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1653 In France
Events from the year 1653 in France. Incumbents *Monarch: Louis XIV Events * February 3 – Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile. * ''Petite post'', a system of postage using prepaid labels and post boxes, is introduced in Paris by Jean-Jacques Renouard de Villayer. * Madeleine de Scudéry and her friend, the lutenist Mlle Bocquet, launch a salon. * Jean-Baptiste Boësset and Jean-Baptiste Lully start their collaboration to produce ballets de cour * Blaise Pascal publishes his ''Traité du triangle arithmétique'' in which he describes Pascal's triangle; and his ''Traités de l’équilibre des liqueurs'' in which he explains Pascal's law. Births * January 24 – Dom Jacques Alexandre, Benedictine (d. 1734) * March 1 – Jean-Baptiste-Henri de Valincour, classical scholar (d. 1730) * March 24 – Joseph Sauveur, mathematician (d. 1716) * May 8 – Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Marshal of France (d. 1734) * August 10 – Louis-Guillaume Pécour, d ... [...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] |
1734 In France
Events from the year 1734 in France Incumbents * Monarch – Louis XV Events *29 June – Battle of San Pietro *19 September – Battle of Guastalla Births *18 February – Jean-Marie Roland, vicomte de la Platière, manufacturer (died 1793) *9 March – Marie-Suzanne Giroust, painter (died 1772) *April – Nicolas Champenois, missionary (died 1811) *Full date missing – Gilles-Barnabé Guimard, architect (died 1805) Deaths *9 February – Pierre Polinière, investigator of electricity and electrical phenomena (born 1671) *10 February – Jean Raoux, painter (born 1677) *1 April – Louis Lully, composer (born 1664) *21 May – Philippine Élisabeth d'Orléans, princess (born 1714) *27 May – Claude Audran III, painter (born 1658) *12 June – James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, military leader (born 1670) *5 September – Nicolas Bernier, composer (born 1664) *14 November – Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Baron
Michel Baron (8 October 1653 – 22 December 1729) was a French actor and playwright. Life His family name was originally Boyron. His father and mother were leading players, André Boiron and Jeanne Auzoult. He was born in Paris. He was orphaned at age 9, and joined the child company ''Petits Comédiens Dauphins'' at age 12, becoming its brightest star. Baron came to the notice of Molière, joined his troupe, and eventually became his protégé. He left the troupe after a conflict with Molière's wife, Armande Béjart, but rejoined in 1670. He played the role of Domitien in Pierre Corneille's ''Tite et Bérénice'' and played in Corneille's ''Psyché''. He stayed with the troupe until Molière's death in 1673, when he joined the troupe at the Hotel de Bourgogne. This troupe merged with another in 1680 to become the Comédie-Française. With Comédie-Française, Baron was the undisputed master of the French stage until his retirement in 1691. He created many of the leadin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October 8
Events Pre-1600 * 314 – Constantine I defeats Roman Emperor Licinius, who loses his European territories. * 451 – The first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins. * 876 – Frankish forces led by Louis the Younger prevent a West Frankish invasion and defeat emperor Charles II ("the Bald"). *1075 – Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned King of Croatia. * 1200 – Isabella of Angoulême is crowned Queen consort of England. * 1322 – Mladen II Šubić of Bribir is deposed as the Croatian Ban after the Battle of Bliska. * 1480 – The Great Stand on the Ugra River puts an end to Tartar rule over Moscow *1573 – End of the Spanish siege of Alkmaar, the first Dutch victory in the Eighty Years' War. 1601–1900 *1645 – Jeanne Mance opens the first lay hospital of North America in Montreal. *1813 – The Treaty of Ried is signed between Bavaria and Austria. *1821 – The Peruvian Navy is established during the War of Independence. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1729 In France
Events from the year 1729 in France Incumbents * Monarch – Louis XV Events * 9 November – France signed The Treaty of Seville with Britain and Spain bringing an end to the Angelo-Spanish War started in 1727. Births * 18 April – Gaétan Vestris, dancer (died 1808) * 12 November – Louis Antoine de Bougainville, admiral and explorer (died 1811) * 4 September – Dauphin Louis, Son of Louis XV (d. 1765) Full date missing * *Jean-Baptiste Marie de Piquet, Marquess of Méjanes, aristocrat and book collector (died 1786) Deaths * 26 March – Simon de la Loubère, diplomat, mathematician and poet (born 1642) * 27 June – Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, French harpsichordist and composer (b. 1665) * 18 October – Nicolas Ravot d'Ombreval, magistrate (born 1680) *1 December – Giacomo F. Maraldi, astronomer and mathematician (born 1665) *26 December – Honoré Tournély Honoré Tournély (28 August 1658 – 26 December 1729) was a French Cath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-Guillaume Pécour
Louis Pécour (also spelled Pecoor, Pecour, Pécourt; 10 August 1653 – 12 April 1729) was a French dancer and choreographer. He is most well known for his work with the Académie Royale de Musique (the name of the Paris Opera at the time). Biography Born Guillaume-Louis Pecour in Paris, he was the son of Jacques Pecour, a royal courier, and Marie Voisin (or Raisin), who lived in the rue des Petits-Champs.Astier 1998, p. 128. He studied dance with Pierre Beauchamps, and likely made his debut in January 1671, as one of eight Zephyrs in the third intermezzo of Psyché (play), ''Psyché'' at the Théâtre des Tuileries, theatre of the royal court in the Tuileries Palace.Craine & Mackrell 2000, p. 365. He first danced at the Paris Opera in 1674 in Jean-Baptiste Lully's ''Cadmus et Hermione''. Pécour performed as a principal dancer, both at the Opera's Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré), Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris and for the royal court at the Château de Saint-G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August 10
