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D'Orsay (other)
Musée d'Orsay is an art museum in Paris. D'Orsay may also refer to: Paris * Gare d'Orsay, a former railroad station housing the Musée d'Orsay * Musée d'Orsay station, a rapid transit station * Quai d'Orsay, a quay in the VIIe arrondissement * Théâtre d'Orsay, a former theater in the Gare d'Orsay People with the surname * Alfred d'Orsay (1801–1852), French count and artist * Brooke D'Orsay (born 1982), Canadian actress * Fifi D'Orsay (1904–1983), Canadian actress * Laurence D'Orsay (1887–1947), American author * Lawrence D'Orsay (1853–1931), British film actor * Pierre Gaspard Marie Grimod d'Orsay (1748–1809), French art collector See also * Count d'Orsay (other) * Orsay (other) * Quai d'Orsay (other) * * Robert Dorsay Robert Dorsay (16 August 1904 – 29 October 1943) was a German actor, dancer, and singer who was executed in October 1943 for defeatism and defamation of National Socialism. Life The only son of the opera singer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musée D'Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) () is a museum in Paris, France, on the Rive Gauche, Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts railway station built from 1898 to 1900. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1914, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. It houses the largest collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world, by painters including Berthe Morisot, Monet, Claude Monet, Manet, Édouard Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Alfred Sisley, Sisley, Gauguin, and Vincent van Gogh, van Gogh. Many of these works were held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum's opening in 1986. It is one of the list of largest art museums, largest art museums in Europe. In 2022 the museum had 3.2 million visitors, up from 1.4 million in 2021. It was the sixth-most-visited art museum in the world in 2022, and second-most-visited art museum in France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gare D'Orsay
The Gare d'Orsay () is a former Paris railway station and hotel, built in 1900 to designs by Victor Laloux, Lucien Magne and Émile Bénard; it served as a terminus for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans (Paris–Orléans railway). It was the first electrified urban terminal station in the world, opened 28 May 1900, in time for the 1900 Exposition Universelle. After its closure as a station, it reopened in December 1986 as the Musée d'Orsay, an art museum. The museum is currently served by the eponymous RER station. History Palais d'Orsay In the early 19th century, the site was occupied by military barracks and the , a governmental building originally built for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The palace was erected over a period of 28 years, from 1810 to 1838, by the architects Jacques-Charles Bonnard and later Jacques Lacorné. After completion, the building was occupied by the Cour des Comptes and the Council of State. After the fall of the French Second Empi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musée D'Orsay Station
Musée d'Orsay () is a station in line C of the Paris Region's Réseau Express Régional (RER) rapid transit system, named after the Musée d'Orsay, housed in the former Gare d'Orsay. It is in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, on the Quai Anatole-France. It was one of several stations attacked during the 1995 Paris Métro and RER bombings. History The Gare d'Orsay was opened in 1900 by the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans (Paris–Orléans Railway, PO) as a mainline railway station for the 1900 Exposition Universelle. It became the PO company's new central terminus station, after the company extended its line from the Gare d'Austerlitz in the 13th arrondissement. The line made use of the new technology at the time, 550 V DC third rail electric traction, and it was constructed in a cut-and-cover tunnel along the left bank of the Seine from Austerlitz to the Quai d'Orsay. By the late 1930s, SNCF mainline trains had grown too long for the platforms at Gare d'Orsay, and ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quai D'Orsay
The Quai d'Orsay ( , ) is a quay in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. It is part of the left bank of the Seine opposite the Place de la Concorde. It becomes the Quai Anatole-France east of the Palais Bourbon, and the Quai Branly west of the Pont de l'Alma. The seat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (the ''Hôtel du ministre des Affaires étrangères'') is located on the Quai d'Orsay, between the Esplanade des Invalides and the National Assembly at the Palais Bourbon; thus the ministry is often called the "Quai d'Orsay" in the press by metonymy. The building housing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was built between 1844 and 1855 by Jacques Lacornée. The statues of the facade were created by the sculptor Henri de Triqueti (1870). The 1919 Treaty of Versailles was negotiated and written at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. History The Quai d'Orsay (originally until the Rue du Bac in the east) has historically played an important role in French art as a location to which m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre D'Orsay
The théâtre d'Orsay was a theater located on the rive gauche of the Seine, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris It was inaugurated in 1972 in the former gare d'Orsay originally conceived by the architect Victor Laloux in 1898. Jean-Louis Barrault installed a removable wooden structure, and presented there very varied shows. The greatest successes will be ''Sous le vent des îles Baléares'' by Paul Claudel, ''Isabella Morra'' by André Pieyre de Mandiargues, '' Ainsi parla Zarathoustra'', a piece of incidental music by Pierre Boulez after the book by Nietzsche, ''Les Nuits de Paris'' by Restif de la Bretonne, and also ''Zadig'' after Voltaire or '' The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs'' based on a novella by the British novelist George Moore. However, the station had to be vacated to become the musée d'Orsay. In 1981, the troupe moved to the ''Palais de Glace'' which then became the Théâtre du Rond-Point, where Barrault resettled a wooden structure identical to that of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred D'Orsay
