* May 11 – Benvenuto Cellini's Saliera is stolen from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

* Balzac mentions Cellini's Saliera in his 1831 novel La Peau de chagrin.

* May 11 – Benvenuto Cellini's Saliera is stolen from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

28 ; " His whole high, broad form, seemed made of solid bronze, and shaped in an unalterable mould, like Cellini's cast Perseus.

Benvenuto Cellini's Cellini Salt Cellar | Salt Cellar, made in Paris for Francis I of France, 1540-1543 ; Gold, partly covered in enamel, with an ebony base.

For La damnation de Faust, Berlioz drew on Goethe's Faust ; for Harold en Italie, he drew on Byron's Childe Harold ; for Benvenuto Cellini, he drew on Cellini's own autobiography.

Cellini's bronze Perseus with the head of Medusa is certainly a masterpiece, designed with eight angles of view, another Mannerist characteristic, but is indeed mannered compared to the Davids of Michelangelo and Donatello.

The plots of Pierluigi Farnese led to Cellini's retreat from Rome to Florence and Venice, where he was restored with greater honour than before.

Back at Cellini's workshop, his apprentice Ascanio and servant Emilia rejoice in the reprieve (" Our Master Is Free Again "), as Cellini presents an embellished version of his latest duel with Maffio (" I Had Just Been Pardoned ").

Benvenuto Cellini's Perseus with the Head of Medusa.

Benvenuto Cellini's " Nymph of Fontainebleau ", commissioned for the château, is at the Louvre.

Afterwards, the Bandinelli tried to sabotage Cellini's career.

In the attack upon Rome by Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Cellini's bravery proved of signal service to the pontiff.

The intercession of Pierluigi's wife, and especially that of the Cardinal d ' Este of Ferrara, eventually secured Cellini's release, in gratitude for which he gave d ' Este a splendid cup.

His 1843 novel L ' Orfèvre du roi, ou Ascanio is based on Cellini's years in France, centered on Ascanio, an apprentice of Cellini.

* Cellini's life is an occasional point of reference in the writing of Mark Twain.

Cellini's autobiography is one of the books Tom Sawyer mentions as inspiration while freeing Jim in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

* Judy Abbott mentions Benvenuto Cellini's autobiography in Jean Webster's schoolgirl romance novel Daddy-Long-Legs.

In Benvenuto Cellini's " Cellini Salt Cellar | table salt ", extravagant invention and richness of materials overwhelm any practical use.

Back in Florence at Cellini's workshop, Benvenuto and Angela finally consummate their passion.

* Allusions to other works include Ishmael, Cesar, Euripides, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, John Milton's Masque of Comus, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth, Molière's Les Femmes Savantes, Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals, Sophocles's Electra, Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book, John Keats's The Eve of St. Agnes, and Cellini's autobiography.

Cellini's first day on The Golf Channel was January 13, 2003, when he assumed hosting duties from Peter Kessler on Golf Talk.

Cellini's other Golf Channel duties include anchoring the network's flagship news show, Golf Central, and hosting " Top Shelf Wednesday ", a 2-and-a-half hour primetime lineup of shows.

The proposed site for the sculpture, opposite Benvenuto Cellini's statue of Perseus, prompted suggestions that the group should illustrate a theme related to the former work, such as the rape of Andromeda by Phineus.

Image: PerseusSignoriaStatue. jpg | Benvenuto Cellini's statue Perseus With the Head of Medusa

In addition to the bronze statue of Perseus and the medallions already referred to, the works of art in existence today are a medallion of Clement VII commemorating the peace between the Christian princes, 1530, with a bust of the pope on the reverse and a figure of Peace setting fire to a heap of arms in front of the temple of Janus, signed with the artist's name ; a signed portrait medal of Francis ; a medal of Cardinal Pietro Bembo ; and the celebrated gold, enamel and ivory salt-cellar ( known as Saliera ) made for Francis I of France at Vienna.

Saliera was stolen from the Kunsthistorisches Museum on 11 May 2003 by a thief who climbed scaffolding and smashed windows to enter the museum.

