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Antoine-Alexis Cadet de Vaux was born in Paris on 11 January 1743, the youngest of seven boys. His father was Claude Cadet, first physician of Louis XIV of France. [1] When his father died in 1745 Monsieur de Saint-Laurent, former General Treasurer of colonies, took responsibility for the family, making sure the children were well-educated.
Norman Paris (born Norman Thaddeus Pavlak; [2] [3] [4] October 21, 1925 – July 10, 1977) [5] [6] was an American pianist, arranger, composer, conductor, and bandleader. Hailed by Billboard's Bob Francis and Bob Rolontz as—respectively—"one of the best accompanists in the business" and a "sensational pian[ist whose] stylings, even in back of the singers, were a delight," [7] Paris ...
Paris is a rock musical written by Australian rock musician Jon English and David Mackay between 1987 and 1990, based on the myth of the Trojan War. A concept album was released in Australia in 1990 with the first stage production taking place in Sydney in 2003.
The 7th Dawn is a 1964 Technicolor drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring William Holden, Capucine and TetsurÅ Tamba. The film, set during the Malayan Emergency , is based on the 1960 novel The Durian Tree by Michael Keon and was filmed on location in Malaysia .
The novel was adapted into a children's picture book in 2002 with all the characters changed into dogs or birds, which was titled The Seven Dog Brothers: Being a Doggerel Version of The Seven Brothers, Aleksis Kivi's Classic Novel from 1870. [25] The book was credited to Mauri Kunnas, a Finnish children's author, and Tarja Kunnas. Mr.
On March 18, 1871, the Paris Commune is proclaimed, while the government of Adolphe Thiers retreats to Versailles. The army lays siege to Paris. Eugène Gorrot, a shoemaker from Lyon, joins the ranks of the city's defenders. On one of the city’s redoubts, he meets Catherine Millard, a brave and selfless woman who takes up arms during these ...
In Paris, the Faubourg Saint-Marceau kept up an equal buzzing with the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, and the schools were no less moved than the faubourgs. A cafe in the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe and the wine shop of the Seven Billiards, Rue des Mathurins-Saint-Jacques, served as rallying points for the students.
Sedmikostelí (English: The Seven Churches) is a novel by Czech author Miloš Urban, [1] first published in 1998. The book is a Gothic historical crime fiction story set in modern-day Nove Mesto, Prague, [2] following a main character, K, who witnesses an accident followed by several murders. [2]