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160 cm × 211 cm (63 in × 83 in) Location. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. The Vision to the Youth Bartholomew (Russian: Видение отроку Варфоломею) is an oil-on-canvas painting created during 1889 and 1890 by the Russian artist Mikhail Nesterov. It is the first and best known work in his series on Sergius of Radonezh, a ...
Anne-Marie Dupuy. Anne-Marie Dupuy (18 September 1920 – 19 September 2008) was a French politician of the Rally for the Republic (RPR). After serving as chief of cabinet for Georges Pompidou as prime minister and president of France, she was named to the Conseil d'État in 1974, as its first woman member. She was the mayor of Cannes from 1983 ...
Biography. Eric of Lorraine was born in Nancy on 14 March 1576 as a son of Nicolas, Duke of Mercœur and his third wife Catherine of Lorraine (1550–1606), daughter of Claude, Duke of Aumale. [1] Some sources attribute a turbulent youth to him, which did not prevent him from being destined for a career in the Church; he was provided with the ...
Dupuy also published, with his brother Jacques, and their friend Nicolas Rigault, the History of Aug. de Thou (1620, 1626). [1] The two brothers then bought from Rigault the post of keeper of the king's library, and drew up a catalogue of the library (Nos. 9352-9354 and 10366-10367 of the Latin collection in the Bibliothèque Nationale).
Jacques Auguste de Thou was the grandson of Augustin de Thou [fr], president of the Parlement of Paris (d. 1544), and the third son of Christophe de Thou (d. 1582), premier président of the same parlement, who had had ambitions to produce a history of France. His uncle was Nicolas de Thou, Bishop of Chartres (1573–1598).
Plate II from Baillière's atlas of the female body (cropped) Georges Marie Dupuy (8 April 1858 – 20 December 1935) was a French physician and medical illustrator known for The Stretcher Bearer (1915), and his drawings for Baillière's atlases of the male and female body and for Comyns Berkeley's Atlas of Midwifery (1926).
Anna Karenina (1935 film) Anna Karenina. (1935 film) Anna Karenina is a 1935 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film adaptation of the 1877 novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and directed by Clarence Brown. The film stars Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Basil Rathbone, and Maureen O'Sullivan. There are several other film adaptations of the novel.
The gallery was a major component of the Musée de l'Histoire de France created by Louis-Philippe I. It replaced apartments which had been occupied in the 17th and 18th centuries by. Louis XIV 's brother Philippe I, Duke of Orléans and his second wife, Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate. Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (regent during Louis XV ...