These include Gérard Pirès ( Riders, 2002 ), Pitof ( Catwoman, 2004 ), Jean-François Richet ( Assault on Precinct 13, 2005 ), Florent Emilio Siri ( Hostage, 2005 ), Christophe Gans ( Silent Hill, 2006 ), Mathieu Kassovitz ( Babylon A. D., 2008 ), Louis Leterrier ( The Transporter, 2002 ; Transporter 2, 2005 ; Olivier Megaton directed Transporter 3, 2008 ), Alexandre Aja ( Mirrors, 2008 ), and Pierre Morel ( Taken, 2009 ).

* jeanmillet. org ; 125 works by Jean-François Millet

It was 20 years, however, before the decipherment of the Egyptian texts was announced by Jean-François Champollion in Paris in 1822 ; it took longer still before scholars were able to read other Ancient Egyptian inscriptions and literature confidently.

* Artières, Philippe ; Bert, Jean-François ; Gros, Frédéric and Revel, Judith ( ed .).

The faculty of the Collège de Sorbonne ( the theological college of the University of Paris ) formally accepted the bull In eminenti in 1644, and the Archbishop of Paris, Jean-François de Gondi, formally proscribed Augustinus ; the work nevertheless continued to circulate.

Jacques, although studious and largely self-educated, did not have Jean-François ' genius for language ; however, he was talented at earning a living, and supported Jean-François for most of his life.

* Jean-François Copé, delegate minister for budget and the reform of the State, spokesman for the Government ;

It excited the suspicion of the Church, and a Jesuit, by name Jean-François Baltus, published a ponderous refutation of it ; but the peace-loving disposition of its author impelled him to leave his opponent unanswered.

" Jean-François Lyotard, in Fredric Jameson's analysis, does not hold that there is a postmodern stage radically different from the period of high modernism ; instead, postmodern discontent with this or that high modernist style is part of the experimentation of high modernism, giving birth to new modernisms.

* He asserts that the identification of " Shishaq, King of Egypt " ( 1 Kings 14: 25f ; 2 Chronicles 12: 2-9 ) with Shoshenq I, first proposed by Jean-François Champollion, is based on incorrect conclusions.

Successive leaders of the GUD were: Jack Marchal, Jean-François Santacroce, Serge Rep, Philippe Cuignache, Charles-Henri Varaut, Frédéric Chatillon, William Bonnefoy, Benoît Fleury ( from 1995 to 2000 ; now a professor at the law school of the University of Poitiers ).

The leaders of the Barbizon school were Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Théodore Rousseau, Jean-François Millet, and Charles-François Daubigny ; other members included Jules Dupré, Constant Troyon, Charles Jacque, Narcisse Virgilio Diaz, Pierre Emmanuel Damoye, Charles Olivier de Penne, Henri Harpignies, Gabriel-Hippolyte Lebas ( 1812 – 1880 ), Albert Charpin, Félix Ziem, François-Louis Français, Emile van Marcke, and Alexandre Defaux.

:* Jean-François de Troy-1 painting ;

Riesener was born in Gladbeck, Westphalia, Germany, moved to Paris where he apprenticed soon after 1754 with Jean-François Oeben, whose widow he married ; he was received master ébéniste in January 1768.

In 1783 the company moved again, into the Salle Favart ( architect Jean-François Heurtier ; ca.

Jean-François confessed his convictions to the North American agents in Le Cap François: “[...] that General told us that he had not created himself General of the negroes, that those who had that power had confered upon him that title ; that in taking up arms, he never pretended to fight for General Liberty, which he knew to be an illusion ”.

Since its founding in 1909 SUPAERO has produced more than 11, 000 graduates ; some of them have achieved fame in their field, including: Henri Coandă, the discoverer of the Coanda effect ; Henri Ziegler, father of the Airbus program ; Frédéric d ' Allest, first chairman of Arianespace ; and Jean-François Clervoy ( class of 1983 ), astronaut.

The author recounted the early voyages of René Goulaine de Laudonnière, Jean Ribault, and Dominique de Gourgues to present-day Florida ; those of Durand de Villegaignon and Jean de Léry to Brazil ; and those of Verrazzano, Jacques Cartier, and Jean-François Roberval to Canada.

Other prominent academics associated with the University include Geoffrey Bennington, the creator of the MA programme in Modern French Thought ( Derrida, Lyotard ); Homi K. Bhabha ( postcolonialism ); Rachel Bowlby ( feminism, Woolf, Freud ); Geoff Cloke FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry ); Jonathan Dollimore ( Renaissance literature, gender and queer studies ); Katy Gardner ( social anthropology ); Gabriel Josipovici ( Dante, the Bible ); Michael Land FRS ( Animal Vision-Frink Medal )); Michael Lappert FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry ); Alan Lehmann FRS ( Genetics and Genome Stability ); ( Laura Marcus ( Woolf ); John Murrell FRS ( Theoretical Chemistry ); Peter Nicholls ( Pound, modernism ); John Nixon FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry )); Laurence Pearl FRS ( Structural Biology ); Guy Richardson FRS ( Neuroscience ); Jacqueline Rose ( feminism, psychoanalysis ); Nicholas Royle ( modern literature and theory ; deconstruction ); Alan Sinfield ( Shakespeare, sexuality, queer theory ); Norman Vance ( Victorian, classical reception ); Richard Whatmore & Knud Haakonssen ( intellectual historians ); Gavin Ashenden ( Senior Lecturer in English, University Chaplain, and Chaplain to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II ; Cedric Watts ( Conrad, Greene ); Marcus Wood ( postcolonialism ).

