In May 2007 the executor of his widow's estate, French foreign minister Roland Dumas, was convicted of illegally selling Giacometti's works to a top auctioneer.

In April, the officers were acquitted of all charges, and on 9 May 1831, a banquet was held in their honor, with many illustrious people present, such as Alexandre Dumas.

As to his opponent in the duel, Alexandre Dumas names Pescheux d ' Herbinville, one of the nineteen artillery officers whose acquittal was celebrated at the banquet that occasioned Galois ' first arrest and du Motel's fiancé.

However, Dumas is alone in this assertion, and extant newspaper clippings from only a few days after the duel give a description of his opponent that more accurately applies to one of Galois ' Republican friends, most probably Ernest Duchatelet, who was imprisoned with Galois on the same charges.

The latter was based on Alexandre Dumas, fils ' play The Lady of the Camellias, and became the most popular of all Verdi's operas, placing first in the Operabase list of most performed operas worldwide.

Straddle-jumper Charles Dumas was the first to clear 2. 13 m ( or 7 feet ) in 1956, and American John Thomas pushed the world mark to in 1960.

This event was immortalized in Alexandre Dumas ' novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne, part of the D ' Artagnan Romances ( D ' Artagnan is one of the Mousquetaires du Roi, or Three Musketeers, in this series ).

The Willis Building ( Ipswich ) | Willis Faber and Dumas Headquarters in Ipswich was one of Foster's earliest commissions after founding Foster Associates.

Foster and Partners ' breakthrough building in the UK was the Willis Faber & Dumas headquarters in Ipswich, of 1974.

* The Lady of the Camellias was a novel about a courtesan by French author Alexandre Dumas, fils that was turned into the opera La Traviata by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi.

The result was editions of Alexandre Dumas ' adventure books.

" The funeral was attended by " almost every writer in Paris ", including Frédérick Lemaître, Gustave Courbet, Dumas père and Dumas fils.

This was followed by revivals of Racine's Phèdre ( 24 February ), Octave Feuillet's Dalila ( 8 March ), Gaston de Wailly's Patron Bénic ( 14 March ), Edmond Rostand's La Samaritaine ( 25 March ), and Alexandre Dumas fils's La Dame aux Camélias on 9 April.

Zola was initially buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris but on 4 June 1908, almost six years after his death, his remains were moved to the Panthéon, where he shares a crypt with Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas.

On Berlioz's return to Paris, a concert including Symphonie fantastique ( which had been extensively revised in Italy ) and Le retour à la vie was performed, with among others in attendance: Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Heinrich Heine, Niccolò Paganini, Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, George Sand, Alfred de Vigny, Théophile Gautier, Jules Janin and Harriet Smithson.

A proposal was made to remove his remains to the Panthéon, and while initially encouraged by French President Jacques Chirac, it was postponed by him, claimed to be because it was too shortly after Alexandre Dumas was moved there.

Berlioz was on the verge of producing his most Romantic works — as were the writers Vigny, Dumas, Gautier and several others in attendance that night.

In 1829, he became a professor of physics at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures that was being founded by the businessman Alphonse Lavallée, by Péclet, and by three other scientists, Philippe Benoît, Jean-Baptiste Dumas and Théodore Olivier.

After performing in various European capitals, she settled in Paris, where she was accepted in the rather Bohemian literary society of the time, being acquainted with Alexandre Dumas, père, with whom she was rumoured to have had a dalliance.

* A baldric features prominently in Chapter 4 of Alexandre Dumas, père's The Three Musketeers, in which D ' Artagnan has his nearly-disastrous first encounters with Porthos ( who is wearing one ), Aramis, and Athos.

Other writers who have been influenced by the Nights include John Barth, Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, Goethe, Walter Scott, Thackeray, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Nodier, Flaubert, Marcel Schwob, Stendhal, Dumas, Gérard de Nerval, Gobineau, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Hofmannsthal, Conan Doyle, W. B. Yeats, H. G. Wells, Cavafy, Calvino, Georges Perec, H. P. Lovecraft, Marcel Proust, A. S. Byatt and Angela Carter.

The Parisian courtesan Marie Duplessis, who died young in 1847 inspired Dumas ' La Dame aux camélias and Verdi's La Traviata.

The École was founded in 1829 on a private initiative by Alphonse Lavallée, who became its first president, and three scientist associates: Eugène Peclet, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, and Théodore Olivier.

Author Alexandre Dumas, père possessed one-fourth black Haitian descent, and Empress Josephine Napoleon who was born and raised in the French West Indies from a plantation estate family.

Composed in the late 1920s by Phil Baxter ( a native Texan who lived for a time in Dumas ) and Carl Moore, the song has also sometimes been claimed by Dumas in Desha County in southeastern Arkansas.

James Whale's film The Man in the Iron Mask is very loosely adapted from Dumas ' novel and, by contrast, depicts Fouquet as the story's main villain, who tries to keep the existence of the King's twin brother a secret.

