His choreographer Michel Fokine often adapted the music for ballet.

* August 22 – Michel Fokine, Russian choreographer and dancer ( b. 1880 )

Daphnis et Chloé took three years to complete, with conflicts constantly arising among the principal artists, including Léon Bakst ( sets and costumes ), Michel Fokine ( libretto ), and Ravel ( music ).

** Le Carnaval ( 1910 )— music by Robert Schumann ( orchestrated by Aleksandr Glazunov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Anatole Liadov, and Alexander Tcherepnin ), choreography by Michel Fokine, set and costumes by Leon Bakst.

** Papillons ( Butterflies )— music by Robert Schumann ( arranged by Nicolai Tcherepnin ), choreography by Michel Fokine, sets by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, and costumes by Leon Bakst.

** Petrushka ( 1911 )— music by Igor Stravinsky, choreography by Michel Fokine, sets and costumes by Alexandre Benois.

* Russian — Fokine, Michel: The Immortal Pierrot ( 1925 ; ballet, premiered in New York City ).

It led Diaghilev to create his famous company the Ballets Russes with choreographer Michel Fokine and designer Léon Bakst.

Pavlova is perhaps most renowned for creating the role of The Dying Swan, a solo choreographed for her by Michel Fokine.

Ferncliff Cemetery is located on Secor Road in Hartsdale, famous as the burial grounds for many celebrities including Aaliyah, Malcolm X, Heavy D, Judy Garland, Jerome Kern, Joan Crawford, Basil Rathbone, Ed Sullivan, Jam-Master Jay, James Baldwin, Michel Fokine, Tom Carvel, Oscar Hammerstein, Thelonious Monk, Paul Robeson, Minnesota Timberwolves Guard Malik Sealy and others.

To present these works Diaghilev recruited the choreographer Michel Fokine, the designer Léon Bakst and the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky.

In 1939, Michel Fokine wrote to Rachmaninoff from Auckland, New Zealand, where he was touring, seeking the composer's approval to use Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini for his ballet Paganini, which he had almost finished choreographing.

He worked together with the choreographer Michel Fokine to create the ballet Les Sylphides.

The scenario was adapted by Michel Fokine from an eponymous romance by the Greek writer Longus thought to date from around the 2nd century AD.

The orchestra was conducted by Pierre Monteux, the choreography was by Michel Fokine, and Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina danced the parts of Daphnis and Chloe.

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Vreeland was sent to dancing school and was a pupil of Michel Fokine, the only Imperial ballet master to ever leave Russia, and later of Louis Chalif.

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* Beaumont, C. W., Michel Fokine and His Ballets, ISBN 1-85273-050-1

* Fokine, Michel, 1880-1942.

* Fokine, Michel ( 1880-1942 ) at Australia Dancing

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Marcel Griaule and Michel Leiris are examples of people who combined anthropology with the French avant-garde.

* 1952 – Michel Blanc, French actor

* 1930 – Michel Rocard, French politician, Prime Minister of France

* 1721 – Michel Chamillart, French statesman ( b. 1652 )

* 1603 – Michel le Tellier, French statesman ( d. 1685 )

* 1919 – Michel Déon, French writer

* 1652 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician ( d. 1719 )

* 1727 – Michel Adanson, French botanist ( d. 1806 )

* Northeast Caucasian languages, such as Chechen, are seen by the French linguist Michel Morvan as more likely candidates for a very distant connection.

The name Île de la Passion () was officially given to Clipperton in 1711 by French discoverers Martin de Chassiron and Michel Du Bocage, commanding the French ships La Princesse and La Découverte.

The work of French philosopher and social theorist, Michel Foucault has been utilized in a variety of disciplines, such as history, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and linguistics.

During World War I, in which his younger son Michel served and his friend and admirer Clemenceau led the French nation, Monet painted a series of weeping willow trees as homage to the French fallen soldiers.

His home, garden and waterlily pond were bequeathed by his son Michel, his only heir, to the French Academy of Fine Arts ( part of the Institut de France ) in 1966.

Casablanca is home to the Hassan II Mosque, designed by the French architect Michel Pinseau.

* 1657 – Michel Richard Delalande, French Baroque composer and organist ( d. 1726 )

* 1997 – Michel Bélanger, French Canadian businessman and banker ( b. 1929 )

* 1964 – Michel Courtemanche, French Canadian comedian

* 1925 – Michel Piccoli, French actor

* 1932 – Michel Legrand, French composer

* 1971 – Michel Breistroff, French hockey player ( d. 1996 )

* 1956 – Michel Houellebecq, French writer

* 1533 – Michel de Montaigne, French writer ( d. 1592 )

A dedicated contemporary hedonist philosopher and on the history of hedonistic thought is the French Michel Onfray.