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1845 In France
Events from the year 1845 in France. Incumbents * Monarch – Louis Philippe I Events *12 October – The Société Mathématique de France was founded. *20 November – Battle of Vuelta de Obligado between the Argentine Confederation and an Anglo-French fleet on the waters of the Paraná River. Arts and literature * 1845 – Mérimée writes ''Carmen'' * 1845 – Alexandre Dumas writes ''La Reine Margot'' Births *27 March – Louis Théophile Joseph Landouzy, neurologist (died 1917) *12 May – Henri Brocard, meteorologist and mathematician (died 1922) *12 May – Gabriel Fauré, composer, organist and pianist (died 1924) *18 June – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, physician, awarded 1907 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (died 1922) *18 July – Tristan Corbière, poet (died 1875) *19 August – Edmond James de Rothschild, philanthropist (died 1934) *11 September – Émile Baudot, telegraph engineer (died 1903) *9 October – Ferdinand Arnodin, engineer and indu ... [...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] |
1922 In France
Events from the year 1922 in France. Incumbents *President: Alexandre Millerand *President of the Council of Ministers: Aristide Briand (until 15 January), Raymond Poincare (starting 15 January) Events The year 1922 was signalized at its opening by the conference of Cannes, between France, the United Kingdom, and Belgium, which met to consider the situation created by Germany's declaration of her inability to pay what was demanded of her for 1922. The chief result of this conference was a decision to hold a general European conference at Genoa, and Aristide Briand, the French premier, signed with the British prime minister, David Lloyd George, a draft pact of guarantee which stated that "guarantees for the security of France against a future invasion by Germany are indispensable to the restoration of stability in Europe, to the security of Great Britain, and the peace of the world." At Paris, however, the political atmosphere had become hostile to Briand, who, finding that he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1916 In France
Events from the year 1916 in France. Incumbents *President: Raymond Poincaré *President of the Council of Ministers: Aristide Briand Events *29 January – Paris is bombed by German zeppelins for the first time. *21 February – Battle of Verdun begins. *27 April – Battle of Hulluch in World War I, 47th Brigade, 16th Irish Division decimated in one of the most heavily concentrated gas attacks of the war. *16 May – Britain and France conclude the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement to divide Arab areas of the Ottoman Empire following the conclusion of World War I into French and British spheres of influence. *1 July – First day on the Somme. *14 July – Battle of Bazentin Ridge, start of the second phase of the Battle of the Somme. *15 September – Battle of Flers-Courcelette begins and lasts for a week, third and last large-scale offensive by the British Army during the Battle of the Somme. *25 September – Battle of Morval. *26 September – Battle of Thiepval Ridge b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonin Mercié
Marius Jean Antonin Mercié (October 30, 1845 in Toulouse – December 12, 1916 in Paris), was a French sculptor, medallist and painter. Biography Mercié entered the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and studied under Alexandre Falguière and François Jouffroy, and in 1868 gained the Grand Prix de Rome at the age of 23. His first great popular successes were the ''David'' and '' Gloria Victis'', which was shown and received the Medal of Honour of the Paris Salon. The bronze was subsequently placed in the Square Montholon. The bronze ''David'' was one of his most popular works. The Biblical hero is depicted naked with the head of Goliath at his feet like Donatello's David, but with a turbanned head and sheathing his long sword. Numerous reproductions exist, most of which incorporate a loincloth that covers David's genitalia but not his buttocks. The lifesize original is in the Musée d'Orsay. Mercié was appointed Professor of Drawing and Sculpture at the École des Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Arnodin
Ferdinand Joseph Arnodin (9 October 1845 – 24 April 1924) was a French engineer and industrialist born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Rhône who died in Châteauneuf-sur-Loire in Loiret. Specialising in cableway transporters, he is regarded as the inventor of the transporter bridge, having been the first to patent the idea in 1887.Troyano, L.F., "Bridge Engineering - A Global Perspective", Thomas Telford Publishing, 2003 However, the first such bridge was in fact designed by Alberto Palacio, with Arnodin's help. Nine of the eighteen known examples of the transporter bridge may be attributed to him. Three of them still exist. They use the technology of both suspension bridges and cable-stayed bridges. Arnodin built a great number of second generation suspension bridges at the turn of the 20th century, and he also restored and consolidated a number of old first generation suspension bridges (before 1860): the aprons were reinforced and the old wire cables replaced by spirally-wound dou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1903 In France
Events from the year 1903 in France. Incumbents *President: Émile Loubet *President of the Council of Ministers: Emile Combes Events *10 August – Paris Métro train fire kills 84 people mostly at Couronnes station. Sport *1 July – First Tour de France begins. *19 July – Tour de France ends, won by Maurice Garin. Births January to March *16 January – William Grover-Williams, motor racing driver and war hero. *13 February – Georges Simenon, writer (died 1989) *21 February **Anaïs Nin, writer (died 1977) **Raymond Queneau, poet and novelist (died 1976) *27 February – Fernand Gambiez, General and military historian (died 1989) *8 March – Jean d'Eaubonne, art director (died 1970) *9 March – André Godinat, cyclist (died 1979) April to June *8 May – Fernandel, actor (died 1971) *15 May – Germaine Dieterlen, anthropologist (died 1999) *22 May – Yves Rocard, physicist (died 1992) *2 June – Max Aub, author, playwright and literary critic (died 1972) *18 Jun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émile Baudot
Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (; 11 September 1845 – 28 March 1903), French telegraph engineer and inventor of the first means of digital communication Baudot code, was one of the pioneers of telecommunications. He invented a multiplexed printing telegraph system that used his code and allowed multiple transmissions over a single line. The baud unit was named after him. Early life Baudot was born in Magneux, Haute-Marne, France, the son of farmer Pierre Emile Baudot, who later became the mayor of Magneux. His only formal education was at his local primary school, after which he carried out agricultural work on his father's farm before joining the French Post & Telegraph Administration as an apprentice operator in 1869. The telegraph service trained him in the Morse telegraph and also sent him on a four-month course of instruction on the Hughes printing telegraph system, which was later to inspire his own system. After serving briefly during the Franco-Prussian War, he return ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1934 In France
Events from the year 1934 in France. Incumbents *President: Albert Lebrun *President of the Council of Ministers: ** until 30 January: Camille Chautemps ** 30 January-9 February: Édouard Daladier ** 9 February-8 November: Gaston Doumergue ** starting 8 November: Pierre-Étienne Flandin Events *6 February – an anti-parliamentarist demonstration organised in Paris by far-right leagues, finished in a riot and led to a political crisis. *9 February – Gaston Doumergue forms a new government. *9 October – King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French foreign minister, Louis Barthou, are assassinated during the king's state visit in Marseilles. *2 December – first public performance by the Quintette du Hot Club de France at the Ecole Normale de Musique, 78 rue Cardinet in Paris, as "Un orchestre d'un genre nouveau de Jazz Hot", led by Django Reinhardt. Sport *6 April – The French Rugby League was formed. *3 July – Tour de France begins. *29 July – Tour de France ends, won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond James De Rothschild
Baron Abraham Edmond Benjamin James de Rothschild (Hebrew: הברון אברהם אדמונד בנימין ג'יימס רוטשילד - ''HaBaron Avraham Edmond Binyamin Ya'akov Rotshield''; 19 August 1845 – 2 November 1934) was a French member of the Rothschild banking family. A strong supporter of Zionism, his large donations lent significant support to the movement during its early years, which helped lead to the establishment of the State of Israel – where he is simply known as "The Baron Rothschild", "HaBaron" (''lit.'' "The Baron"), or "Hanadiv" (''lit.'' "The generous one"). Early years A member of the French branch of the Rothschild banking dynasty, he was born in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, the youngest child of James Mayer Rothschild and Betty von Rothschild. He grew up in the world of the Second Republic and the Second Empire and was a soldier "Garde Mobile" in the first Franco-Prussian War. In 1877, he married Adelheid von ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1875 In France
Events from the year 1875 in France. Incumbents *President: Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta *President of the Council of Ministers: Ernest Courtot de Cissey (until 10 March), Louis Buffet (starting 10 March) Events *20 May – Convention du Mètre signed in Paris. *Cize–Bolozon viaduct opens to rail traffic across the Ain. *Gallium is discovered by Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran. Arts and literature *5 January – The Palais Garnier, one of the most famous opera houses in the world, is inaugurated as the home of the Paris Opera. *3 March – The first performance of Bizet's ''Carmen'' at the Opéra Comique, Paris, 3 months before the composer's death. *The Flammarion publishing firm is founded in Paris. Births *17 February – Fanny Clar, journalist and writer (died 1944) *21 February – Jeanne Calment, supercentenarian and the oldest living person ever documented in history (died 1997) *7 March – Maurice Ravel, composer and pianist (died 1937) *27 March – Cécile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tristan Corbière
Tristan Corbière (18 July 1845 – 1 March 1875), born Édouard-Joachim Corbière, was a French poet born in Coat-Congar, Ploujean (now part of Morlaix) in Brittany, where he lived most of his life before dying of tuberculosis at the age of 29. He was a French poet, close to Symbolism, and a figure of the " cursed poet". He is the author of a single collection of poetry ''Les Amours Jaunes'', and of a few prose pieces. He led a mostly marginal and miserable life, nourished by two major failures due to his bone disease and his "ugliness" which he enjoyed accusing: the first is his sentimental life (he only loved one woman, called "Marcelle" in his work), and the second being his passion for the sea (he dreamt of becoming a sailor, like his father, Édouard Corbière). His poetry carries these two great wounds which led him to adopt a very cynical and incisive style, towards himself as much towards the life and world around him. He died at the age of 29, possibly from tubercul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobel Prize For Physiology Or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's 1895 will, are awarded "to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind". Nobel Prizes are awarded in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. The Nobel Prize is presented annually on the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, 10 December. As of 2022, 114 Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine have been awarded to 226 laureates, 214 men and 12 women. The first one was awarded in 1901 to the German physiologist, Emil von Behring, for his work on serum therapy and the development of a vaccine against diphtheria. The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Gerty Cori, received it in 1947 for her role in elucidating the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
