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Saint-Quentin, Picardy, Kingdom of France. Nationality. French. Known for. Pastel. Maurice Quentin de La Tour (5 September 1704 – 17 February 1788) was a French painter who worked primarily with pastels in the Rococo style. Among his most famous subjects were Voltaire, Rousseau, Louis XV and the Madame de Pompadour.
Life. Like his elder brother, Abel Combarieu [fr] (born 30 January 1856 in Cahors) who was to become the Private Secretary of Président de la République Émile Loubet, Jules Combarieu was the son of Henri Combarieu, a printer, and Marie-Louise Salbant, who married in Quercy in 1855. He first studied at la Sorbonne, then in Berlin with Philipp ...
Gaspard de la nuit (subtitled Trois poèmes pour piano d'après Aloysius Bertrand), M. 55 is a suite of piano pieces by Maurice Ravel, written in 1908.It has three movements, each based on a poem or fantaisie from the collection Gaspard de la Nuit – Fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot completed in 1836 by Aloysius Bertrand.
Signature. Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet (French: [emili dy ʃɑtlɛ] ⓘ; 17 December 1706 – 10 September 1749) was a French natural philosopher and mathematician from the early 1730s until her death due to complications during childbirth in 1749. Her most recognized achievement is her translation of and ...
Maurice Denis (French: [dəni]; 25 November 1870 – 13 November 1943) [1] was a French painter, decorative artist, and writer. An important figure in the transitional period between impressionism and modern art, [2] he is associated with Les Nabis, symbolism, and later neo-classicism. [3] His theories contributed to the foundations of cubism ...
Canada. ISBN. 978-0-88776-169-0. The Hockey Sweater (Le chandail de hockey in the original French) is a short story by Canadian author Roch Carrier and translated to English by Sheila Fischman. It was originally published in 1979 under the title " Une abominable feuille d'érable sur la glace " ("An abominable maple leaf on the ice").
Mort de Judas/Le Point de vue de Ponce Pilate: Paul Claudel: Sophie Loucachevsky 1990 La Dame de chez Maxim: Georges Feydeau: Alain Françon Partage de midi: Paul Claudel: Brigitte Jaques-Wajeman 1994 The Homecoming: Harold Pinter: Bernard Murat 1999 Biographie : un jeu: Max Frisch: Frédéric Bélier-Garcia 2002 L'Enfant do: Jean-Claude ...
Signature. Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (French: le Bien-Aimé), [1] was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached maturity (then defined as his 13th birthday) in 1723, the kingdom was ruled by his ...