Francois Boucher was the 18th century painter and engraver whose works are regarded as the perfect expression of French taste in the Rococo period.

Trained by his father who was a lace designer, Boucher won fame with his sensuous and light-hearted mythological paintings and landscapes.

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He overcame the opposition, and went to learn from François Boucher ( 1703 – 1770 ), the leading painter of the time, who was also a distant relative.

Boucher was a Rococo painter, but tastes were changing, and the fashion for Rococo was giving way to a more classical style.

Eric Boucher was born in Boulder, Colorado, to parents Stanley Boucher, a psychiatric social worker and poet, and Virginia Boucher, a librarian.

In 2009 some experts in Hendrix's guitars questioned whether the guitar Boucher bought was in fact an elaborate forgery.

Interleaf was founded by David Boucher and Harry George in 1981.

François Boucher () ( 29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770 ) was a French painter, a proponent of Rococo taste, known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories representing the arts or pastoral occupations, intended as a sort of two-dimensional furniture.

Born in Paris, the son of a lace designer Nicolas Boucher, François Boucher was perhaps the most celebrated decorative artist of the 18th century, with most of his work reflecting the Rococo style.

At the young age of 17, Boucher was apprenticed by his father to François Lemoyne, but after only three months he went to work for the engraver Jean-François Cars.

The dark-haired version of the Odalisque portraits prompted claims by Diderot that Boucher was " prostituting his own wife ", and the Blonde Odalisque was a portrait that illustrated the extramarital relationships of the King.

" Writing in The New York Times, Anthony Boucher — described by a Fleming biographer, John Pearson as " throughout an avid anti-Bond and an anti-Fleming man "— was again damning of Fleming's work, saying " it's harder than ever to see why an ardent coterie so admires Ian Fleming's tales ".

" Admitting " a certain reservation, even disappointment ," Anthony Boucher nevertheless concluded that Heinlein was " simply creating an agreeably entertaining light novel, and in that task he succeeds admirably.

As a critic of art, his recommendation of a young artist named François Boucher appeared in a design memorandum Bachaumont presented the duc de Bouillon, who was occupied with renovating interiors at the Château de Navarre in Normandy, in 1730: " he is very quick, works fast and is not expensive ".

The script editor was Chris Boucher.

Script editor Chris Boucher, whose influence on the series grew as it progressed, was inspired by Central American and South American revolutionaries, especially Zapata, in exploring Blake and his followers ' motives and the consequences of their actions.

David Maloney, an experienced BBC director, was assigned to produce the series and Chris Boucher was engaged as script editor.

Lester Patrick stepped down as head coach and was replaced by Frank Boucher.

Boucher also became the principal designer for the royal porcelain factory and the director of the Gobelins tapestry factory.

He also had a sister, Julie J. Boucher, the Associate Director of the Library Research Service at the Colorado State Library ( who died in a mountain-climbing accident on October 12, 1996 ).< ref >

He also encountered the painting of François Lemoine and Boucher.

Paintings such as The Breakfast of 1739, a family scene, also show Boucher as a master of the genre scene, as he regularly used his own wife and family as models.

Along with his painting, Boucher also designed theatre costumes and sets, and the ardent intrigues of the comic operas of Favart ( 1710 – 1792 ) closely parallel his own style of painting.

Boucher and McComas characterized The Puppet Masters as " a thunderously exciting melodrama of intrigue ", noting that Heinlein displayed " not only his usual virtues of clear logic, rigorous detail-work, and mastery of indirect exposition ", but also unexpected virtues like " a startling facility in suspense devices a powerful ingenuity in plotting ".

Anthony Boucher praised the volume as " a masterly narration of tremendous and terrible climactic events ," although he also noted that Tolkien's prose " seems sometimes to be protracted for its own sake.

Stevens also produced a series of audio dramas called Kaldor City, created by Chris Boucher, which link the Blake's 7 universe into Boucher's Doctor Who serial The Robots of Death through the character Carnell ( Scott Fredericks ), whom Boucher created for the Blake's 7 episode Weapon.

A different history of the cookie derives from George Boucher, who was at one time head chef at the Toll House Inn, and his daughter, Carol Cavanagh, who also worked there.

Robert R Kirsch, writing in the Los Angeles Times, also disagreed with Boucher, saying that " the espionage novel has been brought up to date by a superb practitioner of that nearly lost art: Ian Fleming.

However, Deyts notes that the bronze Gallo-Roman statue of a woman in a short belted tunic, riding a boar sidesaddle and holding a knife ( Boucher fig. 292, or here ), bears no inscription, and was simply assumed to be Arduinna by the 19th century antiquarian who discovered it — perhaps because the modern symbol of the Ardennes region is also a boar ( Deyts 1992, pp. 46 – 47 ).

Triplett was also a one time candidate opposing Congressman Rick Boucher for the Virginia's 9th Congressional District seat.

