* Harpe Brothers, Micajah and Wiley, America's first serial killers

Walt Disney's Davy Crockett has Crockett and Mike Fink fighting off an attack by a Murrell-type outlaw, who is referred to as Samuel Mason, and joined by the Harpe Brothers in Davy Crockett and the River Pirates, 1956.

Peter Alston, the son of American counterfeiter, Philip Alston who through his father, became a river pirate and highwayman at Cave-In-Rock and made the acquaintance of Samuel Mason and Wiley Harpe, following them to Stack Island and Natchez.

Rolle is also the birthplace of Frédéric-César de la Harpe ( 1754 – 1838 ), who was the tutor of Alexander I of Russia and was largely responsible for the independence of the Canton of Vaud from the Bernese.

* Frédéric-César de La Harpe ( 1754 – 1838 ) a Swiss political leader and Vaudois patriot, who played a leading role in the creation of the Helvetic Republic was born in Rolle.

Jean-François de la Harpe, who is severe enough on Lefranc in his correspondence, does his abilities full justice in his Cours littéraire, and ranks him next to JB Rousseau among French lyric poets.

The success of Warwick led to a correspondence with Voltaire, who conceived a high opinion of La Harpe, even allowing him to correct his verses.

When, after Voltaire's death, La Harpe in his praise of the philosopher ventured on some reasonable, but rather ill-timed, criticism of individual works, he was accused of treachery to one who had been his constant friend.

Undoubtedly the most famous name in modern Breton music is Alan Stivell, who popularized the Celtic harp first in the fifties and sixties and on a wider level since the 1970s, with a series of albums including most famously Renaissance de la Harpe Celtique ( 1971 ).

After the French Revolution, the Houdetots and Saint-Lambert moved to Sannois, where they created a society of men of letters from the pre-Revolutionary Enlightenment, like La Harpe, abbé Morellet, and Suard-and some rising stars like Chateaubriand, who wrote in his Mémoires d ' Outre-Tombe ( Memoirs from beyond the grave ) that Saint-Lambert and Sophie d ' Houdetot " both represented the opinions and the freedoms of a by-gone age, carefully stuffed and preserved: it was the eighteenth century expired and married in its manner.

Army Group A was led by Colonel-General Josef Harpe ( who was replaced, after the offensive had begun, by Colonel-General Ferdinand Schörner on 20 January ).

For the chanson, as he says himself, opened up to him a path in which his genius could develop itself at ease ; he escaped, by this literary gateway, from strict academical requirements, and had at his disposal the whole dictionary, four-fifths of which, according to La Harpe, were forbidden to the use of more regular and pretentious poetry.

Few writers were so frequently reprinted during the 18th century, but even in his own century La Harpe had arrived at a truer estimate of his real value when he said of his poetry: " Le fond n ' est qu ' un lieu commun chargé de déclamations et même d ' idées fausses.

The first chapters of the novel, which feature a dinner hosted by the old Marshal of Richelieu, were inspired by a text by Jean-François de La Harpe called The Prophecy of Cazotte.

A similar story, which first appeared in an 1824 publication called The Tell Tale, reported how a barber and wig-maker of the Rue de la Harpe in Paris cut his customers ' throats, relieved them of their valuables and then had their bodies made into meat pies, utilising the services of a pastry cook, whose establishment was on the same street.

Amédée de La Harpe presided, in Rolle on 15 July 1791, over a revolutionary banquet.

From 1748 to 1772, besides these and a multitude of songs, Collé was writing his Journal, a curious collection of literary and personal strictures on his companions as well as on their enemies, on Piron as on Voltaire, on La Harpe as on Pierre Corneille.

He tried his fortune by writing éloges of famous persons, then a favorite practice ; in 1771, his Éloge on Fénelon was pronounced by the French Academy as second only to that by La Harpe.

His second play, Le Prejugée à la mode ( 1735 ) turns on the fear of incurring ridicule felt by a man in love with his own wife, a prejudice dispelled in France, according to La Harpe, by La Chaussée's comedy.

In his new paceful household in Edifice C Place de la Harpe, Scriabin could play the piano without fearing complaints from the neighbours, and soon began to compose again along the revisions he was doing on the score of Le Poème.

It seems to have been coined by Fernando Fulgosio in 1872, on the model of the Latin expression ensis falcatus " sickle-shaped sword " ( which, however, refers to the Harpe ).

But a sarcastic article on the French Academy compelled him to turn over the Journal to La Harpe and seek refuge abroad.

Because Humboldt, Iola, and La Harpe are cities of the second class, they are governmentally independent from the townships and are excluded from the census figures for the townships.

Eventually La Harpe was compelled to resign from the Mercure, which he had edited from 1770.

On 9 December 1797 Frédéric-César de La Harpe, a member of the Helvetian Club from Vaud, asked France to invade Bern to protect Vaud.

While the Stavka was concluding its offensive plans Generalfeldmarschall Model was removed from command of the Army Group North Ukraine and replaced by Generaloberst Josef Harpe.

La Harpe is located at ( 37. 915631 ,-95. 299729 ).

Left an orphan at the age of nine, La Harpe was taken care of for six months by the Sisters of Charity, and his education was provided for by a scholarship at the Collège d ' Harcourt, now known as the Lycée Saint-Louis.

In these lectures, published as the Cours de littérature ancienne et moderne, La Harpe is considered to have been at his best, finding a standpoint more or less independent of contemporary polemics.

Le Tartufe littéraire ( 1774 ) attacked La Harpe and Palissot, and at the same time D ' Alembert and Mlle de Lespinasse.

Yet another different set of names is found in Valerius Flaccus ' Argonautica: he mentions Euryale, Harpe, Lyce, Menippe and Thoe.

Alan Stivell's Renaissance de la Harpe Celtique ( perhaps the best-seller harp album in the world ), using mainly the bronze strung harp, and his tours, have brought the instrument into the ears and the love of many people.

Louis Hennepin, Lahontan, Louis Narcisse Baudry des Lozières, Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe, and Laval.

* November 20 – Jean-François de la Harpe, French critic ( d. 1803 )

French explorer Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe developed camaraderie among the Anadarko in 1719 when he established Fort Saint Louis de los Cadodaquious.

French explorer Jean Baptiste Bénard de La Harpe founded the military fort Le Poste des Cadodaquious in 1719.

France ’ s Bernard de la Harpe explored the area of the modern Pushmataha County in 1719.

New Orleans was founded the year before, and with de la Harpe ’ s exploration France was making an imperial thrust into the Mississippi River valley seeking trade with the native peoples and also a route to New Mexico.

Bernard de la Harpe and his party left New Orleans in 1719 to explore the Red River.

Beginning in August 2007, the Carthage High School ( also known as Hancock County Central High School ) building has become the home of the newly formed Illini West High School, consolidating the high school districts of Carthage, La Harpe, and Dallas City.

Situated along U. S. Route 54 in Elm Township, the city is about three miles ( 5 km ) east of the city of Iola ( the county seat ) and 2½ miles west of the city of La Harpe.

The smaller cities of Gas and La Harpe are a few miles to the east along US-54.

La Harpe is a city situated in the central part of Allen County, located in southeast Kansas, in the Central United States.

La Harpe was founded by the Fort Scott, Wichita & Western Railroad company ( later the Missouri Pacific ), and was platted in 1881.

Situated along U. S. Route 54 in the central part of Allen County, La Harpe is about 5½ miles east of the city of Iola ( the county seat ), 2½ miles east of Gas, and about seven miles west of the junction of U. S. Routes 54 and 59 and the city of Moran.