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1776 In France
Events from the year 1776 in France Incumbents * Monarch – Louis XVI Events * June–July – Claude-François-Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d'Abbans, demonstrates his steamboat ''Palmipède'' on the Doubs (river). * August – The guild organisation ''Marchandes de modes'' is founded. Births *1 April – Sophie Germain, mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (died 1831) *4 August – Pierre-Simon Ballanche, writer and counterrevolutionary philosopher (died 1847) Full date missing * Peter Gilles, composer (died 1839) Deaths *4 May – Jacques Saly, sculptor (born 1717) *25 August – Germain-François Poullain de Saint-Foix, writer and playwright (born 1698) *17 October – Pierre François le Courayer, writer (born 1681) Full date missing *Augustin Roux, encyclopedist (born 1726) * Marie Durand, Protestant martyr (d. 1711 In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Tuesday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days beh ... [...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] |
Pierre-Simon Ballanche
Pierre-Simon Ballanche (4 August 1776 – 12 June 1847) was a French writer and counterrevolutionary philosopher, who elaborated a theology of progress that possessed considerable influence in French literary circles in the beginning of the nineteenth century. He was the ninth member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1842. Life and career Early years Born in Lyon, Ballanche was seventeen when his imagination was marked for life by the horrors of the French Revolution. In 1793, the city's royalist revolt against the authority of the revolutionary Convention ended with guillotining or summary execution of about 700 people. This, and an unhappy love affair early in life, left him with an abidingly tragic view of life as sanctified suffering, a view that he embodied in his works, of which the best known was an unfinished multi-part work entitled ''Essais de palingénésie sociale'' ("Essays on Social Palingenesis"). "Palingenesis" was a term by which Ballanche r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Durand
Marie Durand (1711–1776), was a French Protestant. She was famously imprisoned in the Tour de Constance (Aigues-Mortes) from 25 August 1730 for attending a Huguenot assembly with her mother, or perhaps because her brother, Pierre Durand, was a well-known preacher, or perhaps because of her marriage. Early life Marie was born to Etienne and Claudine Durand from the hamlet of Le Bouchet near Privas in France. Her older brother Pierre became well known as a Huguenot preacher and pastor. Her father Etienne who was consular registrar of the parish was arrested in February, 1729. He was jailed in Brescou at the fort where he was interned for fourteen years. Marie married a much older man who was at least in his forties, Mathieu Serres, later that same year. Her father Etienne was finally released as ninety-two year old although he only had a further two years to conclude his ruined life. Her brother was caught on the road to Vermoux in 1732 and was hanged at Montpellier in that same y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustin Roux
Augustin Roux (; 26 January 1726 – 28 June 1776) was a French doctor, encyclopedist and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment. Roux was born in Bordeaux, where he studied medicine. He received his doctorate in 1750 and then came to Paris where, on the recommendation of Montesquieu, he was able to obtain the financial support that his family had refused him as punishment for not pursuing an ecclesiastical career. After learning English, Roux translated several English books into French, taught a course of medicine and worked as doctor at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris. He succeeded Vandermonde as editor of the Journal of Medicine in 1762. His extensive knowledge of chemistry resulted in his appointment as professor of science at the Faculty in 1771. Roux regularly attended the salon of Baron d'Holbach. He died on September 1, 1776 in Paris. Notes References * Pierre Larousse Pierre Athanase Larousse (23 October 18173 January 1875) was a French grammarian, lexi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre François Le Courayer
Pierre François le Courayer (17 November 1681 – 17 October 1776) was a French Catholic theological writer, for many years an expatriate in England. Life Pierre François le Courayer was born at Rouen. While canon regular and librarian of the abbey of St Genevieve at Paris, he conducted a correspondence with Archbishop William Wake on the subject of episcopal succession in England, which supplied him with material for his work, ''Dissertation sur la validité des ordinations des Anglais et sur la succession des évéques de l'Eglise anglicane, avec les preuves justificatives des faits avancés'' (''Dissertation on the validity of the Englishmen's ordinations and on the episcopal succession in the Anglican Church, with the justificatory proofs of the facts advanced''), published anonymously in 1723 with a fake publication location of Brussels. That work was an attempt to prove that there has been no break in the line of ordination from the apostles to the clergy of the Church of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germain-François Poullain De Saint-Foix
Germain-François Poullain de Saint-Foix (5 February 1698 – 25 August 1776) was an 18th-century French writer and playwright. Life He served with the musketeers until he was 36, distinguishing himself at Guastalla in 1734. He then left the army and purchased a post as "maître des eaux et forêts" in Rennes. He published his first comedy, ''Pandore'', in 1721 and from 1740 devoted himself entirely to writing, setting up in Paris and becoming a fashionable author there. He wrote 20 comedies in all. In 1764 he was made historian of the ordre du Saint-Esprit. The jurist Auguste-Marie Poullain-Duparc was his brother. Works * ''Pandore'' (1721) * ''Lettres d’une Turque à Paris'' (1730), in imitation of the ''Persian Letters'' by Montesquieu - reissued under the titles ''Lettres de Nedim Koggia'' (1732) and ''Lettres turques'' (1760) * ''L’Oracle'' (1740) * ''Deucalion et Pyrrha'' (1741) * ''L’Île sauvage'' (1743) * ''Le Sylphe'' (1743) * ''Les Grâces'' (1744) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Saly
