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Montferrand's and who
Montferrand's father, Benois Ricard, was a horse trainer who died when Montferrand was a child ; his grandfather, Leger Ricard, was a bridge engineer.
Critics predicted that the column would fall apart upon separation from the rock, but Montferrand's experience with the columns of St. Isaac's persuaded Nicholas I, who approved the project in December 1829.
The emperor, who favoured the ponderous Empire style of architecture, had to step in and solve the dispute in Montferrand's favour.

Montferrand's and is
Montferrand's name is associated with St. Petersburg.
Montferrand's Monument to Nicholas I is one of the few equestrian statue s in the world with merely two support points.

Montferrand's and Montferrand
Betancourt, impressed by Breguet's letter and Montferrand's drawings, offered Montferrand the desk of Head of Draftsmen, but Montferrand preferred the lower rank of senior draftsman.

Montferrand's and .
Montferrand's first decision was to use a slab foundation, rather than a perimeter of piles.
Columns were roughly cut in Fredrikshamn, delivered by barge, and finished on site one by one, using a gigantic lathe of Montferrand's own design.
The Monument to Nicholas I was Montferrand's last work, commissioned by Alexander II in May 1856.
The first bronze cast was lost when the mold cracked ; a second statue was cast in February 1859 — after Montferrand's death.
Montferrand's design was criticised by some members of the commission for the dry and allegedly boring rhythm of its four identical pedimented octastyle porticos.
The cathedral took 40 years to construct, under Montferrand's direction, from 1818 to 1858.

mother and Marie
Marie de Coucy, who became mother of Alexander III of Scotland
Whatever the truth Olympia, rather than face trial, subsequently fled France for Brussels in January 1680, leaving Eugene in the care of his father's mother, Marie de Bourbon, and her daughter, Hereditary Princess of Baden, mother of Prince Louis of Baden.
Expelled from France Marie joined her mother in Brussels before eloping with a renegade priest to Geneva, with whom she lived unhappily until her premature death in 1705.
Some scholars believe that, because the only evidence for the " courts of love " is Andreas Capellanus ’ s book The Art of Courtly Love, they probably never existed ; to further strengthen their argument, they say that there is also no evidence that Marie ever stayed with her mother in Poitiers, beyond her name being mentioned in Andreas ’ s work.
Her mother, Marie de Guise, stayed in Scotland to look after the interests of Mary — and of France — although the Earl of Arran acted officially as regent.
His mother Marie Emma, née Groß, worked as a maid and, later, factory worker.
* April 24 – Encouraged by Charles d ' Albert, the seventeen-year-old Louis XIII, king of France, forces his mother Marie de Medici, who has held de facto power, into retirement and has her favourite, Concino Concini, assassinated.
** Battle of Les Ponts-de-Cé, Poitou: French king Louis XIII defeats his mother Marie de ' Medici.
His father, Pierre de Beze, royal governor of Vezelay, descended from a Burgundian family of distinction ; his mother, Marie Bourdelot, was known for her generosity.
Malraux was raised by his mother, maternal aunt Marie and maternal grandmother, Adrienne Lamy-Romagna, who had a grocery store in the small town of Bondy.
At first, Marie de Medici, his mother, served as regent and advanced a pro-Spanish policy.
After months of continued pressure from her mother and the Austrian minister, the comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Marie Antoinette grudgingly agreed to speak to Mme du Barry on New Year's Day 1772.
Later, Marie Antoinette became more polite to the comtesse, pleasing Louis XV, but also particularly her mother.
Though the letters were touching, in later years Marie Antoinette said she feared her mother more than she loved her.
Portrait of Marie Antoinette in hunting attire ( a favorite of her mother ), by Joseph Krantzinger ( 1771 ), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
To make up for the lack of affection from her husband and the endless criticism of her mother, Marie Antoinette began to spend more on gambling and clothing, with cards and horse-betting, as well as trips to the city and new clothing, shoes, pomade and rouge.
Marie Antoinette was worried that the death of her mother would jeopardise the Franco-Austrian alliance ( as well as, ultimately, herself ), but Emperor Joseph reassured her through his own letters ( as the empress had not stopped writing to Marie Antoinette until shortly before her death ) that he had no intention of breaking the alliance.
This State Portrait by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun ( 1787 ) of Marie Antoinette and her children Marie Thérèse, Louis Charles ( on her lap ), and Louis Joseph, was meant to help her reputation by depicting her as a mother and in simple, yet stately attire.
His mother, Marie Berta Gabrielle ( née Barbin ; 1856 – 1919 ), was French, born in Lure in Lorraine.
He later encounters Marie, a former employee of his firm, and the two become re-acquainted and begin to have a sexual relationship, regardless of the fact that Meursault's mother died just a day before.
He doesn't show emotion to the fact that his mother is dead, Marie loves him or that he killed an Arab.
Guided by her mother, Marie refused George when he proposed to her.

