|
Alexandre Louis Ducrest De Villeneuve
Alexandre Louis Ducrest de VilleneuveThe Ancien Régime orthography is "Alexandre Louis du Crest de Villeneuve"; the graphy "Ducrest de Villeneuve" or "Ducrest Villeneuve" was used during the Revolution and the Empire. The archives of the Navy (see the Fonds Marine) use "Ducrest de Villeneuve", while Troude uses "Ducrest Villeneuve". (Le Theil-de-Bretagne, 7 March 1777 - Paris, 22 March 1852) was a French naval officer and admiral. Career Ducrest de Villeneuve joined the Navy in 1791, aged 14. In 1796, he was a midshipman first class, and in 1800 he had risen to ensign. In 1805, he served on ''Redoutable'', under Captain Lucas, and took part in the Battle of Trafalgar, where he was seriously wounded trying to board HMS ''Victory''. Taken prisoner, he was detained on ''Redoutable'', and narrowly escaped drowning when she foundered the next day. In 1808, Ducrest de Villeneuve have been promoted to lieutenant and was appointed on 26 July to the command of the aviso ''Mouche n° ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre De Villeneuve
Alexandre de Villeneuve (25 May 1677, Hyères – 1756) was an 18th-century French classical composer. A priest in Hyères, he was received in 1697 as a chorister in Saint-Trophime d'Arles and became master of Music in 1701. He remained in this office until 1706 and then went to Paris. In 1719 he published a book of sacred music Religious music (also sacred music) is a type of music that is performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence. It may overlap with ritual music, which is music, sacred or not, performed or composed for or as ritual. Relig ... dedicated to Madame d'Orléans. See also External links ''La Princesse d'Elide''on Gallica {{DEFAULTSORT:Villeneuve, Alexandre French Baroque composers French male classical composers People from Hyères 1677 births 1756 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narcisse-Achille De Salvandy
Narcisse-Achille de Salvandy (; 11 June 1795 – 16 December 1856) was a French politician. He was born at Condom, Gers of a poor family of Irish extraction. He joined the army in 1813, and in the following year joined the household troops of Louis XVIII of France. His patriotic pamphlet on ''La Coalition et la France'' (1816) attracted the attention of Elie, Comte Decazes, who employed him to disseminate his views in the press, and he waged war against the Jean-Baptiste, Comte de Villèle ministry of 1822–1828. Under the July monarchy he sat almost continuously in the Chamber of Deputies from 1830 till 1848, remaining steadfast to his Moderate Liberal principles. Minister of education in Louis-Mathieu Molé's cabinet of 1837–1839, and again in 1845, he superintended the reconstitution of the Council of Education, the foundation of the French School at Athens and the restoration of the École des Chartes. For short periods in 1841 and 1843 he was ambassador at Madrid an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legion Of Honour
The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte, it has been retained (with occasional slight alterations) by all later French governments and regimes. The order's motto is ' ("Honour and Fatherland"); its Seat (legal entity), seat is the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur next to the Musée d'Orsay, on the left bank of the Seine in Paris. The order is divided into five degrees of increasing distinction: ' (Knight), ' (Officer), ' (Commander (order), Commander), ' (Grand Officer) and ' (Grand Cross). History Consulate During the French Revolution, all of the French Order of chivalry, orders of chivalry were abolished and replaced with Weapons of Honour. It was the wish of Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte, the French Consulate, First Consul, to create a reward to commend c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Préfet Maritime
A maritime prefect ( French: ''Préfet maritime'') is a servant of the French State who exercises authority over the sea in a particular region under French jurisdiction, known as a maritime arrondissement (''Arrondissement maritime''). His administration is known as a maritime prefecture (''Préfecture maritime''). As of , there are three maritime prefects in metropolitan France, based in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (Channel and North Sea), Brest (Atlantic Ocean) and Toulon (Mediterranean Sea). Two additional maritime prefects were based in Rochefort until 1927 and Lorient until 1941. As a senior civil servant, the officeholder is appointed by and reports to the Prime Minister. The maritime prefect, who is simultaneously charged of military operations, therefore also reports to the Chief of the Defence Staff (''Chef d'état-major des armées''). History The dignity was created on 27 April 1800 under the French Consulate to unify the command of harbours (civil administrator) and the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgian Revolution
The Belgian Revolution (, ) was the conflict which led to the secession of the southern provinces (mainly the former Southern Netherlands) from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the establishment of an independent Kingdom of Belgium. The people of the south were mainly Flemings and Walloons. Both peoples were traditionally Roman Catholic as contrasted with Protestant-dominated (Dutch Reformed) people of the north. Many outspoken liberals regarded King William I's rule as despotic. There were high levels of unemployment and industrial unrest among the working classes. On 25 August 1830, riots erupted in Brussels and shops were looted. Theatregoers who had just watched the nationalistic opera ''La muette de Portici'' joined the mob. Uprisings followed elsewhere in the country. Factories were occupied and machinery destroyed. Order was restored briefly after William committed troops to the Southern Provinces but rioting continued and leadership was taken up by radicals, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy-Victor Duperré
