From later periods, highlights include Madame de Pompadour's Sèvres vase collection and Napoleon III's apartments.

Soon there were libels called poissonnades ( a word akin to " fish stew ", a pun based on the marquise de Pompadour's family name, Poisson, which means " fish " in French ).

After the assassination attempt, and at the marquise de Pompadour's instigation, the king dismissed two ministers: the comte d ' Argenson, secretary of state for war, and Machault d ' Arnouville, keeper of the seals ( justice minister ) and before that controller-general of finances ; and he called Choiseul to the government.

After de Pompadour's death in 1764, his position in court was restored and he developed an amiable friendship with the King's last mistress, Madame du Barry.

His considerable ability for mimicry and intrigue were evidenced throughout his long captivity ; he posed as a brave military officer, a son of the non-existent marquis de La Tude, and as a victim of Pompadour's nefarious intrigues.

In 1756, the factory moved to Sèvres, near Madame de Pompadour's Bellevue Palace.

" Das Fräulein von Scuderi ", an 1819 short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann, in which Mlle de Scudery establishes the innocence of the police's favorite suspect in the murder of a jeweller, is sometimes cited as the first detective story and a direct influence on Edgar Allan Poe's " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ".

They were owned by Manuel de Godoy, the Prime Minister of Spain and a favorite of the Queen, María Luisa.

Juan Alvarez de Toledo ( Bishop of Burgos ), another Imperial favorite was proposed, and he too failed, because of strong opposition from the faction of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, nephew of the late Pope Paul III and from the French.

Over the years since its creation, vi became the de facto standard Unix editor and a nearly undisputed hacker favorite outside of MIT until the rise of Emacs after about 1984.

While in France during the Rococo era Jean-Baptiste Greuze was the favorite painter of Denis Diderot ( 1713 – 1785 ), and Maurice Quentin de La Tour ( 1704 – 1788 ), and Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun were highly accomplished Portrait painters and History painters.

* Madame de Pompadour ( 1721 – 1764 ): the famous mistress and longtime favorite of King Louis XV

It is curious to note that the original French play of Le Barbier de Séville endured a similar story, hated at first only to become a favorite within a week.

* October 20 – Battle of Coutras: Huguenot forces under Henry of Navarre defeat Royalist forces under Anne de Joyeuse, favorite of King Henry.

Jacques Chirac is a favorite character of Les Guignols de l ' Info, a satiric latex puppet show.

In 1617, however, Louis conspired with Charles d ' Albert, duc de Luynes to dispense with her influence, having her favorite Concino Concini assassinated on 26 April of that year.

The most famous was the French-Irish Marie-Louise O ' Murphy, who after two years as the king's young lover, made the fatal mistake of trying to unseat Madame de Pompadour and supplant her as favorite.

However, the French failed to capitalize on the aftermath of Montargis, in large part because the French court was caught in an inner power struggle between the constable Arthur de Richemont and the chamberlain Georges de la Trémoille, a new favorite of the Dauphin Charles.

Charles de Lint praised Hearts in Atlantis as " the Great American Baby Boomer Novel ," saying that " when he's at the top of his form, as he certainly is here, he can be as provocative and inspired as < insert your favorite literary author here >.

He produced the Faerielands artwork in 1991, then invited four top fantasy authors ( Patricia McKillip, Terri Windling, Midori Snyder, and Charles de Lint ) to choose their favorite pieces and write the story that the pictures evoked for them.

Diane de Poitiers, another favorite of the previous king, was also asked to not appear at the court ; her protege, Jean Bertrand, had to surrender his title, Keeper of the Seals of France, to the chancellor François Olivier that Diane removed from this function a few years earlier.

In December 1622, Rodrigo de Villandrando, the king's favorite court painter, died.

In 1617, Louis conspired with Charles d ' Albert, duc de Luynes, to dispense with the influence of his mother in a palace coup d ' état, having her favorite Concino Concini assassinated on 26 April of that year.

Vague rumors of betrayal circulated in the court, notably her supposed involvement with the conspiracies of the comte de Chalais that Chevreuse organized in 1626, then of the king's treacherous favorite, Cinq-Mars, who had been introduced to him by Richelieu.

A large part of the resentment between the sisters allegedly stemmed from Fontaine's perception that de Havilland was their mother's favorite child.

