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Aimé-Ambroise-Joseph Feutry
Aimé-Ambroise-Joseph Feutry (1720–1789) was a French lawyer, writer, and engineer. Born in Lille, Lille, France, Aimé initially pursued law before abandoning his career to become a writer in the early 1750s. From the success of his literary and poetic works he funded his tertiary occupation: developing military technology. His renown in the literary world brought him into the elite social circles of Passy, where he encountered Benjamin Franklin, to whom he would write to frequently. Feutry thereby adopted Franklin’s cause of American Revolution, American Independence, composing verse in praise of the man and his mission. He was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1786. References 1720 births 1789 deaths French poets Members of the American Philosophical Society {{France-poet-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lille
Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, department, and the main city of the Métropole Européenne de Lille, European Metropolis of Lille. The city of Lille proper had a population of 234,475 in 2019 within its small municipal territory of , but together with its French suburbs and exurbs the Lille metropolitan area (French part only), which extends over , had a population of 1,510,079 that same year (Jan. 2019 census), the fourth most populated in France after Paris, Lyon, and Marseille. The city of Lille and 94 suburban French municipalities have formed since 2015 the Métropole Européenne de Lille, European Metropolis of Lille, an Indirect election, indirectly elected Métropole, metr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
