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1712 In France
Events from the year 1712 in France Incumbents * Monarch – Louis XIV Events *March – Cassard expedition sets out *24 July – Battle of Denain Arts and culture *12 January – The première of the opera ''Idoménée'' by André Campra takes place at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris *27 December – The première of the opera ''Callirhoé'' by André Cardinal Destouches takes place at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris Births *2 January – Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc, feral child (died 1775) *28 February – Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, general (died 1759) *14 March – Charles-Antoine Jombert, bookseller and publisher (died 1784) *27 March – Claude Bourgelat, veterinary surgeon (died 1779) *8 April – Pierre Pouchot, military engineer officer (died 1769) *17 May – Jean-Baptiste Greppo, canon and archaeologist (died 1767) *28 May – Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, economist (died 1759) *21 June &nda ... [...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] |
Luc Urbain De Bouëxic, Comte De Guichen
Luc or LUC may refer to: Places * Luc, Hautes-Pyrénées, France, a commune * Luc, Lozère, France, a commune * Le Luc, France, a commune * Luč, Baranja, Croatia, a settlement People and fictional characters * Luc (given name) * Luc (surname) Academia * Leiden University College The Hague, a liberal arts & sciences honours college in the Netherlands * Limburgs Universitair Centrum, now University of Hasselt, Belgium * Loyola University Chicago Other uses * Land-use change * LUC, cryptosystem based on Lucas sequences See also * Château de Luc, a French castle-ruin in the town of Luc in the Lozère ''département'' * Luc-en-Diois, France, a commune * Luc-la-Primaube, France, a commune * Luc-sur-Mer Luc-sur-Mer (, literally ''Luc on Sea'') is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. Population Sights * The "Maison de la Baleine" created by Jean Chabriac. On January 15, 1885 a 40-ton and 19 me ..., France, a commune ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François-Antoine Devaux
François-Antoine Devaux (12 December 1712, in Lunéville – 11 April 1796, or 22 germinal year IV, Lunéville) was a Lorraine (province), Lorraine (and, after 1766, French) poet and man of letters. He was called ''Panpan'' by his friends. Life Devaux trained as a lawyer and worked briefly for a lawyer cousin in Nancy, France, Nancy. He soon quit to live with his parents in Lunéville, resisting their efforts to make him marry and earn a living. His dream was to become a writer, an ambition encouraged by his friend Françoise de Graffigny, who became his sponsor in the court society of Lorraine. They collaborated on several literary projects and confided in each other about their problems, both financial and emotional. In the 1730s Devaux wrote a one-act prose play, called ''Les Portraits'', which was accepted by the Comédie-Française; but the troupe stalled on performing the play, and for about fifteen years Devaux struggled to get it staged. In 1737, the duke of Lorraine, Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Charles Alexander Of Lorraine
Prince Charles Alexander Emanuel of Lorraine (french: Charles Alexandre Emanuel, Prince de Lorraine; german: Karl Alexander von Lothringen und Bar; 12 December 1712 in Lunéville – 4 July 1780 in Tervuren) was a Lorraine-born Austrian general and soldier, field marshal of the Imperial Army, and governor of the Austrian Netherlands. Early life Charles was the son of Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, and Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans. When his elder brother Francis III, Duke of Lorraine, married the Archduchess Maria Theresa, daughter of Emperor Charles VI, Charles Alexander entered the Imperial service in 1737. When his brother Francis traded the duchy to the ex-Polish king Stanisław Leszczyński in exchange for the Grand Duchy of Tuscany as one of the terms ending the War of the Polish Succession in November 1738, the ducal title to Lorraine and Bar passed beyond Charles to King Louis XV of France upon Leszczynski's death in 1766, though Francis and his successors retained the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles-Michel De L'Épée
Charles-Michel de l'Épée (; 24 November 1712 – 23 December 1789) was a philanthropic educator of 18th-century France who has become known as the "Father of the Deaf". Overview Charles-Michel de l'Épée was born to a wealthy family in Versailles, the seat of political power in what was then the most powerful kingdom of Europe. He studied to be a Catholic priest.L'Echo Magazine, le mensuel des sourds . Octobre 2012, p. 5 L'Épée then turned his attention toward charitable services for the poor, and, on one foray into the slums of Paris, he had a chance encounter with two young deaf sisters who communicated using a sign language.* Massieu, Jean; Laurent Clerc; and Roch Ambroise Cucurron Sicard. 181''Recueil des définitions et réponses les plus remarquables de Massieu et Clerc, sourds-muets, aux diverses questions qui leur ont été faites dans les séances publiques de M. l'abbé Sicard à Londres'' Londres, imprimé pour Massieu et Clerc, par Cox and Baylis, Great Queen Stre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillaume Voiriot
Guillaume Voiriot (20 November 1712 – 9 December 1799Catherine Voiriot, "Guillaume Voiriot (1712 – 1799)", ''Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français'' 2004 issue (2005) 111–57p. 113.) was a French portrait painter. Biography Voiriot was born in Paris into a family originally from Lorraine (region), Lorraine; his father was a sculptor. He travelled to Italy at his own expense from 1746 to 1749, studying at the French Academy in Rome. On his return he initially joined the Académie de Saint-Luc as a pastellist, then in 1759 was accepted into the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture as a painter in oil painting, oils,Neil Jeffares"VOIRIOT, Guillaume: Paris 1712–1799" ''Dictionary of pastellists before 1800'', 2006, online ed. updated 20 March 2013. on the strength of portraits of the painters Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre and Jean-Marc Nattier.Madeleine Pinault-Sørensen, "À propos de relations et de correspondants de Cideville ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Choquet De Lindu
