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1722 In France
Events from the year 1722 in France Incumbents * Monarch – Louis XV *Regent: Philippe II, Duke of Orléans Events *University of Burgundy established in Dijon. Births *19 February – Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche, author (died 1774) *7 March – Louis-Jacques Goussier, illustrator (died 1799) *23 March – Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche, astronomer (died 1769) *23 May – Claudius Franciscus Gagnières des Granges, Jesuit (massacred 1792) *14 July – Jean-Pierre du Teil, general (died 1794) *23 July **Anne-Catherine de Ligniville, Madame Helvétius, salon holder (died 1800) **Antoine Petit, physician (died 1794) *11 November – Nicolas Antoine Boulanger, philosopher (died 1759) *22 November – Marc Antoine René de Voyer, ambassador and Minister of War (died 1787) *1 December – Jean-Pierre de Bougainville, writer (died 1763) *4 December – Guillaume Piguel, French-born Apostolic Vicar of Cochin (died 1771) Deaths ... [...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] |
Nicolas Antoine Boulanger
Nicolas Antoine Boulanger (11 November 1722, in Paris – 16 September 1759, in Paris) was a French philosopher and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment. Biography Born the son of a paper merchant in Paris, Boulanger studied first mathematics, and later ancient languages. He composed several philosophical works in which he sought to come up with naturalistic explanations for superstitions and religious practices, all of which were published posthumously. His major works were ''Research into the Origins of Oriental Despotism'' («Recherches sur l’origine du despotisme oriental», 1761) and ''Antiquity Unveiled'' («L’Antiquité dévoilée par ses usages», 1766). Boulanger's collected works were published in 1792. The German-born Baron d'Holbach (Paul-Henri Thiry, 1723–1789) published his controversial anti-religious work ''Christianity Unveiled ''Christianity Unveiled, or examination of the principles and effects of the Christian religion'' () is a book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillaume Massieu
Guillaume Massieu (13 April 1665, Caen Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,coffee. External links *Académie française Clergy from Caen [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Aveline
Pierre Aveline (1656–1722), was a French engraver, print-publisher and print-seller. Aveline was born in Paris and the head of a family of artists, including his two sons Pierre-Alexandre Aveline and Antoine Aveline. He is best known for his reproductions of other artists' works. He died in Paris on 23 May 1722. References * Emmanuel Bénézit Dictionary of painters, sculptors, designers and writers of all times and all countries, Paris, R. And Roger F. Chernoviz, 1911. External links 1656 births 1722 deaths 17th-century French engravers 18th-century French engravers Engravers from Paris {{France-artist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Gillot
Claude Gillot (April 27, 1673 – May 4, 1722) was a French painter, print-maker and illustrator, best known as the master of Watteau and Lancret. Life Gillot was born in Langres. He was a painter, engraver, book illustrator, metal worker, and designer for the theater. He had Watteau as an apprentice between 1703 and 1708. Gillot's sportive mythological landscape pieces, with such titles as ''Feast of Pan'' and ''Feast of Bacchus'', opened the Academy of Painting at Paris to him in 1715; and he then adapted his art to the fashionable tastes of the day, and introduced the decorative '' fêtes champêtres'', in which he was afterwards surpassed by his pupils, though Gillot's examples usually lack the contemporary dress of Watteau's. His paintings often include characters from the ''commedia dell'arte'', a taste he passed on to Watteau. Gollot was also closely connected with the opera and theatre as a designer of scenery and costumes. He died in Paris, aged 49. Gallery File:Cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon
''Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon'' is a Danish encyclopedia that has been published in several editions. The first edition, ''Salmonsens Store Illustrerede Konversationsleksikon'' was published in nineteen volumes 1893–1911 by Brødrene Salmonsens Forlag, and named after the publisher Isaac Salmonsen. The second edition, ''Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon'', was published in 26 volumes 1915–1930, under the editorship of Christian Blangstrup (volume 1–21), and Johannes Brøndum-Nielsen and Palle Raunkjær (volume 22–26), issued by J. H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. Editions * ''Salmonsens Store Illustrerede Konversationsleksikon'', 19 volumes, Copenhagen: Brødrene Salmonsen, 1893–1911 * ''Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon'', 2nd edition, editors: Christian Blangstrup (I–XXI), Johannes Brøndum-Nielsen and Palle Raunkjær (XXII–XXVI), 26 volumes, Copenhagen: J. H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel, 1915–1930. * ''Den Lille Salmonsen'', 3rd edition, 12 volumes, Copenhage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri De Boulainvilliers
