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Perrier-Jouët advertisement from 1923. Perrier-Jouët ([pɛʁje ʒuɛt]) is a Champagne producer based in the Épernay region of ChampagneThe house was founded in 1811 by Pierre-Nicolas Perrier and Rose Adélaide Jouët, and produces both vintage and non-vintage cuvee, approximately 3,000,000 bottles annually, with its prestige label named Belle Epoque.
On the 1683 retirement of Henry Du Mont and Pierre Robert the position of maître of the chapelle was divided into four positions: Pascal Collasse (1649–1709), sous-maître from 1683 to 1704, assistant to Lully until 1683, when he won one of the four seasonal assignments into which the Chapelle Royale directorship had been divided.
Jean (or Jehan) de Chelles [1] (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ də ʃɛl]; working 1258–1265) was a master mason and sculptor who was one of the architects at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. On the exterior wall of the south transept a stone plaque is signed Johanne Magistro and dated February 1257, documenting the initiation of ...
Pierre René Éléonor de Perier (1760-1788), second lieutenant in the Bresse regiment; Étienne Perier (1644-1726), ship's captain commanding the port of Le Havre and chevalier de Saint-Louis, knighted with his descendants in 1726, married in 1684 to Marie de Launay († 1693), daughter of Michel de Launay, sieur de Salvert, and Marguerite Le Run
Pierre de Chaignon la Rose was born on April 23, 1871, in New York City, New York. [1] His father was Anthime F. la Rose, and his mother Katharine Kappus von Pichlstein. [1] [2] La Rose studied at Exeter Academy and subsequently Harvard University, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1895.
He then became surgeon at the Frères de la charité in Moulins. [2] Chaumette studied medicine at the University of Paris in 1790, but gave up his career in medicine at the start of the Revolution. Chaumette began his political career as member of the Jacobin Club editing the progressive Revolutions de Paris journal from 1790. [3]
Jane Frances de Chantal, the founder of the convent Detail from the Turgot map of Paris showing the area around the church in the 1730s with the church half a block from the Bastille fortress. The Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary was founded in 1610 by Saint Francis de Sales and Saint Jane de Chantal in Annecy as a Catholic religious order ...
The Couvent Saint-Jacques, [1] Grand couvent des Jacobins or Couvent des Jacobins de la rue Saint-Jacques [2] was a Dominican monastery on rue Saint-Jacques in Paris, France. Its complex was between what are now rue Soufflot and rue Cujas. Its teaching activities were the origin of the collège des Jacobins, a college of the historic University ...