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Portal:France/Featured picture/03. Pierre Séguier, Chancellor of France (1588-1672) known as Chancellor Séguier at the Entry of Louis XIV into Paris in 1660 Image credit: Acquired from the subject's descendants, with the assistance of the Friends of the Louvre association, 1942
The Beautiful Image (French: La belle image) is a 1951 French drama film directed by Claude Heymann and starring Frank Villard, Françoise Christophe and Pierre Larquey. [1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Hubert. It was based on the 1941 novel of the same title by Marcel Aymé.
The Miss France competition was founded in 1920, using the name La plus belle femme de France (English: The most beautiful woman of France). After two editions, the competition was abandoned, and later rebranded as Miss France in 1927. Miss France was held annually until 1940, due to World War II, and has since been held annually again since 1947.
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The Belle Époque (French pronunciation:) or La Belle Époque (French for 'The Beautiful Era') was a period of French and European history that began after the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 and continued until the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
On October 14, 1962, a Courier Journal article was captioned “Bottle Swung, Belle Is Born.” A photo depicted Cook watching Mrs. Lawrence Bates, wife of the Maritime architect who oversaw the ...
La Belle Strasbourgeoise is the most famous of the circa 1,500 portrait paintings by Largillière, and arguably the most iconic work in the Strasbourg museum. The identity of the depicted woman is unknown: she may be someone from the Strasbourg bourgeoisie, or a young Parisian in disguise (Strasbourg had become part of France only 22 years prior, in 1681), or the painter's own sister, Marie ...
Kristallnacht, 1940–42 [7] Charlotte Salomon, gouache from Life? or Theater?, 1940–42 [8]. Charlotte Salomon came from a prosperous Berlin family. Her father, Albert Salomon was a surgeon; [9] her mother, Franziska (Grünwald), sensitive and troubled, committed suicide when Charlotte was eight or nine, though she was led to believe her mother died from influenza.