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Jean-Marie Chopin (Russian: Иван Шопен; born in 1796 in Saint Petersburg; died 15 February 1871 in Paris) was a French-Russian explorer of the Caucasus. [citation needed] Son of a French sculptor and employed by Catherine II of Russia, Chopin began his career as secretary and librarian to Prince Alexander Kurakin, Russian ambassador to France for 12 years. [1]
Chopin, Chopin! is an upcoming Polish period biographical drama film directed by Michał Kwieciński. Starring Eryk Kulm as Frédéric Chopin , it follows the life of Chopin in the 1830s. Cast
Arman (November 17, 1928 – October 22, 2005) was a French and American artist. [1] Born Armand Fernandez in Nice, France , Arman was a painter who moved from using objects for the ink or paint traces they leave ( cachets , allures d'objet ) to using them as the artworks themselves.
"Waterloo" is a song recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA, with music composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and lyrics written by Stikkan Anderson. It is first single of the group's second album of the same name , and their first under the Atlantic label in the United States.
Waterloo is a Napoleonic board wargame published by Avalon Hill in 1963 that simulates the Battle of Waterloo.It was one of the first board wargames produced and despite its lack of historicity and complexity, it still received positive comments more than twenty years later as a fun and playable game, and remained in Avalon Hill's catalogue until 1990.
In August 2022, his research, together with Tony Pollard and Robin Schäfer, on the bones of Waterloo was publicized in Belgium, [13] Britain, France, [14] Germany [4] and in the US. [15] In January 2023, Dr. Wilkin was interviewed on HistoryHit by Dan Snow in the show Bones in the Attic: The Forgotten Fallen of Waterloo. [16]
Waterloo most commonly refers to: Battle of Waterloo, 1815 battle where Napoleon's French army was defeated by Anglo-allied and Prussian forces; Waterloo, Belgium;
Armand Aubigny, husband of the title character in the short story "Désirée's Baby," by Kate Chopin. Armand St. Just, character from the Scarlet Pimpernel novels; Armand Duval, character from the romantic novel La Dame aux Camelias; Armand Trevelyan, from Isaac Asimov's novella "Profession".