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Société Des Antiquaires De France
The Société des Antiquaires de France (Society of Antiquaries of France) is a Parisian historical and archaeological society, founded in 1804 under the name of the Académie celtique (Celtic Academy). It is now based at the Louvre, in the pavillon Mollien. History The Académie celtique was founded by prefect Jacques Cambry, Jacques-Antoine Dulaure and Jacques Le Brigant on 9 germinal Year XII (30 March 1804), with the goal of studying Gallic civilization and French history and archaeology. Cambry was its first president, until his death in 1807. In 1813 it changed its name to the Société des Antiquaires de France, after the Society of Antiquaries of London, and from 1814 to 1848 it changed again to the Société royale des antiquaires de France under the Bourbon Restoration. According to the regime in France, it was then called the Société impériale des antiquaires de France or Société nationale des antiquaires de France, but it re-assumed its present name in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louvre
The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is the world's most-visited museum, and an historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the ''Mona Lisa'' and the ''Venus de Milo''. A central landmark of the city, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement (district or ward). At any given point in time, approximately 38,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are being exhibited over an area of 72,735 square meters (782,910 square feet). Attendance in 2021 was 2.8 million due to the COVID-19 pandemic, up five percent from 2020, but far below pre-COVID attendance. Nonetheless, the Louvre still topped the list of most-visited art museums in the world in 2021."The Art Newspaper", 30 March 2021. The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace, originally built in the late 12th to 13th century under Philip II. Remnants of the Medieval Louvre fortress are visible in the baseme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard
Alexandre-Évariste Coccinelle Fragonard (26 October 1780 – 10 November 1850) was a French painter and sculptor in the troubadour style. He received his first training from his father and drew from him his piquant subjects and great facility, perfecting them under Jacques-Louis David. His parents were Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Marie-Anne Fragonard. He was born in Grasse, and died in Paris. Works His paintings include : * ''François Ier armé chevalier'' * ''François Ier recevant le Primatice'' (ceiling of the Louvre) * ''Jeanne d'Arc montant sur le bûcher'' * ''Tasse lisant la Jérusalem délivrée'' * ''François Ier à Marignan'' As a sculptor, he produced the old pediment of the Chambre des Députés and a colossal statue of Pichegru Jean-Charles Pichegru (, 16 February 1761 – 5 April 1804) was a French general of the Revolutionary Wars. Under his command, French troops overran Belgium and the Netherlands before fighting on the Rhine front. His royalist posit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Longnon
Auguste Honoré Longnon (18 October 1844, in Paris – 12 July 1911, in Paris) was a French historian and archivist. He is remembered for his research in the field of historical geography and for his edition of the 15th century poet, Francois Villon. Biography Up to the age of 20 he worked as a shoemaker for his father. From 1868 he studied at the École pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, and at the same time, worked at the National Archives as an assistant to Alfred Maury. Later on, he received a promotion as ''sous-chef'' at the Archives, and eventually became a director of studies at the École pratique des Hautes Études. From 1892 to 1911 he held the chair of historical geography at the Collège de France. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léopold Delisle
Leopold may refer to: People * Leopold (given name) * Leopold (surname) Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Leopold (''The Simpsons''), Superintendent Chalmers' assistant on ''The Simpsons'' * Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of James Joyce's ''Ulysses'' * Leopold "Leo" Fitz, a character on the television series ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' * Leopold "Butters" Stotch, a character on the television series ''South Park'' * General Leopold von Flockenstuffen, a character in the BBC sitcom Allo 'Allo!'' * Leopold the Cat, Russian cartoon character Other arts, entertainment, and media * Leopold (prize), a biennial German prize for music for children * '' Kate & Leopold'', 2001 romantic comedy film * '' King Leopold's Ghost'', popular history book by Adam Hochschild * " King Leopold's Soliloquy", 1905 pamphlet by Mark Twain. * '' Leopold the Cat'', television series * Léopold Nord & Vous, Belgian musical band Brands and enterprises *Leopold (publisher), a Net ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Demaison
Louis Demaison (5 November 1852 – 5 May 1937) was a 19th–20th-century French historiographer, archaeologist, and with Henri Jadart, one of the most significant contributors to the nineteenth/twentieth history of the Marne department. Biography Louis Demaison was the grandson of (1796–1856), a trader who was mayor of Reims in 1837 and 1838 and Sophie Henriot whom he married in 1821. He began his studies in law and after obtaining his license he followed the courses of Gabriel Monod, Gaston Paris and Darmester at the École pratique des hautes études. An historian graduated from the École Nationale des Chartes in 1876 as palaeographer archivist, he led a parallel administrative career and a career in research with numerous publications alone or with others, including Henry Jadart and Charles Feodor Givelet. A student of Lefèvre Pontalis, he was also an outstanding historian of art and architecture. He began his career as an archivist of the city of Reims in 1876 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Molinier
