query: which famous royal person died in paris in 1997

pos: Bảo Đại when Japan surrendered. From 1949 until 1955, Bảo Đại was the chief of state of the State of Vietnam (South Vietnam). Bảo Đại was criticized for being too closely associated with France and spending much of his time outside Vietnam. Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm eventually ousted him in a fraudulent referendum vote in 1955. Bảo Đại was born on 25 October 1913 and given the name of Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy (阮福永瑞) in the Palace of Doan-Trang-Vien, part of the compound of the Purple Forbidden City in Huế, the capital of Vietnam. He was later given the name

pos: Bảo Đại power devolved away from his person and into ideological camps and in the face of Diem's underestimated influences on factions within the empire. Bảo Đại died in a military hospital in Paris, France, on 30 July 1997. He was interred in the Cimetière de Passy. After his death, his eldest son, Crown Prince Bảo Long, inherited the position of head of the Nguyễn Dynasty. Crown Prince Bao Long died on 28 July 2007 and his younger brother Bảo Thắng succeeded him as head of the Nguyen dynasty. The last "cash" coin ever produced in the world bears the name of

neg: James Clark Gentles given his professorship. In 1981 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were William Whigham Fletcher, William McPhee Hutchison, Sir William D. P. Stewart, John Hawthorn, Ernest Oliver Morris and John Smith. He was a keen golfer and served as Captain of Lenzie Golf Club. He died on 15 November 1997. He was married to Barr Gentles. They had a son James (born in Paris) and daughter Carine. James Clark Gentles Prof James Clark "Jimmy" Gentles FRSE (1921–1997) was a Scottish mycologist and the first British person to specialise in fungal disease on the

neg: Port-Royal Abbey, Paris Port-Royal Abbey, Paris Port-Royal Abbey was an abbey in Paris that was a stronghold of Jansenism. It was first built in 1626 to relieve pressure of numbers on the mother house at Port-Royal-des-Champs. Famous people who stayed at the Port-Royal Abbey include Marie de Rohan, intriguer during the Fronde; Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes, future mistress of a duke of Savoy; Marie Angélique de Fontanges, mistress of Louis XIV, died here giving birth to his child who also died. It was closed down in 1790, at the beginning of the French Revolution and from 1793 used as a prison under

neg: Stanislav Rapotec he started to paint again. In 1955, he moved to Sydney. He started using his name in Latinized form (Stanislaus, or simply Stan). In 1961, he won Blake Prize for Religious Art. He was a member of the group of Sydney-based abstract artists called the Sydney 9. After his wife, Andree, had died, he traveled and painted all across Europe. He died in Sydney due a stroke in 1997. Stanislav Rapotec is famous for his art works, which are all exhibited in London, Rome, Paris, and the U.S.. He also is known for his famous quote, "To become an artist,

neg: Émile Girardeau of Paris against planes (which were destroyed in June 1940). After the fall of France to Germany, Girardeau created a factory for underground forces of free France. In 1944, Girardeau re-established radio communications in France. In 1945, Girardeau became a member of the Académie navale. In 1954, Girardeau became a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques. In 1970, Girardeau died in Paris. Émile Girardeau Émile Girardeau (12 October 1882 – 7 December 1970) was a French engineer, famous for being the first person to patent the original system of frequencies that is used and known today as

neg: Marc-Antoine Charpentier the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris in 1698, a royal post he held until his death in 1704. One of his most famous compositions during his tenure was the Mass "Assumpta Est Maria" (H. 11). That this work survived suggests that it was written for another entity, an entity that was entitled to call upon the musicians of the Chapel and reward them for their efforts. Indeed, virtually none of Charpentier's compositions from 1690 to 1704 have survived, because when the "maître de musique" died, the royal administration routinely confiscated everything he had written for the Chapel. Charpentier died at Sainte-Chapelle, Paris,

neg: Joseph Raulin gynaecology and obstetrics, of which some were translated into several languages. He was also the author of legislation and works on the mineral waters of France, the most famous of which being his medical and chemical description of the mineral waters sold in Paris. Joseph Raulin Joseph Raulin (1708–1784) was a French physician. Raulin was born in Ayguetinte in 1708 and died in Paris the 12th of April 1784. He was a French obstetrician, and physician for the king Louis XV. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Bordeaux, before becoming physician for the king and royal censor. Due

neg: Jim Bittermann and eastern Europe as well as such stories as the Soccer World Cup, the travels of Pope John Paul II, and Princess Diana's death in 1997. In 2015, he covered the devastating terrorist attacks in Paris for which he and the CNN team shared in the Royal Television Society Breaking News Award in 2016 Since 1998, Bittermann has been an assistant adjunct professor of communications at The American University of Paris. 2015 marked his 50th year in journalism. Bittermann's wife, Emmy-winning television producer Patricia Thompson, died in 2010. The couple's one daughter, Dr. Tess Bittermann, is a gastroenterologist at the

neg: Jean Picard Jean Picard Jean-Félix Picard (21 July 1620 – 12 July 1682) was a French astronomer and priest born in La Flèche, where he studied at the Jesuit Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand. He died in Paris, France. He is principally notable for his accurate measure the size of the Earth, based on a careful survey of one degree of latitude along the Paris Meridian. Picard was the first person to measure the size of the Earth to a reasonable degree of accuracy in a survey conducted in 1669–70, for which he is honored with a pyramid at Juvisy-sur-Orge. Guided by Maurolycus's methodology

neg: Charles-Simon Catel Rome winning composer Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul, the Belgian composer Martin-Joseph Mengal, and the famous, if eccentric, harpist Nicolas Bochsa. Catel died in Paris. His works include a "Treatise on Harmony" (1802) which was used by the young Berlioz, several concert band works, several dramatic compositions at the National Opera of Paris: "Sémiramis", "Les bayadères" ; at the Opéra-Comique: "Artistes par occasion", "l'Auberge de Bagnères" (1807) ; "Wallace" (1817); symphonies, quartets etc. Charles-Simon Catel Charles-Simon Catel (10 July 1773 – 29 November 1830) was a French composer and educator born at L'Aigle, Orne. Catel studied at the Royal School of Singing in

neg: Education in France activities and so these schools may ask for a small (optional) entrance fee for new students. The public universities in France are named after the major cities near which they are located, followed by a numeral if there are several. Paris, for example, has thirteen universities, labelled Paris I to XIII. Some of these are not in Paris itself, but in the suburbs. In addition, most of the universities have taken a more informal name which is usually that of a famous person or a particular place. Sometimes, it is also a way to honor a famous alumnus, for example

neg: Raymond Zarpanelian mentor was said to have been a magnanimous person. Raymond Zarpanelian Raymond Zarpanelian (born 17 May 1933 in Paris, France; died 29 March 2011 in Paris, France) was an Armenian-French football coach who was last known to have been based at Al-Ansar in Saudi Arabia. Assisted by Sam Obi Metzger, Zarpanelian guided Sierra Leone to a 0-4 defeat to Ivory Coast and a 0-0 stalemate with Zambia at the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations, causing him to step down as coach and go back to Paris. Working with ASFA Yennenga in early 1997, the Franco-Armenian was took charge of ASF

