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The Quintette du Hot Club de France ("The Quintet of the Hot Club of France"), often abbreviated "QdHCdF" or "QHCF", was a jazz group founded in France in 1934 by guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stéphane Grappelli and active in one form or another until 1948.
The clubhouse in Paris, also known as the Hôtel Perrinet de Jars. The cercle de l'Union interalliée, also known as the Cercle interallié, is a private sports, social and dining club established in 1917. The clubhouse is the Hôtel Perrinet de Jars at 33 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris, France.
The Quintette du Hot Club de France and several American artists, including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Cab Calloway, performed there in the pre-war years. In 1949, 1952, and 1954 the Festival International de Jazz (popularly, the Paris Jazz Fair) organized by the Hot Club under the direction of Charles Delaunay was held in this hall. [21]
Charles-Victor Langlois (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl viktɔʁ lɑ̃ɡlwa]; May 26, 1863, in Rouen – June 25, 1929, in Paris) was a French historian, archivist and paleographer, who specialized in the study of the Middle Ages and was a lecturer at the Sorbonne, where he taught paleography, bibliography, and the history of the Middle Ages.
Le Tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages (French pronunciation: [lə tuʁ dy mɔ̃d nuvo ʒuʁnal de vwajaʒ]) was a French weekly travel journal first published in January 1860. [1] It also bore the name of Le Tour du monde, journal des voyages et des voyageurs (1895–1914).
The Quint in its current form seems to have begun as the Contact Group excluding Russia. Nowadays, Quint leaders discuss all major international topics participating in video conferences or meeting one another in various forums such as NATO, the OSCE, the G20 [8] and the UN. The Quint meets also at ministerial and experts' level.
19, rue de la Gaîté: 14th: 1980 theatre (plays) Conservatoire de Paris (Théâtre du Conservatoire) avenue Jean Jaurès: 19th: music, dance and drama: Crazy Horse: 12, avenue George V: 8th: 1951: cabaret: Le Divan du Monde: 75, rue des Martyrs: 18th: 1873: 500: concerts: formerly Divan japonais, Théâtre de la Comédie mondaine Élysée ...
Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, also helped found the USFSA.At various times he served as the federation's president and secretary general. On 29 December 1885 Georges de Saint-Clair, the secretary-general of Racing Club de France and delegates from Stade Français had formed the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Course a Pied.