Jean François Lesueur - Jean François Lesueur Jean François Lesueur (January 15, 1760 or 1763 - October 6, 1837), was a French musical composer. Born at Drucat-Plessiel, near Abbeville, he was a choir boy in the cathedral of Amiens, and then became musical director at various churches. In 1786 he obtained by open competition the musical directorship of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, where he gave successful performances of sacred music with a full orchestra. He resigned in 1787; and, after a retirement of five years in a friend's country house, he produced La Caverne and two other operas at the Théâtre Feydeau in Paris. At the foundation of the Paris Conservatoire (1795), Lesueur was appointed one of its inspectors of studies, but was dismissed in 1802, owing to.
List of French people - Others Actors/Actresses Isabelle Adjani Renée Adorée Anouk Aimée Antonin Artaud, actor, playwright, poet, essayist Fanny Ardant Jean-Pierre Aumont Daniel Auteuil Charles Aznavour Brigitte Bardot Emmanuelle Béart Jean-Paul Belmondo Charles Berling Sarah Bernhardt Juliette Binoche, Academy Award for role in The English patient Bourvil Charles Boyer Guillaume Canet Capucine Leslie Caron Maurice Chevalier Aurore Clément Claudette Colbert Alain Delon Julie Delpy Catherine Deneuve Gérard Depardieu Fernandel Louis de Funès Jean Gabin Annie Girardot Judith Godrèche Eva Green Isabelle Huppert Irène Jacob Valérie Kaprisky Virginie Ledoyen Marcel Marceau Sophie Marceau, Princess Isabelle in Braveheart, a "Bond" Girl Jean Marais Miou-Miou Mistinguett Yves Montand Jeanne Moreau Michèle Morgan Michel Piccoli Pierre Richard Jean Rochefort Emmanuelle Seigner Simone Signoret Audrey Tautou Jean-Louis Trintignant Marie Trintignant Michael Vartan Hervé Villechaize Architects Le Corbusier Étienne-Louis Boullée Fontaine.
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List of retired NHL players - Adams Charles Joseph Sylvanus "Syl" Apps George Edward "Chief" Armstrong B Irvine Wallace "Ace" Bailey Donald H. "Dan" Bain Hobart Amery Hare "Hobey" Baker William Charles "Bill" Barber Martin A. "Marty" Barry Andrew James "Andy" Bathgate Robert Theodore "Bobby" Bauer Jean Arthur Beliveau Clinton S. Benedict Douglas Wagner "Doug" Bentley Maxwell Herbert Lloyd Bentley Hector "Toe" Blake Leo Joseph Boivin Richard R. "Dickie" Boon Michael "Mike" Bossy Emile "Butch" Bouchard Francois X. "Frank" Boucher George "Buck" Boucher Raymond Bourque John William "Johnny" Bower Russell "Dubbie" Bowie Francis Charles "Frank" Brimsek Harry L. "Punch" Broadbent Walter Edward "Turk" Broda John Paul "Johnny" Bucyk William "Billy" Burch C Harold Hugh "Harry" Cameron Gerald Michael "Gerry" Cheevers Francis M. "King" Clancy Aubrey V. "Dit" Clapper Robert Earle "Bobby" Clarke Sprague Cleghorn Neil McNeil Colville.
List of biologists - zoologist I J Wilhelm Johannsen, (1857-1927), (coined the term gene) Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, (1748-1836), botanist, biologist Ernest Everett Just, biologist K Motoderu Kamo cultivated kimjongilia Stuart Kauffman, biologist Motoo Kimura, biologist Robert Koch, (1843-1910), German Nobel Prize-winning physician and bacteriologist L Friedrich Loeffler, German biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829), coiner of the term biology Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), developer of the microscope Charles Alexander Lesueur, biologist Richard Lewontin, biologist Aristid Lindenmayer, biologist Karl von Linné (Carolus Linnaeus) Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989), Austrian founder of ethology James Lovelock (born 1919), biologist A. S. Loukashkin, biologist Salvador Luria, microbiologist M Marcello Malpighi, biologist Lynn Margulis, biologist Maud Leonora Menten, biologist John C. Merriam, biologist August Karl Arnold Michaelis not to be confused with : Leonor Michaelis, biologist Rita Levi-Montalcini, biologist Ernst Mayr, (born 1904),.
Jean-François Millet - Jean-François Millet Jean-François Millet (October 4, 1814 - January 20, 1875) was a painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. He is noted especially for his scenes of peasant farmers. Millet was born in Gruchy, Normandy and moved to Paris in 1838. He received his academic schooling with Paul Dumouchel, and with Jérome Langlois in Cherbourg. After 1840 he turned away from the official fashion style and came under the influence of Honoré Daumier. In 1849 he withdraw to Barbizon to apply himself to painting many often poetic peasant scenes. His work, such as The Gleaners (1848), depicting the poorest of peasant women stooping in the fields to glean the leftovers from the harvested field, is a powerful and timeless.
