Jean Moulin (French: [ʒɑ̃ mu.lɛ̃]; 20 June 1899 – 8 July 1943) was a French civil servant and resistant who succeeded in unifying the main networks of...

this fountain into the Bassin de Neptune. (Marie 1972, 1975; Thompson 2006; Verlet 1985) Excavated in 1678, the Pièce d'eau des Suisses – named for the...

French and the Resistance, e.g., Jean Moulin and Pierre Brossolette, were on the political left. By the end of 1940 de Gaulle was beginning to be recognised...

Alexandria. The total cost of relocating the obelisk was estimated at 2.5 million francs (equivalent to an estimated €16 million or $19 million in 2020). The...

of her well. She will never go back. In 2012, the Musée Anne de Beaujeu [fr] in Moulins, France, which now owns the painting, mounted the exhibition La...

organizations were gathered and coordinated by Jean Moulin under the auspices of the National Council of Resistance (CNR), de Gaulle's formal link to the irregulars...

costs of rebuilding the monument, estimated at 323,000 francs, in yearly installments of 10,000 francs. Unable to pay, Courbet went into self-imposed exile...

year, Viollet-le-Duc submitted a budget of 3,888,500 francs, which was reduced to 2,650,000 francs, for the restoration of Notre-Dame and the construction...

Haraucourt, Director 1903-1925 Jean-Joseph Marquet de Vasselot [fr], Director 1926-1933 [For a half century the Musée de Cluny was integrated into the...

second most popular painting in the Musée d'Orsay, after Renoir's Bal du moulin de la Galette. Some critics maintain that the body depicted is not (as has...

The Parisian scholastic Jean de Jandun praised the building as one of Paris' most beautiful structures in his "Tractatus de laudibus Parisius" (1323)...

1850: Un fantôme, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Lafargue 1850: Jean Bart, pièce historique in 5 acts, with Forges 1854: La Femme à trois maris, comédie-vaudeville...

between 3.25 and 6 francs; 22% earned less than three francs; only 5% had a salary between 6.5 and 20 francs. Food cost a minimum of one franc a day, and the...

influences and those of Holland Le Moulin de la Galette (Van Gogh series): Montmartre, windmill paintings named Le Moulin de la Galette Montmarte (Van Gogh...

tower is the Tour de l'Horloge, or clock tower, at the corner of the Boulevard du Palais and the Quai de l'Horloge. It was completed by Jean II of France,...

Paris Fashion Week (French: Semaine de la mode de Paris) is a series of designer presentations held semi-annually in Paris, France, with spring/summer...

budget was 1180 francs, including 500 francs from the city of Bordeaux. Young campers, typically from Bordeaux and Montpellier, paid 8 francs for their stay...

century. In the last decade of the 19th century the Paris cabarets the Moulin Rouge and Folies Bergère adopted the music of the "Galop infernal" from...

Aragon died on 24 December 1982, his friend Jean Ristat sitting up with him. He was buried in the parc of Moulin de Villeneuve, in his property of Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines...

contract granting him 1.5 million francs toward the construction costs: less than a quarter of the estimated 6.5 million francs. Eiffel was to receive all income...

death in 1673 the theatre was taken over by Jean-Baptiste Lully, who used it for his Académie Royale de Musique (the official name of the Paris Opera...

la Grande Mademoiselle Jean Gaston d'Orléans (1650–1652), Duke of Valois Marie Anne d'Orléans (1652–1656), Mademoiselle de Chartres Henrietta Maria...

the peristyle by Jean Bullant covering the stairway to the royal apartments Original entry portal, with equestrian statue of Anne de Montmorency, drawn...

Vital (2005). Croix de Lorraine et Croix du Sud, 1940–1942: aviateurs belges et de la France Libre en Afrique. Éditions du Gerfaut. ISBN 2-914622-92-9. Imbert-Vier...

anatomist Georges Cuvier and the pioneers of the theory of evolution, Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. The museum's aims were...

returned to Moulins, and her former haunt La Rotonde. She realized then that a serious stage career was not in her future.: 52  At Moulins, Chanel met...

made her debut the Casino de Paris in 1895 and continued to appear regularly in the 1920s and 1930s at the Folies Bergère, Moulin Rouge and Eldorado. Her...

Blériot aircraft: for others, it initially cost 2,000 francs, this being reduced to 800 francs in 1912. A gifted pupil favoured by good weather could...

Hindenburg Line hinged on the Chemin-des-Dames, named after the hillock of the Moulin-de-Laffaux. This attack was to be supported by Groupement Lefebvre. To improve...

known as the "petit peuple des Halles". The war memorial in the rue Jean Moulin dates to 1919–1922 and Schweitzer executed three bronze bas-reliefs which...