1755 In France

picture info	1755 In France Events from the year 1755 in France Incumbents * Monarch – Louis XV Events Opéra national de Montpellier established Action of 8 June 1755 Births Full date missing 1 April – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, lawyer, politician and essayist (died 1826) 16 April – Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, French painter (died 1842) 2 November – Maria Antonia, Austrian Habsburg princess who would later marry the incumbent King Louis XVs grandson, Prince Louis-Auguste (the future Louis XVI). (died 1793) 16 November – Maximin Isnard, revolutionary (died 1825) 17 November – Prince Louis Stanislaus, grandson of the reigning King Louis XV and future Louis XVIII. (died 1824) Deaths Full date missing Jean-Baptiste Oudry, painter, engraver and tapestry designer (born 1686) Jacques Caffieri, sculptor (born 1678) Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, composer (born 1689) Jean-Pierre Christin, physicist, mathematician, astronomer and musician (born 1683) Jean-Louis Lemoyne, scu ... [...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]
	1825 In France Events from the year 1825 in France. Incumbents * Monarch – Charles X * Prime Minister – Joseph de Villèle Events January - Anti-Sacrilege Act, law against blasphemy and sacrilege passed under King Charles X. The law is never applied (except for a minor point). 17 April - Charles X recognizes Haiti, 21 years after it expelled the French after the successful Haitian Revolution. Franco-Trarzan War of 1825, conflict between the forces of the new amir of Trarza, Muhammad al Habib, and France. Canal Saint-Martin opened in Paris. Births January to June 28 February - Jean-Baptiste Arban, cornetist and conductor (died 1889) 16 March - Auguste Poulet-Malassis, printer and publisher (died 1878) 6 May - Charlotte de Rothschild, socialite and painter (died 1899) 7 June - Gustave Emile Boissonade, legal scholar (died 1910) 14 June - Jean-Baptiste Joseph Émile Montégut, critic (died 1895) 30 June - Hervé, composer, librettist and conductor (died 1892) July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Jean Marie, Duke Of Châteauvillain Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Châteauvillain (17 July 1748 – 19 May 1755) was a French Duke and nobleman. He died in Paris at the age of 6. He was the ''duc de Châteauvillain'' from birth. Biography Jean Marie was born in Paris at the Hôtel de Toulouse, Parisian townhouse of the fabulously wealthy Duke of Penthièvre. Penthièvre was the only legitimate son of Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, ''Count of Toulouse'' and in turn the illegitimate son of Louis XIV of France and Madame de Montespan. His mother Princess Maria Teresa d'Este, was also a descendant of Louis XIV and Montespan, her mother Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans being their grand daughter and child of Philippe d'Orléans, ''Régent'' of France. Jean Marie was created ''duc de Châteauvillain'' at his birth, one of the many titles his father possessed. At the time of his birth in 1748, his parents, who were devoted to each other, already had two other sons, Louis Marie born in 1746 and the Prince of Lamballe. At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer (12 May 1703 – 11 January 1755) was a French composer, harpsichordist, organist, and administrator.Lionel Sawkins and David Fuller"Royer, Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace" Grove Music Online. Biography Born in Turin, Royer went to Paris in 1725, and in 1734 became ''maître de musique des enfants de France'', responsible for the musical education of the children of the king, Louis XV. Together with the violinist Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, Royer directed the Concerts Spirituels, starting in 1748. Royer was at the Paris Opéra during the 1730s and the 1750s, writing six operas himself, of which the best known is the ballet héroïque '' Zaïde, reine de Grenade''. In 1753 he acquired the prestigious position of music director of the ''chambre du roi'' (the king's chamber), and in the same year was named director of the Royal Opera orchestra. He died in Paris. Works Royer is particularly known for his often extravagant and virtuosic harpsichord music, especia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot De Villeneuve Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve (28 November 1685 – 29 December 1755) was a French novelist influenced by Madame d'Aulnoy, Charles Perrault, and various précieuse writers. Villeneuve is particularly noted for her original story of ''La Belle et la Bête'', which was published in 1740 and is the oldest known variant of the fairy tale ''Beauty and the Beast''. Biography Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve was born and died in Paris. She belonged to a powerful Protestant family from La Rochelle and was a descendant of Amos Barbot, a Peer of France and a deputy in the Estates General in 1614. His brother, Jean Amos, became mayor of La Rochelle in 1610. Another relative, Jean Barbot (1655-1712), was an early explorer of West Africa and the Caribbean, and worked as an agent on slave ships. He published his travel journals in French and English after he migrated to England to escape the persecution of Protestants after Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Jean-Louis Lemoyne Jean-Louis Lemoyne (1665–1755) was a French sculptor whose works were commissioned by Louis XIV of France, Louis XIV and Louis XV of France, Louis XV. His sculptures are featured in major art museums, including the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, and the National Gallery of Art. Lemoyne was the pupil of Antoine Coysevox. His son Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne was also a noted sculptor. Works La Crainte des Traits de l'Amour- Metropolitan Museum of Art A Companion of Diana- National Gallery of Art * Jacques-Rolland Moreau 1712, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1665 births 1755 deaths 17th-century French sculptors French male sculptors 18th-century French sculptors Artists from Paris 18th-century Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Jean-Pierre Christin Jean-Pierre Christin (31 May 1683 – 19 