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1651 In France
Events from the year 1651 in France Incumbents * Monarch – Louis XIV *Regent – Anne of Austria (until 7 September) Events *The Lycée Stendhal was founded *Château de Maisons was completed Births *26 February – Jean Beausire, architect, engineer and fountain-maker (d. 1743) *30 April –Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, priest and educational reformer (d. 1719) *27 May – Louis Antoine de Noailles, bishop and cardinal (d. 1729) *4 July – Honoratus a Sancta Maria, controversialist (d. 1729). *6 August – François Fénelon, Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer (d. 1715) *1 November – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay, politician (d. 1690) Full date missing *Frère Jacques Beaulieu, urologist (d. 1720) *Magdelaine Chapelain, fortune teller and poisoner (d. 1724) *Jean-François Lalouette, composer (d. 1728) *Jacques-François de Monbeton de Brouillan, military officer and governor (d. 1705) *Philibert-Emmanuel de Froulay, chevalier de Tessé, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its Metropolitan France, metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin (island), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magdelaine Chapelain
Magdelaine Chapelain (1651 – June 1724; also spelled Madeleine Chappelain) was a French fortune teller and poisoner. She was a defendant in the famous Affair of the Poisons. Chapelain was a very successful fortune teller who had secured a fortune at her work. She had acquired her spouse, a former usher with a position as bureaucrat, and she also owned several buildings. In connection to the Poison Affair, she was implicated because she had formerly employed Françoise Filastre as a maid. Filastre was arrested upon her return from a trip to Auvergne (province) which had been paid for by Chapelin in December 1679. Chapelain was also connected to Louis de Vanens, to whom she had rented a house. Adam Lesage claimed that Chapelain made her fortune by manufacturing poisons and performing black magic in collaboration with a man by the name of Boucher, and Filastre claimed that she had on occasion supplied Chapelain with poison so that she could sell it, that Chapelain had commi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François II De Beauharnais
François II de Beauharnais (died 1651) was a French magistrate. He was seigneur of La Grillière, the first president to the Présidial of Orléans (1598), lieutenant général to the bailliage of Orléans, and a Third Estate député The chamber of deputies is the lower house in many bicameral legislatures and the sole house in some unicameral legislatures. Description Historically, French Chamber of Deputies was the lower house of the French Parliament during the Bourbon Re ... at the Estates General of 1614. Family He was the son of François I de Beauharnais, seigneur de Miramion, and his wife Madeleine Bourdineau. Marriage and issue He married Anne Brachet, (daughter of Antoine Brachet and his wife Jeanne Jamet). They had 7 children, including : * Jean de Beauharnais, seigneur de La Boische et de La Chaussée. {{DEFAULTSORT:Francis 02 Of Beauharnais 1651 deaths 19th-century French politicians Beauharnais Year of birth unknown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Arnauld
Catherine Arnauld (1590–1651) was a French religious figure of the 17th century, belonging to the Arnauld family of Jansenists. She was the eldest daughter of Antoine Arnauld (lawyer) (1560–1619). She married Isaac Le Maistre, conseiller du roi (King's Councillor), and they had many children, including Antoine Le Maistre, Simon Le Maistre and Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy (29 March 1613 – 4 January 1684), a priest of Port-Royal, was a theologian and French humanist. He is best known for his translation of the Bible, the most widespread French Bible in the 18th century, also known as t .... After her husband's death she became a nun and retired to Port-Royal. References Sources Encyclopædia Britannica 1590 births 1651 deaths Jansenists 17th-century French nuns Cistercian nuns {{France-reli-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Précieuses
The French literary style called ''préciosité'' (, ''preciousness'') arose in the 17th century from the lively conversations and playful word games of ''les précieuses'' (), the intellectual, witty and educated women who frequented the salon (gathering), salon of Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet. Her ''Chambre bleue'' (the "blue room" of her ''hôtel particulier'') offered a Parisian refuge from the dangerous political factionalism and coarse manners of the royal court during the regency of Louis XIV of France, Louis XIV. One of the central figures of the salon that gathered at the ''Hôtel de Rambouillet'' was Madeleine de Scudéry. She wrote voluminous romance novels that embodied the refinements of ''preciosité'' including the concepts of feminine elegance, etiquette and courtly Platonic love that were hugely popular with female audiences, but scorned by most men, including Molière, who satirized the ''précieuses'' in his comedy ''Les Précieuses ridicules ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angélique Paulet
Angélique Paulet (1592–1651) was a French ''précieuse'', singer and lute-playing musician, one of the ''habitués'' of the famous literary salon of Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, where she was called ''La Lionne rousse'' and ''La belle Lionne'' because of her red hair and proud poise. She often performed at the assemblies of the ''Chambre bleue'' by singing and playing the lute A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted. More specifically, the term "lute" can ref .... She was the daughter of the financier :fr:Charles Paulet, one of king Henry IV of France's secretaries. According to Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, Henry IV was assassinated while on his way to visit her. The musical instrument angélique, which first appeared in Paris in the 17th century, may have been named after her. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques-Philippe Cornut
