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- The Treaty of Utrecht that established the Peace of Utrecht, rather ... The treaties were concluded between the representatives of Louis XIV ...11 KB (1,634 words) - 15:00, 2 May 2023
- Augustin Louis Cauchy (August 21, 1789 – May 23,1857) was a French ... Cauchy was a devout Catholic, and, toward the end of his life, dedicated ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 19:07, 21 August 2023
- a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and one of the discoverers of radioactivity ... Becquerel's investigations were conducted during a period of ...11 KB (1,682 words) - 15:20, 25 January 2023
- Joan of Burgundy (June 24, 1293 – September 12, 1348), also known ... was the first wife and Queen of Louis X of France. Her brothers were ...12 KB (1,804 words) - 05:59, 5 April 2024
- – April 9, 1804) was a French statesman of Swiss origin and finance minister ... The biography of Necker is part of the history of the French Revolution ...12 KB (1,970 words) - 23:39, 4 July 2022
- and diplomat. He is considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature ... passions that would become a commonplace of Romanticism: "One inhabits ...16 KB (2,325 words) - 09:37, 11 April 2024
- the Fair (French: le Bel), son and successor of Philip III, reigned as King ... A member of the House of Capet, Philip was born at the Palace of Fontainebleau ...23 KB (3,671 words) - 22:38, 28 March 2023
- Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (November 18, 1787 – July 10, 1851 ... there is little doubt that the impetus he gave to the development ...9 KB (1,389 words) - 02:53, 4 November 2022
- known for the numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made ... in Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, near Paris, France. He was the son of Thomas ...15 KB (2,255 words) - 06:36, 20 July 2023
- period. The family produced three popes (Leo X, Clement VII, and Leo XI), ... From humble beginnings (the origin of the name is uncertain, it allegedly ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 04:04, 9 November 2022
- 1856 – April 14, 1925) was a renowned turn-of-the century portrait painter ... was well known for painting the aristocracy of Europe, the new and emerging ...21 KB (3,040 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- a pre-eminent Baroque sculptor and architect of seventeenth-century Rome. The ... conceits include the piazza and colonnades of Saint Peter's. He preferred ...23 KB (3,452 words) - 07:41, 24 January 2023
- enabled him to compute the distribution of electrical charges on the surface ... Poisson was born in Pithiviers, a village just outside of Paris. His ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 22:20, 29 January 2023
- 28, 1585 - May 6, 1638) was Catholic bishop of Ypres, Dutch Roman Catholic ... Duvergier de Hauranne, who had become the abbé of Saint-Cyran, won ...17 KB (2,653 words) - 03:32, 8 January 2024
- jazz and often in dubstep. In the form of a back beat, syncopation is ... ==Types of syncopation== ===Even-note syncopation=== In meters with ...8 KB (1,228 words) - 18:11, 24 October 2022
- and military engineer whose formulation of the laws on the theoretical ... Although Carnot operated outside the mainstream of the scientific ...15 KB (2,378 words) - 23:36, 14 November 2022
- , a composer, organist, and music teacher of Belgian origin, was one of ... in 1844, and remained there for the rest of his life. His decision to give ...9 KB (1,338 words) - 00:07, 4 December 2023
- Pope Leo X, born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici (December 11 ... The remark "It has served us well, this myth of Christ" ...28 KB (4,490 words) - 20:07, 25 October 2022
- Eleanor of Aquitaine, Duchess of Aquitaine and Gascony and Countess ... Her contemporaries included Hildegard of Bingen, Heloise, (Peter Abelard ...39 KB (6,271 words) - 00:13, 13 February 2024
- The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution ... that impress all visitors. The glory of aviation and space technology ...18 KB (2,632 words) - 01:35, 11 November 2022
