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1797 In France
Events from the year 1797 in France. Incumbents * The French Directory Events *14 January-15 January - Battle of Rivoli, decisive French victory over Austria. *19 February - Treaty of Tolentino signed between France and the Papal States. *22 February - The Last invasion of Britain begins. French forces under the command of American Colonel William Tate land near Fishguard in Wales. *25 February - Tate surrenders at Fishguard. *17 April - Treaty of Leoben, preliminary accord between France and Austria. *18 April - Battle of Neuwied, French victory over Austria. *20 April - Battle of Diersheim, French victory over Austrian forces. *12 May - France conquers Venice, ending the 1100 years of independence of the city. *17 October - Treaty of Campo Formio signed between France and Austria. *17 December - Napoleon leads a successful French charge against Fort l'Aiguilette to secure Toulon. Births *27 March - Alfred de Vigny, poet, playwright, and novelist (died 1863) *16 April - Ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin. Its eighteen integral regions (five of which are overseas) span a combined area of and contain clos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred De Vigny
Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny (27 March 1797 – 17 September 1863) was a French poet and early French Romanticist. He also produced novels, plays, and translations of Shakespeare. Biography Vigny was born in Loches (a town to which he never returned) to an aristocratic family. His father was a 60-year-old veteran of the Seven Years' War who died before Vigny's 20th birthday; his mother, 20 years younger, was a strong-willed woman who was inspired by Rousseau and took personal responsibility for Vigny's early education. His maternal grandfather, the Marquis de Baraudin, had served as commodore with the royal navy. Vigny grew up in Paris, and attended preparatory studies for the École Polytechnique at the Lycée Bonaparte, obtaining a good knowledge of French history and the Bible before developing an "inordinate love for the glory of bearing arms". As was the case for every noble family, the French Revolution diminished the family's circumstances considerably. After Napoléo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Nicolas Marie Appert
Benjamin Nicolas Marie Appert (10 September 17971847) was a French philanthropist. Life Appert was born in Paris. As a young man he introduced a system of mutual instruction into the regimental schools of the ''département'' of the Nord. Its success encouraged him to publish a ''Manual'' setting forth his system. While engaged in teaching prisoners at Montaigu jail, he fell under suspicion of having connived at the escape of two of them, and was thrown into the prison of La Force. On his release, he resolved to devote the rest of his life to bettering the condition of those whose lot he had for a time shared, and he travelled much over Europe to study the various systems of prison discipline, and wrote several books on the subject. After the revolution of 1830, he became secretary to Queen Marie Amélie Therese and organized the measures taken for the relief of the needy. He was decorated with the Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1841 In France
Events from the year 1841 in France. Incumbents * Monarch – Louis Philippe I Events Births *7 January - Bernadette Soubirous, reported apparitions at Lourdes (died 1879) *14 January - Berthe Morisot, painter (died 1895) *18 January - Emmanuel Chabrier, composer (died 1894) *30 January - Félix Faure, President of France (died 1899) *25 February - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painter (died 1919) *2 April - Clément Ader, engineer and aviation pioneer (died 1925) *13 April - Louis-Ernest Barrias, sculptor (died 1905) *28 September - Georges Clemenceau, statesman, physician, journalist and Prime Minister (died 1929) *6 November - Armand Fallières, politician and President of France (died 1931) *6 December - Frédéric Bazille, painter (died 1870) *20 December - Ferdinand Buisson, academic. pacifist, politician, awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1927 (died 1932) Full date unknown *Marie Bracquemond, artist (died 1916) *Charles Jean Baptiste Collin-Mezin, maker of violins, violas, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ornithologist
Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and the aesthetic appeal of birds. It has also been an area with a large contribution made by amateurs in terms of time, resources, and financial support. Studies on birds have helped develop key concepts in biology including evolution, behaviour and ecology such as the definition of species, the process of speciation, instinct, learning, ecological niches, guilds, island biogeography, phylogeography, and conservation. While early ornithology was principally concerned with descriptions and distributions of species, ornithologists today seek answers to very specific questions, often using birds as models to test hypotheses or predictions based on theories. Most modern biological theories apply across life forms, and the number of scientists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entomologist
Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arachnids, myriapods, and crustaceans. This wider meaning may still be encountered in informal use. Like several of the other fields that are categorized within zoology, entomology is a taxon-based category; any form of scientific study in which there is a focus on insect-related inquiries is, by definition, entomology. Entomology therefore overlaps with a cross-section of topics as diverse as molecular genetics, behavior, neuroscience, biomechanics, biochemistry, systematics, physiology, developmental biology, ecology, morphology, and paleontology. Over 1.3 million insect species have been described, more than two-thirds of all known species. Some insect species date back to around 400 million years ago. They have many kinds of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Victoire Audouin
Jean Victor Audouin (27 April 1797 – 9 November 1841), sometimes Victor Audouin, was a French naturalist, an entomologist, herpetologist, ornithologist, and malacologist. Biography Audouin was born in Paris and was educated in the field of medicine. In 1824 he was appointed assistant to Pierre André Latreille, professor of entomology at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, where in 1833 he became Latreille's successor. In 1838 he became a member of the French Academy of Sciences. His principal work, ''Histoire des insectes nuisibles à la vigne'' (1842), was completed after his death by Henri Milne-Edwards and Émile Blanchard. Many of his papers appeared in the '' Annales des sciences naturelles'', which, with Adolphe Theodore Brongniart and Jean-Baptiste Dumas, he founded in 1824, as well as in the proceedings of the Société entomologique de France, of which he was one of the founders in 1832. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1877 In France
Events from the year 1877 in France. Incumbents *President: Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta *President of the Council of Ministers: ** until 17 May: Jules Simon ** 17 May-23 November: Albert, 4th duc de Broglie ** 23 November-13 December: Gaëtan de Rochebouët ** starting 13 December: Jules Armand Dufaure Events * 16 May – Constitutional crisis which ultimately seals the defeat of the royalist movement. * 14 October – Legislative election held. * 28 October – Legislative election held. Births January to March * 29 January – Georges Catroux, military officer and diplomat (died 1969) * 17 February – André Maginot, politician, advocate of the Maginot Line (died 1932) * 19 February – Louis Aubert, composer (died 1968) * 21 February – Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Catholic theologian (died 1964) * 28 February – André Simon, wine merchant, gourmet and writer (died 1970) * 21 March – Maurice Farman, motor racing driver, aviator, aircraft manufacturer and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Minister Of France
The prime minister of France (french: link=no, Premier ministre français), officially the prime minister of the French Republic, is the head of government of the French Republic and the leader of the Council of Ministers. The prime minister is the holder of the second-highest office in France, after the president of France. The president, who appoints but cannot dismiss the prime minister, can ask for their resignation. The Government of France, including the prime minister, can be dismissed by the National Assembly. Upon appointment, the prime minister proposes a list of ministers to the president. Decrees and decisions signed by the prime minister, like almost all executive decisions, are subject to the oversight of the administrative court system. Some decrees are taken after advice from the Council of State (french: link=no, Conseil d'État), over which the prime minister is entitled to preside. Ministers defend the programmes of their ministries to the prime minister, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolphe Thiers
Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers ( , ; 15 April 17973 September 1877) was a French statesman and historian. He was the second elected President of France and first President of the French Third Republic. Thiers was a key figure in the July Revolution of 1830, which overthrew King Charles X in favor of the more liberal King Louis Philippe, and the French Revolution of 1848, which overthrew the Orléans monarchy and established the Second French Republic. He served as a prime minister in 1836 and 1840, dedicated the Arc de Triomphe, and arranged the return to France of the remains of Napoleon from Saint-Helena. He was first a supporter, then a vocal opponent of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (who served from 1848 to 1852 as President of the Second Republic and then reigned as Emperor Napoleon III from 1852 to 1871). When Napoleon III seized power, Thiers was arrested and briefly expelled from France. He then returned and became an opponent of the government. Following the defeat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1863 In France
Events from the year 1863 in France. Incumbents * Monarch – Napoleon III Events *15 January - French forces bombard Veracruz, during the French intervention in Mexico. *16 March - French siege of Puebla begins. *14 April - Treaty of Hué is signed between Vietnam and the French Empire. *30 April - Battle of Camarón, between the French Foreign Legion and the Mexican army: Mexican victory, but successful French delaying action. *17 May - Puebla surrenders to the French. *7 June - French troops enter Mexico City. *21–22 June - Legislative election, first round. *5–6 July - Legislative election, second round. *First outbreak of phylloxera on the European mainland observed in the vineyards of the southern Rhône region. *The recipe for the herbal liqueur Bénédictine is devised by Alexandre Le Grand in Fécamp. *The Paris Observatory begins to publish weather maps. Arts and literature *31 January - Jules Verne's scientifically inspired novel ''Five Weeks in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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