* 1947 – Les Barker, English poet

Barker was the third comedy professional to be given a memorial at Westminster Abbey, after Joyce Grenfell and Les Dawson.

Only Les Dawson and Ronnie Barker have been similarly honoured since.

Les Barker ( born 30 January 1947 ) is an English poet.

The Mrs Ackroyd Band, based in Manchester, consists of a core of Les Barker, Alison Younger, Hillary Spencer ( replacing previous member Lesley Davies ) and Chris Harvey.

Regular performers at Towersey include Roy Bailey and Les Barker.

Just one year ahead of Coppell were Clive Barker, Les Dennis ( Heseltine ) and Brian Barwick, the Chief Executive of the FA since January 2005.

The album was recorded during a period of upheaval for the band, with Gian Pyres and Nicholas Barker leaving prior to its release ( Pyres would return for the recording of Midian ) and Stuart Anstis and Les Smith departing the band soon afterwards.

Don Lusher ; Wally Smith ; Chris Smith ; Jimmy Coombes ; Ric Kennedy ; John Keating ; Keith Christie ; Johnny Edwards ; Lad Busby ; Jackie Armstrong ; Harry Roche ; Joe Cordell ; Woolf Phillips ; Les Carew ; Jack Bentley ; Maurice Pratt ; Bill Geldard ; Ken Goldie ; Ted Barker

Jarry and classmate Henri Morin wrote a play they called Les Polonais and performed it with marionettes in the home of one of their friends.

He wrote sentimental plays, Le Fils naturel ( 1757 ) and Le Père de famille ( 1758 ), accompanying them with essays on theatrical theory and practice, including " Les Entretiens sur Le Fils Naturel " ( Conversations on The Natural Son ), in which he announced the principles of a new drama: the ' serious genre ', a realistic midpoint between comedy and tragedy that stood in opposition to the stilted conventions of the classical French stage.

Other composers such as Erwin Schulhoff, Hans Heusser and Albert Savinio all wrote Dada music, while members of Les Six collaborated with members of the Dada movement and had their works performed at Dada gatherings.

In chamber music, György Ligeti wrote a small number of solo works for the instrument ( including Continuum ), and Henri Dutilleux's Les Citations ( 1991 ) is scored for harpsichord, oboe, double bass and percussions.

The symbolic initiation of this new phase in Sartre ’ s work is packaged in the introduction he wrote for a new journal, Les Temps Modernes, in October 1945.

Germaine Tailleferre of the French group Les Six wrote several works which could be considered to be inspired by Surrealism, including the 1948 Ballet Paris-Magie ( scenario by Lise Deharme ), the Operas La Petite Sirène ( book by Philippe Soupault ) and Le Maître ( book by Eugène Ionesco ).

Max Bruch wrote a popular Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra, César Franck wrote Les Djinns and Variations symphoniques, and Gabriel Fauré wrote a Ballade for piano and orchestra.

George Bernard Shaw wrote that Gilbert, who had earlier adapted Offenbach's Les brigands, drew on that work also for his new libretto.

Hector Berlioz, too, wrote the libretti for two of his best-known works, La Damnation de Faust and Les Troyens.

This work would eventually become Les Troyens, a monumental grand opera with a libretto ( which he wrote himself ) based on Books Two and Four of Virgil's Aeneid.

The botanist Claude Antoine Thory, who wrote the descriptions for Redouté ’ s paintings in Les Roses, noted that Josephine ’ s Bengal rose R. indica had black spots on it.

During World War II, he was involved in the French Resistance, during which time he wrote Liberty ( 1942 ), Les sept poèmes d ' amour en guerre ( 1944 ) and En avril 1944: Paris respirait encore!

Marivaux wrote between 30 and 40 plays, the best of which are the Surprise de l ' amour ( 1722 ), the Triomphe de Plutus ( 1728 ), Jeu de l ' amour et du hasard ( 1730 ) ( The Game of Love and Chance ), Les Fausses confidences ( 1737 ), all produced at the Italian theatre, and Le Legs ( 1736 ), produced at the French.

French poet Théophile de Viau wrote Les amours tragiques de Pyrame et Thisbée, a tragedy in five acts ( 1621 ).

* The French composer Francis Poulenc also wrote an opera called Les Mamelles de Tirésias (" The Breasts of Tiresias ") based on Guillaume Apollinaire's surrealist text of 1917.

During the development of Nazi Germany, Céline wrote the pamphlets Bagatelles pour un massacre ( Trifles for a Massacre ) ( 1937 ), L ' École des cadavres ( The School of Corpses ) ( 1938 ) and Les Beaux draps ( The Fine Mess ) ( 1941 ).

