Bauxite was named after the village Les Baux in southern France, where it was first recognised as containing aluminium and named by the French geologist Pierre Berthier in 1821.

To avoid high taxation in Britain, he moved to the Channel Islands and settled at St Martin's, Guernsey, where he purchased Les Caches Hall and later restored Annesville Manor.

The highest auction record for the artist was set on November 6, 2007 at Christie's in New York, where a group of four paintings, " Les Quatre Saisons " ( the Four Seasons ) sold for $ 14, 601, 000 ( estimate $ 12, 000, 000-$ 18, 000, 000 ).

Crowe's upcoming projects include Les Misérables, an adaption of the popular musical in which he will portray Javert, Man of Steel where he will play Jor-El, the father of Superman, and Noah where he will play the titular biblical patriarch.

Shortly after finishing recording, the duo split and Simon moved to the United Kingdom, where he performed at Les Cousins and the Troubadour in London and toured provincial folk clubs.

Forums where these debates took place include the proceedings of the first conference dedicated to Derrida's work, published as " Les Fins de l ' homme à partir du travail de Jacques Derrida: colloque de Cerisy, 23 juillet-2 août 1980 ", Derrida's " Feu la cendre / cio ' che resta del fuoco ", and the studies on Paul Celan by Lacoue-Labarthe and Derrida which shortly preceded the detailed studies of Heidegger's politics published in and after 1987.

The story of Turandot was taken from a Persian collection of stories called The Book of One Thousand and One Days ( 1722 French translation Les Mille et un jours by François Pétis de la Croix — not to be confused with its sister work The Book of One Thousand and One Nights ), where the character of " Turandokht " as a cold princess was found.

He performed at Les Cousins in London and toured provincial folk clubs where he was exposed to a wide range of musical influences.

In the series Star Trek: Enterprise, T ' Pol is given, through her in-name-only husband Koss, an IDIC pendant from her mother T ' Les which projects a holographic relief, enabling T ' Pol and Captain Archer to find the location where T ' Les and the Syrrannites are hiding.

Most episodes included one or more firing squad sketches, where Les would play the part of a Latin American military officer with a sword in hand preparing to order a firing squad to execute one of the children actors, who were standing in front of a post.

* Les Espagnols sur Mer or the Battle of Winchelsea in the waters of the English Channel where the English fleet defeats Castilian fleet.

Soon thereafter, Stein introduced Toklas to Pablo Picasso at his studio, where he was at work on Les Demoiselles d ' Avignon.

File: Les Fusains. jpg |" Les Fusains ": 22, rue Tourlaque, 18th arrondissement of Paris where Miró settled in 1927.

In 1943, for her first novel published Les Impudents, she decided to use as pen name the surname of Duras, a village in the Lot-et-Garonne département, where her father's house was located.

Chevreul worked as the director of the dye works at Les Gobelins tapestry works in Paris, where he noticed that the perceived colour of a particular thread was influenced by its surrounding threads, a phenomenon he called “ simultaneous contrast .” Chevreul ’ s work was a continuation of theories of colour elaborated by Leonardo da Vinci and Goethe ; in turn, his work influenced painters including Eugène Delacroix and Georges-Pierre Seurat.

Traditional French Creole is spoken among those families determined to keep the language alive or in regions below New Orleans around St. James and St. John Parishes where German immigres originally settled ( also known as ' the German Coast ', or Les Cote Des Allemandes ) and cultivated the land, keeping the ill-equipped French Colonists from starvation during the Colonial Period and adopting commonly spoken French and Creole French ( arriving with the exiles ) as a language of trade.

Merman was hired as a torch singer at Les Ambassadeurs, where the headliner was Jimmy Durante, and the two became lifelong friends.

The château was lavish, refined, and dazzling to behold, but these characteristics proved tragic for its owner: the king had Fouquet arrested shortly after a famous fête that took place on 17 August 1661 where Molière's play ' Les Fâcheux ' debuted.

At first they stayed in the Lion d ' Argent hotel near Les Halles, where Georges found a job.

Despite Rita and Les being killed in the process they successfully destroy all the zombies until Lionel's mother, who ( assumedly because she was the one originally bitten ) has become a gargantuan monster, pursues Lionel and Paquita to the rooftop, where Lionel finally confronts his mother about the truth regarding his father's demise.

It was in the Montparnasse atelier of one of her painter friends where the initial idea for Les Six began.

In France, there was Lettres persanes ( 1721 ) by Montesquieu, followed by Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse ( 1761 ) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Laclos ' Les Liaisons dangereuses ( 1782 ), which used the epistolary form to great dramatic effect, because the sequence of events was not always related directly or explicitly.

* Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( Les Confessions ), 1770, published 1782

At the end of 1745, Voltaire and Rameau, who were busy on other works, commissioned Rousseau to turn La Princesse de Navarre into a new opera, with linking recitative called Les fêtes de Ramire.