Henri de Boulainvilliers (; 21 October 1658, Saint-Saire, Normandy – 23 January 1722, Paris) was a French nobleman, writer and historian. He was educated at the College of Juilly; he served in the army until 1697. Primarily remembered as an early modern historian of France, Boulainvilliers also published an early French translation of Spinoza's ''Ethics'' and wrote on topics as diverse as astrology, physics, philosophy and theology. The Comte de Boulainvilliers traced his lineage to the House of Croÿ, to Jean de Croÿ, sire de Clery et de Boulainviller, who died in the Battle of Poitiers (1356). At the time of his birth, however, the family's fortune had declined significantly. Much of Boulainvilliers' historical work and political life centered on the decline of the nobility. Education In 1669, Henri de Boulainvilliers went to study at the Collège de Juilly, one of the most famous schools of the Congregation of the Oratory of Philip Neri. Exact sciences, history and geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sébastien Vaillant
Sébastien Vaillant (May 26, 1669 – May 20, 1722) was French botanist who was born at Vigny in present-day Val d'Oise. Early years Vaillant went to school at the age of four and by the age of five, he was collecting plants and transplanting them into his father's garden. At the age of six, he was sent to a boarding school at Pontoise. He suffered with a fever for four months which he claims to have cured using lettuce seasoned with vinegar. He was sent to study with the organist of the Pontoise Cathedral. When the organist died, Vaillant succeeded him at the age of eleven. Vaillant studied medicine and surgery at the hospital in Pontoise (medicine then included studies in botany). He left Pontoise for Évreux at the age of nineteen. He was at the battle of Fleurus in 1690 as a surgeon. While still a surgeon in 1691, he was in Paris when he took as his master of botany Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656–1708). Tournefort used Vaillant's talents while writing (''History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillaume Piguel
Guillaume Piguel (December 4, 1722 – June 21, 1771) served as the Apostolic Vicar of Cochin (1762–1771). ''(in Latin)''Catholic Hierarchy: "Bishop Guillaume Piguel, M.E.P." retrieved November 9, 2015 Biography Guillaume Piguel was born in La Mézière, and was an ordained priest of the Société des Missions étrangères de Paris on December 21, 1748. On July 29, 1762, |
Jean-Pierre De Bougainville
Jean-Pierre de Bougainville (1 December 1722, in Paris – 22 June 1763, in Loches) was a French writer and the elder brother of the explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville. He was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions (epigr ... in 1746 and he became Permanent Secretary in 1754, the same year he rose to the Académie française. External links * Académie française {{DEFAULTSORT:Bougainville 1722 births 1763 deaths 18th-century French writers 18th-century French male writers Members of the Académie Française Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Antoine René De Voyer
Marc Antoine René de Voyer, Marquis de Paulmy and Marquis d'Argenson (1757) (22 November 1722, Valenciennes13 August 1787), was a French ambassador to Switzerland, Poland, Venice and to the Holy See, and later became the Minister of War. He was also a noted bibliophile and collector of art. Biography Marc Antoine René de Voyer was the only son of René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, marquis d' Argenson. He should not be confused with his grandfather, Marc-René, or his great-grandfather, also Marc-René, or in particular with his cousin Marc-René de Voyer d'Argenson (1721–1782). Appointed councillor at the ''parlement'' (1744), and ''maître des requêtes'' (1747), he was associated with his father in the ministry of foreign affairs and with his uncle, Marc-Pierre, in the ministry of war, and, in recognition of this experience, was commissioned to inspect the troops and fortifications and sent on embassy to Switzerland (1748). In 1750 he was appointed to head the stables of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Petit
Antoine Petit (23 July 1722 – 21 October 1794) was a French physician, master of Joseph-Ignace Guillotin and Félix Vicq d'Azyr. Biography Antoine Petit, born in Orléans, was the son of a tailor. He received a disciplined education and, after studying at the Orléans college, he took up the study of medicine at the University of Paris where he received his doctorate in 1746. Soon he became a good teacher and lecturer in anatomy, surgery and childbirth. The accurateness of his diagnosis made him famous and he got a very busy practise, drawing people from every part of France, even of Europa. He was appointed anatomy professor at Jardin du Roi from 1769 to 1778. In the University of Paris, he founded a chair of anatomy then a chair of surgery. The professors, engaged and appointed by the University, had to teach for ten years then made way for younger. He was a member of French Academy of Sciences and wrote several articles for the Diderot and d'Alembert ''Encyclopédie'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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