François-Joseph Gossec (17 January 1734 – 16 February 1829) was a French composer of operas, string quartets, symphonies, and choral works.
•
He followed Rameau as the conductor of a private orchestra kept by the fermier général Le Riche de La Poupelinière, a wealthy amateur and patron of music.
•
The son of a small farmer, Gossec was born at the village of Vergnies, then a French exclave in the Austrian Netherlands, now in Belgium.
•
Le Chant du 14 juillet (Marie-Joseph Chénier) for three voices, men's chorus and wind orchestra (1791)
Joseph Stalin | Joseph Conrad | François Mitterrand | Saint Joseph | Joseph Haydn | Joseph Beuys | Joseph | Joseph Goebbels | Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor | Joseph Barbera | Joseph Chamberlain | Joseph Brodsky | Franz Joseph I of Austria | Joseph Henry Blackburne | Joseph Banks | Joseph McCarthy | Joseph II | Joseph Campbell | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | Joseph Priestley | François Truffaut | Joseph Bonaparte | Joseph Pulitzer | Claude François | François Villon | François Rabelais | Joseph Stiglitz | Joseph Paxton | Joseph Addison | Joseph Rothrock |
In 2003, Anna Balsamo was appointed Vice-President to the Florentine association Poets Chamber founded in 1930 by Domenico François on suggestion of Giovanni Papini.
Benoist Apparu (born 24 November 1969) was Secretary of State for Housing under the Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, in the François Fillon III government, and a member of the National Assembly of France.
The son of Ulric Antoine de Hoensbroeck (whose family originated in the village of Hoensbroeck, now in Dutch Limburg), he studied at Heidelberg and became a canon in the cathedral chapter of Aachen Cathedral before becoming prince bishop of Liege in 1784, succeeding François-Charles de Velbrück, whose progressive reforms he tried to undo.
Chateaubriand steak, or just chateaubriand, is a recipe of a particular thick cut from the tenderloin (fillet), which, according to Larousse Gastronomique, was created by personal chef, Montmireil, for François-René de Chateaubriand and Sir Russell Retallick, the authors and diplomats who served Napoleon as an ambassador and Louis XVIII as Secretary of State for two years.
The trade paperback edition has over 80 illustrations, many by notable artists Gustave Doré, Lord Frederick Leighton, Léon François Commerre, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Arthur Hughes, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Ingres, Diego Velázquez, William Bouguereau, Botticelli, John William Waterhouse, and others of the 16th-18th centuries.
Jean-Claude Duvalier (born 1951), nicknamed "Baby Doc", son of François Duvalier and President of Haiti (1971-1986)
And in France the performance was compared to those of Argerich and François.
His ministers of Education, Jean Simon Elie-Dubois and François Elie-Dubois, modernized and established many lycea in Jacmel, Jérémie, Saint-Marc, and Gonaïves.
Francés de Corteta, also known as Corteta de Prades (in French François de Cortète and Cortète de Prades; Agen, 1586 – Hautefage, September 3, 1667) was a nobleman from the Agen province and an Occitan-language poet and baroque play writer.
François de Bonal (b. 1734 at the castle of Bonal, near Agen; d. in Munich, 1800) was Bishop of Clermont.
François Dessertenne is a French physician who first described the special type of ventricular tachycardia in 1966 known as Torsades de pointes.
François Olivennes has three children, Hannah, 25, Joseph, 22 and George, 13, with his ex-wife, British actress Kristin Scott Thomas.
François-Albert Angers (May 21, 1909 – July 14, 2003) was an eminent Québécois economist and defender of the cause of Quebec and the French language.
In November 1809 Baudin was ordered to take the 80-gun ships of the line Robuste and Borée, the 74-gun Lion and the frigates Pauline and Pomone and escort a twenty ship convoy from Toulon to Barcelona to supply the Napoleonic forces fighting the Peninsular War.
Devaux trained as a lawyer and worked briefly for a lawyer cousin in Nancy.
His severe criticism of Chateaubriand's Les Martyrs led the author to make some changes in a later edition.
He was buried in Liège and his mausoleum escaped being destroyed during the Liège Revolution in which his remains, unlike those of his predecessors, were not thrown into a ditch.
# Michel Gabriel Alphonse Ferdinand (1810-1865) - father of Marie-Clotilde-Elisabeth Louise de Riquet, comtesse de Mercy-Argenteau
François Louis Français (November 17, 1814–1897), French painter, was born at Plombières-les-Bains (Vosges), and, on attaining the age of fifteen, was placed as office-boy with a bookseller.
He was a guest guitarist in Radio-Canada's TV show "Tellement sport" to play with the band Karkwa.