January 1755) was a French physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and musician. His proposal in 1743 to reverse the Celsius thermometer scale (from water boiling at 0 degrees and ice melting at 100 degrees, to where zero represented the freezing point of water and 100 represented the boiling point of water) was widely accepted and is still in use today. Christin was born in Lyon. He was a founding member of the '' Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon'' and served as its Permanent Secretary from 1713 until 1755. His thermometer was known in France before the Revolution as the thermometer of Lyon. One of these thermometers was kept at the Science Museum A science museum is a museum devoted primarily to science. Older science museums tended to concentrate on static displays of objects related to natural history, paleontology, geology, industry and industrial machinery, etc. Modern trends in ... in London. Thermome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Joseph Bodin De Boismortier Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (23 December 1689 – 28 October 1755) was a French baroque composer of instrumental music, cantatas, opéra-ballets, and vocal music. Boismortier was one of the first composers to have no patrons: having obtained a royal licence for engraving music in 1724, he made enormous sums of money by publishing his music for sale to the public. Biography The Boismortier family moved from the composer's birthplace in Thionville (in Lorraine) to the town of Metz where he received his musical education from Joseph Valette de Montigny, a well-known composer of motets. The Boismortier family then followed Montigny and moved to Perpignan in 1713 where Boismortier found employment in the Royal Tobacco Control. Boismortier married Marie Valette, the daughter of a rich goldsmith and a relative of his teacher Montigny. In 1724 Boismortier and his wife moved to Paris where he began a prodigious composition career, writing for many instruments and voices. He was pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Jacques Caffieri Jacques Caffieri (25 August 1678, Paris – 25 November 1755, Paris) was a French sculptor, working for the most part in bronze. Life Jacques Caffiéri was the fifth son of Philippe Caffieri (1634-1716), the founder of this family of artists. Jacques was received a ''maître fondeur-ciseleur'' by 1715, the date of his first known work, a design for a pall for the ''Corporation des Fondeurs-Ciseleurs'', one of two Parisian guilds that oversaw works cast in metal, from full-scale sculptures to gilt-bronze furniture mounts, wall-lights and candlesticks. As '' fondeurs-ciseleurs'', "casters and finishers", the renown of the Caffieri family has centred on Jacques, though later it is not easy to distinguish between Jacques' work and that of Jacques' son, the younger Philippe (1714–1777). Caffieri was attached as ''fondeur-ciseleur'' to the Bâtiments du Roi in 1736. A large proportion of his brilliant achievement as a designer and chaser in bronze and other metals was executed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Jean-Baptiste Oudry Jean-Baptiste Oudry (; 17 March 1686 – 30 April 1755) was a French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer. He is particularly well known for his naturalistic pictures of animals and his hunt pieces depicting game. His son, Jacques-Charles Oudry, was also a painter. Biography Jean-Baptiste Oudry was born in Paris, the son of Jacques Oudry, a painter and art dealer, and his wife Nicole Papillon,Bryan,1886-9 relative of the engraver Jean-Baptiste-Michel Papillon. His father was a director of the Académie de Saint-Luc art school, which Oudry joined. At first, Oudry concentrated on portraiture, and he became a pupil and perhaps a collaborator of Nicolas de Largillière from 1707 to 1712. He graduated at only 22 years of age, on 21 May 1708, at the same time as his two older brothers. The next year, he married Marie–Marguerite Froissé, the daughter of a ''miroitier'' (a mirror-maker) to whom he gave lessons in painting. Oudry became an assistant professor at Acad� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1824 In France Events from the year 1824 in France. Incumbents * Monarch – Louis XVIII (until 16 September), then Charles X * Prime Minister – Joseph de Villèle Events 25 February - Legislative election held. 6 March - Legislative election held. 16 September - Charles X succeeds Louis XVIII as King of France. Cimetière du Montparnasse is established. Arts and literature The first collection of poetry by Victor Hugo, ''Nouvelles Odes et Poésies Diverses'', is published. Births 11 January - Théophile Nicolas Noblot, politician (died 1891) 15 January - Marie Duplessis, courtesan (died 1847) 11 May - Jean-Léon Gérôme, painter and sculptor (died 1904) 28 June - Paul Broca, physician, anatomist, and anthropologist (died 1880) 12 July - Eugène Boudin, painter (died 1898) 27 July - Alexandre Dumas, fils, writer, author and playwright (died 1895) 6 December - Emmanuel Frémiet, sculptor (died 1910) 14 December - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter (died 1898) 25 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Louis XVIII Of France Louis XVIII (Louis Stanislas Xavier; 17 November 1755 – 16 September 1824), known as the Desired (), was King of France from 1814 to 1824, except for a brief interruption during the Hundred Days in 1815. He spent twenty-three years in exile: during the French Revolution and the First French Empire (1804–1814), and during the Hundred Days. Until his accession to the throne of France, he held the title of Count of Provence as brother of King Louis XVI. On 21 September 1792, the National Convention abolished the monarchy and deposed Louis XVI, who was later executed by guillotine. When his young nephew Louis XVII died in prison in June 1795, the Count of Provence proclaimed himself (titular) king under the name Louis XVIII. Following the French Revolution and during the Napoleonic era, Louis XVIII lived in exile in Prussia, England, and Russia. When the Sixth Coalition finally defeated Napoleon in 1814, Louis XVIII was placed in what he, and the French royalists, con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]