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    Masterpiece (redirect from Chef d'œuvre)
    A masterpiece, magnum opus, or chef-d'œuvre (French for 'master of work'; pl. chefs-d'œuvre; French: [ʃɛ.d‿œvʁ]) in modern use is a creation that has been...
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    "Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu" (English: "The Unknown Masterpiece") is a short story by Honoré de Balzac. It was first published in the newspaper L'Artiste...
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  • Birkin and Emmanuelle Béart. Loosely adapted from the 1831 short story Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu (The Unknown Masterpiece) by Honoré de Balzac, and set in present-day...
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    The Château de Balleroy (French pronunciation: [ʃato də baləʁwa]) is a seventeenth-century château in Balleroy, Normandy. The fief of Balleroy, near the...
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  • David and the Phoenix is a 1957 children's novel about a young boy's adventures with a phoenix. It was the first published book by American children's...
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  • question marks, boxes, or other symbols. An hors d'oeuvre (/ɔːr ˈdɜːrv(rə)/ or DURV(-rə); French: hors-d'œuvre [ɔʁ dœvʁ] ), appetiser or starter is a small...
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    Obelisk Art History. Retrieved 2022-11-12. Chefs-d'œuvre du Musée Fabre de Montpellier: Exposition Chefs-d'Œuvre du Musée Fabre de Montpellier à la Fondation...
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  • November 2018. L'avis du « Monde » – chef d'œuvre ""High Life", vaisseau spécial". Libération. 6 November 2018. Un chef-d'œuvre halluciné et viscéral dans la...
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  • in 2015, commented that in her opinion, The Midwich Cuckoos was his chef d'œuvre, selling very well, "cozy catastrophes" or not, though she observed that...
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    museum is also housed in this courtyard. Hawa Mahal was also known as the chef-d'œuvre of Maharaja Jai Singh as it was his favourite resort because of the elegance...
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    L'Amour masqué (1911) Short Stories Étude de femme (1830) Adieu (1830) Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu (1831) La Grande Bretèche (1831) Le Réquisitionnaire (1831) L'Auberge...
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    Tod Browning (born Charles Albert Browning Jr.; July 12, 1880 – October 6, 1962) was an American film director, film actor, screenwriter, vaudeville performer...
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    graves. Among them the gilded Derveni Krater represents an exceptional chef d'œuvre of late Classical metalwork. The Vix bronze crater, found in a Celtic...
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    Munich. 2005–2006: Loth et ses filles de Simon Vouet: Éclairages sur un chef-d'œuvre, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, 22 October 2005 – 22 January 2006...
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    travers 200 chefs-d'œuvre de la peinture (Paris, Presses de la Renaissance, 2003), 2 volumes: Tome I: L’Ancien testament à travers 100 chefs-d’œuvre de la peinture...
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    La sculpture et les chefs-d'œuvre de l'orfèvrerie belges (Brussels, 1895), p. 684 online; Michael Palmer et al., 500 chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art belge du XVe...
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    northern Italy, and in particular the afterwards famous Quadrilateral. His chef-d'œuvre was the great fortress of Alessandria on the Tanaro. In 1805 he remained...
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  • on January 18, 2021. Retrieved October 1, 2020. "Asadora, le nouveau chef-d'œuvre signé Naoki Urasawa !" (in French). Kana. December 5, 2019. Archived...
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  • Eventually, the aspirant presents a masterpiece (travail de réception or chef-d'œuvre) to the board of compagnons. Masterpieces vary according to the aspirant's...
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    Melmoth Reconciled (Melmoth réconcilié, 1835) The Unknown Masterpiece (Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu, 1831) The Hated Son (L'Enfant maudit, 1831) Gambara (1837)...
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    2 February 1616 – 8 May 1671) was a French painter and engraver. His chef d'œuvre is The Crucifixion of St. Peter made for the cathedral of Notre Dame...
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    19 February 2013. Parthiban, R.K.; Rajarajan, R.K.K. (2016). "Nāyaka Chef-d'œuvre. Sculptures of the Śrīvilliputtūr Tēr". Acta Orientalia, Societates Orientales...
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  • a work by Laurent Pariente Chef d'œuvre or masterpiece, a creation that has been given much critical praise Hors d'oeuvre, a small dish served before...
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  • Poster (Dominique Bouchard) "LOIRE - Disparition. Noce blanche : le chef-d'œuvre de Brisseau tourné à Saint-Étienne". www.leprogres.fr (in French). Retrieved...
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    in Florence and Venice, dedicated to republicanism. As argued in his chef-d'œuvre, The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance: Civic Humanism and Republican...
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    un modèle de vanité et d'impertinence: il fallait appuyer cela d'un chef-d'œuvre, et c'est ce que Greuze n'a pas fait." "Monsieur, l'Académie vous a reçu...
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    pg. G.11 "La Galerie du HMS Calcutta par James Tissot : focus sur un chef-d'œuvre". Connaissance des Arts (in French). 24 March 2020. Retrieved 15 March...
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  • December 7, 2019. Sprang, Philippe (February 14, 2014). "Rose Valland, un chef-d'œuvre de Résistance". Paris Match. Retrieved December 6, 2019. Schwartz, Claire...
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    Éluère, Christiane; Gomez de Soto, José; Duval, Alain-René (1987). "Un chef-d'œuvre de l'orfèvrerie celtique : le casque d'Agris (Charente)". Bulletin de...
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    d’imaginer, Christian Bourgois, 1983. La Peinture incarnée followed by Chef-d'œuvre inconnu de Balzac, Minuit, 1985. Fra Angelico. Dissemblance et figuration...
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