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unusual facts about Théâtre de Dix-Heures


Boulevard de Clichy

36: Now the Paris headquarters of the Lebanese comedy troupe, the Théâtre de Dix-Heures, this building was the home of Honoré Daumier, the characaturist and painter, from 1869 to 1873.


24 Heures

24 Heures du Mans, the French-language name of 24 Hours of Le Mans, an annual sports car race held near Le Mans, France

Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany

The Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany (Les Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne in French) is a book of hours, commissioned by Anne of Brittany, Queen of France to two kings in succession, and illuminated in Tours or perhaps Paris by Jean Bourdichon between 1503 and 1508.

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Émile Montégut

Among his numerous critical works are Ecrivains modernes d'Angleterre (3rd series, 1885-1892) and Heures de lecture d'un critique (1891), studies of John Aubrey, Alexander Pope, Wilkie Collins and Sir John Mandeville.

Léon Boëllmann

Suite gothique, op. 25, Deuxième Suite, op. 27, Offertoire sur des noëls, Carillon et Choral des Douze Pièces op. 16, Deux esquisses, Fantaisie, Heures mystiques (extraits), op. 29 & 30, Helga Schauerte-Maubouet, Kuhn organ of Minden cathedral (Germany), Syrius SYR 141374.

Les Rendez-vous de Paris

The three episodes are titled "Le Rendez-vous de 7 heures" (The Rendezvous of 7 hours), in which a student discovers her boyfriend is two-timing her, "Les Bancs de Paris" (The Benches of Paris), in which an unnamed woman has a series of meetings in parks with a handsome literature teacher from the suburbs, and "Mere et enfant 1907" (Mother and Child 1907), which takes its title from a Picasso painting, and centres on an artist who is attracted by a stranger.

Limbourg brothers

In the first half of 1416, Jean de Berry and the three Limbourg brothers, all less than 30 years old, died, possibly of plague, leaving the Très Riches Heures unfinished.

Pierre Bastien

2002, w/ Lukas Simonis, cd, Mots d´Heures: Gousses, Rames, InPolysons, IPS0402


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