* Jacques-Donatien Le Ray, French Father of the American Revolution ( b. 1726 )

* January 14 – Jacques-Donatien Le Ray, French supporter of the American Revolution ( d. 1803 )

In 1750, Jacques-Donatien Le Ray purchased the castle as a country home where he established a glassmaking and pottery factory.

The village is named for Jacques-Donatien Le Ray, the Comte de Chaumont in France.

The town is named for Jacques-Donatien Le Ray, from France.

* Jacques-Donatien Le Ray

Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont by Jean-Baptiste Nini ( 1771 ), Château de Chaumont

Born in the port city of Nantes in Brittany in 1726, Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont became one of the wealthiest and most powerful aristocrats in all of France.

Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont served King Louis XVI at the Court at Versailles as the Governor of Les Invalides in Paris and the Grand Master of Waters and Lands of Blois.

As a result of their friendship, Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont helped obtain French support for the American cause with both money and French armed forces.

Along with Benjamin Franklin, Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont worked with John Adams, Silas Deane, the Marquis de Lafayette and the Comte de Vergennes to help with the American Revolution.

When the War ended with the treaty of 1783 signed in Paris, Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont had a portrait medallion made of Benjamin Franklin by Jean-Baptiste Nini.

Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont ' son named Le Ray ( 1760 – 1840 ) went to America in 1785.

In the end, the political ideals that Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont cherished came back to haunt him.

As a result of France's generosity and Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont's love of America, he inadvertently helped pave the way for the French Revolution, in 1789, that dramatically impacted on his own finances, resulting in the new French Revolutionary government seizing his assets including his beloved Chateau at Chaumont-sur-Loire.

Without the help of Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont and France, the United States of America would almost certainly not have won their independence.

When the British invaded American in 1812, Jacques-Donatien Le Ray Jr. and the government of France also worked to help America during the War of 1812.

* Thomas J. Schaeper, The Life of Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont ( 1995 ; ISBN 1-57181-050-1 ).

* Le Ray ( town )

American Ray Heppenstall joined Howmet Corporation and McKee Engineering together to develop their own gas turbine sports car in 1968, the Howmet TX, which ran several American and European events, including two wins, and also participated in the 1968 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Arkham House also published fiction by many of Lovecraft's contemporaries, including Ray Bradbury, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, and Derleth himself ; classic genre fiction by authors such as William Hope Hodgson, Algernon Blackwood, H. Russell Wakefield, Seabury Quinn, and Sheridan Le Fanu ; and later writers in the Lovecraft school, such as Ramsey Campbell and Brian Lumley to whom Derleth gave their earliest publication in hardcover.

The work of modernists in the collection include Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer, Charles and Ray Eames, Giò Ponti and Eileen Gray.

The collection includes the work of many photographers from Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret Cameron, Clementina Maude, Gustave Le Gray, Benjamin Brecknell Turner, Frederick Hollyer, Samuel Bourne, Roger Fenton, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ilse Bing, Bill Brandt, Cecil Beaton ( there are over 8000 of his negatives ), Don McCullin, David Bailey, Jim Lee and Helen Chadwick to the present day.

* Le Ray Township ( northeast )

* Le Ray Township ( south )

Le Ray Township is a township in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, United States.

Le Ray Township was first settled in 1856 and was organized in 1860.

es: Municipio de Le Ray ( condado de Blue Earth, Minnesota )

* Le Ray Township ( southeast )

* Le Ray Township ( east )

* Le Ray Township ( north )

The town was established in 1821 from the Town of Brownville and the Town of Le Ray.

The Village of Black River is on the border of the Town of Le Ray and the Town of Rutland.

The community incorporated as a village in 1891, taking land from both Towns of Rutland and Le Ray.

Calcium is in the Town of Le Ray and was formerly called Sanford's Corner.

The Village of Evans Mills in within the Town of Le Ray and is northeast of Watertown.

Le Ray is a town in Jefferson County, New York, United States.

The Town of Le Ray is in the central part of the county and is east of Watertown.

a stirring `` Flames Of Paris '' pas de deux by Xenia Ter-Stepanova and Alexandre Pavlovsky, and a lovely version of Fokine's `` Le Cygne '' by Olga Moiseyeva, which had to be repeated.

An eminent member of this school, Georges Duby, wrote in the foreword of his book Le dimanche de Bouvines that the history he taught relegated the sensational to the sidelines and was reluctant to give a simple accounting of events, but strived on the contrary to pose and solve problems and, neglecting surface disturbances, to observe the long and medium-term evolution of economy, society and civilisation.

* 1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.

This episode was taken up by the modern Turkish writer Nedim Gürsel and made into the setting of his 2001 novel Le voyage de Candide à Istanbul.

Genealogical records in the Old Occitan Chronicle of Montpellier in Le petit Thalamus de Montpellier indicate that Alphonso's relationship with his mistress, Giraldona Carlino, produced three children:

ro: Ademar de Le Puy

In 1939 Grothendieck went to France and lived in various camps for displaced persons with his mother, first at the Camp de Rieucros, and subsequently lived for the remainder of the war in the village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, where he was sheltered and hidden in local boarding-houses or pensions.

In the middle and late 19th century, several renowned Mesoamerican scholars, starting with Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, and including Edward Herbert Thompson and Augustus Le Plongeon proposed that Atlantis was somehow related to Mayan and Aztec culture.

* 1744 – Alexandrine Le Normant d ' Étiolles, French daughter of Madame de Pompadour ( d. 1754 )

* Le Consert de l ' Hostel Dieu.

* Le parlement de musique.

There was at the top of the Arc from 1882 to 1886, a monumental sculpture by Alexandre Falguière, " Le triomphe de la Révolution " ( the Triumph of the Revolution ), a chariot drawn by horses preparing " to crush Anarchy and Despotism ", that remained only four years up there before falling in ruins.

:* Le Départ de 1792 ' ( or La Marseillaise ), by François Rude

:* Le Triomphe de 1810, by Jean-Pierre Cortot

* Le Dictionnaire de Chaho.

J. P. de Florian's Gonsalve de Cordoue and Châteaubriand's Le dernier des Abencerrages are imitations of Perez de Hita's work.

The first Baron was Hamelin de Balun, from Ballon, a small town and castle in Maine-Anjou called " Gateway to Maine ", near Le Mans, today in the Sarthe département of France.

* Jürgen Klötgen, Prieuré d ' Abergavenny – Tribulations mancelles en Pays de Galles au temps du Pape Jean XXII ( d ' après des documents français et anglais du XIV ° siècle collationnés avec une source d ' histoire retrouvée aux Archives Secrètes du Vatican ), in Revue Historique et Archéologique du Maine, Le Mans, 1989, p. 65 – 88 ( 1319: cf John of Hastings, Lord of Abergavenny ; Adam de Orleton, Bishop of Hereford, John of Monmouth, Bishop of Llandaff ).

In her 1999 book Le Carré de Pluton (" Pluto's Square "), Bardot criticizes the procedure used in the ritual slaughter of sheep during the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.

* Michel Rambaud, ' Le Soleil de Pharsale ', Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, Vol. 3, No. 4, 1955

A costume design for Louis XIV as The Rising Sun, from the final entrée of Le Ballet de la Nuit ( 1653 ).

A French translation, Le Recueil des Prières de la Communauté Chrétienne, was published in 1967.