His father, Adolphe Bizet, had been a hairdresser and wigmaker before becoming a singing teacher despite his lack of formal training.

Just as work began at the Champ de Mars, the " Committee of Three Hundred " ( one member for each metre of the tower's height ) was formed, led by Charles Garnier and including some of the most important figures of the French arts establishment, including Adolphe Bouguereau, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Gounod and Jules Massenet: a petition was sent to Charles Alphand, the Minister of Works, and was published by Le Temps.

On 10 July 1830, before the king had even made his declarations, a group of wealthy, liberal journalists and newspaper proprietors, led by < span lang =" fr "> Adolphe Thiers </ span >, met in Paris to decide upon a strategy to counter < span lang =" fr "> Charles X </ span >.

He later led a division of Adolphe Niel's corps in the Battle of Solférino.

Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, backed by other influential westerners including Britain's Lord Palmerston and Damascus consul Charles Henry Churchill, the French lawyer Adolphe Crémieux, Austrian consul Giovanni Gasparo Merlato, Danish missionary John Nicolayson, and Solomon Munk, led a delegation to the ruler of Syria, Mehemet Ali.

Once there, Steinlen was befriended by the painter Adolphe Willette who introduced him to the artistic crowd at Le Chat Noir that led to his commissions to do poster art for the cabaret owner / entertainer, Aristide Bruant and other commercial enterprises.

Aide-toi, le ciel t ' aidera (" Help yourself, and heaven will help you ") was a French association led by Adolphe Thiers ( 1797 – 1877 ), French politician, who was working for more democracy under the French Restauration ( 1814, 1830 ), and Charles X of France, king from 1824 to 1830.

On October 11, 2006, as part of the agreement that led to the release of the Nepalese peacekeepers and following a ministerial decree signed on October 2, DRC Defence Minister Adolphe Onusumba announced that FNI leader Peter Karim and MRC leader Martin Ngudjolo were both appointed to the rank Colonel in the DRC army, commanding 3, 000 troops each.

The army was under the command of Napoleon III, divided into five corps: the I Corps, led by Achille Baraguey d ' Hilliers, the II, led by Patrice MacMahon, the III, led by François Certain Canrobert, the IV, led by Adolphe Niel, and the V, led by prince Napoleon.

During the crises that led up to the Franco-Prussian War, Adolphe Niel, Minister of War for France under Louis-Napoleon attempted to bolster French military might by bringing into existence a service which would provide reserves to be added to the French army.

He was the soul of the reactionary opposition that led to the fall of Adolphe Thiers ; in 1873, it was he who, with Lucien Brun, carried the proposals of the Chambers to the Bourbon claimant Comte de Chambord.

Taking advantage of his retreat from Paris and of Baron Haussmann's urban modeling of the capital during the Second Empire — construction of wide boulevards linking the train stations and therefore the soldiers coming from the countryside to the capital — Adolphe Thiers led the harsh repression of the Communards.

Some consider it a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ( who also developed the saxophone ).

The French Emperor, Napoleon III, feared that a powerful Germany would change the balance of power in Europe ( the French opposition politician Adolphe Thiers had correctly observed that it had really been France who had been defeated at Königgrätz ).

Politicians such as René Pleven, who later became Prime Minister, and officers as General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Lieutenant René Amiot, Captain Raymond Delange, Colonel Edgar De Larminat and Adolphe Sicé helped him to gain control of the AEF territory.

In 1837 Adolphe married Aimée Delsarte, against the wishes of her family who considered him a poor prospect ; the Delsartes, though impoverished, were a cultured and highly musical family.

It has been a grand duchy since 1815 when the Netherlands became an independent kingdom and Luxembourg was handed over to the King of the Netherlands, William I. Luxembourg remained in personal union with the Netherlands crown until 1890 when William III, King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg, died without leaving a male heir, so that in the Netherlands he was succeeded by his daughter Wilhelmina and, in the Luxembourgish Grand Duchy, by a distant male cousin, Duke Adolf of Nassau who became HRH Grand Duke Adolphe — an arrangement necessitated by Salic law being applicable to Luxembourg but not to the Netherlands.

Sofia was the half-sister of Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg ( and formerly the last Duke of Nassau ), who created the title Count of Wisborg in the Luxembourg nobility for Sofia's son Oscar, who lost his succession rights and titles by marrying without the King's consent.

During this time he also involved himself in polemics during the Rhine crisis of 1840, caused by the French prime minister Adolphe Thiers, who as Minister of the Interior had been Musset's superior.

Among those influenced by Cousin were Théodore Simon Jouffroy, Jean Philibert Damiron, Garnier, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Jules Barthelemy Saint-Hilaire, Felix Ravaisson-Mollien, Charles de Rémusat, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jules Simon, Paul Janet, Adolphe Franck and Patrick Edward Dove, who dedicated his " The Theory of Human Progression " to him — Jouffroy and Damiron were first fellow-followers.

The French solved this problem when, in late 1914, Roland Garros attached a fixed machine gun to the front of his plane, but while Adolphe Pegoud would become known as the first " ace ", getting credit for five victories, before also becoming the first ace to die in action, it was German Luftstreitkräfte Leutnant Kurt Wintgens, who, on July 1, 1915, scored the very first aerial victory by a purpose-built fighter plane, with a synchronized machine gun.

Hayes was a Catholic and a pro-business Republican who attended many Republican National Conventions ( including the one held in New Orleans in 1988 ), but she was not as politically vocal as some others ( e. g., Adolphe Menjou, Ginger Rogers, John Wayne, Helen Gahagan, Ronald Reagan etc.

