Composers such as Marin Marais, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Schenck, Antoine Forqueray, and Carl Friedrich Abel wrote virtuoso music for it.

In the late 1690s Chartres studied the viol with Antoine Forqueray the elder.

* June 28 – Antoine Forqueray, viola da gamba player and composer ( born 1672 )

Among the dozens of composers whose music he recorded as a harpsichordist, organist, clavichordist, fortepianist, chamber musician or conductor were Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Heinrich Biber, John Blow, Georg Böhm, William Byrd, André Campra, François Couperin, Louis Couperin, John Dowland, Jacques Duphly, Antoine Forqueray, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Johann Jakob Froberger, Orlando Gibbons, André Grétry, George Frideric Handel, Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Claudio Monteverdi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Georg Muffat, Johann Pachelbel, Henry Purcell, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Christian Ritter, Johann Rosenmüller, Domenico Scarlatti, Agostino Steffani, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Georg Philipp Telemann, Manuel Valls, Antonio Vivaldi, and Matthias Weckmann.

* 1748 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist ( d. 1836 )

* 1976 – Antoine Walker, American basketball player

* 1767 – Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, French military leader and politician ( d. 1794 )

* 1801 – Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician ( d. 1877 )

* 1720 – Antoine Hamilton, French writer ( b. 1646 )

Antoine Thomson d ' Abbadie d ' Arrast ( January 3, 1810 – March 19, 1897 ) was an Irish-French and Basque explorer, geographer, ethnologue, linguist and astronomer notable for his travels in Ethiopia during the first half of the 19th century.

The element was isolated independently by two chemists, Carl Jacob Löwig and Antoine Jerome Balard, in 1825 – 1826.

* Antoine Augustin Calmet ( 1672 – 1757 )

#** Antoine Lucien Bonaparte ( 1816 – 1877 )

Chemistry came of age when Antoine Lavoisier ( 1743 – 1794 ) developed the theory of Conservation of mass in 1783 ; and the development of the Atomic Theory by John Dalton around 1800.

Antoine Lavoisier ( 1743 – 94 ) is considered the " People known as the father or mother of something | Father of Modern Chemistry ".

In 1782 Antoine Beauvilliers, pastry chef to the future Louis XVIII, opened one of the most popular restaurants of the time – the Grande Taverne de Londres – in the arcades of the Palais-Royal.

* 1612 – Antoine Arnauld, French theologian, philosopher and mathematician ( d. 1694 )

* 1984 – Antoine Wright, American basketball player

* 1672 – Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian ( d. 1757 )

* 1683 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist ( d. 1757 )

* 1751 – Antoine Bullant, Czech musician ( bassoon player ) and opera composer ( d. 1821 )

* 1648 – Antoine Daniel, French missionary ( b. 1601 )

* 1686 – Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist ( d. 1758 )

* 1701 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit, Michigan.

* 1781 – François Antoine Habeneck, French violinist ( d. 1849 )

* 1794 – Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just are executed by guillotine in Paris, France during the French Revolution.

* 1983 – Vinessa Antoine, Canadian actress

* 1794 – Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Générale, is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris.

# REDIRECT Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

On 23 January 1878 at the Basilica of Atocha in Madrid, Alfonso married his cousin, Princess Maria de las Mercedes, daughter of Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, but she died within six months of the marriage.

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier ( also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution ; 26 August 17438 May 1794 ; ), the " father of modern chemistry ," was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology.

With the French chemists Claude-Louis Berthollet, Antoine Fourcroy and Guyton de Morveau, Lavoisier devised a systematic chemical nomenclature.

Major academic sculptors of France are represented in the sculpture of the Arc de Triomphe: Jean-Pierre Cortot ; François Rude ; Antoine Étex ; James Pradier and Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire.

:* La Résistance de 1814, by Antoine Étex

:* La Paix de 1815, by Antoine Étex

In Un Catalogue raisonné de manuscrits ethiopiens ( Paris, 1859 ) is a description of 234 Ethiopian manuscripts collected by Antoine.

de: Antoine Thomson d ’ Abbadie

The following year they collaborated on a musical film version of The Little Prince, based on the classic children's tale by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

fr: Antoine Ier de Saxe

The village was incorporated as a city in 1877 and renamed Cadillac, after Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, a Frenchman who made the first permanent settlement at Detroit in 1701.

* Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer, founder of Detroit

Most recently he appeared in Cyrano de Bergerac as Antoine de Guiche, alongside Kevin Kline, Jennifer Garner and Daniel Sunjata.

Antoine Lavoisier, in his famed 1789 Traité Élémentaire de Chimie ( Elements of Chemistry ), refers to Bergmann ’ s work and discusses the concept of elective affinities or attractions.

In the mid-1970s, a review of the American movie Jaws marked the magazine's return to more commercial perspectives, and an editorial turnover: ( Serge Daney, Serge Toubiana, Thierry Jousse, Antoine de Baecque and Charles Tesson ).

Recent writers have included Serge Daney, Serge Toubiana, Thierry Jousse, Antoine de Baecque, Vincent Ostria, Charles Tesson and Franck Nouchi, André Téchiné, Léos Carax, Olivier Assayas, Danièle Dubroux, and Serge Le Péron.

French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac sailed up the Detroit River on July 23, 1701.

* Schnapper, Antoine, David témoin de son temps, Office du Livre, Fribourg, ( 1980 )