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Saint Louis is a 1996 biography of Louis IX of France by historian Jacques Le Goff. The book received positive reviews for its historical detail, and was awarded the 1996 Grand prix Gobert by the French Academy. It was also a best-seller. [2]
In 1241, he accompanied Theobald to the court of Louis IX of France (the future Saint Louis). In 1244, when Louis organized the Seventh Crusade, Joinville decided to join with the Christian knights just as his father had done 35 years earlier against the Albigensians. At the time of the crusade, Joinville placed himself in the service of the ...
Adolphus Busch Orthwein was born on September 2, 1917, in St. Louis, Missouri. [1] His father was Percy Orthwein and his mother, Clara Busch. [1] [2] His maternal great-grandfather, Adolphus Busch, was the founder of Anheuser-Busch. [1] He grew up at Grant's Farm in Grantwood Village, Missouri and summered at Red River Farm in Cooperstown, New ...
The Desloge family, (/ d ə ˈ l oʊ ʒ /) [1] centered mostly in Missouri and especially at St. Louis, [2] rose to wealth through international commerce, sugar refining, oil drilling, fur trading, mineral mining, saw milling, manufacturing, railroads, real estate, and riverboats. The family has funded hospitals and donated large tracts of land ...
Slatkin's conducting debut was in 1966 when he became artistic director and conductor of the award-winning New York Youth Symphony, and in 1968 Walter Susskind named him the assistant conductor of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. While in St. Louis, Slatkin hosted for three years a weekly KDNA radio station program called The Slatkin Project ...
The Pulitzer Arts Foundation in Saint Louis was founded by his family's philanthropy and is named in their honor. In 1989, Joseph Pulitzer was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame. [77] He is featured as a character in the Disney film Newsies (1992), in which he was played by Robert Duvall, and the adapted 2011 Broadway stage production .
Further, Vitale remained the boss after Giordano's death, dying of natural causes in St. Louis as an elderly man. He died on June 5, 1982 [17] and was buried on June 9, 1982, in Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis. [20] He was preceded in death by his wife Fara, who was buried on July 20, 1973, in Calvary Cemetery. [21]
Captain James Buchanan Eads (May 23, 1820 – March 8, 1887) was a world-renowned [1] American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than 50 patents. [2]Eads' great Mississippi River Bridge at St. Louis was designated a National Historic Landmark by the Department of the Interior in 1964 and on October 21, 1974 was listed as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American ...