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- Paris is the capital city of France, situated on the River Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region ("Région ...70 KB (10,606 words) - 13:20, 11 March 2023
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- He was born in Paris; however, biographical details of his life are sketchy. Given that he is often referred to in documents as "Magister ...5 KB (748 words) - 03:56, 24 November 2022
- [[Image:AFP Paris dsc04592.jpg|thumb|200 px|Paris headquarters of AFP]] Agence France-Presse (AFP) is the oldest news agency in the world ...9 KB (1,305 words) - 06:44, 16 June 2023
- the architecture and street scenes of Paris, from a few years before ... by modernization and the rise of big Paris department stores. He was ...10 KB (1,475 words) - 04:42, 22 March 2024
- 27, 1793– June 27, 1848), archbishop of Paris from 1840, was born at Saint ... was set in the context of post-Revolution France, and the struggle between ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- the Jansenists while studying theology in Paris, and collaborated with Antoine ... Nicole himself was obliged to flee France for Belgium in 1679, returning ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 05:25, 24 November 2022
- |location= 7th arrondissement Paris France |roof=300.65 m (986 ft) ... the Champ de Mars beside the River Seine in Paris. It is the tallest structure ...10 KB (1,665 words) - 00:03, 13 February 2024
- Pierre Montet was born in Villefranche-sur-Saône in France. He studied ... just a month before the German invasion of France and the Low Countries in ...8 KB (1,137 words) - 05:24, 24 November 2022
- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl was born in Paris, France on April 10, 1857. He ... Lévy-Bruhl died in Paris, France, on March 13, 1939. ==Work== ...11 KB (1,515 words) - 02:25, 5 November 2022
- on April 13, 1598, by King Henry IV of France to grant the Calvinist Protestants ... cause following his coronation as King of France. He had converted to Catholicism ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 17:25, 6 October 2020
- Georges Braque was born in Argenteuil, France to Charles and Augustine ... He apprenticed in Paris under a decorator and was awarded his certificate ...6 KB (896 words) - 18:10, 26 August 2021
- Adam was born in Paris to Louis (1758-1848), born Johann Ludwig Adam ... By the age of 20, he was writing songs for Paris vaudeville houses ...7 KB (994 words) - 06:12, 15 June 2023
- He was at first regarded as the savior of France, but his conduct at the meeting ... a citizen. Jacques Necker was sent to Paris in 1747, to become a clerk ...12 KB (1,970 words) - 23:39, 4 July 2022
- after the German army was driven from Paris during World War II. It took ... 14, 2006. At the outset, de Gaulle's France was regarded as possessing ...10 KB (1,429 words) - 18:00, 25 October 2022
- his son at the Collège Louis-le-Grand in Paris. Entering the school, which ... Because of his lack of success at the law, he was living in Paris ...11 KB (1,788 words) - 18:30, 24 August 2023
- The son of a Paris print-seller, Auber was born in Caen in Normandy. ... for the violin, which was played at the Paris Conservatoire by Mazas, encouraged ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 18:14, 24 January 2024
- |place of death=Paris, France |place of burial=Saint Denis Basilica, Paris, France |}} ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- Pierre de Coubertin was born in Paris, France, on January 1, 1863 ... part of the general educational strategy for France. Coubertin was ...10 KB (1,541 words) - 05:26, 24 November 2022
- physician, Carl Botta, who immigrated to France in 1814. Botta at first wanted ... quot;Nineveh est retrouvé"—to Paris. The French government immediately ...8 KB (1,273 words) - 16:48, 21 November 2022
- In 1669, King Louis XIV of France, anxious to obtain Cassini's ... In 1673, he became a French citizen. While in France, Cassini also ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 20:28, 26 September 2023
- music of his time as it was practiced in and around Paris. ... on music and culture in medieval France.’’ Oxford: Clarendon ...3 KB (494 words) - 15:13, 1 August 2022
- began later). In 1609, he moved to Paris in order to study theology ... and the established centers of education (Paris, Oxford) were still resistant ...8 KB (1,231 words) - 15:57, 6 November 2022
- The Paris Opéra Ballet is the official ballet company of the Opéra ... dancers to drive the academy, the Paris Opéra Ballet successfully ...12 KB (1,813 words) - 08:50, 18 November 2022
- | deathplace = France Paris, France | othername = ... buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France. He was honored with ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 03:05, 6 November 2022
- William of Auvergne (c. 1190 – 1248), Bishop of Paris from 1228 ... order to the faculty of the University of Paris. == Life == ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 15:20, 14 May 2023