neg: C. Leon Broutin and a person close to the Emperor Napoleon III. A pupil of his father (himself a pupil of the famous Jean-Louis Michel), Broutin succeeded in opening his own fencing school in Madrid and wrote a treaty of fencing "El Arte de la Esgrima", with a preface written by the marqués de Altavilla, published in 1893. He was fencing master of the Spanish Army's staff, of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando's circle, and a corresponding member of the Académie d'Armes de Paris. After fall of the Second French Empire he came back every winter to Paris with

neg: Roger Arnaldez Roger Arnaldez Roger Arnaldez (13 September 1911 – 7 April 2006, aged 94) was a French professor of Islamic studies born in Paris, and also a publisher of Philo. Arnaldez was elected a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques 10 February 1986 and présided the Académie in 1997. He is also associate member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium and corresponding member of the Cairo Academy of Arabic Language. He was quoted by Pope Benedict XVI in his famous speech which led to the Regensburg controversy. Roger Arnaldez was also interested

neg: Port-Royal-des-Champs 18th-century paintings and engravings. Port-Royal-des-Champs Port-Royal-des-Champs was an abbey of Cistercian nuns in Magny-les-Hameaux, in the Vallée de Chevreuse southwest of Paris that launched a number of culturally important institutions. The abbey was established in 1204, but became famous when its discipline was reformed in 1609 by its abbess, Mother Marie Angelique Arnauld (1591-1661). The Arnauld family became its patrons and the abbey's subsequent history was directed by a number of the members of that family. In 1625 most of the nuns moved to a new Port-Royal in Paris, which subsequently became "Port-Royal de Paris" (or, more commonly, "Port-Royal") while

neg: Port-Royal-des-Champs Port-Royal-des-Champs Port-Royal-des-Champs was an abbey of Cistercian nuns in Magny-les-Hameaux, in the Vallée de Chevreuse southwest of Paris that launched a number of culturally important institutions. The abbey was established in 1204, but became famous when its discipline was reformed in 1609 by its abbess, Mother Marie Angelique Arnauld (1591-1661). The Arnauld family became its patrons and the abbey's subsequent history was directed by a number of the members of that family. In 1625 most of the nuns moved to a new Port-Royal in Paris, which subsequently became "Port-Royal de Paris" (or, more commonly, "Port-Royal") while the older one was

neg: Princess Diana's Revenge around the "Friends of Diana", a cult which has grown up around the memory of Diana, Princess of Wales, and is determined to avenge her death in a car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997. Although the book is not as explicitly anti-authoritarian as de Larrabeiti's most famous work, "The Borrible Trilogy", its satire of members of the royal family ensure that the book is run-through with the anti-authoritarianism that is present in all of de Larrabeiti's work. The novel's central character is Joe Rapps, a director-cameraman. At the start of the novel, Rapps is released from Wandsworth prison,

neg: Patrick d'Arcy of light was perceived. This and other experiments makes d'Arcy the first person to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image; although Joseph Plateau greatly elaborated on this initial finding. d'Arcy was elected to the Academie Royale des Sciences in 1749. He died from cholera in Paris in October 1779. There is a copy of a portrait of d'Arcy in Wade (1997), , which was found in Charbonnier (1928). Patrick d'Arcy Patrick d'Arcy (27 September 1725 – 18 October 1779) was born in the west of Ireland. His family, who were Catholics, suffered under the penal laws. In 1739 d'Arcy

neg: Coster Diamonds his achievements at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1855. He also polished the “famous diamond Star of the South”. He died in 1886. The family of the deceased diamond polisher still owns the silver plates with the inscription of this price for the diamond polishers, who polished the Koh-i Noor. In 1959, Ben Meier polished the many diamonds which were set in a white gold watch, which was presented to Queen Juliana by the Dutch people. Between 1991 and 1994 Pauline Willemse, a diamond polisher at Royal Coster Diamonds, polished the smallest diamond in the world. This is a

neg: John Gore (Royal Navy officer, died 1790) valuable to Cook for his knowledge of the island. In 1769 Gore became the first recorded person on the expedition to shoot and kill a person of Māori descent, following an altercation over a piece of cloth as the "Endeavour" charted the coast of New Zealand. Later, on 14 July 1770 Gore became famous for being the first person to shoot and kill a kangaroo (for scientific research) as the expedition made its way up the eastern seaboard of Australia. Returning to England, in 1772 Gore joined the botanist Joseph Banks (who had also been on Cook's first Pacific voyage)

neg: Jean Schlumberger (jewelry designer) person but liked to socialize among friends like Cristóbal Balenciaga, Emilio Terry, Diana Vreeland and Hubert de Givenchy. Schlumberger died in Paris at the age of 80 years old and is buried at Isola di San Michele. One of the most famous pieces that Schlumberger created was the mounting for the famed Tiffany Diamond, which was in the firm's collection since the nineteenth century. The brooch, entitled "Bird on a Rock", incorporates the impressive yellow diamond in a fanciful setting typical of Schlumberger's style. He was the first jewelry designer to win the coveted Fashion Critics’ Coty Award in 1958.

neg: Cashmere wool down. Ternaux's herd at St. Ouen still numbered 150 when the famous industrialist died in 1833. The herd at Perpignan died out by 1829. By 1830, weaving cashmere shawls with French-produced yarn had become an important Scottish industry. The Scottish Board of Trustees for the Encouragement of Arts and Manufactures offered a 300 pound sterling reward to the first person who could spin cashmere in Scotland based on the French system. Captain Charles Stuart Cochrane collected the required information while in Paris and received a Scottish patent for the process in 1831. In the autumn of 1831, he sold the

neg: Achmet (oneiromancer) Achmet (oneiromancer) Achmet, son of Seirim (Gk. ), the author of a work on the interpretation of dreams, the "Oneirocriticon of Achmet", is probably the same person as Abu Bekr Mohammed Ben Sirin, whose work on the same subject is still extant in Arabic in the Royal Library at Paris, and who was born AH 33 (AD 653-4) and died AH 110 (AD 728-9). The two names Ahmed or Achimet and Mohammed consist in Arabic of four letters each, and differ only in the first. There must, however, be some difference between Achmet's work, in the form in which we

neg: Jansenism experience in 1608. In 1625, most of the nuns moved to Paris, forming the convent of "Port-Royal de Paris", which from then on was commonly known simply as Port-Royal. In 1634, Duvergier had become the spiritual adviser of Port-Royal-des-Champs and good friend of Angélique Arnauld; he convinced her of the rightness of Jansen's opinions. The two convents thus became major strongholds of Jansenism. Under Angélique Arnauld, later with Duvergier's support, Port-Royal-des-Champs developed a series of elementary schools, known as the "Little Schools of Port-Royal" ("Les Petites-Écoles de Port-Royal"); the most famous product of these schools was the playwright Jean Racine.

