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1766 In France
Events from the year 1766 in France Incumbents * Monarch – Louis XV Events On March 3, 1766, Louis XV gave a speech to the Parlement of Paris addressing his problems with the actions of the magistrates. Art *''Saint Peter Attempting to Walk on Water'', oil painting by François Boucher Births Dates known * July 8 - Dominique Jean Larrey, surgeon and military doctor(died 1842) * August 6 - Charles-François Beautemps-Beaupré, hydrographic engineer and cartographer (died 1854) Full date missing *Louis-François Bertin, journalist and publisher (died 1841) *Thomas Henry (patron of the arts), painter and patron of the arts (died 1836) *Marie-François Auguste de Caffarelli du Falga, military officer (died 1849) Deaths Full date missing *Jean-Marc Nattier, painter (born 1685) *Adrien Maurice de Noailles, aristocrat and soldier (born 1678) *Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, decorator and architect (born 1695) *Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Pierre Tentant De Marcher Sur Les Eaux By François Boucher
In religious belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of Q-D-Š, holiness, likeness, or closeness to God. However, the use of the term ''saint'' depends on the context and Christian denomination, denomination. In Catholic Church, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican Communion, Anglican, Oriental Orthodox, and Lutheranism, Lutheran doctrine, all of their faithful deceased in Heaven are considered to be saints, but some are considered worthy of greater honor or emulation. Official ecclesiastical recognition, and consequently a public cult of veneration, is conferred on some denominational saints through the process of canonization in the Catholic Church or glorification in the Eastern Orthodox Church after their approval. While the English word ''saint'' originated in Christianity, History of religion, historians of religion tend to use the appellation "in a more general way to refer to the state of special holiness t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-François Bertin
Louis-François Bertin, also known as Bertin l'Aîné (''Bertin the Elder''; 14 December 176613 September 1841), was a French journalist. He had a younger brother, Louis-François Bertin de Vaux; two sons, Edouard François and Louis-Marie François; and a daughter, Louise Bertin. Life Early career Born in Paris (his father was a former secretary of Étienne François, duc de Choiseul), and considered in retrospect the most important member of the Bertin family, he began his journalistic career by writing for the ''Journal Français'' and other papers during the French Revolution. After Napoleon Bonaparte's 18 Brumaire Coup he acquired the paper with his family name has chiefly been connected, the ''Journal des débats''. Guided by the contributions of figures such as Joseph Fiévée, Julien Louis Geoffroy, Jean François Joseph Dussault, François-René de Chateaubriand, Charles-Marie-Dorimond de Féletz, Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie, Conrad Malte-Brun, F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni
Jean-Nicolas Servan, also known as Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni (2 May 1695 – 19 January 1766) was an Italian decorator, architect, scene-painter, firework designer and trompe-l'œil specialist. He was born in Florence, the son of a French carriage driver. Career He was educated as an artist of perspective in Rome and was a pupil of Giovanni Paolo Panini worked in London as a set designer at the recently founded Royal Academy of Music but moved to Paris in 1724, where he became director of decorations (1724 to 1742) at the Paris Opera, at that time situated in the Théâtre du Palais-Royal. He became a member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1731. His activity was considerable, whether as a painter or as an inventor of scenic contrivances for fêtes at the marriage of royal personages. He decorated public festivals in England, France, and Portugal. During the years 1738–1743 and 1754–1758, Servandoni produced a series of successful theatrical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrien Maurice De Noailles
Adrien is a given name and surname, and the French spelling for the name Adrian. It is also the masculine form of the feminine name Adrienne. It may refer to: People Given name * Adrien Auzout (1622–1691), French astronomer * Adrien Baillet (1649–1706), French scholar and critic * Adrien Brody (born 1973), American actor * Adrien Broom, American photographer * Adrien, Count of Rougé (1782–1838), French statesman * Adrien de Wignacourt (1618–1697), Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller * Adrien Douady (1935–2006), French mathematician * Adrien Duvillard (alpine skier born 1969), French Olympic alpine skier * Adrien Manglard (1695–1760), French painter * Adrien Perruchon (born 1983), French conductor * Adrien Rabiot (born 1995), French soccer player * Adrien Robinson (born 1988), American football player * Adrien Silva (born 1989), Portuguese-French footballer * Adrien Tremblay (2000–today), French-Canadian normal man * Adrien Voisin (1890–1979) American sculpt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Marc Nattier
Jean-Marc Nattier (17 March 1685 – 7 November 1766) was a French painter. He was born in Paris, the second son of Marc Nattier (1642–1705), a portrait painter, and of Marie Courtois (1655–1703), a miniaturist. He is noted for his portraits of the ladies of King Louis XV's court in classical mythological attire. Life He received his first instruction from his father, and from his uncle, the history painter Jean Jouvenet (1644–1717). He enrolled in the Royal Academy in 1703 and applied himself to copying pictures in the Luxembourg Palace, making a series of drawings of the Marie de Médici painting cycle by Peter Paul Rubens. The publication (1710) of engravings based on these drawings made Nattier famous, but he declined to proceed to the French Academy in Rome, though he had taken the first prize at the Paris Academy at the age of fifteen. In 1715 he went to Amsterdam, where Peter the Great was then staying, and painted portraits of the tsar and the empre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1849 In France
