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Pantaléon Costa De Beauregard
Louis Marie Pantaléon Costa, Marquis de Beauregard (19 June 1806 – 19 September 1864) was a French statesman, archaeologist, historian and ornithologist. Early life Costa de Beauregard was born at Bouvesse-Quirieu on 19 June 1806. He was the eldest son, and third child, of Henri Maurice ''Victor'' François Régis Costa, Marquis de Beauregard (1779–1836) and Catherine ''Élisabeth'' de Quinson (1785–1832). He was a grandson of Joseph Henry Costa de Beauregard, who was raised Marquis de Beauregard by the Duke of Savoy (King Victor Amadeus II) in 1700 by letters patent. Career Costa was a member of the Savoyard nobility and a diplomat in Sardinia, friend and aide to King Charles Albert (who served as the King of Sardinia from 1831 until his abdication in March 1849 in favor of his eldest son, Victor Emmanuel II). He was a member of the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Savoie (1828) and was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour and a Knight of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benoît-Hermogaste Molin
Benoît-Hermogaste Molin (born 1810 in Chambéry-1894) was a Savoyard and French painter, portraitist, genre painter and History painter. He studied at the School of Paintings in Chambéry, his native town. He became a pupil of Gros in Paris. He presented regularly his paintings at the Salon (since 1843). His portrait of Joseph de Maistre Joseph Marie, comte de Maistre (; 1 April 1753 – 26 February 1821) was a Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat who advocated social hierarchy and monarchy in the period immediately following the French Revolution. Despite his clos ... was praised. Painter at the Court, until 1860 when the Duchy of Savoy was annexed by France, he became Director of Chambéry Musée des beaux-arts in 1850. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Of Sardinia
The following is a list of rulers of Sardinia, in particular, of the monarchs of the Kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica from 1323 and then of the Kingdom of Sardinia from 1479 to 1861. Early history Owing to the absence of written sources, little is known of the history of the Nuraghic civilization which constructed impressive megalithic structures between the 18th and the 12th centuries BCE. The first accounts of Sardinia are from Greek sources, but relate more to myth than to historical reality; an African or Iberian hero, Norax, named the city of Nora; Sardo, a son of Hercules, gave the island its name; one of his nephews, Iolaus, founded the city of Olbia. Greek colonization of the city of Olbia has been confirmed by recent archaeological excavations. Towards the end of the 6th century BC, Sardinia was conquered by the Carthaginians and in 238 BC it was occupied by the Romans for c.1000 years, with a period under the dominion of the Vandals in the 5th and 6th centuries CE. Ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrondissement Of Chambéry
The arrondissement of Chambéry is an arrondissement of France in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It has 151 communes. Its population is 274,839 (2016), and its area is . Composition The communes of the arrondissement of Chambéry, and their INSEE codes, are: # Aiguebelette-le-Lac (73001) # Aillon-le-Jeune (73004) # Aillon-le-Vieux (73005) # Aix-les-Bains (73008) # Apremont (73017) # Arbin (73018) # Arith (73020) # Arvillard (73021) # Attignat-Oncin (73022) # Avressieux (73025) # Ayn (73027) # La Balme (73028) # Barberaz (73029) # Barby (73030) # Bassens (73031) # La Bauche (73033) # Bellecombe-en-Bauges (73036) # Belmont-Tramonet (73039) # Betton-Bettonet (73041) # Billième (73042) # La Biolle (73043) # Bourdeau (73050) # Le Bourget-du-Lac (73051) # Bourget-en-Huile (73052) # Bourgneuf (73053) # La Bridoire (73058) # Brison-Saint-Innocent (73059) # Challes-les-Eaux (73064) # Chambéry (73065) # Chamousset (73068) # Chamoux-sur-Gelon (7306 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cantons Of France
The cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the France, French Republic's Departments of France, departments and Arrondissements of France, arrondissements. Apart from their role as organizational units in relation to certain aspects of the administration of public services and justice, the chief purpose of the cantons today is to serve as Constituency, constituencies for the election of members of the representative assemblies established in each of France's territorial departments (Departmental council (France), departmental councils, formerly general councils). For this reason, such elections were known in France as "cantonal elections", until 2015 when their name was changed to "departmental elections" to match the departmental councils' name. As of 2015, there were 2,054 cantons in France. Most of them group together a number of Communes of France, communes (the lowest administrative division of the French Republic), although larger communes may be included in mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napoleon III
Napoleon III (Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first President of France (as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) from 1848 to 1852 and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870. A nephew of Napoleon I, he was the last monarch to rule over France. Elected to the presidency of the Second Republic in 1848, he seized power by force in 1851, when he could not constitutionally be reelected; he later proclaimed himself Emperor of the French. He founded the Second Empire, reigning until the defeat of the French Army and his capture by Prussia and its allies at the Battle of Sedan in 1870. Napoleon III was a popular monarch who oversaw the modernization of the French economy and filled Paris with new boulevards and parks. He expanded the French overseas empire, made the French merchant navy the second largest in the world, and engaged in the Second Italian War of Independence as well as the disastrous Franco-Prussian War, dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emperor Of The French
