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Saints-Pères Cemetery
Saints-Pères Cemetery (''cimetière des Saints-Pères'') is a historic cemetery in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, sited at what is now 30 rue des Saints-Pères. After being forced to give up the Saint-Germain Cemetery in 1604, the Protestants of Paris bought a rectangular garden on the moulin du Pré-aux-Clercs mound on rue des Saints-Pères from Joachim Meurier, a master goldsmith from Île de la Cité. It was roughly 13 toise (24 m) by 23 toise (42 m). The first burials were on 21 March 1604 and the cemetery was used up until the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, after which it was renamed Charité Cemetery (''cimetière de la Charité'') and used by the Hôpital de la Charité. It was enclosed by a 3m high wall and received at least one body a day. Like all the inner-city cemeteries, it was closed in 1785 by order of the inspector general of quarries Charles-Axel Guillaumot - the contents of its tombs and charnel houses and its burials at a depth of at least 100m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac De Caus
Isaac de Caus (1590–1648) was a French landscaper and architect. He arrived in England in 1612 to carry on the work that his brother Salomon de Caus had left behind. His first known work in England was a grotto that Caus designed in 1623 located in the basement of Inigo Jones's Banqueting House. He is noted for his work at Wilton House and Lincoln's Inn. He was the architect in charge of carrying out Inigo Jones's design for Covent Garden. Documented clients include Mary, Countess of Home at her London townhouse in Aldersgate. Surviving buildings include the stables at Wilton House, designed in 1630s closely following an elevation published by Sebastiano Serlio Sebastiano Serlio (6 September 1475 – c. 1554) was an Italian Mannerist architect, who was part of the Italian team building the Palace of Fontainebleau. Serlio helped canonize the classical orders of architecture in his influential treat ....Giles Worsley, ''Inigo Jones and the European Classical Tradition'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Protestantism In France
Protestantism in France has existed in its various forms, starting with Calvinism and Lutheranism since the Protestant Reformation. John Calvin was a Frenchman, as were numerous other Protestant Reformers including William Farel, Pierre Viret and Theodore Beza, who was Calvin's successor in Geneva. Peter Waldo (Pierre Vaudes/de Vaux) was a merchant from Lyons, who founded a pre-Protestant group, the Waldensians. Martin Bucer was born a German in Alsace, which historically belonged to the Holy Roman Empire, but now belongs to France. Hans J. Hillerbrand in his ''Encyclopedia of Protestantism'' claims the Huguenots reached as much as 10% of the French population on the eve of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, declining to 7-8% by the end of the 16th century, and further after heavy persecution began once again with the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV. Protestants were granted a degree of religious freedom following the Edict of Nantes, but it ceased with the Edict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cemeteries In Paris
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Roman catacombs. The term ''graveyard'' is often used interchangeably with cemetery, but a graveyard primarily refers to a burial ground within a churchyard. The intact or cremated remains of people may be interred in a grave, commonly referred to as burial, or in a tomb, an "above-ground grave" (resembling a sarcophagus), a mausoleum, columbarium, niche, or other edifice. In Western cultures, funeral ceremonies are often observed in cemeteries. These ceremonies or rites of passage differ according to cultural practices and religious beliefs. Modern cemeteries often include crematoria, and some grounds previously used for both, continue as crematoria as a principal use long after the interment areas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Testelin
Louis Testelin (1615-1655) was a French painter. Life He was the son of Gilles Testelin, king's painter to Louis XIII - this gave Gilles an ex officio home and studio in the Louvre.Georges Guillet de Saint-George, notice. Louis' younger brother was the painter Henri Testelin, secretary to the Académie royale de peinture. His family was Protestant and Louis remained so until the end of his life, though this did not impede his career - he painted for Anne of Austria and accepted commissions from several monasteries in Paris. He studied under Simon Vouet and became a friend of Charles Le Brun, who was working in the same studio. According to a biography edited by Georges Guillet de Saint-George, Testelin and Le Brun collaborated "on some paintings and decorative schemes" for the former church of Val-de-Grâce. He also painted the Mays for 1652 (''Saint Peter Reviving the Widow Tabitha'', now in the Musée des beaux-arts d'Arras) and 1655 (''The Whipping of Saints Paul and Silas' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théophraste Renaudot
