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In Bougival, Georges Bizet composed the opera Carmen at his home at Rue Ivan Tourguenievf on the Seine and noted Russian novelist and playwright Ivan Turgenev built a datcha.
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Bougival and Georges
Bougival and at
File: Pierre-Auguste Renoir 146. jpg | Dance at Bougival, 1882 – 1883, ( woman at left is painter Suzanne Valadon ), Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Multiple locks at Bougival / Chatou and at Suresnes lift the vessels to the level of the river in Paris, where the mouth of the Marne River is located.
At the end of the month he went to his holiday home at Bougival and, feeling a little better, went for a swim in the Seine.
J. M. W. Turner painted a watercolour of " The Palace of the Fair Gabrielle " at Bougival ( private collection, U. S. A .).
But his powers were failing, and he had only filled his new office for about a year when he died at Bougival.
The most recognizable image of Valadon would be in Renoir's Dance at Bougival from 1883 ( see Gallery ), the same year that she posed for City Dance.
As the site where many of the French Masters ( including Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot, and Auguste Renoir ) painted country scenes along the Seine, the village today hosts a series of six historical placards, known as the " Impressionists Walk ," at locations from which the noted painters depicted the scenes of Bougival.
Bougival is also noted as the site of the Machine de Marly, a sprawling, complicated hydraulic pumping device that began supplying the massive quantity of water required by the fountains at Versailles in the late 1600s.
This station is located at the border between the commune of Bougival and the commune of La Celle-Saint-Cloud, on the La Celle-Saint-Cloud side of the border.
Previously it had been housed on two sites, one at Bougival and the other at Croissy-sur-Seine This purpose-built school provides a practical and interactive approach to teaching, employing new technology where possible.
The Machine de Marly was located at Bougival, in the Yvelines department, where its remains are visible today.
Bougival and home
Pauline Viardot made Bougival her home. Gabrielle d ' Estrees had a chateau there ( destroyed in 19th century ).
The town has since been home to noted residents including Darco, Frank Alamo, Guillaume Depardieu, Jean-Louis Aubert, Michel Rocard, Flavie Flament, Laurent Garnier, Jean-Marie Hullot, Jean Michel Jarre, Benjamin Castaldi and Gilbert Montagné have been residents of Bougival.
Bougival and Ivan
Bougival and on
Bougival and Seine
The construction of the Marly hydraulic machine, actually located in Bougival ( where his inventor Rennequin Sualem died in 1708 ), driven by the current of the Seine moving fourteen vast paddlewheels, was a miracle of modern hydraulic engineering, perhaps the largest integrated machine of the 17th century.
Bougival and built
The machine was built in Bougival in 1684, from where it pumped water a distance of one kilometer and raised it 150 meters.
Bougival and .
Bougival is a commune ( or village ) in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
The Junior division of the British School of Paris ( formerly the English School of Paris ) was located in Bougival up until 2008.
Georges and Bizet
* Georges Bizet: Carmen ( 1875 ) – In act 3 of the opera, Carmen and her lover join a camp of gypsy smugglers
The French writers ' duo Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy wrote a large number of opera and operetta libretti for the likes of Jacques Offenbach, Jules Massenet and Georges Bizet.
Georges Bizet () formally Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, ( 25 October 18383 June 1875 ) was a French composer, mainly of operas.
She died in 1926 ; in her will she established a fund for a Georges Bizet prize, to be awarded annually to a composer under 40 who had " produced a remarkable work within the previous five years ".
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