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Notre-Dame Du Calvaire, Paris
The Convent of Our Lady of Calvary (french: couvent de Notre-Dame du Calvaire), also named Convent of the ''Filles du Calvaire'' (), is a former Roman Catholic convent in Paris, France. Location The convent was located between streets , Rue Boucherat (now ), and . History Father Joseph purchased the ''Hôtel de l'Ardoise'', a property located at the end of , in order to fund a second establishment for the Nuns of Our Lady of Calvary. The nuns settled in the building in 1633. The foundation stone of the church was laid in 1635 by Dutchess d'Aiguillon, who was standing in for her uncle Cardinal Richelieu. The convent, completed on April 10, 1637, was supposed to be named the "Convent of the Crucifixion" as requested by Father Joseph, but the church was consecrated in 1650 as the "Church of the Transfiguration". In the same period, the nuns of Our Lady took possession of the church. The Congregation of Our Lady of Calvary was dissolved in 1790 during the French Revolutio ...
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French Revolution
The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799. Many of its ideas are considered fundamental principles of liberal democracy, while phrases like ''liberté, égalité, fraternité'' reappeared in other revolts, such as the 1917 Russian Revolution, and inspired campaigns for the abolition of slavery and universal suffrage. The values and institutions it created dominate French politics to this day. Its causes are generally agreed to be a combination of social, political and economic factors, which the ''Ancien Régime'' proved unable to manage. In May 1789, widespread social distress led to the convocation of the Estates General, which was converted into a National Assembly in June. Continuing unrest culminated in the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July, which led to a series of radical measures by the Assembly, i ...
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1630s Establishments In France
Year 163 ( CLXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Laelianus and Pastor (or, less frequently, year 916 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 163 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Marcus Statius Priscus re-conquers Armenia; the capital city of Artaxata is ruined. Births * Cui Yan (or Jigui), Chinese official and politician (d. 216) * Sun Shao (or Changxu), Chinese chancellor (d. 225) * Tiberius Claudius Severus Proculus, Roman politician * Xun Yu, Chinese politician and adviser (d. 212) Deaths * Kong Zhou, father of Kong Rong (b. 103 103 may refer to: *103 (number), the number *AD 103, a year in the 2nd century AD *103 BC, a year in the 2nd century BC * 103 (Tyne Electrical Engineers) Field ...
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Former Buildings And Structures In Paris
A former is an object, such as a template, gauge or cutting die, which is used to form something such as a boat's hull. Typically, a former gives shape to a structure that may have complex curvature. A former may become an integral part of the finished structure, as in an aircraft fuselage, or it may be removable, being using in the construction process and then discarded or re-used. Aircraft formers Formers are used in the construction of aircraft fuselage, of which a typical fuselage has a series from the nose to the empennage, typically perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft. The primary purpose of formers is to establish the shape of the fuselage and reduce the column length of stringers to prevent instability. Formers are typically attached to longerons, which support the skin of the aircraft. The "former-and-longeron" technique (also called stations and stringers) was adopted from boat construction, and was typical of light aircraft built until the ad ...
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Convents In Paris
A convent is a community of monks, nuns, religious brothers or, sisters or priests. Alternatively, ''convent'' means the building used by the community. The word is particularly used in the Catholic Church, Lutheran churches, and the Anglican Communion. Etymology and usage The term ''convent'' derives via Old French from Latin ''conventus'', perfect participle of the verb ''convenio'', meaning "to convene, to come together". It was first used in this sense when the eremitical life began to be combined with the cenobitical. The original reference was to the gathering of mendicants who spent much of their time travelling. Technically, a monastery is a secluded community of monastics, whereas a friary or convent is a community of mendicants (which, by contrast, might be located in a city), and a canonry is a community of canons regular. The terms abbey and priory can be applied to both monasteries and canonries; an abbey is headed by an abbot, and a priory is a lesser dependent hou ...
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Dictionnaire Administratif Et Historique Des Rues De Paris Et De Ses Monuments
The ''Dictionnaire administratif et historique des rues de Paris et de ses monuments'' is a dictionary of the public streets, monuments and buildings of Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S .... It was written in 1844 by Louis and Félix Lazare, employees of the prefecture of the Seine at the time of prefect Rambuteau, to whom they dedicated the work. It is a valuable source on Paris before Haussmann's redesign of the city. It aimed to provide a reference work on official acts promulgated by different regimes, which defined the legal status and characteristics of public streets in the city - official streets, streets without government authorisation, their width, course and other data. A third edition appeared in 1879, but was never finished. Bibliography * Fà ...
