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.

Dumas makes explicit reference to Lord Ruthwen in The Count of Monte Cristo, going so far as to state that his character " The Comtesse G ..." had been personally acquainted with Lord Ruthwen.

* The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, père mentions many conspiracy theories based on Borgia.

* The Borgias by Alexandre Dumas, père

The two neighbors took the first ex-aequo prize of the Congress of Documentary Film in 1943, for the first French underwater film: Par dix-huit mètres de fond ( 18 meters deep ), made without breathing apparatus the previous year in the Embiez islands ( Var ) with Philippe Tailliez and Frédéric Dumas, using a depth-pressure-proof camera case developed by mechanical engineer Léon Vèche ( engineer of Arts and Métiers and the Naval College ).

The adventures of this period are told in the two books The Silent World ( 1953, by Cousteau and Dumas ) and Plongées sans câble ( 1954, by Philippe Tailliez ).

* In Alexandre Dumas ' The Three Musketeers, d ' Artagnan escapes prosecution for the death of Milady by means of an ambiguously worded lettre de cachet given to Milady for her own use by the Cardinal de Richelieu.

Due to his cognomen Afer, Terence has long been identified with Africa and heralded as the first poet of the African diaspora by generations of writers, including Juan Latino, Phyllis Wheatley, Alexandre Dumas, Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou.

* The classic novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père takes place in 1628.

* The events of the historical novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas take place in this year, and include fictionalized versions of the Siege of La Rochelle and the assassination of the Duke of Buckingham.

It is based on La dame aux Camélias ( 1852 ), a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils.

In the novel The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, Manon Lescaut is an all-important model and point of comparison for Marguerite's life, loves, and death.

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 Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, père starts during the tail-end of the Napoleonic Wars.

* 1975: Jefferson and His Time by Dumas Malone

The opening exhibition focuses on influential European painters Marlene Dumas, Martin Kippenberger, Luc Tuymans, Peter Doig, Jörg Immendorff, and followed with younger painters including Albert Oehlen, Wilhelm Sasnal and Thomas Scheibitz.

Illegitimacy has for centuries provided a motif and plot element to works of fiction by prominent authors, including William Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Fielding, Voltaire, Jane Austen, Alexandre Dumas, père, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, Alexandre Dumas, fils, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Thomas Hardy, C. S.

In his review for The Atlantic, Timothy J. Gilfoyle called the book " the most comprehensive examination to date of the city's history prior to 1900 ," saying that " Gotham may rank in importance with the multi-volume works on Thomas Jefferson by Dumas Malone and on the Civil War by Allan Nevins.

Dumas Malone went on to become the head of Harvard University Press, one of the nation's leading academic publishers, and completed a Pulitzer Prize-winning six-volume study of Thomas Jefferson when he was past 90 years of age.

Dumas Malone ( January 10, 1892 – December 27, 1986 ) was an American historian, biographer, and editor noted for his six-volume biography on Thomas Jefferson, for which he received the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for history.

M. Dumas is a member of the Emergency Committee for Iraq.

The next agent recruited abroad by the Committee was Charles W. F. Dumas, a Swiss journalist at The Hague.

In addition to Bonaparte himself, Louis Alexandre Berthier, Auguste de Marmont, Jean Lannes, Joachim Murat, Louis Desaix, Jean Reynier, Antoine-François Andréossy, Jean-Andoche Junot, Louis-Nicolas Davout and Dumas were all passengers on the cramped Mediterranean crossing.

In 1948, between missions of mine clearance, underwater exploration and technological and physiological tests, Cousteau undertook a first campaign in the Mediterranean on board the sloop Élie Monnier, with Philippe Tailliez, Frédéric Dumas, Jean Alinat and the scenario writer Marcel Ichac.

Paarfi's old-fashioned, elaborate, and highly verbose writing is explicitly based on Dumas ', though with a dialogue style that is, at times, based on Tom Stoppard's wordgames in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead ( according to Pamela Dean's introduction to Five Hundred Years After ).

He then asked Francesco Maria Piave ( with whom he had already created Ernani, I due Foscari, Macbeth, Il Corsaro and Stiffelio ) to examine the play Kean by Alexandre Dumas, père, but he felt he needed a more energetic subject to work on.

Although La Reine Margot is based on real characters and events, certain aspects of the novel may be inconsistent with the historical record ; historians have attributed this to artistic licence and the fact that Dumas might have been influenced by propaganda against certain characters, notably Catherine.

* The French movies La Reine Margot ( 1954 ) and La Reine Margot ( 1994 ), both based on Alexandre Dumas, père's novel of the same title, are fictional depictions of the lives of Henry III's family, his sister Margot, and her Protestant husband Henry around the time of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.

In 1910, he made his motion picture debut alongside Bernhardt in La dame aux camélias, a silent film made in France based on the play by Alexandre Dumas, fils.

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.

He is also a leading character in The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père and its subsequent film adaptations, portrayed as a main antagonist, and a powerful ruler, even more powerful than the King himself, though events like the Day of the Dupes show that in fact he very much depended on the King's confidence to keep this power.

The local Dumas police stated on CNN that " the feed mill was the local employer and now it is gone ".

As a result, on July 1, 2004, the Gould district merged into the Dumas district.

Window on the Plains Museum, which offers exhibits on Moore County and the Texas Panhandle, is located on South Dumas Avenue, the main thoroughfare.

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