neg: Jean Daurat his own country, and he was famous as a scholar in England, Italy, and Germany. In 1556 he was appointed professor of Greek at the Collège Royal. In 1567, he resigned the post in favour of his nephew, Nicolas Goulu. King Charles IX gave him the title of "poeta regius" ("the king's poet"). His prolific output was the wonder of his time; he is said to have composed more than 15,000 Greek and Latin verses. The best of these he published at Paris in 1586. He died at Paris, having survived all his illustrious pupils of the "Pléiade", except Pontus

neg: Jean Desmarets supplant it. With this standpoint he contributed several works in defence of the moderns in the famous quarrel between the Ancients and Moderns. In his later years Desmarets devoted himself chiefly to producing a number of religious poems, of which the best known is perhaps his verse translation of the "Office de la Vierge" (1645). He was an outspoken opponent of the Jansenists, against whom he wrote a "Réponse à l'insolente apologie de Port-Royal" (1666). He died in Paris on 28 October 1676. Jean Desmarets Jean Desmarets, Sieur de Saint-Sorlin (1595 – 28 October 1676) was a French writer and

neg: Gio Paolo Bombarda services to set up himself and his family in Paris in 1705, in a house on rue d'Argenteuil, not far from the Palais-Royal, where he died in 1712. His eldest daughter, Anne-Marie-Pauline (1697–1719), married Jean-Jacques Amelot de Chaillou in 1716, whilst his son Pierre-Paul (1698–1783), known as Bombarde de Beaulieu, in 1718 married the daughter of the famous salonnière Madame Doublet. Gio Paolo Bombarda Gio Paolo Bombarda (Rome, c.1650 – Paris, 6 December 1712) was the founder of the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels. Musician, councillor and treasurer to Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria in Munich, he was

neg: Pierre Bruno Bourla Pierre Bruno Bourla Pierre Bruno Bourla (19 December 1783 – 31 December 1866) was a Paris-born Belgian architect. He was the city architect in Antwerp from 1819 to 1861, and a professor of architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. His most famous work is the Royal Theatre built between 1827 and 1834, known popularly after him as the Bourla theatre. He also designed new buildings for the Antwerp Academy, built the entrance gate to the city's botanical gardens, expanded the St. Elizabeth's hospital, restored the cathedral, and renovated the town hall. He died in Antwerp in 1866,

neg: Pierre Charles Baquoy Pierre Charles Baquoy Pierre Charles Baquoy (July 27, 1759 – February 4, 1829) was a French painter and engraver, known for depictions of famous historical characters. Baquoy was born and died in Paris. In his time he was considered an eminent artist-engraver and among other things was a professor of drawing and an employee of the Musee Royal. He was the illustrator of the Kehl edition of Voltaire and also produced some of the engravings for the 1788-1793 Complete Works of Rousseau ("Émile" and "Theátre et Poesies") He was also one of the painters depicting contemporary society in Paris for

neg: History of music in Paris in the religious services at the Royal Chapel. Large monasteries were founded on the Left Bank at Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Sainte-Geneviève, and Saint-Victor, which taught the art of religious chanting, adding more elaborate rhythms and rimes. When the new Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris was constructed, the Notre Dame school became famous for its innovations in vocal counterpoint, or polyphony. The Archdeacon Albert of the Notre Dame school became famous for composing the first known work for three voices, each chanting a different part at the same time. Another famous teacher at the Notre Dame school, Pérotin, composed for four different

neg: Denis Foyatier Academy in Rome at the Villa Médicis. At the Villa Médicis he created the mould for his piece Spartacus, which is very well known. A Royal Command of 1828 for a production in marble made him famous. After a brilliant career as a sculptor and painter, he died on 19 November 1863 and is buried in the Petit-Clamart cemetery in a suburb of Paris. Some of Foyatier's works have been lost; several were melted down during the Second World War. He was the father-in-law of the sculptor Jules Blanchard. Several towns have named streets after him: and some smaller communes

neg: Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon Marie Anne Mancini, the youngest niece of Cardinal Mazarin and one of the Mazarinettes. Her four famous sisters were: One of Marie Anne's brothers was Philippe Jules Mancini, a lover of Philippe de France, brother of Louis XIV. Marie Anne's uncle died when she was thirteen. The night before the cardinal's death, the famous field marshal Turenne came to his bedside to ask for the hand of Marie Anne in the name of his nephew, the young Godefroy Maurice, Duke of Bouillon. The couple were married in the presence of the Royal family at the Louvre Palace in Paris on

neg: Walter Boeykens la Musique" in Paris, France and at the "Scuola di Alto Perfezionamente Musicale" in Turin in Italy. In 1981, he founded the Walter Boeykens Clarinet Choir at the Royal Flemish Music Conservatory of Antwerp. In 1987 he was on the jury of the Jeunesses Musicales International Competition in Belgrade. The jury members were: In 1997 and 2001 he was on the jury of the Carl Nielsen International Music Competitions. In 1997 the jury was composed of: In 2001, jury members were: On 23 April 2013 it was announced that Boeykens had died at the age of 75. Boeykens has been

neg: Louise de Maisonblanche been given 2 Million Livres as well as the Palais-Royal in Paris. Her husband was later named the Kings gardes du corps and this allowed Louise to frequent the court at Versailles with her husband. From her marriage, she was named "dame Louise de Maisonblanche, fille naturelle du Roi". That "style" was shown on the birth certificates of her children. The couple had 11 children, 5 of which died in infancy: Two of her daughters, Charlotte Angélique and Louise Catherine were raised at Saint-Cyr-l'École, the home of Madame de Maintenon's famous school for young ladies of the nobility. They were

neg: Sauryavong Savang of Crown Properties. He died in Paris, France and worked for Renault. In September 1997, he and his nephews Crown Prince Soulivong Savang and Prince Thayavong Savang initiated a Royal Lao Conference in Seattle, United States, over three hundred Lao exiles and representatives of the Hmong community. A resolution was established at this historic meeting between the Lao and Hmong leaders and the Royal Family and it held the common goal to change "the totalitarian regime to a genuine democratic system", and "the reunification of the Lao people". In July 2000, he came under harsh criticism from some quarters after

neg: Tony Marchington and the Flying Scotsman on the other. Marchington joined a number of other Masonic Orders, including the Holy Royal Arch, the Order of the Red Cross of Constantine, the Order of Mark Master Masons, and the Royal Ark Mariners. He was appointed a Provincial Grand Steward for Oxfordshire in 1997, and became Oxfordshire’s Assistant Provincial Grand Master in 1998. After a long period of treatment, Marchington died of cancer at Buxton's Cottage Hospital on 16 October 2011. Tony Marchington Dr Anthony Frank (Tony) Marchington (2 December 1955 – 16 October 2011) was an English biotechnology entrepreneur and businessman, famous as

