Tragédie en musique (French: [tʁaʒedi ɑ̃ myzik], musical tragedy), also known as tragédie lyrique (French: [tʁaʒedi liʁik], lyric tragedy), is a genre...

Bronne, a tributary of the Canche. Jean de Beaurain (1696–1771), geographer, was born in Aix-en-Issart. Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department "Répertoire...

Printed in Amsterdam. 1696, Translation of the whole Bible by the Jansenist abbey of Port-Royal de Paris, translated between 1657 and 1696. Blaise Pascal and...

Duchy of Savoy and Catalonia. The fighting generally favoured France's armies, but by 1696 his country was in the grip of an economic crisis. The Maritime...

and the founding of the French Academy of Sciences. Louis XIV was born on 5 September 1638 in the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, to Louis XIII and...

1696 in Vichy was a French physician. In April 1672, he became the king's first doctor in the service of Louis XIV. He was Lord and Count de Jouy-en-Josas...

eighteenth-century France. Blanchard was born at Pernes in the County of Avignon in 1696. His father was a physician. He was a choirboy at the Cathedral of Aix-en-Provence...

January 1696 – 12 February 1771) was a French geographer. Jean de Beaurain was a French geographer — geographer of Louis XV — born on 7 January 1696 in Aix-en-Issart...

Cromwellian Foreign Policy (1974) p. 156. Roy A. Sundstrom, "French Huguenots and the Civil List, 1696–1727: A Study of Alien Assimilation in England." Albion...

Antoine Varillas (1624 – 9 June 1696) was a French historian, best known for his history of heresy. He was born in Guéret and made a troubled way as a...

Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (French pronunciation: [maʁi də ʁabytɛ̃ ʃɑ̃tal]; 5 February 1626 – 17 April 1696), also widely known as Madame de Sévigné...

created by Louis XIV in 1696 – by official posts, and by positions in the Royal House (the Great Officers of the Crown of France), such as grand maître...

line died out. Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans (26 December 1646 – 17 March 1696) married Louis Joseph of Lorraine, Duke of Guise and had issue-but line died...

September 1696 – 23 September 1780) was a French hostess and patron of the arts. Madame du Deffand was born at the Château de Chamrond, in Ligny-en-Brionnais...

(1684–1762), Marshal of France in 1741 Maurice, comte de Saxe (1696–1750), Marshal of France in 1741, Marshal General of France in 1747 Jean-Baptiste Andrault...

interim representative) 1692 Robert le Rroux d'Esneval (ambassador) 1693-1696 Melchior de Polignac 1697 Mr. de Forval initially designated as envoy fell...

Marie le Gendre Luçay (comte de), Des origines du pouvoir ministériel en France: les secrétaires d'état depuis leur institution jusqu'à la mort de Louis...

France: La France en Amérique (in French) Archives Canada-France: Nouvelle-France. Histoire d'une terre française en Amérique (in French) Site personnel...

Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and Baron de St Castin between August 14–15, 1696. Commander of Fort William Henry, Captain Pasco Chubb, surrendered the fort...

an opera by the French composer Pascal Collasse, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opéra) on 15 January 1696. It takes the form...

(1688–1697), leaving Mary to govern Britain alone. She died in 1694. In 1696 the Jacobites, a faction loyal to the deposed James, plotted unsuccessfully...

of God. Peter Gay identifies John Toland's Christianity Not Mysterious (1696), and the "vehement response" it provoked, as the beginning of post-Lockian...

Catalonia. The fighting generally favoured Louis XIV's armies, but by 1696, France was in the grip of an economic crisis. The maritime powers (England and...

administration of New France. One of the first settlements to be established in the region was that of Cahokia in 1696, with the foundation of a French mission. The...

Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 8 March 1696. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in five acts and a prologue. The libretto by Saint-Jean...

is a French translation of the Catholic Bible done by Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy. It was first published in installments between 1667 and 1696. Though...

Sally (2008). "Lola Cercas en Soldados de Salamina (David Trueba, 2003)" (PDF). HAOL (15): 165–170. ISSN 1696-2060. "Hormigas en la boca". elmundo.es. 1...

way to the penal settlements of New Caledonia and French Guiana. Prisoners included Alfred Dreyfus, en route to the penal colony of Devil's Island after...

Nicolas Catinat in 1691, Nice was restored to Savoy in 1696; but it was again besieged by the French in 1705, and in the following year its citadel and ramparts...

careful to limit the power of Chartres. In 1696, Philippe's granddaughter Marie-Adélaïde came to the French court from Italy for her marriage to Louis...