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French and essayist
Chris Marker (; 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012 ) was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist.
" Film theorist Roy Armes has said of him: " Marker is unclassifiable because he is unique ... The French Cinema has its dramatists and its poets, its technicians, and its autobiographers, but only has one true essayist: Chris Marker.
Elements of historicism appear in the writings of Italian philosopher G. B. Vico and French essayist Michel de Montaigne, and became fully developed with the dialectic of G. W. F. Hegel, influential in 19th-century Europe.
Opponents of the Revolution and defenders of religion, most influentially the Irish essayist Edmund Burke, therefore placed the blame for the excesses of the French Revolution directly on the revolutionaries ' misplaced ( as he considered it ) adulation of Rousseau.
* 1873 – Charles Péguy, French poet and essayist ( d. 1914 )
* 2001 – Jacques de Bourbon Busset, French novelist, essayist, and politician ( b. 1912 )
* 1702 – Dominique Bouhours, French essayist and critic ( b. 1628 )
* 1937 – Pierre-Jean Rémy, French diplomat, novelist and essayist ( d. 2010 )
Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry (; 30 October 1871 – 20 July 1945 ) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher.
* September 13 – Michel de Montaigne, French essayist ( b. 1533 )
* February 28 – Michel de Montaigne, French essayist ( d. 1592 )
Georges Perec ( 7 March 1936 – 3 March 1982 ) was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist and essayist.
Though most of Provence, with the exception of Marseille, Aix and Avignon, was rural, conservative and largely royalist, it did produce some memorable figures in the French Revolution ; Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau from Aix, who tried to moderate the Revolution, and turn France into a constitutional monarchy like England ; the Marquis de Sade from Lacoste in the Luberon, who was a Deputy from the far left in the National Assembly ; Charles Barbaroux from Marseille, who sent a battalion of volunteers to Paris to fight in the French Revolutionary Army ; and Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès ( 1748 – 1836 ), an abbé, essayist and political leader, who was one of the chief theorists of the French Revolution, French Consulate, and First French Empire, and who, in 1799, was the instigator of the coup d ' état of 18 Brumaire, which brought Napoleon to power.
Nancy Louise Huston, OC ( born September 16, 1953 ) is a Canadian-born novelist and essayist who writes primarily in French and translates her own works into English.
Léon-Paul Fargue ( 4 March 187624 November 1947 ) was a French poet and essayist.
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux ( 29 October 1882 – 31 January 1944 ) was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright.
Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, a poet, playwright, essayist, translator and contemporary to Antiokh Kantemir, also found himself deeply entrenched in Enlightenment conventions in his work with the Russian Academy of Sciences and his groundbreaking translations of French and classical works to the Russian language.
It has recently been discovered that the term " sociology "a term considered coined by Comte – had already been introduced in 1780, albeit with a different meaning, by the French essayist Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès ( 1748 – 1836 ).
Jean de La Bruyère () ( 16 August 1645 – 10 May 1696 ) was a French essayist and moralist.

French and Montaigne
* 1533 – Michel de Montaigne, French writer ( d. 1592 )
Philosophical ideas in Hamlet are similar to those of the French writer Michel de Montaigne, a contemporary of Shakespeare's.
Hamlet reflects the contemporary scepticism promoted by the French Renaissance humanist, Montaigne.
The French philosopher Montaigne wrote of a dance he saw in 1580 in Augsburg, where the dancers held each other so closely that their faces touched.
The word was derived from the French word embarrasser, " to block " or " to obstruct ", or figuratively, " to put one in a difficult situation ".< sup > 6 </ sup > whose first recorded usage was by Michel de Montaigne in 1580.
Impressed by Proudhon's corrections of one of his Latin manuscripts, Fallot sought out his friendship, and the two were soon regularly spending their evenings together discussing French literature by Montaigne, Rabelais, Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, and many other authors to whom Proudhon had not been exposed during his years of theological readings.
A writer in Europe to condemn cruelty to animals as a wrong in itself was the French essayist, Montaigne ( 1533 – 1599 ).
Since the Renaissance French philosophy has been continuously influenced by Sextus: Montaigne in the 16th century, Pierre-Daniel Huet and François de La Mothe Le Vayer in the 17th century, many of the " Philosophes ," and in recent times controversial figures such as Michel Onfray, in a direct line of filiation between Sextus ' radical skepticism and secular or even radical atheism.
The French author Montaigne ( 1533 – 1592 ) in one of the most celebrated of his essays (" On experience ") expressed the benefits of living with a clear conscience: " Our duty is to compose our character, not to compose books, to win not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
The English term " public opinion " dates back to the eighteenth century and has derived from the French l ’ opinion, which was first used in 1588 by Montaigne.
* September 13-Michel de Montaigne, French essayist ( born 1533 )
Forty-two discs have been released as part of the ensemble ’ s series on the French label Naïve Montaigne.
The word was derived from the French word embarrasser, " to block ," or " obstruct ",< sup > 1 </ sup > whose first recorded usage was by Michel de Montaigne in 1580.
Michel de Montaigne ( 1533 – 1592 ), French Catholic essayist and statesman, moderated between the Catholic and Protestant sides in the Wars of Religion.
Montaigne said of him, " I give the palm to Jacques Amyot over all our French writers, not only for the simplicity and purity of his language in which he surpasses all others, nor for his constancy to so long an undertaking, nor for his profound learning ... but I am grateful to him especially for his wisdom in choosing so valuable a work.
Other books by him which indicate his interests in literature include: Robert Southey ( in the " English Men of Letters " series, 1880 ), his edition of Southey's Correspondence with Caroline Bowles ( 1881 ), and Select Poems of Southey ( 1895 ), his Correspondence of Sir Henry Taylor ( 1888 ), his edition of Wordsworth's Poetical Works ( 1892 ) and of his Lyrical Ballads ( 1890 ), his French Revolution and English Literature ( 1897 ; lectures given at Princeton University in 1896 ), History of French Literature ( 1897 ), Puritan and Anglican ( 1900 ), Robert Browning ( 1904 ) and Michel de Montaigne ( 1905 ).
In French, the modern pronunciation of the 16th century French author Montaigne as, rather than the contemporary, is a spelling pronunciation.
Middle French is the language found in the writings of François Villon, Clément Marot, Rabelais, Montaigne, Ronsard, and the poets of the Pléiade.