Jean-François Champollion - Jean-François Champollion Jean-François Champollion (December 23, 1790 - March 4, 1832) is remembered particularly for one achievement: the translation of the Rosetta stone, which became the basis of the study of Egyptian hieroglyphics. He was born at Figeac, Lot, in France and showed an extraordinary linguistic talent, even as a child. By the age of twenty he had mastered several languages, including Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Amharic, Sanskrit, Avestan, Pahlavi, Arabic, Syriac, Chaldean, Persian and Chinese in addition to his native French. In 1809, he became Professor of History at Grenoble. His interest in oriental languages, especially Coptic, led to his being entrusted with the task of deciphering the writing on the recently-discovered Rosetta Stone, and he spent the years 1822-1824 on this task, greatly expanding the.
Jean-François de La Pérouse - Jean-François de La Pérouse Jean François Galaup, Comte de La Pérouse (August 23, 1741 - 1788) was a French explorer. Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de la Pérouse, was born near Albi, France. He entered the Navy when he was fifteen, and fought the British off North America in the Seven Years' War. Later he served in North America, India and China. In August 1782 he made fame by capturing two English forts on the coast of the Hudson Bay. The next year his family finally consented in his marriage to Louise-Eléonore Broudou, a young creole from modest origins he had met on Île de France (present-day Mauritius). He was appointed in 1785 to lead an expedition to the Pacific. His ships were the Astrolabe and the.
Jean Froissart - Jean Froissart Jean Froissart (~1337 - ~1405) was one of the most important of the chroniclers of medieval France. He originated from Valenciennes, and became a court poet and a kind of official historian to Philippa of Hainault, queen consort of Edward III of England. His memoirs of his time in her service, between 1361 and 1369, were later put together with reports of other events he had witnessed, in his Chroniques ("Chronicles") of 1373. He took a serious approach to his work: Je suis de nouveau entré dans ma forge pour travailler et forger en la noble matière du temps passé ("Again I entered my smithy to work and forge in the noble manner of times past") After the publication of this first book, he.
Jean-François Darlan - Jean-François Darlan Jean-François Darlan (August 7, 1881 - December 24, 1942) was a French naval officer and senior figure of the Vichy France regime. He was born in Nérac, Lot-et-Garonne. He graduated from l'École Navale in 1902. During WW I he commanded an artillery battery. He remained in the navy post-war. Promoted to Rear Admiral in 1929 he was made chief of staff in 1936 and admiral of the fleet in 1937. In 1939 he was given command of the entire navy. When Paris was occupied in June 1940, Darlan was one of those who supported Henri Philippe Pétain. He was rewarded by retaining his post as minister of the navy. He ordered the majority of the fleet to French North Africa, but fearing it would.
Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille - Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille (April 22, 1797 - December 26, 1869) was a French physician and physiologist. Poiseuille was born in Paris, France. From 1815 to 1816 he studied at the École Polytechnique in Paris. He was trained in physics and mathematics. In 1828 he took the degree of a doctor of science with a dissertation entitled Recherches sur la force du coeur aortique. He was interested in the flow of a human blood in narrow tubes. In 1838 he experimentally derived and in 1840 and 1846 formulated and published the Poiseuille's law (or the Hagen-Poiseuille law also named after Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig Hagen (1797-1884)) about the voluminal laminar stationary flow of incompressible uniform viscous liquid (so called Newtonian fluid) through a.
Jean-François Rewbell - Jean-François Rewbell Jean-François Rewbell, (October 8 1747 - November 23 1807), French politician, born at Colmar (now in the département of Haut-Rhin). He became president of the order of avocats in Colmar, and in 1789 was elected as a deputy to the States-General by the Third Estate of the bailliage of Colmar-Schlestadt. In the Constituent Assembly his oratory, legal knowledge and austerity of life gave him much influence. During the session of the Legislative Assembly he exercised the functions of procureur syndic and was subsequently secretary-general of the department of Haut-Rhin. In the Convention he appeared as a zealous promoter of the trial of Louis XVI, but was absent on mission at the time of the king's condemnation. He took part in the reactionary movement which.
Jean François de Saint-Lambert - Jean François de Saint-Lambert Jean François de Saint-Lambert (December 26, 1716 - February 9, 1803), French poet, was born at Nancy. He entered the army and, when Stanislaus Leszczynski was established in 1737 as duke of Lorraine, he became an official at his court at Lunéville. He left the army after the Hanoverian campaign of 1756-57, and devoted himself to literature, producing a volume of descriptive verse, Les Saisons (1769), now never read, many articles for the Encyclopedie, and some miscellaneous works. He was admitted to the Academy in 1770. His fame, however, comes chiefly from his amours. He was already high in the favour of the marquise de Boufflers, Stanislaus's mistress, whom he addressed in his verses as Doris and Thémire, when Voltaire in 1748.
