* Jules Hardouin-Mansart begins la place Vendôme in Paris ( completed in 1698 ).

Built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, 1675-1683 for the duc de Chevreuse, Colbert's son-in-law, is a French Baroque château of manageable size.

Jules Hardouin-Mansart ( 16 April 1646 – 11 May 1708 ) was a French architect whose work is generally considered to be the apex of French Baroque architecture, representing the power and grandeur of Louis XIV.

The Château de Clagny in Versailles was built between 1674 and 1680 from the drawings of Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Premier architecte du Roi, ( First architect of the King ), on land bought by Louis XIV in 1665.

A mansard roof on the Château de Dampierre ( 1675 – 1683 ), by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, great-nephew of François Mansart.

The design tradition was continued by numerous architects, including Jules Hardouin-Mansart, ( 1675 – 1683 ), his great nephew, who is responsible for Château de Dampierre in Dampierre-en-Yvelines.

The palace was originally built for the legitimised daughter of Louis XIV and Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan-Louise-Françoise de Bourbon, duchesse de Bourbon, to a design by the Italian architect Lorenzo Giardini, approved by Jules Hardouin-Mansart.

* 1680s – Church of Les Invalides, Paris is built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart.

* 1660s – Louis XIV, with the architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart, begins to enlarge the Palace of Versailles ( 1661 ).

Its regular architecture by Jules Hardouin-Mansart and pedimented screens canted across the corners give the rectangular Place Vendôme the aspect of an octagon.

Robert Berger has demonstrated that the design of Marly was a full collaboration between Jules Hardouin-Mansart and the premier peintre Charles Le Brun, who were concurrently working on the Galerie des Glaces at Versailles.

The city hall occupies the former bishop's palace, designed in the 17th century by Jules Hardouin-Mansart ( the architect of Versailles ), and with gardens designed by André Le Nôtre ( the designer of the gardens in Versailles ).

The chapel at the Collège de Sorbonne | Sorbonne, 1635: prototype for Jules Hardouin-Mansart | Mansart's at Les Invalides.

Lemercier was engaged by Louis XIII in initial planning for an expansion of the hunting lodge at Versailles, a project which was only realized by other architects, notably Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart, under the guidance of Louis XIV.

Work was interrupted 1701 – 1740 save for a chapel inserted 1705 – 1710 designed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart.

To provide for the Hall of Mirrors as well as the salon de la guerre and the salon de la paix, which connect the grand appartement du roi with the grand appartement de la reine, architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart appropriated three rooms from each apartment as well as the terrace that separated the two apartments ( Marie, 1968 ; 1977l Verlet, 1985a ).

The Orangerie at the Palace of the Louvre, 1617, inspired imitations that culminated in Europe's largest orangery, designed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart for Louis XIV's 3000 orange trees at Versailles, whose dimensions of 508 by were not eclipsed until, from the development of the modern greenhouse in the 1840s, were quickly overshadowed by the architecture in glass of Joseph Paxton.

The building compares with the Château of Dampierre-en-Yvelines by Jules Hardouin-Mansart.

The classical Music Festival established by Alfred Loewenguth in 1969 ( in 2010 entering its 41st season ), takes place in the Orangery built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart for the Marquis de Seignelay in 1686, in the Park at Sceaux.

The monumental mason Jules Cantini made the discovery with the locality “ the beautiful stones ” on the commune of That close to Brignoles ( VAr ) of a red marbled marble layer of yellow and white, receiving a beautiful polish, which was appropriate perfectly.

The Master furnace bridge designed by Révoil, carried out by Jules Cantini between 1882 and 1886, is out of white marble with a formed base of five gilded bronze blind arcades resting on posts in lapis lazuli with a decoration of mosaics.

Scenic design was by William and Jean Eckart, costume design by Theoni V. Aldredge, and lighting design by Jules Fisher.

* Cléopâtre, a 1914 opera by Jules Massenet

Women of the Harem by Jules Laurens, circa 1847

The group's keyboardist Rick Wakeman released many concept albums on his own, most notably The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Journey to the Centre of the Earth, which was based on the novel by Jules Verne.

For the 1982 animated cult-movie The Flight of Dragons produced by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr., McLean sang the opening theme.