Alfred Guillaume Gabriel Grimod d'Orsay, comte d'Orsay (4 September 18014 August 1852) was a French amateur artist, dandy, and man of fashion in the early- to mid-19th century. Biography He was born in Paris, the second son of Albert Gaspard Grimaud, Comte d'Orsay, a Bonapartist general. His mother was Baroness Eleonore von Franquemont, an illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Württemberg and the Italian adventuress Anne Franchi. His elder brother died in infancy. In 1821, he entered the French army of the restored Bourbon monarchy (against his own Bonapartist tendencies), attending the lavish coronation of George IV of the United Kingdom in London that year (staying until 1822) and serving as a Garde du Corps of Louis XVIII. While in London he formed an acquaintance with Charles Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington and Marguerite, Countess of Blessington, which quickly ripened into intimacy. Scholars have speculated both that the Countess and d'Orsay had an affair, and that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooke D'Orsay
Brooke D'Orsay (born February 17, 1982) is a Canadian actress, best known for voicing the character of Caitlin Cooke on the Teletoon animated series ''6teen'' (2004–2010) and Brooke Mayo in the 2005 movie '' King's Ransom''. For American audiences, she is best known as Paige Collins-Lawson on ''Royal Pains'' and as Kate on ''Two and a Half Men''. She played Deb on the Lifetime original series ''Drop Dead Diva'' and was in the Nickelodeon original movie '' The Boy Who Cried Werewolf'' as Paulina Von Eckberg. Since 2017, D'Orsay has become known for her performances in Hallmark Channel's Countdown to Christmas made-for-TV films. She also acted in a 2012 movie ''How to Fall in Love'' as Anni, a broke waitress/event planner who helps a high school friend as a 'dating coach' and falls in love in the process. Early life Brooke D'Orsay was born on February 17, 1982, in Toronto, Ontario. The D'Orsay family name is of Huguenot French origin. Brooke is of French ancestry. Career Her f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fifi D'Orsay
Fifi D'Orsay (born Marie-Rose Angelina Yvonne Lussier; April 16, 1904 – December 2, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress and singer. Early life Fifi D'Orsay was born Marie-Rose Angelina Yvonne Lussier in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to a father who was a postal clerk. The D'Orsays were a large family, with Fifi having 11 siblings. She was educated at the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Montreal before graduating and finding work as a secretary. Biography As a young stenographer, she wished to become an actress, and moved to New York City. Once there she found work with the Greenwich Village Follies, after an audition in which she sang "Yes! We Have No Bananas" in French. When asked where she was from, she told the director she was from Paris, France, and that she had worked in the Folies Bergère. The impressed director hired her, billing her as "Mademoiselle Fifi". While working in the Follies, she became involved with Ed Gallagher, a veteran actor who was half of the success ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurence D'Orsay
Laurence R. D'Orsay (8 November 1887 – 21 November 1947) was an American writer of several instruction books for writers, a critic and literary agent in Los Angeles, California. Laurence Rex D'Orsay was born Leopold Alexander Thalmayer in Vienna, Austria, in 1887, the son of an Austrian father and an English mother. He arrived in the US in 1916, where he changed his name to Laurence Thalmore. Since the mid-1920s he published his fiction and non-fiction in diverse magazines under the pen name Laurence R. D'Orsay, e.g., in ''Weird Tales'', '' The Writer's Monthly'', ''Writer's Digest''. Laurence D'Orsay was married to Nordica Abbott (1902–1969); they had a son, Kenneth Edward D'Orsay (1923–1972). He died in Los Angeles in 1947. The author Henry Kuttner worked for D'Orsay's literary agency in the mid-1930s, before selling his first stories.According to Robert Bloch in his autobiography ''Once Around The Bloch'' (1995), D'Orsay was Henry Kuttner's uncle. Another well-known auth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence D'Orsay
Lawrence D'Orsay (1853–1931); some sources (Lawrance D'Orsay), was a British born stage and film actor. Biography He was born in 1853 as Dorset William Lawrance to solicitor John W. Lawrance. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and was intended to go into Law.''Who Was Who in the Theatre: 1912-1976'' volume 2 D-H p.690 c.1976 (from editions originally published annually by John Parker), 1976 edition by Gale Research Made his first appearance on the stage in 1877, he toured the English provinces for five years to 1882. Much work in London theatres. He went to New York City in 1884, making his first appearance at Haverley's Theatre on 6 October 1884. He started in silent films in 1912, making his last film in 1926. In the theatre he played the type of servile Englishman remembered by later actors such as Arthur Treacher and Sebastian Cabot. Selected filmography *''Ruggles of Red Gap'' (1918) *''The Bond Boy'' (1923) *''His Children's Children'' (1923) *'' The Side Show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Gaspard Marie Grimod D'Orsay
Pierre Gaspard Marie Grimod d'Orsay (14 December 1748 – 3 January 1809, Vienna), ''count, comte Orsay, d'Orsay'', was a collector of sculptures, paintings and drawings (which were seized by the government in 1793 and donated to the Louvre). Early life He was the only son of the "fermier général" Pierre Grimaud du Fort (1692–1748) and his wife, Marie Antoinette Felicité de Caulaincourt (b. 1731), daughter of Louis Armand de Caulaincourt, Marquis de Caulaincourt (1690–1734). Biography In 1766, 18 years after his father's death, he reached his majority and assumed control of his enormous inheritance from his father, making him one of the richest men of his day. Work on the gardens of the family chateau at Orsay, begun by his father and continued by Pierre Gaspard's guardians, including, in 1758, extensive work under the direction of the talented architect Jean-Michel Chevotet (1698–1772), who had won the Prix de Rome in 1722 and was admitted to the Royal Academy of Arc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Count D'Orsay (other)
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Count d'Orsay may refer to: * Pierre Grimod du Fort (1692—1748), fermier général and art collector under Louis XV *Pierre Gaspard Marie Grimod d'Orsay (1748—1809), art collector *Albert Gaspard Grimod (1772–1843), Bonapartist general and nobleman *Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count D'Orsay (1801–1852), French amateur artist, dandy, and man of fashion See also * Orsay Orsay () is a Communes of France, commune in the Essonne Departments of France, department in Île-de-France in northern France. It is located in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France, from the Kilometre Zero, centre of Paris. A fortifie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
