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45 unusual facts about Claude


1718 in art

August 28 - Claude-Henri Watelet, French fermier-général, amateur painter and writer on the arts (died 1786)

Allouez

Claude-Jean Allouez (1622-1689), Jesuit missionary and French explorer in North America

Anna Whelan Betts

After graduating, she moved to Paris where she was tutored by the French painter Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois.

Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception

This congregation was founded at Saint-Claude, in the Department of Jura, by Adrien Gréa, then a secular priest and the young Vicar General of the Diocese of St.-Claude, a position he had accepted in 1863 at the bishop's urging, despite his feeling called to life in a religious community.

Carabine à tige

This development would be a precursor to the invention of the Minié ball by Claude-Étienne Minié, as Thouvenin had already suggested that bullet with a hollowed base would be most efficient.

César Alonso de las Heras

He also gave conferences spreading the work of authors as Claude, García Lorca, André Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gabriel Miró, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Samuel Beckett, among others.

Claude of Lorraine

Claude, Duke of Guise (1496–1550), called "Claude of Lorraine" prior to his creation as Duke of Guise in 1528

Claude-Auguste Lamy

In 1854 he became professor at the faculty of sciences of Lille (Université Lille Nord de France) and taught at École centrale de Lille.

After he graduated from University in 1842 he became a teacher at Lille than at Limoges and again in Lille.

Claude-Emmanuel de Pastoret

In 1795, he managed to cancel the condemnation to death-in-absentia weighing on his friend, the comte de Vaublanc, (who would be the ultra-royalist Minister of the Interior in 1816), because of his involvement in the royalist insurrection of 13 Vendémiaire IV (5 October 1795).

Claude-Étienne Michel

At the battle of Nuremberg, 27 Frimaire year IX, he led at the head of his battalion of 400 men, against a column of 4,000 Austrians, taking a large number of prisoners.

Exchanged on 3 Messidor year III, he rejoined his regiment, and reported at the vanguard of the army of Sambre and Meuse.

Claude-Étienne Minié

Claude-Etienne Minié (February 13, 1804; Paris - December 14, 1879; Paris) was a French Army officer famous for solving the problem of designing a reliable muzzle-loading rifle by inventing the Minié ball in 1847, and the Minié rifle in 1849.

Claude-Henri

Claude-Henri Grignon (1894 – 1976), Canadian novelist, journalist and politician

Claude-Henri Belgrand de Vaubois

Nelson dispatched British forces under the command of Captain Alexander Ball, who arrived on October 12, 1798.

In a series of skirmishes, Vaubois was driven out of Trento and pushed back to Calliano where his command was defeated on 7 November.

Soon both Malta and Gozo were in full rebellion, with the Maltese forming a National Assembly.

In February 1799, the Maltese insurgents, having lost hope in an intervention of King Ferdinand, requested that Ball, who had previously landed near the village of Qrendi on the south of the island, preside over the National Assembly.

On September 2, 1798 the Maltese rose against the French garrison in Notabile (Città Vecchia or Mdina).

Napoleon left behind a garrison of 3,053 men, 5 companies of artillery and a medical unit in Malta and Gozo.

Claude-Henri de Fusée de Voisenon

Born at the château de Voisenon, in Voisenon, near Melun, he was only ten when he addressed an epistle in verse to Voltaire, who asked the boy to visit him.

Claude-Max Lochu

French artist, painter and designer, Claude-Max Lochu was born in 1951 in Delle in Territoire de Belfort, Franche-Comté and completed his degree at the École des Beaux-Arts of Besançon.

Claude-Sixte Sautreau de Marsy

He wrote articles for the Année littéraire and other magazines; he edited the Selected Works (1786) of Dorat, the Mémoires secrets sur les règnes de Louis XIV et de Louis XV (1790), by Duclos, the letters of Madame de Maintenon (1800), and other publications.

Claude, Duke of Aumale

As part of the Treaty of Boulogne which ended the war of the Rough Wooing, Claude, Marquis of Mayenne, was one of six French hostages sent to England.

Claude, Duke of Guise

Claude de Lorraine, duc de Guise (20 October 1496, Château de Condé-sur-Moselle, – 12 April 1550, Château de Joinville) was a French aristocrat and general.