Guy-Victor Duperré (20 February 1775 – 2 November 1846) was a French naval officer and Admiral of France. He is known for commanding French naval forces in the Mauritius campaign of 1809–11 and was victorious in the Battle of Grand Port, where he was wounded. Later he had a command in the Mediterranean and continued to serve during and after the Bourbon Restoration. He commanded the naval elements of the expeditionary force that carried out the Invasion of Algiers in 1830 and went on to become Minister of the Navy three times. Early years and education Duperré was born on20 February 1775 in La RochelleB. Barbiche, ''Les institutions de la monarchie française à l'époque moderne'', Presses universitaires de France, 1999. to Jean Augustin Duperré, counselor of the king and financer for war, and Marie-Gabrielle Prat-Desprez. He spent a few years with the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri at the Collège de Juilly, before enlisting at 16 on the ''Henri IV'', a French East I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athanase Hyacinthe Bouvet De Lozier
Athanase is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Antoine-Athanase Royer-Collard (1768–1825), French physician born in the village of Sompuis, département Marne *Athanase Coquerel (other) *Athanase David (1882–1953), Canadian lawyer, politician, and businessman ***Prix Athanase-David, annual literary award, part of the Prix du Québec *Athanase Gaudet (1848–1888), farmer, merchant and political figure in Quebec * Athanase Josué Coquerel (1820–1875), French Protestant theologian, son of Athanase Laurent Charles Coquerel *Athanase Laurent Charles Coquerel (1795–1868), French Protestant theologian, born in Paris *Athanase Seromba (born 1963), Rwandan priest found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity committed in the Rwandan genocide *Athanase-Charles-Marie Charette de la Contrie (1832–1911), French royalist military commander *Charles Athanase Walckenaer (1771–1852), French civil servant and scientist * Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bourbon Restoration In France
The Bourbon Restoration was the period of French history during which the House of Bourbon returned to power after the first fall of Napoleon on 3 May 1814. Briefly interrupted by the Hundred Days War in 1815, the Restoration lasted until the July Revolution of 26 July 1830. Louis XVIII and Charles X, brothers of the executed king Louis XVI, successively mounted the throne and instituted a conservative government intended to restore the proprieties, if not all the institutions, of the Ancien Régime. Exiled supporters of the monarchy returned to France but were unable to reverse most of the changes made by the French Revolution. Exhausted by decades of war, the nation experienced a period of internal and external peace, stable economic prosperity and the preliminaries of industrialization. Background Following the French Revolution (1789–1799), Napoleon Bonaparte became ruler of France. After years of expansion of his French Empire by successive military victories, a coaliti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Fluyt Égyptienne (1812)
''Égyptienne'' was a ''Licorne''-class fluyt of the French Navy. Career Built as ''Égyptienne'' under the First French Empire, the ship was renamed to ''Normande'' during the Bourbon Restoration. Again renamed ''Égyptienne'' during the Hundred Days, she sailed from Basque Roads to Santa Cruz de Tenerife on 17 February 1815, under Lieutenant Charmasson, to retrieve French refugees and bring them back to Lorient. Renamed ''Normande'' again after the second abdication of Napoléon, she was rebuilt in 1816. After the Second Treaty of Paris restored the French colonies lost to Britain, ''Normande'' took part in the evacuation of the British soldiers that occupied them: from 25 to 27 November 1816, she ferried troops from Pointe-à-Pitre to Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago, as well as from Fort-Royal de la Martinique to Grenada, under Commander Ducrest de Villeneuve. She then crossed the Atlantic, ferrying passengers from Basse-Terre to Brest. From 3 January to 3 March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Venerable (1808)
HMS ''Venerable'' was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 12 April 1808 at Northfleet. Career On 13 December 1810 ''Venerable'' was in company with the hired armed cutter and several other vessels at the capture of ''Goede Trouw''. On 12 March 1812, as the merchant ship was returning from Lima and Cadiz, the French privateer ''Amelia'' captured her. However, recaptured ''Ramoncita''. The salvage money notice stated that ''Virago'' had been in company with ''Venerable'', , , and . On 31 December 1813, she captured the French letter of marque brig ''Jason'' which became . ''Jason'', of 264 tons (bm), was pierced for 22 guns but carried 14, 12 of which she had thrown overboard when ''Venerable'' chased her. She had left Bordeaux five days earlier and was sailing for New York with a cargo of silks, wines, and other articles of merchandise. There were 64 people on board, ten of whom were passengers. She was on her maiden voyage, copper-botto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.jpg "Click for more on -> Belgian Revolution")