neg: Port-Royal Abbey, Paris the name Prison de Port-libre or Prison de la Bourbe. Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (lawyer for Louis XVI during his trial) and Madame de Tourzel, former governess of the "children of France", were held here. Today its main cloister ("illustration") forms part of the modern Hôpital Cochin. Port-Royal Abbey, Paris Port-Royal Abbey was an abbey in Paris that was a stronghold of Jansenism. It was first built in 1626 to relieve pressure of numbers on the mother house at Port-Royal-des-Champs. Famous people who stayed at the Port-Royal Abbey include Marie de Rohan, intriguer during the Fronde; Jeanne Baptiste

neg: Giuseppe Fiorelli is most famous for his plaster casts, produced by a process named after him: the Fiorelli process. He realised that where a corpse had been buried in ash, it had rotted over time and a cavity remained. Whenever an excavator discovered a cavity, plaster of Paris was poured in and left to harden. The ash around the plaster was then carefully removed, so that a plaster replica of a person at the moment of their death remained. This process gave information about how people had died in the eruption, what they were doing in their final moments and what sort

neg: Zoë Lund that same year. Although they never got divorced, Lund and her husband separated in 1997 when the former moved to Paris where she lived with "her new boyfriend" until her death in 1999. Lund died in Paris on April 16, 1999 of heart failure, due to extended cocaine use, which replaced her long-term heroin use after her move to Paris in 1997. She was 37. In 2007, experimental group Bodega System released the album "Blood Pyx". The cover features Zoë as photographed by her widower, Robert Lund. In the early 2010s, "American Hardcore" director Paul Rachman made two documentary shorts

neg: Untold Story (novel) Untold Story (novel) Untold Story is novel by Monica Ali, her fourth after two novels and a collection of short stories. It asks what would have happened if Princess Diana had not died in a car accident in Paris in 1997 but had arranged for her own disappearance and tried to live an undiscovered life in a small American town. In the novel, Princess Diana is portrayed in fictional form as an English expat named Lydia. The story is told through a combination of third person narrative, diary entries of the princess's former personal secretary, Lawrence Standing and letters written

neg: Jacques-Louis David merits. By the time David died, the painting had been completed and the commissioner Ambroise Firmin-Didot brought it back to Paris to include it in the exhibition "Pour les grecs" that he had organised and which opened in Paris in April 1826. When David was leaving a theater, a carriage struck him, and he later died, on 29 December 1825. At his death, some portraits were auctioned in Paris, they sold for little; the famous "Death of Marat" was exhibited in a secluded room, to avoid outraging public sensibilities. Disallowed return to France for burial, for having been a regicide

neg: Louise McKinney of the United Farmers. She was defeated by Independent Farmer candidate Thomas Milnes. McKinney was one of The Famous Five, along with Irene Parlby, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Emily Murphy and Nellie McClung McKinney died at Claresholm, Alberta, in 1931, just two years after the Persons Case victory. In 1939, she was recognized as a Person of National Historic Significance by the government of Canada. A plaque commemorating this is on display at the post office in Claresholm. The Persons Case was recognized as a Historic Event in 1997. In October 2009, the Senate voted to name McKinney and the other

neg: Childebert I with an army and defeated the Gothic king. Amalaric retreated to Barcelona, where he was assassinated. Chrotilda died on her return journey to Paris of unknown causes. Childebert made other expeditions against the Visigoths. In 542, he took possession of Pamplona with the help of his brother Clotaire and besieged Zaragoza, but was forced to retreat. From this expedition he brought back to Paris a precious relic, the tunic of Saint Vincent, in honour of which he built at the gates of Paris the famous monastery of Sainte-Croix-et-Saint-Vincent, known later as St-Germain-des-Prés. He died on 13 December 558, and was

neg: John II of France Bonne of Bohemia ("Bonne de Luxembourg"), died at the Maubuisson Abbey near Paris, of the Black Death, which was devastating Europe. To escape the pandemic, John, who was living in the Parisian royal residence, the Palais de la Cité, left Paris. On 9 February 1350 (1349 in former Julian calendar when year was beginning in March), five months after the death of his first wife, John married Joan I, Countess of Auvergne, in the royal Château de Sainte-Gemme (that no longer exists), at Feucherolles, near Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Philip VI, John's father, died on 22 August 1350, and John's coronation as John

neg: History of music in Paris Vesuvius and the realistic illusions of flames and moving water. The grand rival of the royal opera was the "Théâtre-Italien", which beginning in 1819 performed at the "Salle Favart". It was formally under the administration of the royal opera, but it had its own administrator and repertoire and produced only works in Italian. It presented the works of the composer Gioacchino Rossini, who staged his first work in the Paris, "L'italiana in Algeri" in 1817, followed by a series of successes. Rossini presented his most famous work, "The Barber of Seville", in 1818, two years after it premiered in Rome.

neg: Pierre Daniel Huet and dissections. Huet's presence was critical to the success of the academy, which floundered without his continued presence. He acted as head of the group from 1662-1667, and again in 1668, when he left Caen again for Paris. He also ended his financial support of the academy at this time, as it began to receive royal funding and direction from the royal representative in Normandy, Guy Chamillart. In Paris he entered into close relations with Jean Chapelain. During the famous "dispute of Ancients and Moderns", Huet took the side of the Ancients against Charles Perrault and Jean Desmarets. Among his

neg: Philippe de Vitry at the siege of Aiguillon in 1346. In 1351 he became Bishop of Meaux, east of Paris. Moving in all the most important political, artistic and ecclesiastical circles, he was acquainted with many lights of the age, including Petrarch and the famous mathematician, philosopher and music theorist Nicole Oresme. He died in Paris on 9 June 1361. Philippe de Vitry is most famous in music history for the Ars nova notandi (1322), a treatise on music attributed to him which lent its name to the music of the entire era. While his authorship and the very existence of this treatise

neg: Paris during the Bourbon Restoration the wealthy to the working class. In the evenings, the shops closed and a different life began at the Palais-Royal. The basements had cafes which served drinks and inexpensive food, and had entertainment, ranging from music to ventriloquists and costumed "savages" dancing. The best-known was the Café des Aveugles, famous for its orchestra of blind musicians. The more elegant restaurants on the arcade level had extensive menus and wine lists, and served a wealthier clientele. Upstairs, above the shops, were card rooms, where Parisians went to gamble. Besides shopping and restaurants, the Palais-Royal was also famous as the place to

neg: Paris in the 17th century the French Academy of Sciences and the first botanical garden in Paris, which also became the first park in Paris open to the public. The first permanent theater opened, the Comédie-Française was founded, and the first French opera and French ballets had their premieres. Paris became the home of the new Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, and of some of France's most famous writers, including Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, La Fontaine and Moliere. Urban innovations for the city included the first street lighting, the first public transport, the first building code, and the first new aqueduct since Roman times.