Condat Abbey

The village began to take on its modern name of Saint-Claude in the seventeenth century, while the abbey declined.

Hôtel de Ville, Paris

Eventually, in 1835, on the initiative of Rambuteau, préfet of the Seine département, two wings were added to the main building and were linked to the facade by a gallery, to provide more space for the expanded city government.

Île Sainte-Marguerite

As well as the Man in the Iron Mask, a mysterious prisoner whose identity remains unknown, Abdel Kadir (an Algerian rebel leader), Marquis Jouffroy d’Abbans (inventor of the steamboat) and Marshal Bazaine (the only successful escapee from the island) have all spent time there.

Jean-Claude-Léonard Baveux

In 1842 he entered the noviciate of the Oblates at Longueuil, Quebec, Canada, and was immediately active in that organization.

Korean Martyrs

In the early 1870s, Father Claude-Charles Dallet compiled a comprehensive history of the Catholic Church in Korea, largely from the manuscripts of martyred Bishop Antoine Daveluy.

La Colle

Father Claude-Godefroy Coquart, who was wintering at Fort Kaministiquia, noted that more slaves than furs would be shipped to Montreal that season because of this event.

LAS Magazine

The magazine began as a monthly publication with early articles on the artists and sculptors Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the media company Insound, neo-fascist Austrian politician Jörg Haider, the rock band Frodus, reviews of books by David Guterson and Stuart O'Nan and photo series by Dutch artist André Thijssen.

Laurell K. Hamilton

The ardeur is a supernatural power inadvertently given to Anita by her vampire Master Jean-Claude that gives her massive amounts of power but also demands that she have sexual intercourse with several different people through the course of a day, sometimes in large groups.

Lavans-lès-Saint-Claude

Antide Janvier (1751–1835), clockmaker, was born at Briva (today Brive), a hamlet within the commune.

Lorimier

Claude-Nicolas-Guillaume de Lorimier (1744–1825), businessman, official and political figure in Lower Canada

Louis de Carrières

During the nineteenth century Carrières's version was frequently reprinted, often with the commentaries of Menochius, sometimes also with the notes of nineteenth-century interpreters, like Sionnet (1840) and Claude-Joseph Drioux (1884).

Newmindspace

Other events, such as their urban easter egg hunts or Night Lights, are intended to be public art installations modeled after the works of Christo and Jeanne-Claude.

Obsidian Butterfly

Jean-Claude and Richard: Have only minor roles in this novel, contacting Anita briefly by dream and phone, respectively.

In the course of that investigation, Anita picks up many clues as to the enigmatic Edward's life and past, comes in contact with an alleged Aztec god, and attempts, as always, to sort out her own relationship with Jean-Claude and Richard.

Perceptual art

Christo and Jeanne-Claude's wrapping of the Reichstag was another milestone in this succession.

Poitiers Cathedral

His son, Claude-François Clicquot, finished the job, handing it over for presentation in March 1791.

Pyroscaphe

Pyroscaphe was an early experimental steamship built by Marquis de Jouffroy d'Abbans in 1783.

Rivière-à-Claude, Quebec

The settlement, originally called Duchesnay after senator Édouard-Louis-Antoine-Charles Juchereau Duchesnay (1809-1886), gained a post office in 1879 and grew to 200 persons by 1888.

Roberto Sabatino Lopez

There he met his future wife, Claude-Anne Kirschen, a wartime refugee from Belgium who had come to New York with her family in 1940.

Virginie de Ternant

A full-length portrait of Virginie was painted in France by Claude-Marie Dubufe.


Afternoon of a Faun

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun), composition by Claude Debussy, inspired by Mallarmé's poem

Andrée Champagne

In the 1960s, she became well known on television playing "Donalda" in Claude-Henri Grignon's series Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut.

Blue Obelisk

Among those who received a Blue Obelisk Award are Christoph Steinbeck (2006), Geoff Hutchinson (2006), Bob Hanson (2006), Egon Willighagen (2007), Jean-Claude Bradley (2007), Ola Spjuth (2007), Noel O'Boyle (2010), Rajarshi Guha (2010), Cameron Neylon (2010), Alex Wade (2010), Nina Jeliazkova (2010), Henry Rzepa (2011), Dan Zaharevitz (2011), and Marcus Hanwell (2011).

