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    Jean-Baptiste Lully (28 November [O.S. 18 November] 1632 – 22 March 1687) was a French composer, dancer and instrumentalist of Italian birth, who is considered...
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    portrait painting in France. Portrait painters such as Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Jean-Baptiste Greuze were influenced by his work. Grimou was born in...
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    Saint Jean Baptiste in G major 77: Motet de Saint Roch in G major 78: Motet pour le bienheureux Vincent de Paul in C major 79: Motet pour les Saints Anges...
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    by Pompadour, among them the court artist Jean-Marc Nattier, in the 1750s François Boucher, Jean-Baptiste Réveillon and François-Hubert Drouais. She...
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    is also named in the ancient inventories as ‘’Bacchus and Ariane’’, ‘’Bacchus and Erigone’’ or ‘’Bacchus, Flora and Ceres’’. Sent to the Central Museum...
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    genius of Bacchus Victor drinking from a cup Bacchante The Dauphin Fourcroy Madame d'Epremesnil Mirabeau Dancarville Mme. Regnault de Saint-Jean d'Angely...
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    1635 Ballet égyptien, Alexandre Luigini, 1875 Ballet Royal de la Nuit, Jean-Baptiste Lully, 1653 Ballo della Regina, to music by Giuseppe Verdi, 1978 Il...
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    perform Charpentier's chamber operas in defiance of the monopoly held by Jean Baptiste Lully. Most of the operas and pastorales in French, which date from...
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    de glaces de miroirs, a glass factory founded by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the later Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, with which the Venetian monopoly on the manufacture...
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    French). Paris: A. Picard et fils. Rangeard, Pierre (1872). ed. Albert Jean Baptiste Lemarchand. Histoire de l'université d'Angers, (in French and Latin)...
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    of England. McGrath Pub. Co. p. 316. ISBN 978-0-8434-0107-3 Laurent Jean Baptiste Bérenger-Féraud (1896). Superstitions et survivances: étudiées au point...
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    time; and the four-act pantomime-ballet Mars et Vénus, ou Les filets de Vulcain with music by Jean Schneitzhöffer. However, the evening's takings of between...
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    Canal built later, and finally the Gironde estuary after Bordeaux. Jean-Baptiste Colbert authorized the start of work by royal edict in October, 1666...
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    the Quai des Fleurs, while Jaillot (Jean-Baptiste-Michel Renou de Chevigné dit Jaillot) places it near the Saint-Merri arch, versus sanctus Medericum...
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    to Watteau. Fishing Jean-Baptiste Pater, circa 1720 The Jean-Baptiste Pater Bath, circa 1720 The Country Concert by Jean-Baptiste Pater, circa 1720 The...
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    and Tragedy. New York: Dodd Mead, 1979. ISBN 0-396-07775-7. Savigny, Jean Baptiste Henri; Corréard, Alexandre. Undertaken by Order of the French Government...
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    the cupola of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. They had two children, Jean-Baptiste (born 1923) and Pauline (born 1925). Elisabeth also features in several...
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    Samson (opera) (category Operas by Jean-Philippe Rameau)
    traditional French operatic repertoire, especially the works of its founder Jean-Baptiste Lully. Disputes would rage for years between Rameau's supporters, the...
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  • Thomas Corneille (1625–1709) for Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Médée for Jean-Baptiste Lully: Bellérophon (with Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle) Hector-Jonathan...
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    third and last self-portrait. He gave the work to his former student Jean-Baptiste Isabey. It entered the collections of the Louvre in 1852 (inv. 3705)...
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  • organist. He was born in Paris on 12 December 1703. He was the son of Jean-Baptiste Drouard de Bousset (d. 1725), minor nobility and maître de musique of...
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    year, Perrin was imprisoned for debt and the royal privilege passed to Jean-Baptiste Lully, a composer of Florentine origin (his real name was Giovanni Battista...
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  • Dictionary of Foreign Expressions. Bolchazy-Carducci. p. 55. ISBN 0865164231. Saint Augustine. "Liber Quartusdecimus". Opera Omnia of St. Augustine. Rome: Città...
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  • baroque) according to Théodore Lajarte, Colasse and the late (that is, Jean-Baptiste) Lully were cited as the composers (Pitou, 1983, article: "Les Saisons"...
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  • pp. 78, 261n, 497) Jean de Joinville. Jean de Joinville (1224–1317) was a French chronicler who wrote the influential Life of Saint Louis, a biography...
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    Taylor. Retrieved 2014-10-30. De Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste; De Candolle, Augustin Pyramus (1815a). Flore française ou descriptions succinctes de toutes les plantes...
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  • Lächelns), The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe), Paganini, Der Zarewitsch Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (1751–1796) Électre, Nephté, Phèdre Nicholas Lens (1957– ):...
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