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In the Salon of Madame Geoffrin in 1755 is an 1812 oil painting by the French artist Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier. [1] It depicts the salon of Marie Thérèse Geoffrin in Paris at the middle of the eighteenth century. A conversation piece it depicts many figures from the Age of Enlightenment. [2]
His farm was the storage site [2] of all the town of Concord's militia gunpowder, weapons [3] and two pairs of prized bronze cannons, according to secret British intelligence. [ 4 ] On the morning of April 19, 1775, the British Regulars were ordered by General Thomas Gage to march from Boston to the town of Concord, about 20 miles inland, and ...
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In 1795, under the Directory, the square was renamed the Place de la Concorde ("Concord Square") as a gesture of reconciliation after the turmoil of the revolution. After the Bourbon Restoration of 1814, the name was changed back to the Place Louis XV, and in 1826 the square was renamed the Place Louis XVI ("Louis XVI Square").
John Buttrick, Concord militia leader; Frederick Heyliger, Easy company commander and member of the "Band of Brothers" Jonathan Hoar, colonial soldier; Samuel Prescott, American Revolutionary War, involved in "The Ride" with Paul Revere and William Dawes; Thomas Wheeler, soldier in King Philip's War
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Lemonnier's works include An Evening with Madame Geoffrin, executed in 1812 for the Empress Josephine.This painting exhibited at the Musée des Châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau is an imaginary reconstruction of the salon of Marie Thérèse Geoffrin depicting, among others, the ministers Choiseul, Fontenelle, Montesquieu, Diderot and Marmontel, their hostess and a bust of Voltaire in a ...