When he was sixteen, his analytical abilities gained the praise of Jean le Rond d ' Alembert and Alexis Clairaut ; soon, Condorcet would study under d ' Alembert.

Eventually she formed a literary salon, which had among its habitués Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, Pierre de Marivaux, Alexis Piron and others.

Alexis Piron nicknames the author " le Reverend Père Chaussee ," and ridiculed him in one of his most famous epigrams.

* Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail ( 1829 – 1871 ), novelist

Arsène Lupin is a literary descendant of Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail's Rocambole.

Allegheny Airlines began as All American Aviation Company, a business founded by du Pont family brothers Richard C. du Pont and Alexis Felix du Pont, Jr. in 1939.

See also Alexis Possoz, Vie du Pre R. Southwell ( 1866 ); and a life in Henry Foley's Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus: historic facts illustrative of the labours and sufferings of its members in the 16th and 17th centuries, 1877 ( i. 301387 ).

* Alexis Irénée du Pont ( 1816 – 1857 )

* Alexis Irénée du Pont, Jr. ( 1843 – 1904 )

* Alexis Irénée du Pont, III ( 1869 – 1921 )

fr: Alexis Vincent Charles Berbiguier de Terre-Neuve du Thym

During this term, he served in the Republican majority in the 80th Congress, but was in the minority in the 81st and 82nd Congress. He was elected to a second term in 1952, defeating Democrat Alexis I. du Pont Bayard, and once again served in the Republican majority in the 83rd Congress, but returned to the minority in the 84th and 85th Congress.

In 1908 he married Elizabeth Bradford du Pont, and they had five children, Elizabeth, Thomas, Ellen, James, and Alexis.

* Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail, Rocambole.

* 1929 – Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian-French pianist ( d. 2012 )

* Alexis Weissenberg ( 1929 – 2012 ), pianist

Yourcenar's first novel, Alexis, was published in 1929.

Notable visitors included Charles Dickens and Alexis de Tocqueville while notable inmates included Willie Sutton and Al Capone in 1929.

The Ukrainian-Canadian composer and singer Alexis Kochan has suggested that some part of Gershwin's inspiration may have come from having heard the Ukrainian lullaby, Oi Khodyt Son Kolo Vikon ( A Dream Passes By The Windows ) at a New York City performance by Oleksander Koshetz's Ukrainian National Chorus in 1929 ( or 1926 ).

However, as has been pointed out by Alexis Manaster Ramer and Paul Sidwell ( 1997 ), Strahlenberg actually opposed the idea of a closer relationship between the languages which later became known as " Altaic "..

Alexis was known in Roman times ; Aulus Gellius noted that Alexis ' poetry was used by Roman comedians, including Turpilius and possibly Plautus.

* Harry Shapiro, Alexis Korner: The Biography, London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1997 ; Discography by Mark Troster.

Déjà Vu is a 2009 radio play by Alexis Zegerman in French and English co-produced by BBC Radio 4 and ARTE Radio.

The title was inspired by the French classical liberal thinker Alexis de Tocqueville's writings on the " road to servitude ".

He was involved in 1994 as writer and reviewer of a report on the issue by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, where he was a senior fellow.

The notion of a distinctive religious basis for American democracy and culture was first described and popularized by Alexis de Tocqueville in the 1840s, in his influential book, Democracy in America.

Palm Sunday procession, Moscow, with Tsar Alexis of Russia | Alexei Michaelovich ( painting by Vyacheslav Gregorievich Schwarz, 1865 )

Alternative explanations of the provenance of potato chips date them to recipes in Shilling Cookery for the People by Alexis Soyer ( 1845 ) or Mary Randolph's The Virginia House-Wife ( 1824 ).

About the same time, a British blues scene developed, initially led by purist blues followers such as Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies who were directly inspired by American musicians such as Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and Howlin ' Wolf.

The transfer of her remains in 2006 was accompanied by elaborate ceremonies, including at St. Isaac's officiated by the Patriarch Alexis II.

Directed by Roland Emmerich, the film stars Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson, Carlos Lauchu, Djimon Hounsou, Erick Avari, Alexis Cruz, Mili Avital, John Diehl, French Stewart, and Viveca Lindfors.

All the shows were well received ; The Guardians music critic Alexis Petridis gave their performance at Goldsmiths college a full five stars, and wrote that " Blur's music seems to have potentiated by the passing of years ... they sound both more frenetic and punky and more nuanced and exploratory than they did at the height of their fame ".

The concept that underlies social capital has a much longer history ; thinkers exploring the relation between associational life and democracy were using similar concepts regularly by the 19th century, drawing on the work of earlier writers such as James Madison ( The Federalist Papers ) and Alexis de Tocqueville ( Democracy in America ) to integrate concepts of social cohesion and connectedness into the pluralist tradition in American political science.

This effect was computed prior to its return ( with a one-month error to 13 April ) by a team of three French mathematicians, Alexis Clairaut, Joseph Lalande, and Nicole-Reine Lepaute.

The Louis François, Prince of Conti | Prince of Conti by Alexis Simon Belle.

Queen Marie Leszczyńska with the dauphin Louis, Dauphin of France ( 1729-1765 ) | Louis, by Alexis Simon Belle ( 1730 )

It was first described in 1956 by Andrea Prader ( 1919 – 2001 ), Heinrich Willi ( 1900 – 1971 ), Alexis Labhart ( 1916 ), Andrew Ziegler, and Guido Fanconi of Switzerland.

On 10 May Babeuf, who had taken the alias Tissot, was arrested ; many of his associates were gathered by the police on order from Lazare Carnot: among them were Augustin Alexandre Darthé and Philippe Buonarroti, the ex-members of the National Convention, Robert Lindet, Jean-Pierre-André Amar, Marc-Guillaume Alexis Vadier and Jean-Baptiste Drouet, famous as the postmaster of Saint-Menehould who had arrested Louis XVI during the latter's Flight to Varennes, and now a member of the Directory's Council of Five Hundred.

" During this time Houston was interviewed by the author Alexis de Tocqueville, who was traveling in the United States and its territories.

He began performing with his Captain Beefheart persona in 1964 and joined the original Magic Band line-up, initiated by Alexis Snouffer, in 1965.

On 1 February 2009, the FARC-EP proceeded with the release of the four security force members, Juan Fernando Galicio Uribe, José Walter Lozano Guarnizo, Alexis Torres Zapata and William Giovanni Domínguez Castro.

* The conservative implications of writings by well-known authors such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott, Alexis de Tocqueville, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, George Gissing, George Santayana, Robert Frost, and T. S. Eliot ;

He abandoned law for literature, and wrote two romances, " Walladmor " and " Schloss Avalon ," under the pseudonym of " Walter Scott ," which imposed upon some ; he afterwards assumed the name of Wilibald Alexis, a name by which he was long honourably known.

Having made his name first known as a writer by an idyll in hexameters, Die Treibjagd ( 1820 ), and several short stories, his literary reputation was first established by the historical romance Walladmor ( 1823 ), which was published as being " freely translated from the English of Sir Walter Scott, with a preface by Willibald Alexis ".