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Le Chat Noir (French pronunciation: [lə ʃa nwaʁ]; French for "The Black Cat") was a 19th century entertainment establishment in the bohemian Montmartre district of Paris. It was opened on 18 November 1881 at 84 Boulevard de Rochechouart by impresario Rodolphe Salis , and closed in 1897 not long after Salis' death.
Louis Rodolphe Salis [1] (29 May 1851 – 20 March 1897) was the creator, host and owner of the Le Chat Noir ("The Black Cat") cabaret (known briefly in 1881 at its beginning as "Cabaret Artistique") in the Montmartre district of Paris. With this establishment Salis is remembered as the creator of the modern cabaret: a nightclub where the ...
The Black Death in Paris has been described in the famous chronicle of the Carmelite Jean de Venette, who resided at the Saint-Denis Abbey in Île-de-France, located outside of Paris. At the time, Paris was the biggest city in Europe, with a population between 80,000–200,000 people. [9]
Pierre Jean Louis Germain Soulages (French:; 24 December 1919 – 25 October 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor.In 2014, President François Hollande of France described him as "the world's greatest living artist."
Black Noir [4] is the name of three characters from the comic book series The Boys, created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, and the television series and ...
The attacks took place three days before the one-year anniversary of ISIL declaring itself a caliphate on 29 June 2014. [17] [18] [19] Writing for The Guardian, journalist Kareem Shaheen wrote that, "There was no evidence that the near-simultaneous attacks were coordinated, but they highlighted the growing threat of attacks by jihadists, some of them inspired by Isis rhetoric, across Europe ...
Generic "black feet" emblem used by post-independence pied-noir associations. There are competing theories about the origin of the term pied-noir.According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it refers to "a person of European origin living in Algeria during the period of French rule, especially a French person expatriated after Algeria was granted independence in 1962". [3]
Front page of Address to the National Assembly by the Société des amis des noirs, February 1790 Front page of Société des amis des noirs, March 1791. The Society of the Friends of the Blacks (Société des amis des Noirs or Amis des noirs) was a French abolitionist society founded by Jacques Pierre Brissot and Étienne Clavière and directly inspired by the Society for Effecting the ...