Jacques-Philippe Cornut or Jacques-Philippe Cornuti or Jacobus Cornutus (19 October 1606 Paris – 23 August 1651) was a French physician and botanist. He was the author of ''Enchiridion botanicum parisiense'' (''Botanical Manual of Paris''), a study of the flora local to Paris, and ''Canadensivm plantarvm, aliarúmque nondum editarum historia. Cui adiectum ad calcem Enchiridion botanicvm parisiense, continens indicem plantarum, quae in pagis, siluis, pratis, et montosis iuxta Parisios locis nascuntur'' (''Canadian plants, and other unpublished material. To which is appended to the end the Botanical Manual of Paris, listing the plants that are native to the villages, the woods, the meadows, and mountains'') (Paris: Simon le Moyne, 1635), Canada at that time considered as stretching from the Saint Lawrence River to Louisiana. Over the course of his career he described 541 species. The plates of the Canadian flora have been attributed to Pierre Valet (1575-1650). Despite havi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Des Essarts
Charlotte des Essarts (1580-1651), was a French noblewoman. She was the mistress to Henry IV of France in 1607–1609. She had two daughters with the king. She was a lady-in-waiting to the queen, Maria de Medici Marie de' Medici (french: link=no, Marie de Médicis, it, link=no, Maria de' Medici; 26 April 1575 – 3 July 1642) was Queen of France and Navarre as the second wife of King Henry IV of France of the House of Bourbon, and Regent of the Kingd .... She participated in many political plots at court. She was the daughter of François de Essarts, seigneur de Sautour, an equerry of the king, and his second wife Charlotte de Harlay de Chanvillon. Before coming to the French court, Charlotte des Essarts had been a member of the household of the French ambassador in London, Christophe de Harlay, Count of Beaumont and his wife Anne Rabot. She was a relation of Beaumont.Julia Pardoe, ''The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France, Consort of Henry IV'', vol. 1 (London, 1852 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Tachard
Guy Tachard (; 1651 – 1712), also known as Père Tachard, was a French Jesuit missionary and mathematician of the 17th century, who was sent on two occasions to the Kingdom of Siam by Louis XIV. He was born in Marthon, near Angoulême. In 1680, Tachard went to the Caribbean (Antilles) with Jean II d'Estrées. Tachard was involved in embassies to Siam, which came as responses to embassies sent by the Siamese King Narai to France in order to obtain an alliance against the Dutch. First embassy to Siam (1685) Tachard was sent in 1685 with five other Jesuits under Superior Jean de Fontaney, on a first French embassy to Siam led by Chevalier de Chaumont and François-Timoléon de Choisy, and accompanied by Claude de Forbin. The objective of the Jesuits was to complete a scientific expedition to the Indies and China. Enticed by the Greek Constantine Phaulkon, he returned to France to suggest an alliance with the king of Siam Narai to Louis XIV. The five other Jesuits Fathers cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philibert-Emmanuel De Froulay, Chevalier De Tessé
Philibert-Emmanuel de Froulay, chevalier de Tessé (1651 – Cremona, 20 August 1701) was baron d'Ambrières and a French army commander, fighting in the Williamite War in Ireland. Philibert-Emmanuel de Froulay was the younger brother of René de Froulay, count of Tessé. He fought in the Franco-Dutch War on several fronts. In 1684, during the War of the Reunions, he served in Flanders. At the outbreak of the Nine Years' War he was sent to fight with his brother in Germany, where he took part in the devastation of the Palatinate. At the end of 1689, he was moved to Flanders. Made a brigadier of the Dragoons on 10 March 1690, he was promoted to Lieutenant General on 30 January 1691, and sent to Ireland to support King James II in the Williamite War in Ireland. He was second in command of the Franco-Irish army at the Battle of Aughrim under the Marquis de St Ruth. When Saint-Ruth was killed during the battle, the chevalier de Tessé could not prevent the collapse of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques-François De Monbeton De Brouillan
Jacques-François de Monbeton de Brouillan (1651, Gascony – September 22, 1705 at Chedabouctou, Acadia) French military officer and Governor of Plaisance ( Placentia), Newfoundland (1689-1701) and Acadia (1701-1705). Biography Monbeton de Brouillan was born to a Protestant noblemen at Gascony and while serving as captain of the French forces in French Canada had renounced Protestantism and was baptized a Roman Catholic at Québec in 1687. In 1689 he returned to France and became governor of Plaisance on June 1, 1690. While at Plaisance Monbeton de Brouillan defended the settlement three times against British attacks, in 1691, 1692 and 1693. During a visit to France in 1695 he was instructed to team up with Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville. During the winter of 1696–1697, with troops in the command of d'Iberville, Mombeton de Brouillan they attacked, captured and burned St. John's. With the death of Joseph Robineau de Villebon Joseph Robineau (or Robinau) de Villebon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-François Lalouette
Jean-François Lalouette (1651-1728) was a French composer of the Baroque period (ca. 1600–1750). Early life Lalouette (also spelled "Lallouette") had his first musical education in the school choir of St. Eustache in Paris. He studied violin with Guy Leclerc and composition with Jean-Baptiste de Lully. Lalouette was appointed as Lully’s assistant. It is known that Lalouette was asked by Lully to complete the internal parts of some of the latter’s works. But, after having been heard claiming credit for writing the better part of Lully’s opera, ''Isis'' (1677), not surprisingly he was fired by Lully from his job as assistant.Romain Rolland - Some Musicians of Former Days - Page 166 1968 "Lully dismissed Lalouette because " he had been giving himself the airs of a master, and boasted that he had composed some of the best pieces in Isis." " Between Italy and France In April 1678, he appeared at the Court of Savoy in Turin, where he was appointed as “French composer of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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