His principal works were De Regno et Regali Potestate ( 1600 ), a strenuous defence of the rights of kings, in which he refutes the doctrines of those he coins monarchomachs: George Buchanan, “ Junius Brutus ” ( Hubert Languet or Philippe de Mornay ) and Jean Boucher ; and De Potestate Papae ( 1609 ), in opposition to the usurpation of temporal powers by the pope, which called forth the celebrated reply of Cardinal Bellarmine ; also commentaries on some of the titles of the Pandects.

The rusticity found in French Picturesque gardens is also derived from an admiration of Dutch 17th century landscape painting and works of French 18th century artists Claude-Henri Watelet, François Boucher and Hubert Robert.

The collection consists in approximatively 2, 000 paintings ( including pictures by Nicolas Poussin, Anthony Van Dyck, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Hubert Robert and Ingres ), 600 pieces of decorative arts, 600 architectural elements, nearly 15, 000 medals, 3, 700 sculptures, 20, 000 drawings including works by Paolo Veronese, Primaticcio, Jacques Bellange, Michelangelo, Charles Le Brun, Nicolas Poussin, Claude Gellée, Dürer, Rembrandt, Ingres, François Boucher or Pierre Alechinsky, 45, 000 architectural drawings, 100, 000 etchings and engravings, 70, 000 photographs ( mainly form the period 1850-1914 ), 65, 000 books dating from the 15th to the 20th century ( 3, 500 for the 15th and 16th centuries ), and 1, 000 handwritten pieces of archive ( letters, inventories, notes ...) and also 390 important fragments or complete illuminated manuscripts.

In addition to " Anthony Boucher ," White also employed the pseudonym " H. H. Holmes ," which was the name of a late 19th-Century American serial killer.

Boucher also edited the long-running Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction anthology series, 1952-1959.

Boucher also scripted for radio and was involved in many other activities, as described by William F. Nolan in his essay, " Who Was Anthony Boucher?

Ottawa and the valley are also the home of such outstanding players as Frank Nighbor, Aurel Joliat, Frank " King " Clancy, Frank Boucher, Kurtis Foster and Denis Potvin ; the latter was the star defenceman of the New York Islanders dynasty of the late 1970s.

In 1743 the impresario Jean Monnet paid 12, 000 livres to the Opéra for the right to run the Opéra-Comique, He renovated the theatre and brought together a group of highly talented creative artists, including, besides Favart, who also worked as a stage director, the comedian Préville, the stage designer François Boucher, and the ballet master Dupré and his pupil Jean-Georges Noverre.

Criticisms aimed at Boucher also claimed he was not as defensively reliable or physical as other professional defencemen his size.

* 1973 – Philippe Boucher, Canadian hockey player

Boucher held the Canadian record for most medals won at a single Olympics, winning three at the 1984 Winter Olympics.

French immigrants to the United States ( both those of Huguenot and those of French Canadian background ) often accommodated those unfamiliar with French pronunciations and spellings by altering their surnames in either of two ways: spellings were changed to fit the traditional pronunciation ( Pariseau became Parizo, Boucher became Bushey, Mailloux became Mayhew ), or pronunciations were changed to fit the spelling ( Benoît, pronounced, became ).

Havre Boucher () is a Canadian village in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia.

The construction of the Canso Causeway, which opened in 1955, saw the Canadian National Railway mainline from Truro-Sydney diverted from Linwood north through Havre Boucher and Cape Jack, before following the Strait of Canso to the causeway.

Philippe Boucher ( born March 24, 1973 ) is a retired French Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League.

* Joseph-Claude Boucher, Chevalier de Niverville, Canadian fur trader and explorer.

Matt Stairs, Denis Boucher and Shawn Hill are the only other Canadian players to achieve that goal.

François-Xavier " Raffles " Boucher ( October 7, 1901 – December 12, 1977 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and executive.

Boucher inherited some of his athletic ability from his father Tom, who played rugby football for the Ottawa Rough Riders, winning Canadian championships in 1894, 1896, 1897 and 1901, playing alongside Tom " King " Clancy, whose son was the famous hockey player King Clancy.

After World War I, Boucher joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and moved west.

John Georges " Buck " Boucher ( August 19, 1896 – October 17, 1960 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played for the Ottawa Senators, Montreal Maroons, and Chicago Black Hawks in the National Hockey League.

Their father Tom Boucher, played rugby football, winning the Canadian championship in 1894, 1896, 1897 and 1901.

Boucher started his professional athletic career in football as halfback for the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League.

There are also Bouchers descended from Marin Boucher in Louisiana, either of Acadian ( Cadien or Cajun ) descent or more directly descended from the Canadian ( Quebec ) lines.

* Thomas LaForest, Our French Canadian Ancestors, Volume 4 Chapter 7 " Marin Boucher "

It is named after Pierre Boucher, an early Canadian settler who studied under and worked with the Jesuit missions in Georgian Bay.

Boucher was twice governor of Trois Rivieres, and the first Canadian settler to be ennobled under King Louis XIV.