Antoine Choquet de Lindu (7 November 1712, in Brest – 7 October 1790, in Brest) was a French architect and military engineer in the service of the French Navy Life Entering the Navy as a clerk, like his father, he executed a very large number of very important buildings at Brest, well known for their solidity if not for their elegance and so perfectly fitted to their purpose. Made sous-ingénieur in 1743, he then became chief engineer in 1746. From 1764 to 1767, the Ministry of the Navy and the Ministry for War were merged, and Choquet de Lindu was attached to the royal corps of engineers, with a commission as an infantry captain (though he was kept on as director of the maritime works of the port of Brest, under Amédée-François Frézier). Between 1738 and his retirement in 1784 Choquet de Lindu devoted himself to the rebuilding and expansion of the port of Brest, producing "works of all kinds" – barracks, hospitals, magazines, dry docks, shipyards, theatres, prisons, sai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Louis De Marbeuf
Louis Charles René, comte de Marbeuf (4 November 1712, Rennes – 20 September 1786, Bastia), grand-cross of the order of Saint Louis, was a French general. Life The son of a Breton lord, he served in the Ancien Régime, ancien regime army, becoming colonel of the 13th Parachute Dragoon Regiment, dragons de Condé, before taking part in the pacification of Corsica, at first as interim army commander between François Claude Chauvelin, Chauvelin and the comte de Vaux (December 1768-April 1769), then as commander of a corps under Vaux until the battle of Ponte Novu. In 1774 he built the village of Cargèse for a group of Greek colonists who were living in Ajaccio. On 29 September 1783 he married Catherine Antoinette Salinguerra de Gayardon de Fenoyl in Paris. He was made marquis de Cargèse for his government of Corsica on Louis XV's behalf. During his stay on Corsica he became friends with the House of Bonaparte, Bonaparte family and acted as Napoleon I, Napoleon Bonaparte's p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominique De La Rochefoucauld
Dominique de La Rochefoucauld ( Saint-Ilpize, Haute-Loire, 26 September 1712 – Münster, Germany, 23 September 1800) was a French bishop and cardinal.From 1778. Life Before the French Revolution He was from an impoverished branch of the La Rochefoucauld family. He became archbishop of Albi in 1747, and archbishop of Rouen in 1759. Under the Revolution The clergy of Rouen sent him as their deputy to the États généraux of 1789. As President of the chamber of clergy, he refused its union with the Third Estate. He had to submit, given a direct order from Louis XVI. In protest he submitted a list of clerical rights. He led a fierce opposition to the Constitution, and signed the protest of 12 September 1791. After 10 August 1792 he went into exile, in Germany from 1794. He joined the ''Société des amis des noirs The Society of the Friends of the Blacks (''Société des amis des Noirs'' or ''Amis des noirs'') was a French abolitionist society founded during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François-Joseph-Gaston De Partz De Pressy
François-Joseph-Gaston de Partz de Pressy (22 September 1712, Équirre - 8 October 1789) was a French cleric. He was the son of François-Joseph de Partz, marquis d'Esquire, and of Jeanne Elisabeth de Beaufort. He became vicar general of Boulogne-Sur-Mer Boulogne-sur-Mer (; pcd, Boulonne-su-Mér; nl, Bonen; la, Gesoriacum or ''Bononia''), often called just Boulogne (, ), is a coastal city in Northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department of Pas-de-Calais. Boulogne lies on the C ..., then in 1742 bishop of Boulogne and in 1746 commendatory abbot of Ham Abbey. Sources *Eugène Van Drival, ''Histoire des évêques de Boulogne'', Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1852. 1712 births 1789 deaths Bishops of Boulogne People from Pas-de-Calais 18th-century French Roman Catholic bishops {{France-RC-bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Simon Fournier
Pierre-Simon Fournier (15 September 1712 – 8 October 1768) was a French mid-18th century punch-cutter, typefounder and typographic theoretician. He was both a collector and originator of types. Fournier's contributions to printing were his creation of initials and ornaments, his design of letters, and his standardization of type sizes. He worked in the rococo form, and designed typefaces including Fournier and Narcissus. He was known for incorporating ‘decorative typographic ornaments’ into his typefaces. Fournier's main accomplishment is that he ‘created a standardized measuring system that would revolutionize the typography industry forever’. He was also known as Fournier le Jeune ("the younger") to distinguish him from his father Jean Claude, who was also in the typesetting industry. In his early life, Fournier studied watercolour with J. B. G. Colson, and later wood engraving. In 1737, Fournier published his first theoretical work, on the minimum spacing between le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel-Barthélémy Ollivier
Michel-Barthélémy Ollivier (24 August 1712, Marseille - 15 June 1784, Paris) was a French painter and engraver.Georges Reynaud, "Les Ollivier, peintres et sculpteurs marseillais XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles", in: ''Provence historique'', Vol.57, #229, 200Online He specialized in historical and Genre art, genre scenes. Life and work He came from a family of painters, including his father, Louis (1686-?), grandfather Antoine (1645-1716) and cousin Cosme (1651-?). He attended the Académie de Saint-Luc and the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. He also studied with Charles-André van Loo. When Van Loo's nephew, Louis-Michel van Loo, was appointed a court painter to King Philip V of Spain, Ollivier accompanied him to Madrid. He had returned to Paris by 1750, when he married Faronne-Marie-Madeleine Lefebvre, but returned to Spain with her and remained there until 1763. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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