Diaghilev had taken Paris by storm the previous year in his Parisian opera debut, Boris Godunov.

As early as 1673, just months after Pierrot had made his debut in the Sequel to " The Stone Guest ", Scaramouche Tiberio Fiorilli and a troupe assembled from the Comédie-Italienne entertained Londoners with selections from their Parisian repertoire.

In 1844 Lola made an unsuccessful Parisian stage debut as a dancer in Fromental Halévy's opera, Le lazzarone.

“ FAUCHON, the legendary Parisian market, has made its debut in New York.

The New York Post said the following of her debut, " Adele Addison is about the most appealing interpreter of the little Parisian seamstress yet to appear on the City Center stage.

The Comte is forced to bide his time while Léonie makes her Parisian debut under the aegis of Lady Fanny.

He was born in Paris, and after the usual apprenticeship in the provinces and in several Parisian theatres in small parts, was called to the Comédie-Française in 1866, where he made his debut as Philip II in Don Juan d ' Autriche.

Gluck feared that the Parisian critics would denounce the opera by a young composer known mostly for comic pieces and so the opera was originally billed in the press as being a new work by Gluck with some assistance from Antonio Salieri, then shortly before the premiere of the opera the Parisian press reported that the work was to be partly by Gluck and partly by Salieri, and finally after popular and critical success were won on stage the opera was acknowledged in a letter to the public by Gluck as being wholly by the young Antonio.

Embracing the Parisian avant-garde, Foucault entered into a romantic relationship with the composer Jean Barraqué ( 1928 – 1973 ), a prominent advocate of serialism.

It provoked some critical comment from the local newspaper, which complained that the composer put his listeners on a bus and shuttled them from one Parisian night-spot to another, " but he does not let us hear the tuneful gypsy melodies in the boulevard cafés, always just cymbals and tambourine and mostly from two cabarets at the same time at that ".

Although the strict polyphonic style of Titelouze's music soon disappeared from French organ music, his influence was still felt for some time after his death ; for instance, the Parisian composer and organist Nicolas Gigault included a fugue à la maniere de Titelouze ( literally " in Titelouze's style ") in his 1685 Livre de musique pour l ' orgue.

His uncle, Fromental Halévy, was a noted composer of opera ; hence the double and early connection of Ludovic Halévy with the Parisian stage.

Édouard-Marie-Ernest Deldevez ( May 31, 1817 – November 6, 1897 ) was a French violinist, conductor at important Parisian musical institutions, composer, and music teacher.

* Fonds Georges Douay: Georges Douay, Parisian man-about-town, theatre fan, and composer of songs and operettas, assembled a collection ( mainly printed ) on French theatre from the 16th century to the beginning of the 20th century, which he bequeathed to the Arsenal in 1919.

He was the primary representative of the musical movement known as musique mesurée, and a significant composer of the " Parisian " chanson, the predominant secular form in France in the latter half of the 16th century.

Curiously, his daughter was baptized as a Catholic, and also in 1560 a Parisian publisher produced a volume of secular chansons by the composer — a form he had condemned as " dissolute " during his Geneva years.

Stylistically, Sandrin's music resembles that of Claudin de Sermisy, the more famous composer of Parisian chansons, although Sandrin's blends Italian influences with the native French style.

The fault was Rameau's and that of the whole culture of this Parisian age.

All these emotions were screwed up to new heights when, after acceptance and the first rehearsals, there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music lovers that Duclos had to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King's amusements, and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau.

For example, " piaf " was a Parisian argot word for " sparrow "; after being taken up by the singer Edith Piaf, this meaning became well known in France and worldwide, and no longer serves the purpose of a secret language.

However the failure of this work was more than made up for with his next Parisian opera Tarare with a libretto by Beaumarchais.

The reality is that Micheline Musseli Pozzo di Borgo, a French aristocrat who at 20 was France's youngest lawyer ever, brought considerable wealth to her marriage to Lerner and lost most of it through him, including nearly $ 600, 000 from the sale of her Parisian apartment, which Lerner placed in investments that either failed or were looted by him during periods of financial desperation.

The first, most important and successful was The Beggar's Opera of 1728, with a libretto by John Gay and music arranged by John Christopher Pepusch, both of whom probably influenced by Parisian vaudeville and the burlesques and musical plays of Thomas D ' Urfey ( 1653 – 1723 ), a number of whose collected ballads they used in their work.

The first introduction of Dada artwork to the Parisian public was at the Salon des Indépendants in 1921.

The first languages for which standardisation was promoted included Italian (" questione della lingua ": Modern Tuscan / Florentine vs. Old Tuscan / Florentine vs. Venetian > Modern Florentine + archaic Tuscan + Upper Italian ), French ( the standard is based on Parisian ), English ( the standard is based on the London dialect ) and ( High ) German ( based on the dialects of the chancellery of Meissen in Saxony, Middle German and the chancellery of Prague in Bohemia (" Common German ")).

Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde.

A new version of this grimoire was later published under the title of the Dragon rouge, and was available for sale in many Parisian bookstores.

The Belgic invasion was on a much larger scale than the Parisian settlement, however the continuity of pottery style demonstrates clearly that the native population basically remained in place under new rulers.

Cocteau was born in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, a village near Paris, to Georges Cocteau and his wife, Eugénie Lecomte ; a socially prominent Parisian family.

One of his followers, the Parisian Abraham Bosse spread Callot's innovations all over Europe with the first published manual of etching, which was translated into Italian, Dutch, German and English.

During the Franco-Prussian War the Parisian National Guard, which was founded during the time of the American Revolution, engaged the Prussian Army and later rebelled against the Versailles Army under Marshal McMahon.

After Rameau's death, the German Gluck was persuaded to produce six operas for the Parisian stage in the 1770s.

It was hoped that this would encourage development of all the country lanes into proper roads ; in turn it was hoped that these would emulate Parisian boulevards — broad, straight and magnificent, but the main intention was to enable troops to be moved quickly.

Foucault would subsequently experience a groundbreaking self-revelation when watching a Parisian performance of Samuel Beckett's new play, Waiting for Godot, in 1953.

Notable amongst these were George Dubois, a Parisian fight director and martial artist who created performance fencing styles based on gladiatorial combat as well as Renaissance rapier and dagger fencing.

Dressed in a long black robe, she gave a haunting performance but the tough Parisian critics were not kind, saying she lacked naturalness and was stiff and formal in her presentation.

It is no coincidence that Boulez — who had earlier facilitated the performance of Goehr's music — refused to programme Little Symphony: by 1963 Goehr had neatly departed from the style of his Parisian days.

Parisian audiences had already seen the work, both in a performance by the Paris Opéra at the Théâtre de l ' Académie Royale de Musique and at the Théâtre des Italiens before Rossini revised it for the Paris Opéra, now in four acts with a ballet, where it premiered 26 March 1827, with the title Moïse et Pharaon, ou Le Passage de la Mer Rouge, with translations and additions to the libretto by Luigi Balocchi and Victor Joseph Etienne de Jouy, who would co-write the libretto for Rossini's final opera Guillaume Tell.

Whatever was his opinion about the performance style of Parisian cantores, the detailed description fit well to the use of the phthora nenano as an " echos kratema ", as it was mentioned in the later Greek treatises after the end of the Byzantine Empire.

1988 was a busy year with a Parisian concert at The Wiz, a performance at the Paris Africa Fête, then a show in Geneva, Switzerland ( in front of 30, 000 people ), to aid the Helping Hand Cooperation for the N ’ Dem village in Senegal.

The small Théâtre du Pantheon produced, to some popular success, his drama L ' Avocat Loubet, while a vaudeville, Monsieur de Coyllin ou l ' homme infiniment poli ( written in collaboration with Marc Michel and performed at the Palais Royal ) introduced a provincial actor who was to become and to remain a great Parisian favourite, Grassot, the famous comedian.

The Discours de la lanterne, written from the perspective of the Place de Grève lamppost, was aggressive in its celebration of political violence, and attributed exalted qualities of loyalty and patriotism to the citizens who made up the Parisian mob.

Two French collections are probably the most famous: Le Viandier (" The Provisioner ") was compiled in the late 14th century by Guillaume Tirel, master chef for two French kings ; and Le Menagier de Paris (" The Householder of Paris "), a household book written by an anonymous middle class Parisian in the 1390s.

Punch and similar magazines such as the Parisian Le Voleur realised that good illustrations sold as many copies as written content.

As Roger Nichols writes, " two qualities of being escapist and easily caricatured meant that in the brittle, post-war Parisian climate Pelléas could be written off as no longer relevant.

Durand, a well known actress and journalist, used her high-profile image to attract many notable Parisian women to contribute articles to her daily newspaper, which was run and written entirely by women.

Blanchard, the landlord, is certain that the death of Susan White, which the Parisian police have written off as an accident, is murder.

He contributed novels, tales and essays to the chief Parisian papers and reviews, and published a series of clever novels, including L ' Inconnue ( 1887 ), Flirt ( 1890 ), L ' Exorcisée ( 1891 ), Peints par eux-mêmes ( 1893 ), an ironic study written in the form of letters, and L ' Armature ( 1895 ), dramatized in 1905 by Eugène Brieux.

Many writers have written about this Parisian district in prose such as Boris Vian, Gabriel Matzneff ( see La Nation française ), Jean-Paul Caracalla or in Japanese poetry in the case of Nicolas Grenier.