When he was at Menin a French gentleman attended him.
A lady friend of mine gets French lessons for eighteenpence an hour from a real French gentleman.
She learned that since it was so late in the year only two other rooms in the inn were occupied, each by an elderly French gentleman.
A respectable French gentleman is mistaken for his doppelganger, a notorious highwaymen.
By the early 13005 all French gentlemen owed service or compensatory taxes based on their wealth and status.
"For the French gentleman placed beneath his scaffold."
"My lord," said he, "a French gentleman has just presented himself at the outposts and wishes to speak to your honor."
As they went along in the dark, the fishermen passed close to the guards who were conducting the French gentleman to General Monk.
"They had conferred together until the last moment, when it was necessary for the French gentlemen to be landed in their boat."
But a French gentleman, masquerading in country clothes, what could it mean?