Claude Antoine de Valdec de Lessart

Antoine Claude Nicolas Valdec de Lessart (25 January 1741, Château de Mongenan, Portets, near Bordeaux – 9 September 1792, Versailles ) was a French politician.

Claude Carliez

Claude Carliez (born 10 January 1925 in Nancy) is a French master at arms in classical fencing who became a period and fencing advisor to French films.

Claude de Forbin

Claude de Forbin was afterwards fully engaged in active service, first with Jean Bart in the war with England, when they escorted a convoy; attacked by superior forces, Forbin, aboard the Jeux, and Jean Bart, aboard the Railleuse, sacrificed themselves in a delaying action to allow the convoy the escape.

Claude Farrère

Claude Farrère, pseudonym of Frédéric-Charles Bargone (27 April 1876, in Lyon – 21 June 1957, in Paris), was a French author of novels set in such exotic locations as Istanbul, Saigon, and Nagasaki.

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

He was the eldest son of Claude Ignace Rouget (April 5, 1735 - August 6, 1792) at Orgelet and Jeanne Madeleine Gaillande (July 2, 1734 - March 20, 1811).

Claude Lelièvre

Claude Lelièvre (born May 19, 1946) is the Commissioner for Children Rights of the French (i.e., French-speaking) Community of Belgium, an office similar to the Children's Ombudsman agencies elsewhere.

Claude Lobo

Claude Lobo (*20 August 1943, †3 June 2011) served in various design positions at Ford Motor Company over 32 years, playing a prominent role in designing Ford automobiles including the Ford Capri (Mk I), Mercury Cougar (Mk VII), Ford Ka (Mk I)

Claude Miller

After a four-year absence, Claude Miller returned to active filmmaking with The Accompanist (1992) and The Smile (1994).

Claude Parent

Claude Parent, born on 23 February 1923 at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, is a French architect known for his buildings featuring sloped floors, an aesthetic initially inspired by Parent's discovery, with philosopher Paul Virilio, of World War II bunkers constructed along the Atlantic Wall that had accidentally slipped down sand dunes because of severe winter weather.

Claude Point

It was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, who named it for Monsieur Claude, an associate member of the Bureau des Longitudes.

Ernst Umhauer

In 2012, the French director François Ozon asked him to play the clever and puzzling young Claude Garcia in the movie In The House, alongside Fabrice Luchini, Emmanuelle Seigner and Kristin Scott Thomas.

Faf Larage

:Faf Larage- Mr Claude dans le jeu Hitman: Contracts, dans la dernière mission, dans la chambre d'un camé.

French Senate election, 2014

As leader of the largest opposition group (UMP Group), Jean-Claude Gaudin could also be candidate.

Gare des Brotteaux

The same year, the station was sold by the SNCF and currently hosts the auction house of Jean-Claude Anaf, the Brasserie de l'Est by Paul Bocuse, the architectural workshop Arche, among others things.

Gerard Basset

Gerard Francis Claude Basset OBE, MS, MW, MBA, is the owner with his wife, Nina, of Hotel Terravina, a New Forest Hotel near Southampton in Hampshire, United Kingdom.

GospoCentric Records

GospoCentric Records is an Inglewood, California based Gospel music record label started as an independent label by Vicki Mack Lataillade and Claude Lataillade in 1993.

Gymkhana Ground

Bombay Gymkhana, premier Gymkhana established in 1875 located in Mumbai and was originally built as a British-only club, designed by English architect, Claude Batley and used as a venue for multiple sports, including cricket and football

Henri Prost

Prost was the co-founder in 1911 of the Société française des urbanistes (SFU) with architects Donat Alfred Agache, Mr. Auburtin, A. Bérard, Eugène Hénard (Architect of the City of Paris), Léon Jaussely, A. Parenty, engineer Jean Claude Nicolas Forestier and the landscape architect Edouard Redont.

Island of the Fishmen

When several of these convicts meet unfortunate ends at the hands of the titular fishmen, Claude and the other survivors flee into the jungle, only to encounter the sadistic Edmond Rackham (Richard Johnson) and his beautiful captive Amanda Marvin (Barbara Bach).

