* 1820 – The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.

The Venus de Milo was added to the Louvre's collection during the reign of Louis XVIII of France | Louis XVIII.

Select sculptures such as Winged Victory of Samothrace and the Venus de Milo were sent to the Château de Valençay.

Initially, the collection focused on marble sculptures, such as the Venus de Milo.

The Louvre holds masterpieces from the Hellenistic era, including The Winged Victory of Samothrace ( 190 BC ) and the Venus de Milo, symbolic of classical art.

Pickford underestimated the value of adding sound to movies, claiming that " adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo ".

* Venus de Milo, an ancient Greek statue

* 1820: Venus de Milo is found on the island of Melos ( Milos ).

* April 8 – The statue of the Venus de Milo ( Aphrodite of Milos, c. 150 BC-125 BC ) is discovered on the Greek island of Milos by a peasant named Yorgos Kentrotas.

Writing in 1933, Milo Milton Quaife identified a French immigrant to Canada, Pierre Dandonneau, who acquired the title " Sieur de Sable " and whose descendants were known by both the names Dandonneau and Du Sable.

Image: Wenuszmf. jpg | The Venus de Milo depicts a S Curve body shape

In 1820, the statue which became known as the Venus de Milo was discovered on the Greek island of Milo and seen by a French naval officer, Emile Voutier.

Aphrodite of Milos (, Aphroditē tēs Mēlou ), better known as the Venus de Milo, is an ancient Greek statue and one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture.

Within a few hours Voutier had uncovered Venus de Milo.

The marble base where the Venus de Milo originally stood still resides today on the property of his great, great nephew, Dimitri Moraitis.

The Venus de Milo is a statue of a naked woman with an apple in her raised left hand, the right hand holding a draped sash falling from hips to feet, both hands damaged and separated from the body.

It was, of course, the Venus de Milo.

The Venus de Milo was found to have been carved from at least six or seven blocks of Parian marble: one block for the nude torso, another block for the draped legs, another block apiece for each arm, another small block for the left foot, another block for the inscribed plinth, and finally, the separately carved herm that stood beside the statue.

In 1920, sculptor Robert Ingersoll Aitken created a stir when he criticized the display, lighting, and placement of the statue of Venus de Milo in the museum.

The Medici Venus, regarded as one of the finest Classical sculptures in existence, caused the French to promote the Venus de Milo as a greater treasure than that which they recently had lost.

The untranslatable ( into English ) joke ' Ceux de Milo sont venus ' appears in the French version of Asterix at the Olympic Games.

Disarmed: The Story of the Venus de Milo.

* A statue of Alexander Fleming stands outside the main bullring in Madrid, Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas.

It was created by Hendrick de Keyser in 1622, replacing a stone statue of 1557.

In Magdalena de Kino in Sonora, Mexico in the Temple of Santa María Magdalena, there is an statue of San Francisco Xavier, an important historical figure for both Sonora and the neighboring U. S. state of Arizona.

Execution of Louis XVI in what is now the Place de la Concorde, facing the empty pedestal where the statue of his grandfather, Louis XV, had stood.

Román Rodríguez and José Juan Herrera Velázquez, presidents of Gobierno de Canarias and Cabildo Insular de Fuerteventura at the time of this statue by Emiliano Hernández in honour of Manuel Velázquez Cabrera on 08 / 11 / 2001.

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Execution of Louis XVI in what is now the Place de la Concorde, facing the empty pedestal where the statue of his grandfather, Louis XV, had stood.

On 20 January 1494, after heavy snowfalls, Lorenzo's heir, Piero de Medici, commissioned a snow statue, and Michelangelo again entered the court of the Medici.

The old Raadsaal in Bloemfontein, with the statue of Christiaan de Wet

Image: Corte statue de Gaffori. jpg | Place Gaffori, with the statue of General Jean-Pierre Gaffori in front of his former home

The city hall ( hôtel de ville ), erected in the 17th century and enlarged in the 19th, features a pediment with an equestrian statue of Louis XIII ( reigned 1610 to 1643 ).

A statue of de Montfort is one of four to adorn the Haymarket Memorial Clock Tower in Leicester.

At this time, Paris executions were carried out in the Place de la Revolution ( former Place Louis XV and current Place de la Concorde ); the guillotine stood in the corner near the Hôtel Crillon where the statue of Brest can be found today.

He also attended and wrote a report on the inauguration of a statue to Beethoven in Bonn, and began composing La damnation de Faust, incorporating the earlier Huit scènes de Faust.

That such deficiencies existed within Ptolemy's theory was not discovered de novo by Copernicus.

I replied in the affirmative, taking out my recently acquired titre d'identite et de voyage, on which was stamped a permission to leave France.

It was Giselle, the fille de chambre, come to clean the room, and while she stood before him with ears pricked up and regard all curiosity, explaining her errand, Alex could see from the corner of his eye the doctor doing all he could to calm the displeased bird.

`` That was the fille de chambre, the one you thought couldn't get the eggs out.

The distinction between domiciled ( de jure ) and present ( de facto ) population was not clearly defined.

The Istiqlal was still firmly united in 1957, but the P.D.I. ( Parti Democratique de l'Independance ), the most important minor party at the time, objected to the Istiqlal's predominance in the civil service and influence in Radio Maroc.

At the central level the scrutin uninominal voting system was selected over some form of the scrutin de liste system, even though the latter had been recommended by Duverger and favored by all political parties.

There was the Arc de Triomphe and the Tour d'Eiffel -- I was no yokel, but I was young, and this was Paris!!

During this time most of what is known as ethnologie was restricted to museums, such as the Musée de l ' Homme founded by Paul Rivet, and anthropology had a close relationship with studies of folklore.

The term android was used in a more modern sense by the French author Auguste Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam in his work Tomorrow's Eve ( 1886 ).

A resident alien owed allegiance even when the protection of the Crown was withdrawn owing to the occupation of an enemy, because the absence of the Crown's protection was temporary and involuntary ( de Jager v Attorney-Geneneral of Natal AC 326 ).

It was won by Georges Bouton of the De Dion-Bouton Company, in a car he had constructed with Albert, the Comte de Dion, but as he was the only competitor to show up it is rather difficult to call it a race.

Count Jules-Albert de Dion was first into Rouen after 6 hours and 48 minutes at an average speed of 19 km / h.

de Pompadour, Louis XV's mistress, who was considered the most powerful woman in France at the time.

de Pompadour's favorite artist and was commissioned by her for numerous paintings and decorations.

With de Broglie's suggestion of the existence of electron matter waves in 1924, and for a short time before the full 1926 Schrödinger equation treatment of hydrogen like atom, a Bohr electron " wavelength " could be seen to be a function of its momentum, and thus a Bohr orbiting electron was seen to orbit in a circle at a multiple of its half-wavelength ( this historically incorrect Bohr model is still occasionally taught to students ).

Bloch was highly interdisciplinary, influenced by the geography of Paul Vidal de la Blache ( 1845 – 1918 ) and the sociology of Émile Durkheim ( 1858 – 1917 ).

An eminent member of this school, Georges Duby, wrote in the foreword of his book Le dimanche de Bouvines that the history he taught relegated the sensational to the sidelines and was reluctant to give a simple accounting of events, but strived on the contrary to pose and solve problems and, neglecting surface disturbances, to observe the long and medium-term evolution of economy, society and civilisation.

Braudel's first book, La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen à l ' Epoque de Philippe II ( 1949 ) ( The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II ) was his most influential.