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1799 In France
This article lists events from the year 1799 in France Incumbents * Until 10 November – the French Directory – five Directors * From 10 November – the French Consulate – three consuls Events * The French Revolutionary Wars resumed, with a number of campaigns * 9 November – Coup of 18 Brumaire * 10 November – disbanding of the French Directory, and establishment of the French Consulate Births * 20 May – Honoré de Balzac, novelist and playwright (died 1850) * 8 July – Oscar I of Sweden, king of Sweden and Norway (died 1859) * 9 July – Théophile Tilmant, violinist (died 1878) Deaths * 19 February – Jean-Charles de Borda, mathematician (born 1733) * 5 April – Honoré Fragonard, anatomist (born 1732) * 28 April – François Giroust, composer (born 1737) * 9 May – Claude Balbastre, composer (born 1724) * 18 May – Pierre Beaumarchais, playwright, watchmaker, satirist and revolutionary (born 1732) * 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bouchot - Le General Bonaparte Au Conseil Des Cinq-Cents
''For people with the surname, see Bouchot (surname).'' The Bouchot is a river in the France, French region of Grand Est which flows in the Vosges (département), Vosges department. It is a right tributary of the Moselotte, and thus a sub-tributary of the Rhine via the Moselotte and the Moselle. It is long. Geography The Bouchot rises in the Massif des Vosges, on a flank of the ''Tête de Grouvelin'', a peak located within the commune of Gérardmer in the ''Bas-Rupts'' section. The Bouchot is thus also known as the ''ruisseau des Hauts-Rupts'' from its source to its confluence with the ''ruisseau des Bas-Rupts''. It flows through Rochesson, follows Gerbamont, then flows into Sapois, Vosges, Sapois where the ''ruisseau de Menaurupt'' joins its right bank. After flowing through Vagney, it joins the right bank of the Moselotte. At Gerbamont, it cascades at the ''Saut du Bouchot'', a waterfall that is high. Hydrology The discharge (hydrology), hydrological discharge of the Bouc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillaume Voiriot
Guillaume Voiriot (20 November 1712 – 9 December 1799Catherine Voiriot, "Guillaume Voiriot (1712 – 1799)", ''Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français'' 2004 issue (2005) 111–57p. 113.) was a French portrait painter. Biography Voiriot was born in Paris into a family originally from Lorraine; his father was a sculptor. He travelled to Italy at his own expense from 1746 to 1749, studying at the French Academy in Rome. On his return he initially joined the Académie de Saint-Luc as a pastellist, then in 1759 was accepted into the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture as a painter in oils,Neil Jeffares"VOIRIOT, Guillaume: Paris 1712–1799" ''Dictionary of pastellists before 1800'', 2006, online ed. updated 20 March 2013. on the strength of portraits of the painters Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre and Jean-Marc Nattier.Madeleine Pinault-Sørensen, "À propos de relations et de correspondants de Cideville", ''Fontenelle et les Lumières'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton
Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton (29 May 1716 – 1 January 1800) was a French naturalist and contributor to the ''Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers''. Biography Daubenton was born at Montbard, Côte-d'Or. His father, Jean Daubenton, a notary, intended him for the church, and sent him to Paris to study theology, but Louis-Jean-Marie was more interested in medicine. Jean's death in 1736 set his son free to choose his own career, and in 1741 he graduated in medicine at Reims and returned to his hometown, planning to practice as a physician. At about this time, Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, also a native of Montbard, was preparing to bring out a multi-volume work on natural history, the ''Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière'', and in 1742 he invited Daubenton to assist him by providing anatomical descriptions. In many respects, the two men were complete opposites, but they worked well in partnership. In 1744, Daubenton becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Étienne Montucla
Jean-Étienne Montucla (5 September 1725 – 18 December 1799) was a French mathematician and historian. Montucla was born at Lyon, France. In 1754 he published an anonymous treatise on quadrature, ''Histoire des recherches sur la quadrature du cercle''. Montucla's deep interest in history of mathematics became apparent with his publication of ''Histoire des Mathématiques'', the first part appearing in 1758. According to George Sarton, the ''Histoire'' is :a history of the mathematical sciences, and might almost be called a history of science from the mathematical angle, even as many histories of medicine are to some extent histories of science written from the medical angle. He was appointed intendant-secretary of Grenoble in 1758, secretary to the expedition for colonizing Cayenne in 1764, and chief architect and censor-royal for mathematical books in 1765. In 1778 he re-edited Jacques Ozanam's ''Recreations mathématiques'', afterwards published in English by Charles Hutton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillaume Voiriot
Guillaume Voiriot (20 November 1712 – 9 December 1799Catherine Voiriot, "Guillaume Voiriot (1712 – 1799)", ''Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français'' 2004 issue (2005) 111–57p. 113.) was a French portrait painter. Biography Voiriot was born in Paris into a family originally from Lorraine (region), Lorraine; his father was a sculptor. He travelled to Italy at his own expense from 1746 to 1749, studying at the French Academy in Rome. On his return he initially joined the Académie de Saint-Luc as a pastellist, then in 1759 was accepted into the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture as a painter in oil painting, oils,Neil Jeffares"VOIRIOT, Guillaume: Paris 1712–1799" ''Dictionary of pastellists before 1800'', 2006, online ed. updated 20 March 2013. on the strength of portraits of the painters Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre and Jean-Marc Nattier.Madeleine Pinault-Sørensen, "À propos de relations et de correspondants de Cideville ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Claude Cadet De Gassicourt
Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt (24 July 1731 Р17 October 1799) was a French chemist who synthesised the first organometalic compound. He obtained a red liquid by the reaction of potassium acetate with arsenic trioxide. This liquid is known as Cadet's fuming liquid and contains the two compounds cacodyl and cacodyl oxide. Cadet studied at the Coll̬ge des Quatre-Nations and became a pharmacist at the Hotel Royal des Invalides in Paris. He was the brother of the pharmacist Antoine-Alexis Cadet de Vaux. Marie Th̩r̬se Fran̤oise Boisselet became his wife in 1771, at that time her son, fathered by Louis XV, was two years old. The boy was adopted by Cadet as Charles-Louis Cadet. Cadet was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1787. In 1825, botanist Antoine Laurent Apollinaire F̩e circumscribed ''Gassicurtia'' which is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Caliciaceae The Caliciaceae are a family of mostly lichen-forming fungi belonging to the class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier
Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier (sometimes written as Lemonnier) (27 June 1717 – 7 September 1799) was a French natural scientist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers''. He was born near Vire as the son of Pierre Le Monnier (1675–1757), who was a scientist himself and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. Cuvier, G.: '' Éloge historique de Lemmonier'', 7 October 1800. Louis-Guillaume's older brother was the astronomer Pierre Charles Le Monnier.Crépel, P.:La 'physique' dans ''l'Encyclopédie'', ''Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie, numéro 40–41'', 2006. ISSN 1955-2416. Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier worked in physics, geology, medicine, and botany. In 1739 he accompanied the expedition of César-François Cassini de Thury and Nicolas Louis de Lacaille to extend the Meridian of Paris and documented mines and the geology and botany along the route. In the same year, he also began working at the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1665 In France
Events from the year 1665 in France. Incumbents *Monarch: Louis XIV Events * January 5 – The '' Journal des sçavans'' begins publication, the world's first scientific journal. * October 21 – Manufacture royale de glaces de miroirs (Royal Mirror-Glass Factory, a predecessor of Saint-Gobain), is established by royal letters patent issued by Jean-Baptiste Colbert in Paris. * Colonisation of Réunion begins with the French East India Company sending twenty settlers. Arts and literature * February 15 – Molière's comedy ''Dom Juan'' is first presented, at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré) in Paris, in its original prose version with the playwright playing Sganarelle; it is withdrawn after 15 performances following attacks on its morality. * April–November – Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini is fêted in Paris. * April 17 – Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy (elected this year to the Académie française), begins a year's imp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Élisabeth Jacquet De La Guerre
Élisabeth Claude Jacquet de La Guerre (, née Jacquet, 17 March 1665 – 27 June 1729) was a French musician, harpsichordist and composer. Life and works Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre (née Jacquet) was born on March 17, 1665, into a family of musicians and master instrument-makers in the parish of Saint-Louis-en-l'Île, Paris. She came from a rich family of masons, musicians, composers, and instrument makers. Her grandfather, Jehan Jacquet, and her father, Claude Jacquet, were harpsichord makers. Rather than just teaching his sons, Claude Jacquet taught both his sons and daughters how to survive and thrive in the world. This upbringing, support from her father, and her family's rich history of musicianship was a major stepping stone for her musical career. She received her initial musical education from her father. At the age of five, Louis XIV took notice of her when she performed, evidently as a child prodigy, at his palace of Versailles. This eventually led to her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Charles Le Monnier
Pierre Charles Le Monnier (; 23 November 1715 – 3 April 1799) was a French astronomer. His name is sometimes given as Lemonnier. Biography Le Monnier was born in Paris, where his father Pierre (1675–1757), also an astronomer, was professor of philosophy at the college d'Harcourt. His first recorded astronomical observation was made before he was sixteen, and the presentation of an elaborate lunar map resulted in his admission to the French Academy of Sciences, on 21 April 1736, aged only 20. He was chosen in the same year to accompany Pierre Louis Maupertuis and Alexis Clairaut on their geodetical expedition for measuring a meridian arc of approximately one degree's length to Torne Valley in Lapland. In 1738, shortly after his return, he explained, in a memoir read before the Academy, the advantages of John Flamsteed's mode of determining right ascensions. His persistent recommendation of British methods and instruments contributed effectively to the reform of French p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Beaumarchais
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (; 24 January 1732 – 18 May 1799) was a French polymath. At various times in his life, he was a watchmaker, inventor, playwright, musician, diplomat, spy, publisher, horticulturist, arms dealer, satirist, financier and revolutionary (both French and American). Born a Parisian watchmaker's son, Beaumarchais rose in French society and became influential in the court of Louis XV as an inventor and music teacher. He made a number of important business and social contacts, played various roles as a diplomat and spy, and had earned a considerable fortune before a series of costly court battles jeopardized his reputation. An early French supporter of American independence, Beaumarchais lobbied the French government on behalf of the American rebels during the American War of Independence. Beaumarchais oversaw covert aid from the French and Spanish governments to supply arms and financial assistance to the rebels in the years before France's for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Balbastre
Claude Balbastre (8 December 1724 – 9 May 1799) was a French composer, organist, harpsichordist and fortepianist. He was one of the most famous musicians of his time. Life Claude Balbastre was born in Dijon in 1724. Although his exact birthdate has been disputed, the discovery of his baptismal record has now made that date, 8 December, certain. Balbastre's father, Bénigne, a church organist in Dijon, had 18 children from two marriages; Claude was the 16th. Three of his brothers were also named Claude. He is often confused with younger brother Claude-Bénigne Balbastre (22 Jan. 1727-before 22 March 1737). (He received his first music lessons from his father, then became a pupil of Claude Rameau, the younger brother of Jean-Philippe Rameau, the most famous French musician at the time and also a native of Dijon. Balbastre settled in Paris in 1750 and studied there with Pierre Février, whom he succeeded as organist of the Église Saint-Roch, Saint Roch church. Jean-Philippe Rame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
