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But he loved them and saw to it that they had allowances. He ceded them income-providing properties. As for Claude's death, Bourset references the matter-of-fact report in the Duc d'Audiffret-Pasquier's Notices historiques sur la famille Perier (Paris, 1844), that "he died for having spent an hour in his unheated study wearing a mere dressing ...
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
Casimir-Pierre Périer (11 October 1777 – 16 May 1832) was a French banker, mine owner, political leader and statesman. In business, through his bank in Paris and ownership of the Anzin Coal Co. in the Department of Nord, he contributed significantly to the economic development of France in the early stages of industrialization.
These included the Gare Saint-Lazare, first opened in 1842 as one of the main railway stations in Paris; [1]: 92, 385 the Parc Monceau neighborhood in Paris, on grounds around the park which they purchased from the Orléans family in 1861; [2]: 156 the Rue de la République in Marseille, started by Jules Mirès and continued by the Pereires ...
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 Paul Pierre Casimir-Perier (French: [ʒɑ̃ kazimiʁ peʁje]; 8 November 1847 – 11 March 1907) was a French politician who served as President of France from June 1894 to January 1895. Biography
The fountain was commissioned as part of the decoration of the city to commemorate the solemn royal entry of King Henry II into Paris in 1549. Artists were commissioned to construct elaborate monuments, mostly temporary, along his route, from the Port Saint-Denis to the Palais de la Cité, passing by le Châtelet, the Pont Notre-Dame and the Cathedral.
Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ maʁi ʁɔlɑ̃ də la platjɛʁ]; 18 February 1734 – 10 November 1793) was a French inspector of manufactures in Lyon and became a leader of the Girondist faction in the French Revolution, largely influenced in this direction by his wife, Marie-Jeanne "Manon" Roland de la Platière.