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1886 In France
Events from the year 1886 in France. Incumbents * President: Jules Grévy * President of the Council of Ministers: ** until 7 January: Henri Brisson ** 7 January-16 December: Charles de Freycinet ** starting 16 December: René Goblet Events * 15 May – Portugal and France agree to regulate the borders of their colonies in Guinea. Arts and literature * 30 November – Folies Bergère in Paris stages its first revue. * Georges Seurat finishes painting '' A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte''. Births January to June * 28 January – Georges Painvin, cryptanalyst (died 1980) * 5 March – Léon Mathot, actor and film director (died 1968) * 7 March – Jacques Majorelle, painter (died 1962) * 7 March – René Thomas, motor racing driver (died 1975) * 28 March – Gustave Mesny, army general (died 1945) * 29 March – Paul Amiot, actor (died 1979) * 15 April – Amédée Ozenfant, cubist painter (died 1966) * 19 April – Hermine David, painter (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of France
The president of France, officially the president of the French Republic (french: Président de la République française), is the executive head of state of France, and the commander-in-chief of the French Armed Forces. As the presidency is the supreme magistracy of the country, the position is the highest office in France. The powers, functions and duties of prior presidential offices, in addition to their relation with the Prime Minister of France, prime minister and Government of France, have over time differed with the various constitutional documents since the French Second Republic, Second Republic. The president of the French Republic is the ''Ex officio member, ex officio'' Co-Princes of Andorra, co-prince of Andorra, grand master of the Legion of Honour and of the Ordre national du Mérite, National Order of Merit. The officeholder is also honorary proto-canon of the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome, although some have rejected the title in the past. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Thomas (auto Racing)
René Thomas may refer to: * René Thomas (sport shooter) (1865–1925), French sport shooter * René Thomas (racing driver) René Thomas (7 March 1886 – 23 September 1975) was a French motor racing champion. Thomas was also a pioneer aviator. He won the 1914 Indianapolis 500. Biography He was born on 7 March 1886 in Périgueux, France. A leading driver in his nativ ... (1886–1975), French motor racing champion and pioneer aviator * René Thomas (guitarist) (1927–1975), Belgian jazz guitarist * René Thomas (biologist) (1928–2017), Belgian scientist {{hndis, Thomas, Rene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oldest People
This is a list of tables of the oldest people in the world in ordinal ranks. To avoid including false or unconfirmed claims of old age, names here are restricted to those people whose ages have been validated by an international body dealing in longevity research, such as the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) or ''Guinness World Records'' (GWR), and others who have otherwise been reliably sourced. The longest documented and verified human lifespan is that of Jeanne Calment of France (1875–1997), a woman who lived to age 122 years and 164 days. She claimed to have met Vincent van Gogh when she was 12 or 13. She received news media attention in 1985, after turning 110. Calment's claim was investigated and authenticated by Jean-Marie Robine and Dr Michel Allard for the GRG. Her longevity claim was put into question in 2018, but the original assessing team stood by their judgement. As women live longer than men on average, women predominate in combined records. The longest l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supercentenarian
A supercentenarian (sometimes hyphenated as super-centenarian) is a person who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in 1,000 centenarians. Supercentenarians typically live a life free of major age-related diseases until shortly before the maximum human lifespan is reached. Etymology The term "Supercentenarian", originally hyphenated as Super-centenarian, has existed since 1870. The terminology "Ultracentenarian", has also been used to describe someone over 100 years. Norris McWhirter, editor of ''Guinness World Records'', used the term in association with age claim's researcher A. Ross Eckler Jr. in 1976, and the term was further popularised in 1991 by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book '' Generations''. The term "semisupercentenarian", has been used to describe someone from 105-109 originally the term "supercentenarian" was used to mean someone well over the age of 100, but 110 years and over became the cutoff point of accepted criteri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Brémont
French supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from France who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age. , the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 161 French supercentenarians. France was home to the oldest human being ever whose longevity is well documented, Jeanne Calment, who lived in Arles for her entire life of 122 years and 164 days. The oldest verified Frenchman ever is Maurice Floquet, a veteran of World War I who lived to age 111 years and 320 days across three centuries (1894–2006). The oldest known living French person is Marie-Rose Tessier, born 21 May 1910 and aged as of . 100 oldest French people ever Biographies Marie Brémont Marie Marthe Augustine Lemaitre Brémont (née Mésange; 25 April 1886 – 6 June 2001) was the oldest recognised person in the world from November 2000 until her death at age 115 years and 42 days. She was born in Noëllet, Maine-et-Loire, on April 25, 1886. Her first hus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970 In France