Events Pre-1600 * 654 – Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I. * 955 – Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West. * 991 – Battle of Maldon: The English, led by Byrhtnoth, Ealdorman of Essex, are defeated by a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon, Essex. * 1030 – The Battle of Azaz ends with a humiliating retreat of the Byzantine emperor, Romanos III Argyros, against the Mirdasid rulers of Aleppo. The retreat degenerates into a rout, in which Romanos himself barely escapes capture. * 1270 – Yekuno Amlak takes the imperial throne of Ethiopia, restoring the Solomonic dynasty to power after a 100-year Zagwe interregnum. * 1316 – The Second Battle of Athenry takes place near Athenry during the Bruce campaign in Ireland. * 1346 – Jaume Ferrer sets out from Majorca for the "River of Gold", the Senegal River. *1512 – The naval Battle of Saint-Mathieu, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Louis Hector De Villars
Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Prince de Martigues, Marquis then Duc de Villars, Vicomte de Melun (, 8 May 1653 – 17 June 1734) was a French military commander and an illustrious general of Louis XIV of France. He was one of only six Marshals to have been promoted Marshal General of France. Early career Villars was born at Moulins (in the present-day département of Allier) in a noble but poor family — his father was the diplomat Pierre de Villars. He entered the French army through the corps of pages in 1671. He distinguished himself at twenty in the Siege of Maastricht in 1673 during the Franco-Dutch War and after the bloody Battle of Seneffe a year later he was promoted on the field to mestre de camp (colonel) of a cavalry regiment. The next promotion would take time in spite of a long record of service under Turenne, The Great Condé and Luxembourg, and of his aristocratic birth, as he had incurred the enmity of the powerful Louvois. He was finally made ''maréchal d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May 8
Events Pre-1600 * 453 BC – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin. * 413 – Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, which were plundered by the Visigoths. * 589 – Reccared I opens the Third Council of Toledo, marking the entry of Visigothic Spain into the Catholic Church. * 1360 – Treaty of Brétigny drafted between King Edward III of England and King John II of France (the Good).p118 Hersch Lauterpacht, "Volume 20 of International Law Reports, Cambridge University Press, 1957, * 1373 – Julian of Norwich, a Christian mystic and anchoress, experiences the deathbed visions described in her ''Revelations of Divine Love''. *1429 – Joan of Arc lifts the Siege of Orléans, turning the tide of the Hundred Years' W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1716 In France
Events from the year 1716 in France. Incumbents *Monarch: Louis XV *Regent: Philip II of Orleans Events *May Cassell's Chronology of WORLD HISTORY, Hywel Williams, p.295- John Law Scottish economist establishes Le Banque Générale in Paris. * April – The Jacobite pretender to the British throne James Stuart is forced to leave France due to the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht. He takes up residence in the Papal exclave in Avignon and later moves to Italy. Births *20 January - Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, writer and numismatist (died 1795) *29 May - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, naturalist (died 1800) *18 June - Joseph-Marie Vien, painter (died 1809) *16 December - Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, diplomat and writer (died 1798) *26 December - Jean François de Saint-Lambert, poet (died 1803) Deaths *13 December - Charles de La Fosse, painter (born 1640) Full date unknown *Pierre-Marie-Jérôme Trésaguet, engineer (died 1796 Events January&ndash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Sauveur
Joseph Sauveur (24 March 1653 – 9 July 1716) was a French mathematician and physicist. He was a professor of mathematics and in 1696 became a member of the French Academy of Sciences. Life Joseph Sauveur was born in La Flèche, the son of a provincial notary. Despite a hearing and speech impairment that kept him totally mute until he was seven, Joseph benefited from a fine education at the Jesuit College of La Flèche. At seventeen, his uncle agreed to finance his studies in philosophy and theology at Paris. Joseph, however, discovered Euclid and turned to anatomy and botany. He soon met Cordemoy, reader to the son of Louis XIV; and Cordemoy soon sang his praises to Bossuet, preceptor to the Dauphin. Despite his handicap, Joseph promptly began teaching mathematics to the Dauphine's pages and also to a number of princes, among them Eugene of Savoy. By 1680, he was something of a pet at court, where he gave anatomy courses to courtiers and calculated for them the odds in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
March 24
Events Pre-1600 * 1199 – King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6. *1387 – English victory over a Franco- Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate off the coast of Margate. *1401 – Turco-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus. 1601–1900 * 1603 – James VI of Scotland is proclaimed King James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of Elizabeth I. * 1603 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of ''shōgun'' from Emperor Go-Yōzei, and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, Japan. * 1663 – The Province of Carolina is granted by charter to eight Lords Proprietor in reward for their assistance in restoring Charles II of England to the throne. * 1720 – Count Frederick of Hesse-Kassel is elected King of Sweden by the Riksdag of the Estates, after his consort Ulrika Eleonora abdicated the throne on 29 February. * 1721 – Johann Sebastian Bach dedica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
