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8 unusual facts about Parisian


Benjamin de Rothschild

Benjamin is a scion of the secondary, (non-wine-making) Parisian Rothschild dynasty.

Garçon à la pipe

The oil on canvas painting depicts a Parisian boy holding a pipe in his left hand and wearing a garland or wreath of flowers.

Luis López Álvarez

Starting in 1968 he worked for UNESCO as an international functionary of the United Nations and held various positions in Paris, Havana, and Caracas: Service Chief of Radio and Television in the Spanish Language, Regional Adviser of Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean, Regional Director for the same region, Ombudsman in the Parisian headquarters and Coordinator, from Caracas, of the activities of the same organization in the region of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Mahmoud Aslan

He returned to Paris in 1925 and 1926 and married a Parisian.

Philip Albright Small Franklin

Later, at about 11:30, he insisted, "We hope that reports from the Virginian and the Parisian will prove to be true, and that they will turn up with some of the passengers (other than those already aboard the Cunard liner Carpathia)."

René Vincent

Vincent was one of the first French citizen to have a driver's license and was also one of the first Parisians to have a garage built onto his house.

Sourya

After playing in a Parisian band from 1997 to 2005, he began recording demos.

Ukrainian avant-garde

The term "Ukrainian Avant-Garde" was first introduced by Parisian art historian Andréi Nakov for the exhibition Tatlin's dream, arranged in London, 1973, where works of international standard by avant-garde Ukrainian artists Vasyl Yermylov and Alexander Bogomazov were presented to the Western audience.


2008 Paris Motor Show

In this edition, the subject was "Taxis du Monde" (Taxis from around the world), and it featured a variety of taxi vehicles from different cities and eras, such as a New York Checker cab, a Chicago Yellow Cab, London Black cabs, a Manila Jeepney, a Bangkok Tuk Tuk, etc., as well as several Parisian taxis, starting with the classic Renault Taxi de la Marne and ending with the proposed future taxi Peugeot Expert Tepee.

203rd General Hospital

After the liberation of Paris in August, 1944, the 203rd was assigned to a hospital plant in the Parisian region, where they administered and staffed in Garches, the largest medical establishment of the European Theater of Operations.

Aleksey Tillo

For creating this map Tillo was elected a corresponding member of the Russian (1892) and Parisian Academies of Sciences.

August Hermann Ewerbeck

A physician by vocation and a German by birth, Ewerbeck is best remembered as an early political associate of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, as a leader of the Parisian communities of the utopian socialist organization, League of the Just, and as the translator of the French writings of Étienne Cabet and Ludwig Feuerbach into German.

Auguste Nefftzer

After Napoleon III relaxed press controls in 1859, Nefftzer left the publication to found with Edmund Chojecki the influential, Parisian newspaper Le Temps in 1861.

Blaise Bontems

Blaise Bontems (15 March 1814 Le Ménil - 1893) was a noted Parisian specialist in the manufacture of automaton singing birds and the first of a dynasty of automaton manufacturers, which included his son Charles Jules and his grandson Lucien.

Caroline Legrand

She was recruited by the French singer François Feldman after being the first winner of the 'Tremplin de la chanson française' that the Parisian nightclub L'Orange Bleue organized.

Charles Lutaud

In an interview with L'Écho de Paris after his appointment, he announced that the Algiers police would be reorganized on the Parisian model.

Charles Saint-Yves

A series of Parisian intellectuals (medicine and arts) followed, with the name Saint-Yves.

Christiane Rochefort

She was born into a left-wing working class Parisian family; her father joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.

Clément Lépidis

Lépidis spent his childhood and adolescence in the Parisian neighbourhood of Belleville.

Club de Clichy

The political club that came to be called the Clichyens met in rooms in the rue de Clichy, which led west towards the fashionable Parisian suburb of Clichy.

Défense de la France

Essentially developed in the Northern Zone, Défense de la France distinguishes itself by an activity centered on the distribution of a clandestine newspaper created in August 1941 by a group of Parisian students, of the Christian faith.

Duo de l'ouvreuse de l'Opéra-Comique et de l'employé du Bon Marché

The usherette, financially secure thanks to government compensation to victims of the fire at the Salle Favart, is able to marry the shop assistant who sings praises to Aristide Boucicaut, founder of the Parisian department store, for his pension, while the usherette lauds Léon Carvalho, director of the Opéra Comique from 1876–87 and 1891-97.

École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art

It is currently one of the four major Parisian establishments in the teaching of art methods (together with Boulle, the École supérieure des arts appliqués Duperré and the École Estienne).

ENSAE ParisTech

ENSAE is member of ParisTech, the excellence engineering cluster gathering the best parisian Grandes Ecoles in each area of engineering: X, AgroParisTech, ENGREF, Ponts, ESPCI, Mines, ENSTA, ENSAM, Télécom Paris, Chimie ParisTech).

Ernesto Bosch

He commissioned French architect René Sergent in 1910 to design a mansion in the Palermo section of Buenos Aires, and contracted the Parisian interior designer André Carlhian and landscaper Charles Thays.

Ewa Malas-Godlewska

Queen of the Night in Mozart's Magic Flute production by Bob Wilson, Paris Opera, L'Opera Comique, Le Theatre du Chatelet, Le Theatre des Champs Elysees, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers and Parisian Bastille Opera, the Houston Grand Opera in Texas

Ferdinand Bac

He was introduced to the Parisian salon society by his godfather Arsène Houssaye and Prince Napoleon, and became a fashionable artist.

François Thierry

Andreas Silbermann arrived in Strasbourg in 1702, then came to Paris to improve his skills and study Parisian methods of organ making.

