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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
- |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) - 23:22, 28 November 2022
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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) - 22:45, 28 November 2022
- 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
- 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
- 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 (3,607 words) - 06:57, 15 December 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
- | 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
- 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
- (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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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 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
- such colonial war between the kingdoms of France and Great Britain, resulted ... | Paris, France |} ==Battles and expeditions== ;United States ...30 KB (4,525 words) - 10:57, 11 April 2024
- the nineteenth century, especially academic Paris Salon painting. ... David was born into a prosperous family in Paris on August 30, 1748 ...24 KB (3,977 words) - 08:23, 18 March 2024
- and decided to move near Versailles in Paris, France to be with Claude's ... with great interest. At that time in France, anthropology was not a separate ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 10:55, 19 December 2023
- André Malraux was born on November 3, 1901 in Paris. His parents ... On his return to France he published his first novel, The Temptation ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- 200px|A bust of Anacreon in the Louvre, Paris, France]] ... were compiled, translated and published in France and England. Like other poets ...9 KB (1,478 words) - 18:41, 26 July 2023
- ballet compared to what was current in France at the time. It became the ... of Russian art to the Petit Palais in Paris. It was the beginning of ...14 KB (2,086 words) - 23:22, 13 August 2023
- Noel-Baker also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, and at Munich in Germany ... Unit attached to the fighting front in France (1914-1915), and was then ...14 KB (1,946 words) - 03:20, 24 November 2022
- France had colonial possessions, in various forms, from the beginning ... this subsequently made it difficult for France to be seen as the friend ...25 KB (3,770 words) - 17:17, 11 October 2022
- Alfred Binet was born on July 11, 1857, in Nice, France. He was the ... a position in the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris working in Jean-Martin Charcot’s ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 07:14, 20 July 2023
- After studying art in Madrid, he made his first trip to Paris in 1900 ... divided his time between Barcelona and Paris, where in 1904, he began ...22 KB (3,461 words) - 10:56, 11 March 2023
- [http://www.civilization.ca/vmnf/ The Virtual Museum of New France] (French: Le Musée virtuel de la Nouvelle-France) was established by the ...12 KB (1,742 words) - 20:36, 3 May 2023
- allies such as the British which, as did France had ambitions in the region ... other in 1907. The second occurred in Paris, France. The leadership included ...19 KB (2,797 words) - 14:10, 28 November 2022
- * Dependent territories, including the overseas departments of France ... |Mayotte (overseas territory of France)||Mamoudzou |- |Morocco||Rabat ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 04:26, 29 October 2022
- his degree, in order to travel to France and Flanders. He probably ... to England almost what Molière was to France, but he was a rich man living ...15 KB (2,460 words) - 08:05, 23 January 2023
- norm) is a region of southeastern France, located on the Mediterranean ... famous for fine wine as other regions of France, its official status is now ...13 KB (1,926 words) - 08:21, 2 December 2022
- * Petrie, Ted. 1985. Spherical Isotropy Representations. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. ASIN: B0007CABWI * Stokes, Harold T., and Dorian ...5 KB (748 words) - 21:30, 7 February 2023
- studies at Strasbourg University in France. It was there that he met ... Levinas had become a naturalized French citizen in 1930, and when ...17 KB (2,583 words) - 18:22, 13 February 2024
- Emmanuel Mounier contributed for the development in France. ... In France, philosopher Emmanuel Mounier (1905-1950) was the leading ...9 KB (1,336 words) - 00:44, 24 November 2022
- most important center of the movement in Paris and from the 1920s spreading ... in Montparnasse and in 1920 moved to Paris, France. There, under the influence ...18 KB (2,655 words) - 02:03, 9 February 2023
- Saint of Fishermen. The archipelago is France's only remnant of its ... islands back in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris (which ceded all of New France ...22 KB (3,091 words) - 20:40, 17 April 2023
- |Died = May 16, 1953 in Fontainebleau, France |Instrument = Guitarbanjo ... of his youth in gypsy encampments close to Paris, spending carefree days immersed ...19 KB (3,034 words) - 16:27, 29 January 2024
- Corneille was born at Rouen, France, to Marthe le Pesant and Pierre ... for the final time, and died at his home in Paris in 1684. Buried in the church ...12 KB (1,723 words) - 05:20, 24 November 2022
- unification of the crowns of England and France in a single person. ... Cornwall, Earl of Chester, and Duke of Aquitaine in France. ...22 KB (3,484 words) - 15:24, 22 February 2022
- in Maisons-Laffitte, a small town near Paris, to Georges Cocteau and his ... not attend funerals) and immediately left Paris with Diaghilev for a performance ...15 KB (2,215 words) - 17:01, 4 July 2022
