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13 matches to La Tour
Caravaggist School of Painting. Themes of courtesan, cheaters. e.g. George de la Tour.
De La Tour, George. 1593-1652. French Caravaggist painter. Cheater with the Ace of Diamonds.
La Tour, Maurice de. 1704-88. French portraitist. Influenced by Caravaggio.
Berengar of Tours. c999-1088. Questioned transubstantiation 1044.
Bougainville, Louis. 1729-1811. First French circumnavigation 1766-9. Voyage autour du monde 1771.
Cook, Thomas. 1808-92. English. First modern conducted tours, 1841.
Gregory of Tours, St. c538-94. French bishop. Wrote History of the Franks.
Landowski, Paul. 1875-1961. Sculptor: St. Genevieve on Tournelle Bridge, Paris, 1928; la Réformation, Geneva, 1912-18.
Martin, St. c316-97. Bishop of Tours. Introduced monasticism to France. French patron saint.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. 1756-91. Viennese Classical composer. European tour at age 6. Seemingly effortless compositions of symmetry and melody with emotional feeling. Marriage of Figaro 1786. Don Juan 1787. Magic Flute 1791.
Tour d’Argent. Paris restaurant where Henry IV learned the use of the fork.
Tours, Battle. 732. = Poitiers.
Tours, Truce. 1444-49. Break in Hundred Years War.