neg: 2009 flu pandemic in Australia 19 June. Tasmania has recorded seven deaths. Public health authorities expected up to 200,000 Tasmanians could catch swine flu in the three months incoming from June. The first person to die in Tasmania was an 85-year-old woman who died in Royal Hobart Hospital on 5 July. The Northern Territory confirmed the first infection of a person on 30 May 2009. Six people have died in the territory so far. The first person in the Territory to die from the current epidemic was a man in his early 50s who died at the Royal Darwin Hospital on 6 July. The swine

neg: Archibald Paris Archibald Paris Brigadier Archibald Charles Melvill Paris (28 May 1890 – 3 March 1942) was a British Army officer. He was the son of Major General Archibald Paris, a Royal Marines officer who commanded the Royal Naval Division during the First World War, and of Lady Paris (née Melvill). Paris passed out of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in 1909. He married Ruth Norton. He served in the First World War, and was awarded the Military Cross (MC) in 1917. Although he is better known for having died during the

neg: Miguel Rodriguez (actor) whose character protected Snooky in the film from a person stalking her. He eventually became an action film star, appearing in "Bir Mammud: Alyas Boy Muslim" (1989), "Hindi Kita Iiwanang Buhay: Kapitan Paile" (1990) and "Hanggang Kailan Kita Papatay" (1990). He retired from acting in 1995 after the release of "Huwag Mong Isuko ang Laban". He married famous fashion stylist and socialite Irene Salud on March 14, 1987 at the St. Pancratius Chapel, Paco Park, Manila. The late actor/National Artist Fernando Poe Jr. and Lily Monteverde of Regal Films were among their principal sponsors. He died from pancreatitis in 1997

neg: Tennis notable as the first person to construct indoor tennis courts in the modern style. Louis was unhappy with playing tennis outdoors and accordingly had indoor, enclosed courts made in Paris "around the end of the 13th century". In due course this design spread across royal palaces all over Europe. In June 1316 at Vincennes, Val-de-Marne and following a particularly exhausting game, Louis drank a large quantity of cooled wine and subsequently died of either pneumonia or pleurisy, although there was also suspicion of poisoning. Because of the contemporary accounts of his death, Louis X is history's first tennis player known

neg: Michel Drach Michel Drach Michel Drach (18 October 1930 in Paris – 15 February 1990 in Paris) was a French film director, writer, producer and actor. After studying painting at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, he became involved in cinema as an assistant to his cousin Jean-Pierre Melville. He directed three short films under his production company Port Royal Films, including the "Poor Man's Soliloquies" (1951) and "Auditorium" (1957), then made his feature film debut with "On n'enterre pas le dimanche" (1959), a study on the existential solitude of a black person in Paris, which coincided with the French New Wave and earned

neg: Albert Kongsbak and Switzerland, then in Italy in 1923-1924 and 1939. He also worked in Paris in 1925. His work was included in many of the Royal Charlottenborg exhibitions in Copenhagen from 1902 to 1959. Kongsbak's most prominent works can be found such in museums as: Rudersdal Museer, Københavns Museum, Kunsten Museum of modern art Aalborg. Albert Kongsbak Albert Georg Kongsbak was a Danish artist. He was born February 20, 1877, and died October 21, 1958. He is most famous for his landscapes in the realist or naturalist style. He moved to Copenhagen when he was ten years old. He created drawings

neg: John Kynnersley Kirby paintings he had shown at the Royal Academy between 1931 and 1945, perhaps the most 'famous' of which was 'The Week's Ration', painted in the early years of the war and featuring another local man, Charles J. Woodford, standing at the counter of his butchers shop in Dane Street." Because he had exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy former historians mistakenly added the initials 'RA' (Royal Academician) to his name. In fact he never attained this title, but was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. He also exhibited his work in Paris and New York. It

neg: Nicholas Briot brother Isaac, now in a senior position at the Paris Mint. He died on Christmas Eve 1646. His dies for coins and medals have been called "gems of medallic art". Nicholas Briot Nicholas Briot (about 1579 – 24 December 1646) was an innovative French coin engraver, medallist and mechanical engineer, who emigrated to England and became chief engraver to the Royal Mint in 1633 and is credited with the invention of the coining-press. He was born Nicolas Briot at Damblain, in Lorraine, in the Vosges department of France, a frontier town famous for its bellfounding and metalworking industries. He is

neg: Féréol Bonnemaison of lithographs after recent French paintings in the gallery of the Duchess de Berry. He died in Paris in 1827. Féréol Bonnemaison Féréol Bonnemaison (died 1827) was a French portrait painter, lithographer, restorer, and art dealer. Bonnemaison was educated in Montpellier. Following the French Revolution he fled to England, but returned to France shortly afterwards, and exhibited portraits and other works at the Paris Salon from 1796. He restored five paintings by (or at least then believed to be by) Raphael, which Joseph Bonaparte had removed from the Spanish Royal collection and taken to Paris, and oversaw the transfer of

neg: Giovanni Sbriglia into the world's foremost lyric-dramatic tenor. He also worked with Jean's soprano sister Josephine and his brother Édouard, a famous basso. Among Sbriglia's other renowned pupils were the dramatic soprano Lillian Nordica, the basso Pol Plançon, soprano Mena Cleary, the lyric soprano Sybil Sanderson and the tenor Vladimir Rosing. Annie Lippincott, daughter of Grace Greenwood also studied under Sbriglia. Sbriglia was made a member of the Royal Academy in Florence in 1890; he was also a member of the French Academy. He died in Paris at the age of 83. Giovanni Sbriglia Giovanni Sbriglia (June 23, 1832 – February 20,

neg: Alfred Wahlberg Alfred Wahlberg Herman Alfred Leonard Wahlberg (13 February 1834 – 4 October 1906) was a Swedish landscape painter from Stockholm. After receiving preparatory education at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, Wahlberg moved to Düsseldorf in 1857 to train—he was since associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. He returned to Stockholm in 1862 and painted "Svenskt insjölandskap från Kolmården" (1866), which became very famous and was displayed at the National Museum of Arts. Wahlberg moved to Paris in 1866 and displayed two paintings at the 1868 Paris Salon. He became successful in Paris and was awarded with medals at

neg: Mass murder 2008 by Lashkar-e-Taiba, and the November 2015 Paris attacks in November 2015 by ISIL. Certain cults, especially religious cults, have committed a number of mass killings and mass murder-suicides. These include Jim Jones' Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana, where 919 people died in 1978; the Order of the Solar Temple in Canada, Switzerland, and France, where 75 died in 1994, 1995, and 1997; Shoko Asahara's Aum Shinrikyo, which killed 12 in Tokyo, Japan, in 1995; Marshall Applewhite's Heaven's Gate in San Diego, California, where 39 died in 1997; and the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God

neg: André Boucourechliev he spent a period in America, during which he met Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Rauschenberg. The summit of his exploration of choice and freedom on the part of the performer was reached in "Archipels" (1967–1971). Many of his later works have gone on to refine or extend these principles. Boucourechliev died in Paris in 1997 at the age of 72. André Boucourechliev André Boucourechliev (28 July 1925 – 13 November 1997) was a French composer of Bulgarian origin. Born in Sofia, Boucourechliev studied piano at the Conservatory there. Subsequently, he studied in Paris at the École Normale de Musique de