mother and Louise
The mother of Napoleon, his consort Maria Louise ( as Concord ), to model whom the author made a further journey to Paris in 1810, the princess Esterhazy and the muse Polymnia ( Elisa Bonaparte ) take their place in this class, as do the ideal heads, comprising Corinna, Sappho, Laura, Beatrice and Helen of Troy.
His siblings were Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark ( mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh ), Queen Louise of Sweden, and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven.
Her mother was Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel.
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks ( February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005 ) was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the U. S. Congress called " the first lady of civil rights ", and " the mother of the freedom movement ".
He then called his parents at 9: 00 a. m., and spoke with his mother, Louise.
*** Louise Lindner Eastman, American wife of Lee Eastman and mother of Linda McCartney ( b. 1911 )
* September 22 – Louise of Savoy, mother of Francis I of France ( born 1476 )
* June 20 – Louise Henriette de Bourbon, mother of Philippe Égalité ( d. 1759 )
Later, King Francis I again gave the duchy as an appanage to his mother, Louise of Savoy, by letters patent of 4 February 1515.
On 13 August 1651 the Dutch Hoge Raad ( Supreme Court ) ruled that guardianship would be shared between his mother, his paternal grandmother and Frederick William, the Elector of Brandenburg, whose wife, Louise Henriette, was his father's eldest sister.
Her father was Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and her mother was Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel.
Alexandra ( right ) with Louise of Hesse-Kassel | her mother ( centre ) and eldest daughter, Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife | Princess Louise ( left ), 1893
Louise has been led to believe her mother is a society matron named Mrs. E. Worthington Manville who lives at the Hotel Marberry.
In 1807, when Marie Louise was 15, her mother died after suffering a miscarriage.
To satisfy dynastic obligations and to provide his children with a mother figure, Ferdinand married Eleonore Caroline Gasparine Louise, Princess Reuss-Köstritz, on 28 February 1908.
King Francis I was raised at Amboise, which belonged to his mother, Louise of Savoy, and during the first few years of his reign the château reached the pinnacle of its glory.
One of its members, Francis I became king of France in 1515 and raised Angoulême to the rank of duchy in favour of his mother Louise of Savoy.
Her mother, the former Louise Athanaïse Cécile Cerveaux, came from a Champagne family of Catholic farmers and priests.
Morphy's mother, Louise Thérèse Félicité Thelcide Le Carpentier, was the musically talented daughter of a prominent French Creole family.
He holds them at gunpoint and threatens to kill them, but Sylvia uses Louise to get in touch with his long lost mother and the group escapes.
While working in Liverpool, Scott met and married Louise Wallbank Hughes, a receptionist at the Adelphi Hotel ; his mother was displeased to learn that she was a Protestant.
Her father, an aeronautical engineer, emigrated from La Paz, Bolivia at age 17 ; her mother was American, the daughter of architect Emery Stanford Hall and wife Clara Louise Adams.

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