In 1764 he was appointed to the professorship of theology at Tyrnau in Hungary, but in 1771 he returned to Belgium and continued to discharge his professorial duties at Liege till the suppression of the Jesuit Order in 1773.
On 27 April 2010, Pope Benedict XVI announced that the rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University, Gianfranco Ghirlanda, S.J., would be succeeded by Dumortier as the next rector of the university.
Jean-François de La Roque de Roberval (c. 1500–1560) was a French nobleman and adventurer who, through his friendship with King Francis, became the first Lieutenant General of New France.
The key idea of "aristocratic radicalism" went on to influence most of the later works of Brandes and resulted in voluminous biographies Wolfgang Goethe (1914–15), Francois de Voltaire (1916–17), Gaius Julius Cæsar 1918 and Michelangelo (1921).
The son of François Desrivières, he acquired the seigneury of Montarville with François-Pierre Bruneau in 1819.
François de Rohan, Prince of Soubise (1630 – 24 August 1712) married Cathérine Lyonne and had no issue; married again to Anne de Rohan-Chabot, Princess of Soubise, and had issue; founder of the Soubise line of the House of Rohan;
Jean-François Lemaresquier (Heugueville-sur-Sienne, 4 March 1767 - Battle of Tamatave, 18 May 1811) was a French naval officer.
François Christophe Edmond de Kellermann (1802–1868), 3rd Duc de Valmy, son of François Étienne
Recent conductors, stage directors and vocal faculty include Alberto Zedda, Joseph Rescigno, Candace Evans, Francois Loup, Dejan Miladinovic, Ubaldo Fabbri, Julia Faulkner, Mary Anne Scott, Karen Peeler, John DeHaan, Kathy Kraulik, Brooks Hafey, Robert Breault, Emily Williams, Jeffrey Price and Dennis Jesse.
The 400 Blows, (French: Les Quatre Cents Coups), a 1959 French film directed by François Truffaut
While visiting his brother Jacques-Joseph on September 14, 1822, Jean-François Champollion made a crucial breakthrough in understanding the phonetic nature of hieroglyphics, and proclaimed "Je tiens l'affaire!" ("I've got it!") and then fainted dead away.
Louis-François Cassas, born to a poor family on June 3, 1756, was a distinguished French landscape painter, sculptor, architect, archeologist and antiquary born at Azay-le-Ferron, in the Indre Department of France.
François-Xavier Malhiot (1781–1854), merchant, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada
At François's death in 1495, she became guardian of their minor son Charles de Bourbon, and managed the lands he inherited from his father as well as her own.
Claude Mauriac (1914–1996), French writer and journalist, son of François
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.
The construction of models dates to 1668 when François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois and minister of war to Louis XIV, began a collection of three-dimensional models of fortified cities for military purposes, known as 'plans-relief'.
In 2007, authors Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe François published Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, which uses a no-knead method of stored and refrigerated dough that is ready for use at any time during a 5 to 14 day period.
François Frédéric Steenackers, "Histoire des ordres de chevalerie et des distinctions honorifiques en France", Librairie Internationale, Paris, 1868, p.
It was also where Pinault's son Francois-Henri met actress Salma Hayek and it served as the location for their wedding vow renewal.
François-Henri Clicquot, at that time the leading organ-builder in France, was appointed to undertake the work, but died in Pentecost 1790 before completing the work.
The narrator has made his way to his usual haunt on a rainy day, the Café de la Régence, France's chess mecca, where he enjoys watching such masters as Philidor or Legall.
Three of Robert's sons, Henri, Robert, and François, became celebrated as printers.
The Royal Literary Fund has given assistance to many distinguished writers over its history, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Rousseau, François-René de Chateaubriand, Thomas Love Peacock, James Hogg, Leigh Hunt, Thomas Hood, Richard Jefferies, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Richard Ryan (biographer), Regina Maria Roche and Mervyn Peake.
The village and buildings were burned in an attack by Rogers' Rangers, an irregular British provincial force, during the Seven Years War (also known as the French and Indian War) on October 4, 1759.
He began his studies in Cambodia, before being sent to France, in Grasse then in Nice, from 1927, under the control of the Governor of Indochina, François Marius Baudoin.
At the age of 19, she married editor Jean-Baptiste Gail (1755–1829) and had one son, Jean-François Gail.
According to a well known rumor, he would have inspired Antoine de Saint-Exupery for the creation of The Little Prince when Saint-Exupery was living in the house of Charles De Koninck in Québec city, in 1942 (see La transcendance de l'homme : études en hommage à Thomas De Koninck, Jean-François Mattéi et Jean-Marc Narbonne (ed.)).
His brother, François Kompany currently plays for Sint-Niklaas, having previously had spells at Germinal Beerschot and Macclesfield Town.