Two of the most notable elements of the new structure are the winding white interior staircase and the external sculptural stone relief of a bird relating to Georges Braque's painting Bird from the museum's collection.

These " modernist " landmarks include the atonal ending of Arnold Schoenberg's Second String Quartet in 1908, the expressionist paintings of Wassily Kandinsky starting in 1903 and culminating with his first abstract painting and the founding of the Blue Rider group in Munich in 1911, and the rise of fauvism and the inventions of cubism from the studios of Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and others in the years between 1900 and 1910.

* French — Burguet, Paul Henry: The Imprint, or The Red Hand ( 1908 ; Gaston Séverin plays Pierrot ); Carné, Marcel: Children of Paradise ( 1945 ; see above under The Pantomime of Deburau at the Théâtre des Funambules ); Carré fils, Michel: The Prodigal Son a. k. a. Pierrot the Prodigal ( 1907 ; the first feature-length film and the first film of a stage-play Carré's pantomime of 1890 ; George Wague plays Pierrot père ); Feuillade, Louis: Pierrot's Projector ( 1909 ), Pierrot, Pierrette ( 1924 ); Guitry, Sacha: Deburau ( 1951 ; based upon Guitry's own stage-play # Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues | Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues above ); Guy, Alice: Pierrot, Murderer ( 1904 ); Leprince, René: Pierrot Loves Roses ( 1910 ); Méliès, Georges: By Moonlight, or The Unfortunate Pierrot ( 1904 ).

* French — Fourest, Georges: " The Blonde Negress " ( 1909 ); Klingsor, Tristan: " By Moonlight " ( 1908 ), " At the Fountain " ( 1913 ); Magre, Maurice: " The Two Pierrots " ( 1913 ); Rouault, Georges: Funambules ( 1926 ).

The earliest cinematic version was a short, filmed in 1908 by the legendary and influential magician-cum-director, Georges Méliès.

Anarcho-syndicalist Georges Sorel advocated the use of violence as a form of direct action, calling it " revolutionary violence ", which he opposed in Reflections on Violence ( 1908 ) to the violence inherent in class struggle.

In 1908 they delivered to France's Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau a petition that expressed opposition under the status quo to a proposed policy to conscript Muslim Algerians into the French army.

Also in 1908, Metzinger exhibited at Galerie Notre-Dame-des-Champs ( Paris ) with Georges Braque, Sonia Delaunay, André Derain, Raoul Dufy, Auguste Herbin, Jules Pascin and Pablo Picasso.

In 1908 Metzinger frequented the Bateau Lavoir and exhibited with Georges Braque at Berthe Weill's gallery ( Joann Moser, Pre-Cubist works, 1904 – 1909 ).

20th century erotic fiction includes such classics of the genre as: Suburban Souls ( 1901 ), published by Carrington and possibly written by him also ; The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt ( issued in three volumes 1902, 1903, 1906 ), probably by George Reginald Bacchus, printed by Duringe of Paris for Leonard Smithers in London ; Josephine Mutzenbacher ( 1906 ) by Felix Salten ; Sadopaideia ( 1907 ) by Anon ( possibly Algernon Charles Swinburne ); Les Mémoires d ' un jeune Don Juan ( 1907 ) and the somewhat disturbing Les onze mille verges ( 1907 ) by Guillaume Apollinaire ; The Way of a Man with a Maid ( 1908 ) and A Weekend Visit by Anon ; Pleasure Bound Afloat ( 1908 ), Pleasure Bound Ashore ( 1909 ) and Maudie ( 1909 ) by Anon ( probably George Reginald Bacchus ); Manuel de civilité pour les petites filles à l ' usage des maisons d ' éducation ( 1917 ) and Trois filles de leur mère ( 1926 ) by Pierre Louys ; Story of the Eye ( 1928 ) by Georges Bataille ; Tropic of Cancer ( 1934 ) and Tropic of Capricorn ( 1938 ) by Henry Miller ; The Story of O ( 1954 ) by Pauline Réage ; Helen and Desire ( 1954 ) and Thongs ( 1955 ) by Alexander Trocchi ; Ada, or Ardor ( 1969 ) by Vladimir Nabokov ; Journal ( 1966 ), Delta of Venus ( 1978 ) and Little Birds ( 1979 ) by Anaïs Nin and The Bicycle Rider ( 1985 ) by Guy Davenport.

For example, the concept of direct action itself continued to be central in the libertarian socialist movement, in particular in the anarcho-syndicalism movement through the concept of the " revolutionary strike " inspired by French theorist Georges Sorel's Reflections on Violence ( 1908 ).

* La Décomposition du Marxisme ( Paris, 1908 ); translation as The Decomposition of Marxism by Irving Louis Horowitz in his Radicalism and the Revolt against Reason ; The Social Theories of Georges Sorel ( Humanities Press, 1961 ; Southern Illinois University Press, 1968 ).

