François Debon
François Hyppolite Debon (2 December 1807, Paris – 29 February 1872, Paris), was a French painter. He studied under Antoine-Jean Gros and Abel de Pujol, and exhibited at the Paris Salon, where he won several medals, including a third class one in 1844 and two second class ones in 1835 and 1868. Baudelaire Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticism inherited fro ... said of Debon's 1845 painting ''The Battle of Hastings'' "What talent! What energy!" That canvas was later lost in a fire at the musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen in 1905. Biography * Philippe Auquier, Catalog of paintings, sculptures, pastels and drawings, Barlatier, 1908, p. 81. Works * ''Un justicier'' (Self-portrait), 1835, Musée de la Vie romantique, Hôtel Scheffer-Renan, Paris; * ''La Bataille d'Hastings'', 184 ...
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''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archai ...
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