- York and Washington DC before being sent to Paris. There, he asked for political ... works, was published during his stay in France. The book critiques the Polish ...18 KB (2,685 words) - 07:32, 12 January 2024
- Domingo Perón, Cortázar emigrated to France, where he lived until his ... Cortázar died, reportedly of leukemia, in Paris in 1984 and was interred ...9 KB (1,243 words) - 21:13, 4 October 2022
- the département of Gironde in southwest France. From 1791 to 1793, the Girondins ... Varennes in which Louis XVI tried to flee Paris in the face of growing attacks ...34 KB (4,885 words) - 16:31, 15 December 2022
- ) in Paris, France, on July 14, 1789, refers to revolutionary insurgents ... In France, July 14 is a national holiday, usually called Bastille ...35 KB (5,341 words) - 20:55, 26 February 2023
- François Quesnay was born on June 4, 1694, near Paris France, into ... accepted into the community of surgeons of Paris. In 1723, he became royal ...15 KB (2,179 words) - 03:39, 4 June 2021
- movement that began in the mid-1920s centered in Paris. ... Defense of Culture" which opened in Paris in June. Breton and his fellow ...17 KB (2,462 words) - 20:01, 26 July 2023
- in a period of immense social upheaval in France. Around the time Proust was ... Marcel Proust in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France]] ...21 KB (3,300 words) - 03:06, 6 November 2022
- its name at a 1905 exhibition held at the Paris Salon d'Automne where ... a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and a Symbolist painter ...9 KB (1,363 words) - 01:43, 26 March 2024
- with those of Giovanni Domenico Cassini in Paris. Rømer assisted him in this ... of Jupiter's moon Io, while in Paris Giovanni Domenico Cassini ...15 KB (2,454 words) - 00:06, 18 November 2022
- based on real events) in the history of France in the eighth and ninth centuries ... geste became known as the "Matter of France." This distinguished ...21 KB (3,315 words) - 01:43, 4 December 2023
- (revolutionary army)" in Paris, consisting of at least 20 ... to serious disorder in the streets of Paris, Georges Danton, with Robespierre ...30 KB (4,279 words) - 19:45, 31 August 2023
- Jules G. Verne was born in Nantes, France, to Pierre Verne, an attorney ... After completing his studies at the lycée, Verne went to Paris to ...19 KB (2,945 words) - 21:07, 4 October 2022
- secretary to King Louis XIII of France, and Catherine de Lauzon ... until his death in 1715 at the Oratory in Paris, he continued to develop ...18 KB (2,772 words) - 23:36, 14 November 2022
- *Angel (fragment of the Baronci Altarpiece) (1500-1501) Louvre, Paris ... *Three Graces (c. 1501-1505) Musée Condé, Chantilly, France ...21 KB (3,084 words) - 00:38, 8 December 2022
- correspondent of the Neue Freie Presse in Paris, occasionally making special ... a notorious anti-Semitic incident in France in which a French Jewish ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 17:56, 30 April 2023
- of reciprocity treaties with Argentina, France, Germany, Cuba, and the British ... of State and helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris of 1898. Hay continued serving ...10 KB (1,420 words) - 06:55, 8 April 2024
- Fourier developed a following in France, and a short-lived model colony ... to Lyon, the second largest city in France. As the sole surviving son ...19 KB (2,798 words) - 01:59, 4 December 2023
- Camille Claudel was born in Fère-en-Tardenois, Aisne—northern France—in ... younger sister to the Montparnasse area of Paris in 1881, her father having ...13 KB (1,990 words) - 18:55, 25 November 2023
- of medicine, in the city of Strasbourg, France, in 1777. There Gall studied ... Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and France. ...14 KB (2,093 words) - 05:20, 9 April 2024
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- of religious life in eighteenth-century France, particularly among the educated ... François Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire, was born in Paris as the ...27 KB (4,100 words) - 21:02, 3 May 2023
- Robespierre was born in Arras, France on May 6, 1758. His family, ... scholarship at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. Here he learned to admire ...30 KB (4,512 words) - 09:20, 10 March 2023
- region that would emerge as the country of France. The Merovingian grew weak ... Paris, (the French mint) at 11, quai de Conti, Paris, France. ...14 KB (2,134 words) - 16:14, 9 November 2022
- in Paris named Fulbert, and by the age of 18 she had become the student ... fame was already known before she moved to Paris, and this is one of the attractions ...20 KB (3,412 words) - 17:12, 6 February 2022
- ), during the French Revolution, started after the Paris Commune demanded ... France was expecting the Convention to deliver its Constitution. Instead ...32 KB (4,897 words) - 15:20, 31 August 2022
- he had bound himself to King Philip IV of France (1285–1314) by a formal ... Philip IV The Fair of France's understanding of his role as God ...17 KB (2,612 words) - 11:07, 19 December 2023
- Orientaux division of National Library of France. The purpose of Jikji ... division of the National Library of France, with the first page of the ...14 KB (2,230 words) - 01:10, 9 February 2023
- :This article refers to the government of Paris in 1871, for the one ... The "Paris Commune" (French: La Commune de Paris) was a ...40 KB (6,079 words) - 07:58, 18 November 2022
- Both were figures in the café society of Paris at the turn of the twentieth ... and is housed in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Whistler's ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 08:36, 1 April 2024
- 27, 1822, in Dole in the Jura region of France and grew up in the town of ... mid-1800s and was so contentious that the Paris Academy of Sciences offered ...20 KB (3,100 words) - 22:52, 1 September 2023
