Nicolas Sollogoub
Nicolas Sollogoub (10 November 1925 – 11 July 2014) was a Franco-Canadian artist and master glassmaker. He is best known for his large-scale stained glass installations, including ''La vie à Montréal au XIXe siècle'', a composition of five large stained-glass windows in Montreal's McGill station, McGill Métro station. Early life and education He was born in Soissons, France to Russian parents from Saint Petersburg. In his youth in France, Sollogoub studied theater and drawing at Russian College of Auteuil, then architecture and decoration at the studio of the Académie Charpentier, and the Beaux-Arts de Paris, where he took drawing lessons. As a decorative artist, he entered the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF), where he continued to improve his skills in the art of stained glass until 1950 when he decided to leave France and settle in Montreal. After having produced numerous sets for the theater and the cinema, he joined Radio-Canada in 196 ...
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Soissons
Soissons () is a commune in the northern French department of Aisne, in the region of Hauts-de-France. Located on the river Aisne, about northeast of Paris, it is one of the most ancient towns of France, and is probably the ancient capital of the Suessiones. Soissons is also the see of an ancient Roman Catholic diocese, whose establishment dates from about 300, and it was the location of a number of church synods called " Council of Soissons". History Soissons enters written history under its Celtic name, later borrowed into Latin, Noviodunum, meaning "new hillfort", which was the capital of the Suessiones. At Roman contact, it was a town of the Suessiones, mentioned by Julius Caesar (''B. G.'' ii. 12). Caesar (''B.C.'' 57), after leaving the Axona (modern Aisne), entered the territory of the Suessiones, and making one day's long march, reached Noviodunum, which was surrounded by a high wall and a broad ditch. The place surrendered to Caesar. From 457 to 486, under Aegi ...
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