While in the service of the Medici in Florence, Isaac wrote a lament on the death of Lorenzo de ' Medici, Quis dabit capiti meo aquam ( 1492 ), which set words by Lorenzo's favorite poet, Angelo Poliziano.

The site of the present city was a favorite camping ground of the Karankawa Indians, who developed a permanent village there known to the Spanish as Paraje de los Copanes ( Place of the Copanes, a Karankawan tribe ).

One of his favorite authors was Honoré de Balzac, whose work he studied carefully.

She worked with Argentinian actress Susana Giménez and participated in the Miami-based reality TV program Protagonistas de la Música, where she became one of the audience's favorite contestants.

The Venetian artist Jacopo de ' Barbari, whom Dürer had met in Venice, visited Nuremberg in 1500, and Dürer said that he learned much about the new developments in perspective, anatomy, and proportion from him.

File: Anoniem-Het kantoor van de belastingsdienst ( biccherna ) van Siena. jpg |" The office of the taxcollector ( biccherna ) of Siena " by an unknown artist, 1451-1452, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

* 2007 – The painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch ( 1904 ), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art, along with O Lavrador de Café by the major Brazilian modernist painter Candido Portinari.

Some points of interest are the Grotto ( the interior was designed by the French artist Niki de Saint-Phalle ), the Gallery Building, the Orangerie and the two pavilions by Remy de la Fosse.

Furthermore the museum shows the famous works of the French artist Niki de Saint-Phalle.

Foremost among these was artist Bob de Moor, who collaborated with Hergé on the remaining Tintin adventures, filling in details and backgrounds such as the spectacular lunar landscapes in Explorers on the Moon.

Garret Rowlan, writing in The Cafe Irreal, writes that the malaise present in the work of the Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico, " which recalls Kafka, has to do with the sense of another world lurking, hovering like the long shadows that dominate de Chirico's paintings, which frequently depict a landscape at twilight's uncertain hour.

* 1925 – Fernando de Szyszlo, Peruvian artist

* 1888 – Vera de Bosset, Russian artist, wife of Igor Stravinsky ( d. 1982 )

The validity of the dating methodology has subsequently been called into question, and the age of the shroud is still the subject of much debate despite the existence of a 1389 Memorandum by Bishop Pierre D ' Arcis to the Avignon Antipope Clement VII mentioning that the image had previously been denounced by his predecessor Henri de Poitiers ( Bishop of Troyes 1353-1370 ), stating " Eventually, after diligent inquiry and examination, he discovered how the said cloth had been cunningly painted, the truth being attested by the artist who had painted it, to wit, that it was a work of human skill and not miraculously wrought or bestowed.

She worked as a guest artist with Roland Petit's Le Ballet National de Marseilles, the Bolshoi Ballet, the London Festival Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet, the Hamburg Ballet, the Vienna State Opera Ballet, and the Eliot Feld Ballet.

The faces reveal a striking specificity of subtle detail, particular to a limited number of miniatures throughout the Libro de juegos, perhaps indicative of a particular artist ’ s hand.

In the miniatures of this style, the emphasis seems to be more on the posture of the player than the detail of their faces ; this crossed, lounging style is only found in the folios of the Libro de tablas, the third section of the Libro de juegos which explicates the game of backgammon, again perhaps indicative of the work of a particular artist.

* 1629 – Jacob de Gheyn II, Dutch artist ( b. 1565 )

The artist Theodore de Bry used White ’ s original watercolors to make a book of engravings entitled, A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia.

He commissioned the artist Matteo Giovanetti de Viterbo to paint common hunting and fishing scenes on the walls of the existing papal chapels, and purchased enormous tapestries to decorate the stone walls.

A perfect example of these " carticellas " comes from a 1460 set known today as " Tarot de Mantegna " or " Tarot de Baldini " created by artist Francesco del Cossa.

There is a picture by Jean Baptiste Oudry ( 1686 – 1755 ) of " Misse ", one of two English whippets presented to Louis XV, in the Washington National Gallery and another, with her companion, " Turlu ", by the same artist in the Musée National de Fontainebleau.

* March 12 – Elaine de Kooning, American artist ( d. 1989 )

* April 24 – Willem de Kooning, Dutch artist ( d. 1997 )