French and who
I worked for my Uncle ( an Uncle by marriage so you will not think this has a mild undercurrent of incest ) who ran one of those antique shops in New Orleans' Vieux Carre, the old French Quarter.
Sure enough, mail began trickling in, delivered by a talkative, highly amused French postman who informed me there had been quite a debate at the post office as to whether that address would be recognized.
When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.
This lofty disregard for others was not shared by such men as Pierre Flotte and his associates, that `` brilliant group of mediocre men '', as Powicke calls them, who provided the brains for the French embassy that came to Rome under the nominal leadership of the archbishop of Narbonne, the duke of Burgundy, and the count of St.-Pol.
He cites the French Revolution as typifying this rigidity but makes no mention of the Italians, who have been able to adapt to all types of circumstances.
`` Remember the French railroad baron who was going to take me floating down the Nile ''??
A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.
`` Do you remember the woman in the French Alps who was all alone with her sheep one day when the sun darkened ominously??
Aging but still precocious, French feline enfant terrible Francoisette Lagoon has succeeded in shocking jaded old Paris again, this time with a sexy ballet scenario called The Lascivious Interlude, the story of a nymphomaniac trip-hammer operator who falls hopelessly in love with a middle-aged steam shovel.
One who needed no such threats was a French financier.
This is important because, despite all the efforts of the French government, an appreciable segment of France's export trade in wines is still tainted with a misrepresentation approaching downright dishonesty, and there are many too many negociants who would rather turn a sou than amass a creditable reputation overseas.
Marcel Griaule and Michel Leiris are examples of people who combined anthropology with the French avant-garde.
The most important French social theorist since Foucault and Lévi-Strauss is Pierre Bourdieu, who trained formally in philosophy and sociology and eventually held the Chair of Sociology at the Collège de France.
He taught French for a year at Eton, where Eric Blair ( later to become George Orwell ) and Stephen Runciman were among his pupils, but was remembered as an incompetent and hopeless teacher who couldn ’ t keep discipline.
In the past, a defendant who refused to plead ( or " stood mute ") was subject to peine forte et dure ( Law French for " strong and hard punishment ").
" American shot " is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, " plan américain " and refers to a medium-long (" knee ") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera.
Many people, however, became members of the French Resistance, and they are the allegorical equivalents of the voluntary sanitary teams in the novel, such as Tarrou, Rambert, and Grand, who fight back against the unspeakable evil ( the Nazi occupiers ).
Poirot also bears a striking resemblance to A. E. W. Mason's fictional detective — Inspector Hanaud of the French Sûreté — who, first appearing in the 1910 novel At the Villa Rose, predates the writing of the first Poirot novel by six years.
Alexis Carrel ( June 28, 1873 – November 5, 1944 ) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques.
André-Marie Ampère ( 20 January 1775 – 10 June 1836 ) was a French physicist and mathematician who is generally regarded as one of the main founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as " electrodynamics ".
According to a 16th century French poem, Dionysus, the god of intoxication, and of wine, was pursuing a maiden named Amethystos, who refused his affections.
* 1513 – Battle of Guinegate ( Battle of the Spurs ) – King Henry VIII of England and his Imperial allies defeat French Forces who are then forced to retreat.
From the ages of 6 to 9, Alexei was educated by his tutor Vyazemsky, but after the removal of his mother by Peter the Great to the Suzdal Intercession Convent, Alexei was confined to the care of educated foreigners, who taught him history, geography, mathematics and French.
* Infante Jaime Luitpold Isabelino Enrique Alberto Alfonso Victor Acacio Pedro Maria of Spain ( 1908 – 1975 ), a deaf-mute as the result of a childhood operation, he renounced his rights to the throne in 1933 and became Duke of Segovia, and later Duke of Madrid, and who, as a legitimist pretender to the French throne from 1941 to 1975, was known as the Duke of Anjou.
Andrew's first mission to the East was when he was asked by the French king Louis IX to go and fetch the Crown of Thorns which had been sold to him by the Latin Emperor of Constantinople Baldwin II in 1238, who was anxious to obtain support for his tottering empire.

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