Emperor of the French ( French: ''Empereur des Français'') was the title of the monarch and supreme ruler of the First and the Second French Empires. Details A title and office used by the House of Bonaparte starting when Napoleon was proclaimed Emperor on 18 May 1804 by the Senate and was crowned Emperor of the French on 2 December 1804 at the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, in Paris, with the Crown of Napoleon. The title emphasized that the emperor ruled over "the French people" (the nation) and not over France (the state). The old formula of "King of France" indicated that the king owned France as a personal possession. The new term indicated a constitutional monarchy. The title was purposely created to preserve the appearance of the French Republic and to show that after the French Revolution, the feudal system was abandoned and a nation-state was created, with equal citizens as the subjects of their emperor. (After 1 January 1809, the state was officially referred to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of California Press
The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. It was founded in 1893 to publish scholarly and scientific works by faculty of the University of California, established 25 years earlier in 1868, and has been officially headquartered at the university's flagship campus in Berkeley, California, since its inception. As the non-profit publishing arm of the University of California system, the UC Press is fully subsidized by the university and the State of California. A third of its authors are faculty members of the university. The press publishes over 250 new books and almost four dozen multi-issue journals annually, in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, and maintains approximately 4,000 book titles in print. It is also the digital publisher of Collabra and Luminos open access (OA) initiatives. The University of California Press publishes in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Bourcier
Claude Marie Jules Bourcier (19 February 1797 – 9 March 1873) was a French naturalist and expert on hummingbirds.Prosopo ''Sociétés savantes de France''. Bourcier was born in Cuisery, . He was the mayor of Millery, Rhône from 1832 to 1837, and he was the French consul to from 1849 to 1850. In 1857, he became a corresponding member of the ''Société linnéenne de Lyon''. Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa's Hummingbird
Costa's hummingbird (''Calypte costae'') is a bird species in the hummingbird family Trochilidae. It breeds in the arid region of the southwest United States and northwest Mexico; it winters in western Mexico. Taxonomy Costa's hummingbird was formally described by the French ornithologist Jules Bourcier in 1839 and given the binomial name ''Ornismya costae''. Bourcier chose the specific epithet to honour the French nobleman Louis Marie Pantaleon Costa, Marquis de Beauregard (1806–1864). The type locality is Magdalena Bay on the western coast of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. Costa's hummingbird is now placed in the genus '' Calypte'' that was introduced in 1856 by John Gould. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised. Hybrids between this species and Anna's hummingbird, the black-chinned hummingbird as well as the broad-tailed hummingbird are known. Description This species is very small, a mature adult growing to only in length, a wingspan of 11&nb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hummingbird
Hummingbirds are birds native to the Americas and comprise the biological family Trochilidae. With about 361 species and 113 genera, they occur from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, but the vast majority of the species are found in the tropics around the equator. They are small birds, with most species measuring in length. The smallest extant hummingbird species is the bee hummingbird, which weighs less than . The largest hummingbird species is the giant hummingbird, weighing . They are specialized for feeding on flower nectar, but all species also consume flying insects or spiders. Hummingbirds split from their sister group, the swifts and treeswifts, around 42 million years ago. The common ancestor of extant hummingbirds is estimated to have lived 22 million years ago in South America. They are known as hummingbirds because of the humming sound created by their beating wings, which flap at high frequencies audible to humans. They hover in mid-air at rapid wing-flapping rate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of Saints Maurice And Lazarus
The Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus ( it, Ordine dei Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro) (abbreviated OSSML) is a Roman Catholic dynastic order of knighthood bestowed by the royal House of Savoy. It is the second-oldest order of knighthood in the world, tracing its lineage to AD 1098, and it is one of the rare orders of knighthood recognized by papal bull, in this case by Pope Gregory XIII. In that bull, Pope Gregory XIII bestowed upon Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy and his Savoy successors, the right to confer this knighthood in perpetuity. The Grand Master (order), Grand Master is, Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, also known as the Duke of Savoy, the eldest son of the last King of Italy, Umberto II of Italy. However Vittorio Emanuele's cousin once removed Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta (born 1967), Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta claims to be grand master as his father claimed to be head of the house of Savoy. The order was formerly awarded by the Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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