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The expression Laissez les bons temps rouler (alternatively Laissez le bon temps rouler, French pronunciation: [lɛse le bɔ̃ tɑ̃ ʁule]) is a Louisiana French phrase. The phrase is a calque of the English phrase "let the good times roll", that is, a word-for-word translation of the English phrase into Louisiana French Creole.
The Salon's original focus was the display of the work of recent graduates of the École des Beaux-Arts, which was created by Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister of France, in 1648. Exhibition at the Salon de Paris was essential for any artist to achieve success in France for at least the next 200 years.
Middle English Texts Society, University of Rochester; Mirour de l'omme = The mirror of mankind (1992). [93] Translated by William Burton Wilson; revised by Nancy Wilson Van Baak with a foreword by R.F. Yeager. The Pearl Poet, Gower. In A manual of the writings in Middle English,1050–1400 (1923–1927), [87] Chapter XV, pp. 578–598. By John ...
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A translation of the Doctrine of Addai, now first edited in a complete form in the original Syriac, with an English translation and notes, by English orientalist George Phillips (1804–1892). [222] A partial translation was provided by English orientalist William Cureton (1808–1864) [223] in his Ancient Syriac Documents (1864). [224] Adelard ...
Interior of the Salon of 1767 by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin. The Salon of 1767 was an art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris. It took place during the reign of Louis XV and was overseen by the Académie Royale. It was proceeded by the Salon of 1765 and followed by the Salon of 1769. The Alsatian artist Philip James de Loutherbourg, widely ...
The Salon of 1765 was an art exhibition that took place at the Louvre in Paris. One of the biannual Salon it took place during the reign of Louis XV and was overseen by the Académie Royale which at this time limited submissions to the Salon largely to it own members. As with previous salons, the art critic Denis Diderot was an influential ...
He also designates Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie as the first chief of police of Paris. 24 May – The War of Devolution begins: France invades Flanders and Franche-Comté; on 10 August the siege of Lille, the war's only main engagement, begins, ending in a French victory. 26 June – Louis XIV conquers Tournai.