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Several years after World War I, in 1927, Cubists Joseph Csaky, Jacques Lipchitz, Louis Marcoussis, Henri Laurens, the sculptor Gustave Miklos, and others collaborated in the decoration of a studio house, rue Saint-James, Neuilly-sur-Seine. The hôtel particulier, owned by Doucet was designed by the architect Paul Ruaud. Laurens designed the ...
Tour Saint-Jacques (French: [tuʁ sɛ̃ʒak], 'Saint James's Tower') is a monument located in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France, on the Rive Droite.This 52-metre (171 ft) Flamboyant Gothic tower at the intersection of the Rue de Rivoli with Rue Nicolas-Flamel is all that remains of the former 16th-century Church of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie ('Saint James of the Meat Market'), which ...
Formerly lying along the cardo of Roman Lutetia, this street was a main axial road of medieval Paris, as the buildings that still front it attest.It is the historic starting point, at no. 252, the Église Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, for pilgrims leaving Paris to make their way along the Chemin de Saint-Jacques that led eventually to Santiago de Compostela (James, Jacques, Jacob, and Iago being ...
Folie Saint-James at 2011. Doric temple in the artificial rock hill. The Folie St. James was a French landscape garden created between 1777 and 1780 in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine by Claude Baudard de Saint James, the treasurer of the French Navy under Louis XV of France .
Saint-James (French pronunciation:) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. [3] On 1 January 2017, the former communes of Argouges , Carnet , La Croix-Avranchin , Montanel , Vergoncey and Villiers-le-Pré were merged into Saint-James.
Saint James the Great's Vision of the Virgin Mary (French - L'Apparition de la Vierge à saint Jacques le Majeur) is a c.1629-1630 oil on canvas painting by Nicolas Poussin, now in the Louvre, in Paris. It shows a vision in Zaragoza whilst James the Great was evangelising Spain. [1]
Susan Saint James (born 1946), American actress and activist; Lyn St. James (born 1947), American racecar driver; Claude Baudard de Saint-James (1738-1787), French businessman. Daniel Saint-James (born 1927), French physician; Synthia Saint James (born 1949), American writer, lecturer and educator; David St. James (born 1947), American actor
Because of his role in northern Spain, James is venerated throughout the Basque Country and Galicia where July 25 is a public holiday. [3] A traditional pilgrimage called the Way of St James (Camino de Santiago) is held that day, bringing people to the town of Santiago de Compostela and the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral. It is the town's ...