Élie Berthet

	Élie Berthet Élie Berthet (8 June 1815 - 3 February 1891) was a French novelist. Berthet was born in Limoges. A most prolific writer, he wrote more than 100 novels about Paris, criminal affairs, the prehistoric world, and other subjects. His ''Les Houilleurs de Polignies'' is reported to have been one of the inspirations for Zola's '' Germinal''.Marel, Henri. « ''Germinal'' et ''Les Houilleurs de Polignies'' », Cahiers de l’U.E.R. Froissart (Valenciennes), no 5, automne 1980, pp. 113–126. He died, aged 75, in Paris. Works * ''La Veilleuse'' (recueil de récits, published under the penname Élie Raymond) (1835) * Le Pacte de famine' (drama, with Paul Foucher) (1839) * ''Les Garçons de recette'' (drama, with Adolphe d'Ennery) (1840) * ''L'Ami du château'' (with Henry Monnier) (1841) * Le Colporteur' (1841) * La Croix de l'affût' (1841) * ''Le Chevalier de Clermont'' (with Henry Monnier) (1841) * ''Justin'' (1842) * Val d'Andorre' (1842) * La Belle Drapière' (1843) * ''Richard Le Fau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Élie Berthet Élie Berthet (8 June 1815 - 3 February 1891) was a French novelist. Berthet was born in Limoges. A most prolific writer, he wrote more than 100 novels about Paris, criminal affairs, the prehistoric world, and other subjects. His ''Les Houilleurs de Polignies'' is reported to have been one of the inspirations for Zola's '' Germinal''.Marel, Henri. « ''Germinal'' et ''Les Houilleurs de Polignies'' », Cahiers de l’U.E.R. Froissart (Valenciennes), no 5, automne 1980, pp. 113–126. He died, aged 75, in Paris. Works * ''La Veilleuse'' (recueil de récits, published under the penname Élie Raymond) (1835) * Le Pacte de famine' (drama, with Paul Foucher) (1839) * ''Les Garçons de recette'' (drama, with Adolphe d'Ennery) (1840) * ''L'Ami du château'' (with Henry Monnier) (1841) * Le Colporteur' (1841) * La Croix de l'affût' (1841) * ''Le Chevalier de Clermont'' (with Henry Monnier) (1841) * ''Justin'' (1842) * Val d'Andorre' (1842) * La Belle Drapière' (1843) * ''Richard Le Fau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Limoges Limoges (, , ; oc, Lemòtges, locally ) is a city and Communes of France, commune, and the prefecture of the Haute-Vienne Departments of France, department in west-central France. It was the administrative capital of the former Limousin region. Situated on the first western foothills of the Massif Central, Limoges is crossed by the river Vienne (river), Vienne, of which it was originally the first ford crossing point. The second most populated town in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine, New Aquitaine region after Bordeaux, a University of Limoges, university town, an administrative centre and intermediate services with all the facilities of a regional metropolis, it has an urban area of 323,789 inhabitants in 2018. The inhabitants of the city are called the Limougeauds. Founded around 10 BC under the name of Augustoritum, it became an important Gallo-Roman culture, Gallo-Roman city. During the Middle Ages Limoges became a large city, strongly marked by the cultural influence of the Abbey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Émile Zola Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (, also , ; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in his renowned newspaper opinion headlined ''J'Accuse…!'' Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902. Early life Zola was born in Paris in 1840 to François Zola (originally Francesco Zolla) and Émilie Aubert. His father was an Italian engineer with some Greek ancestry, who was born in Venice in 1795, and engineered the Zola Dam in Aix-en-Provence; his mother was French. The family moved to Aix-en-Provence in the southeast when Émile was three years old. Four years later, in 1847, his father die ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Germinal (novel) ''Germinal'' is the thirteenth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series ''Les Rougon-Macquart''. Often considered Zola's masterpiece and one of the most significant novels in the French tradition, the novel – an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s – has been published and translated in over one hundred countries. It has also inspired five film adaptations and two television productions. ''Germinal'' was written between April 1884 and January 1885. It was first serialized between November 1884 and February 1885 in the periodical ''Gil Blas'', then in March 1885 published as a book. The title () refers to the name of a month of the French Republican Calendar, a spring month. ''Germen'' is a Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around prese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Paul Foucher Paul-Henri Foucher (21 April 1810 – 24 January 1875) was a French playwright, theatre and music critic, political journalist, and novelist. Biography Early career Foucher was born in Paris and began his career as an employee in the offices of the War Department.Glaeser, p. 258. One day he visited the poet Alexandre Soumet, who asked Foucher whether he had read his brother-in-law's play ''Amy Robsart''. (Foucher's older sister Adèle had married Victor Hugo in 1822.) "If you have not read it, there are some fine scenes in it." Later Foucher asked Hugo if he could look at the play, and Hugo, who had been planning to burn it, instead gave it to Foucher and consented to let him revise it. Hugo had written the first three acts himself at the age of nineteen. He had then shown it to Soumet, who had disliked it, so Hugo had given his approval for Soumet to alter and finish it. The play combined comedy and tragedy, and Foucher, under the influence of the enormous success of Shakespeare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Adolphe D'Ennery Adolphe Philippe d'Ennery or Dennery (17 June 181125 January 1899) was a French