Marshall Ney supporting the Rear Guard During the Retreat from Moscow, by Adolphe Yvon on exhibition at the Manchester Art Gallery

Adolphe Yvon ( 1817 – 1893 ) was a French painter known for his paintings from the Napoleonic Wars.

* Thierry, A., " Adolphe Yvon: Souvenirs d ' un peintre militaire ", Revue des Deux Mondes 71 ( 1933 ): 844-873.

Adolphe Yvon, 1817 – 1893, et les siens: Notices biographiques.

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In Paris he took drawing courses with Adolphe Yvon and studied painting under Carolus Duran who in 1877 selected Beckwith and John Singer Sargent to help him with a mural for the Palais du Luxembourg.

The Palazzo Strozzi in Florence commissioned composer Bruce Adolphe to create a work based on Bronzino poems, and the piece, " Of Art and Onions: Homage to Bronzino ", features a prominent viola da gamba part.

Comte had earlier used the term " social physics ", but that term had been appropriated by others, notably Adolphe Quetelet.

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.

" The observatory, the land-based ship and the crusades: earth sciences in european context, 1830 – 1850 ", British Journal for History of Science, 40 ( 4 ), 2007, pp. 491 – 504 ( On the leading role of Adolphe Quetelet in the fields of meteorology and geomagnetism in early nineteenth-century ).

In the moment of inertia following the resignation of the government of Adolphe Thiers, 24 May 1873, François Pie, bishop of Poitiers, expressed the national yearning for spiritual renewal — " the hour of the Church has come "— that would be expressed through the " Government of Moral Order " of the Third Republic, which linked Catholic institutions with secular ones, in " a project of religious and national renewal, the main features of which were the restoration of monarchy and the defense of Rome within a cultural framework of official piety ", of which Sacré-Cœur is the chief lasting triumphalist monument.

The erstwhile Orléanist Adolphe Thiers called Chambord " The French Washington ", i. e. the true founder of the Republic.

Faust was rejected by the Paris Opera, on the grounds that it was not sufficiently " showy ", and its appearance at the Théatre-Lyrique was delayed for a year because Adolphe d ' Ennery's drama Faust was playing at the Porte St. Martin.

The duet, " Amour sacré de la patrie ", ( Sacred love of Fatherland ) with Adolphe Nourrit in the tenor role, engendered a riot that became the spark for the Belgian Revolution.

Adolphe Thiers, who was at this time minister of public works, now commissioned him to execute the two groups of " Peace " and " War ", flanking the arch on the east facade of the Arc de Triomphe.

Gunther E. Rothenberg writes that Caldiero was, " Austria's solitary military success in this war ", although he was aware that the French historian Adolphe Thiers considered the battle to be a French victory.

From Terry's expensive clothing and her photograph of her elderly grandfather, Jean assumes she has obtained the former from her sugar daddy, just as fellow resident Linda Shaw ( Gail Patrick ) has from her relationship with influential theatrical producer Anthony Powell ( Adolphe Menjou ).

From 1872 to 1873 he was sent by Adolphe Thiers as minister to Athens, but returned to the chamber as deputy for the Vosges, and became one of the leaders of the republican party.

Photograph of a hansom cab, From ' Street Life in London ', 1877, by John Thompson and Adolphe Smith

He was the second son of Claude Adolphe Monet and Louise Justine Aubrée Monet, both of them second-generation Parisians.

* Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone ( 19th century )

* The Thiers wall, built as part of the Fortifications of Paris in the 19th and 20th centuries by Adolphe Thiers.

Historiometry started in the early 19th century with studies on the relationship between age and achievement by Belgian mathematician Adolphe Quetelet in the careers of prominent French and English playwrights but it was Sir Francis Galton, a pioneering English eugenist who popularized historiometry in his 1869 work, Hereditary Genius.

Polymath Adolphe Quetelet developed in the 19th century what he called " social physics ".

In the 19th century oral literature was collected by researchers and folklorists such as Paul Sébillot, Adolphe Orain, Amand Dagnet and Georges Dottin.

* 19th century: Marie-Joseph Marquis de Lafayette, Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, François Guizot, Adolphe Thiers, Jules Grévy, Léon Gambetta

* Adolphe Clément-Bayard, 19th century French industrialist

Various artists lived in the area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including Eugene Sue, Adolphe de Custine, John Ruskin and Gabriel Fauré.

* 1797 – Adolphe Thiers, French statesman ( d. 1877 )

Cecilia Beaux was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest daughter of French silk manufacturer Jean Adolphe Beaux and teacher Cecilia Kent Leavitt, daughter of prominent businessman John Wheeler Leavitt of New York City and his wife Cecilia Kent of Suffield, Connecticut.

* 1768 – Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal ( d. 1835 )

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.

* 1803 – Adolphe Adam, French composer ( d. 1856 )

* 1871 – Declaration of the Paris Commune ; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders evacuation of Paris.

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 ).

Adolphe Sax created an instrument with a single reed mouthpiece like a clarinet, conical brass body like an ophicleide, and the acoustic properties of both the French horn and the clarinet.

* 1802 – Adolphe d ' Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist ( d. 1868 )

The fetal stethoscope is also known as a Pinard's stethoscope or a pinard, after French obstetrician Adolphe Pinard ( 1844 – 1934 ).

** Marie Adolphe Carnot, French chemist, mining engineer, and politician ( b. 1839 )

* August 31 – Adolphe Pégoud, French acrobatic pilot and World War I fighter ace ( b. 1889 )

* June 13 – Adolphe Pégoud, French acrobatic pilot and World War I fighter ace ( d. 1915 )

* August 31 – Adolphe Thiers becomes the President of the French Republic.

* September 3 – Adolphe Thiers, French historian and politician ( b. 1797 )

* January 31 – Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac, French politician ( b. 1806 )

* July 24 – Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer ( d. 1856 )

* May 3 – Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer ( b. 1803 )

* July 28 – Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal ( b. 1768 )

* March 3 – Adolphe Dureau de la Malle, French geographer, naturalist, historian and artist ( d. 1857 )

* February 13 – Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal ( d. 1835 )

The honour of becoming the first ace went to another French airman, Adolphe Pégoud.

The production used a French translation by Paul Ferrier and starred Julia Guiraudon as Mimì, Jeanne Tiphaine as Musetta, Adolphe Maréchal as Rodolfo, and Lucien Fugère as Marcello.

Yerkes art collection also boasted works by the French academic painters Jean-Leon Gerome and William Adolphe Bouguereau and members of the Barbizon School.