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François Jouffroy
François Jouffroy (; 1 February 1806 – 25 June 1882) was a French sculptor. Biography Jouffroy was born in Dijon, France, the son of a baker, and attended the local drawing school before being admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1824. In 1832 he won the Prix de Rome. Jouffroy often had to compete with Pierre-Jean David d'Angers for public commissions, but during the Second Empire (1851–1870) he still participated in the decoration of several public buildings. He was a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts from 1865 until his death. Among his students were Per Hasselberg, Jean Dampt, Léopold Morice, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, José Simões de Almeida (Tio), António Soares dos Reis, Elisa de Lamartine, and Adrien Étienne Gaudez. Jouffroy died at Laval, Mayenne Laval () is a town in western France, about west-southwest of Paris, and the capital of the Mayenne departments of France, department. Its inhabitants are called ''Lavallois''. The commune of Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon
Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon (9 January 1818 – 28 April 1881) was a French Sculpture, sculptor and Photography, photographer. Early career Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon was born to a French Jews, French Jewish family on 9 January 1818 in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, Seine-et-Marne, France. His father, Nathan-Herschel Salomon, intended for Antoine to have a career as a merchant. Following a brief career as a modeler for the Jacob Petit pottery factory in Fontainebleau, he received a scholarship to study sculpture in Paris. He also traveled for studies to Switzerland and England. His notable sculptures include busts of Victor Cousin, Odilon Barrot, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Alphonse de Lamartine, Gioachino Rossini, and Marie Antoinette. Photography After becoming established as a sculptor, Adam-Salomon studied photography under the portraitist Franz Hanfstaengl in Munich in 1858. He became a leading portrait photographer. Adam-Salomon returned to Paris where he opened a portrait stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centre National Des Arts Plastiques
The Centre national des arts plastiques (National Centre for Visual Arts, or CNAP) is a French institution established in 1982 under the Ministry of Culture and Communication that promotes creation of visual arts. It provides assistance to artists and galleries, and manages the '' Fonds national d'art contemporain'' (FNAC; National Foundation for Contemporary Art). Background The CNAP has its origins in the ''Division des Beaux-Arts'' (Fine Arts Division) created in 1791 just after the French Revolution with its own budget to encourage living artists and educate citizens. This was succeeded in turn by the ''Bureau des Beaux-Arts'' in 1800, ''Bureau de l'encouragement des Arts'' in 1879, the ''Bureau des Travaux d'art'' in 1882 and finally the ''Centre national des arts plastiques'' (CNAP) in 1982. Throughout this history the goal was to encourage creation of contemporary work. CNAP was created by a prime ministerial decree of 15 October 1982, under the Minister of Culture. Activ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Achille Leclère
Achille-François-René Leclère (29 October 1785 – 23 December 1853) was a French architect and teacher of architecture. Achille Leclère studied architecture under Charles Percier and Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand. After finishing his studies, he won the 1808 Premier Grand Prix de Rome where the final round topic was, "Public baths in Paris". In 1813, Leclère made a noted restoration of the Pantheon in Rome. Indeed, Achille Leclere's architectural drawings of the Pantheon are regarded by many as the best ever made. In 1815, he opened a renowned architectural atelier from which many eminent architects graduated, including the French architects Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Paul Abadie, Charles Isabelle and Alfred Armand and the English architect Richard Lane. He was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts of the Institut de France The ; ) is a French learned society, grouping five , including the . It was established in 1795 at the direction of the Nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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P1, P01, P-1 or P.1 may refer to: Computing, robotics, and, telecommunications * DSC-P1, a 2000 Sony Cyber-shot P series camera model * Sony Ericsson P1, a UIQ 3 smartphone * Packet One, the first company to launch WiMAX service in Southeast Asia * Peer 1, an Internet hosting provider * Honda P1, a 1993 Honda P series of robots, an ASIMO predecessor Media * DR P1, a Danish radio network operated by Danmarks Radio * NRK P1, a Norwegian radio network operated by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation * SR P1, a Swedish radio network operated by Sveriges Radio * Polonia 1, a Polish TV channel of the Polcast Television Military * P-1 Hawk, a 1923 biplane fighter of the U.S. Army Air Corps * Kawasaki P-1, a Japanese maritime patrol aircraft (previously P-X) * P-1 (missile), a Soviet anti-ship cruise missile Science Biology * P1 antigen, identifies P antigen system * P1 laboratory, biosafety -level-1 laboratory * P1 phage, a bacterial virus * SARS-CoV-2 Gamma variant, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Augustin, Paris
The Église Saint-Augustin de Paris (; English: Church of St. Augustine) is a Catholic church located at 46 boulevard Malesherbes in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. The church was built between 1860 and 1871 by the Paris city chief architect Victor Baltard. It was the first church in Paris to combine a cast-iron frame, fully visible, with stone construction. It was designed to provide a prominent landmark at the junction of two new boulevards built during Haussmann's renovation of Paris under Napoleon III.Dumoulin. "Églises de Paris" (2010), p. 141 In 1886, Saint-Augustin was the site of the conversion of Charles de Foucauld, who was canonised as a saint by Pope Francis on 15 May 2022. The church includes a chapel dedicated to Foucauld, in which is preserved the confessional where he returned to the Catholic Church. History In the 1850s and 1860s Napoleon III carried out a massive reconstruction of the center of Paris, which was carried out by Georges-Eugène Haussmann. Wid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palais De Justice, Paris