Jean-Claude Flornoy

Jean-Claude Flornoy (Paris, France, 1950 - Sainte-Suzanne, France, 24 May 2011) was a French specialist of the Tarot of Marseille, a writer and card maker working on bringing back to life historical Tarot decks.

Jean-Claude Risset

Jean-Claude Risset (18 March 1938, in Le Puy-en-Velay, France) is a French composer, best known for his pioneering contributions to computer music.

Jean-Claude Van Damme: Behind Closed Doors

Jean-Claude Van Damme: Behind Closed Doors is a 2011 British reality show (in the Fly on the wall style) featuring action star Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Judd mat Gaardebounen

One possibility, suggested by the linguist Jean-Claude Muller, a member of Luxembourg's Institut grand-ducal, is that it comes from the Spanish word for bean: judía.

Libération

Libération was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre, Philippe Gavi, Bernard Lallement, Jean-Claude Vernier, Pierre Victor alias Benny Lévy and Serge July and has been published from 3 February 1973, in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968.

Linpark High School

Linpark High School is a co-educational public boarding school situated on Claude Forsyth Rd, in Boughton, a northern suburb of Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Mária Török

The advances of Mária Török have been taken up and continued in France by many psychoanalysts - among them Judith Dupont, Pascal Hachet, Lucien Melese, Claude Nachin, Jean-Claude Rouchy, Barbro Sylwan, Saverio Tomasella, and Serge Tisseron.

Marie-Claude Bourbonnais

Marie-Claude Bourbonnais (born October 15, 1979 in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Quebec) is a Canadian glamour and cosplay model.

Musea

It was founded in 1985 by Bernard Gueffier and Francis Grosse, along with a small team of friends - Daniel Adt, Alain Juliac, Alain Robert, Thierry Sportouche, Jean-Claude Granjeon, Pascal Ferry, Thierry Moreau and François Arnold.

New Orleans Regional Transit Authority

The buses that have been restored to operation have returned to several major thoroughfares, including Elysian Fields Avenue, Esplanade Avenue, Claiborne Avenue, St. Claude Avenue, Judge Perez Drive, General Meyer Avenue, Lapalco Boulevard, Robert E. Lee Boulevard, and the Chef Menteur Highway.

Pardon My Clutch

The Stooges' friend Claude (Matt McHugh), a self-proclaimed Kevin Trudeau-ish doctor, gives Moe and Larry some specific instructions on how to cure the toothache, which, of course, they misinterpret every which way possible.

Rouen Cathedral

Willa Cather sets a key scene in the development of the protagonist Claude Wheeler of One of Ours in the cathedral.

Small Astronomy Satellite 3

Other major contributors were Profs Claude Canizares and Saul A. Rappaport, and Drs Jeffrey A. Hoffman, George Ricker, Jeff McClintock, Rodger E. Doxsey, Garrett Jernigan, John Doty, and many others, including numerous graduate students.

South African National Bioinformatics Institute

SANBI is funded by several organisations including the South African Medical Research Council, the National Research Foundation of South Africa, the Claude Leon Foundation, the John E. Fogarty Foundation for International Health at the National Institutes of Health, and the European Commission.

STB Le Havre

In 1955, Claude Josephau carried Le Havre all the way to the French Cup semifinals where the club lost to Paris University Club, 55-50, in front of a crowd of 1,200.

Tendon, Vosges

Educated at the collège de Saint-Claude, in Toul, he studied philosophy and theology in the Saint-Dié-des-Vosges Catholic seminary, then was sent to the Sorbonne by his bishop, where he received the grade of doctor.

Tillman Franks

In his later years he lived in southwestern Shreveport near his long-term friend Claude King, known for the 1962 hit songs "Wolverton Mountain" and "The Burning of Atlanta", a ballad about the 1864 battle of Atlanta in the American Civil War.

Vic Piano

Vic Piano, along with his brother Claude, was the founder and the operator of the Mizlou Television Network, a leading Independent TV Network that was started in 1968.

Village Québécois d'Antan

The Village Québécois d'Antan was conceived in 1977 by Claude Verrier, historian, by the Chamber of commerce of the county of Drummond.