Bossuet, J.-B. 1627-1704. French prelate known for eloquent funeral orations. De Re Diplomatica 1681.

Botha, Louis. 1862-1919. First Prime Minister 1910- of South Africa.

Botticelli, Sandro. 1445-1510. Poetic Florentine Renaissance painter: Sistine fresco 1482.Birth of Venus 1485.

Bouchardon, Edme. 1698-1762. French Neoclassical sculptor. Equestrian Louis XV, Four Seasons Fountain, Cupid.

Boucher, Francois. 1703-70. French mythological and landscape painter. Louis XV Rococo Style. Mme de Pompadour favourite. “Decorator of Boudoirs”. Déjeuner 1738.

Boudin, Eugene. 1824-98. French naturalist open-air painter. Beach at Deauville 1869.

Bougainville, Louis. 1729-1811. First French circumnavigation 1766-9. Voyage autour du monde 1771.

Boulanger, Georges. 1837-91. French popular war minister. Conspired coup 1889. Banished.

Boulez, Pierre. 1925-. French 12-tone avant-garde composer. Sonatine 1946.

Boulle, Pierre. 1912-94. French novelist. Bridge on the River Kwai 1952.

Boullée, Étienne. 1728-99. French grandiose Neoclassical architect.

Boumédienne, Houari. 1925-78. Islamic Algerian President from 1965 coup.

Bourbon. 1327~1848 French dynasty. 1700~ Spain. 1734-1860 Naples.

Bourdelle, Antoine. 1861-1929. French sculptor. Simplified Greek style of heroic energy. Heracles 1910.

Bourgeois, Léon. 1851-1925. French statesman. League of Nations.

Bourgeoisie. French merchant, craft class. Marxist term for those who do not live by the sale of their labour. Proletariat.

Bourges, Pragmatic Sanction. 1438. French Charles VIII supports Gallicanism vs pope.

Bouvines, Battle. 1214. French defeat English, HRE coalition. Recapture Angou...France a major power.

Bowie, James. 1796-1836. US frontiersman. Bowie knife.

Boyacá, Battle. 1819. South American rebels win independence from New Granada from Spain. Bolivar. Santander.

Bragg, William. 1862-1942. English discoverer of crystallography by x-ray diffraction. with son Lawrence (1890-1971).

Braille, Louis. 1809-1852. French inventor of raised alphabet for the blind, 1824.

Brains Trust. 1932. Roosevelt’s advisers on New Deal.

Braque, Georges. 1882-1963. French painter. Developed Cubism with Picasso. First living artist in Louvre. Man with Guitar 1911.

Brazzaville Declaration. 1944. Established colonial representation in French parliament, but not autonomy.

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