* Nicolas Régnier ( 1591-1667 ), Flemish painter and art collector

A painting attributed to Nicolas Tournier, which hangs in the Ashmolean Museum, is An Allegory of Justice and Vanity.

A painting attributed to Nicolas Tournier, which hangs in the Ashmolean Museum, is An Allegory of Justice and Vanity.

When over 25, 000 of these royalists — led by General Danican — assaulted Paris, Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras was appointed to defend the capital ; outnumbered five to one and disorganized, the Republicans were desperate.

Napoleon succeeded in bringing the total imperial forces in the region to around 650, 000 — although only 250, 000 came under his direct command, with another 120, 000 under Nicolas Charles Oudinot and 30, 000 under Davout.

But the mention of Watteau should also alert us to the fact that Pierrot, along with his fellow Commedia masks, was beginning to be " poeticized " in this century — that he was beginning to be the subject, not only of poignant folksong (" Au clair de la lune ", sometimes attributed to Lully ), but also of the more ambitious art of Claude Gillot ( Master André's Tomb 1717 ), of Gillot's students Watteau ( Italian Actors 1719 ) and Nicolas Lancret ( Italian Actors near a Fountain 1719 ), of Jean-Baptiste Oudry ( Italian Actors in a Park 1725 ), and of Jean-Honoré Fragonard ( A Boy as Pierrot ).

" Tillemont, possibly influenced by the fact that no honour is paid to the memory of Nicolas by any branch of the Church, allows more weight to the testimony against him ; rejects peremptorily Cassian's statement — to which Neander gives his adhesion — that some other Nicolas was the founder of the sect ; and concludes that if not the actual founder, he was so unfortunate as to give occasion to the formation of the sect, by his indiscreet speaking.

* SoftWire — A library by Nicolas Capens that generates assembly language code at run-time ( thesis )

A certain number of Hussites led by Nicolas of Hus — no relation of Jan Hus, though of the same town — left Prague.

The descendants of Groote and Christina Manuell — two of those freed slaves — can trace their family's history as freedman back to the child of Groote and Christina, Nicolas Manuell, whom they consider their family's first freeborn African-American.

A state funeral followed on 16 June 2009 in Libreville which was attended by nearly two dozen African heads of state, including several of the continent's strongmen who themselves have ruled for decades, and by Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac — the current and former French presidents ( and the only Western heads of state to attend ).

* Nicolas Becker — Individual Conscience

After the 2002 French presidential election, in which far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen arrived second behind conservative candidate Jacques Chirac, many analysts put the blame of the surprising result on working class, accused of engaging themselves in " protest vote ", that is in support of fringe candidates belonging to the far-left or the far-right, or even to people who present themselves as alien to the political world ( in France, environmentalist René Dumont in 1974, comedian Coluche in 1981 — but he withdrew his candidacy before the elections — environmentalist Pierre Rabhi who unsuccessfully tried to present himself in 2002, as well as TV showman Nicolas Hulot who almost stood for the election for 2007, before putting aside his idea, thus leaving electoral space for José Bové, a figure of the alterglobalization movement who recently decided to present himself as an independent candidate ).

Jean-Baptiste Lully wrote a musical tragedy Phaeton, in which he referred indirectly to the fate of Nicolas Fouquet whose ambitions to imitate the King Louis XIV -- The Sun King — brought on his downfall.

* Nicolas Douchez — footballer

In France, both history painting and the Neoclassical style continued through the work of Antoine-Jean Gros, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, François Gérard, Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin — teacher of both Géricault and Delacroix — and other artists who remained committed to the artistic traditions of David and Nicolas Poussin.

* Nicolas Hyeronimus — pioneering innkeeper, merchant, pastoralist and inaugural MLA for Wellington

* Nicolas Carone-Abstract Expressionism-Artist of the 9th St. Show — video from youtube. com

Nicolas Camille Flammarion ( 26 February 1842 — 3 June 1925 ) was a French astronomer and author.

Pomona, by Nicolas Fouché, c. 1700

Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, by Valentin de Boulogne or Nicolas Tournier ( c. 16th century, Blaffer Foundation Collection, Houston, TX ).

** Nicolas de Montreux, novelist, poet and dramatist ( born c. 1561 )

* probable – Nicolas Vallet, lutenist and composer ( born c. 1583 )

File: Nicolas Poussin-The Assumption of the Virgin. JPG | Nicolas Poussin, The Assumption of the Virgin, c. 1626

and The Dialogues of Luisa Sigea ( c. 1660 ) by Nicolas Chorier.

