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- 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
- |Origin = Paris, France |Died = November 6, 1965 ... Varèse was born on December 22, 1883, in Paris, but after only a few weeks ...13 KB (2,028 words) - 01:30, 16 January 2023
- on the rise. He decided to move to Paris, France, planning to study science ... Today it is one year since I came to Paris--an important anniversary ...11 KB (1,618 words) - 08:09, 28 January 2024
- Degas was born on July 19, 1834 in Paris, France to Celestine Musson ... 1865 some of his works were accepted in the Paris Salon. During the next five ...13 KB (1,878 words) - 18:10, 12 February 2024
- | birth_place = Paris, France | death_date = May 8, 1794 | death_place = Paris, France | occupation = chemist, economist and ...17 KB (2,470 words) - 06:42, 31 July 2023
- Plantation Club in Harlem, but it was in France that she would make her leap ... Baker traveled to Paris in 1925 to perform as one of the acts in a ...20 KB (3,016 words) - 07:39, 27 February 2023
- Danton was born at Arcis-sur-Aube in northeastern France, to a respectable ... for the "popular principle" that France was to be a country of its ...20 KB (3,217 words) - 15:13, 21 May 2024
- Paul Ricoeur was born on February 27, 1913 in Valence, France. His ... doctorate, submitting (as is customary in France) two theses: A "minor ...18 KB (2,604 words) - 01:31, 23 November 2022
- | birth_place = Mortain, Manche, France | death_date ... | death_place = L'Isle-Adam, Val-d'Oise, France ...13 KB (1,739 words) - 17:06, 15 December 2023
- 18, 1689 at La Brede, near Bordeaux, France, the eldest son of a noble ... buried in L'église Saint-Sulpice in Paris, France. ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 00:36, 5 December 2023
- years there, but in 1891, she moved to Paris where she obtained all her ... So Maria supported Bronia's study in France, first by becoming a tutor ...18 KB (2,796 words) - 04:14, 6 November 2022
- | death_place = Paris, France | occupation = Novelist, short story writer ... In May 1946 Wright traveled to France as a guest of the French government ...9 KB (1,277 words) - 18:49, 11 August 2022
- speaking countries to the national day of France, which is celebrated on July ... Prise de la Bastille) occurred in Paris, France, on the afternoon of ...30 KB (4,528 words) - 11:09, 20 September 2023
- Campion in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris) is a French politician. ... much to blight her historic achievement as France's first woman prime ...15 KB (2,117 words) - 06:17, 13 June 2023
- of Marie-Antoinette who as Queen of France promoted Gluck and was his ... Gluck now began to spread his ideas to France. Under the patronage ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 21:41, 10 December 2023
- ) was the legislature of the Kingdom of France from October 1, 1791 ... The August 27, 1791 Declaration of Pillnitz already threatened France ...23 KB (3,164 words) - 20:20, 30 September 2023
- an outcry which forced him to leave France and go to Leiden, where he ... La Mettrie was born at Saint-Malo, France on December 25, 1709, to ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 21:12, 4 October 2022
- poets of mid-to-late nineteenth century France. Rimbaud was a literary prodigy ... the Ardennes département, in northeastern France. As a boy, Rimbaud was a ...12 KB (1,837 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- François Boucher was born in Paris to a family of little means. His ... in Rome, all expenses paid by the King of France. The contest was organized ...11 KB (1,576 words) - 04:57, 9 April 2024
- This element, which was named for France, was the last element discovered in nature. Marguerite Perey of the Curie Institute in Paris discovered ...6 KB (795 words) - 04:56, 9 April 2024
- |deathplace = Paris, France |occupation = Dramatist |nationality = French ... Alfred Jarry was born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the ...14 KB (2,108 words) - 08:15, 20 July 2023
- Huysmans was born in Paris to a Dutch father, Godfried Huysmans, who ... filled with minutely detailed evocations of Paris, the city Huysmans knew intimately ...9 KB (1,248 words) - 03:25, 6 August 2022
- recognition, Gauguin left his native France, eventually settling in Polynesia ... Paul Gauguin was born in Paris, France to journalist Clovis Gauguin ...13 KB (1,899 words) - 17:04, 21 November 2022
- Gaston Maspero was born in Paris, France, to parents of Lombard origin ... Auguste Mariette, who was then in Paris as commissioner for the Egyptian ...17 KB (2,548 words) - 04:40, 18 April 2024
- in 1515 at the village of Cuts in Picardy, France, a member of a noble but ... a Master of Arts at the University of Paris in 1536, allegedly taking ...18 KB (2,695 words) - 02:53, 24 November 2022