neg: History of Paris oldest and most famous College of the University, which was later named after him, the Sorbonne. From the 13th to the 15th century, the University of Paris was the most important school of Roman Catholic theology in western Europe; its teachers included Roger Bacon from England, Saint Thomas Aquinas from Italy, and Saint Bonaventure from Germany. Beginning in the 11th century, Paris had been governed by a Royal Provost, appointed by the king, who lived in the fortress of Grand Châtelet. Saint Louis created a new position, the Provost of the Merchants ("prévôt des marchands"), to share authority with the

neg: Hermann Goldschmidt Hermann Goldschmidt Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt (June 17, 1802 – April 26, 1866) was a German-French astronomer and painter who spent much of his life in France. He started out as a painter, but after attending a lecture by the famous French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier turned to astronomy. His discovery of the asteroid Lutetia in 1852 was followed by further findings and by 1861 Goldschmidt had discovered 14 asteroids. He received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1861 for having discovered more asteroids than any other person up to that time. He died from complications of

neg: Dunstan of this period." Dunstan became famous as a musician, illuminator, and metalworker. Lady Æthelflaed, King Æthelstan's niece, made Dunstan a trusted adviser and on her death she left a considerable fortune to him. He used this money later in life to foster and encourage a monastic revival in England. About the same time, his father Heorstan died and Dunstan inherited his fortune as well. He became a person of great influence, and on the death of King Æthelstan in 940, the new King, Edmund, summoned him to his court at Cheddar and made him a minister. Again, royal favour fostered

neg: Claude Balbastre Hotteterre and descendant of the famous family of Norman musicians. During the French Revolution, Balbastre's connection with nobility and the royal court might have endangered his life, but he adapted to the new political situation, playing the Revolutionary hymns and songs on his organ. He did lose his official jobs and, temporarily, his pension. He died in Paris in 1799. Balbastre's best-known compositions include the following: Balbastre: Premier Livre de Pieces de Clavecin (1759) - Jean-Patrice Brosse, clavecin Kroll 1774 (label: Pierre Verany) [1999] Balbastre: Pièces de clavecin, Premier Livre - Ursula Dütschler Balbastre: Pièces de clavecin (1759) - Sophie

neg: Marcelo Álvarez in 1997. Multiple productions of "Rigoletto" followed over the next three years in Toulouse, Verona, Buenos Aires, Brussels (a June 1999 performance at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie that was televised live throughout Europe), New York, and Paris. In 1997, London's Royal Opera House (sometimes referred to as "Covent Garden", due to its location) was refurbished and performances were held at the Royal Albert Hall during construction. As a result, Álvarez made his London debut in a concert of Donizetti's "Linda di Chamounix" at the Royal Albert Hall in November of that year. His "debut proper" at the Royal

neg: Brothels in Paris entrance hall was designed as a bare stone cave; the bedrooms were lavishly decorated, many in their own style: Moorish, Hindu, Japanese, Pompeii and Louis XVI. The Japanese room won a design prize at the 1900 World Fair in Paris. Madame Kelly died in 1899. La Fleur blanche was a famous "maison close" (brothel) in the city of Paris, located at 6 rue des Moulins in the 1st Arrondissement. The property was also known as "rue des Moulins" and was famous for its torture room. It was one of the most luxurious brothels in Paris. Its clientele included kings, crown

neg: Noël Bernard (botanist) Noël Bernard (botanist) Noël Pierre Joseph León Bernard (* 13 March 1874 in Paris in 17th ; † 16 January 1911 in Saint-Benoît, Vienne) was an important French botanist who died when he was finally overcome with tuberculosis. Noël Bernard was known as the famous discoverer of the symbiotic germination of orchid seeds. He also discovered Phytoalexins which are antimicrobial and often antioxidative substances synthesized "de novo" by plants that accumulate rapidly at areas of pathogen infection. His father was François Bernard, a wealthy cloth and textiles dealer/distributor based in Béziers in southern France, who moved to Paris and died

neg: William R. Royal 91st year. Royal died on May 8, 1997, at the age of 92. His ashes were placed in a tunnel at Warm Mineral Springs. He was survived by his wife, Shirley E. Royal, whom he married in 1970 and who died in 2001. William R. Royal Lt. Col. William Robert Royal (March 16, 1905 – May 8, 1997) was an American scuba diver in the United States Air Force and amateur archeologist. In the late 1950s, he and other scuba divers found artifacts and human bones from at least seven individuals in Warm Mineral Springs. A partially burned log found

neg: Florence Tan Celebration Mediacorp Music First Album’ 2003 Release Album ‘Chinese Goat New Year Song’ CD Advertisement/ Commercial: 1997-1998 Spoke Person for Swatch Singapore 1998 Spoke Person for cosmetic Inuovi 2003 TV Commercial for Marine Cove 2004-2005 Spoke Person for watch Longines 2005 Spoke Person for beauty centre ‘Royal Body Perfect’ Florence Tan Florence Tan (, born 30 June 1977) is a FLY Entertainment artiste based in Singapore. She was prominently a full-time Mediacorp artiste from 1997 to 2006 and managed by Lafeng Entertainment but continues to film on an ad-hoc basis. Tan joined the TCS (predecessor of MediaCorp) after winning the

neg: Louis X of France real tennis, and became notable as the first person to construct indoor tennis courts in the modern style. Louis was unhappy with playing tennis out of doors and accordingly had indoor, enclosed courts made in Paris "around the end of the 13th century". In due course this design spread across royal palaces all over Europe. In June 1316 at Vincennes, following a particularly exhausting game, Louis drank a large quantity of cooled wine and subsequently died of either pneumonia or pleurisy, although there was also suspicion of poisoning. Because of the contemporary accounts of his death, Louis is history's first

neg: Kenneth J. Alford commissioned a lieutenant in the Royal Marines Band Service on 4 July 1927. He was posted to the Royal Marine Depot, Deal. When the headquarters of the Band Service was transferred to Deal in 1930, Ricketts was posted to the Band of the Plymouth Division, Royal Marines, the principal band of the Royal Marines. Under Ricketts' direction, this band became world-famous, traveling to Paris and Canada. Before and during World War II they made a series of 78 RPM recordings of Alford marches, which EMI reissued on an LP in 1970, and now available on CD. It was titled "The

neg: William Gear next decade he participated in group CoBrA exhibitions in several countries, and also held solo shows of his CoBrA period works in London (1987 and 1989) and Paris (1988). In 1994 he was awarded the Royal Academy's Sir Howard Barker Scholarship, and an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Central England. The following year he attended the opening of the new CoBrA Museum in Amstelveen, Holland, and was elected a RA. In 2015 to celebrate his centenary Towner Gallery Eastbourne held a major retrospective of his works - William Gear 1915 - 1997: The painter that Britain forgot. Gear died

neg: Palace of Versailles the last banquet for the royal guardsmen was hosted by the King in the opera, before he departed for Paris. Following the Franco-German War in 1871 and then the Paris Commune until 1875, the French National Assembly met in the opera, until the proclamation of the Third French Republic and the return of the government to Paris. Shortly after becoming King in 1830, Louis Philippe I decided to transform the Palace, which was empty of furnishings and in poor repair, into a museum devoted to "All the Glories of France," with paintings and sculpture depicting famous French victories and heroes.

