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Étienne Lauréault de Foncemagne (8 May 1694, Orléans – 26 September 1779, Paris) was a French churchman and scholar.
An Oratorian and professor, he was elected to the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1722 and to the Académie française in 1736. "Choosing him did not much enrich us, but at least it didn't make the public groan" commented the abbé d'Olivet, who called him "A man little-charged with literature, but he passes for knowing quite a bit about French history. [1] ".
Étienne-Louis Boullée was a visionary French neoclassical architect whose work greatly influenced contemporary architects.
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac was a French author in Baroque Précieuses style, best known for his epistolary essays, which were widely circulated and read in his day. He was one of the founding members of Académie française.
The Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture was founded in 1648 in Paris, France. It was the premier art institution of France during the latter part of the Ancien Régime until it was abolished in 1793 during the French Revolution. It included most of the important painters and sculptors, maintained almost total control of teaching and exhibitions, and afforded its members preference in royal commissions.
Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne was a French clergyman, bishop, cardinal, politician and finance minister of Louis XVI.
Michel Louis Etienne Regnaud, later 1st Count Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély was a French politician.
Étienne-Denis, duc de Pasquier, Chancelier de France,, was a French statesman. In 1842, he was elected a member of the Académie française, and in the same year was created a duke by Louis-Philippe.
Étienne Henri Gilson was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy. A scholar of medieval philosophy, he originally specialised in the thought of Descartes; he also philosophized in the tradition of Thomas Aquinas, although he did not consider himself a neo-Thomist philosopher. In 1946 he attained the distinction of being elected an "Immortal" (member) of the Académie française. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Étienne Maurice Falconet was a French baroque, rococo and neoclassical sculptor, best-known for his equestrian statue of Peter the Great, the Bronze Horseman (1782), in St. Petersburg, Russia, and for the small statues he produced in series for the Royal Sévres Porcelain Manufactory
Charles Célestin Auguste Jonnart was a French politician.
Charles-Guillaume Étienne was a 19th-century French playwright.
Jean Guitton was a French Catholic philosopher and theologian. Le Monde called him "the last of the great Catholic philosophers."
Étienne Eustache Bruix was a French Navy officer and admiral, and Minister of the Navy.
Étienne Marie Victor Lamy was a French author.
Étienne Pavillon was a French lawyer and poet.
Antoine Jay was a French writer, journalist, historian and politician.
Bon Joseph Dacier was a French historian, philologist and translator of ancient Greek. He became a Chevalier de l'Empire, then Baron de l'Empire. He also served as curator of the Bibliothèque nationale.
Gustave-Claude-Étienne Courtois, also known as Gustave Courtois was a French painter, a representative of the academic style of art.
Kotlet schabowy is a Polish variety of a breaded cutlet of pork coated with breadcrumbs. It is similar to Viennese schnitzel or Italian cotoletta, French côtelette de veau frite, and North and South American milanesa.
Étienne Martin was a French non-figurative sculptor.
Etienne Fouilloux is a French university teacher primarily interested in the history of tensions within the twentieth century French Roman Catholic Church and the contemporary publication of works of Christian antiquity.
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