- Born in Paris on November 16, 1717, d'Alembert was the illegitimate ... d'Alembert was admitted to the Paris Academy of Science, on the ...12 KB (1,720 words) - 17:39, 2 April 2024
- Paul Victor Jules Signac was born in Paris on November 11, 1863 into ... During the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) he was sent to northern ...18 KB (2,656 words) - 01:33, 23 November 2022
- the power of the nobility, he transformed France into a strong, centralized ... Richelieu was born in Paris on September 9, 1585, he was the fourth ...19 KB (2,876 words) - 19:14, 26 November 2023
- French Guiana is an overseas department of France, located on the ... indigenous tribes as well as people from France, the French-speaking Caribbean ...20 KB (3,078 words) - 10:54, 11 April 2024
- The Treaty of Brussels was signed by the United Kingdom, France, Belgium ... 23, 1954, the WEU was established by the Paris Agreements with the incorporation ...16 KB (2,325 words) - 17:18, 4 May 2023
- had recently been annexed by the King of France, Louis XIV. The Watteau family ... painters of his time, he made his way to Paris, in 1702. ...14 KB (2,082 words) - 06:44, 31 July 2023
- Gilson was born in Paris in 1884. Along with Maritain, he studied with the then tremendously popular Jewish philosopher Henri Bergson at the ...8 KB (1,224 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- After France fell to the Nazis in 1940, Vichy French naval troops ... in the French army and saw service in France, notably in the battles of ...17 KB (2,551 words) - 15:25, 6 October 2022
- Secondary education in France falls under the jurisdiction of the ... system, that traditionally have produced France's highest ranking politicians ...18 KB (2,719 words) - 17:43, 25 January 2023
- Poisson was born in Pithiviers, a village just outside of Paris. His ... entrance examinations to the École Polytechnique in Paris. ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 22:20, 29 January 2023
- lecturing on Aristotle. He crossed over to France in 1241 to teach at the University ... contained in the Bibliotheque Imperiale at Paris. In the Opus Minus and Opus ...10 KB (1,503 words) - 02:30, 16 December 2022
- | Died = December 28, 1937 (age 62)Paris, France ... in Levallois Perret (North-West part of Paris, France). ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 00:46, 9 November 2022
- Marcel Mauss was born in 1872 in Epinal, France, into an Orthodox ... of teaching at a lycée, Mauss moved to Paris and took up the study of ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 03:05, 6 November 2022
- Camille Saint-Saëns was born in Paris to a government clerk who died ... In the late 1840s, Saint-Saëns entered the Paris Conservatory, where ...18 KB (2,898 words) - 18:57, 25 November 2023
- of Philip III, reigned as King of France from 1285 until his death ... While the early Capetians had ruled only Paris and its environs, Philip ...23 KB (3,671 words) - 22:38, 28 March 2023
- and changing his name. He soon moved to Paris as a correspondent for Die ... Nordau died in Paris, France in 1923. In 1926, his remains were moved ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 00:57, 9 November 2022
- , born Guillaume Grimoard, a native of France, was Pope from 1362 to 1370 ... at Montpellier and Toulouse and also at Paris and Avignon, he was awarded ...12 KB (1,868 words) - 13:42, 3 May 2023
- physician and journalist. He led France during World War I and was ... Clemenceau, however, secured France's trusteeship of Syria and ...28 KB (4,425 words) - 15:12, 21 May 2024
- one of the southernmost regions of France. Provence is a varied and ... his artistic development and left Aix for Paris in 1861, with his close friend ...18 KB (2,795 words) - 16:50, 21 November 2022
- their work would re-invigorate ballet in France with worldwide repercussions. ... During 1893-1897, he lived in Paris, where he studied at the ...13 KB (1,809 words) - 20:08, 25 October 2022
- The movement then spread through France and Italy, attended by miracles ... There were actually two similar movements in 1212, one in France and ...16 KB (2,418 words) - 15:33, 10 December 2023
- Feuillants, who tried and failed to turn France into a constitutional monarchy ... Haute-Loire, in the Auvergne region of France. He belonged to the cadet ...23 KB (3,585 words) - 12:41, 22 May 2024
- Born in 1783 in Grenoble, France, Stendhal was the son of Cherubin ... In 1799, the teenage Stendhal got his wish, traveling to Paris, ostensibly ...15 KB (2,490 words) - 19:57, 9 February 2023
- a private tutor on a six-month tour of France, England, Italy, Greece, ... Hillyer. He worked as a driver in Paris, France, and in north-central Italy. ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 04:56, 3 August 2022