Painted by Nicolas Gosse, c. 1900

* Ezio Ornato ( c. 1405 ) Jean Muret et Ses Amis Nicolas de Clamanges et Jean de Montreuil ( Geneva: Droz.

Nicolas Gombert ( c. 1495 – c. 1560 ) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance.

Tervagant is also a god / statue of the " king of Africa " in the Jean Bodel play in Old French ( c. 1200 ) Le jeu de saint Nicolas.

* Last Supper, a 17th c. painting by Nicolas Poussin

Nicolas Poussin, Tancred and Erminia ( c. 1634 ), Oil on canvasThe collection is full of famous works by artists such as Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Auguste Rodin, Pablo Picasso and Rembrandt, displayed in spacious and elegant galleries on the first floor of the Institute.

A facsimile of Nicolas Jenson | Nicolas Jenson's roman type used in Venice c. 1470.

* Nicolas de la Grotte ( 1530 – c. 1600 )

File: Largilliere, Nicolas de & Jean-Baptiste Belin de Fontenay-Helene Lambert de Thorigny, c. 1696-1700, oil on canvas, 63 x 45 in. jpg | Oil on canvas portrait of Helene Lambert de Thorigny by Nicolas de Largillière ( portrait ) and Jean-Baptiste Belin ( flowers ), c. 1696-1700, 63 x 45 in., Honolulu Museum of Art

* Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta, Being Illustrations from Wills, of Manners, Customs, & c., vol.

* Nicolas Champion ( c. 1475 – 1533 ), Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer in the Habsburg court

Nicolas Grenon ( c. 1375 – October 17, 1456 ) was a French composer of the early Renaissance.

The code, which had probably something to do with sex or some other interest, Nicolas was determined to find out and put to use.

That ought to draw a laugh, Nicolas reasoned, as he stored the line away on the wax tape that was his mind.

And indeed, his postcard did draw from Walter a letter recommending his friend, the poet Nicolas Manas, to his friend Meredith Wilder.

And he missed the point that the swarthy witches might be laughing at him for hoping to escape Nicolas Manas.

But Nicolas, too, was being interrupted, that morning.

Her heart, her maternal feeling, in fact her being was too busy expressing itself, as quietly thrilled by this sight of her Nicolas curled asleep under a blanket, in a park like a scene from Poussin.

Ballet dancer: Protests, tears, and `` take what you want, Nicolas, I am a dancer, you are a poet, it is all beautiful ''.

To this meek conjugation Nicolas had replied, `` O.K. I can use this blanket.

And, as a matter of fact, Nicolas had slept in the park only part of one night, when he discovered that Munich's early mornings even in summer are laden with dew.

) Her Nicolas lay curled in the sun like a fawn, black hair falling over his eyes.

That long night with Nicolas and marijuana in Venice had opened her eyes.

Nicolas was dreaming he had his head pressed against the dashboard of a speeding car.

Following French President Nicolas Sarkozy's visit in 2008, relations have improved.

* 1741 – Nicolas Chamfort, French writer ( d. 1794 )

* 1638 – Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher ( d. 1715 )

This was the derivation of Alemanni used by Edward Gibbon, in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and by the anonymous contributor of notes assembled from the papers of Nicolas Fréret, published in 1753, who noted that it was the name used by outsiders for those who called themselves the Suevi.

Though he was destined to be a strongly counter-reforming emperor, Alexander had little prospect of succeeding to the throne during the first two decades of his life, as he had an elder brother, Nicolas, who seemed of robust constitution.

Great solicitude was devoted to the education of Nicolas as tsarevich, whereas Alexander received only the training of an ordinary Grand Duke of that period.

( Hume 1974: 355-356 ) He also argues in brief against the idea that causes are mere occasions of the will of some god ( s ), a view associated with the philosopher Nicolas Malebranche.

* 1967 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrows President of Togo Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new president, a title he would hold for the next 38 years.

Antlia was created in 1756 by the French astronomer Abbé Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, who created fourteen constellations for the southern sky to fill some faint regions.

* 1903 – Nicolas Nabokov, Russian composer and writer ( d. 1978 )

The film Con Air, starring Nicolas Cage and John Malkovich, features scenes in which an aircraft is hijacked by the maximum-security prisoners on board.

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ( who was famously mistaken for a " recent American immigrant " by French President Nicolas Sarkozy ), said " descendants of slaves did not get much of a head start, and I think you continue to see some of the effects of that.

* 1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.