Furthermore, in his introduction to Post-Impressionism, Rewald opted for a second volume featuring Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Rousseau " le Douanier ", Les Nabis and Cézanne as well as the Fauves, the young Picasso and Gauguin's last trip to the South-Sea ; it was to expand the period covered at least into the first decade of the 20th century — yet this second volume remained unfinished.

* Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Les Muses galantes

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* Michel Descombes and Patrick Rousseau, Les Plouffe

Reveries of a Solitary Walker ( or Reveries of the Solitary Walker, French title: Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire ) is an unfinished book by Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, written between 1776 and 1778.

The poet Joachim du Bellay, who lived in Rome through this period in the retinue of his relative Cardinal Jean du Bellay, expressed his scandalized opinion of Julius in two sonnets in his series Les regrets ( 1558 ).

Orwell's Paris street, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris | 5th arrondissement: " tall old-fashioned windows and dark grey leaded roofs ; not far from the École Normale Supérieure — earlier in the twenties, Ernest Hemingway | Hemingway had lived only 500 yards from Orwell's street ; Elliot Paul was then still living in his own ' narrow street ', the Rue de la Huchette, in the same arrondissement down by the river near the Place Saint-Michel ; and once, at the Les Deux Magots | Deux Magots in 1928, Orwell thought he saw James Joyce.

From 1882 to 1886 he lived in Brussels, where he joined Les XX ( Les Vingts ), a group of artists centred around James Ensor.

* Les Dennis, a television presenter, lived in Rainhill.

midfielder Gary O ' Neil, former Millwall FC and current Everton FC midfielder Tim Cahill and Reading FC ( previously Blackburn Rovers ) striker Jason Roberts lived in Bromley, English darts player Les Capewell was born in Bromley, Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand, Leicester City F. C.

In his book " Les quatre vérités de Papillon ", Georges Ménager, a former Paris-Match reporter claims that Charrière was in fact a police informer and a pimp before his incarceration, and lived off the proceeds of his girlfriend's prostitution and that he later tried to blame her for the murder of Roland Legrande.

On 23 October 2008 a bronze statue by sculptor Graham Ibbeson of comedian Les Dawson, who lived in the town, was unveiled by Dawson's widow and daughter in the ornamental gardens next to St Annes Pier.

The old chateau of the family had been sold, but he bought a house called Les Paillers in the suburbs of Saint-Lô, and there he lived, buried in his roses, for fifteen years.

After the deaths of Thévenot and d ' Herbelot, Galland lived for some time at Caen under the roof of Nicolas Foucault, the intendant of Caen, himself no mean archaeologist ; and there he began in 1704 the publication of Les mille et Une Nuits, which excited immense interest during the time of its appearance, and is still the standard French translation.

When the explorers Jean Nicolet and Samuel de Champlain learned of the " sea " connection to the tribe's name, they were optimistic that it meant Les puans were from or had lived near the Pacific Ocean.

Supporting characters included obsessive majorette Holly ( who never removed her Majorette uniform ), " Crazy " Harry ( who lived in his locker ), " Bull " Bushka ( the school's star athlete and Les ' Tormentor ), and popular girl Cindy.

Pete is the latest resident of the apartment above Montoni's ( Les and Lisa lived there before buying their home.

For most of the next nine months he lived alone in his flat feeling depressed ; he did not seek therapy and left Les Misérables.

For some time around 1975, Took lived in the Kent towns of Canterbury and Margate, where he took on local musician Les Dray as his guitarist and manager, and together they formed a new band, " Jolly Roger & The Crimson Gash ", with local musicians.

After his release in 1991, Battisti lived in Paris, where he wrote his first novel, Les Habits d ' ombre (" Shadow clothes ").

A. C. Swinburne's poem, Les Casquets is based on the Houguez family who actually lived on the island for 18 years.

Krása, whose primary influences were Mahler, Schoenberg and Zemlinsky, also felt an affinity with French music, especially the group of composers known as Les Six and made a number of trips to France to study under Roussel whilst he lived in Berlin.

Swinburne based his poem Les Casquets on the Houguez family who actually lived on the islands for 18 years.

A. C Swinburne's poem Les Casquets is based on the Houguez family, who actually lived on those islands for 18 years.

By the late 1960s he lived near Reading, Berkshire and made regular visits to London clubs such as Les Cousins in Soho, where he learnt from Roy Harper, Bert Jansch, Ralph McTell, The Incredible String Band, Davey Graham and many an American guitar picker.

Hester and William also coped with Madame Remoleux ( Valerie Lush ), an unintelligible and ancient French woman who lived in and cared for the estate — called Les Hirondelles ( the Swallows ) — where they all lived.