Jacques Auguste de Thou - Jacques Auguste de Thou Jacques Auguste de Thou (Thuanus) (1553 - May 7, 1617) was a French historian. He was the grandson of Augustin de Thou, president of the parlement of Paris (died 1544), and the younger son of Christophe de Thou (died 1582), "first president" of the same parlement, who had ambitions to produce a history of France. His uncle was Nicolas de Thou, Bishop of Chartres 1573-1598). With this family background, he developed a love of literature, a firm and but tolerant piety, and a loyalty to the Crown. At seventeen, he began his studies in law, first at Orléans, later at Bourges, where he made the acquaintance of François Hotman, and finally at Valence, where he had Jacques Cujas for his teacher and.
Jacques Amyot - Jacques Amyot Jacques Amyot (October 30, 1513 - February 6, 1593), French writer, was born of poor parents, at Melun. He found his way to the university of Paris, where he supported himself by serving some of the richer students. He was nineteen when he became M.A. at Paris, and later he graduated doctor of civil law at Bourges. Through Jacques Colure (or Colin), abbot of St Ambrose in Bourges, he obtained a tutorship in the family of a secretary of state. By the secretary he was recommended to Marguerite de Valois, and through her influence was made professor of Greek and Latin at Bourges. Here he translated Theagene et Charidée from Heliodorus (1547 fol.), for which he was rewarded by Francis I with the abbey.
Auguste Piccard - Auguste Piccard Auguste Piccard, (January 28, 1884 - March 24, 1962) was a Swiss inventor. Piccard and his twin brother Jean-Felix, were born in Basel, Switzerland. Showing an intense interest in science as a child, he attended the Federal Polytechnic School of Switzerland, and became a professor of physics at the University of Brussels in 1922. In 1930, an interest in ballooning, and a curiosity about the upper atmosphere led him to design a spherical, pressurized aluminum gondola which would allow ascent to great altitude without requiring a pressure suit. Supported by the Belgian Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) Piccard constructed his gondola. On May 27, 1931, Auguste and Paul Kipfer took off from Augsburg, Germany, and reached a record altitude of 15,785 m.
Jacques Cujas - Jacques Cujas Jacques Cujas or Cujacius (or as he called himself, Jacques de Cujas) (1520—1590) was a French legal expert. He was born at Toulouse, where his father, surnamed Cujaus, was a fuller. Having taught himself Latin and Greek, he studied law under Arnaud du Ferrièr, then professor at Toulouse, and rapidly gained a great reputation as a lecturer on Justinian. In 1554 he was appointed professor of law at Cahors, and about a year after Michel de l'Hôpital called him to Bourges. François Duaren, who also held a professorship at Bourges, stirred up the students against the new professor, and Cujas was glad to accept an invitation he had received to the University of Valence. Recalled to Bourges at the death of Duaren in 1559,.
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (August 29, 1780 - January 14, 1867) was a French painter. Born in Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, France, he had his academic training in the Toulouse Academy then went to Paris in 1796 to study under Jacques-Louis David. He soon left the studio involving a difference of opinion on style. Ingres's style was more flat and linear, and focused on contour. He won the Prix de Rome in 1801 and his masterpiece, the Grande Odalisque, a harem girl with too many vertebrae, hangs in the Louvre. The textures in the painting are painted intricately. One can get a sense of the texture of the fabric and the smooth skin of the girl. The elongated features are reminiscent of old Mannerist painters..
Indian Ocean - and Indus rivers and in Southeast Asia, have developed near the Indian Ocean. During Egypt's 1st dynasty (c.3000 BC), sailors were sent out onto its waters, journeying to Punt, thought to be part of present-day Somalia. Returning ships brought gold and slaves. Phoenicians of the 3rd millennium BC may have entered the area, but no settlements resulted. The Greeks and Romans knew something of the ocean; the unknown author of the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea describes ports and trade goods along the coasts of Africa and India from around the 2nd century AD. Indonesian peoples crossed the Indian Ocean to settle in Madagascar. Marco Polo (c. 1254-1324) is thought to have returned from the Far East by way of the Strait of Malacca. Chinese expeditions of exploration reached East Africa.
European art history - order to emphasize the emotional content of a painting and the emotions of the painter. Baroque art took the representationalism of the Renaissance to new heights, emphasizing detail and movement in their search for beauty. Perhaps the best known Baroque painters are Rembrandt and Peter Paul Rubens. Baroque art is often seen as part of the Counter-Reformation - the artistic element of the revival of spiritual life in the Catholic Church. Additionally, the emphasis that Baroque art placed on grandeur is seen as Absolutist in nature. Louis XIV said, "I am grandeur incarnate," and many Baroque artists served kings seeking after this very goal. However, The Baroque love of detail is often considered overly-ornate and gaudy, especially as it developed into the even more richly decorated style of Rococo. After the.