* Ève, an oratorio by Jules Massenet

Only a few compositions that Satie took seriously remain from this period: Jack in the Box, music to a pantomime by Jules Depaquit ( called a "" by Satie ),, a short comic opera on a serious theme, text by Lord Cheminot, The Dreamy Fish, piano music to accompany a lost tale by Lord Cheminot, and a few others that were mostly incomplete, hardly any of them staged, and none of them published at the time.

A commission directed by Jules Raynaud ( head of telegraph research ) rejected his demands.

French cinema also was the birthplace for many sub-genres of the crime film, most notably the modern caper film, starting with 1955's Rififi by American-born director Jules Dassin and followed by a large number of serious, noirish heist dramas as well as playful caper comedies throughout the sixties, and the " polar ," a typical French blend of film noir and detective fiction.

Before he was forced abroad for political reasons, director Jules Dassin made two classic noirs that also straddled the major / independent line: Brute Force ( 1947 ) and the influential documentary-style The Naked City were developed by producer Mark Hellinger, who had an " inside / outside " contract with Universal similar to Wanger's.

Just as work began at the Champ de Mars, the " Committee of Three Hundred " ( one member for each metre of the tower's height ) was formed, led by Charles Garnier and including some of the most important figures of the French arts establishment, including Adolphe Bouguereau, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Gounod and Jules Massenet: a petition was sent to Charles Alphand, the Minister of Works, and was published by Le Temps.

It was first detected as an unknown yellow spectral line signature in sunlight during a solar eclipse in 1868 by French astronomer Jules Janssen.

The line was detected by French astronomer Jules Janssen during a total solar eclipse in Guntur, India.

A commemorative concert was held in Paradiso, with performances by Hans Dulfer, André Hazes, and Jules Deelder, and leading Dutch music magazine Muziekkrant OOR devoted an entire issue to him.

Other notable pre-20th century examples include Giacomo Casanova's 1788 Icosaméron, a 5-volume, 1, 800-page story of a brother and sister who fall into the Earth and discover the subterranean utopia of the Mégamicres, a race of multicolored, hermaphroditic dwarfs ; Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a " Captain Adam Seaborn " ( 1820 ) which reflected the ideas of John Cleves Symmes, Jr .; Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ; Jules Verne's 1864 novel A Journey to the Center of the Earth, which described a prehistoric subterranean world ; and George Sand's 1884 novel Laura, Voyage dans le Cristal where unseen and giant crystals could be found in the interior of the Earth.

Additionally, inspired by the fiction of Jules Verne, Tsiolkovsky theorized many aspects of space travel and rocket propulsion.

Instead of Flip or the Princess, Nemo meets Zorro, Alice and Jules Verne's Nautilus ( which was led by Captain Nemo ).

Shamed by his crimes, his parents ( Jules and Arlene ) disown him, move away, and change their name to the anagram " Thorul ".

Among his students were Jules Dalou, Jean-Louis Forain and the American sculptor Olin Levi Warner.

* Texts by Eugen Drewermann, Jean-Louis Christ ( celibacy and globalization ) and Bruno Bontempelli, in Jules Barbey d ' Aurevilly ou le triomphe de l ' écriture: pour une nouvelle lecture de Un prêtre marié ' by Jean-Pierre Thiollet, H & D, Paris, 2006 ( ISBN 2-914-26606-5, 2007 ( ISBN 2 914 266 08 1 ).

Brassens grew up in the family home in Sète with his mother, Elvira Dagrosa, father, Jean-Louis, half-sister, Simone ( daughter of Elvira and her first husband, who was killed in the war ), and paternal grandfather, Jules.

Illustrations were contributed by well-known artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Georges Goursat, René Georges Hermann-Paul, Juan Gris, Lucien Metivet, Georges Meunier, Jean-Louis Forain, Adolphe Willette, Joaquín Xaudaró, Leonetto Cappiello, Albert Guillaume, Manuel Luque, Jules Grandjouan and Jules-Alexandre Grun.

A similar work for the tomb of Jules Michelet ( 1879 ; designed with architect Jean-Louis Pascal ) is in Père Lachaise Cemetery, and in the same year Mercié produced the statue of Arago with accompanying reliefs, now erected at Perpignan.