- Born in Paris, Sadi Carnot was the son of the eminent military leader ... He was one of five directors who led France beginning in 1796 in the ...15 KB (2,378 words) - 23:36, 14 November 2022
- and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy; but he also published ... regiment recently returned from Dunkirk, France. Sterne’s father’s regiment ...13 KB (1,975 words) - 17:53, 25 October 2022
- of his knowledge. He was born in Lille, France, and taught at Paris and ... He seems to have taught in the schools of Paris, and he attended the Third ...11 KB (1,642 words) - 04:25, 17 June 2023
- of Terror having abated, he was sent to Paris to prepare for entry into ... a year after Gay-Lussac's return to France, Berthollet established a ...13 KB (1,969 words) - 07:30, 2 April 2008
- | death_place = Paris, France | residence = [[Image:Flag_of_France_ ... Fourier was born at Auxerre in the Yonne département of France, the ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 00:38, 11 August 2022
- Acquired by Great Britain from France following the 1763 Treaty of Paris, the Ohio Country had been closed to white settlement by the Proclamation ...10 KB (1,533 words) - 06:38, 16 November 2022
- woman member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists ... her early exhibits at the esteemed Salon de Paris. She joined the "rejected ...10 KB (1,531 words) - 17:21, 29 September 2023
- | deathplace = Paris, France | nationality = German | field ... Hans Bellmer, who had recently emigrated to Paris upon the outbreak of World ...13 KB (1,774 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
- headlong into some support from France. In Parma in 1759, he found a number of significant collaborators, and he was fortunate in finding that ...8 KB (1,217 words) - 03:57, 1 May 2023
- Baudelaire was born in Paris. His father, a senior civil servant and ... and Les Fleurs du mal remained banned in France until 1949. In the poem ...15 KB (2,281 words) - 01:56, 4 December 2023
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France, the ... In 1862 he began studying art under Charles Gleyre in Paris. There ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 05:15, 24 November 2022
- 1960, when he died from heart failure in Paris, France. The anthropology department building at the University of California was named Kroeber Hall ...9 KB (1,305 words) - 08:17, 20 July 2023
- Gide was born in Paris, France, on November 22, 1869. His father was ... and then to Cameroon, before returning to France. He related his peregrinations ...14 KB (1,915 words) - 20:02, 26 July 2023
- Édouard Manet was born in Paris. His mother, Eugénie-Desirée Fournier ... artists should seek to exhibit at the Paris Salon rather than abandon ...18 KB (2,830 words) - 18:16, 12 February 2024
- . He spent most of his childhood in France, but returned to Romania ... stories. He and his family returned to France in 1938 for him to complete ...15 KB (2,272 words) - 04:19, 23 March 2024
- ), located in Chartres, about 50 miles from Paris, is considered one ... with the help of donations from all over France, began almost immediately ...15 KB (2,381 words) - 00:43, 5 December 2023
- of 1830, Heine left Germany for Paris, France in 1831. Heine was particularly ... Heine remained in Paris for the rest of his life. In 1844, he published ...13 KB (2,100 words) - 08:29, 21 January 2024
- (an axiom of the Art Nouveau movement)in Paris. Maison de l'Art Nouveau ... was the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris, in which the 'modern ...15 KB (1,991 words) - 04:02, 15 August 2023
- | residence = Paris, France | nationality = French | occupation = Journalist ... Hébert fled first to Rouen and then to Paris. For a while, he passed through ...26 KB (3,903 words) - 21:56, 28 November 2022
- around the city of Verdun-sur-Meuse in northeast France. ... of the bloodiest in World War I. In both France and Germany, it has come ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:41, 26 September 2023
- This world-renowned Order is the highest decoration in France and ... on the left bank of the Seine river in Paris. ==History== ...27 KB (4,236 words) - 04:42, 5 November 2022
- ) in Paris, France, is one of the oldest, largest, and most famous ... [[Image:Musée du Louvre - from Jardin des Tuileres, Paris, France ...22 KB (3,221 words) - 04:13, 4 November 2022
- of negotiations, which took place at the Paris Peace Conference (1919), ... Kingdom, President Georges Clemenceau of France, Vittorio Orlando of Italy ...20 KB (3,094 words) - 16:26, 2 May 2023
- In 1655, Huygens traveled to France and was awarded his doctorate ... In 1660, Huygens spent a year in France, and another year in England ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 17:57, 10 December 2023
- The Paris Commune during the French Revolution was the government ... sought to establish better relations with a Paris that had felt subordinate ...32 KB (4,786 words) - 22:20, 25 June 2022
- Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, he grew up in Bohain-en ... In 1891 he returned to Paris to study art at the Académie Julian ...14 KB (2,268 words) - 15:20, 25 January 2023
- as the hall of no philosophical teacher in Paris had been since the days of ... In 1840, when Cousin became Minister of Public Instruction in France ...26 KB (4,045 words) - 18:04, 3 May 2023
- Isidore was sent to high school in France by his father. He was trained ... father in Montevideo, Ducasse settled in Paris at the end of 1867. He began ...21 KB (3,307 words) - 02:36, 8 January 2024
- == University of Paris == chair of theology at the University of Paris, a major academic center ...15 KB (2,194 words) - 04:59, 3 August 2022
- that eventually became standard throughout France. A strong proponent of reading ... of all such colleges, and that of Passy, Paris, became the modern exemplar ...12 KB (1,857 words) - 19:49, 22 December 2022
- courts in regions of present-day southern France at the end of the eleventh ... love" was first popularized by Gaston Paris in 1883, and has since come ...17 KB (2,718 words) - 06:12, 11 January 2024
- | location = Vannes, Morbihan, Bretagne, France | deathdate = ... | deathplace = Paris, France | yearsactive = 1936 - 2014 ...11 KB (1,686 words) - 04:23, 17 June 2023
- (near Brive-la-Gaillarde) in southwestern France on November 18, 1647. His ... le philosophe de Rotterdam. Amsterdam and Paris: Elsevier and Vrin. ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 05:18, 24 November 2022
- death = November 19, 1938 (Paris, France) | school_tradition = Irrationalism ... He emigrated to France in 1921, fleeing from the aftermath of the ...16 KB (2,451 words) - 22:05, 25 October 2022
- events in the history of fourteenth-century Paris. He carried out his sentence ... from Pope Benedict XII to the Bishop of Paris, dated November 21, 1340 ...10 KB (1,617 words) - 23:32, 14 November 2022
- I of England, he went to the University of Paris and became a distinguished ... Abbey. He pursued his higher education in Paris, where he lived for several ...12 KB (1,817 words) - 14:26, 18 July 2023
- of the Palace of Versailles in Versailles, France. It was designed and completed ... the traditional gardens of 17th century France and was meant to emulate ...10 KB (1,468 words) - 01:37, 24 November 2022
- Courbet left the college and moved to Paris in 1840. Here, he decided ... traveled several times between Ornans and Paris and also Belgium and Holland ...18 KB (2,723 words) - 01:44, 27 July 2023
- long being the main method of execution in France and, more particularly, for ... The guillotine became infamous (and acquired its name) in France at ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 08:14, 8 January 2024
- Holbach’s Paris salon, which met regularly, twice a week, from 1750 ... grower. The young Paul Henry was raised in Paris, where his studies were financed ...19 KB (2,831 words) - 08:10, 20 September 2023
- In March 1920, Artaud moved to Paris. At the age of 27, Artaud sent ... In 1937, Artaud returned to France, where he obtained a walking stick ...12 KB (1,968 words) - 07:00, 31 July 2023
- the small town of Gray (Haute-Saône) in France. He was educated in the schools ... In Paris, he attended seminars at the Academie des Sciences and the ...14 KB (2,201 words) - 12:00, 30 October 2021
- She died, aged 71, in Paris, and was buried in Division 54 of Père ... Marie met the Hungarian Franz Liszt in 1833 in Paris. He was an upcoming ...16 KB (2,413 words) - 08:32, 10 March 2023
- Moving to Paris in 1923, he began to pursue a career as a professional ... In Paris, he made friends with many influential artists, including ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 07:01, 18 April 2024
- The Dreyfus Affair was a political scandal which divided France during ... the affair, the "greatest disgrace to France which could take place." ...10 KB (1,479 words) - 17:43, 30 January 2024
- The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 was a conference organized by the ... on Germany. Some countries, such as France wanted to impose more sanctions ...26 KB (3,995 words) - 08:51, 18 November 2022
- and musical art abroad, particularly in Paris. Nijinsky and Diaghilev became ... was moved to Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris, France beside the graves of ...11 KB (1,642 words) - 16:12, 30 August 2023
- The dechristianization of France during the French Revolution describes ... were executed. The church's role in France was permanently altered. ...27 KB (3,836 words) - 09:01, 28 January 2024
- and of Jordan by the British following the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 and ... be excluded and that the interests of France in the region would also ...11 KB (1,749 words) - 21:19, 9 February 2024
