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in passing; term used in chess and in neurobiology ("synapse en passant.") En plein air en plein air lit. "in the open air"; particularly used to describe the act of painting outdoors. en pointe en pointe (in ballet) on tiptoe. Though used in French in this same context, it is not an expression as such.
En plein air painter on the Côte d'Argent in Hourtin, France. En plein air (pronounced [ɑ̃ plɛ.n‿ɛʁ]; French for 'outdoors'), or plein-air [1] painting, is the act of painting outdoors. This method contrasts with studio painting or academic rules that might create a predetermined look.
Effets de soir (also called effets de soir et de matin) [1] are the effects of light caused by the sunset, twilight, or darkness of the early evening or matins.They appear frequently in works by such painters as Vincent van Gogh, [2] Bernhard Fries, [1] Armand Guillaumin, [3] and Camille Corot.
Galland's translation was essentially based on a medieval Arabic manuscript of Syrian origin, supplemented by oral tales recorded by him in Paris from Hanna Diyab, a Maronite Arab from Aleppo. [2] The first English translation appeared in 1706 and was made from Galland's version; being anonymous, it is known as the Grub Street edition.
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Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), known as Toulouse-Lautrec (French: [tuluz lotʁɛk]), was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of ...
Literary realism and naturalism achieved new heights. Among the most famous French realist or naturalist authors are Guy de Maupassant and Émile Zola. Realism gradually developed into modernism, which emerged in the 1890s and came to dominate European literature during the Belle Époque's final years and throughout the interwar years.
The Temple of Literature is a series of courtyards, buildings and pavilions, the center of which houses the famed stone steles. These steles are placed on top of stone turtles , and are inscribed with the names of doctorate candidates successful at the Imperial examination .