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1760 In France
Events from the year 1760 in France Incumbents * Monarch – Louis XV Events *14 July – Battle of Emsdorf *31 July – Battle of Warburg *15 October – Battle of Kloster Kampen *Claimed – Foundation of Lombart Chocolate company Births *10 January – Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, painter (died 1832) *5 February – Charlotte de Robespierre (died 1834) *2 March – Camille Desmoulins, journalist and politician during the French Revolution (executed 1794) *30 September – Madame de Saint-Laurent (died 1830) *6 October – Victoire Babois, poet and writer of elegies (died 1839) *20 October – Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth, soldier and politician (died 1829) Deaths *3 April – Jacob B. Winslow, anatomist (born 1669) *11 April – Louis de Silvestre, painter (born 1675) *10 June – Louis-Gui de Guérapin de Vauréal, ecclesiastic and diplomat (born 1688) *13 September – Guy Auguste de Rohan-C ... [...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] |
1830 In France
Events from the year 1830 in France. Incumbents * Monarch – Charles X (abdicated 2 August), ''Vacant'' (2–9 August), then Louis Philippe I (from 9 August) Events * July 5 - French invasion of Algiers in 1830. * July 17 - Barthélemy Thimonnier is granted a patent (#7454) for a sewing machine. It chain stitches at 200/minute. * July 25 - Rioting breaks out in Paris against Charles X * July 27–29 - July Revolution ("Three Glorious Days") - people in Paris rebel against the Ordinance of St. Cloud by King Charles X of France and clash against the National Guard - 1,800 rioters and 300 soldiers die and the king has to flee the capital. * August 2 - Abdication of King Charles X in favor of his grandson, Henry, Count of Chambord, who is not allowed to take the throne. * August 9 - The Duke of Orleans becomes King Louis Philippe. François-René de Chateaubriand sacrifices his political career by refusing to swear an oath of allegiance to the new king and retires to write his m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Bouvard
François Bouvard (c. 1684–1760) was a French composer of the Baroque era. Originally from Lyon, Bouvard began his career as a singer at the Paris Opéra at the age of sixteen. When the quality of his voice deteriorated, he went to study in Rome and devoted himself to playing the violin and composition. His first opera, the ''tragédie en musique'' '' Médus'', appeared in Paris in 1702. Works Operas *'' Médus, roi des Mèdes'' (''tragédie en musique'', 1702) *''Cassandre'' (''tragédie en musique'', written in collaboration with Toussaint Bertin de la Doué Toussaint Bertin de la Doué (or Thomas Bertin de la Doué) (1680 – 6 February 1743) was a French composer of the Baroque era. He worked as an organist for the Theatines, as a musician for the Duc d'Orléans and as a violinist and harpsichordi ..., 1706) *''Saül, ou L'ombre de Samuel'' (''intermèdes'' for a spoken tragedy by an anonymous author, 1706) *''L'école de Mars'' (''divertissement'', published 1738) *''Dia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre-Alexandre Aveline
Pierre-Alexandre Aveline (1702–1760) was a French engraver, portraitist, illustrator, and printmaker. Biography Aveline was born in Paris into a family of artists, including his father Pierre Aveline and brother Antoine Aveline. In 1737 he joined the Académie de peinture et de sculpture (Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture) in Paris. He primarily worked with copperplate in his engraving. He is best known for his reproductions of other artists' works. For example, ''The Signboard of the Gersaint Gallery'' is a reproduction of ''L'Enseigne de Gersaint'' by Antoine Watteau Jean-Antoine Watteau (, , ; baptised October 10, 1684died July 18, 1721) Alsavailablevia Oxford Art Online (subscription needed). was a French painter and draughtsman whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, a .... References Further reading * * * * * External links 1702 births 1760 deaths 18th-century French engravers Engravers from Paris {{Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon
''Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon'' is a Danish encyclopedia that has been published in several editions. The first edition, ''Salmonsens Store Illustrerede Konversationsleksikon'' was published in nineteen volumes 1893–1911 by Brødrene Salmonsens Forlag, and named after the publisher Isaac Salmonsen. The second edition, ''Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon'', was published in 26 volumes 1915–1930, under the editorship of Christian Blangstrup (volume 1–21), and Johannes Brøndum-Nielsen and Palle Raunkjær (volume 22–26), issued by J. H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. Editions * ''Salmonsens Store Illustrerede Konversationsleksikon'', 19 volumes, Copenhagen: Brødrene Salmonsen, 1893–1911 * ''Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon'', 2nd edition, editors: Christian Blangstrup (I–XXI), Johannes Brøndum-Nielsen and Palle Raunkjær (XXII–XXVI), 26 volumes, Copenhagen: J. H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel, 1915–1930. * ''Den Lille Salmonsen'', 3rd edition, 12 volumes, Copenhage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Colin De Blamont
François Colin de Blamont (22 November 1690 – 14 February 1760) was a French composer of the Baroque era. Born at Versailles as François Colin, he served as a royal musician and was eventually ennobled in 1750, his surname becoming ''Colin de Blamont''. He was the protégé of Michel Richard Delalande and succeeded the latter as Master of the Chapelle Royale on his death in 1726. Blamont wrote motets and cantatas as well as stage works, including the opera ''Les fêtes grecques et romaines'', intended to be the first in a new genre, the ''ballet héroïque'', which would challenge the supremacy of the ''opéra-ballet ''Opéra-ballet'' (; plural: ''opéras-ballets'') is a genre of French Baroque lyric theatre that was most popular during the 18th century, combining elements of opera and ballet, "that grew out of the '' ballets à entrées'' of the early seven ...''. SourcesLe magazine de l'opéra baroque by Jean-Claude-Brenac (in French) External links * French male c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Auguste De Rohan-Chabot