- so great a reputation that he was summoned to Paris in 1660 to produce an opera (Xerse). He visited Paris again in 1662, producing his Ercole amante ...5 KB (733 words) - 05:27, 24 November 2022
- most dominant artists and art theorists of France during the seventeenth century ... employed by several political figures in France. These included Chancellor ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 21:28, 4 December 2023
- Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin was born in Paris, France, on February ... which had engaged in the invasion of Paris. In consequence of this outbreak ...10 KB (1,464 words) - 10:59, 20 September 2023
- in Rheims and at the Collège de Navarre in Paris, where he quickly showed ... Inspector General of the Monnaie de Paris by Turgot. From this point ...12 KB (1,721 words) - 08:34, 10 March 2023
- of the sciences at the Sorbonne in Paris. Bachelard's studies ... * 1934: Le nouvel esprit scientifique Paris: Presses Universitaires ...12 KB (1,710 words) - 07:54, 23 January 2023
- | birth_place = Paris, France | death_date = 1834|10|31|1771|6|24|mf=y ... Irenee was born in 1771 in Paris to Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours ...10 KB (1,478 words) - 21:44, 29 December 2021
- in the small village of Coupvray, near Paris, France into the family of Simon ... (Royal Institution for Blind Youth) in Paris, one of the first of its ...8 KB (1,163 words) - 02:52, 4 November 2022
- with mentally handicapped children in France and the United States. He ... Edouard Seguin was born on January 20, 1812, in Clamecy, France, into ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 01:33, 16 January 2023
- The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) is the National Library of France, located in Paris. It is intended to be the repository of all that ...17 KB (2,614 words) - 03:45, 1 October 2023
- and a loyal statesman of his native France. As did Marquis de Lafayette ... although in the United States and in France women were not given rights ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 02:50, 4 November 2022
- 1777, before even leaving Martinique for France. In service to their aunt ... Bonaparte in 1802. In her early days in Paris her provincial lack of sophistication ...12 KB (1,802 words) - 19:55, 7 September 2022
- in producing the UDHR, Cassin worked in France on behalf of disabled war ... BoCassin was born in Bayonne, in the south of France, into a family ...11 KB (1,759 words) - 04:06, 8 December 2022
- | birthplace = Paris, France | deathdate = 1924|10|12|1844|4|16|mf=y ... In the midst of the revolutionary turmoil that engulfs Paris, France ...18 KB (2,551 words) - 20:05, 29 June 2023
- a seaside town off of the coast of Normandy, France. Encouraged by ... was the largest, haute couture house in Paris. Although Dior was experiencing ...8 KB (1,233 words) - 17:58, 10 December 2023
- departement of Meuse) France. He first trained as a military ... trials variously described as being between Paris and Vincennes and at Meudon ...6 KB (974 words) - 23:34, 14 November 2022
- | birth_place = Paris, France | death_date = April 19, 1906, age 46 ... Born in Paris, France, the son of Sophie-Claire Depouilly, daughter ...14 KB (2,057 words) - 05:21, 24 November 2022
- Born in Paris to a father of aristocratic lineage (from a grandaughter ... enabled Sand to circulate more freely about Paris, and gave her increased access ...8 KB (1,162 words) - 16:34, 15 August 2021
- |place=Marne River near Paris, France |result=Strategically decisive ... |place=Marne River near Paris, France |casus= |territory= ...14 KB (2,224 words) - 22:10, 16 January 2022
- able to further his studies at Reims and Paris. Lombard arrived in Paris ... by blood or marriage, scions of the Ile-de-France or eastern Loire Valley nobility ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 01:35, 24 November 2022
- promoted to the rank of captain. He visited Paris in 1788 where he made the ... Chateaubriand returned to France in 1792, subsequently joining the ...16 KB (2,325 words) - 09:37, 11 April 2024
- Their armies were pressing on the border of France. with foreign powers who wished to invade France and restore the absolute monarchy. ...11 KB (1,738 words) - 09:38, 29 July 2022
- reforms in the Cluniac monastery system of France and Italy and demonstrated ... Pious, duke of Aquitaine, then studied at Paris under Remigius of Auxerre ...3 KB (519 words) - 23:53, 17 November 2022
- church organists and choir directors in Paris, and continued there for ... part in the action to raise the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian ...10 KB (1,591 words) - 07:36, 15 April 2024
- and thus obliged to send his findings to France for display in the Louvre ... François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette was born at Boulogne-sur-Mer ...11 KB (1,685 words) - 19:00, 21 August 2023
- as the founder of the field of folklore in France. He remains famous for his ... moved with his mother to live in Lyons, France. He initially enrolled in ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 03:57, 15 August 2023
