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Jean de La Bruyère was born in Paris, in today's Essonne département, in 1645.His family was middle class, and his reference to a certain "Geoffroy de La Bruyère", a crusader, is only a satirical illustration of a method of self-ennoblement then common in France, as in some other countries.
A library catalog (or library catalogue in British English) is a register of all bibliographic items found in a library or group of libraries, such as a network of libraries at several locations. A catalog for a group of libraries is also called a union catalog .
Aldi (stylised as ALDI [6]) (German pronunciation: ⓘ) is the common company brand name of two German multinational family-owned discount supermarket chains operating over 12,000 stores in 18 countries. [7] [8] The chain was founded by brothers Karl and Theo Albrecht in 1946, when they took over their mother's store in Essen.
La Bruyère may refer to: La Bruyère, Belgium, a municipality; La Bruyère, Haute-Saône, a commune in France; Jean de La Bruyère (1645–1696), French essayist and moralist; Louis-Claude Chéron de La Bruyère (1758–1807), French playwright, translator and politician
Francesco Bruyere (1980), an Italian judoka; Jean de La Bruyère (1645–1696), French essayist and moralist, also known for his writing skills shown in his "The Characters, or the Manners of the Age, with The Characters of Theophrastus" Jean Pierre Joseph Bruyère or Bruguière (1772–1813), French cavalry general of the Napoleonic Wars
Plaque commemorating the founder Aimé Samuel Forney at the Hôtel de Sens. The library is named for Aimé Samuel Forney (1819–1879), [3] a businessman of Swiss origin particularly interested in professional training and artistic crafts who left a bequest to the City of Paris to create an institution promoting education of artisans.
The library is in the center of the photo. The Bibliothèque municipale de Grenoble is a library in Grenoble, France.It was founded in 1772, [1] following the succession of Bishop, Jean de Caulet.
In 1786 he also acquired the collection of the duc de la Vallière, but then sold the entire library to the comte d'Artois. The library was sequestered by the state during the French Revolution , and was greatly expanded by many valuable items seized from the abbeys of Paris and also by the archives of the Bastille .