* 1689 – Alexis Piron, French epigrammatist and dramatist ( d. 1773 )

* January 21 – Alexis Piron, French writer ( b. 1689 )

* July 9 – Alexis Piron, French writer ( d. 1773 )

* Piron, Alexis ( 1928 – 1931 ).

Rameau took his first tentative steps into composing stage music when the writer Alexis Piron asked him to provide songs for his popular comic plays written for the Paris Fairs.

Rivarol's rivals in France-in sharp conversational sayings-included Alexis Piron and Nicolas Chamfort.

When about seventeen, however, he made the acquaintance of Alexis Piron, and afterwards, through Gallet ( 1698 ?- 1757 ), of Panard.

In 1739 the Society of the Caveau, which numbered among its members Helvétius, Charles Pinot Duclos, Pierre Joseph Bernard, called Gentil-Bernard, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Alexis Piron, and the two Crébillons, was dissolved, and was not reconstituted till twenty years afterwards.

Alexis Piron ( July 9, 1689 – January 21, 1773 ) was a French epigrammatist and dramatist.

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As an epigrammatist Rousseau is inferior only to his friend Alexis Piron.

Eventually she formed a literary salon, which had among its habitués Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, Pierre de Marivaux, Alexis Piron and others.

These were followed by Le Méchant which was qualified by Ferdinand Brunetière as the best verse comedy of the French 18th century theatre, even surpassing the Métromanie of Alexis Piron.

From 1729 to 1739 he participated in a series of dinners called " Le Caveau " ( named after the cabaret where they were held ) with other artists, including Alexis Piron, Charles Collé, and Charles Duclos.

In 1716 one of the troupes ' leaders, Catherine Vanderberg purchased additional rights and began to present more original works by authors, such as Jacques-Philippe d ' Orneval, Alexis Piron, and Louis Fuzelier.

Alexis Piron nicknames the author " le Reverend Père Chaussee ," and ridiculed him in one of his most famous epigrams.

In spite of fierce opposition from rival theatres the venture flourished and leading playwrights of the time, including Alain René Lesage and Alexis Piron, contributed works in the new form.

His rivals were not slow to take up the charge of plagiarism, to which Étienne replied that the story was an old one ( it existed in an old French fabliaus ) and had already been treated by Alexis Piron in Les Fils ingrats.

However, as has been pointed out by Alexis Manaster Ramer and Paul Sidwell ( 1997 ), Strahlenberg actually opposed the idea of a closer relationship between the languages which later became known as " Altaic "..

Alexis was known in Roman times ; Aulus Gellius noted that Alexis ' poetry was used by Roman comedians, including Turpilius and possibly Plautus.

* Harry Shapiro, Alexis Korner: The Biography, London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1997 ; Discography by Mark Troster.

Déjà Vu is a 2009 radio play by Alexis Zegerman in French and English co-produced by BBC Radio 4 and ARTE Radio.

The title was inspired by the French classical liberal thinker Alexis de Tocqueville's writings on the " road to servitude ".

He was involved in 1994 as writer and reviewer of a report on the issue by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, where he was a senior fellow.

The notion of a distinctive religious basis for American democracy and culture was first described and popularized by Alexis de Tocqueville in the 1840s, in his influential book, Democracy in America.

Palm Sunday procession, Moscow, with Tsar Alexis of Russia | Alexei Michaelovich ( painting by Vyacheslav Gregorievich Schwarz, 1865 )

Alternative explanations of the provenance of potato chips date them to recipes in Shilling Cookery for the People by Alexis Soyer ( 1845 ) or Mary Randolph's The Virginia House-Wife ( 1824 ).

About the same time, a British blues scene developed, initially led by purist blues followers such as Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies who were directly inspired by American musicians such as Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and Howlin ' Wolf.

The transfer of her remains in 2006 was accompanied by elaborate ceremonies, including at St. Isaac's officiated by the Patriarch Alexis II.

Directed by Roland Emmerich, the film stars Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson, Carlos Lauchu, Djimon Hounsou, Erick Avari, Alexis Cruz, Mili Avital, John Diehl, French Stewart, and Viveca Lindfors.

All the shows were well received ; The Guardians music critic Alexis Petridis gave their performance at Goldsmiths college a full five stars, and wrote that " Blur's music seems to have potentiated by the passing of years ... they sound both more frenetic and punky and more nuanced and exploratory than they did at the height of their fame ".

The concept that underlies social capital has a much longer history ; thinkers exploring the relation between associational life and democracy were using similar concepts regularly by the 19th century, drawing on the work of earlier writers such as James Madison ( The Federalist Papers ) and Alexis de Tocqueville ( Democracy in America ) to integrate concepts of social cohesion and connectedness into the pluralist tradition in American political science.

This effect was computed prior to its return ( with a one-month error to 13 April ) by a team of three French mathematicians, Alexis Clairaut, Joseph Lalande, and Nicole-Reine Lepaute.

The Louis François, Prince of Conti | Prince of Conti by Alexis Simon Belle.

Queen Marie Leszczyńska with the dauphin Louis, Dauphin of France ( 1729-1765 ) | Louis, by Alexis Simon Belle ( 1730 )

It was first described in 1956 by Andrea Prader ( 1919 – 2001 ), Heinrich Willi ( 1900 – 1971 ), Alexis Labhart ( 1916 ), Andrew Ziegler, and Guido Fanconi of Switzerland.

On 10 May Babeuf, who had taken the alias Tissot, was arrested ; many of his associates were gathered by the police on order from Lazare Carnot: among them were Augustin Alexandre Darthé and Philippe Buonarroti, the ex-members of the National Convention, Robert Lindet, Jean-Pierre-André Amar, Marc-Guillaume Alexis Vadier and Jean-Baptiste Drouet, famous as the postmaster of Saint-Menehould who had arrested Louis XVI during the latter's Flight to Varennes, and now a member of the Directory's Council of Five Hundred.

" During this time Houston was interviewed by the author Alexis de Tocqueville, who was traveling in the United States and its territories.

He began performing with his Captain Beefheart persona in 1964 and joined the original Magic Band line-up, initiated by Alexis Snouffer, in 1965.