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Dictionnaire Historique Des Rues De Paris
''Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris'' (''Historical Dictionary of the Streets of Paris'') is a book by Jacques Hillairet, a historian specializing in the history of Paris. It includes 5344 streets in two volumes and 2343 illustrations. It was first published in 1960 by éditions de Minuit and was regularly re-published and updated from 1963 onwards. His sources included ''Dictionnaire administratif et historique des rues de Paris et de ses monuments The ''Dictionnaire administratif et historique des rues de Paris et de ses monuments'' is a dictionary of the public streets, monuments and buildings of Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over ...'' by Louis and Félix Lazare (first edition, 1844) and ''Histoire de Paris rue par rue, maison par maison'' by Charles Lefeuve (issued from 1863). Hillairet died in 1984 and the work is now written and edited by Pascal Payen-Appenzeller, who wrote the eleventh edition in 2004 ...
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Jacques Hillairet
Auguste André Coussillan (31 July 1886 – 15 April 1984) was a French historian specialising in the history of Paris. Under the pen-name Jacques Hillairet he wrote two major reference works on the subject in the 1950s - ''Connaissance du vieux Paris'' and ''Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris''. Works * ''Évocation du vieux Paris. Vieux Quartiers, vieilles rues, vieilles demeures, historique, vestiges, annales et anecdotes'', 3 vol., Minuit, 1951-1954 : Le Paris du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance. Le Cœur de Paris Les Faubourgs Les Villages de Paris * ''Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois, église collégiale royale et paroissiale, l'église, la paroisse, le quartier'', avec Maurice Baurit, Minuit, 1955 * ''Le Palais du Louvre, sa vie, ses grands souvenirs historiques'', Minuit, 1955 ; 1961 * ''Connaissance du vieux Paris'', Le Club français du livre, 1956 ; 3 vol., Gonthier, 1963 ; Le Club français du livre, 1965 à 1976 ; Éditions Princesse, 1978 ; Payot/Rivages, 1993 ; R ...
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Vendémiaire
Vendémiaire () was the first month in the French Republican calendar. The month was named after the Occitan word ''vendemiaire'' (grape harvester). Vendémiaire was the first month of the autumn quarter (''mois d'automne''). It started on the day of the autumnal equinox, which fell between 22 September and 24 September, inclusive. It thus ended between 21 October and 23 October, and was the season of the vintage in the wine districts of northern France. It follows the Sansculottides of the past year and precedes Brumaire. Day name table Like all FRC months Vendémiaire lasted 30 days and was divided into three 10-day weeks, called ''décades'' (decades). In accordance with the suggestion of Fabre d'Églantine Philippe François Nazaire Fabre d'Églantine (, 28 July 1750 – 5 April 1794), commonly known as Fabre d'Églantine, was a French actor, dramatist, poet, and politician of the French Revolution. He is best known for having invented the names of ..., each of th ...
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Biens Nationaux
The biens nationaux were properties confiscated during the French Revolution from the Catholic Church, the monarchy, émigrés, and suspected counter-revolutionaries for "the good of the nation". ''Biens'' means "goods", both in the sense of "objects" and in the sense of "benefits". ''Nationaux'' means "of the nation". This can be summarized as "things for the good of the nation", or simply "national goods". The possessions of the Roman Catholic Church were declared national property by the decree of November 2, 1789. These were sold to resolve the financial crisis that caused the Revolution. Later, the properties of the Crown were given the same treatment. The concept of national property was later extended to the property of the émigrés, and the suspected counter-revolutionaries, which were confiscated from March 30, 1792, and sold after the decree of July 27. Confiscation of the goods of the clergy A few months into the Revolution, the public purse was all but empty. To am ...
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Filles Du Calvaire
The Congregation of Our Lady of Calvary (Daughters of Calvary, ''Filles du Calvaire'', ''Calvairiennes'') is a Roman Catholic Benedictine religious congregation, founded at Poitiers in 1617. Foundation The founders were Antoinette of Orléans-Longueville, assisted by the Capuchin Joseph Le Clerc du Tremblay. Antoinette was left a widow in 1596, and entered the convent of the Feuillantines at Toulouse in 1599. After her profession she was commanded by the Pope to act as coadjutrix to the abbess of Fontevrault, and assist her in reforming her convent. Here Antoinette met Tremblay, who became her director: he had just reformed the monastery of l'Encloître, and when Pope Paul V ordered Antoinette to found a seminary for training religious, this convent was chosen for that purpose, and was soon filled with novices. In 1614 Antoinette founded and built a new convent at Poitiers, dedicated to Our Lady of Calvary, which became the cradle of the congregation. By permission of the Pope, ...
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