* Gaspare Spontini – Fernand Cortez

In his more than twenty operas, Spontini strove to adapt Gluck's classical tragédie lyrique to the contemporary taste for melodrama, for grander spectacle ( in Fernand Cortez for example ), for enriched orchestral timbre, and for melodic invention allied to idiomatic expressiveness of words.

During the Peninsular War, " Napoleon promoted works such as Gasparo Spontini's Fernand Cortez ( 1809 )," which concerned the Spanish conquest of Mexico under the reign of Charles V. Spontini's later opera Olimpie ( 1819, revised 1820, 1826 ) met with indifference, leading him to leave Paris for Prussia, where he became Kapellmeister and chief conductor at the Berlin Hofoper.

* Jean-Paul Penin, Fernand Cortez

Fernand Cortez.

Other opera librettos followed, including Spontini's Fernand Cortez and Cherubini's Abencérages, but none obtained so great a success.

* Fernand Cortez ( 1809 ), opera, in collaboration with J .- A.

These include Spontini's La vestale ( 1807 ) and Fernand Cortez ( 1809, revised 1817 ), Cherubini's Les Abencérages ( 1813 ), and Rossini's Le siège de Corinthe ( 1827 ) and Moïse et Pharaon ( 1828 ).

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

It was during this time that he mentored Fernand Braudel, who would become one of the best-known exponents of this school.

At the time nutmeg was one of the " fine spices " kept expensive in Europe by disciplined manipulation of the market, but a desirable commodity for Dutch traders in the ports of India as well ; economic historian Fernand Braudel notes that India consumed twice as much as Europe.

In 1906 he moved to Paris and became friends with Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, then in 1915 he was painted by his friend, Amedeo Modigliani.

Marangella was born in Washington D. C. and first studied in France with Fernand Eché at the Conservatoire National de Musique d ’ Orléans, and later with Pierre Pierlot, Maurice Bourgue, and Etienne Baudo at the Conservatoire de Paris.

He was good friends with the Cubist artist Fernand Léger.

The Atelier Mourlot originally specialized in the printing of wallpaper, but was transformed when the founder's grandson, Fernand Mourlot, invited a number of 20th-century artists to explore the complexities of fine art printing.

A camera was used to illustrate Jean Rouch's subsequent book " Le Niger En Pirogue " ( Fernand Nathan, 1954 ), as well as Jean Sauvy ’ s “ Descente du Niger ” ( L ' Harmattan 2001 ).

While living in New York, Richter directed two feature films, Dreams That Money Can Buy ( 1947 ) and 8 x 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements ( 1957 ) in collaboration with Max Ernst, Jean Cocteau, Paul Bowles, Fernand Léger, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, and others, which was partially filmed on the lawn of his summer house in Southbury, Connecticut.

It was critically acclaimed by the likes of Maurice Blochot, Michel Serres, Roland Barthes, Gaston Bachelard, and Fernand Braudel, but much to Foucault's upset, largely ignored in the leftist press.

Jean-Pierre Fernand Noël Abbat ( June 17, 1928 – August 1, 1993 ) was, with Dr. Fritz Hartmann, the first person in the USA to manufacture polyurethane.

He was born in Paris and trained at the École des Beaux-Arts and Atelier Fernand Cormon in Montmartre, Paris.

Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin ( 8 May 1903 – 26 February 1971 ), better known as Fernandel, was a French actor and singer.

One often-cited tale is that of Fernand Lachance, from Warwick, Quebec, which claims that poutine was invented there in 1957 ; Lachance is said to have exclaimed ça va faire une maudite poutine (" it will make a damn mess "), hence the name.

The second and perhaps most notable effort was the 1934 film, which was directed by Frenchman Raymond Bernard and starred Raimu in the role of Tartarin, as well as Sinoël, Fernand Charpin and Charles Camus in other principal roles.

The only child of Fernand Destouches and Marguerite-Louise-Céline Guilloux, he was born Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches in 1894 at Courbevoie, just outside Paris in the Seine département ( now Hauts-de-Seine ).

On 6 November, he was back in France, recording the songs " Fernand ", " Les désespérés " ( The despaired ), and " Ces gens-là " ( Those people ) for Barclay.

Hergé was inspired by the Fernand Legros and Elmyr de Hory affair, and incorporated a second element, a new age sect and a phoney guru.

* Endaddine Akass was based on the real-life character of Fernand Legros.

In his essays in social history, written during the 1950s and ' 60s, Trevor-Roper was increasingly influenced by — though he never formally embraced the work of — the French Annales School, especially Fernand Braudel, and did much to introduce the work of the Annales school to the English-speaking world.

The Renault corporation was founded in 1899 as Société Renault Frères by Louis Renault and his brothers Marcel and Fernand.

Louis was to take full control of the company as the only remaining brother in 1906 when Fernand retired for health reasons.

