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1703 In France
Events from the year 1703 in France Incumbents * List of French monarchs, Monarch – Louis XIV of France, Louis XIV Events *The Siege of Kehl (1703), siege of Kehl resulted in a French victory *The siege of Guadeloupe – British siege of capital Basse-Terre in the French West Indies Births *3 January – Daniel-Charles Trudaine, administrator and civil engineer (died 1769) *8 January – André Levret, obstetrician (died 1780) *5 January – Paul d'Albert de Luynes, archbishop (died 1788) *15 January – Henriette Louise de Bourbon, princess (died 1772) *22 January – Antoine Walsh, slave trader and Jacobite (died 1763) *31 January – André-Joseph Panckoucke, author and bookseller (died 1753) *3 February – Jean Philippe de Bela, military figure and Basque writer and historian (died 1796) *4 February – Jean Saas, historian and bibliographer (died 1774) *3 March – Charles-Joseph Natoire, rococo painter (died 1777) *4 March – ... [...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 regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its 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 Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin. Its eighteen integral regions (five of which are overseas) span a combined area of and contain clos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Daullé
Jean Daullé (18 May 1703 – 23 April 1763) was a French engraver. Biography He was the son of Jean Daullé, a silversmith, and his wife, Anne née Dennel. At the age of fourteen, he received training from an engraver named Robart, at the priory of Saint-Pierre d'Abbeville. He then went to Paris, and worked at the studios of Robert Hecquet (1693-1775), who was also originally from Picardy. In 1735, his work attracted the attention of the engraver and merchant, Pierre-Jean Mariette, who provided him with professional recommendations. Soon after, he was approached by the painter, Hyacinthe Rigaud, who wanted to make him his official engraver. In 1742, Daullé was received at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, with his presentation, "Hyacinthe Rigaud Painting his Wife", after a work by Rigaud. He was also admitted as a member of the academy in Augsbourg. Eventually named "Engraver to the King", he trained the future publisher and print dealer, Pierre-François ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Clémencet
Charles Clémencet (17035 August 1778) was a French Benedictine historian. He was born in Painblanc, in present-day Côte-d'Or, and was one of the authors who helped complete the great chronological work (the usual short form of a long title). He also wrote part of the monumental ''Histoire littéraire de la France ''Histoire littéraire de la France'' is an enormous history of French literature initiated in 1733 by Dom Rivet and the Benedictines of St. Maur. It was abandoned in 1763 after the publication of volume XII. In 1814, members of the Académie d ...'', and the history of the abbey of Port Royal. He died in Paris. Main publications *1750: , with Maurus Dantine *1753: *1755–1757: (10 volumes) *1758: *1759: *1760: (3 volumes) *1773: ;Collaborations *1733–1763: (12 volumes) *1847: , tomes XII-XIII Notes Bibliography *via HathiTrust {{DEFAULTSORT:Clemencet, Charles 1703 births 1778 deaths 18th-century French historians French Benedictines Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-François Séguier
Jean-François Séguier (; 25 November 1703 – 1 September 1784) was a French archaeologist, epigraphist, astronomer and botanist from Nîmes. He studied law in Montpellier, during which time, he developed a passion for botany. He was a friend and collaborator to Scipio Maffei, with whom he took an extended scientific tour throughout Europe (1732–36). In 1755 he became a member of the Académie de Nîmes, serving as its ''secrétaire perpétuel'' from 1765 to 1784. In 1772 he became a member of the Académie royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. The plant genus ''Seguieria'' (family Petiveriaceae, Loefl., 1758) commemorates his name, as do the botanical species ''Ranunculus seguieri'' ( Vill., 1779), ''Euphorbia seguieriana'' ( Neck., 1770), and '' Dianthus seguieri'' ( Vill., 1779). Published works His written works include a detailed description of the flora in the vicinity of Verona Verona ( , ; vec, Verona or ) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Levesque
Louise Levesque, née Cavelier, (23 November 1703, Rouen – 18 May 1745, Paris) was an 18th-century French femme de lettres. The daughter of a prosecutor at the parlement de Normandie, Louise Cavelier received a good education. At age 20, she married Levesque, a gendarme of the King whom she followed to Paris. Introduced to distinguished writers, these men of letters, of which she made her favorite company and who appreciated the scope of her mind, induced her to write. She therefore devoted her leisure reading and soon indulged herself to poetry. She tried her hand to most varied genres. Works *1731: ''Lettres et chansons de Céphise et d’Uranie'', Paris, in-8° ; *1733: ''Célénie'', histoire allégorique, Paris, 4 part. in-12 ; *1736: ''Le Minet'', pièce comique et facétieuse, Paris, in-12 ; *1736: ''Lélia, ou Histoire de Carthage'', Amsterdam, in-12 ; *1736: ''Judith'', five-act opera, Paris, non performed because no composer accepted to write the music. * ''Remarqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Deparcieux
