1840 In France

	1840 In France Events from the year 1840 in France. Incumbents * Monarch – Louis Philippe I Events 20 January - Dumont D'Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica. 1 March - Adolphe Thiers becomes prime minister. 30 September - The frigate '' Belle Poule'' arrives in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, returning the remains of Napoleon from Saint Helena. He is buried in Les Invalides. Metric system again mandatory across France. Arts and literature 11 February - Gaetano Donizetti's opera ''La Fille du Regiment'' premieres in Paris. Births 23 March -Louis-Émile Bertin, naval engineer (died 1924) 2 April - Émile Zola, novelist (died 1902) 22 April - Odilon Redon, painter and printmaker (died 1916) 13 May - Alphonse Daudet, novelist (died 1897) 20 October - Désiré-Magloire Bourneville, neurologist (died 1909) 12 November - Auguste Rodin, sculptor (died 1917) 14 November - Claude Monet, Impressionist painter (died 1926) 1 December - Marie Bracquemond, Impressionist painter (died 1916) D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	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]
picture info	Émile Zola Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (, also , ; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in his renowned newspaper opinion headlined ''J'Accuse…!'' Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902. Early life Zola was born in Paris in 1840 to François Zola (originally Francesco Zolla) and Émilie Aubert. His father was an Italian engineer with some Greek ancestry, who was born in Venice in 1795, and engineered the Zola Dam in Aix-en-Provence; his mother was French. The family moved to Aix-en-Provence in the southeast when Émile was three years old. Four years later, in 1847, his father die ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Nicolas Joseph Maison Nicolas Joseph Maison, 1st Marquis of Maison (19 December 1771 – 13 February 1840) was a Marshal of France and Minister of War.Nicolas Joseph Maison , in Adolphe Robert and Gaston Cougny, Dictionnaire des parlementaires français (1789–1891), Bourloton, Paris, 1889. Life Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars Nicolas-Joseph Maison was born in Épinay-sur-Seine , near Paris on 19 December 1771. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Marie Bracquemond Marie Bracquemond (1 December 1840 – 17 January 1916) was a French Impressionist artist. She was one of four notable women in the Impressionist movement, along with Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), Berthe Morisot (1841-1895), and Eva Gonzales (1847-1883). Bracquemond studied drawing as a child and began showing her work at the Paris Salon when she was still an adolescent. She never underwent formal art training, but she received limited instruction from Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867) and advice from Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) which contributed to her stylistic approach. She married noted printmaker Félix Bracquemond (1833–1914), who helped popularize Japanese art in France. Together, they produced ceramic art for Haviland & Co., a manufacturer of Limoges porcelain. Marie's frequent omission from books on artists is sometimes attributed to the efforts of her husband. Although Félix participated with the Impressionist exhibitions, he notably disapproved of the mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1926 In France Events from the year 1926 in France. Incumbents President: Gaston Doumergue President of the Council of Ministers: until 20 July: Aristide Briand 20 July-23 July: Édouard Herriot ** starting 23 July: Raymond Poincaré Events 9 May – French navy bombards Damascus because of Druze riots. 15 July – Grand Mosque of Paris inaugurated. 24 November – The village of Rocquebillier on the Riviera is almost destroyed in a massive hailstorm. The ''Guide Michelin'' first awards stars to restaurants. Arts and literature Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts institutes the ''Prix Puvis de Chavannes'', named after co-founder and first president, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. Sport 20 June – Tour de France begins. 18 July – Tour de France ends, won by Lucien Buysse of Belgium. Births January to June 17 January – Robert Filliou, artist (died 1987) 2 February – Philippe Chatrier, tennis player (died 2000) 7 February – Pierre Villette, composer (died 1998) 11 Feb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, , ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to ''plein air'' (outdoor) landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting '' Impression, soleil levant'', exhibited in the 1874 ("exhibition of rejects") initiated by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon. Monet was raised in Le Havre, Normandy, and became interested in the outdoors and drawing from an early age. Although his mother, Louise-Justine Aubrée Monet, supported his ambitions to be a painter, his father, Claude-Adolphe, disapproved and wanted him to pursue a career in business. He was very close to his mot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1917 In France This is a list of events from 1917 in France. Incumbents President: Raymond Poincaré President of the Council of Ministers: until 20 March: Aristide Briand 20 March-12 September: Alexandre Ribot 12 September-16 November: Paul Painlevé starting 16 November: Georges Clemenceau Events * 13 February – Dutch dancer Mata Hari is arrested in Paris for spying for Germany. * 9 April – Battle of Arras, a British Empire offensive, begins. * 16 April – Second Battle of the Aisne begins, the main action of the French Nivelle Offensive. * 26 April – The