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The Reading (La Lecture in French) is an oil-on-canvas painting by French painter Henri Fantin-Latour executed in 1877. [1] It was acquired in 1901 by the city of Lyon and by the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon where it is conserved. The painting depicts two women sitting in a room.
Nouveau dictionnaire universel des arts et des sciences, français, latin et anglais : contenant la signification des mots de ces trois langues et des termes propres de chaque état et profession : avec l’explication de tout ce que renferment les arts et les sciences traduit de l’anglais de Thomas Dyche, Avignon, Vve Girard, 1756.
Jean-François Lisée (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ fʁã.swa li.ze]; born February 13, 1958) is a Canadian politician who served as the leader of the Parti Québécois from October 2016 until October 2018.
La Harpe was born in Paris of poor parents. His father, who signed himself Delharpe, was a descendant of a noble family originally of Vaud.Left an orphan at the age of nine, La Harpe was taken care of for six months by the Sisters of Charity, and his education was provided for by a scholarship at the Collège d'Harcourt, now known as the Lycée Saint-Louis.
In 1869, his "Poème modernes" (among others La Grève de forgerons) were quite successful. In the same year, Coppée's first play, Le Passant , starring Sarah Bernhardt and Madame Agar, [ 1 ] was received with approval at the Odéon theatre, and later Fais ce que dois (1871) and Les Bijoux de la délivrance (1872), [ 2 ] short poetic dramas ...
François de La Rochefoucauld, 2nd Duke of La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac (/ ˈ r ɒ ʃ f uː k oʊ /; French: [fʁɑ̃swa d(ə) la ʁɔʃfuko]; 15 September 1613 – 17 March 1680) was an accomplished French moralist of the era of French Classical literature and author of Maximes and Memoirs, the only two works of his dense literary œuvre published.
François L’Anglois or Langlois (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa lɑ̃ɡlwa]; 12 May 1589 (baptised) – 13 January 1647), [1] also called F. L. D. Ciartres ("François Langlois from Chartres"), was a French print publisher, print seller, engraver, bookseller, art dealer, and painter. He is widely considered to have been the first important ...
François de Belleforest (1530 – 1 January 1583) was a prolific French author, poet and translator of the Renaissance.. He was born in Samatan (actual department of Gers), into a poor family, and his father (a soldier) was killed when he was seven.