Some of the movies he wrote are extremely well regarded, with Les Enfants du Paradis considered one of the greatest films of all time.

Gobineau wrote novels in addition to his works on race, notably Les Pléiades ( 1874 ).

Chet Atkins later wrote that his brother, home on a family visit, presented the younger Atkins with an expensive Gibson archtop guitar that had been given to Jim Atkins by Les Paul.

He also wrote the extensive cycles La Nativité du Seigneur (" The Nativity of the Lord ") and Les corps glorieux (" The glorious bodies ").

Franck wrote the delicately evocative Les Eolides, following it with the narrative Le chasseur maudit and the piano-and-orchestral tone poem Les Djinns, conceived in much the same manner as Liszt's Totentanz.

West made his London stage debut in February 1989 at the Orange Tree Theatre, playing Michael in Cocteau's Les Parents Terribles, of which critic John Thaxter wrote: " He invests the role with a warmth and validity that silences sniggers that could so easily greet a lesser performance of this difficult role, and he lets us share the tumbling emotions of a juvenile torn between romantic first love and filial duty.

Béroalde de Verville laid the foundation for his encyclopaedic works in a hexameral poem entitled Les cognoissances nécessaires for example.

Victor Hugo published an unrhymed French version by Ernest Fouinet of this poem in the notes to Les Orientales ( 1829 ) and subsequent French poets began to make their own attempts at composing original " pantoums ".

It was a publication of the Catalan poem Les bruixes de Llers (" The Witches of Llers ") by his friend and schoolmate, poet Carles Fages de Climent.

This contrast was noted by Victor Hugo in 1851 in his poem Les Châtiments: « Caves de Lille!

For his magnum opus, the monumental opera Les Troyens, Berlioz turned to Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid.

In 1857, she also importantly appears in Baudelaire's poem, " Le Cygne ," in Les Fleurs du Mal.

* Hercule et Omphale is a short, sexually explicit poem by the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire appearing in the erotic ( and for many years forbidden ) novel Les onze mille verges ( The Eleven Thousand Penises ).

Verlaine's concept of the poète maudit in turn borrows from Baudelaire, who opened his collection Les fleurs du mal with the poem Bénédiction, which describes a poet whose internal serenity remains undisturbed by the contempt of the people surrounding him.

" Mallarmé's poem Les fenêtres expresses all of these themes clearly.

Between 6 – 8 April 1912 he wrote his long poem, Les Pâques à New York ( Easter in New York ), his first important contribution to modern literature, signing it ( for the first time ) with the name Blaise Cendrars.

Cendrars ' poem Les Pâques à New York influenced Apollinaire's poem Zone.

The lyrics were based on the poem " Les Silhouettes " by Oscar Wilde, and Cale co-wrote the music with Zazou.

* Baudelaire is more sympathetic to Cain in his poem " Abel et Caïn " in the collection Les Fleurs du mal, where he depicts Cain as representing all the downtrodden people of the world.

For example, significant portions of Inner Sanctum are directly quoted from Emily Brontë poems, while the lyrics to " Tristesses de la lune " are borrowed from the poem of the same name in Charles Baudelaire's Les fleurs du mal.

* 1857: Charles Baudelaire's poem Don Juan aux enfers ( Don Juan in Hell ) in Les Fleurs du Mal

In a similar way, the French Renaissance author Jean Lemaire de Belges ( in his Les Illustrations de Gaule et Singularités de Troie ) linked the founding of Celtic Gaul to the arrival of the Trojan " Francus " ( i. e. Astyanax ), the son of Hector ; and of Celtic Germany to the arrival of " Bavo ", the cousin of Priam ; in this way he established an illustrious genealogy for Pepin and Charlemagne ( the legend of " Francus " would also serve as the basis for Ronsard's epic poem, " La Franciade ").

In his moments of leisure, he wrote a poem, Le Rêve ( 1755 ), a tragedy Les Thermopyles ( 1789 ) and a book on the colonies.

On my return to Paris, I began the poem of Les Troyens.

His poem, entitled Les Mois, appeared in 1779, was praised in manuscript, but critically lambasted until the 19th century.

In 1861 Laprade was removed from his post at Lyon owing to the publication of a poem satirising the Second Empire ( Les Musées d ' Etat ), and in 1871 was elected to the National Assembly as a conservative.

In 1999, Les McLaughlin and Friends released a musical interpretation of the poem as part of the collection entitled The Songs of Robert Services.