By 1913, her studio was so widely known that Fernand Léger gave two lectures there on the topic of Modern art.

At his home, in 1911, he and his brothers Raymond and Marcel organized a regular discussion group with artists and critics such as Francis Picabia, Robert Delaunay, Fernand Léger and others that was soon dubbed the Puteaux Group.

* Between 1951 and 1960, a succession of famous artists appears: Luis Mariano, Charles Trénet, Charles Aznavour, Line Renaud, Bourvil, Fernand Raynaud, Lena Horne.

* Fernand Dineur: Tif et Tondu ( 1938 – 1951 )

In the 1960s, Robert Mandrou and Georges Duby harmonized the concept of mentalité history with Fernand Braudel's structures of historical time and linked mentalities with changing social conditions.

Some of Restchitzki's results on memory and problem solving have recently been simulated by Fernand Gobet with the CHREST computer model.

In the Armory show Jacques Villon exhibited seven important and large drypoints, his brother Marcel Duchamp shocked the American public with his painting Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 ( 1912 ) and Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Roger de La Fresnaye, Marie Laurencin, Albert Gleizes, and other cubist painters contributed examples of their cubist works.

* The Caress ( 1896 ), by the Belgian symbolist painter Fernand Khnopff ( 1858 – 1921 ), is a representation of the myth of Oedipus and the Sphinx and portrays a creature with a woman's head and a cheetah's body ( often misidentified as a leopard's ).

It foreshadows the work of such Spanish successors as Picasso and Fernand Pelez, who also showed strong sympathy with the lives of traveling saltimbancos.

When Gustave Courbet drew a crayon illustration for The Black Arm ( 1856 ), a pantomime by Fernand Desnoyers written for another mime, Paul Legrand ( see next section ), the Pierrot who quakes with fear as a black arm snakes up from the ground before him is clearly a child of the Pierrot in The Ol ’ Clo's Man.

He invaded the visual arts — not only in the work of Willette, but also in the illustrations and posters of Jules Chéret ; in the engravings of Odilon Redon ( The Swamp Flower: A Sad Human Head ); and in the canvases of Georges Seurat ( Pierrot with a White Pipe ; The Painter Aman-Jean as Pierrot ), Léon Comerre ( Pierrot ), Henri Rousseau ( A Carnival Night ), Paul Cézanne ( Pierrot and Harlequin ), Fernand Pelez ( Grimaces and Miseries a. k. a. The Saltimbanques ), Pablo Picasso ( Pierrot and Columbine ), Guillaume Seignac ( Pierrot's Embrace ), and Edouard Vuillard ( The Black Pierrot 1890 ).

Man Ray also assisted Marcel Duchamp with the cinematography of his film Anemic Cinema ( 1926 ), and Ray personally manned the camera on Fernand Léger's Ballet Mécanique ( 1924 ).

In 1913, with his friends Pinchus Kremegne ( 1890 – 1981 ) and Michel Kikoine ( 1892 – 1968 ), he emigrated to Paris, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Fernand Cormon.

When he arrived there, knowing nobody, he met Amedeo Modigliani, Pascin, Chaim Soutine, and Fernand Léger and became friends with Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse.

He developed a close relationship with Fernand Mourlot and that resulted in the production of over one thousand different lithographic editions.

He therefore developed friendships with Guillaume Apollinaire and other avant-garde luminaries such as Robert Delaunay and Fernand Léger.

The French historian Fernand Braudel, in his famous volume on Mediterranean civilisation, describes the Alps as “ an exceptional range of mountains from the point of view of resources, collective disciplines, the quality of its human population and the number of good roads .” This remarkable human presence in the Alpine region came into being with the population growth and agrarian expansion of the High Middle Ages.

The Count appears first in Rome, where he becomes acquainted with the Baron Franz d ' Épinay, and Viscount Albert de Morcerf, the son of Mercédès and Fernand.

Albert and Mercédès disown Fernand, who is confronted with Dantès ' true identity and commits suicide.

Heavily influenced by George Grosz, Félix Vallotton, Fernand Léger, Eric Gill and, most of all, the narrative woodcuts of Frans Masereel, Harper's style evolved in the 1980s in a bolder, expressionist direction, with much of his later work resembling woodcut, although he mainly works in pen and ink, and watercolour.

Guggenheim's purchases continued with the works of Rudolf Bauer, Fernand Léger, Robert Delaunay, and great artists who were not of the non-objective school, such as Marc Chagall, Albert Gleizes, Pablo Picasso and László Moholy-Nagy.

Likewise, the San Francisco Opera has staged the opera 10 times during its history giving its first performance in 1925, with Marguerite d ' Alvarez and Fernand Ansseau in the principal roles, and its most recent performance in 2008, with Borodina and Clifton Forbis.