- | deathplace = Paris, France | occupation = Author | genre = Fantasy ... literary genre, the fairy tale. In 1697 in Paris, Perrault published several ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 22:25, 4 December 2023
- Coulomb was born in Angoulême, France. He was the son of Henry Coulomb ... While still quite young, Coulomb's family moved to Paris, where ...9 KB (1,400 words) - 01:48, 4 December 2023
- The Kellogg-Briand Pact, also known as the Pact of Paris after the ... In its original form, the Pact of Paris was a renunciation of war ...7 KB (1,036 words) - 17:20, 5 October 2022
- créations en France et dans le monde (Paris, France: Armand Colin, 2018, ... créations en France et dans le monde. Paris, France: Armand Colin, 2018. ...15 KB (2,316 words) - 23:59, 3 December 2023
- l'Institut, professeur au Collège de France CIPB0463.jpg|thumb|right ... Tarde died in Paris, France in 1904. ==Work== Gabriel Tarde believed ...11 KB (1,665 words) - 07:37, 15 April 2024
- who spent most of his working life in France. Although his music is not ... daring. Later the same year he settled in Paris. His first major success ...6 KB (953 words) - 02:42, 5 November 2022
- to Saint Stephen, located in Bourges, France. It is the seat of the Archbishop ... It is based on the Notre-Dame in Paris but with significant differences ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 19:58, 20 November 2023
- Ampère was born near Lyon, France, the son of Jeanne-Antoinette Desutieres ... anaysis in the polytechnic school at Paris, rising to professor of mathematics ...10 KB (1,522 words) - 17:59, 27 July 2023
- Rue Laffitte, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, but his family moved in ... When Monet traveled to Paris to visit The Louvre, he witnessed painters ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 10:58, 19 December 2023
- born on May 7, 1841, in Nogent-le-Rotrou, France as the son of a civil servant ... He first practiced medicine in Paris, but decided to tour Europe, ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 12:46, 24 January 2023
- the German surrender, as negotiated at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 ... :France had lost the Alsace-Lorraine region to Germany following the ...13 KB (1,920 words) - 06:38, 1 April 2024
- Louis Havas and later known as Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Bernhard ... of 1848 failed, he fled Germany for Paris. There, he tried to establish ...11 KB (1,609 words) - 01:30, 23 November 2022
- of 12, when he left for boarding school in Paris. He later returned to St ... with his parents' blessing, left for Paris to further his artistic studies ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 18:56, 25 November 2023
- of the great figures in classical music in France (and the world) during the ... Liège before going to the Conservatoire de Paris, in 1837. Upon leaving in ...9 KB (1,338 words) - 00:07, 4 December 2023
- [[Image:Universite Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne.jpg|thumb|300 px|Main ... [[Image:Institut de Géographie - Paris, France.JPG|thumb|250 px|right ...30 KB (4,606 words) - 02:11, 18 April 2023
- A.J. Ayer. The Citroen family moved to Paris from Amsterdam in 1873. Upon ... He died in Paris, France, of stomach cancer in 1935, and was interred ...12 KB (1,874 words) - 20:01, 26 July 2023
- 3, 1368 – October 21, 1422) was King of France (1380–1422) and a member ... Charles was born in Paris, France, the son of King Charles V and Jeanne ...11 KB (1,689 words) - 00:35, 5 December 2023
- residents of the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, were the movement's ... camouflaged military equipment on parade in Paris at the beginning World War ...7 KB (1,061 words) - 15:09, 3 July 2023
- a French-speaking Swiss author living in Paris and abroad. Although not ... Born Anne Louise Germaine Necker in Paris, France, she was the daughter ...18 KB (2,968 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- London, New York City, Los Angeles, Paris, Milan, and Hong Kong. ... China and in 2001, the firm held its first Paris auction after the French ...9 KB (1,246 words) - 21:11, 10 December 2023
- in Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, near Paris, France. He was the son of Thomas ... during the glory years of Napoleon I of France spawned Alexandre's ...15 KB (2,255 words) - 06:36, 20 July 2023
- He is best known for his paintings of urban Paris. These paintings were quite ... on one of the most famous streets in Paris, the rue du Faubourg-Saint ...14 KB (2,036 words) - 01:24, 27 July 2023
- events at the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris. Even though Eric Liddell ... Bachelor of Sciences degree after the 1924 Paris Olympiad. ...8 KB (1,362 words) - 19:25, 13 February 2024
- |death_place=Paris, France |education= |label_name=Chanel ... the small town of Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France. Her parents married in 1883 ...11 KB (1,773 words) - 22:18, 7 January 2024
- with the United States Information Agency to Paris, France. ... training or experience. While living in Paris, she attended the famous ...12 KB (1,841 words) - 21:08, 4 October 2022
