In the second half of the 19th century, Jacques Offenbach created operetta with witty and cynical works such as Orphée aux enfers, as well as the opera Les Contes d ' Hoffmann ; Charles Gounod scored a massive success with Faust ; and Bizet composed Carmen, which, once audiences learned to accept its blend of Romanticism and realism, became the most popular of all opéra comiques.

* October 4 – Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer ( b. 1819 )

* June 20 – Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer ( d. 1880 )

* Jacques Offenbach — Ba-ta-clan ( 1855 )

Jacques Offenbach further developed and popularized operetta, giving it its enormous vogue during the Second Empire and afterwards.

Pinafore and played the first violin on the American tour of Jacques Offenbach.

His two hundred clients eventually included Charles Gounod, Jacques Offenbach, Adelina Patti, Mario, Clara Schumann, Antoinette Sterling, Edward Lloyd, Mr. and Mrs. German Reed, George Grossmith, Matthew Arnold, James McNeill Whistler and Oscar Wilde.

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.

Orphée aux enfers ( Orpheus in the Underworld ) is an opéra bouffon ( a form of operetta ), or opéra féerie in its revised version, by Jacques Offenbach.

Jacques Offenbach wrote an opéra comique called Robinson Crusoé which was first performed at the Opéra-Comique, Salle Favart on 23 November 1867.

Tomb of Jacques Offenbach.

* Jacques Offenbach ( 1819 – 1880 ), French composer of German descent

* Jacques Offenbach, Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy's 1864 operetta La Belle Hélène tells a droll version of the seduction of Helen by Paris, who is the lead male role.

" The British press reported a triumphant royal command performance ; The Illustrated London News wrote, " Herr Jacques Offenbach, the astonishing Violoncellist, performed on Thursday evening at Windsor before the Emperor of Russia, the King of Saxony, Queen Victoria, and Prince Albert with great success.

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Haiti was declared an empire by its ruler, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who made himself Jacques I, in 20 May 1805.

* March 20 – Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player ( b. 1895 )

* February 20 – Jean Jacques d ' Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist ( b. 1678 )

* June 20 – Jacques Saly, French sculptor ( d. 1776 )

The producer was Jacques Brown, except for episodes 20 and 21 which were produced by Charles Maxwell.

The Austrian army moved 24 km east and laid siege to Maubeuge and its 20, 000-man garrison under General of Division ( MG ) Jacques Ferrand on 30 September.

Jacques Lucien Jean Delors ( born 20 July 1925 ) is a French economist and politician, the eighth President of the European Commission and the first person to serve three terms in that office ( between January 1985 and December 1994 ).

Among the first RCA LPs released was a performance of Gaîté Parisienne by Jacques Offenbach, played by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra, which had actually been recorded in Boston's Symphony Hall on June 20, 1947 ; it was given the catalogue number LM-1001.

Jacques de Molay ( c. 1244 – 18 March 1314 ) was the 23rd and last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, leading the Order from 20 April 1292 until it was dissolved by order of Pope Clement V in 1307.

As rapporteur of the diplomatic committee, in which he supported the policy of Jacques Pierre Brissot, he proposed two of the most revolutionary measures passed by the Assembly: the decree of accusation against the King Louis XVI's brothers ( the Comte de Provence and the Comte d ' Artois ) on 1 January 1792, and the declaration of war against the Habsburg ruler Francis II ( 20 April 1792 ).

The Pops made their first high fidelity recording on June 20, 1947, of Gaîté Parisienne ( based on the music of Jacques Offenbach ), and recorded the same music seven years later in stereophonic sound, their first venture in multitrack recording.

His first assignment was to relieve Jacques Ferrand's 20, 000-man garrison of Maubeuge which was besieged by an Austrian-Dutch army commanded by Prince Josias of Coburg.

* June 20 – Jacques Offenbach, composer ( d. 1880 )

In order to avoid demolishing the Notre-Dame-de-Grâces church, the highway veers west south of Côte-Saint-Luc, and runs between Appleton and Botrel Streets, all the way to Saint Jacques Street, where it spectacularly goes from below-ground to well above ground as it intersects with Autoroutes 20 and 720 in the infamous Turcot Interchange ( dubbed " Spaghetti Junction " by train crews operating the CN Rail Turcot Yard ).

The collection consists in approximatively 2, 000 paintings ( including pictures by Nicolas Poussin, Anthony Van Dyck, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Hubert Robert and Ingres ), 600 pieces of decorative arts, 600 architectural elements, nearly 15, 000 medals, 3, 700 sculptures, 20, 000 drawings including works by Paolo Veronese, Primaticcio, Jacques Bellange, Michelangelo, Charles Le Brun, Nicolas Poussin, Claude Gellée, Dürer, Rembrandt, Ingres, François Boucher or Pierre Alechinsky, 45, 000 architectural drawings, 100, 000 etchings and engravings, 70, 000 photographs ( mainly form the period 1850-1914 ), 65, 000 books dating from the 15th to the 20th century ( 3, 500 for the 15th and 16th centuries ), and 1, 000 handwritten pieces of archive ( letters, inventories, notes ...) and also 390 important fragments or complete illuminated manuscripts.

With Jacques Santer ready to be nominated as the next President of the European Commission, it was only six months later, on 20 January 1995, that Grand Duke Jean approved the appointment of Juncker as Prime Minister, as part of a coalition with the Luxembourg Socialist Workers ' Party.

Following his proclamation as Emperor Jacques I, Dessalines promulgated a new constitution on May 20, 1805.

The National Assembly of France interpreted the declaration to mean that Leopold was going to declare war ; radical Frenchmen who called for war, such as Jacques Pierre Brissot, used it as a pretext to gain influence and declare war on 20 April 1792, leading to the campaigns of 1792 in the French Revolutionary Wars.

In Test cricket, only three all-rounders have batting averages that are 20 greater than their bowling average over their entire careers: Garfield Sobers, Jacques Kallis and Walter Hammond.

Named after the chair Bernard Stasi, ombudsman of the ( French ) Republic ( médiateur de la République ) since 1998, and consisting of 20 members ( among which Régis Debray ), it was set up by the president of the Republic Jacques Chirac on 3 July 2003.

Jacques Ferron ( January 20, 1921-April 22, 1985 ) was a Canadian physician and author.

Along with some 20 other people including André D ' Allemagne and Jacques Bellemare, he was a founding member of the Rassemblement pour l ' indépendance nationale ( RIN ).

Father Jacques Gravier, superior of the Illinois mission, compiled the most extensive dictionary of Kaskaskia Illinois-French terms, nearly 600 pages and 20, 000 entries.