Gustave Courbet's attempt, during the 1871 Paris Commune, to dismantle the Vendôme column, a symbol of the past Napoleon III authoritarian Empire, was one of the most celebrated events of vandalism.

French painter Gustave Courbet's attempt to disassemble the Vendôme column during the 1871 Paris Commune was probably one of the first artistic vandalist acts, celebrated at least since Dada performances during World War I.

Gustave Flourens ( Paris, 4 August 1838 – 3 April 1871 ) was a French Revolutionary leader and writer, son of the physiologist Jean Pierre Flourens ( who was Professor at the Collège de France and deputy in 1838-1839 ).

From 1871 he taught at the Paris Conservatoire, where his pupils included Pierre de Bréville, Guillaume Couture, Gabrielle Ferrari, Gustave Doret, Paul Dukas, Achille Fortier, Xavier Leroux, Albéric Magnard, Édouard Risler, Guy Ropartz, Spyridon Samaras, and Florent Schmitt.

During the Paris Commune in 1871, the painter Gustave Courbet proposed the column to be disassembled and re-erected in the Hôtel des Invalides.

Having identified himself too publicly with the Paris Commune of 1871, as curator at the Musée du Louvre under Gustave Courbet, he took refuge in England in July 1871, staying at first with his friend Alphonse Legros.

* History of the Bethlehem Baptist Church ( First Swedish Baptist Church ), Minneapolis, Minnesota: seventy-five years, 1871 – 1946, Authors Gustave Arvid Hagstrom, Bethlehem Baptist Church ( Minneapolis, Minn .), Publisher Bethlehem Baptist Church, 1946

In 1871, at the age of nine, he entered the École de Musique Classique et Religieuse ( L ' École Niedermeyer ) in Paris, where he studied with its director, Gustave Lefèvre, and with Eugène Gigout.

* Olga Preobrajenska ( 1871 – 1962 ), ballet dancer ( according to other sources, she is buried in the Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery )

He died 1871 in Clinton and is buried at Riverside Cemetery.

* James I. Farley ( 1871 – 1948 ), member of US House of Representatives, 1933 – 1939, lived in Auburn while an executive of the Auburn Automobile Company and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.

Tāmati Wāka Nene died 4 August 1871 and is buried at Russell.

He died in 1871 in Anerley, England after travelling back for an eye operation, and is buried at West Norwood Cemetery in London.

An acclaimed breeder of racehorses and shorthorn cattle, he died in 1871 and is buried at St Hubert's.

Murchison died in 1871, and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.

According to company lore, during the Great Chicago Fire in 1871, Rand McNally quickly had two of the company's printing machines buried in a sandy beach of Lake Michigan, and the company was up and running again only a few days later.

After completing his pilgrimage to Mecca, he died in Medina in 1871 while visiting the city, and was buried in the Jannatul Baqi, a historical graveyard in Medina where many prominent personalities from Islamic history are interred.

A little further north, by the Red River itself, at Climax, Minnesota, a firesteel found in 1871, buried quite deep in soft ground, matched specimens of medieval Norse firesteels at the Oslo University museum in Norway.

Martha died suddenly in 1871, and is buried at Lakeview Cemetery in Skaneateles.

He died 21 December 1871 in Mobile, Alabama and is buried in the Winston Family Cemetery ( privately owned ) near Gainesville in Sumter County Alabama.

Roswell B. Mason ( September 19, 1805January 1, 1892 ; buried in Rosehill Cemetery ) served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois ( 1869 – 1871 ) for the Citizens Party.

) Adalı Halil Pehlivan / Aliço apprentice ( 1871, Kilise Köy, Greece-1926, Edirne ) was buried at the special erected Pehlivan Cemetery.

He died in Westminster Workhouse, 12 March 1871, and is buried in a common ( unmarked ) grave in Brompton Cemetery.

She died on 12 January 1871 and was buried in the Quaker Burial Ground at Budock.

Holbrook died in Massachusetts on September 8, 1871, and is buried in Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina.

Chambers died in 1871 and is buried in the grounds of St Andrews Cathedral, within the ancient chapel of St Regulus.

He died in the city of Safed in 1871 and was buried in the ancient cemetery at the foot of the grave of Rabbi Joseph Caro, author of the Shulchan Aruch.

His proposed tax of a halfpenny a box on Lucifer matches in 1871 ( for which he suggested the epigram ex luce lucellum, " out of light a little profit ") roused a storm of opposition, and had to be dropped.

However, they also note that, between Luther ( 1500 ) and 1871 Prussia, the limited data available has meant that the period in question is regarded as a " black box " and that only " some cursory discussion and analysis " is possible.

Although Ada's mother keeps a wedding photo dated August 1871, eleven months before her birth, they find in a box in the attic a newspaper announcement dating the wedding to December 1871 ; and furthermore that Dan had been abroad since that spring, as proved by his extensive filmreels.

In June 1871, Bartholdi crossed the Atlantic, with letters of introduction signed by Laboulaye.

Consequently, he only received an ' honorary ' fourth class degree in 1858, although he was later awarded a Bachelor of Civil Law in 1866 and a Doctor of Civil Law in 1871 in recognition of his contribution to English letters.

A perforated Penny Red with letters in four corners and plate 148, therefore printed 1871 or later

Study of the stamps shows that there were eleven types in use, distinguished by size and shape ( philatelists have labeled them with letters A-J and Z ), and that the practice started some time in 1867 and was gradually abandoned after 1871.

A perforated Penny Red, letters in four corners and plate 148, therefore printed 1871 or later.

On 16 February 1871, he was appointed Clerk of the House of Commons by letters patent.

* " The life and letters of Hugh Miller " by P. Bayne, 1871

This was followed by elevation to other bodies of letters, including the Real Academia Española in 1867, the Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas in 1871 and the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in 1887.

Included in such primary material are an interview with Mary Todd Lincoln in 1871, two long interviews with Dennis Hanks ( Lincoln's cousin, who lived with Lincoln growing up ), and hundreds of letters and notes from Herndon to Weik between 1 October 1881 and 27 February 1891, containing reminiscences of Lincoln's life.

The attacks on his work by the Roman Catholic biologist St George Mivart in 1871 / 1872 had coincided with a severe aggravation of Darwin's illness, with mysterious symptoms ( including vomiting, sweating, sighing and weeping ); but the intervention of Thomas Henry Huxley with a savage review of Mivart's Genesis of Species ( 1871 ) and Darwin's continuing correspondence with James Crichton-Browne ( amounting to more than forty letters with many enclosures ) seemed to encourage a resolution of his symptoms as he brought his work on emotional expression to a conclusion.

His researches were at that time directed towards the Byzantine period of the Middle Ages, and to this period were devoted the two theses which he composed for his doctorate in letters, De byzantino hippodromo et circensibus factionibus ( revised in French for the Revue des deux mondes, under the title of Le monde byzantin ; le sport et l ' hippodrome, 1871 ), and L ' Empire grec au Xe siècle, Constantin Porphyrognete ( 1870 ).