Antoine Deparcieux (28 October 17032 September 1768) was a French mathematician. He was born at Clessous in the Portes, department of Gard. He attended the school of Saint Florent for 10 years while working on his family farm. In 1725, his desire for learning took him to Lyon, where he studied at a Jesuit school for five years. Then, in 1730, he went to Paris to increase his knowledge of mathematics and physics. He made a living by manufacturing sundials. In 1746, he became a member of the Academy of Sciences, and in about 1765 was named ''Censeur Royal''. He was also librarian at the University of Strasbourg, and member of the Academy of Sciences of Paris, Montpellier, Lyon, Amiens, Metz, Berlin, and Stockholm. Accomplishments Among his constructions were: * A machine to raise water at Crécy castle * A pump for castle of Arnouville * A press for the production of tobacco He also published many works, including: * ''Traité de trigonométrie rectiligne et sphérique'' (17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joachim Faiguet De Villeneuve
Joachim Faiguet de Villeneuve (16 October 1703, Moncontour – 10 November 1781, Néris-les-Bains, Allier) was an 18th-century French economist. Biography First a schoolmaster in Paris and then in the office of Châlons-en-Champagne, Faiguet wrote several articles for the ''Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers'' by Diderot including ''Citation'', ''Dimanche'', ''Epargne'', ''Etude'', ''Explicite'', ''Expulser'', ''Extraction des racines'', ''Fêtes des chrétiens'', ''Fidèle'', '' Langue nouvelle'', ''Maîtrises'', ''Moraves'', ''Sanctification'', ''Terres, mesure des'', and ''Usure''. Under the heading ''Dimanche'' (Sunday), he advocated the use of the poor on Sunday afternoon to community service tasks, both to give them an extra income as well as to maintain the risk of idleness. Faiguet is still known for different pieces of prose and verse inserted in the ''Mercure de France'' and other newspapers. He invented, for the service ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Fresneau De La Gataudière
François Fresneau (29 September 1703 – 25 June 1770) was a French botanist and scientist, and is credited for having written the first scientific paper on rubber Rubber, also called India rubber, latex, Amazonian rubber, ''caucho'', or ''caoutchouc'', as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds. Thailand, Malaysia, an .... He also was known for having the first early idea of waterproof material. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Fresneau de la Gataudiere, Francois 1703 births 1770 deaths 18th-century French botanists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Boucher
François Boucher ( , ; ; 29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories, and pastoral scenes. He was perhaps the most celebrated painter and decorative artist of the 18th century. Life A native of Paris, Boucher was the son of a lesser known painter Nicolas Boucher, who gave him his first artistic training. At the age of seventeen, a painting by Boucher was admired by the painter François Lemoyne. Lemoyne later appointed Boucher as his apprentice, but after only three months, he went to work for the engraver Jean-François Cars.Alastair Laing. "Boucher, François." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 16 June 2016 In 1720, he won the elite Grand Prix de Rome for painting, but did not take up the consequential opportunity to study in Italy until five years later, due to fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1770
Events January– March * January 1 – The foundation of Fort George, Bombay is laid by Colonel Keating, principal engineer, on the site of the former Dongri Fort. * February 1 – Thomas Jefferson's home at Shadwell, Virginia is destroyed by fire, along with most of his books. * February 14 – Scottish explorer James Bruce arrives at Gondar, capital of Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) and is received by the Emperor Tekle Haymanot II and Ras Mikael Sehul. * February 22 – Christopher Seider, an 11-year-old boy in Boston in the British Province of Massachusetts Bay, is shot and killed by a colonial official, Ebenezer Richardson. The funeral sets off anti-British protests that lead to the massacre days later. * March 5 – Boston Massacre: Eleven American men are shot (five fatally) by British troops, in an event that helps start the American Revolutionary War five years later. * March 21 – King Prithvi Narayan Shah shifts to the newly con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillaume-François Rouelle
Guillaume François Rouelle (, 15 September 1703 – 3 August 1770) was a French chemist and apothecary. In 1754 he introduced the concept of a base into chemistry as a substance which reacts with an acid to form a salt). He is known as ''l'Aîné'' (the elder) to distinguish him from his younger brother, Hilaire Rouelle, who was also a chemist and known as the discoverer of urea. He started a public course in his laboratory in 1738 where he taught many students among whom were Denis Diderot, Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, Joseph Proust and Antoine-Augustin Parmentier. He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1749. Why bases for neutral salts were called bases The modern meaning of the word "base" and its general introduction into the chemical vocabulary are usually attributed to the French chemist, Guillaume-François Rouelle (1703–1770), who used the term "Base" in a memoir on salts written in 1754 (see The Origin of the Term "Base" by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
