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1828 In France
Events from the year 1828 in France. Incumbents * Monarch – Charles X * Prime Minister – Joseph de Villèle (until 4 January), then Jean Baptiste Gay Events *4 January - Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac succeeds Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph, comte de Villèle as Prime Minister of France. Births *8 February - Jules Verne, author (died 1905) *14 February - Edmond François Valentin About, novelist, publicist and journalist (died 1885) *15 April - Jean Danjou, French Foreign Legion (died 1863 in Mexico) *13 June - Elie Delaunay, painter (died 1891) *19 June - Charles Tellier, engineer (died 1913) *17 August - Maria Deraismes, author and pioneer for women's rights (died 1894) *10 November - Hector-Jonathan Crémieux, librettist and playwright (died 1892) *26 November - René Goblet, politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1905) Full date unknown * Amédée Courbet, admiral (died 1885) * Louise Laffon, photographer (died 1885) Deaths *10 January - Franço ... [...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] |
1863 In Mexico
Events in the year 1863 in Mexico. Incumbents *President: Benito Juárez Governors * Aguascalientes: José Ma. Chávez Alonso * Campeche: Pablo García Montilla * Chiapas: Juan Clímaco Corzo/ José Gabriel Esquinca * Chihuahua: * Coahuila: * Colima: Ramón R. De la Vega * Durango: * Guanajuato: * Guerrero: * Jalisco: * State of Mexico: * Michoacán: * Nuevo León: Santiago Vidaurri * Oaxaca: * Puebla: * Querétaro: José María Arteaga * San Luis Potosí: * Sinaloa: * Sonora: * Tabasco: * Tamaulipas: * Veracruz: Ignacio de la Llave y Segura Zevallos * Yucatán: * Zacatecas: Events *January 10–12 – 1st Battle of Acapulco *March 16-May 17 – Siege of Puebla (1863) *April 30 – Battle of Camarón *May 5 – Battle of San Pablo del Monte Births *June 16 – Francisco León de la Barra Deaths *April 30 – Jean Danjou, French captain (born 1828 in France) *November 13 – Ignacio Comonfort, President of Mexico 1855-1857 (b. 1812 Events J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amédée Courbet
Anatole-Amédée-Prosper Courbet (26 June 1827 – 11 June 1885) was a French admiral who won a series of important land and naval victories during the Tonkin Campaign (1883–86) and the Sino-French War (August 1884 – April 1885). Early years Courbet was born in Abbeville as the youngest of three children. His father died when he was nine years old. He was educated at the École Polytechnique. From 1849 to 1853 Courbet served as a midshipman (''aspirant'') on the corvette ''Capricieuse'' (''capitaine de vaisseau'' Roquemaurel). ''Capricieuse'' circumnavigated the globe during this period and cruised for several months along the China Coast, giving Courbet his first experience of the seas in which, thirty years later, he would win fame. After his return to France he was posted to the brick ''Olivier'', attached to the Levant naval division. In December 1855, at Smyrna, he intervened to quell a mutiny aboard the ''Messageries impériales'' packet ''Tancrède'', and was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Goblet
René Goblet (; 26 November 1828 – 13 September 1905) was a French politician, Prime Minister of France for a period in 1886–1887. He was born at Aire-sur-la-Lys, Pas-de-Calais and was trained in law. Under the Second Empire, he helped found a Liberal journal, ''Le Progrès de la Somme'', and in July 1871 he was sent by the ''département'' of the Somme to the National Assembly, where he took his place on the extreme left, as a member of the Republican Union parliamentary group (''Union républicaine''). Having failed to secure election in 1876, he was returned for Amiens the following year. He held a minor government office in 1879, and in 1882 became minister of the interior in the Freycinet cabinet. He was minister of education, fine arts and religion in Henri Brisson's first cabinet in 1885, and again under Freycinet in 1886, when he greatly increased his reputation by an able defence of the government's education proposals. Meanwhile, his independence and outspokenn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1892 In France
Events from the year 1892 in France. Incumbents *President: Marie François Sadi Carnot *President of the Council of Ministers: ** until 27 February: Charles de Freycinet ** 27 February-6 December: Émile Loubet ** starting 6 December: Alexandre Ribot Events * 12 July – A hidden lake bursts out of a glacier on the side of Mont Blanc, flooding the valley below and killing around 200 villagers and holidaymakers in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains. * 8 November – Anarchist bomb kills six in police station in Avenue de l'Opera, Paris. * 17 November – French troops occupy Abomey, capital of kingdom of Dahomey. * Panama scandals: The Panama Canal Company bankruptcy is found to have involved over 800,000 French people (including 15,000 single women) losing their investments in stocks, bonds and founder shares of the company, to the sum of approximately 1.8 billion gold Francs. * Venus of Brassempouy discovered. Sport * 20 March – The first ever French rugby championship final takes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder (as in a wheelwright or cartwright). The words combine to indicate a person who has "wrought" words, themes, and other elements into a dramatic form—a play. (The homophone with "write" is coincidental.) The first recorded use of the term "playwright" is from 1605, 73 years before the first written record of the term "dramatist". It appears to have been first used in a pejorative sense by Ben Jonson to suggest a mere tradesman fashioning works for the theatre. Jonson uses the word in his Epigram 49, which is thought to refer to John Marston: :''Epigram XLIX — On Playwright'' :PLAYWRIGHT me reads, and still my verses damns, :He says I want the tongue of epigrams ; :I have no salt, no bawdry he doth mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Librettist
