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* Edmond de la Fontaine ( 1823 – 91 ) otherwise known as Dicks, Luxembourg's national poet, who also wrote Vianden's first travel guide.
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* Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Caesarea Development Corporation Ltd., the private corporation filling much of the role typically filled by a municipality for the Israeli city of Caesarea
* 1865 – Winnaretta Singer, Princesse Edmond de Polignac, an American patron of French music, and of the arts, sciences, and letters ( d. 1943 )
Museum expansion slowed after World War I, and the collection did not acquire many significant new works ; exceptions were Georges de La Tour's Saint Thomas and Baron Edmond de Rothschild's ( 1845 – 1934 ) 1935 donation of 4, 000 engravings, 3, 000 drawings, and 500 illustrated books.
The collection is organized into three sections: the core Cabinet du Roi, 14, 000 royal copper printing-plates, and the donations of Edmond de Rothschild, which include 40, 000 prints, 3, 000 drawings, and 5, 000 illustrated books.
The first person to employ the term as part of a publication's title was Edmond Demolins, another member of the Le Play School, whose article Géographie sociale de la France was published in 1896 and 1897.
This was followed by revivals of Racine's Phèdre ( 24 February ), Octave Feuillet's Dalila ( 8 March ), Gaston de Wailly's Patron Bénic ( 14 March ), Edmond Rostand's La Samaritaine ( 25 March ), and Alexandre Dumas fils's La Dame aux Camélias on 9 April.
Edmond de Goncourt modeled his acrobat-mimes in his The Zemganno Brothers ( 1879 ) upon them ; J .- K. Huysmans ( whose Against Nature would become Dorian Gray's bible ) and his friend Léon Hennique wrote their pantomime Skeptical Pierrot ( 1881 ) after seeing them perform at the Folies Bergère.
Edmond Rostand, aged 29, at the time of the first performance of Cyrano, 1898 The production of his heroic comedy of Cyrano de Bergerac ( 28 December 1897, Theatre de la Porte Saint-Martin ), with Benoît-Constant Coquelin in the title-role, was a triumph.
In Brian Hooker's 1923 English translation of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, Cyrano disparagingly refers to the ham actor Montfleury as " That Silenus who cannot hold his belly in his arms.
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* Edmond Bernus, " Les Touareg ", pp. 162 – 171 in Vallées du Niger, Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1993.
Edmond took little active part in banking but pursued artistic and philanthropic interests, helping to found scientific research institutions such as the Institut Henri Poincaré, the Institut de Biologie physico-chimique, the pre-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the Casa Velázquez in Madrid, and the French Institute in London.
Medaillon of Monument dedicated to Edmond de la Fontaine ( alias Dicks ) by Nina Grach-Jascinsky ( 1966 ), place named " Dicksgärtchen ", Vianden, Luxembourg.
Edmond de la Fontaine ( 24 July 1823 – 24 June 1891 ), better known by his pen name of Dicks, was a Luxembourgian jurist, poet, and lyricist, known for his work in the Luxembourgish language.
"' Rien de la tonalité usuelle: Edmond de Polignac and the Octatonic Scale in Nineteenth-Century France ".
* Dicks, pen name of Edmond de la Fontaine, a Luxembourgian jurist, poet, and lyricist, known for his work in the Luxembourgish language.
Achille Edmond Audran ( 12 April 1840 – 17 August 1901 ) was a French composer best known for several internationally successful operettas, including Les noces d ' Olivette ( 1879 ), La mascotte ( 1880 ), Gillette de Narbonne ( 1882 ), La cigale et la fourmi ( 1886 ), Miss Helyett ( 1890 ), and La poupée ( 1896 ).
Recognized worldwide for his philanthropy, Edmond J. Safra was named Commandeur de l ’ Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and Chevalier de la Légion d ’ Honneur by the French government ; Commandeur de l ’ Ordre de Mérite by the Grand Duke of Luxembourg ; and Commandeur de l ’ Ordre de Rio Branco by the government of Brazil.
In 1890, Burnand wrote Captain Therèse, followed later that year by a very successful English-language version of Edmond Audran's operetta, La cigale et la fourmi ( the grasshopper and the ant ) retitled La Cigale, with additional music by Ivan Caryll.
In 1919 Winnaretta Singer, aka la Princesse Edmond de Polignac, commissioned from Falla a piece that could be played in her salon, at her own elaborate puppet theater.
* Edmond Lévy, Sparte: histoire politique et sociale jusqu ’ à la conquête romaine ( Sparta: Political and Social History until the Roman Conquest ), Seuil, coll.
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