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On plates with full-outfit compositions, text is printed directly below each image andusually above some variation of the inscription, "A Paris chez Esnauts et Rapilly rue St Jacques, à la Ville de Countances. Avec Priv du Roi (or A.P.D.R.)," which gives readers general information about publication.
General overview map illustrating how the sheets of the complete map fit together Detail from sheets 11 and 15, depicting the Louvre Palace. In 1734, Michel-Étienne Turgot, the chief of the municipality of Paris as provost of the city's merchants, decided to promote the reputation of Paris for Parisian, provincial and foreign elites by commissioning a new map of the city.
Jean-Philippe Rameau. Platée is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Jean-Philippe Rameau with a libretto by Adrien-Joseph Le Valois d'Orville.Rameau bought the rights to the libretto Platée ou Junon jalouse (Plataea, or Juno Jealous) by Jacques Autreau (1657–1745) and had d'Orville modify it. [1]
A pre-2009 car plate with the two-digit code for Paris (75). Since 1901, various systems have been successively introduced, the most recent dating from 2009. The registration plates issued since 2009 use a XX-NNN-ZZ format, composed of a series of 7 alphanumeric characters: 2 letters, 3 numbers, and then 2 letters (e.g. AB-126-FD).
In Europe, full plate armour reached its peak in the 15th and 16th centuries. The full suit of armour, also referred to as a panoply, is thus a feature of the very end of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance period. Its popular association with the "medieval knight” is due to the specialised jousting armour which developed in the 16th century.
Michel-Etienne Turgo, by Van Loo, 1739. The Paris Foreign Missions Society in the 1739 "Plan Turgot".. Michel-Étienne Turgot (/ t ʊər ˈ ɡ oʊ /; French:; 9 June 1690 in Paris – 1 February 1751 in Paris) was prévôt des marchands de Paris ("Master of the merchants of Paris", i.e. Mayor of Paris) [1] from 1729 to 1740.
A new specialty license plate design highlights Tennessee's fondness for giving back, and purchasing it supports a program that does just that. Knoxville native Paris Woodhull is one of the city's ...
The martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket, champlevé, 1180s (detail) Detail of grisaille painted plate with the Rape of Europa, Jean de Court, c. 1560; the full piece. Limoges enamel has been produced at Limoges, in south-western France, over several centuries up to the present. There are two periods when it was of European importance.