Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ʒyst]; 25 August 1767 – 10 Thermidor, Year II [28 July 1794]), sometimes nicknamed the Archangel...
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Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (18 January 1689 – 10 February 1755), generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a...
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Jacques Pierre Brissot (French pronunciation: [ʒak pjɛʁ bʁiso], 15 January 1754 – 31 October 1793), also known as Brissot de Warville was a French journalist...
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Jacques Tati (French: [tati]; born Jacques Tatischeff, pronounced [tatiʃɛf]; 9 October 1907 – 5 November 1982) was a French mime, filmmaker, actor and...
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organized by the foremost artistic director of the Revolution, Jacques-Louis David, in August 1793 to mark the inauguration of the new republican constitution...
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Introduction to Jacques Derrida, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, p. 55. Jacques Derrida and Geoffrey Bennington, Jacques Derrida, Chicago:...
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study in Rome at the Académie de France for four years, at government expense. Under the direction of Jacques-Louis David, he was exposed to the Italian...
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and life of Jacque Brel, founded in 1981. In 1982, the Jacques Brel station on line 5 of the Brussels metro was inaugurated. The Jacques Brel Parc (fr)...
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Jacques Necker (IPA: [ʒak nɛkɛʁ]; 30 September 1732 – 9 April 1804) was a Genevan banker and statesman who served as finance minister for Louis XVI. He...
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2015 Jean-Jacques de Dardel: L’hôtel de Besenval – siège de l'ambassade de Suisse en France, Labor et Fides, Genève, 2013 Jean-Jacques de Dardel: 1663:...
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Leonidas at Thermopylae (category Paintings by Jacques-Louis David)
oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Jacques-Louis David. The work currently hangs in the Louvre in Paris, France. David completed the massive work (3.95 m...
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Georges Danton (redirect from Georges Jacques Danton)
Georges Jacques Danton (French: [ʒɔʁʒ dɑ̃tɔ̃]; 26 October 1759 – 5 April 1794) was a leading figure in the French Revolution. A modest and unknown lawyer...
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about Louis Pasteur in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW Pasteur Œuvre tome 1 – Dissymétrie moléculaire (in French). 1922–1939. Pasteur Œuvre tome...
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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (French: [ʒɔʁʒ lwi ləklɛʁ kɔ̃t də byfɔ̃]; 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician...
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Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (Jacques Champion, commonly referred to as Chambonnières) (c. 1601/2 – 1672) was a French harpsichordist, dancer and...
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Restoration, during the reign of Louis XVIII, but reopened in April 1816 as the École Royale de Musique, with François-Louis Perne as its director. In 1819...
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and Saint-Just in the Committee of Public Safety, and the painter Jacques-Louis David and Joseph Le Bas in the Committee of General Security, with whom...
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designed by Jacques-Édouard Gatteaux, in the Great Men of France series. More recently there has been a sideways seated view of him in the Histoire de France...
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Marie Antoinette (redirect from Marie-Antoinette de Habsbourg-Lorraine)
opposition to social and financial reforms proposed by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot and Jacques Necker. Several events were linked to Marie Antoinette during...
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Moderne de la Ville, Louis le Brocquy, A la Recherche de W.B. Yeats. Cent Portraits Imaginaires, 15 October – 28 November 1976. Texts by Jacques Lassaigne;...
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it that when he appeared in Jacques-Louis David's studio, one of his future classmates, judging Karpff unpronounceable David gave him the nickname of "Casimir"...
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Émile Nelligan (category Petit Séminaire de Montréal alumni)
in collaboration with Jacques Michon) 2020 – Émile Nelligan et son œuvre, Québec, Codicille éditeur (« Bibliothèque mobile de littérature québécoise »)...
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family in Normandy. He was a pupil of the Jesuits at the College de Clermont (now Lycée Louis-le-Grand), Paris; then a student at Caen. For a time he studied...
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Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (French: [al.fʁɛd də my.sɛ]; 11 December 1810 – 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Along with...
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not present at the event of June 1789, Roederer was sketched by Jacques-Louis David into his drawing of the Tennis Court Oath. In the National Constituent...
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du Tillet writes that Louis, his two younger brothers Charles and François, and some of their friends visited Jacques Champion de Chambonnières on the...
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Duchâtel 1552–1567: Pierre de Montdoré [fr] 1567–1593: Jacques Amyot 1593–1617: Jacques-Auguste de Thou 1617–1642: François Auguste de Thou 1642–1656: Jérôme...
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Gouze, or she may have been the illegitimate daughter of Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan. Marie Gouze encouraged rumours that Pompignan was...
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heard Jacques Necker, Louis XVI's minister of finance, saying, "The slave trade is a barbarous practice and must be eliminated." Choderlos de Laclos...
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The Count of Monte Cristo (redirect from Le Comte de Monte Cristo)
Peuchet, Jacques (1838). "Chapter LXXIV, Section: 'Le Diamant et la Vengeance' (Anecdote contemporaine)". Mémoires tirés des archives de la police de Paris...
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