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Ducos De La Hitte 1789 1878
Ducos may refer to: People with the surname * Jean-Ernest Ducos de La Hitte, French nobleman * Jean-François Ducos (1765–1793), French politician * Juan García Ducós, Puerto Rican politician and senator * Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron (1837–1920), French pioneer of color photography * Maurice Ducos (born 1904), French swimmer * Roger Ducos, French political figure * Théodore Ducos (1801–1855), French politician and shipowner * Zoe Ducós (1928–2002), Argentinian actress Places * Canton of Ducos, Martinique * Ducos, Martinique Ducos (; Martinican Creole: ) is a town and commune in the French overseas department and region, and island of Martinique. It is where the prison is located. It was called "Trou-au-chat" until 1855, and was renamed after the French politician Th ... * , New Caledonia Other * Pierre Ducos, character in Sharpe {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Ernest Ducos De La Hitte
Jean Ernest Ducos de La Hitte, Viscount, was born on 5 September 1789 in Bessières (Haute-Garonne), and died on 22 September 1878 in Gragnague (Haute-Garonne). He was a French major general, Senator, Foreign Minister, and the implementer of the La Hitte system of rifled guns in 1858. He entered the Ecole Polytechnique in 1807. He fought in Spain as an artillery lieutenant, in the campaigns of 1810, 1811, 1812, 1813 and 1814. He was in particular noticed at the siege of Cadiz. He became Brigadier general on 22 February 1829, at 39 years of age. One year after (1830), he commanded the artillery in Africa during the capture of Algiers. He was President of the Artillery committee during the Revolution of 1848. He became Minister for Foreign Affairs from November 1849 until 9 January 1851. He created the La Hitte system of rifled muzzle-loading A muzzleloader is any firearm into which the projectile and the propellant charge is loaded from the muzzle of the gun (i.e., from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-François Ducos
Jean-François Ducos (26 October 1765, in Bordeaux – 31 October 1793) was a French ''député'' for the Gironde to the Legislative Assembly then the National Convention. Life The son of a merchant in Bordeaux, he was sent to Nantes to learn his trade but there became interested in politics and philosophy, joining several such circles, in which he gained a reputation for patriotism. This allowed him to be elected as a député for Gironde to the Legislative Assembly then the Convention. There he sat with the Girondins (but tended to favour the opinions of the Montagnards) and took up marked positions, such as in the issues surrounding Louis XVI, the abolition of the monarchy and the question of the refractory priests. He was virulently opposed to La Fayette. Protection from Marat meant he escaped a purge on 2 June 1793, but he fell under suspicion due to his protests against the arrests and summary 'disappearances'. He was mentioned in the report by Amar on 3 October 1793 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan García Ducós
Juan García Ducós was a Puerto Rican politician and senator. García Ducós was a member of the Puerto Rico House of Delegates during the early 1900s. In 1917, García Ducós was elected as a member of the first Puerto Rican Senate established by the Jones-Shafroth Act. He represented the District III (Aguadilla). García Ducós was reelected at the 1920 general elections. After that, like most of his fellow party members, he joined Alianza Puertorriqueña, a joint political venture with the Republican Party. He was again reelected at the 1924 general elections. García Ducós was strongly against the death penalty, and tried several times to abolish it during his terms. There's a housing project in Aguadilla Aguadilla (, ), founded in 1775 by Luis de Córdova, is a city and municipality located in the northwestern tip of Puerto Rico, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, north of Aguada, and Moca and west of Isabela. Aguadilla is s ... that has his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Arthur Ducos Du Hauron
Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron (8 December 1837 – 31 August 1920) was a French pioneer of color photography. Personal life He was born in Langon, Gironde and died in Agen. Photography After writing an unpublished paper setting forth his basic concepts in 1862, he worked on developing practical processes for color photography on the three-color principle, using both additive and subtractive methods. In 1868 he patented his ideas (French Patent No. 83061) and in 1869 he published them in ''Les couleurs en photographie, solution du problème''. The discovery of dye sensitization by Hermann Wilhelm Vogel in 1873 greatly facilitated the initial three-color analysis on which all of Ducos de Hauron's methods depended. The most widely reproduced of his surviving color photographs is the ''View of Agen'', an 1877 image of a landscape in southern France, printed by the subtractive assembly method he pioneered. Several different photographs of the view from his attic window, one dated 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Ducos
