File: Jean Honore Fragonard Surprise. jpg | Jean-Honoré Fragonard The Meeting ( Part of the Progress of Love series ), 1771

Clearly these works contained strong social comment, and can be seen as modern parallels to the concerns of 19th-century French Realists such as Honore Daumier and Jean Francois Millet, artists Hanson admired.

Gulbenkian's motto was " Only the best ", and hence the museum has masterpieces by western European artists as Domenico Ghirlandaio, Rubens, Rembrandt, Rodin, Carpeaux, Houdon, Renoir, Dierick Bouts, Vittore Carpaccio, Cima da Conegliano, Van Dyck, Corot, Degas, Nattier, George Romney, Stefan Lochner, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, Claude Monet, Jean-François Millet, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Thomas Gainsborough, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Giovanni Battista Moroni, Frans Hals, Ruisdael, Boucher, Largillière, Andrea della Robbia, Pisanello, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, Antonio Rosselino, André-Charles Boulle, Cressent, Oeben, Riesener, Antoine-Sébastien Durand, Charles Spire, Jean Deforges, François-Thomas Germain, and many others.

* Jean Honoré Fragonard

French physicist Jean Perrin used Einstein's work to experimentally determine the mass and dimensions of atoms, thereby conclusively verifying Dalton's atomic theory.

* 1864 – Jean, duc Decazes, French aristocrat and sportsman ( d. 1912 )

* 1740 – Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, French general ( d. 1817 )

In 1806, the French chemists Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin and Pierre Jean Robiquet isolated a compound in asparagus that was subsequently named asparagine, the first amino acid to be discovered.

French Enlightenment masterpieces such as Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon ’ s Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière ( begun in 1749 ) and Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d ' Alembert ’ s Encyclopédie ( volumes added between 1751 and 1772 ) thus became Ampère ’ s schoolmasters.

* 1645 – Jean de La Bruyère, French writer ( d. 1696 )

* 1885 – Jean Cabannes, French physicist ( d. 1959 )

* Jean Jacques Barthelemy's The Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece ( French )

* 1780 – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter ( d. 1867 )

* 1921 – Jean Richard, French actor ( d. 2001 )

* 1913 – Jean Fournet, French conductor ( d. 2008 )

* 1994 – Jean Carmet, French actor ( b. 1920 )

* 1702 – Jean Bart, French admiral ( b. 1651 )

* 1969 – Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations.

The monument was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806, and its iconographic program pitted heroically nude French youths against bearded Germanic warriors in chain mail.

* 1699 – Jean Racine, French dramatist ( b. 1639 )

* 1920 – Jean Carmet, French actor ( d. 1994 )

In 1982 / 83 as part of the French national celebration of Jean Philippe Rameau's 300th birthday, Turocy choreographed the first production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's Les Boréades-it was never performed during the composer's lifetime.

This French supported production with John Eliot Gardiner, conductor, and his Orchestra was directed by Jean Louis Martinoty.

Translations into the vernacular were done by famous notables, including King Alfred ( Old English ), Jean de Meun ( Old French ), Geoffrey Chaucer ( Middle English ), Queen Elizabeth I ( Early Modern English ), and Notker Labeo ( Old High German ).

In addition to Cape Breton Island, the French colony of Île Royale also included Île St .- Jean ( today called Prince Edward Island ).

This branch of Christianity bears the name of the French reformer John Calvin ( also known as Jean Cauvin in Middle French ), because of his noticeable influence and because of his role in the confessional and ecclesiastical debates that happened throughout the 16th century.

Jean Baptiste Say was a French economist who introduced Adam Smith's economic theories into France and whose commentaries on Smith were read in both France and Britain.

In 1952 Marker published an illustration essay on French writer Jean Giraudoux, Giraudoux Par Lui-Même.

Western depiction of the Pentecost, painted by Jean Restout, 1732

* Jean Preudhomme ( 1732 – 1795 ), Swiss portrait artist.

* 1732: Fort St. Charles, on Lake of the Woods was constructed by La Vérendrye's nephew, Christopher Dufrost de La Jemeraye and his eldest son Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye.

* 1904 – Jean Dessès, Greek-Egyptian fashion designer ( d. 1970 )

* 1896 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist ( d. 1980 )

* 1996 – Jean Le Moyne, Canadian journalist and politician ( b. 1913 )

* 1923 – Jean Hagen, American actress ( d. 1977 )

* 1866 – Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician ( d. 1962 )

* 1813 – Jean Stas, Belgian chemist ( d. 1891 )

* 1922 – Jean Darling, American actress and singer

In 1788 Jean Jacques Barthelemy ( 1716 – 95 ), a highly esteemed classical scholar and Jesuit, published The Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, about a young Scythian descended from Anacharsis.

; Jean Pierre Sarrasin, in same vol., pp. 254 – 235 ; William of Nangis in Recueil des historiens des Gaules, xx.

Others who anticipated the work of Lavoisier include Jean Rey ( 1583 – 1645 ), Joseph Black ( 1728 – 1799 ), and Henry Cavendish ( 1731 – 1810 ).

* 2011 – Jean Gratton, Canadian bishop ( b. 1924 )

* 1905 – Louis Jean Heydt, American actor ( d. 1960 )

* 2005 – Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th Governor General.