playwright and novelist. Life Born in Paris, his real surname was Philippe. He obtained his first success in collaboration with Charles Desnoyer in ''Émile, ou le fils d'un pair de France'' (1831), a drama which was the first of a series of some two hundred pieces written alone or in collaboration with other dramatists. He died in Paris in 1899. Works Among the best of his works is a play about ''Kaspar Hauser'' (1838) with Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois; ''Les Bohémiens de Paris'' (1842) with Eugène Grangé; with Julien de Mallian the play ''Marie-Jeanne, ou la femme du peuple'' (1845), in which Marie Dorval obtained a great success; a drama based on ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' (1853) with Dumanoir; and '' The Two Orphans'' (1875), perhaps his best piece, with Eugène Cormon. The story was adapted in 1921 by D.W. Griffith as the film ''Orphans of the Storm.'' He wrote the libretto for Gounod's ''Le tribu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Henry Monnier Henry-Bonaventure Monnier (7 June 1799 in Paris – 3 January 1877) was a French playwright, caricaturist and actor. Life After studying at the Lycée Bonaparte, he frequented the workshops of Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson and Antoine-Jean Gros. He positioned himself in London in 1822 and returned to France 5 years later. His meetings with Alexandre Dumas, Théophile Gautier, Stendhal, Eugène Sue, Prosper Mérimée, Eugène Scribe, Eugène Delacroix, Louis Boulanger and Honoré de Balzac opened doors to him. Between 1827 and 1832, he produced several albums of lithographs, satirising the mores and physiognomies of his contemporaries and of the "grisettes" (or louche young men) in his office. He created the character Monsieur Prudhomme, of whom Balzac said was the "illustration of the type of the Parisian middle-class" and who inspired the poem of that title in Paul Verlaine's ''Poèmes saturniens''. On 21 May 1834, Monnier married Caroline Péguchet (known as Caroline Lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Paraguay Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. It has a population of seven million, nearly three million of whom live in the capital and largest city of Asunción, and its surrounding metro. Although one of only two landlocked countries in South America (Bolivia is the other), Paraguay has ports on the Paraguay and Paraná rivers that give exit to the Atlantic Ocean, through the Paraná-Paraguay Waterway. Spanish conquistadores arrived in 1524, and in 1537, they established the city of Asunción, the first capital of the Governorate of the Río de la Plata. During the 17th century, Paraguay was the center of Jesuit missions, where the native Guaraní people were converted to Christianity and introduced to European culture. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Hôtel-Dieu De Paris In French-speaking countries, a hôtel-Dieu ( en, hostel of God) was originally a hospital for the poor and needy, run by the Catholic Church. Nowadays these buildings or institutions have either kept their function as a hospital, the one in Paris being the oldest and most renowned, or have been converted into hotels, museums, or general purpose buildings (for instance housing a préfecture, the administrative head office of a French department). Therefore, as a secondary meaning, the term hôtel-Dieu can also refer to the building itself, even if it no longer houses a hospital. Examples include: ;Belgium * Notre Dame à la Rose, founded in 1242 ;France Hôtel-Dieu d'Angers, founded in 1153 Hôtel-Dieu de Beaune, founded in 1443 Hôtel-Dieu of Carpentras, built in 1754 Hôtel-Dieu of Château-Thierry, founded in 1304 Hôtel-Dieu of Cluny, built in the 17th and 18th century Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon, created in 1478 Hôtel-Dieu of Nantes, completed in 1508 Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1815 Births Events January * January 2 – Lord Byron marries Anna Isabella Milbanke in Seaham, county of Durham, England. * January 3 – Austria, Britain, and Bourbon-restored France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia. * January 8 – Battle of New Orleans: American forces led by Andrew Jackson defeat British forces led by Sir Edward Pakenham. American forces suffer around 60 casualties and the British lose about 2,000 (the battle lasts for about 30 minutes). * January 13 – War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state. * January 15 – War of 1812: Capture of USS ''President'' – American frigate , commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates. February * February – The Hartford Convention arrives in Washington, D.C. * February 3 – The first commercial cheese factory is founded in S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1891 Deaths Events January–March * January 1 Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany. A strike of 500 Hungarian steel workers occurs; 3,000 men are out of work as a consequence. *Germany takes formal possession of its new African territories. January 2 – A. L. Drummond of New York is appointed Chief of the Treasury Secret Service. * January 4 – The Earl of Zetland issues a declaration regarding the famine in the western counties of Ireland. * January 5 The Australian shearers' strike, that leads indirectly to the foundation of the Australian Labor Party, begins. A fight between the United States and Indians breaks out near Pine Ridge agency. Henry B. Brown, of Michigan, is sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. A fight between railway strikers and police breaks out at Motherwell, Scotland. * January 6 – Encounters continue, between strikers and the authorities at Glasgow. * January 7 General Miles' force ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	People From Limoges A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]