The couple had two daughters: Marie-Alexandrine-Henriette Dumas, born 20 November 1860, who married Maurice Lippmann and was the mother of Serge Napoléon Lippmann ( 1886 – 1975 ) and Auguste Alexandre Lippmann ( 1881 – 1960 ); and Jeanine Dumas ( 3 May 1867 – 1943 ), who married Ernest d ' Hauterive ( 1864 – 1957 ), son of George Lecourt d ' Hauterive and his wife Léontine de Leusse.

When Alexandre Dumas wrote The Three Musketeers he also was a practising fencer and like many other French gentlemen of his generation he attended the schools for Canne de combat and Savate of Michel Casseux, Charles Lecour and Joseph Charlemont ( who had been a regular fencing instructor in the French army ).

The most recent and now standard English translation is by Richard Pevear ( 2006 ), who in his introduction notes that most of the modern translations available today are " textbook examples of bad translation practices " which " give their readers an extremely distorted notion of Dumas ' writing.

When Napoleon Bonaparte returned from Elba in the Hundred Days ( 1815 ), Dumas at first kept himself in retirement, but Joseph Bonaparte persuaded him to present himself to the Emperor, who employed him in organising the National Guard.

In Dumas ' novel, Felton is a servant in Lord de Winter's household, who is entrusted to guard the fictional Milady de Winter.

Dumas constructs the plot around the notion that the Man in the Iron Mask is the twin brother of Louis XIV, Philippe, who had been concealed and imprisoned from birth by his father, Louis XIII, and his mother, Anne of Austria, " for the good of France ".

This attitude can be observed in numerous novels and films, for instance in Alexandre Dumas, père's The Three Musketeers or in the film La veuve de Saint-Pierre ( The Widow of Saint-Peter ) in which executioners, who are minor characters, were ostracized by villagers.

The opening exhibition focused on established European painters, including Marlene Dumas, Martin Kippenberger, Luc Tuymans and Peter Doig, who had not previously received such significant U. K. exposure.

Set during World War II in occupied Paris, and inspired by the romantic novel The Lady of the Camellias ( by Alexandre Dumas, fils ), Marguerite is about the mistress of a high-ranking German officer who attracts the love of a pianist half her age.

Set during World War II in occupied Paris, and inspired by the romantic novel La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, Marguerite is about the mistress of a high-ranking German officer who attracts the love of a musician half her age.

Among the writers who lived in Saint-Maur are: François Rabelais, La Rochefoucauld, Boileau, Raymond Radiguet, Madame de Sévigné, Madame de La Fayette, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, père and ‘ Quo Vadis ’ author Henryk Sienkiewicz.

Auch is known for its Renaissance Cathédrale Sainte-Marie with its magnificent organ, carved stalls and rose stained-glass windows, La Tour d ' Armagnac – a 14th century prison, as well as a statue of d ' Artagnan who was based on the real life person, Charles de Batz, Comte d ' Artagnan born nearby in the château de Castelmore, and written about by Alexandre Dumas.

At the time, the president of the council was Roland Dumas, who later had to retire from his functions because of his implication in the Elf Aquitaine scandal.

The witticism, attributed to various modernist architects, that had he to choose any place in New Haven to live he would select the Harkness Tower, for then he " would not have to look at it ," is apparently apocryphal, derivative of a similar story told of Alexandre Dumas and the Eiffel Tower.

He dismissed the First and Second Dumas when they proved " unsatisfactory " to him, and unilaterally altered the election statutes ( in violation of the constitution ) to ensure that more landed persons would be elected to future Dumas.

The Adelaide Festival began with efforts by Sir Lloyd Dumas in the late 1950s to establish a major arts festival that would bring to South Australia world-class cultural exhibitions.

Over the next decades, Adler would play in ( or, in some cases, merely produce ) numerous plays by Gordin, but also classics by Shakespeare, Schiller, Lessing ; Eugène Scribe's La Juive ; dramatizations of George du Maurier's Trilby and Alexandre Dumas, fils ' Camille ; and the works of modern playwrights such as Gorky, Ibsen, Shaw, Strindberg, Gerhart Hauptmann, Victor Hugo, Victorien Sardou, and Leonid Andreyev.

Nikolai Gogol, Alexandre Dumas, and Alexis Tolstoy all produced vampire tales, and themes in Polidori's tale would continue to influence Bram Stoker's Dracula and eventually the whole vampire genre.

" Dumas Malone stated that " modern scientific progress would have been impossible without the freedom of the mind which he championed throughout life.

Early in 1944 Dumas wrote to the Commonwealth Government, advising of the soil, botanical, erosion and engineering surveys about to take place in the East Kimberley, explaining, the project must become largely a national one and any assistance from the Commonwealth would be welcome.

Dumas told Forbes magazine that the equity sale would help lessen family tensions by allowing some members to liquidate their holdings without " squabbling over share valuations among themselves.