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (November 2, 1699 - December 6, 1779) is considered by some to be the greatest of the 18th-century French painters. He is known for his beautifully textured still lifes as well as his sensitive and touching genre paintings. He was born, lived and died in Paris. Simple, even stark, but treasured paintings of common household items (Still Life with a Smoker's Box) and an uncanny ability to portray children's innocence in a nonsentimental manner (Boy with a Top) makes his paintings universal across time. He was the son of a cabinetmaker, and though largely self-taught, he was greatly influenced by the realism and subject matter of the 17th-century Low Country masters. His early support came from patrons in the French aristocracy, including.
Jean Cocteau - Jean Cocteau French literature > Jean Cocteau Jean Cocteau (July 5, 1889 - October 11, 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, and filmmaker. Born Jean Maurice Eugene Clement Cocteau, at Maisons-Laffitte, France, a small town near Paris. His versatility, unconventionality, and enormous output brought him international acclaim. Despite his achievements in virtually all literary and artistic fields, Cocteau insisted that he was primarily a poet and that all his work was poetry. As a leading member of the surrealist movement, he had great influence on the work of others, including the group of composer friends in Montparnasse known as Les Six. On the sunny afternoon of August 12, 1916, Pablo Picasso and his new girlfriend, the fashion model Pquerette, Max Jacob, Ortiz de Zarate,.
Jean Joseph Marie Amiot - Jean Joseph Marie Amiot Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718 - 1793), a French Jesuit missionary, was born at Toulon in February 1718. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1737 and was sent in 1750 as a missionary to China. He soon won the confidence of the emperor Qianlong and spent the remainder of his life at Beijing, where he died October 9, 1793. He used a Chinese name (錢德明) while he was in China. Amiot made good use of the advantages which his situation afforded, and his works did more than any before to make known to the Western world the thought and life of the Far East. His Dictionnaire tatare-mantchou-français (Paris, 1789) was a work of great value, the language having been previously quite.
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable - Jean Baptiste Point du Sable Jean-Baptiste Point du Sable (1745-1813) was the first non-native settler in the area which is now Chicago, Illinois. He was long ignored by historians, partly because he was a Haitian and not white, and partly because the early histories were written by the friends and descendants of John Kinzie, to whom du Sable sold his house in 1800. Du Sable built his first house in the 1770s, thirty years before Fort Dearborn was established on the banks of the Chicago River. By the time he sold to Kinzie's frontman, Jean LeLime, his property included a house, two barns, a horsemill, a bakehouse, a poultry house, a dairy and a smokehouse. The interior was richly appointed as well. Du Sable married the.
Jean Sibelius - Jean Sibelius Johan (Jean) Julius Christian Sibelius (December 8, 1865 - September 20, 1957) was a composer of classical music. He belongs together with Johan Ludvig Runeberg to the Finns who most of all symbolize the Finnish national identity. Jean Sibelius was born in 1865 into a Finland-Swedish family in Hämeenlinna in the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland. His family followed the emerging norm of the Fennomans enrolling him in Finnish language schools. His most famous compositions are probably Finlandia, Valse Triste, the Violin Concerto, the Karelia suite and the Swan of Tuonela, a movement from his Lemminkäinen suite, but he wrote much else besides, including other pieces inspired by the Kalevala, seven symphonies, 100 arias, and masonic ritual music. Sibelius' Musical Style Jean Sibelius was.
Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin - Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, (December 6, 1805 - 1871) French magician, born in Blois, France, where he also died. The stage name of Harry Houdini was taken in tribute to him. Houdin was a watchmaker, and made mechanical toys and machines. From an early age he had been interested in juggling and sleight of hand, and in 1845 he began to exhibit his skill, and soon became famous for his tricks. The Arabs of Algeria were said to be excited to rebel against French colonialists by false miracles performed by their religious leaders. In 1856, the French government sent Houdin there, hoping that he might perform tricks that were far more impressive, thereby dissolving the excitement of the rebels. Houdin's tricks, it is said,.
Jean-Luc Godard - Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Luc Godard (born December 3, 1930) was one of the most influential French film directors of the 1960s. Born in Paris to Franco-Swiss parents, he was educated in Lyon and at the Lycée Rohmer and the Sorbonne in Paris. While at the Sorbonne he became involved in a Paris film club and became attatched to a group including François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, and Eric Rohmer. When André Bazin founded his critical magazine Cahiers du cinéma in 1951, Godard with Rivette and Rohmer were among the first writers. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Early Films 2 Godard and Politics 3 Later Films 4 Filmography 5 See Also Early Films Like many writers for Cahiers du cinéma, Godard started making some brief forays into film direction..