neg: History of music in Paris galleries, and the first true restaurants in Paris. The basements were occupied by popular cafés with drinks, food and musical entertainment, and the upper floors by rooms for card-playing. The first famous musical café was the "Café des Aveugles", which had an orchestra and chorus of blind musicians. In its early days it was popular with visitors to Paris, and also attracted prostitutes, trinket-sellers and pickpockets. Later cafés in the Palais Royal, named "cafés chantants", offered musical programs of comic, sentimental and patriotic songs. The "guinguette" was mentioned as early as 1723 in Savary's posthumously published "Dictionnaire du commerce". It

neg: E. A. Markham his 60th birthday, Sheffield Hallam published "A Festschrift for E. A. Markham" (1999), and in 2005, when Markham retired, the university made him an Emeritus professor. He was awarded the Certificate of Honour by the government of Montserrat, in 1997; and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2003. In 2005, Markham moved to Paris, France. He died there, of a heart attack on Easter day, 23 March 2008, aged 68. Although Markham is mainly known for his poetry, he worked in many artistic genres across the years, producing plays, short stories, a novel and

neg: Francis Walder Francis Walder Francis Walder, born Francis Waldburger (5 August 1906 – 16 April 1997) was a Belgian writer and soldier. He was born in Brussels and died in Paris. He studied at the Royal Military Academy in Belgium. During the World War II, he was a prisoner of war in Germany for five years. And he was as representative of the Belgian army that participated in diplomatic discussions after the Armistice. This experience will serve as a crucible for his work to come. During his military career, he published only a few philosophical texts, ("Deep existence", "Seasons of the mind"),

neg: Francis Walder co-habitation policy of Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu in counterpoint to the co-existence of Cardinal and Gaston, Duke of Orléans, brother of the King. His novels, meticulous style, often tinged with pessimism and are haunted by the specter of the impossible love between persons of origin or social status too different. Francis Walder Francis Walder, born Francis Waldburger (5 August 1906 – 16 April 1997) was a Belgian writer and soldier. He was born in Brussels and died in Paris. He studied at the Royal Military Academy in Belgium. During the World War II, he was a prisoner of war

neg: Paris Theatre traditionally has occupied a large place in Parisian culture, and many of its most popular actors today are also stars of French television. The oldest and most famous Paris theatre is the Comédie-Française, founded in 1680. Run by the French government, it performs mostly French classics at the Salle Richelieu in the Palais-Royal at 2 rue de Richelieu, next to the Louvre. of Other famous theatres include the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, next to the Luxembourg Gardens, also a state institution and theatrical landmark; the Théâtre Mogador, and the Théâtre de la Gaîté-Montparnasse. The music hall and cabaret are famous

neg: Nude with Violin version broadcast in the UK in 1959. A different television version aired in 1964 in Melbourne, Australia, starring Terry Norris. In Coward's centenary year, 1999, the play was mounted at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, starring Derek Griffiths as Sebastien, Marcia Warren as the hoaxer's widow, Tamzin Malleson as his forthright daughter, and Nick Caldecott as the young journalist. Marianne Elliott directed. The play is set in Paris in 1954. The famous painter, Paul Sorodin, has died. His relatives and hangers-on converge on his studio, hopeful of financial gain, and are stunned to learn from his valet, Sebastien, that Sorodin has

neg: Jack Downie Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. He was at the OECD for just two years when he died. Jack Downie Jack Downie (1919–1963) was a British economist who is famous for writing "The Competitive Process". Nightingale discusses the "short but brilliant career" of economist Jack Downie, emphasising the importance of his theory of "The Competitive Process" for many who rejecting orthodox theory when modeling of industry behavior. He was born in September 1919 in Lancashire, UK, and attended New College at Oxford in 1938. He was in the Royal Artillery during World War II, returning to New

neg: Anne Geneviève de Bourbon former mistress the duchesse de Chevreuse. Thus abandoned, and in disgrace at court, the Duchess betook herself to religion. She accompanied her husband to his government at Rouen, and devoted herself to good works. She took for her spiritual director the Abbé Antoine Singlin (1607–1664), famous in the history of Port-Royal. She chiefly lived in Normandy until 1663, when her husband died, and she came to Paris. There she became more and more Jansenist in opinion, and her piety and the remembrance of her influence during the disastrous days of the Fronde, and above all the love her brother, the

neg: James Eaton he had served in during his naval career. He settled in West Bromwich in 1837, and by 1839 he was living at Hill House where he died in either 1856 or 1857. He is buried at All Saints Church in Charlemont, West Bromwich. In 2005 as part of the Trafalgar bicentenary celebrations his memorial in All Saints Churchyard was rededicated. James Eaton James Eaton (1783–1856/7) was an officer of the Royal Navy. He served aboard at the Battle of Trafalgar; as signal midshipman, he was the first person to pass on Nelson's famous signal to the fleet; "England expects that

neg: Sophie d'Artois she was always known as Mademoiselle. Sophie died at the Palace of Versailles at the age of seven. She was buried at the Royal Basilica of Saint Denis outside Paris, the traditional burial place of Bourbon royalty. Portraits of Sophie and her family exist at Versailles, one of them being by the famous Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun. Sophie d'Artois Sophie d'Artois (5 August 1776 – 5 December 1783) was a French princess of the House of Bourbon. Sophie d'Artois was born at the Palace of Versailles during the reign of her paternal uncle, Louis XVI. Her father was Charles Philippe de

neg: Richard Mortensen the violence of Europe. He moved to Paris in 1947, remaining there until 1964. Together with Robert Jacobsen, Mortensen became connected to the Galerie Denise René in Paris, which became famous for concrete art. His later works are concrete works of art characterised by large, clear, bright colour surfaces. Mortensen was awarded the Edvard Munch Prize in 1946, and the Kandinsky prize in 1950, and the Thorvaldsen Medal in 1968. After his return to Denmark in 1964, he received a Professorship at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen, which he held until 1980. Richard Mortensen Richard Mortensen (born

neg: Basilica of Saint-Denis royal family members who died between 1815 and 1830 were also placed in the vaults. Under the direction of architect Viollet-le-Duc, famous for his work on Notre-Dame de Paris, church monuments that had been taken to the Museum of French Monuments were returned to the church. The corpse of King Louis VII, who had been buried at Barbeau Abbey and whose tomb had not been touched by the revolutionaries, was brought to Saint-Denis and buried in the crypt. In 2004, the mummified heart of the Dauphin, the boy who would have been Louis XVII, was sealed into the wall of