* Rude Awakening ( 1908 film ), directed by Georges Méliès

Georges Valensi ( born May 1, 1908 ) was a French telecommunications engineer who, in 1938, invented and patented a method of transmitting color images so that they could be received on both color and black & white television sets.

Among early modernist non-literary landmarks is the atonal ending of Arnold Schoenberg's Second String Quartet in 1908, the Expressionist paintings of Wassily Kandinsky starting in 1903 and culminating with his first abstract painting and the founding of the Expressionist Blue Rider group in Munich in 1911, and the rise of fauvism and the inventions of cubism from the studios of Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and others in the years between 1900 and 1910.

Houses built on the southern side of St Georges Terrace included market gardens which ran to the waters edge.

In 1924, Arthur Eddington showed that the singularity disappeared after a change of coordinates ( see Eddington – Finkelstein coordinates ), although it took until 1933 for Georges Lemaître to realize that this meant the singularity at the Schwarzschild radius was an unphysical coordinate singularity.

He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54.

Kurt Schwitters developed what he called sound poems, while Francis Picabia and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes composed Dada music performed at the Festival Dada in Paris on 26 May 1920.

* 1910 – Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.

Georges Mathias, his professor of piano at the Conservatoire, described his pupil's piano technique in flatly negative terms, " insignificant and laborious " and " worthless ".

This film was among those exported to Europe with the first Kinetoscope machines in 1895, and was seen by Georges Méliès, who was putting on magic shows in his Theatre Robert-Houdin in Paris at the time.

In competition at Cannes alongside Antonioni ’ s L ’ Avventura, the film won the Palme d ' Or awarded by presiding juror Georges Simenon.

After a time at the Lenin Barracks in Barcelona he was sent to the relatively quiet Aragon Front under Georges Kopp.

On 17 March 1649 a French expedition of 203 men from Martinique, led by Jacques Dyel du Parquet who had been the Governor of Martinique on behalf of the Compagnie des Iles de l ' Amerique ( Company of the Isles of America ) since 1637, landed at St. Georges Harbour and constructed a fortified settlement, which they named Fort Annunciation.

* On 20 September 1998, Hurricane Georges pounded the islands, decimated the banana crops at nearly 100 %.

Georges Prosper Remi was born at 7: 30 in the morning of 22 May 1907 in his parents ' home in Etterbeek, Brussels, a central suburb in the capital city of Belgium.

On finishing school in 1925, Georges worked at the Catholic newspaper Le XXe Siècle under editor and Catholic priest, Norbert Wallez.

* Anthology, 4 CD containing numerous poems and texts read by the author, Anna la bonne, La Dame de Monte-Carlo and Mes sœurs, n ' aimez pas les marins by Marianne Oswald, Le Bel Indifférent by Edith Piaf, La Voix humaine by Berthe Bovy, Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel with Jean Le Poulain, Jacques Charon and Jean Cocteau, discourse on the reception at the Académie française, with extracts from Les Parents terribles, La Machine infernale, pieces from Parade on piano with two hands by Georges Auric and Francis Poulenc, Frémeaux & Associés FA 064, 1997

He died of renal failure in Boulogne-sur-Seine ( Paris ) on May 11, 1927, at the age of 40, leaving a wife, Josette, and a son, Georges.

* 1875 – Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra Comique in Paris.

" In chronicles, poems, sermons, even in legal documents, an immense sadness, a note of despair and a fashionable sense of suffering and deliquescence at the approaching end of times, suffuses court poets and chroniclers alike: Huizinga quotes instances in the ballads of Eustache Deschamps, " monotonous and gloomy variations of the same dismal theme ", and in Georges Chastellain's prologue to his Burgundian chronicle, and in the late fifteenth-century poetry of Jean Meschinot.

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a controversy exported from Geology, between supporters of James Hutton ( uniformitarianism Thesis ) and Georges Cuvier ( catastrophism ) strongly influenced the field of geography, because geography at this time was a natural science since Human Geography or Antropogeography had just developed as a discipline in the late nineteenth century.

The name ' PDP ' intentionally avoided the use of the term ' computer ' because, at the time of the first PDPs, computers had a reputation of being large, complicated, and expensive machines, and the venture capitalists behind Digital ( especially Georges Doriot ) would not support Digital's attempting to build a " computer "; the word " minicomputer " had not yet been coined.

* Hurricane Georges made landfall in at least seven different countries ( Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba and the United States ) and Puerto Rico, a Commonwealth of the United States – more than any other hurricane since Hurricane Inez of the 1966 season.

The French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet accepts the Soviet definition of aggression at once.