Detective fiction - tenet of Detective fiction 4.1 The unresolved problem of plausibility and coincidence 5 Famous fictional detectives 6 Books Whodunnit? The most widespread subgenre of the detective novel is the whodunnit (usually spelled whodunit in the US), where great ingenuity is usually exercised in revealing the basic method of the murder in such a manner as to simultaneously conceal it from the readers, until the end of the book, when the method and culprit are revealed. An early archetype of these types of story were the three Auguste Dupin stories of Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Purloined Letter, and The Mystery of Marie Roget. Poe's detective stories have been described as ratiocinative tales. In tales such as these, the primary concern of the plot is ascertaining truth,.
1932 - in 14 hours 54 minutes May 30 - German chancellor Heinrich Brüning resigns. President Hindenburg takes Franz von Papen to form a new government. June - 15,000 World War I veterans march in Washington, DC June 4 - Military coup in Chile June 14 - Bans against SS and SA overturned in Germany June 20 - Benelux customs union negotiated June 24 - after a relatively bloodless military rebellion, Siam becomes a constitutional monarchy July 5 - António de Oliveira Salazar becomes the fascists prime minister of Portugal (for the next 36 years) July 7 - French submarine Sromethee sinks off Cherbourg - 66 dead July 17 - Bloody Sunday of Altona in Germany - armed communists attack a national socialist demonstration - 18 dead. Many other political street fights follow..
Academic art - founded in an effort to distinguish artists?who were gentlemen practicing a liberal art?from craftsmen, who were engaged in manual labor. This emphasis on the intellectual component of artmaking had a considerable impact on the subjects and styles of academic art. After the Académie française was reorganized in 1661 by Louis XIV ( whose aim was to control all the artistic activity in France) a controversy occurred among the members that was to dominate artistic attitudes for the rest of the century. This was what has been described as the 'battle of styles', the conflict over whether Peter Paul Rubens or Nicolas Poussin was a suitable model to follow. Followers of Poussin, called poussinistes, argued that line (disegno) should dominate art, beause of its appeal to the intellect, while followers or Rubens,.
Battle of Lützen (1813) - Lützen, southwest of Leipzig, Germany Combatant 1 France Commanders Napoleon I of France General Jacques Lauriston Michel Ney Nicolas Oudinot Auguste Marmont Strength 120,000 troops, no cavalry Combatant 2 Prussia, Russia Commanders Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Ludwigsburg, Gebhard von Blücher Strength 73,000 troops Result French repulsed the pursuing army Casualties (1): 22,000 (2): 20,000 This Battle of Lützen happened as Napoleon's army was on the way home from its Russian disaster. On May 2, 1813, Wittgenstein attacked Napoleon's advanced column near Lützen to undo Napoleon's capture of Leipzig. After a day of heavy fighting, the combined Prussian and Russian force retreated, but without cavalry the French were unable to follow their defeated enemy. Other battles at same place Battle of Lützen (1632).
Père Lachaise - buried with such famous citizens. Records show that within a few years, the cemetery went from a few dozen permanent residents to more than 33,000. In the grounds there is also the Communards' Wall (French Mur des Fédérés) against which 147 communards, the leaders of the Paris Commune were shot on May 28 1871 after the fall of the commune. Bill Richardson wrote a book called Waiting for Gertrude which is set in the cemetery. The characters in the book are cats, reincarnated from those buried within. There are many famous people buried in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery. Some of them are: The grave of Chopin Antonio de La Gandara, painter Guillaume Apollinaire , Poet Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor Honoré de Balzac , writer Henri Barbusse , writer Paul Barras, statesman during.
Montauban - it contains a valuable library, and a museum with collections of antiquities and pictures. The latter comprise most of the work (including his "Jesus among the Doctors") of Jean Ingres, the celebrated painter, whose birth in Montauban is commemorated by an elaborate monument. The Place Nationale is a square of the 17th century, entered at each corner by gateways giving access to a large open space surrounded by houses carried on double rows of arcades. The prefecture, the law-courts and the remaining public buildings are modern. The chief churches of Montauban are the cathedral, remarkable only for the possession of the "Vow of Louis XIII." one of the masterpieces of Ingres, and the church of St Jacques (14th and 15th centuries), the façade of which is surmounted by a handsome octagonal.
List of Interior Ministers of France - Xavier Marc Antoine, Duc de Montesquiou-Fezensac: 13 May 1814 – 30 March 1815 Lazare Nicolas Carnot: 20 March – 7 July 1815 Joseph Fouché: 8 July – 24 September 1815 Élie, Comte de Decazes: 24 September 1815 – 18 February 1820 Joseph Jérôme, Comte Siméon: 18 February 1820 – 19 December 1821 Jacques Joseph Guillaume Pierre, Comte de Corbière: 19 December 1821 – 4 January 1828 Jean Baptiste Gay, Vicomte de Martignac: 4 January 1828 – 7 August 1829 François Régis, Comte de Labourdonnaye: 8 August – 18 November 1829 Guillaume Isidore Baron, Comte de Montbel: 18 November 1829 – 19 May 1830 Charles-Ignace Peyronet: 19 May – 29 July 1830 François Guizot: 13 August – 3 November 1830 Marthe Camille Bachasson, Comte Montalivet: 3 November 1830 – 13 March 1831.