Events from the year 1849 in France. Events *1 January - France's first postage stamp, Ceres, is issued. *16 April - Giacomo Meyerbeer's grand opera ''Le prophète'' is premièred by the Paris Opera at the Salle Le Peletier with Pauline Viardot (who has collaborated extensively in the production) in the mezzo-soprano role, her first with the Opera. Stage effects include electric light, ballet on roller skates and the use of saxhorns. The audience includes Napoleon III, the new Emperor, Berlioz and the terminally ill Chopin. *27 April - Giuseppe Garibaldi enters Rome to defend it from the French troops of General Oudinot. *13 May - Legislative election held. *3 July - French troops occupy Rome. Roman Republic surrenders. Births *12 January - Jean Béraud, painter and commercial artist (died 1935) *8 February - Henri Amédée de Broglie, nobleman (died 1917) *21 February - Edouard Deville, first to perfect a practical method of photogrammetry (died 1924) *4 April - Félix Balzer, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-François Auguste De Caffarelli Du Falga
Marie-François Auguste de Caffarelli du Falga (October 7, 1766, Haute-Garonne, France - January 23, 1849, Leschelles, near Guise, Aisne) was a French divisional general, général de division of Italians, Italian descent. Two of his Caffarelli (other), brothers were also generals. His name is inscribed on the south side of the Arc de Triomphe. Life First serving with the army on Sardinia from 1783, he returned to France in 1791, enrolling as a private dragoon in the 15e régiment and becoming aide-de-camp to General Luc Siméon Auguste Dagobert, Dagobert. He was then made adjutant general to the Armée de Sambre-et-Meuse and commanded the light-infantry Demi-brigade, which was nicknamed ''l'incomparable''. Also serving on the French campaign in Egypt and Syria, French invasion of Egypt, he became aide-de-camp to Napoleon, Napoléon Bonaparte in 1800, brigadier general, général de brigade after the Battle of Marengo, and finally commander of the Légion d'honneur in 180 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1836 In France
Events from the year 1836 in France. Incumbents * Monarch – Louis Philippe I Events * 29 July - The Arc de Triomphe in Paris is inaugurated. * Eugène Schneider and his brother Adolphe Schneider purchase a bankrupt ironworks near the town of Le Creusot in the Burgundy region and found the steelworks and engineering company Schneider Frères & Cie. Births *3 January - Marie François Oscar Bardy de Fourtou, politician (died 1897) *14 January - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter and lithographer (died 1904) *21 February - Léo Delibes, composer (died 1891) *26 March - Mélanie de Pourtalès, salonnière and courtier (died 1914) *31 May - Jules Chéret, painter and lithographer (died 1932) *26 June - Émile Étienne Guimet, industrialist, traveller and connoisseur (died 1918) *4 October - Juliette Adam, writer (died 1936) *15 October - James Tissot, painter (died 1902) *20 December - Alfred Grandidier, naturalist and explorer (died 1921) Full date unknown *Jean Pierre Philippe L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Henry (patron Of The Arts)
Bon-Thomas Henry (1766 in Cherbourg, France – 1836 in Cherbourg) was a French painter and patron of the arts. After studies in his hometown, Henry was forced while traveling to take shelter during a storm at Bordeaux, where he settled and became a partner with a merchant who sent him to Saint-Domingue. He returned to France after the Haitian Revolution, and learned the restoration of paintings from fellow artists. He was a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Regnault. He augmented his skill in restoration with expertise learned during travels to Italy, Belgium, and England. This led to his gaining a position as an expert commissioner with the Royal Museums. The position facilated his amassing a significant personal collection of art. When he felt death approaching he decided to "ignite the flame of art" in his native town by donating his collection and establishing a museum. On the 29 July 1835 the town of Cherbourg inaugurated the Musée Thomas-Henry, with Henry's collection of 163 pa ... [...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] |
1841 In France
Events from the year 1841 in France. Incumbents * Monarch – Louis Philippe I Events Births *7 January - Bernadette Soubirous, reported apparitions at Lourdes (died 1879) *14 January - Berthe Morisot, painter (died 1895) *18 January - Emmanuel Chabrier, composer (died 1894) *30 January - Félix Faure, President of France (died 1899) *25 February - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painter (died 1919) *2 April - Clément Ader, engineer and aviation pioneer (died 1925) *13 April - Louis-Ernest Barrias, sculptor (died 1905) *28 September - Georges Clemenceau, statesman, physician, journalist and Prime Minister (died 1929) *6 November - Armand Fallières, politician and President of France (died 1931) *6 December - Frédéric Bazille, painter (died 1870) *20 December - Ferdinand Buisson, academic. pacifist, politician, awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1927 (died 1932) Full date unknown *Marie Bracquemond, artist (died 1916) *Charles Jean Baptiste Collin-Mezin, maker of violins, violas, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1854 In France
Events from the year 1854 in France. Incumbents * Monarch – Napoleon III Events *27 March - United Kingdom declares war on Russia and Crimean War begins. *28 March - France declares war on Russia. *16 August - Russian troops in the island of Bomarsund in Åland surrender to French-British troops. *18 August - Siege of Petropavlovsk by Anglo-French naval forces begins. *20 September - Battle of Alma, Anglo-French force defeats the Russians in the first battle of the war. *17 October - Siege of Sevastopol by Anglo-French forces begins. *25 October - Battle of Balaclava, indecisive battle between the allied forces of the United Kingdom, Second French Empire and the Ottoman Empire against Russia. *5 November - Battle of Inkerman, Anglo-French forces defeat the Russians. *27 November - André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri patents a method of producing ''carte de visite'' photographs. *Luxury goods brand Louis Vuitton is founded in Paris by Louis Vuitton. Births *29 April - Henri Poi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
