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Charles Blondin (born Jean François Gravelet, 28 February 1824 – 22 February 1897) was a French tightrope walker and acrobat. He toured the United States and was known for crossing the 1,100 ft (340 m) Niagara Gorge on a tightrope.
Pages in category "Translators of the Bible into French" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
E. S. Ariel – translator of the Kural; Charles Baudelaire – produced a famous and immensely influential translation of the works of Edgar Allan Poe; Yves Bonnefoy – noted contemporary translator, particularly of English poetry; Rose Celli – translated English works into French including Not So Quiet by Evadne Price
According to Wycliffe Bible Translators, in September 2024, speakers of 3,765 languages had access to at least a book of the Bible, including 1,274 languages with a book or more, 1,726 languages with access to the New Testament in their native language and 756 the full Bible. It is estimated by Wycliffe Bible Translators that translation may be ...
While the Bible historiale was by far the most popular medieval French translation of the Bible, it was not the first. Verse adaptations of the Bible first appeared in the latter part of the 12th century, with more or less complete prose French Bibles appearing in the mid thirteenth century.
Since Peter Waldo's Franco-Provençal translation of the New Testament in the late 1170s, and Guyart des Moulins' Bible Historiale manuscripts of the Late Middle Ages, there have been innumerable vernacular translations of the scriptures on the European continent, greatly aided and catalysed by the development of the printing press, first invented by Johannes Gutenberg in the late 1430s.
The Castellio Bible, also known as the Idiot Bible, in full The Bible newly translated, with the continuation of history from the time of Ezra to the Maccabees, and from the Maccabees to Christ (in French: La Bible nouvellement translatée, avec la suite de l'histoire depuis le tems d'Esdras jusqu'aux Maccabées : e depuis les Maccabées jusqu'à Christ), is a French translation of the Bible ...
The Bible Reading, Reading the Bible or The Father of a Family Reading the Bible to his Children is a 1755 oil on canvas genre painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. [1] It was exhibited at the Académie royale on 28 June 1755 then at the Paris Salon on 25 August the same year. [ 2 ]