Guy Auguste de Rohan-Chabot known as the ''comte de Chabot'' (18 August 1683 – 13 September 1760), often referred to as Chevalier de Rohan, was a French nobleman most notable for an altercation with Voltaire. He was the son of Louis de Rohan-Chabot, Duc de Rohan, Prince de Leon and Marie Élisabeth du Bec-Crespin de Grimaldi, Marquise de Vardes. Guy Auguste married twice, first Yvonne Sylvie Breil de Rays (1712 – 15 July 1740) on 7 February 1729, with whom he fathered two sons, Louis Antoine Auguste and Charles. After his wife's death he married Mary Apolonia Scolastica Stafford-Howard (17 February 1721 – 16 May 1769) on 25 May 1744. He died in 1760 Paris, France. His son Louis Antoine succeeded Guy Auguste's father as the Duke of Rohan. Altercation with Voltaire Guy-Auguste is mostly remembered for an altercation with the young Voltaire in 1725, in which both men insulted each other. He then hired some thugs to assault Voltaire while he watched from his carriage. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-Gui De Guérapin De Vauréal
Louis-Guy de Guérapin de Vauréal (3 January 1687, in Brienne-la-Vieille – 10 June 1760) was a French ecclesiastic and diplomat. He was Maison ecclésiastique du roi de France, master of the king's chapel in 1732 and bishop of Rennes (1732–58). A major opponent of the Jansenists, he presided at five assemblies of the clergy of Brittany between 1732 and 1740. He was also entrusted with many embassies, notably to Madrid between 1740 and 1749, and was elected to the Académie française in 1749, though the only writings he has left are some church documents. References External linksAcadémie Française 1687 births 1760 deaths Ambassadors of France to Spain Bishops of Rennes 18th-century French diplomats 18th-century French Roman Catholic bishops Members of the Académie Française {{France-RC-bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis De Silvestre
Louis de Silvestre (23 June 1675 – 11 April 1760) was a French portrait and history painter. He was court painter to King Augustus II of Poland, and director of the Royal Academy of Arts in Dresden. Life and work Sylvestre was born in Sceaux, south of Paris, the third son of Israel Silvestre, the notable engraver and drawing-master to the Grand Dauphin himself. Louis was taught initially by his father, then trained under Charles Le Brun and Bon Boullogne; he completed his studies in Rome, where he met Carlo Maratta, whose work had a great influence on him.Louis-Étienne Dussieux, Les Artistes français à l’étranger' (Paris; Lyon, Jacques Lecoffre, 1876) pp. 86-88. After his return to Paris, Sylvester entered the Académie de peinture et de sculpture in 1702 and was appointed professor in 1706. The main works he painted at this time were ''The Healing of the paralytic at the door of the Temple'' (1703) and the portrait of Louis XV (1715). Friedrich August II, the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob B
Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Jacob first appears in the Book of Genesis, where he is described as the son of Isaac and Rebecca, and the grandson of Abraham, Sarah, and Bethuel. According to the biblical account, he was the second-born of Isaac's children, the elder being Jacob's fraternal twin brother, Esau. Jacob is said to have bought Esau's birthright and, with his mother's help, deceived his aging father to bless him instead of Esau. Later in the narrative, following a severe drought in his homeland of Canaan, Jacob and his descendants, with the help of his son Joseph (who had become a confidant of the pharaoh), moved to Egypt where Jacob died at the age of 147. He is supposed to have been buried in the Cave of Machpelah. Jacob had twelve sons through four women, his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1829 In France
Events from the year 1829 in France. Incumbents * Monarch – Charles X * Prime Minister – Jean Baptiste Gay (until 8 August), then Jules de Polignac Events *26 July – Red trousers ('' pantalon rouge'') adopted as standard Army uniform. *17 November – Jules de Polignac becomes president of the council of ministers. *Barthélemy Thimonnier invented the "sewing machine" Births *10 January – Henri-Émile Bazin, hydraulic engineer (d. 1917) *20 February – Charles-Auguste Lebourg, sculptor (d. 1906) *22 February – Henri-Jacques Espérandieu, architect (d. 1874) *18 July – Paul Dubois, sculptor (d. 1905) *25 November – Charles de Varigny, adventurer, diplomat, translator and writer (d. 1899) *21 December – Gabriel-Auguste Ancelet, architect (d. 1895) *date unknown – Peter Howard, U.S. sailor (d. 1875) Deaths *18 March – Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth, soldier and politician (b. 1760) *6 July – Pierre Dumanoir le Pelley, admiral (b. 177 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, Comte De Lameth
Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth (20 October 176018 March 1829) was a French soldier and politician. Life Alexandre Lameth was born in Paris on 20 October 1760 and was the youngest child of Marie Thérèse de Broglie. His mother was the sister of the Maréchal de Broglie and a favourite of Marie Antoinette. His other two brothers were, Théodore Lameth (1756–1854), who served in the American war, sat in the Legislative Assembly as deputy from the department of Jura, and became maréchal-de-camp; and Charles Malo François Lameth, who was a popular politician and a hero of the American War of Independence. He served in the American War of Independence as a colonel in the Royal Lorraine Regiment under Rochambeau. He was also a Knight of the Order of Malta like his brother Charles Lameth. Like many other veterans from the American War of Independence, and those among the French Patriot Party, Lameth became friends with Thomas Jefferson. His commitment to moderat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
