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1879 In France
Events from the year 1879 in France. Incumbents *President: Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta (until 30 January) Jules Grévy (starting 30 January) *President of the Council of Ministers: ** until 4 February: Jules Armand Dufaure ** 4 February-28 December: William Waddington. ** starting 28 December: Charles de Freycinet Events * April – Postman Ferdinand Cheval begins to build his ''Palais Idéal'' at Hauterives. * 1 June – Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial (Napoléon IV), great-nephew of Napoléon Bonaparte, Bonapartist Pretender to the throne, dies in Africa during the Anglo-Zulu War. * 17 July – Freycinet Plan enacted to extend rail and other transportation systems. * "La Marseillaise" is restored as the French national anthem. Births * 22 January – Francis Picabia, painter and poet (died 1953 in France, 1953) * 4 February – Jacques Copeau, journalist, actor, playwright, director, teacher (died 949 in France, 1949) * 23 March – René Jeannel, entomologist (d ... [...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] |
Francis Picabia
Francis Picabia (: born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia; 22January 1879 – 30November 1953) was a French avant-garde painter, poet and typographist. After experimenting with Impressionism and Pointillism, Picabia became associated with Cubism. His highly Abstract art, abstract planar compositions were colourful and rich in contrasts. He was one of the early major figures of the Dada movement in the United States and in France. He was later briefly associated with Surrealism, but would soon turn his back on the art establishment. Biography Early life Francis Picabia was born in Paris of a French mother and a Cuban father of Spanish descent. Some sources would have his father as of aristocratic Spanish descent, whereas others consider him of non-aristocratic Spanish descent, from the region of Galicia (Spain), Galicia. His birth year of 1879 coincided with the Spanish-Cuban Little War (Cuba), Little War; and though Picabia was born in Paris, his father was involved in Cuba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
League Of Nations
The League of Nations (french: link=no, Société des Nations ) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. The main organization ceased operations on 20 April 1946 but many of its components were relocated into the new United Nations. The League's primary goals were stated in its Covenant. They included preventing wars through collective security and disarmament and settling international disputes through negotiation and arbitration. Its other concerns included labour conditions, just treatment of native inhabitants, human and drug trafficking, the arms trade, global health, prisoners of war, and protection of minorities in Europe. The Covenant of the League of Nations was signed on 28 June 1919 as Part I of the Treaty of Versailles, and it became effective together with the rest of the Treaty on 10 January 1920. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Avenol
Joseph Louis Anne Marie Charles Avenol (; 9 June 1879 – 2 September 1952) was a French diplomat. He served as the second Secretary General of the League of Nations from 3 July 1933 to 31 August 1940. He was preceded by Sir Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth, Eric Drummond of the United Kingdom, who was general secretary between 1920 and 1933. He was succeeded by the Irish diplomat Seán Lester, who was general secretary between 1940 and 1946, when the League dissolved.James Barros, ''Betrayal from Within: Joseph Avenol, Secretary-General of the League of Nations, 1933-1940'' (1969). League of Nations Avenol was sent to the League of Nations from the French Treasury Department in 1922 to handle the League's finances. He was under secretary-general in 1933, when Eric Drummond resigned. He became secretary-general because the first secretary-general had been British and there had been a private agreement Treaty of Versailles, at Versailles that the next would be French. Avenol was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1907 In France
Events from the year 1907 in France. Incumbents *President of France, President: Armand Fallières *Prime Minister of France, President of the Council of Ministers: Georges Clemenceau Events * 2 January – Latest Anti-clericalism laws comes into force, which forbids crucifixes in schools * 11 February – The French cruiser Jean Bart, French cruiser ''Jean Bart'' sinks off the coast of Morocco. * March – ESSEC Business School is founded. * 12 March – The French battleship Iéna, French battleship ''Iéna'' blows up at Toulon; 120 lives lost. * 6 April – Louis Blériot flies his new monoplane ten yards. * 10 April – French doctors announce the discovery of a new serum to cure dysentery. * 18 April – Georges Clemenceau orders dismissal of striking civil servants; army mobilised for fear of May Day unrest. * 17 May – Several thousand riot during the revolt of the Languedoc winegrowers at Béziers in the south of France. * 9 June – Aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont's comb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1906 Tour De France
The 1906 Tour de France was the fourth edition of the Tour de France, and the second to use the points system. Taking place from 4 to 29 July, the total race distance was run over 13 stages, with the winner averaging . New to this year's edition were the mountain climbs in the Massif Central. However, like its predecessors, cheating and sabotage still took place. Four competitors were disqualified for taking trains as a shortcut and spectators threw nails on the road. However, this did not stop René Pottier from taking a big lead in the first stages. Free of the tendinitis that had plagued his 1905 chances, he dominated the entire race. Innovations and changes Tour organiser Henri Desgrange had been happy with the increased length of the 1905 Tour de France, and decided to put even more stages in the 1906 version. The introduction of mountain stages had also been successful, so this year not only the Vosges Mountains, Vosges were included, but also the Massif Central. The incr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Pottier