On 21 January 2006 the Saliera was recovered by the Austrian police and is supposed to be returned to the Kunsthistorisches Museum in the coming days.

Yet when, at war's end, the ex-Tory made the first move to resume correspondence, Jay wrote him from Paris, where he was negotiating the peace settlement:

The next morning a little cognac made me feel better -- but what can you do in Paris on Sunday morning??

* In 1927, Charles Lindbergh made the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight in an aircraft ( between New York City and Paris ).

The mother of Napoleon, his consort Maria Louise ( as Concord ), to model whom the author made a further journey to Paris in 1810, the princess Esterhazy and the muse Polymnia ( Elisa Bonaparte ) take their place in this class, as do the ideal heads, comprising Corinna, Sappho, Laura, Beatrice and Helen of Troy.

The distinction is most easily made when there are two systems such as New York's subway and the LIRR and Metro-North, Paris ' RER and Métro, London's Overground and the tube lines of the Underground, Barcelona's Metro and Rodalies, S-Bahn and U-Bahn systems in Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich or Vienna, the JR lines and the Metro in Tokyo.

Most imperial powers had not foreseen a need to prepare their colonies for independence ; for example, Britain had given limited self-rule to India and Sri Lanka, while treating British Somaliland as little more than a trading post, while all major decisions for French colonies were made in Paris and Belgium prohibited any self-government up until it suddenly granted independence to its colonies in 1960.

In June 1791, the King made an ill-fated attempt to flee the country ( flight to Varennes ), but was apprehended short of his goal on the Austrian Belgian border and was forced to return under guard to Paris.

He made this claim in a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, at the Paris Peace Conference and at the First Session of the United Nations.

The evidence is found in two early maps, one made by the Portuguese cartographer Pedro Reinel in about 1522, the very first map to show the Falklands, the other a French copy of a Portuguese map bought in Lisbon by André Thévet ( 1516-1590 ), a Franciscan friar and prolific writer on many subjects ; this copy is now in the manuscript of a large unpublished work by Thevet in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

After the Treaty of Paris in 1763, which deprived France of almost all her possessions in the Americas other than Guiana and a few islands, Louis XV sent thousands of settlers to Guiana who were lured there with stories of plentiful gold and easy fortunes to be made.

In France, avant-garde director René Clair made surreal use of song and dance in comedies like Under the Roofs of Paris ( 1930 ) and Le Million ( 1931 ).

While little progress was made toward gender equality during the Revolution, the activism of French feminists was bold and particularly significant in Paris.

Paris soon divided into those who thought he was a charlatan who had been forced to flee from Vienna and those who thought he had made a great discovery.

Clovis made Paris his capital and established the Merovingian Dynasty but his kingdom would not survive his death in 511.

Philip Augustus founded the Sorbonne and made Paris a city for scholars.

The utopian ideals of the founding fathers – social justice and the right to decent work – were changed by diplomatic and political compromises made at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, showing the ILO's balance between idealism and pragmatism.

The architect made three secretive trips to Paris, to determine the feasibility of the project ; only one museum employee knew why he was there.

They ask Paris, a traveling salesman, to judge the cakes they have made for the church social.

His pastels and portraits of his parents and friends, made when he was 15, were later kept in the museum of the Pasteur Institute in Paris.

When various Bolshevik and Menshevik factions tried to re-unite at the January 1910 RSDLP Central Committee meeting in Paris over Lenin's objections, Trotsky's Pravda was made a party-financed ' central organ '.

Protests against the lettres de cachet were made continually by the parlement of Paris and by the provincial parlements, and often also by the Estates-General.

In Paris, in 1779, the Cour des Aides demanded their suppression, and in March 1788 the parlement of Paris made some exceedingly energetic remonstrances, which are important for the light they throw upon old French public law.

Nevertheless, she scored a real triumph in 1850, when she made her operatic debut at the Paris Opéra performing the role of " Fidès " in Meyerbeer's Le prophète, which had been created the year before by no less than Pauline Viardot.

Stitt's playing with the group is found on a recording made in Olympia, Paris ( where Davis and Coltrane had played a few months before ) and the Live in Stockholm album.