It was Cambon who made the initial suggestion for the state debt to be " rendered republican and uniform " and it was he who proposed to convert all the contracts of the creditors of the state into an inscription in a great book, which should be called the " Great Book of the Public Debt ".< ref > Adolphe Thiers, George Thomas, Frederic Shoberl.

The liberals who were Orléanists found their leaders in men eminent in letters and in practical affairs — François Pierre Guillaume Guizot, Adolphe Thiers, Achille Charles Léon Victor, duc de Broglie and his son Jacques Victor Albert, the banker Jacques Laffitte and many others.

They were received coldly by Adolphe Thiers, who assured them that, though Paris was given over to destruction and slaughter, the law should be enforced, and he kept his word.

The elections of May – June 1863 gained the Opposition forty seats and a leader, Adolphe Thiers, who at once urgently gave voice to its demand for " the necessary liberties ".

Adolphe Thiers, who had been loyal to the Second Empire, was elected head of the newly monarchist republic.

* Grand Duke Adolphe of Luxembourg, who succeeded his distant cousin William III in 1890

* Adolphe Clément-Bayard, an entrepreneur who created the Clément-Bayard auto-mobile company in honour of the knight in 1903, and then added Bayard to his family name in 1908.

A first scheme, initiated by de Lesseps, was immediately drawn out by two French engineers who were in the Egyptian service, Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds called " Linant Bey " and Mougel Bey.

Antoine Adolphe Marcelin Marbot ( March 22, 1781-June 2, 1844 ), was born in La Riviere, the son of General Jean Antoine Marbot ( 1754 – 1800 ), who died in the defence of Genoa under Masséna.

Adolphe Cremieux and other French-Jewish leaders formed the Alliance to advocate for all Jews who faced such circumstances.

He then returned to Paris to rejoin his mother who had by then married Adolphe Gance, a chauffeur and mechanic, whose name Abel then adopted.

* Adolphe Quetelet publishes Sur l ' homme et le développement de ses facultés, ou Essai de physique sociale ( translated as Treatise on Man ), outlining his theory of " social physics " and describing his concept of the " average man " ( l ' homme moyen ) who is characterized by the mean values of measured variables that follow a normal distribution.

In the nineteenth century authors on the general theory included Laplace, Sylvestre Lacroix ( 1816 ), Littrow ( 1833 ), Adolphe Quetelet ( 1853 ), Richard Dedekind ( 1860 ), Helmert ( 1872 ), Hermann Laurent ( 1873 ), Liagre, Didion, and Karl Pearson.

This period included a panoply of international ‘ great demographers ’ like Adolphe Quételet ( 1796 – 1874 ), William Farr ( 1807 – 1883 ), Louis-Adolphe Bertillon ( 1821 – 1883 ) and his son Jacques ( 1851 – 1922 ), Joseph Körösi ( 1844 – 1906 ), Anders Nicolas Kaier ( 1838 – 1919 ), Richard Böckh ( 1824 – 1907 ), Émile Durkheim ( 1858-1917 ), Wilhelm Lexis ( 1837 – 1914 ) and Luigi Bodio ( 1840 – 1920 ) contributed to the development of demography and to the toolkit of methods and techniques of demographic analysis.

His pupils included Luigi Agnesi, Jean-Delphin Alard, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Louise Bertin, William Cusins, Julius Eichberg, Ferdinand Hérold, Frantz Jehin-Prume, Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, Adolphe Samuel, and Charles-Marie Widor.

Regular singers of the period included Manuel Garcia and his daughter Maria Malibran, Clorinda Corradi, Giuditta Pasta, Isabella Colbran, Giovanni Battista Rubini, Domenico Donzelli and the two great French rivals Adolphe Nourrit and Gilbert Duprez — the inventor of the C from the chest.

Early proponents included François-Adrien Boïeldieu ( 1775 – 1834 ), Daniel François Auber ( 1782 – 1871 ) and Adolphe Adam ( 1803 – 1856 ).

Journalists and correspondents included Georges Bruni, and Adolphe Cohn in the USA.

Prominent members of the Alliance included Robert Arthur, Ward Bond, Clarence Brown, Charles Coburn, Gary Cooper, Cecil B. DeMille, Walt Disney, Irene Dunne, Victor Fleming, Clark Gable, Cedric Gibbons, Hedda Hopper, Leo McCarey, James Kevin McGuinness, Adolphe Menjou, George Murphy, Fred Niblo, Ayn Rand, Ronald Reagan, Ginger Rogers, Morrie Ryskind, Norman Taurog, Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, King Vidor, John Wayne, Frank Wead and Sam Wood.

The contrabass saxophone was part of the original saxophone family as conceived by Adolphe Sax, and is included in his saxophone patent of 1846, as well as in Kastner's concurrently published Methode for saxophone.

The original patented saxophone family, as developed by Adolphe Sax, included sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass, contrabass, and subcontrabass instruments ( although he never built the latter ).

Famous patrons of the Chat Noir included Franc-Nohain, Adolphe Willette, Caran d ' Ache, André Gill, Émile Cohl, Paul Bilhaud, Sarah England, Paul Verlaine, Henri Rivière, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Charles Cros, Jules Laforgue, Charles Moréas, Albert Samain, Louis Le Cardonnel, Coquelin Cadet, Emile Goudeau, Alphonse Allais, Maurice Rollinat, Maurice Donnay, Marie Krysinska, Jane Avril, Armand Masson, Aristide Bruant, Théodore Botrel, Paul Signac, Yvette Guilbert, August Strindberg, and George Auriol.

In 1910, the Pyrenees were included, an initiative from Adolphe Steinès, who had drawn the course for the Tour de France since the first Tour in 1903.