

My little Bichon Frise had been my constant companion before the children were born, forever at my heels, following me everywhere.

Metivier and Feller had not understood the symptoms, but Frise had, and Mudrov had diagnosed them even better?

At its lower extremity a tall hedge of cactus reinforced the crumbling wall with a cheval de frise of bristling thorns.

A few hours after I'd left her house that night, Lu Li had slipped outside with her bichon frise and made her way across Chapel Hill on foot.

Mom would gird herself the moment she rang Lois's doorbell, activating the McNeil's astound-ingly nervous bichon frise into a frenzy of sterile yapping.

Every night after supper, Harv walked Pepperpot, a bichon frise, a ball of fluff with needle sharp teeth, that spent as much time at the vet's as Ethel at the walk-in medical clinic.

He squinted up into the sun dazzle at the narrow parapet around the open observatory dome, where the barrels of the Xlasers protruded in a glittering chevaux de frise.

The country was mostly forest, difficult for troops to work in, especially for the Macedonian phalanx, for unless they can make a kind of chevaux de frise with the extraordinarily long spears which they hold in front of their shields - and this requires a free and open space - they are of no use whatever.

I carried Trixy, our little Bichon Frise, listening to Kathy's commentary as we followed her along the gallerylike entrance, which, Andrew pointed out, was somewhat Elizabethan in style.