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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