What we are witnessing, says Lyotard, is actually the differend ; the straining of the mind at the edges of itself and at the edges of its conceptuality.

Often understood simply as a cultural style ' after-Modernism ' marked by intertextuality, pastiche and irony, sociological analyses of postmodernity have presented a distinct era relating to ( 1 ) the dissolution of metanarratives ( particularly in the work of Lyotard ), and ( 2 ) commodity fetishism and the ' mirroring ' of identity with consumption in late capitalist society ( Debord ; Baudrillard ; Jameson ).

In the first half of the 20th century the Olympic Winter Games were held three times in Alpine venues: the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France ; the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland ; and the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press ; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.

His many plays included Nobody's Widow ( 1910 ), starring Blanche Bates ; Fair and Warmer ( 1915 ), starring Madge Kennedy ( filmed in 1919 ); The Gold Diggers ( 1919 ), starring Ina Claire ( filmed in 1923 as The Gold Diggers, in 1928 as Gold Diggers of Broadway and also as Gold Diggers of 1933 ); Ladies ' Night, 1920, starring Charlie Ruggles ( filmed in 1928 ); the famous mystery play The Bat ( with Mary Roberts Rinehart ), 1920 ( filmed in 1926, 1930 and 1959 ); Getting Gertie's Garter ( with Wilson Collison ), 1921, starring Hazel Dawn ( filmed in 1927 and 1945 ); The Demi-Virgin, 1921, also starring Hazel Dawn ; The Alarm Clock, 1923 ; The Best People ( with David Gray ), 1924 ( filmed in 1925 and as Fast and Loose in 1930 ), the song-farce Naughty Cinderella, 1925, starring Irene Bordoni and The Garden of Eden in 1927 ( filmed in as 1928 ).

Yet, at the 5th Congress of the Communist International ( July 1924 ), Grigory Zinoviev formally denounced Georg Lukács's heterodox definition of orthodox Marxism as exclusively derived from fidelity to the " Marxist method ", and not to Communist party dogmas ; and denounced the Marxism developments of the German theorist Karl Korsch.

Vienna 1924 ; Two-handed arrangement by Friedrich Wührer ( 1952 )

Puccini died there on 29 November 1924, from complications after the treatment ; uncontrolled bleeding led to a heart attack the day after surgery.

* The Experimenter — originally Practical Electrics, the first issue under this title was November 1924 ; merged into Science and Invention in 1926

This economic stagnation is argued to have commenced with the demise of the Ottoman Caliphate in 1924, with trade networks being disrupted and societies torn apart with the creation of new nation states ; prior to this, the Middle East had a diverse and growing economy and more general prosperity.

The first Summer Olympics organized by the International Olympic Committee were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896 ; the first Winter Olympics were in Chamonix, France, in 1924.

Spacey was born in South Orange, New Jersey, the son of Kathleen Ann ( née Knutson ; December 5, 1931 – March 19, 2003 ), a secretary, and Thomas Geoffrey Fowler ( June 4, 1924 – December 24, 1992 ), a technical writer and data consultant.

The Kerguelen Islands, along with the islands of Amsterdam and St. Paul, and the Crozet archipelago were officially annexed by France in 1893, and were included as possessions in the French constitution in 1924 ( in addition to that portion of Antarctica claimed by France and known as Adélie Land ; as with all Antarctic territorial claims, France's possession on the continent is held in abeyance until a new international treaty is ratified that defines each claimant's rights and obligations ).

A League of Nations Commission of Inquiry, with Belgian, Hungarian and Swedish members, was sent to the region in 1924 ; it found that the people of Mosul did not want to be part of either Turkey or Iraq, but if they had to choose, they would pick Iraq.

His enthusiastic support for the nationalist party earned him the suspicion of some of the communists ; he was even elected an alternate member of the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee, and in February 1924 put forward four resolutions that argued that power in the party was too centralized among a few cadres in Canton, and that power should instead he decentralized to urban and rural bureaus.

The New Economic Policy was tumultuous ; economic recovery took place but alongside famine ( 1921 – 1922 ) and a financial crisis ( 1924 ).

The family lived in two popular districts of the town, in el-Gamaleyya, from where they moved in 1924 to el-Abbaseyya, then a new Cairo suburb ; both provided the backdrop for many of Mahfouz's writings.

The Ottoman Caliphate was abolished on 3 March 1924 ; the Caliphate's authority and properties were transferred to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

In 1924 he joined the Berlin Secession ; by this time he was developing an increasingly realistic style of painting that used thin glazes of oil paint over a tempera underpainting, in the manner of the old masters.

* Politische Pflichten der deutschen Jugend ; rede gehalten am 26. februar 1924 vor dem Hochschulring deutscher art in Würzburg, 1925

Paul Desmond ( born Paul Emil Breitenfeld ; November 25, 1924 – May 30, 1977 ) was a jazz alto saxophonist and composer born in San Francisco, best known for the work he did in the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for penning that group's greatest hit, " Take Five ".

* Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A. T. Murray, Ph. D. in two volumes, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press ; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.

In the Olympic Games held in Paris in 1924 a team composed by Juan Miles, Enrique Padilla, Juan Nelson, Arturo Kenny, G. Brooke Naylor and A. Peña obtained the gold medal ; this also occurred in Berlín 1936 with players Manuel Andrada, Andrés Gazzotti, Roberto Cavanagh, Luis Duggan, Juan Nelson, Diego Cavanagh and Enrique Alberdi.