* April 1 – Following a failed attempt at a coup, French defense minister Georges Boulanger is forced to flee the country.

** Georges Bizet's comic opera Djamileh premieres at the Opera-Comique in Paris, France.

The group seems to have adopted the name Section d ' Or to distinguish themselves from the narrower definition of Cubism developed in parallel by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, and to show that Cubism, rather than being an isolated art-form, represented the continuation of a grand tradition ( indeed, the golden ratio had fascinated Western intellectuals of diverse interests for at least 2, 400 years ).

Keynes built up a substantial collection of fine art, including works, not all of them minor, by Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Amedeo Modigliani, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, and Georges Seurat ( some of which can now be seen at the Fitzwilliam Museum ).

** The French paper L ' Express publishes a story of Georges Figon, who took part in the kidnapping of Mehdi Ben Barka.

* Georges Bizet, ' L ' Arlésienne ' incidental music to play by Alphonse Daudet.

* L ' Affaire Dreyfus, Georges Méliès, France, 1899.

* Georges Blond, L ' Agonie de l ' Allemagne

A number of classical composers have written incidental music for various plays, with the more famous examples including Ludwig van Beethoven's Egmont music, Franz Schubert's Rosamunde music, Felix Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream music, Georges Bizet's L ' Arlésienne music, and Edvard Grieg's music for Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt.

Against these detractions, Renault's chairman, Georges Besse, continued to champion the French firm's future in the North American market ; pointing to the company's completion of the newest and most-advanced automotive assembly plant in North America, then known as Bramalea Assembly, as well as the recent introduction of the thoroughly modern, fuel-injected 4. 0 L and 2. 5 L engines.

* Prix Goncourt: Georges Conchon, L ' Etat sauvage

He is best remembered as a farceur, for the books Le nez d ' un notaire ( 1862 ); Le roi des montagnes ( 1856 ); L ' homme à l ' oreille cassée ( 1862 ); Trente et quarante ( 1858 ); Le cas de M. Guérin ( 1862 ; see Georges Maurice de Guérin ).

* Julien Clermont ( pseudonym for Georges Hilaire ), L ' Homme qu ' il fallait tuer ( Paris, 1949 )

The name is a reference to Radical Georges Clemenceau's newspaper L ' homme libre (" The Free Man ") which was forced to close by government censorship and reacted by changing its name to L ' homme enchaîné (" The Chained-up Man "); Le Canard enchaîné means " The chained-up duck ", but canard ( duck ) is also French slang for " newspaper "; it was also a reference to French journals published by soldiers during World War I.

Theories of scientific racism became popular, one prominent figure being Georges Vacher de Lapouge ( 1854 – 1936 ), who in L ' Aryen et son rôle social ( 1899-" The Aryan and his social role ") divided humanity into various, hierarchized, different " races ", spanning from the " Aryan white race, dolichocephalic " to the " brachycephalic " ( short and broad-headed ) race.

The publisher of " L ' Aurore " — defended by Georges Clémenceau — was sentenced to four months ' imprisonment and a similar fine ( February 23, 1898 ).

There was a significant number of French Canadians who moved to the Kankakee, IL area from the 1830s through the 1870s, including religious missionaries, establishing communities such as Bourbonnais, St. Anne, St. Georges, Papineau, and L ' Erable.

* Georges Tourreil as L ' Ingenieur

Georges Bizet features it in the Minuet from the second suite of music from L ' Arlésienne.

* Several filmmakers have produced adaptations of the novel, among them L ' idiot ( Georges Lampin ; 1946 ), a 1951 version by Akira Kurosawa, a 1958 version by Russian director Ivan Pyryev, the Bengali film Aparichito ( Salil Dutta ; 1969 ), and a 1992 Hindi version by Mani Kaul.

* Georges Passerat, " L ' affaire Bernard Saisset " ( French )

And throughout Berlin Diary the author William L. Shirer referred to him as " the insufferable Georges Bonnet ".

Arnaud also wrote non-series espionage novels under the pseudonyms of " Saint-Gilles " and " Georges Murey " for Ferenczi ( 1958 – 60 ) and L ' Arabesque ( 1957 – 65 ), and another fifty-odd novels under his own name for Fleuve Noir's Espionnage ( 1961 – 86 ).

* From Georges Sorel: Essays in Socialism and Philosophy edited with an introduction by John L. Stanley, translated by John and Charlotte Stanley ( Oxford University Press, 1976, ISBN 0-19-501715-3 ; Transaction Books, 1987, ISBN 0-88738-654-7, pbk.

* From Georges Sorel: Volume 2, Hermeneutics and the Sciences edited by John L. Stanley, translated by John and Charlotte Stanley ( Transaction Publishers, 1990, ISBN 0-88738-304-1 ).