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Perrier-Jouët advertisement from 1923. Perrier-Jouët ([pɛʁje ʒuɛt]) is a Champagne producer based in the Épernay region of ChampagneThe house was founded in 1811 by Pierre-Nicolas Perrier and Rose Adélaide Jouët, and produces both vintage and non-vintage cuvee, approximately 3,000,000 bottles annually, with its prestige label named Belle Epoque.
Henry Du Mont (1610–1684), sous-maître from 1663 to 1683; compositeur from 1672. Pierre Robert (composer) (c. 1615 – 1699), sous-maître from 1663 to 1683; compositeur from 1672. Nicolas Le Prince. [5] On the 1683 retirement of Henry Du Mont and Pierre Robert the position of maître of the chapelle was divided into four positions:
Pierre-Nicolas André called de Murville, (1754–1815) was an 18th- and 19th-century French poet and playwright. The son of a director of fodder [ clarification needed ] in Alsace , Murville competed at the age of 19, for the poetry prize of the Académie française , did not obtain it, and for some years was one of the most stubborn competitors.
Colonel Gérard Bieuville, sous-lieutenant Pierre Perrier, Les Gouverneurs militaires de Paris, Connaissances et mémoires européennes, Gouvernement militaire de Paris, 1999. Tulard, Jean. Murat: Du maréchal d'Empire au roi de Naples. Paris: Marabout, 1983.
The "Maison du Roi" (Household of the King) was the name of the military, domestic and religious entourage around the Royal Family in the Kingdom of France.In essence, the Secretary's oversight was purely formal, as the officers of the "Maison du Roi" were under the direct authority of the Grand Maître of France (Chief Steward of France).
Du Mont and Robert developed the grand motet, the characteristic genre of French baroque sacred music. Du Mont and Robert retired in 1682 when Louis XIV relocated the court to Versailles , and a competition was held to find four replacements among thirty five contenders; the four chosen were Michel Richard Delalande , Pascal Collasse and two ...
Henri III, then Duke of Anjou, dressed in elegant attire of 1570, including a "little bonnet of velvet".Painting by Jean de Court.. Les Mignons (from mignon, French for "the darlings" or "the dainty ones") was a term used by polemicists in the contentious atmosphere of the French Wars of Religion and taken up by the people of Paris, to designate the favourites of Henry III of France, from his ...
The Grand Chamberlain of France (French: Grand Chambellan de France) was one of the Great Officers of the Crown of France, a member of the Maison du Roi ("King's Household"), and one of the Great Offices of the Maison du Roi during the Ancien Régime.