Alfred Jarry ( 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907 ) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany ; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side.

Père Ubu ( later: Ubu Roi ), from a drawing by Alfred Jarry

* Alfred Jarry at Find-A-Grave

* Alfred Jarry: Absinthe, Bicycles and Merdre

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Disillusioned with the traditional art taught at art schools, in 1862 Monet became a student of Charles Gleyre in Paris, where he met Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille and Alfred Sisley.

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie () ( 17 May 1866 – Paris, 1 July 1925 ; signed his name Erik Satie after 1884 ) was a French composer and pianist.

Alfred Sisley, View of the Saint-Martin Canal, Paris, 1870, Musée d ' Orsay

It was in Paris in the middle 1840s that Millet befriended Constant Troyon, Narcisse Diaz, Charles Jacque, and Théodore Rousseau, artists who, like Millet, would become associated with the Barbizon school ; Honoré Daumier, whose figure draftsmanship would influence Millet's subsequent rendering of peasant subjects ; and Alfred Sensier, a government bureaucrat who would become a lifelong supporter and eventually the artist's biographer.

* 1895 – At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.

* December 10 – The premiere of Alfred Jarry's absurdist play Ubu Roi in Paris causes a near-riot.

* November 27 – At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death.

* La nuit de mai – poème symphonique for tenor and orchestra after Alfred de Musset, Paris 1886 ( also performed and recorded in 1990 and – with Plácido Domingo – in 2010 )

On Berlioz's return to Paris, a concert including Symphonie fantastique ( which had been extensively revised in Italy ) and Le retour à la vie was performed, with among others in attendance: Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Heinrich Heine, Niccolò Paganini, Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, George Sand, Alfred de Vigny, Théophile Gautier, Jules Janin and Harriet Smithson.

She became engaged to engineer and novelist Arthur Gundaccar Freiherr von Suttner ( who died on 10 December 1902 ), but his family opposed the match, and she answered an advertisement from Alfred Nobel in 1876 to become his secretary-housekeeper at his Paris residence.

Count Alfred, military attaché to the Sylvanian Embassy in Paris, is ordered back to Sylvania to report to Queen Louise for a reprimand following a string of scandals, including an affair with the ambassador's wife.

In late 1931, Miller was employed by the Chicago Tribune ( Paris edition ) as a proofreader, thanks to his friend Alfred Perlès who worked there.

When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Lorre took refuge first in Paris and then London, where he was noticed by Ivor Montagu, Alfred Hitchcock's associate producer for The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), who reminded the director about Lorre's performance in M. They first considered him to play the assassin in the film, but wanted to use him in a larger role, despite his limited command of English, which Lorre overcame by learning much of his part phonetically.

Word of the military court's framing of Alfred Dreyfus and of an attendant cover-up began to spread, chiefly owing to J ' accuse, a vehement open letter published in a Paris newspaper in January 1898 by the notable writer Émile Zola.

Thirty delegates attended a founding conference, held in September 1938, in the home of Alfred Rosmer just outside Paris.

He recounted his experiments in a book entitled Psychologie des grands calculateurs et joueurs en echec, ( Paris: Hachette, 1894 ). Alfred Binet, Psychologie des grands calculateurs et joueurs en echec, ( Paris: Hachette, 1894 ).

One of the most significant common precursors is Alfred Jarry whose wild, irreverent, and lascivious Ubu plays scandalized Paris in the 1890s.

Luc Ferrari was born in Paris, and was trained in music at a very young age, studying the piano under Alfred Cortot, musical analysis under Olivier Messiaen and composition under Arthur Honegger.

Journée d ' étude en hommage à Alfred Foucher ( 1865 – 1952 ) réunie le 14 décembre 2007 à l ' Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres ( palais de l ' Institut de France ), Paris, 2009, 314 p. ( with new bibliography of Foucher ' works ).

* A. Fenet, « Les archives Alfred Foucher ( 1865-1952 ) de la Société asiatique ( Paris ) », Anabases VII, 2008, p. 163-192.

During one of Rubinstein's visits to Paris, French pianist Alfred Cortot played the first movement of Beethoven's Appassionata for him.

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was born in Paris in 1868.

* Paris by Night ( Music: Alfred Solmon Book: Harry Marshall ) Broadway production opened at the Madison Square Roof Garden on July 2 and ran for 50 performances.

Notes inédites d ' Alfred de Vigny sur Pierre et Thomas Corneille Paris: A. Colin.