Auguste Molinier (30 September 185119 May 1904) was a French historian. Biography Born in Toulouse, Auguste Molinier was a student at the École Nationale des Chartes, which he left in 1873, and also at the École pratique des hautes études; and he obtained appointments in the public libraries at the Mazarine (1878), at Fontainebleau (1884), and at Sainte-Geneviève, of which he was nominated librarian in 1885. He was a good palaeographer and had a thorough knowledge of archives and manuscripts; and he soon won a first place among scholars of the history of medieval France. His thesis on leaving the École des Chartes was his ' (inserted in vol. xxxiv of the '), an important contribution to the history of the Albigenses. This marked him out as a capable editor for the new edition of ' by Dom Vaissète: he superintended the reprinting of the text, adding notes on the feudal administration of this province from 900 to 1250, on the government of Alphonse of Toulouse, brother o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Bertrand
Alexandre Louis Joseph Bertrand (11 June 1820 – 1902) was a French archaeologist born in Rennes. Life He was the son of physician Alexandre Jacques François Bertrand (1795-1831) and elder brother to mathematician Joseph Louis François Bertrand (1822-1900). Alexandre Bertrand studied at the École Normale Superieure, and later taught classes at the lycée in Laval (from 1848). In 1849 he became a member of the École française d'Athènes, and from 1851 to 1858, served as a professor of rhetoric at the lycée in Rennes.BERTRAND-Alexandre INHA Bertrand was a pioneer of Gallic and Gallo-Roman archaeology, and was involved in the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lecoy De La Marche
Albert Lecoy de La Marche (21 November 1839, Nemours – 22 February 1897, Paris) was a French archivist and historian. Graduated from the École des Chartes in 1861, he was appointed archivist of the Department of Haute Savoie. In 1864 he went to Paris as archivist in the historical section of the Archives de l'Empire; he was also, for many years, professor of French history at the Catholic Institute in Paris. His magnum opus is ''Chaire française au moyen âge'' (Paris, 1868), which was awarded a prize by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. It consists of three parts: ''Les prédicateurs; les sermons; la société d'après les sermons''. Part I begins with a summary of the history of preaching in the early Church, and in France prior to the eleventh century, and then gives an exhaustive history of French preachers in the following centuries, especially the thirteenth. Part II deals with the audiences, the time and the place of preaching, and the various kinds of s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Courajod
Louis Charles Jean Courajod (22 February 1841 – 26 June 1896) was a French art historian, museum curator and connoisseur-collector, who was born and died in Paris. Biography Courajod was trained as a lawyer, then as an historian at the École Nationale des Chartes (1864–67), then served an apprenticeship at the Cabinet des estampes of the Bibliothèque Nationale, under chief curator Henri Delaborde, while he pursued his studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études. His first publication (1867) was an article on the Plantagenet tombs at Fontevrault In 1874 he began his career at the Musée du Louvre, developing at first his special interest in the Gothic sculpture of the 14th and 15th centuries, then turning to the '' art franc'', of the Carolingians. In 1887, he was appointed a professor at the École du Louvre, teaching Medieval and Renaissance sculpture; he was director of the department from 1893. Among his students were , who succeeded him at the Louvre, and . Cour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Renan
Joseph Ernest Renan (; 27 February 18232 October 1892) was a French Orientalist and Semitic scholar, expert of Semitic languages and civilizations, historian of religion, philologist, philosopher, biblical scholar, and critic. He wrote influential and pioneering historical works on the origins of early Christianity, and espoused popular political theories especially concerning nationalism and national identity. Renan is known as being among the first scholars to advance the now-discredited Khazar theory, which held that Ashkenazi Jews were descendants of the Khazars, Turkic peoples who had adopted Jewish religion and migrated to Western Europe following the collapse of their khanate. Life Birth and family He was born at Tréguier in Brittany to a family of fishermen. His grandfather, having made a small fortune with his fishing smack, bought a house at Tréguier and settled there, and his father, captain of a small cutter and an ardent republican, married the daughter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maximin Deloche
Maximin or Maximinus or similar may refer to: People *Maximinus Thrax (173–238), Roman emperor, also known as Maximinus I *Maximinus II (270–313), Roman emperor, also known as Maximinus Daia *Gaius Julius Verus Maximus (died 238; 217/220–238), also incorrectly known as Maximinus the Younger, Caesar of Rome, son of Maximinus I *Saint Maximin of Trier (died 346), French-born bishop of Trier, Germany *Saint Maximinus of Aix (Maximin d'Aix), traditionally named as the first bishop of Aix and a figure in the legend of Mary Magdalene, often conflated in the Middle Ages with Maximin of Trier *Maximinus (praetorian prefect) (fl. 4th century), Roman officer and barrister *Maximinus (diplomat) (fl. 5th century), Byzantine ambassador to Attila the Hun *Saint Mesmin or Maximin (died 520), French saint *Maximin Isnard (1755–1825), French revolutionary *Maximin Giraud (1835–1875), French Marian visionary *Maximilian Kronberger (1888–1904), known as Maximin, German poet *Maximino Áv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustave De Clausade
Pierre Amélie Gustave de Clausade de Saint Amarand (25 August 1815 – 29 July 1888) was a 19th-century French lawyer, historian, and a member of the Société des Antiquaires de France. Main works *1835: ''Un voyages d’artiste, guide dans les Pyrénées par deux amis'', Anonymous (Gustave de Clausade and Eugène de Malbos), Dagalier, Toulouse. *1843: ''Une Visite au bon Henry, suivie d'une excursion en Guipuscoa par Bayonne'', text by G. de C., drawings by Eugène de Malbos, Toulouse. *1843: ''Poésies Languedociennes et Françaises d'Auger Gaillard'', *1859: ''Le Château de Bruniquel sous Baudouin de Toulouse'', par Gustave de Clausade, extrait des ''Mémoires de l’Académie des Sciences Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres de Toulouse'', 1859 . References {{DEFAULTSORT:Clausade, Gustave de 1815 births 1888 deaths People from Tarn (department) 19th-century French historians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
