* December 10 – The premiere of Alfred Jarry's absurdist play Ubu Roi in Paris causes a near-riot.

Some of his greatest successes include opening his own symbolist theatre, producing the first staging of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi ( 1896 ), and introducing French theatregoers to playwrights such as Ibsen and Strindberg.

In 2010 they performed an adaptation of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi, called " Ubu " at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe under the name " Awful Pie Theatre.

The term first appeared in print in the text of Alfred Jarry's play Guignol in the 28 April 1893, issue of L ' Écho de Paris littéraire illustré.

Alfred Jarry's plays had a lasting impression on the country's underground philosophical scene.

A review in The Wire magazine said, " No other record has ever come as close to realising Alfred Jarry's desire ' to make the soul monstrous ' – or even had the vision or invention to try.

The < nowiki >'</ nowiki > pataphor (, ), is a term coined by writer and musician Pablo Lopez (" Paul Avion "), for an unusually extended metaphor based on Alfred Jarry's " science " of ' pataphysics.

This adaptation by David Thomas of Alfred Jarry's play Ubu Roi was accompanied by animations by the Brothers Quay.

There were many 19th century examples of attacks on Enlightenment concepts, parody, and playfulness in literature, including Lord Byron's satire, especially Don Juan ; Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus ; Alfred Jarry's ribald Ubu parodies and his invention of ' Pataphysics ; Lewis Carroll's playful experiments with signification ; the work of Isidore Ducasse, Arthur Rimbaud, Oscar Wilde.

Before Copeau returned to Paris in June 1920, Charles Dullin had already taken on students and was giving acting lessons at the Théâtre Antoine under the tutelage of Firmin Gémier, the actor who originated the role of Ubu in Alfred Jarry's Ubu roi.

He felt himself nearer to Alfred Jarry's ' pataphysics than André Breton's surrealism.

" The rival Seattle Weekly named her " Best Woman in Man's Clothing " for her title role in Ubu, Ki Gottberg ’ s reworking of Alfred Jarry's Ubu plays.

Scrawdyke was a loutish art student and absurd ideologue from Huddersfield who had trouble with girls and a hatred for his teachers ... the play shared a deeply felt schoolboy coarseness with Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi, a piece originally written as a vicious attack on a loathed mathematics master.

based upon Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi

" But modernism was already stirring at least by 1902, with a work such as Joseph Conrad's ( 1857-1924 ) Heart of Darkness, while Alfred Jarry's ( 1873-1907 ) absurdist play, Ubu Roi appeared, even earlier, in 1896.

Lewis has long remained popular in Europe: he was consistently praised by some French critics in the influential magazine Cahiers du Cinéma for his absurd comedy, in part because he had gained respect as an auteur who had total control over all aspects of his films, comparable to Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock.

* Rebecca ( 1940 film ), a 1940 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock based on the du Maurier novel

After I, Claudius, he and the ex-patriate German film producer Erich Pommer founded the production company Mayflower Pictures in the UK, which produced three films starring Laughton: Vessel of Wrath ( US Title The Beachcomber ) ( 1938 ), based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham, in which his wife Elsa Lanchester co-starred ; St. Martin's Lane ( US Title Sidewalks of London ), about London street entertainers, which featured Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison ; and Jamaica Inn, with Maureen O ' Hara and Robert Newton, about Cornish smugglers, based on Daphne du Maurier's novel, and the last film Alfred Hitchcock directed in Britain before moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s.

* Klein, Alexandre ( 2008 ) " Les écritures du moi en histoire des sciences: les apports de la correspondance d ’ Alfred Binet ", Jahrbuch für Europäische Wissenschaftskultur ( Yearbook for European Culture of Science ), Bd.

In 1892, Louisville factory owner Alfred Victor du Pont donated $ 150, 000 to the board of Louisville Public Schools to establish a training school to teach young men industrial arts (" manual ") skills that would fit them for their duties in life.

* Alfred I. du Pont

* Alfred I. du Pont, inventor, philanthropist

Earlier theories ( e. g. by Alfred Wegener and Alexander du Toit ) of continental drift were that continents " plowed " through the sea.

In addition to those mentioned above, others were conductors Daniel Barenboim, Leonard Bernstein, Eugen Jochum, Erich Kleiber, Serge Koussevitzky, Pierre Monteux, André Previn and Leopold Stokowski, and soloists Janet Baker, Dennis Brain, Alfred Brendel, Roberto Carnevale, Pablo Casals, Aldo Ciccolini, Clifford Curzon, Victoria de los Ángeles, Jacqueline du Pré, Kirsten Flagstad, Beniamino Gigli, Emil Gilels, Jascha Heifetz, Wilhelm Kempff, Fritz Kreisler, Julian Lloyd Webber, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, David Oistrakh, Luciano Pavarotti, Maurizio Pollini, Leontyne Price, Arthur Rubinstein, Elisabeth Schumann, Rudolf Serkin, Joan Sutherland, Richard Tauber and Eva Turner.

* Alfred Bruneau-Le Jardin du paradis

* Alfred Hitchcock's movie Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ), was translated to French as " L ' inconnu du Nord-Express " ( The unknown man in the Nord-Express ).

* 1977: Ubu aux Bouffes after Alfred Jarry, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord

His sons, Alfred V. du Pont ( 1798 – 1856 ) and Henry du Pont ( 1812 – 1889 ), managed the plant after his death, assisted by his son-in-law, Antoine Bidermann.

With his friend Alfred Rambaud he conceived the plan of L ' Histoire générale du IVe siècle à nos jours, to which, however, he contributed nothing.

Among them were Leopold Pannier ; Marius Sepet, the author of Le Drame chrétien au Moyen Âge ( 1878 ) and Origines catholiques du théâtre moderne ( 1901 ); Charles Joret ; Alfred Morel-Fatio ; Gaston Raynaud, who was responsible for various volumes of the excellent editions published by the Société des anciens textes français ; Arsène Darmesteter ; and others.

* Alfred Huet du Pavillon ( A. Huet, 1829-1907 ), a botanist

* Alfred Vaucher R. Lehmann, Dictionnaire du monde religieux dans la France contemporaine, vol.

The duPont-Columbia Awards were established in 1942 by Jessie Ball duPont in memory of her husband Alfred I. du Pont.

In Great Britain he met with writers such as Henry James, George du Maurier and Alfred Tennyson, and was awarded a doctor of letters degree ( D. Litt.

Manderley is the fictional estate of the character Maxim de Winter, and it plays a central part in Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel, Rebecca, and in the film adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock.

The farewells of King Boabdil at Granada ( Les Adieux du roi Boabdil à Grenade ), Alfred Dehodencq ( 1822-1882 ).

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* Alfred Foucher, 1865-1952 ; Ecole française d ' Extrême-Orient, L ' art gréco-bouddhique du Gandhâra: étude sur les origines de l ' influence classique dans l ' art bouddhique de l ' Inde et de l ' Extrême-Orient ( 1905 ), Paris: E. Leroux.

Père Ubu ( later: Ubu Roi ), from a drawing by Alfred Jarry

Tomb of Alfred de Musset in Père Lachaise Cemetery

The group is named after Père Ubu (" father Ubu "), the protagonist of Ubu Roi (" Ubu, the King "), a play by French writer Alfred Jarry.

Victor Baltard also built the slaughter houses and the cattle market of Les Halles de la Villette, as well as the tombs of composer Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wely at the Cimetière du Père Lachaise and jurist Léon Louis Rostand at the Cimetière de Montmartre.