Agreement of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, between France, Italy and the United Kingdom, to settle interests in the Middle East, is signed. * 29 April – Architect of the Second Battle of the Aisne and French Commander-in-Chief, General Robert Nivelle, is dismissed and replaced on 15 May by Philippe Pétain. * 3 May – 1917 French Army mutinies begin when the French 2nd Division refuses to follow orders to attack. * 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Auguste Rodin François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 184017 November 1917) was a French sculptor, generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, and deeply pocketed surface in clay. He is known for such sculptures as ''The Thinker'', ''Monument to Balzac'', '' The Kiss'', ''The Burghers of Calais'', and ''The Gates of Hell''. Many of Rodin's most notable sculptures were criticized, as they clashed with predominant figurative sculpture traditions in which works were decorative, formulaic, or highly thematic. Rodin's most original work departed from traditional themes of mythology and allegory. He modeled the human body with naturalism, and his sculptures celebrate individual character and physicality. Although Rodin was sensitive to the controversy surrounding his work, he refused to change his style, and his continued output brought increas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1909 In France Events from the year 1909 in France. Incumbents President: Armand Fallières President of the Council of Ministers: Georges Clemenceau (until 24 July), Aristide Briand (starting 24 July) Events 20 February - The Futurist Manifesto, written by Italian Filippo Marinetti, is published in ''Le Figaro''. 2 February - The Paris Film Congress opens. It is an attempt to form a cartel of leading European producers similar to that of the MPPC in the United States 18 April - Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome. 25 July - Louis Bleriot is the first man to fly across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air craft. 30 July – Société Française de teintures inoffersires, as predecessor of L'Oréal was founded. 22 September - Three of the Chauffeurs de la Drome are executed by guillotine in Valence, Drôme in south-west France. They were a gang responsible for a three-year campaign of theft, torture and murder in the department of Drôme. Sport 5 July - Tour de France begins. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Désiré-Magloire Bourneville Désiré-Magloire Bourneville () (20 October 1840 – 28 May 1909) was a French neurologist born in Garencières. Career He studied medicine in Paris, and worked as ''interne des hôpitaux'' at the Salpêtrière, Bicêtre, Hôpital Saint-Louis and the Pitié. During the Franco-Prussian War, he served as both a surgeon and an assistant medical officer. From 1879 to 1905 he was a physician of pediatric services at Bicêtre. In Paris, he founded a day school for special instruction of children with mental disability. In 1866, during a severe cholera epidemic in Amiens, he volunteered his services, and after the siege had passed, was presented with a gold watch as an expression of the city's gratitude. During the Paris Commune (1871), when revolutionaries wanted to execute their wounded enemies, Bourneville intervened and saved the prisoners' lives. He was elected to the Paris city council in 1876 and to the French Parliament in 1883, where he served as a deputy until 1889. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1897 In France Events from the year 1897 in France. Incumbents President: Félix Faure President of the Council of Ministers: Jules Méline Events * 4 May – Bazar de la Charité Fire. * 9 December – First issue of the feminist newspaper ''La Fronde'' is published by Marguerite Durand. * Alexandre Darracq begins manufacture of motor vehicles at A. Darracq et Cie in the Paris suburb of Suresnes. Arts and literature * At Giverny, Claude Monet begins painting his ''Water Lilies'' series, which will continue until the end of his life. * 28 December – The play ''Cyrano de Bergerac'', by Edmond Rostand, premieres in Paris. Births January to June * 21 January – René Iché, sculptor (died 1954) * 30 March – Raymond Borderie, film producer (died 1982) * 4 April – Pierre Fresnay, actor (died 1975) * 1 May – Aimée Antoinette Camus, botanist (died 1965) * 27 May – Lucien Cailliet, composer, conductor, arranger and clarinetist (died 1985) July to September * 3 July – Charles Tillon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Alphonse Daudet Alphonse Daudet (; 13 May 184016 December 1897) was a French novelist. He was the husband of Julia Daudet and father of Edmée, Léon and Lucien Daudet. Early life Daudet was born in Nîmes, France. His family, on both sides, belonged to the ''bourgeoisie''. His father, Vincent Daudet, was a silk manufacturer — a man dogged through life by misfortune and failure. Alphonse, amid much truancy, had a depressing boyhood. In 1856 he left Lyon, where his schooldays had been mainly spent, and began his career as a schoolteacher at Alès, Gard, in the south of France. The position proved to be intolerable and Daudet said later that for months after leaving Alès he would wake with horror, thinking he was still among his unruly pupils. These experiences and others were reflected in his novel ''Le Petit Chose''. On 1 November 1857, he abandoned teaching and took refuge with his brother Ernest Daudet, only some three years his senior, who was trying, "and thereto soberly," to make a living ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

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Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars