• Claude-Jean-François Despréaux was a French musician and revolutionary, born in the 1740s and died in Paris on 11 August 1794. The son of Jean-François...
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  • Despréaux (pronounced [depʁeo]) is a French surname. People with that name include: Claude-Jean-François Despréaux (1740s–1794), French violinist and revolutionary...
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    de Ronsard and La Pléiade, but the lines of praise by Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux beginning Enfin Malherbe vint ("Finally Malherbe arrived") are rendered...
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    Jean-Étienne Despréaux (31 August 1748 – 26 March 1820) was a French ballet dancer, choreographer, composer, singer and playwright. The son of an oboist...
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    Auguste Barbereau 1825 – Albert Guillon 1826 – Claude Paris 1827 – Jean-Baptiste Guiraud 1828 – Guillaume Despréaux 1829 – First Prize not awarded 1830 – Hector...
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  • centuries) Christian Bobin (1951–2022) Jean Bodel (1165–1210) Étienne de La Boétie (1530–1563) Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711) Bonaventure Des Périers...
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    two distinct currents: The Ancients (Anciens), led by Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, say that literary creation has its roots in the fair appreciation of...
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  • heuristic approach. Jean de La Ceppède was born circa 1550 in Marseille. His father was Jean-Baptiste de La Ceppède and his mother, Claude de Bompar. According...
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    Joan of Arc, Perrault became a target of mockery from Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux.[citation needed] Charles Perrault died in Paris on 16 May 1703, at the...
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  • "Moderns". Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux was pushed into the role of champion of the "Anciens", and Jean Racine, Jean de La Fontaine and Jean de La Bruyère (who is...
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  • Nazi official and SS officer executed for war crimes Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711), poet and critic Habib Bourguiba (c. 1903–2000), first President...
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    300,000 francs. Soon after her retirement in 1789, she married Jean-Étienne Despréaux (1748–1820), a dancer, songwriter and playwright. In 2009 the bed...
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  • Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711) Jean Racine (1639–1699) Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu (1639–1720) Jean-François Regnard...
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    Joseph Bertrand - (1822–1900), mathematician, Academician Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux - (1636–1711), writer, Academician Cahit Arf - (1910-1997), mathematician...
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  • 1635–1643, politician and magistrate Claude Bazin de Bezons, 1643–1684, lawyer Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, 1684–1711, poet Jean d'Estrées, 1711–1718, ecclesiastic...
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    Bernard Seurre; Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, by Charles Émile Seurre; François Fénelon, by Jean-Marie Bonnassieux; François de La Rochefoucauld, by Noël-Jules...
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  • Barbosa du Bocage Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon Jean Bodin Wilhelm Boerner ([29]) Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux Nicolas Boindin ([30] see fr:Nicolas Boindin)...
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     4. Paris: Claude Hérissant. Pinard (1763). Chronologie historique-militaire (in French). Vol. 6. Paris: Claude Hérissant. Rey, François (2013). "Éphémérides...
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  • Charron (1541–1603)[1][2][4] José Chasin (1937–1998) François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848)[2] François Châtelet (1925–1985) Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya (1918–1993)...
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    Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711) Jean Racine (1639–1699) Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu (1639–1720) Jean-François Regnard...
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    Brezol René Gainville Rien ne va plus Béatrice Jean-Michel Ribes 1980 Je vais craquer!!! Irina François Leterrier La sourde oreille Antoinette Michel Polac...
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  • soldier (born 1648) 26 February – Claude Frassen, theologian and philosopher (born 1620) 13 March – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, poet and critic (born 1636)...
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    Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried (1676–1711) (b. 1649) March 13 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (b. 1636) March 15 – Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic...
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    Turque - Roman Parisian, 1912 Jean Giraudoux, Amica America, 1918 François Chateaubriand, La Campagne Romaine, 1919 Jean Giraudoux, Adieu à la Guerre,...
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    Dunkirk, Rouen and Paris, Germany and Russia), a sugar refinery (Mr. Despréaux) whose 50 tonnes were sold in the English Channel, a lace factory run...
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  • December - Jean Baptiste Treilhard, politician (born 1742) 8 December - Ange-François Fariau, poet and translator (born 1747) Charles-Claude Flahaut de...
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  • Plunkett, Irish archbishop and saint (d. 1681) 1636 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (d. 1711) 1643 – John Strype, English priest,...
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    Gaspard Auguste Brullé (1809–1873) and Sextius Delaunay Botanist: Jean-Marie Despréaux (1794–1843) Geologist: Pierre Théodore Virlet D'Aoust (1800–1894)...
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  • Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried (1676–1711) (b. 1649) March 13 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (b. 1636) March 15 – Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic...
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    Maria Boiardo (1440/1441–1494), Italian Renaissance poet Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711), French poet and critic Michelle Boisseau (1955–2017), US...
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