Along the larboard side there was fighting on the deck but the only Frenchmen who had managed to get on board were being dealt with.
He is the only Frenchman to have won the title.
He was the only Frenchman in evidence.
Mark Twain once said that waiters were the only Frenchmen who spoke a second language.
A specialist in long-distance breakaways, like the one today, he was the only Frenchman to win a Tour stage last year.
The only Frenchman present, a village councillor, is accepting drinks from the men and embraces from the women.
"And I may be the only Frenchman in history who has never been unfaithful to his wife."
"The only Frenchman I ever heard call it a name called his 'Georges.'"
This particular position gave him the right to sign dollar bills to issue money, making him the only ever Frenchman ever to do so.
They had boarded her without incident, the only Frenchmen aboard her being either dead or dying of wounds by that time.