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    "Les Six" (pronounced [le sis]) is a name given to a group of six composers, five of them French and one Swiss, who lived and worked in Montparnasse. The...
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    Six-Fours-les-Plages (French pronunciation: [si fuʁ le plaʒ]; Occitan: Sièis Forns lei Plaias, Sièis Four in provençal) is a commune in the Var department...
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    based on the Theatrum. Bodin's best-known work was "The Six Books of the Republic" (Les Six livres de la République), written in 1576. The discussion...
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  • his catchphrase "Whoa!" Blossom's best friend Six LeMeure also plays a significant part in her life. Six, an especially fast talker, is known for her tendency...
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  • Les Double Six (also known as the Double Six of Paris) was a French vocal jazz group established in 1959 by Mimi Perrin. The group established an international...
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    often been underlined, both in handwriting and on printed labels. Les Six ("The Six" in English) was a group consisting of the French composers Georges...
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    viewed by the new generation of composers typified by Satie's protégés Les Six as an establishment figure. Satie had turned against him, and commented...
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    Germaine Tailleferre (category Les Six)
    painter friends where the initial idea for Les Six began. The publication of Jean Cocteau's manifesto Le coq et l'Arlequin resulted in Henri Collet's...
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    Jean Cocteau (category Les Six)
    (1934), Les Parents terribles (1938), La Machine à écrire (1941), and L'Aigle à deux têtes (1946); and the films The Blood of a Poet (1930), Les Parents...
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    patron Louis XIV, known as the Sun King, published Les Six Voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (Six Voyages, 1676). Tavernier is best known for his 1666...
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  • The Six Wives of Henry Lefay, also known as My Dad's Six Wives, is a 2009 American comedy film starring Elisha Cuthbert and Tim Allen. A grieving daughter...
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    les six couleurs ainsi combinées reproduisent celles de toutes les nations sans exception. Le bleu et jaune de Suède, le bleu et blanc de Grèce, les tricolores...
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    Francis Poulenc (category Les Six)
    tutelage he became one of a group of young composers known collectively as Les Six. In his early works Poulenc became known for his high spirits and irreverence...
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  • Henry Nocq and architect Charles Plumet, it later changed its name to Les Six when Nocq left the group in 1897, replaced by painter Étienne Moreau-Nélaton...
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  • Look up Six or six in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Six may refer to: Les Six, a group of six French composers working in Montparnasse in the early...
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    1958) was a French pianist. She worked with a group of composers known as Les Six, of whom she was the favored pianist. Two-Part Invention No. 1, BWV 772...
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    Camille Saint-Saëns (category Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class))
    neoclassical elements in his music, foreshadowing works by Stravinsky and Les Six, he was often regarded as a reactionary in the decades around the time...
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    Louis Durey (category Les Six)
    collaborative work Les mariés de la tour Eiffel, a decision which was a source of great irritation to Jean Cocteau. After the Les Six period, Durey continued...
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    Périer) - Tony Varlet / Bobosse / Les six jurés / Le président du Tribunal / L'avocat général / L'avocat / Le garde 1959: Les Affreux (directed by Marc Allégret)...
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  • Six Sigma (6σ) is a set of techniques and tools for process improvement. It was introduced by American engineer Bill Smith while working at Motorola in...
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    Darius Milhaud (category Les Six)
    French composer, conductor, and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century...
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    related to L'enfant et les sortilèges. L'enfant et les sortilèges: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project L'Enfant et les sortilèges at Maurice...
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    publiés sous le patronage de M. le duc de Luynes par Louis Dussieux et Eudore Soulié, Paris, Firmin Didot, 1860-1865, 17 vol. Jules Soury: Les six Filles de...
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    Georges Auric (category Les Six)
    French composer, born in Lodève, Hérault, France. He was considered one of Les Six, a group of artists informally associated with Jean Cocteau and Erik Satie...
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    Tailleferre (1892–1983) was the only woman in the group of composers known as Les Six. Saint-Maur-des-Fossés is almost entirely surrounded by a loop of the river...
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    holding songs and song cycles. Les mariés de la tour Eiffel, ballet (1921; a collaborative work by all the members of Les Six except Louis Durey); Poulenc's...
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  • Mayol and Georgius, sang and performed to packed houses. And here too, Les Six was formed, creating music based on the ideas of Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau...
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    Nanterre, EHESS (in French). Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE "Les six villes jumelées". nanterre.fr (in French). Nanterre. Retrieved 16 November...
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    Arthur Honegger (category Les Six)
    member of Les Six, his best known work is probably Pacific 231. Born Oscar-Arthur Honegger (the first name was never used) to Swiss parents in Le Havre,...
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  • "The six operations for sheaves on Artin stacks I: Finite coefficients". arXiv:math/0512097. Ayoub, Joseph. Les six opérations de Grothendieck et le formalisme...
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