The Palais de Justice (, ) is a judicial centre and courthouse in Paris, located on the Île de la Cité. It contains the Court of Appeal of Paris, the busiest appellate court in France, and France's highest court for ordinary cases, the Court of Cassation. It formerly housed the Tribunal de grande instance de Paris which was relocated in 2018 to a new high-rise building in Paris's Batignolles neighbourhood. The Palais de Justice occupies a large part of the medieval Palais de la Cité, the former royal palace of the kings of France, which also includes Sainte Chapelle, the royal chapel, and the Conciergerie, a notorious former prison, which operated from 1380 to 1914. It is located in close proximity to the Tribunal of Commerce, the Prefecture of Police of Paris, and the offices of the Paris Bar Association. History Royal Courtroom to Revolutionary courtroom Under King Robert II of France the Palais de la Cité began to serve as the home of a high court or council for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Retour Des Cendres
The ''retour des cendres'' (literally "return of the ashes", though "ashes" is used here as a metaphor for his mortal remains, as he was not cremated) was the return of the mortal remains of Napoleon I of France from the island of Saint Helena to France and the burial in Hôtel des Invalides in Paris in 1840, on the initiative of Prime Minister Adolphe Thiers and King Louis Philippe I. Background After his defeat in the War of the Sixth Coalition in 1814, Napoleon abdicated as Emperor of the French, and was exiled to the Mediterranean island of Elba. The following year he returned to France and took up the throne once more, beginning the Hundred Days. The Coalition powers which had prevailed against him the previous year mobilised against him, and defeated the French in the Battle of Waterloo. Napoleon returned to Paris and abdicated on 22June 1815. Foiled in his attempt to sail to the United States, he gave himself up to the British, who exiled him to the remote island of St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-Philippe
Louis Philippe I (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850), nicknamed the Citizen King, was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, the penultimate monarch of France, and the last French monarch to bear the title "King". He abdicated from his throne during the French Revolution of 1848, which led to the foundation of the French Second Republic. Louis Philippe was the eldest son of Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (later known as Philippe Égalité). As Duke of Chartres, the younger Louis Philippe distinguished himself commanding troops during the French Revolutionary Wars and was promoted to lieutenant general by the age of 19 but broke with the First French Republic over its decision to execute King Louis XVI. He fled to Switzerland in 1793 after being connected with a plot to restore France's monarchy. His father fell under suspicion and was executed during the Reign of Terror. Louis Philippe remained in exile for 21 years until the Bourbon Restoration in France, Bourbon Restor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napoleon's Tomb
Napoleon's tomb () is the monument erected at Les Invalides in Paris to keep the remains of Napoleon following their repatriation to France from Saint Helena in 1840, or , at the initiative of King Louis Philippe I and his minister Adolphe Thiers. While the tomb's planning started in 1840, it was only completed two decades later and inaugurated by Emperor Napoleon III on 2 April 1861, after its promoter Louis Philippe I, architect Louis Visconti, and main sculptors James Pradier and Pierre-Charles Simart had all died in the meantime. Background In early 1840, the government led by Adolphe Thiers appointed a twelve-member committee () to decide on the location and outline of the funerary monument and select its architect. The committee was chaired by politician Charles de Rémusat and included writers and artists such as Théophile Gautier, David d'Angers, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. In April 1840, the organised a competition in which 81 architects participated, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monument To Bernard Of Clairvaux (Dijon)
The monument to Bernard of Clairvaux at Dijon is a memorial built in 1847 by the dijonnais sculptor François Jouffroy, dedicated to the monk, statesman, preacher, orator and Catholic saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), located at the '' place Saint-Bernard'' of Dijon, at the French Côte-d'Or department. History The ''place Saint-Bernard'' was built between 1836 and 1944, at the entrance of the historic district of Dijon, between the '' place Darcy'' and the ''place de la République''. It was part of the construction projects of the real estate promoter Adrien-Léon Lacordaire, brother of Henri Lacordaire. Place Saint Bernard Dijon.jpg Dijon place Saint Bernard Tramway 01.jpg The monument was designed by Adrien-Léon Lacordaire himself, and the figure was sculpted by local François Jouffroy. The ornaments were commissioned to Auguste Forey. It was inaugurated on an originally private space, the 7 November 1847, by the bishop of Dijon and Charles de Montalembert, in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duke Of Longueville
Duke of Longueville (''Longueville-sur-Scie'') was a title of French nobility, though not a peerage of France. History The title was created in 1505 by Louis XII of France, King Louis XII of France for his first cousin once removed, François d'Orléans, Count of Dunois, son of François d'Orléans, Count of Dunois, son of Jean de Dunois, Jean d'Orléans, himself an illegitimate son of the Louis de Valois, duc d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans. The title became extinct in 1694, following the death of Jean Louis Charles d'Orléans, who was the brother of Marie de Nemours. From 1648, the Duke of Longueville was also Principality of Neuchâtel, Sovereign Prince of Neuchâtel, a Switzerland, Swiss territory. In 1654, the eighth duke was created a peer of France, peer as Duke of Coulommiers, but the peerage was never registered and so became extinct at his death. Dukes of Longueville # François II, Duke of Longueville, François II (1478–1513). # Louis I d'Orléans, duc de Longueville, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
