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2211 matches to St Pierre and Miquelon
Fermat, Pierre de. 1601-65. French mathematician/jurist. Modern Number Theory. Last Theorem 1631: There does not exist xn+yn=zn for n>2; x,y,z ε N. Proved by Wiles 1995.
Festival of the Supreme Being. 8 June 1794. Declared by Robespierre and designed by David.
Florian, Jean-Pierre de. 1755-94. French fable writer.
Fontaine, Pierre. 1762-1853. French Empire architect. Louvre Cour Carrée.
Fouché, Joseph. 1758-1820. French Revolutionary. Minister of Police 1779~1815. Secret police. Intrigued vs Robespierre 1794, Napoleon 1799,1807; Louis XVIII 1814.
Fréron, Louis. 1754-1802. French Revolutionary. Conspired vs Robespierre.
Heloïse. c1098-1164. Niece of Fulbert, loved by Abelard.
Iberville, Pierre d’. 1661-1706. French-Canadian explorer to Louisiana.
Impressionism. 1867-86. European art movement named 1874 for Monet’s Impression Sunrise. Direct from nature with colors to render surfaces and lighting effects. Rejected primacy of subject. Renoir, Pissarro, Degas, Cezanne, Manet. Music: 1892-1910. Restraint and ambiguity. Mood music. Debussy.
Jacobins. 1789-94. Robespierre-led radical democratic French Revolutionary group. In power 1793-4. -“Holy League against the enemies of liberty”.
Laplace, Pierre. 1749-1827. French mathematician, astronomer. Celestial mechanics 1779-1825. Solar system origin from condensed gas.
Larousse, Pierre. 1817-75. French lexicographer. Great Universal Dictionary of the XIXth Century 1866-76.
Laval, Pierre. 1883-1945. Vichy Prime Minister 1942-4. Executed for treason.
L’Enfant, Pierre. 1754-1825. French/US architect. Washington town plan 1792, implemented 1901.
Lescot, Pierre. 1515-1578. Architect 1546 of current Louvre Palace.
Louvre. 1204 fortress. Charles V library. 1527 new palace by Lescot. 1793 converted to museum. Venus de Milo. Mona Lisa.
Montagnards. 1792-5. French revolutionary extremists led by Robespierre. Terror. Plain.
Monts, Pierre du Ghast. 1568-1630. French explorer with Champlain. Founded Portugal Royal 1605.
Nabis. 1890s. French painters opposed to Impressionism. Bold colors. Influenced Abstract Art. Bonnard. Denis.
Percier, Charles. 1764-1838. French Empire architect. Cour Carrée with Fontaine.
Pierre de Montreuil. 13 C builder of Notre-Dame Cathedral, architect of Ste-Chapelle, 1248.
Pléiade, La. 16C. French Renaissance poets, aimed to enrich French language. Ronsard, Bellay, Belleau, Jodelle, Dorat, Baïf, Tyard.
Proudhon, Pierre. 1809-65. French Anarchist Socialist: “Property is theft.”-What is Property? 1840. “Government is the Scourge of God”. Systèmes des Contradictions Économiques 1846.
Prud’hon, Pierre. 1758-1823. French painter. Crime and Justice 1808.
Renoir, Pierre A. 1841-1919. French Impressionist painter. Moulin de la Galette 1876. Bathers.