neg: Bryce Mortlock he enjoyed a national reputation, Mortlock's passion for sensitive environmental relationships in urban design and practice was also recognised by his local community. He was a pioneer of what would become known as the Bushcare movement. In 1997 his efforts to preserve and regenerate bushland near his Cammeray home were commemorated with the renaming of the Vernon Street Reserve, ‘Mortlock Reserve’ – an honour rarely accorded to a living person. Mortlock died on 3 July 2004 at the Royal North Shore Hospital aged 82. Peggy and Bryce Mortlock had three sons, Peter, Richard, and Philip Mortlock, and five grandchildren, Jonathan,

neg: Adolphe Dugléré Adolphe Dugléré Adolphe Dugléré (3 June 1805 in Bordeaux – 4 April 1884 in Paris) was a French chef and a pupil of Marie-Antoine Carême. Dugléré was a "chef de cuisine" to the Rothschild family until 1848, and was manager at the restaurant "Les Frères Provençaux" at the Palais-Royal from 1848 to 1866 which was owned by three men from Provence named Barthélémy, Maneille and Simonas (who were, in reality, not brothers). In 1866 he became the head chef of the Café Anglais (founded 1802), which became the most famous Paris restaurant of the 19th century and where he is

neg: Hotel de Paris (Georgetown, Colorado) de Paris. In October 1900 Louis Dupuy died after a weeks-long battle with pneumonia, and the hotel passed into the ownership of Dupuy's housekeeper, Sophie Gally, who herself died not long after. In 1903 Sarah Burkholder purchased the hotel and at some point turned it into a boarding house, which she co-managed with her daughter Hazel McAdams. The "Georgetown Courier" called the hotel of the immediate post-Dupuy era "famous the world over" for the continued excellence of its cuisine and the comfort of its appointments. The hotel remained in the ownership of the Burkholder family until 1954, when after years

neg: André Boucourechliev André Boucourechliev André Boucourechliev (28 July 1925 – 13 November 1997) was a French composer of Bulgarian origin. Born in Sofia, Boucourechliev studied piano at the Conservatory there. Subsequently, he studied in Paris at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, where he later taught piano. His first attempts at composition date from 1954, when he was engaged in the famous contemporary music sessions at Darmstadt. He honed his compositional technique by seeking out Berio and Maderna in Milan. Following the success of his "Piano Sonata" (1959), which was performed at the Domaine musical, and works involving choice and chance,

neg: Julian H. Scaff film festivals around the world, and produced radio programs for ResonanceFM in London, Epsilonia Festival Radiophonique in Paris, and Voice of the People in Lebanon. In 1997 Scaff founded and edited Strobe, which according to the UCLA Bruin was the first academic journal published exclusively on the internet. Contributions included articles by the famous film theorists Peter Wollen and Nick Browne. Scaff also produced the first online version of the famous Walter Benjamin essay The Work of Art In The Age of Mechanical Reproduction, and Scaff's essay Art and Authenticity in the Age of Digital Reproduction has been widely referenced

neg: Antoine Gaudreau a brief time, by his son François-Antoine Gaudreau (died 1751), also "Ébéniste du Roi". His most famous pieces are: Antoine Gaudreau Antoine-Robert Gaudreau (c. 1680 – 6 May 1746) was a Parisian "ébéniste" who was appointed "Ébéniste du Roi" and was the principal supplier of furniture for the royal châteaux during the early years of Louis XV's reign. He is largely known through the copious documentation of the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne; he entered the service of the Garde-Meuble in 1726. However, since his career was spent before the practice of stamping Paris-made furniture began (1751), no stamped piece by

neg: Paris in the 16th century but not enough. Since the Court no longer resided in Paris, the luxury trades, making jewelry, clocks, furs, furniture and other luxury products, also suffered. Paris became a city of government clerks, lawyers, accountants, and other royal officials, working for the courts, the Parlement, the Treasury, the mint, the city administration, and other royal offices. Bourgeois Parisians bought government positions as a route to prestige, fortune and nobility. Louis XI died in 1483, and his successors, Charles VIII and Louis XII, also chose to live in the Loire Valley. Louis XII died in 1515 without a male heir, and was

neg: Keith Martin (heavy person) Keith Martin (heavy person) Keith Martin (1970 – December 5, 2014), one of the World's heaviest living people, was famous at one point for being the UK’s heaviest man, weighing approximately 980 lbs at his peak. Keith Martin was given a gastric bypass operation by the NHS, and had lost over 50% of his body weight. Keith Martin’s mother had died of pneumonia when he was only 16. Martin had used junk food as a comfort from this traumatic life event, which was the cause of his extreme weight gain. Martin (much like his mother) had developed pneumonia, and died

neg: Misti Pavlov for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, in which he had finished the work-room of president of Academy of Art of B. Ugarova. In 1993–1997, Misti's paintings were exhibited in different famous galleries in France, such as Galerie de lÉffort Moderne in Paris; this was followed by successful expositions in Barcelona Spain in 1997–2000; Misti has been very successful in USA, where his painting where exhibited and sold in major galleries of North America: (2004 – ArtExpo, New-York; 2006 – The Wealherburn Gallery, Naples, USA; 2006 – Clallic art gallery, Carmel, USA). In 2003 - exposition of works M. Pavlov, D. Collegova,

neg: Mbah Gotho Mbah Gotho Saparman Sodimejo, known more commonly as Mbah Gotho (died 30 April 2017) was an Indonesian man who unverifiably claimed to be the oldest person ever recorded. In May 2010, "Solopos" reported that enumerators of that year's census had recorded his age next birthday as 142, which would have made him 19 years older than the official oldest recorded person, Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997. The "Liputan 6" website reported that Mbah Gotho's estimated age was 140, and that he could not remember his date of birth but claimed to remember the construction of a sugar factory built

neg: Maurice Fernez favour of respiratory filtering equipment for hazardous and toxic environments. At the age of 67 years Maurice Fernez died of a heart attack on 31 January 1952 in Alfortville. The family business was carried on by his son André and then after André died on 1 January 1966 until 1997 by Mrs. Alice Fernez, daughter of the inventor. In 1997 it became part of the Bacou group, which was taken over by Sperian Protection. Since 15 September 2010, Sperian Protection is part of Honeywell. Maurice Fernez Maurice Fernez (30 August 1885 - 31 January 1952, Alfortville, Paris, France) was a

neg: Hyacinthe Loyson to resign. In 1876, he went to conferences in London. In 1879, he returned to Paris. Identified as one of the Old Catholics, Loyson continued to write and preach and ultimately settled in Paris in 1877 and established as a separate church the Église gallicane, which drew upon the long French tradition of Gallicanism. He died in February 1912, in Paris, in the apartment of his playwright son, Paul Hyacinthe Loyson, and was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery. A three-volume biography: Hyacinthe Loyson Charles Jean Marie Loyson ( – ), better known by his religious name , was a famous

neg: Jean-Rodolphe Perronet direction. He also contributed the article "Pompe à feu" (fire-engine) to the "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers". In 1772, Perronet was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He died in Paris, aged 85. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1788. He died on 27 February 1794 in Paris, aged 85. Perronet was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1788. The street next to the site of the École des ponts et chaussées (delimiting Paris's 6th and 7th arrondissements) is now named after him