- Daguerre was born in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, France. At the age of ... procédés du daguerréotype et du diorama (Paris, 1839), his memoir, and Nouveau ...9 KB (1,389 words) - 02:53, 4 November 2022
- | deathplace = Paris, France | occupation = Poet, Writer, Art critic ... among other languages, he emigrated to France and adopted the name Guillaume ...11 KB (1,569 words) - 23:21, 11 July 2023
- Marie de France ("Mary of France") was a poet. Born in France ... she may have been a member of the court in France herself. It is not known ...12 KB (1,973 words) - 04:15, 6 November 2022
- | birth_place = Paris, France | death_date = August 25, 1908 ... Henri Becquerel was born in Paris, France, to a family which, including ...11 KB (1,682 words) - 15:20, 25 January 2023
- He spent much of his youth in Italy and Paris, and for a time followed ... * Traité de l’harmonie réduite à ses principes naturels (Paris 1722) ...9 KB (1,322 words) - 17:12, 2 April 2024
- editions from Zürich and the final two from Paris. When World War ... a large Dada retrospective was held in Paris, France. In 2006, the Museum ...18 KB (2,739 words) - 07:39, 12 January 2024
- the capitals of Europe, including London, Paris, and Berlin. masters on her own, so in 1866, she moved to Paris. Returning to the ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 16:00, 7 November 2022
- a talented musician and was pre-eminent in France in the early eighteenth century ... Born in Paris on November 10, 1668, Couperin was taught by his father ...10 KB (1,509 words) - 04:57, 9 April 2024
- States and 6 Associate Members. Based in Paris, UNESCO has over 50 field ... staff. Two thirds of the staff are based in Paris. The remaining third are ...15 KB (2,159 words) - 01:23, 3 May 2023
- Pierre Marie Félix Janet was born in 1859 in Paris, France. As a ... the largest mental institution in Paris. He completed his medical ...12 KB (1,594 words) - 05:23, 24 November 2022
- as a far-right political journalist in Paris. He was a leading far-right ... During the occupation of Paris, Blanchot worked in Paris. Contrary ...13 KB (1,828 words) - 16:58, 7 November 2022
- | death_place = Paris, France | residence = [[Image:Flag of France ... the profession of an engineer, he left Paris for a position at Cherbourg ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 19:07, 21 August 2023
- Étienne-Louis Boullée was born February 12, 1728, in Paris. He originally ... Alexandre and Hôtel de Brunoy, both in Paris. Together with Claude Nicolas ...10 KB (1,548 words) - 06:24, 13 June 2023
- that would spring up in Northern France towards the end of the fifteenth ... sole term used. Villon was born in 1431 in Paris. Much of his biography is ...11 KB (1,757 words) - 04:59, 9 April 2024
- animals and the third largest garden in France, containing many rare and ... 1, 1580, in the Castle of Belgentier, Var, France, where his father, a wealthy ...16 KB (2,441 words) - 23:35, 14 November 2022
- 1907 on, she made her primary residence in France, residing first at 58 Rue ... she was among the few foreigners in France who had any access to their ...9 KB (1,315 words) - 18:12, 12 February 2024
- |Died = 5 October 1880FRA Paris, France |Genre ... Offenbach is buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris, France. ...11 KB (1,730 words) - 08:34, 18 March 2024
- artist, he left St. Petersburg to settle in Paris in order to be near the art ... wife moved to Moscow in 1920 and back to Paris in 1923. During this period ...14 KB (2,115 words) - 03:04, 6 November 2022
- guards while on tour with the Kirov in Paris and requested asylum. Using ... Nureyev died in Paris, France, a few months later, aged 54. His grave ...14 KB (2,125 words) - 17:40, 22 December 2022
- Berlitz school in Chicago, and then traveled to Paris on November 20, 1920. She could not gain admission to American flight schools because she was black ...9 KB (1,369 words) - 17:27, 29 September 2023
- When he was eleven his family moved to Paris so that he could study at ... he was professor of composition at the Paris Conservatory where his pupils ...6 KB (931 words) - 21:06, 4 October 2022
- | location = Paris, France | deathdate = 1842|3|30|1755|4|16|mf=y | deathplace = Paris, France | nationality = France ...17 KB (2,635 words) - 06:24, 13 June 2023
- figure in the political liberalization of France. Zola risked his career and ... Born in Paris, the son of an Italian engineer, Émile Zola spent his ...16 KB (2,483 words) - 18:12, 13 February 2024
- Antoine Arnauld was born in Paris on February 8, 1612. His family ... Augustinus was published posthumously in Paris. The work became an immediate ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 06:41, 31 July 2023
- Pyrénées département in southwestern France. His father, Pierre Gautier ... the prestigious Collège Louis-le-Grand in Paris (alumni include Charles Baudelaire ...18 KB (2,759 words) - 18:21, 30 April 2023
- Man Ray (August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described ...13 KB (2,027 words) - 06:42, 5 November 2022