James Pradier - James Pradier, also known as Jean-Jacques Pradier (1790 sometimes listed as 1792 - June 4, 1852) was a Swiss sculptor best known for his work in the neoclassical style. Pradier was born in Geneva, Switzerland. He studied under Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres in Paris. In 1827 he became a member of the Académie des beaux-arts and a professor at the Ecole des beaux-arts. The cool neoclassical surface finish of his sculptures are charged with an eroticism that their mythological themes can barely disguise. At the Salon of 1834, Pradier's Satyr and Bacchante created a scandalous sensation when the prudish government of Louis-Philippe refused to purchase it. (It is now in the Louvre). Other famous sculptures by Pradier are the figures of Fame in the spandrels of the Arc de Triomphe, Paris, and his.
Immortality - is highly controversial. Suppose a physicist detonates a nuclear bomb next to him. In almost all parallel universes, the nuclear explosion would vaporize the physicist. However, there is a small set of alternate universes in which the physicist somehow survives. The idea behind quantum immortality is that the physicist would only be able to experience the universes in which he survives, even though they may be a small subset of the possible universes. In this way, the physicist would appear from his own standpoint to be living forever. Jacques Cousteau, in the preface to his book The Ocean World, expressed his meditations on physical immortality, as a part of life and its adaptive processes: 'Death', Cousteau states, 'is fundamental to evolution;' and 'evolution is fundamental to survival'. He concludes that, biological.
Isaac Casaubon - twice, his second wife being Florence, daughter of the scholar-printer, Henri Estienne. At Geneva, without the stimulus of example or encouragement, with few books and no assistance, surrounded by religious refugees, and struggling for life against the troops of the Catholic dukes of Savoy, Casaubon made himself a consummate Greek scholar and master of ancient learning. He missed his supply of books and the sympathy of learned associates. He spent all he could save out of his small salary on buying books, and in having copies made of such classics as were not then in print. Henri Estienne, Theodore de Beza (rector of the university and professor of theology), and Jacques Lect (Lectius), were indeed men of superior learning. In those last years of his life, Estienne discouraged visitors, and would.
George Herbert - today. Herbert balanced a secular career with a life of theological contemplation. He was ordained deacon c.1624, and was installed as a canon of Lincoln Cathedral and prebendary of Leighton Bromswold, near T.S. Eliot's Little Gidding, in 1626. Herbert the poet is at all times in pursuit of what Jacques Derrida has called a 'transcendental signifier', God's summarising logos, the last syllable of recorded time, as the divine extension of the Book of Genesis (In the beginning, God said ...), suspiration that renders as revealed and knowable everything that has been uttered and written in between, life and the world as a sacred inscription: "Thy rope of sands, Which petty thoughts have made, and made to thee Good cable, to enforce and draw, And be thy law, While thou didst wink.
Grammy Award for Album of the Year - (engineers/mixers), Gavin Lurssen (mastering engineer), Alison Krauss & Union Station, Chris Sharp, Chris Thomas King, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Harley Allen, John Hartford, Mike Compton, Norman Blake, Pat Enright, The Peasall Sisters, Ralph Stanley, Sam Bush, Stuart Duncan, The Cox Family, The Fairfield Four, The Whites & Tim Blake Nelson for O Brother, Where Art Thou Grammy Awards of 2001: Donald Fagen & Walter Becker (producers), Elliot Scheiner, Phil Burnett, Roger Nichols (engineers/mixers) & Steely Dan for Two Against Nature Grammy Awards of 2000: Alex Gonzales, Art Hodge, Charles Goodan, Clive Davis, Dante Ross, Dust Brothers, Fher Olvera, Jerry "Wonder" Duplessis, KC Porter, Lauryn Hill, Matt Serletic, Stephen M. Harris, Wyclef Jean (producers), Alvaro Villagra, Andy Grassi, Anton Pukshansky, Benny Faccone, Chris Theis, Comissioner Gordon, David Frazer, David Thoener, Glenn Kolotkin,.
Guide - in this role doubtless are called upon on occasion to lead columns. The “Queen’s own Corps of Guides” of the Indian army consisted of infantry companies and cavalry squadrons. In drill, a “guide “ is an officer or non-commissioned officer told off to regulate the direction and pace of movements, the remainder of the unit maintaining their alignment and distances by him. Mountaineering A particular class of guides are those employed in mountaineering; these are not merely to show the way but stand in the position of professional climbers with an expert knowledge of rock and snowcraft, which they impart to the amateur, at the same time assuring the safety of the climbing party in dangerous expeditions. This professional class of guides arose in the middle of the 19th century when.
