Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (7 November 1838 – 19 August 1889) was a French symbolist writer. His family called...
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L'Isle-Adam may refer to: Places L'Isle-Adam, Val-d'Oise, a commune in France Château de L'Isle-Adam People Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (1464-1534)...
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Fra' Philippe de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (1464 – 21 August 1534) was a prominent member of the Knights Hospitaller at Rhodes and later Malta. Having risen...
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The canton of L'Isle-Adam is an administrative division of the Val-d'Oise department, Île-de-France region, northern France. Its borders were modified...
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L'Isle-Adam (French pronunciation: [lil adɑ̃] ) is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France. The small town beside the...
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The Château de L'Isle-Adam, now destroyed, could be found in the town of L'Isle-Adam in the department of Val-d'Oise; it was built on an island called...
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Jean de Villiers, Seigneur of L'Isle-Adam (c. 1384 – 22 May 1437) was a French nobleman and military commander who fought in the Hundred Years' War. As...
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San Pawl Banda Konti Ruġġieru) St. Joseph, L'Isle Adam Band Club A.D. 1860 (L-Għaqda Mużikali L'Isle Adam A.D. 1860) http://www.bandalisleadam.com/ Festa...
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slaves charged with the hardest labour. In 1521, Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam was elected grand master of the order. Expecting a new Ottoman attack...
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Against this force the Knights, under Grand Master Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, had about 7,000 men-at-arms and their fortifications. The siege lasted...
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failed to enter Paris, defended by the governor Jean de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam and the provost Simon Morhier, with the support of much of the city's...
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The Masque of the Red Death (1964 film) (category Adaptations of works by Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam)
Another subplot is drawn from Torture by Hope by Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. It is the seventh of a series of eight Corman film adaptations largely...
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Villiers de l'Isle Adam From His Eternal Sleep is a 1906 maquette by Frédéric Brou for a tomb monument to the writer Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam. The...
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l'Isle Adam Taking Possession of Mdina is a painting by the French artist Antoine de Favray from c. 1750. It depicts Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam...
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Josephine". www.pbs.org. Retrieved 2022-04-08. Hommes Célèbres - Ville de L'Isle-Adam Archived 2011-04-06 at the Wayback Machine "Jannis Niewöhner". Independent...
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The Future Eve (category Works by Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam)
symbolist science fiction novel by the French author Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. Begun in 1878 and originally published in 1886, the novel is known for...
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Against this force the Knights, under Grand Master Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, had about 7,000 men-at-arms and their fortifications. The siege lasted...
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medieval French noble. He resided in the Castle of L'Isle-Adam until he died in 1399. He was lord of L'Isle-Adam until the death of his father, and he later...
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Literature", such as Huysmans, Maeterlinck, Verlaine and Villers de L'Isle-Adam. The 1893 essay also mentioned the English writers Pater and Henley....
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He had a decisive influence on writers such as Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Henry James, Léon Bloy, and Marcel Proust. Jules-Amédée Barbey — the...
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island, and possibly up 200,000. Under Grand Master Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, the knights, though well-fortified, only had about 7,000 men-at-arms...
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The cruelty of Champavert's stories foreshadows Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam. What's more, Borel wrote a truly fantastique tale, Gottfried Wolfgang...
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fictional gynoids The Future Eve – 1886 novel by Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam Cyborg – Being with both organic and biomechatronic body parts Gender...
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Axël (category Works by Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam)
Axël is a drama by French writer Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, published in 1890. It was influenced by his participation in the Paris Commune, the...
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on, for want of legitimate descendants. Princess of Conti Château de L'Isle-Adam Hôtel de Conti (quai Malaquais) (1660–1670) Hôtel de Conti (quai Conti)...
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"short-story genre that takes its name from an 1883 collection by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam", although previous examples had been provided by such writers as Edgar...
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L'Isle-Adam – Parmain is a railway station in the commune of Parmain (Val-d'Oise department), France. The station is served by two Transilien H lines:...
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John III of Portugal, Francis I of France, and Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam. After returning to his home of Venice, Pigafetta published his diary...
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on this story and the short story "A Torture by Hope" by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. It is a fairly faithful adaptation of both stories, featuring a unique...
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d'Aubusson, Emery d'Amboise, Fabrizio del Carretto and Philippe Villiers de l’Isle Adam ordered the fortifications to be rebuilt to withstand the cannons. For...
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