A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as the Mass, requiem and sacred cantata, or the story line of a ballet. ''Libretto'' (; plural ''libretti'' ), from Italian, is the diminutive of the word '' libro'' ("book"). Sometimes other-language equivalents are used for libretti in that language, ''livret'' for French works, ''Textbuch'' for German and ''libreto'' for Spanish. A libretto is distinct from a synopsis or scenario of the plot, in that the libretto contains all the words and stage directions, while a synopsis summarizes the plot. Some ballet historians also use the word ''libretto'' to refer to the 15 to 40 page books which were on sale to 19th century ballet audiences in Paris and contained a very detailed description of the ballet's story, scene by s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hector-Jonathan Crémieux
Hector-Jonathan Crémieux (10 November 1828 – 30 September 1893) was a French librettist and playwright. His best-known work is his collaboration with Ludovic Halévy for Jacques Offenbach's ''Orphée aux Enfers'', known in English as ''Orpheus in the Underworld''. Life Crémieux was born in Paris to a Jewish family - he was related to the lawyer Adolphe Crémieux . He studied law and then worked in the civil service. His first play, ''Fiesque'' (1852) was a historical drama, but before long he started to write comedies and then, in collaboration, operetta and opéra comique librettos. His collaborations with Halévy were often written under the joint pseudonym Paul d'Arcy. In 1887, Crémieux became secretary-general of the Société des Dépôts Comptes Courants, and ceased writing. Five years later, the Société collapsed and he committed suicide by gunshot in Paris. Libretti For Jacques Offenbach * ''Le savetier et le financier'' (1856) - with E About * '' Une demo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1894 In France
Events from the year 1894 in France. Incumbents *President: Marie François Sadi Carnot (until 26 June), Jean Casimir-Perier (starting 26 June) *President of the Council of Ministers: Jean Casimir-Perier (until 30 May), Charles Dupuy (starting 30 May) Events * 4 January – Franco-Russian Alliance: A military alliance is established between France and the Russian Empire, pledged to remain so as long as the Triple Alliance (1882) exists. * 12 February – Anarchist Émile Henry sets off a bomb in a Paris café, killing one person and wounding twenty. * 15 February (04:51 GMT) – French anarchist Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy the Royal Greenwich Observatory, London, England with a bomb. * 22 June – Dahomey becomes a French colony. * 23 June – International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin. * 24 June – Assassination of Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of France. * 15 August – Sante Geronimo C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Rights
Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behavior, whereas in others, they are ignored and suppressed. They differ from broader notions of human rights through claims of an inherent historical and traditional bias against the exercise of rights by women and girls, in favor of men and boys.Hosken, Fran P., 'Towards a Definition of Women's Rights' in ''Human Rights Quarterly'', Vol. 3, No. 2. (May 1981), pp. 1–10. Issues commonly associated with notions of women's rights include the right to bodily integrity and autonomy, to be free from sexual violence, to vote, to hold public office, to enter into legal contracts, to have equal rights in family law, to work, to fair wages or equal pay, to have reproduct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Deraismes
Maria Deraismes (17 August 1828 – 6 February 1894) was a French author, Freemason, and major pioneering force for women's rights. Biography Born in Paris, France, Paris, Maria Deraismes grew up in Pontoise in the city's northwest outskirts. From a prosperous middle-class family, she was well educated and raised in a literary environment. She wrote several literary works and soon developed a reputation as a very capable communicator. She became active in promoting women's rights. Gallica, accessed 23 October 2013 In 1866 a feminist group called the ''Société pour la Revendication du Droit des Femmes'' began to meet at the house of André Léo. Members included Paule Minck, Louise Michel, Eliska Vincent, Élie Reclus and his wife Noémie, Mme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1913 In France
Events from the year 1913 in France. Incumbents *President: Armand Fallières (until 18 February), Raymond Poincaré (starting 18 February) *President of the Council of Ministers: ** until 21 January: Raymond Poincaré ** 21 January-22 March: Aristide Briand ** 22 March-9 December: René Viviani ** starting 9 December: Gaston Doumergue Events *17 January – Raymond Poincaré is elected president *3 February – Trial of the remnants of the Bonnot gang begins. *20 August – 700 feet above Buc, parachutist Adolphe Pegoud jumps from an airplane and lands safely. *23 September – Aviator Roland Garros flies over the Mediterranean. Arts and literature *29 May – Igor Stravinsky's ballet score ''The Rite of Spring'' is premiered in Paris. *12 December – Vincenzo Perugia tries to sell ''Mona Lisa'' in Florence and is arrested. *30 December – Italy returns ''Mona Lisa'' to France. Sport *29 June – Tour de France begins. *27 July – Tour de France ends, won by Philipp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