Maurice Ducos (15 October 1904 – 30 June 1983) was a French swimmer. He competed in the men's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1924 Summer Olympics The 1924 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1924), officially the Games of the VIII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIIe olympiade) and also known as Paris 1924, were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France. The op .... References External links * 1904 births 1983 deaths Olympic swimmers for France Swimmers at the 1924 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing French male backstroke swimmers {{France-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Ducos
Pierre Roger Ducos (25 July 174716 March 1816), better known as Roger Ducos, was a French political figure during the Revolution and First Empire, a member of the National Convention, and of the Directory. In the Revolution Born in Montfort-en-Chalosse, Aquitaine (now in Landes department), he was elected deputy to the Convention by the ''département'' of the Landes. He sat in ''The Plain'' (the party which had no clear attitude, and served to sway the vote). He voted for the death of King Louis XVI, without appeal or delay, but was not prominent in the Convention afterwards. Ducos was a member of the Council of Five Hundred, over which he presided on the 18th of Fructidor Coup (1797). At the end of his term, he became a justice of the peace, but after Barthélemy Catherine Joubert's ''coup d'état'' (the '' 30 Prairial of the year VIII'', or 18 June 1799), he was named a member of the executive Directory, thanks to the influence of Paul Barras, who counted on Ducos as his pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théodore Ducos
Jean-Étienne-Théodore Ducos (22 April 1801 – 17 April 1855) was a French politician and shipowner. Life Jean-Étienne-Théodore Ducos was born in Bordeaux, France, on 22 April 1801 into a family of shipowners. He became a general counsel, and in 1834 was elected deputy for Bordeaux. He sat with the opposition to the dynasty until 1848. After the February Revolution of 1848 he was elected to the Constituent Assembly. Ducos was defeated in the elections of May 1849, but a few months later was elected as a representative of the Seine. He transferred his allegiance to the Bonapartists. On 9 January 1851 he was Minister of Marine and Colonies, and accepted the dismissal of General Changarnier. He and his other cabinet colleagues were forced from office that month, but he was re-appointed the day after 2 December 1851 coup. During his administration steam boats were developed for the military, and France occupied New Caledonia. He was responsible for organizing military transport ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoe Ducós
Zoe Celia Ducós Gallegos (March 6, 1928 - November 11, 2002) was an Argentine film, stage, and television actress. Biography She studied at the National Conservatory of Music and Performing Arts and upon graduation, earned the Grand Prize of Honor bestowed by the National Commission of Culture for best actress in the National Competition of Vocational Theatres. The prize included a contract to join the cast of Teatro Nacional Cervantes, in which she performed between 1948 and 1951. Personal life She had a relationship with Mexican singer Genaro Salinas, that was married and he was acting in Buenos Aires, then she married writer and film director José María Fernández Unsáin, but they divorced. She married Miguel Silvio Sanz, head of the dreaded police of the dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez. After her husband died she returned to Venezuela at the beginning of the 1970s. She married film director Carlos Stevani. At the end of the 1990s she got Alzheimer's disease and she was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canton Of Ducos
The Canton of Ducos is a former canton in the Arrondissement of Le Marin The arrondissement of Le Marin (french: arrondissement du Marin) is an arrondissement in the French overseas region of Martinique. It has 12 communes. Its population is 117,168 (2016), and its area is . Composition The communes of the arrondi ... on Martinique. It had 17,039 inhabitants (2012).Populations légales 2012: 972 Martinique INSEE It was disbanded in 2015. The canton comprised the commune of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ducos, Martinique
Ducos (; Martinican Creole: ) is a town and commune in the French overseas department and region, and island of Martinique. It is where the prison is located. It was called "Trou-au-chat" until 1855, and was renamed after the French politician Théodore Ducos Jean-Étienne-Théodore Ducos (22 April 1801 – 17 April 1855) was a French politician and shipowner. Life Jean-Étienne-Théodore Ducos was born in Bordeaux, France, on 22 April 1801 into a family of shipowners. He became a general counsel, an .... Its inhabitants are Ducossais. Population References External links * Communes of Martinique Populated places in Martinique {{Martinique-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