Events from the year 1970 in France. Incumbents * President: Georges Pompidou * Prime Minister: Jacques Chaban-Delmas Events *10 February – An avalanche at Val d'Isère kills 39 tourists. *8 March – Cantonales Elections held. *15 March – Cantonales Elections held. *25 March – Concorde makes its first supersonic flight (700 mph/1127 km/h). *11 April – 74 people, mostly young boys, die as an avalanche buries a tuberculosis sanatorium in the French Alps. *6 October – President Georges Pompidou visits the Soviet Union. *11 October – Eleven French soldiers are killed in a shootout with rebels in Chad. *1 November – Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, Isère, kills 146. *Undated ** Citroen launches two new models: the GS family saloon and estate, and the SM sporting coupe. The Citroen GS is voted European Car of the Year. **Establishment of Parc naturel régional de Camargue. Sport *27 June – Tour de France begins. *19 July – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermine David
Hermine Lionette Cartan David (19 April 1886 in Paris – 1 December 1970 in Bry-sur-Marne) was a French painter. Early life and education Hermine David was born in Paris in 1886. She was born out of wedlock; her mother insisted that her biological father was a Habsburg archduke. Career She became one of the Ecole de Paris artists, a group of mostly non-French artists, émigrés particularly from eastern Europe who were working in Paris before World War I. Jules Pascin was another member of that artistic group, whom she met in 1907. By that time, she was already well-established as a successful young painter, miniaturist and printmaker. She followed Pascin to the United States in 1915, where they were married on 25 September 1918. They stayed a total of five years, past the end of World War I. David exhibited in New York City during her residence there. In 1920, after they returned to France, she exhibited in London and in several solo shows at prominent Paris galleries. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 In France
Events from the year 1966 in France. Incumbents * President: Charles de Gaulle * Prime Minister: Georges Pompidou Events *4 January – A gas leak fire at the Feyzin oil refinery near Lyon, kills 18 and injures 84. *10 January – ''L'Express'' publishes a story of Georges Figon, who took part in the kidnapping of Mehdi Ben Barka. *18 January – Police announce that Georges Figon committed suicide, prior to his arrest for the kidnapping of Mehdi Ben Barka. *7 March – Charles de Gaulle asks U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson for negotiations about the state of NATO equipment in France. *11 March – President Charles de Gaulle states that French troops will be taken out of NATO and that all French NATO bases and HQ's must be closed within a year. *17 June – An Air France personnel strike begins. *20 June – President Charles de Gaulle starts visit to the Soviet Union. *30 June – France formally leaves NATO. *26 August – Riots occur in French Somaliland. *30 August – Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. In art, the term ''painting ''describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate multiple other materials, including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf, and even whole objects. Painting is an important form in the visual arts, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture (as in gestural painting), narration (as in narrative art), and abstraction (as in abstract art). Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in still life and landscape painting), photographic, abstract, nar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cubist
Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from a single viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century. The term is broadly used in association with a wide variety of art produced in Paris (Montmartre and Montparnasse) or near Paris ( Puteaux) during the 1910s and throughout the 1920s. The movement was pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, and joined by Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Henri Le Fauconnier, Juan Gris, and Fernand Léger. One primary influence that led to Cubism was the representation of three-dimensional form in the late works of Pau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amédée Ozenfant
Amédée Ozenfant (15 April 1886 – 4 May 1966) was a French cubist painter and writer. Together with Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (later known as Le Corbusier) he founded the Purist movement. Education Ozenfant was born into a bourgeois family in Saint-Quentin, Aisne and was educated at Dominican colleges in Saint-Sébastien.Judi Freeman. "Ozenfant, Amédée." ''Grove Art Online''. Retrieved 26 November 2012. After completing his education he returned to Saint-Quentin and began painting in watercolour and pastels. In 1904 he attended a drawing course run by Jules-Alexandre Patrouillard Degrave at the Ecole Municipale de Dessin Quentin Delatour in Saint-Quentin. In 1905 he began training in decorative arts in Paris, where his teachers were Maurice Pillard Verneuil and later Charles Cottet. By 1907 he had enrolled in the Académie de La Palette, where he studied under Jacques-Emile Blanche.Cowling, Elizabeth; Mundy, Jennifer (1990). ''On Classic Ground: Picasso, Léger, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979 In France
Events from the year 1979 in France. Incumbents * President: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing * Prime Minister: Raymond Barre Events * 1 January - Peugeot completes its takeover of Chrysler Europe, which includes the Simca factories in France and the former Rootes Group factories in Britain. The deal was agreed eight months ago. It is unclear whether the Chrysler brand on British market models will be replaced by Simca branding, or whether a new or different brand within the combine will replace it. *8 January - French tanker ''Betelgeuse'' explodes at the Gulf Oil terminal at Bantry in Ireland; 50 are killed. *February - Peugeot becomes the first carmaker to offer a turbo-diesel engine, fitting the engine to their range-topping 604 saloon. The Simca Horizon is European Car of the Year for 1979. *18 March - Cantonales elections held. *25 March - Cantonales elections held. *6 – 8 April - Metz Congress of the French Socialist Party. *May - Launch of the Peugeot 505, a large rear-wheel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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