In France, a great number of highly characteristic solo works were created and compiled into four books of ordres by François Couperin ( 1668 – 1733 ).

His friends included leading musicologists, and, with Friedrich Chrysander, he edited an edition of the works of François Couperin.

* François Couperin, French composer

* September 12 – François Couperin, French composer ( b. 1668 )

** François Couperin, French composer ( d. 1733 )

However, during the war years, Ravel did manage some compositions, including one of his most popular works, Le tombeau de Couperin, a commemoration of the musical ideals of François Couperin, the early 18th-century composer, which premiered in 1919.

In France, organ music developed during the Baroque era through the music of Jean Titelouze, François Couperin, and Nicolas de Grigny.

He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading French composer for the harpsichord of his time, alongside François Couperin.

Along with François Couperin, Rameau is one of the two masters of the French school of harpsichord music in the 18th century.

* RCT 18bis – L ' épouse entre deux draps ( 3 sopranos ) ( formerly attributed to François Couperin )

At the other chronological extreme, Désormière edited and performed early music, reviving mostly forgotten compositions by the likes of François Couperin, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and Michel Richard Delalande.

" In fact, the two genres were sometimes combined in a single composition, as in the Cento partite sopra passacagli by Girolamo Frescobaldi, and the first suite of Les Nations ( 1726 ) as well as in the Pièces de Violes ( 1728 ) by François Couperin.

More recently, however, some progress has been made toward making a useful distinction for the usage of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when some composers ( notably Frescobaldi and François Couperin ) deliberately mixed the two genres in the same composition.

The suite was also known as Suite de danses, Ordre ( the term favored by François Couperin ) or Partita.

Louis Couperin ( c. 1626 – 1661 ) was the first composer to embrace the genre, and harpsichord preludes were used until the first half of the 18th century by numerous composers including Jean-Henri d ' Anglebert ( 1629 – 1691 ), Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre ( 1665 – 1729 ), François Couperin ( 1668 – 1733 ) and Jean-Philippe Rameau ( 1683 – 1764 ), whose very first printed piece ( 1706 ) was in this form.

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Christie has also presented and recorded works by André Campra, François Couperin, Claudio Monteverdi and Jean-Philippe Rameau.

François Couperin, ( 1668-1733 ).

François Couperin () ( 10 November 1668 – 11 September 1733 ) was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist.

He was taught by his father, Charles Couperin, who died when François was 10, and by Jacques Thomelin.

: See also List of compositions by François Couperin.

* Philippe Beaussant: François Couperin, translated from the French by Alexandra Land, Portland OR: Amadeus Press, 1990.

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* 1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer ( d. 1796 )

* 1717 – Louis François, Prince of Conti ( d. 1776 )

* 1941 – François Weyergans, French doctor and writer

The movement was particularly dominated by François Quesnay ( 1694 – 1774 ) and Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot ( 1727 – 1781 ).

* 1738 – Jacques François Dugommier, French general ( d. 1794 )

* 1625 – François de Harlay de Champvallon, French archbishop ( d. 1695 )

* 1914 – World War I: Battle of Stallupönen – The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.

* 1954 – François Hollande, French politician, 24th President of France

* 1624 – François de la Chaise, French priest ( d. 1709 )

* 1524 – François Hotman, French lawyer and writer ( d. 1590 )

* 1970 – François Leroux, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1907 – François Duvalier, Haitian dictator ( d. 1971 )

* 1750 – François de Neufchâteau, French statesman ( d. 1828 )

* 1837 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman, 4th President of the French Republic ( d. 1894 )

* 1785 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer ( d. 1858 )

* 1604 – François Hédelin, abbé d ' Aubignac, French writer ( d. 1676 )

* 1954 – François Valéry, French singer-songwriter and composer

* 1971 – François Duvalier, Haitian politician, 40th President of Haiti ( b. 1907 )

* 1558 – Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.

* 1644 – François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier ( d. 1730 )

* 1801 – Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer ( b. 1724 )

François de Neufville, Duke of Villeroi, Marshal of France, ( 1644 – 1730 ) by Alexandre-François Caminade.

* Jean Baptiste François Pitra ( 1812 – 89 )