Théophraste Renaudot (; December 158625 October 1653) was a French physician, philanthropist, and journalist. Born in Loudun, Renaudot received a doctorate of medicine from the University of Montpellier in 1606. He returned to Loudon where he met Cardinal Richelieu and Père Joseph. In the 1610s, Richelieu became more powerful and in 1612 he summoned Renaudot to Paris, partly because of his medical reputation, but more because of his philanthropy. Renaudot, born a Protestant, converted to Catholicism. He became the physician and councillor to Louis XIII of France. As part of his duties, Renaudot was asked to organize a scheme of public assistance. Many difficulties were put in his way, however, and he therefore returned until 1624 to Poitou, where Richelieu made him "commissary general of the poor." In 1630, now back in Paris, Renaudot opened the , where prospective employers and employees could find each other. With the support of Richelieu, he established the first weekly ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barthélemy Prieur
Barthélemy Prieur (c. 1536-1611) was a French sculptor. Prieur was born to a Huguenot family in Berzieux, Champagne (now in the department of the Marne). He traveled to Italy, where he worked from 1564 to 1568 for Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy in Turin. Upon his return to France, he worked principally on funerary monuments and busts, but also on small bronzes. In 1571 he began employment under Jean Bullant at the Palais du Louvre, where he was a contemporary of Germain Pilon. In 1585 he created the monument to Christophe de Thou, now preserved in the Louvre Museum, and was named sculptor to king Henry IV in 1591. He restored the Roman marble now called the Diana of Versailles in 1602. Several of his bronzes are preserved in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, including ''Gladiator'', ''Lion Devouring a Doe'', ''Seated Woman Pulling a Thorn from Her Heel'', and ''Small Horse''. His bronze busts of King Henry IV and his wife Marie de' Medici (circa 1600) are no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentin Conrart
Valentin Conrart (; 1603 – 23 September 1675) was a French author, and as a founder of the Académie française, the first occupant of seat 2. Biography He was born in Paris of Calvinist parents, and was educated for business. However, after his father's death in 1620, he began to move in literary circles, and soon acquired a reputation, though he wrote nothing for many years. He was made councillor and secretary to the king; and in 1629 his house became the resort of a group who met to talk over literary subjects, and to read and mutually criticize their works. Cardinal Richelieu offered the society his protection, and in this way (1635) the Académie française was created. Its first meetings were held in Conrart's house. He was unanimously elected secretary, and discharged the duties of his post for forty-three years, till his death. Works The most important of Conrart's written works is his ''Mémoires sur l'histoire de son temps'' published by Louis Monmerqué in 182 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Bunel
Jacob Bunel (1558–1614) was a French painter. The son and pupil of François Bunel, he was born at Blois. He studied at Rome under Federigo Zuccaro, and on returning to France was made painter to the king, and worked with Pourbus and Toussaint du Breuil in the small gallery of the Louvre, burnt in 1661. He was an artist of great merit, and held in much esteem by Henri IV, who employed him at Fontainebleau and other royal residences. He painted 'The Descent of the Holy Ghost' for the chapel of that order in the church of the Grands Augustins at Paris, and for the church of the Feuillants an 'Assumption of the Virgin,' now in the Museum at Bordeaux, both of which pictures have been highly praised. Philip II of Spain, by whom likewise he was esteemed, commissioned him to paint for the cloister of the Escorial forty pictures, all of which have now disappeared. He died in Paris in 1614. He was the brother of François Bunel the Younger, and married the painter Marguerite Bahuche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
7th Arrondissement Of Paris
The 7th arrondissement of Paris (''VIIe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 Arrondissements of Paris, arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as ''le septième''. The arrondissement, called Palais-Bourbon in a reference to the seat of the National Assembly (France), National Assembly, includes some of the major and well-known tourist attractions of Paris, such as the Eiffel Tower, the Les Invalides, Hôtel des Invalides (Napoleon's resting place), the Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, as well as a concentration of museums such as the Musée d'Orsay, Musée Rodin and the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac. Situated on the Rive Gauche—the "Left" bank of the Seine, River Seine—this central arrondissement, which includes the historical aristocratic neighbourhood of Faubourg Saint-Germain, contains a number of French national institutions, among them the National Assembly and numerous Ministry (government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
