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In 1833 Eugène François Vidocq, a French soldier, criminal and privateer, founded the first known private detective agency, " Le Bureau des Renseignements Universels pour le commerce et l ' Industrie " (" The Office of Universal Information For Commerce and Industry ") and hired ex-convicts.
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The French writer Edgar Quinet published his prose epic on the legend in 1833, making the subject the judgment of the world ; and Eugène Sue wrote his Juif errant in 1844, in which the author connects the story of Ahasuerus with that of Herodias.
The libretto is loosely based on an 1833 play, Gustave III, by French playwright Eugène Scribe who wrote about the historical assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden.
After having studied medicine in his native town, he moved to Madrid in 1833 and earned a meager living by translating plays of Eugène Scribe and Alexandre Dumas, père.
1833 and François
Others include: Millerites ( from 1833 ), Edward White ( 1846 ), Christadelphians ( from 1848 ), Thomas Thayer ( 1855 ), François Gaussen ( d. 1863 ), Henry Constable ( 1873 ), Louis Burnier ( Waldensian, d. 1878 ), the Baptist Conditionalist Association ( 1878 ), Cameron Mann ( 1888 ), Emmanuel Pétavel-Olliff ( 1891 ), Miles Grant ( 1895 ) George Gabriel Stokes ( 1897 ),
François Guillaume Jean Stanislaus Andrieux ( May 6, 1759 – May 10, 1833 ) was a French man of letters and playwright.
Joseph JuneauJoseph Juneau ( 1833 or 1836 – 1899 ) was a miner and prospector from Canada who was born in the Quebec town of Saint-Paul-l ' Ermite ( later renamed Le Gardeur and now incorporated into the city of Repentigny ) to François Xavier Juneau dit Latulippe and Marguerite Thiffault Juneau.
François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat ( August 18, 1754 – October 3, 1833 ), French general and military engineer, was born at Saint-Sernin ( Charente Inferieure ), of a noble family, and entered the French engineers in 1774.
Henri François Delaborde ( 21 December 1764 – 3 February 1833 ) was a French general in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.
He also published a translation of the canons and decrees of the Council of Trent ( 1848 ) and of François Véron's Rule of Faith ( 1833 ).
All four were taken to Paris, France by François Curel on November 11, 1833, where they were exhibited to the public as a circus attraction.
1833 and French
The Ilois, now called Chagos Islanders or Chagossians since the late 1990s, were descended primarily from slaves brought to the island from Madagascar by the French between 1793 and 1810, and Malay slaves from the slave market on Pulo Nyas, an island off the northwest coast of Sumatra, from around 1820 until the slave trade ended following the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.
French Saint-Simonianists showed an interest in the canal and in 1833, Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin tried to draw Muhammad Ali's attention to the canal but was unsuccessful.
Britain abolished slavery throughout the British Empire with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, the French colonies abolished it 15 years later, and slavery in the United States was abolished in 1865, after the American Civil War, with the 13th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution.
Despite Berlioz not understanding spoken English and Harriet not knowing any French, on 3 October 1833, they married in a civil ceremony at the British Embassy with Liszt as one of the witnesses.
* Mademoiselle de Maupin ( 1835 ) In September 1833, Gautier was solicited to write a historical romance based on the life of French opera star Mlle Maupin, who was a first-rate swordswoman and often went about disguised as a man.
It was extracted from malt solution in 1833 by Anselme Payen and Jean-François Persoz, chemists at a French sugar factory.
The historian Marcel Trudel documented that close to 2, 000 Pawnee ( Panis in French ) slaves lived in Canada until the abolition of slavery in the colony in 1833.
Saumur is also the scene for Balzac's novel Eugénie Grandet, written by the French author in 1833, and the title of a song from hard rock band Trust ( whose lyrics express their poor opinion of the city: narrow-minded, bourgeois and militaristic ).
Nicéphore Niépce ( born Joseph Niépce ) March 7, 1765 – July 5, 1833 ) was a French inventor, most noted as one of the inventors of photography and a pioneer in the field.
In 1833 he had welcomed as workers among his people a band of French Protestant missionaries, and as the Boer immigrants began to settle in his neighborhood he decided to seek support from the British at the Cape.
1833 and soldier
The county was officially organized on January 5, 1833, and is named after Brigadier General Eleazar Wheelock Ripley, a soldier who served with distinction in the War of 1812.
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta ( September 20, 1833, Milan, Lombardy – February 10, 1918 ) was an Italian journalist, nationalist, revolutionary soldier and later a pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
Instead he enlisted in the French Army as a private soldier in 1831 with a view to service in Algeria, where in 1833 he received a commission as sub-lieutenant in the Foreign Legion, it having been formed by Louis Philippe ( King of France 1830-1848 ) in 1831.
The highest is 300m Whita hill, on which stands an impressive obelisk commemorating the life and achievements of Sir John Malcolm ( 1769 ‑ 1833 ), the distinguished soldier, statesman, and historian.
General Sir Banastre Tarleton, 1st Baronet, GCB ( 21 August 1754 – 15 January 1833 ) was a British soldier and politician.
Major-general Sir John Malcolm ( 2 May 1769 – 30 May 1833 ) was a Scottish soldier, statesman, and historian.
Stephen Dill Lee ( September 22, 1833 – May 28, 1908 ) was an American soldier, planter, legislator, and author.
In 1833, the facility was named Fort Pulaski in honor of Kazimierz Pulaski, a Polish soldier and military commander who fought in the American Revolution under the command of George Washington.
The first of their ten children, a son, Robert Charles was born in 1829 but died five years later, followed in 1832 by the second son John Rennie, a daughter in 1832, then in 1833 a son Frederick Pepys Cockerell who became an architect, followed in 1834 by Robert who became a soldier and died aged twenty in the Battle of Alma, then two more daughters and three sons, the youngest Samuel Pepys ( 1844-1921 ) would edit and publish in 1903 his father's travel diaries.
Agustín Gamarra Messia ( August 27, 1785 in Cusco, Peru – November 18, 1841 in Ingavi, Bolivia ) was a Peruvian soldier and politician, becoming twice President of Peru from 1829 to 1833 and from 1838 to 1841.
* Andrew Johnson ( soldier ) ( 1833 – 1912 ), American Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor recipient
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