Frederick Lonsdale

He also wrote the successful original book to the Parisian tale of The Street Singer for Phyllis Dare (1924) and Lady Mary (1928).

Gabriel Sionita

Gabriel Sionita (Syriac: Jibrā'īl aṣ-Ṣahyūnī; 1577, at Ehden in Lebanon – 1648, in Paris) was a learned Maronite, famous for his role in the publication of the 1645 Parisian polyglot of the Bible.

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

Eventually, she maintained art studios in Greenwich Village and in Passy, a fashionable Parisian neighborhood in the XVI arrondissement.

Gli Orazi e i Curiazi

Gli Orazi e i Curiazi was very dear to Napoleon, especially in the Parisian performances of the singer Giuseppina Grassini who was for some time a lover of the Emperor, and of the castrato Girolamo Crescentini — both of whom had been the original creators of the major roles of Horatia and Curiatius in 1796.

Hornec gang

The Hornec clan is led by three brothers, born in the Parisian suburb city of Montreuil.

Île-de-France tramway Line 1

Île-de-France tramway Line 1 (usually called simply T1) is a tramway operated by the Régie autonome des transports parisiens (Autonomous Operator of Parisian Transports; RATP) just outside the city limits of Paris, connecting Les Courtilles with Noisy-le-Sec, parallel to the Paris northern city limit.

Interpol notice

The International Notice system was created in 1946 as Interpol re-established itself after World War II in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Cloud.

La Haine

The majority of the filming was done in the Parisian suburb of Chanteloup-les-Vignes.

Le tatoué

In an artist’s studio, rich Parisian art dealer Félicien Mézeray sees the old soldier Legrain, whose back has a tattoo by Modigliani.

Les Brigades du Tigre

Gathering a talented pan-European cast, the film is set in a very rich and interesting Belle Époque, it deals with a lot of real historical plots and characters like the scandal of the Russian Loan, the Triple Entente, the birth of modern profiling and crime-fighting police techniques, the rivalry between the PP (Parisian Prefecture Police Units) and the Brigades of Clemenceau, the birth of Socialism and famous Anarchist Movements.

LGV Normandie

This "new" version of the LGV Normandie would begin in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre, on the regular Paris-Poissy line.

Maison de la photographie Robert Doisneau

-- This article is not titled in English because the creator of the article couldn't find authoritative use of this or any other English name --> is a photography gallery in Gentilly, Paris, created to commemorate the Parisian photographer Robert Doisneau.

Marie van Zandt

She was a good friend of Jules Massenet and used to sing for Parisian aristocratic salons, for example at Mme Lemaire's hôtel particulier, where Massenet, Marcel Proust, Countess Greffulhe, Camille Saint-Saëns, Reynaldo Hahn, etc. where frequent guests.

Myelin sheath gap

His observations on fiber nodes and the degeneration and regeneration of cut fibers had a great influence on Parisian neurology at the Salpêtrière.

Panel Histoire de Paris

The "Histoire de Paris" plaques (sometimes called Starck Oars because of their shape and their designer, Philippe Starck) are information plaques scattered throughout the City in front of various Parisian monuments.

Pearl White

A shrewd businesswoman, she invested in a successful Parisian nightclub, a Biarritz resort hotel/casino, and a profitable stable of thoroughbred race horses.

Living in a fashionable town house in the exclusive Parisian suburb of Passy, she also owned a villa in Rambouillet.

Pierre Le Gros the Younger

In order to have an operation done and also to settle his inheritance, in 1715 the travelled to Paris, where he stayed with his friend, the patron and collector Pierre Crozat, whose cabinet in his Parisian house and chapel in his country retreat at Montmorency Le Gros decorated (both destroyed).

René Sergent

In addition, he designed the headquarters for the Rolls-Royce Limited, a Parisian store for the Duveen brothers (1907–1908) in the form of a Petit Trianon at the rear of a marble courtyard at n° 20 place Vendôme which is now a bank headquarters, and the Duveen Gallery, a large building in the style of Ange-Jacques Gabriel at the corner of 5th Avenue and 56th street in New York City (1909–1910, demolished 1953).

Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Many writers have written about this Parisian district in prose such as Boris Vian, Gabriel Matzneff (see La Nation française), Jean-Paul Caracalla or in Japanese poetry in the case of Nicolas Grenier.

Saks, Inc.

After acquiring Parisian, Proffitt's relocated its corporate headquarters to Birmingham, Alabama from Knoxville in October 1997.

Saurin

Bernard-Joseph Saurin (1706-1781), a Parisian lawyer, poet, and playwright

Sunara Begum

As a photographer her work has been published in France, UK, China, India and Bangladesh, in magazines and newspapers including Le Monde, and L'Parisian.

Theatre of France

Inspired by the theatrical experiments in the early half of the century and by the horrors of the war, the avant-garde Parisian theatre, "New theatre" or, as the critic Martin Esslin termed it, "Theatre of the Absurd," around the writers Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Arthur Adamov, Fernando Arrabal, refused simple explanations and abandoned traditional characters, plots and staging.

Vesque Sisters

The Vesque Sisters were two French artist sisters, Marthe (1879 Joinville-le-Pont - 4 February 1949) and Juliette (1881 Paris - 4 December 1962), who, between 1900 and 1949, frequented Parisian circuses and documented circus life and performances in well-executed paintings.

Viaduc d'Austerlitz

Tasked with the bridge construction, the Building Society of Levallois-Perret (La Societé de Construction de Levallois-Perret) proposed a bridge with a span reaching 140 m, which was a record out of all the Parisian bridges at the time.


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