De La Tour, George. 1593-1652. French Caravaggist painter. Cheater with the Ace of Diamonds.

Deburau, J.B.G. 1796-1846. French mime.

Debussy, Claude. 1862-1918. French Impressionist composer. System of harmonic images. Nocturnes. La Mer 1905.

Degas, Edgar. 1834-1917. French Impressionist painter of dancers and cafe life. Rehearsal. Tub.

DeGaulle, Charles. 1890-1970. Led Free French during WWII. Provisional President 1944-6. President 58-69. Fifth Republic.

Delacroix, Eugène. 1798-1863. French Romantic painter. Dante and Virgil. Massacre at Chios 1824.

Delalande, Michel-Richard. 1657-1726. French ecclesiastic composer.

Delaroche, Paul. 1797-1859. French portrait and historical painter. Death of Queen Elizabeth. Children of Edward.

Delcassé, Théophile. 1852-1923. French statesman. Fashoda. Anglo-French Entente. Treaty of London.

Delescluze, Charles. 1809-71. French journalist. Led 1871 Commune.

Delibes, Leo. 1836-91. French ballet composer: Coppélia 1870.

Delisle, Guillaume. 1675-1726. French “Father of Cartography”. Early accurate maps.

Delius, Frederick. 1862-1934. English/French Impressionist opera composer. Tone poems.

Delorme, Philibert. c1510-70. French Classical architect. Tuileries Palace 1564. Old Paris Hôtel de Ville.

Denfert-Rochereau, Philippe. 1823-78. French Colonel in war of 1870.

Denis, Maurice. 1870-1943. French religious painter.

Desaix, Louis. 1768-1800. French general. Killed at Marengo.

Desargues, Girard. 1591-1661. French geometrician.

Descartes, René. 1596-1650. French Rationalist philosopher, physician, mathematician. Cartesian coordinates. Discourse on Method 1637. “Cogito ergo sum”-I think, therefore I am. Analytical Geometry 1636. Meditations 1641. Principia Philosophica 1645.

DeSmet, Pierre. 1801-73. French missionary to US. Mediator between settlers, Indians.

Desmoulins, Camille. 1760-94. French journalist, lawyer and conventionnel. Speech inspired the storming of the Bastille. Executed as Moderate.

Dettingen, Battle. 1743. English defeat French in War of Austrian Succession.

Devolution, War of. 1667-8. French fail to sieze Spanish Netherlands for Marie-Thérèse vs Charles II. Triple Alliance. Aix-la-Chapelle.

Diamond Necklace Affair. 1785. Necklace bought for Marie Antionette; not paid for. French Revolution.

Diderot, Denis. 1713-84. French writer, editor of Encyclopédie 1745-72 based on Chambers’. Rameau’s nephew.

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