René Pottier (5 June 1879 in Moret-sur-Loing, Seine-et-Marne – 25 January 1907 in Levallois-Perret) was a French racing cyclist. Pottier won the amateur category of the 1903 Bordeaux–Paris race before turning professional. He came second in Paris–Roubaix 1905 and Bordeaux–Paris 1905, then third in 1906's Paris–Roubaix, before winning the Tour de France in 1906. He was considered the finest climber of the Tour. In the 1905 race he was first up the Ballon d'Alsace but lost the lead to Hippolyte Aucouturier after nails punctured his final spare tyre. He finished the stage only when Aucouturier gave him one of his spare tyres. Injury due to a fall on the next stage to Grenoble caused him to abandon. The following year he took five stage wins out of thirteen and overall victory with 31 points. Again he was first up the Ballon d'Alsace but this time he stayed ahead, finishing as Dijon 48 minutes before his nearest competitor. He also won in Grenoble by fifteen minute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1944 In France
Events from the year 1944 in France. Incumbents *Chairman of the Provisional Government: Philippe Pétain (until 20 August), Charles de Gaulle (starting 20 August) * Vice-President of the Council of Ministers: Pierre Laval (until 20 August), Charles de Gaulle (starting 20 August) Events *15 March – The National Council of the French Resistance approves the Resistance programme. *1 June – BBC transmits coded messages (including the first line of a poem by Paul Verlaine) to underground resistance fighters in France warning that the invasion of Europe is imminent. *2 June – The provisional French government is established. *5 June **More than 1000 British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day. **At 10:15 p.m. local time, the BBC transmits coded messages including the second line of the Paul Verlaine poem to the underground resistance indicating that the invasion of Europe is about to begin. *6 June **Bat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Poiret
Paul Poiret (20 April 1879 – 30 April 1944, Paris, France) was a French fashion designer, a master couturier during the first two decades of the 20th century. He was the founder of his namesake haute couture house. Early life and career Poiret was born on 20 April 1879 to a cloth merchant in the poor neighborhood of Les Halles, Paris. Bowles, Hamish. "Fashioning the Century." ''Vogue'' (May 2007): 236–250. condensed version of this articleappears online. His older sister, Jeanne, would later become a jewelry designer. Poiret's parents, in an effort to rid him of his natural pride, apprenticed him to an umbrella maker. There, he collected scraps of silk left over from the cutting of umbrella patterns, and fashioned clothes for a doll that one of his sisters had given him. While a teenager, Poiret took his sketches to Louise Chéruit, a prominent dressmaker, who purchased a dozen from him. Poiret continued to sell his drawings to major Parisian couture houses, until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1965 In France
Events from the year 1965 in France. Incumbents *President: Charles de Gaulle *Prime Minister: Georges Pompidou Events *5 January – Launch of the Renault 16, the world's first production hatchback car. *14 March – Municipal elections held. *21 March – Municipal elections held. *16 July – The Mont Blanc Tunnel is inaugurated by presidents Giuseppe Saragat and Charles de Gaulle. *22 October – Authors André Figueras and Jacques Laurent are fined for their comments against Charles De Gaulle. *28 October – Foreign Minister Couve de Murville travels to Moscow. *29 October – Mehdi Ben Barka, a Moroccan politician, is kidnapped in Paris and never seen again. *3 November – President Charles de Gaulle announces that he will stand for re-election. *26 November – At the Hammaguir, a launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, '' Asterix-1'' on board, becoming the third country to enter space. *5 December – Charles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entomologist
Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arachnids, myriapods, and crustaceans. This wider meaning may still be encountered in informal use. Like several of the other fields that are categorized within zoology, entomology is a taxon-based category; any form of scientific study in which there is a focus on insect-related inquiries is, by definition, entomology. Entomology therefore overlaps with a cross-section of topics as diverse as molecular genetics, behavior, neuroscience, biomechanics, biochemistry, systematics, physiology, developmental biology, ecology, morphology, and paleontology. Over 1.3 million insect species have been described, more than two-thirds of all known species. Some insect species date back to around 400 million years ago. They have many kinds of intera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Jeannel
René Jeannel (23 March 1879 – 20 February 1965) was a French entomologist.Jean-Jacques Amigo, « Jeannel (René, Gabriel, Marie) », in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications de l'olivier, 2017, 915 p. () He was director of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle from 1945 to 1951. Jeannel's most important work was on the insect fauna of caves in the Pyrenees, France and in the Carpathians, Romania. He also worked in Africa. Jeannel specialised in Leiodidae (then Silphidae or Catopidae) but authored a large number of papers and works on other Coleoptera. He was a member of the Romanian Academy. As the son of a medical officer in the French military, Jeannel was expected to succeed his father. However, after developing an interest, during his studies in Toulouse, in cave exploration and especially cave fauna, he began considering a career in biological science instead. His interest was especially ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