Jacques François Joseph Saly, also known as Jacques Saly (20 June 1717 – 4 May 1776), French-born sculptor who worked in France, Italy and Malta. He is commonly associated with his time in Denmark he served as Director of the Royal Danish Academy of Art (1754–71). His most noteworthy work is the equestrian statue ''Frederik V on Horseback'' at Amalienborg. Life Training as a sculptor and early career He was born in Valenciennes to François Marie Saly (1684–1776) and his wife Marie-Michelle Jardez (1690–1760). He began his training as a sculptor at nine years of age under local master Antoine Gilles in Valenciennes from 1726-1727. In spite of his parents' meager income, he was sent to Paris in 1732 to train in the studio of the leading sculptor at Paris, Guillaume Coustou. At the same time he attended the school of the ''Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture'', winning medals in 1734, 1737 and 1738. Winning that last medal, first place in the ''Prix de Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Gilles
:''Peter Gilles is also an Anglicisation of the name of the Flemish humanist Pieter Gillis.'' Peter Gilles was born 1776 in France and died 1839 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. He emigrated to the United States around 1815 with his father Peter Gilles Sr. and his brother, Henri Noël Gilles. Peter Gilles was a violoncellist and one of the first American Composershttp://www.voxnovus.com/resources/American_Composer_Timeline.htm American Composer Timeline He was a founding member of the Musical Fund Society The Musical Fund Society is one of the oldest musical societies in the United States founded in February 1820 by Benjamin Carr, Raynor Taylor, George Schetky and Benjamin Cross, and the painter Thomas Sully. Its first public concert on April 22, 182 .... List of works *La bergère d'elaissêe References 1776 births 1839 deaths American male composers American composers French emigrants to the United States {{US-composer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Germain
Marie-Sophie Germain (; 1 April 1776 – 27 June 1831) was a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. Despite initial opposition from her parents and difficulties presented by society, she gained education from books in her father's library, including ones by Euler, and from correspondence with famous mathematicians such as Lagrange, Legendre, and Gauss (under the pseudonym of Monsieur LeBlanc). One of the pioneers of elasticity theory, she won the grand prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences for her essay on the subject. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem provided a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after. Because of prejudice against her sex, she was unable to make a career out of mathematics, but she worked independently throughout her life. Before her death, Gauss had recommended that she be awarded an honorary degree, but that never occurred. On 27 June 1831, she died from breast cancer. At the centenary of her life, a stre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of French Monarchs
France was ruled by monarchs from the establishment of the Kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second French Empire in 1870, with several interruptions. Classical French historiography usually regards Clovis I () as the first king of France, however historians today consider that such a kingdom did not begin until the establishment of West Francia. Titles The kings used the title "King of the Franks" ( la, Rex Francorum) until the late twelfth century; the first to adopt the title of "King of France" (Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...: ''Rex Franciae''; French language, French: ''roi de France'') was Philip II of France, Philip II in 1190 (r. 1180–1223), after which the title "King of the Franks" gradually lost ground. However, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germain
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Germain may refer to: * Germain (name), including a list of people with the name * Germain Arena, the former name of an arena in Estero, Florida * Germain Racing, a NASCAR racing team * Germain Amphitheater, a concert venue in Columbus, Ohio *Paris Saint-Germain F.C., a football club based in Paris, France. *Ateliers Germain, a pioneer Belgian carmaker *, the former French train ferry ''Saint Germain'' renamed for her voyage to India for scrapping See also * Goermans, a harpsichord-making family * Saint-Germain (other) *Germanus (other) *Germane *Germaine (other) Germaine may refer to: Given name *Germaine Arnaktauyok (born 1946), Inuk printmaker, painter, and drawer *Germaine Cousin (1579-1601), French saint *Germaine Greer (born 1939), feminist writer and academic *Germaine Koh (born 1967), Malaysian-born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marchandes De Modes
Marchande de modes was a French Guild organisation for women fashion merchants or milliners, normally meaning ornaments for headdresses, hats and dresses, within the city of Paris, active from August 1776 until 1791. It played a dominating role within the commercial life and fashion industry of France during the last decades prior to the French Revolution. Amongst its members where Rose Bertin, Mademoiselle Alexandre and Madame Eloffe. See also * Maîtresses marchandes lingères * Maîtresses couturières Maîtresses couturières was a French guild organisation for seamstresses within the city of Paris, active from 30 March 1675 until 1791. It was one of only three guilds open to women in Paris prior to 1776, the other two being the '' Maitresses bou ... References * James-Sarazin, Ariane et Lapasin, Régis, Gazette des atours de Marie-Antoinette, Paris, Réunion des Musées Nationaux - Archives nationales, 2006 {{Expand French, date=January 2018, Marchande de modes Guilds in F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
